AFA 08

Ok, this is kinda late. Anyway, AFA 08 was a really fun event. I took lots of photos (included some illegal **OMG** May'n concert prints and footages **double OMG**) which are on facebook. Pardon my poor photography skills. The camera wasn't really good and my photography skills were worse.

I spent almost the day there. It was really eye-opening in all sense of that term and it was really interesting. The sheer variety and quality of the nendoroids were stunning. The tags were equally stunning too. Stuff in SG are severely overpriced compared to their equivalent in Japan. Guess the import charges and the middlemen fees constitutes a large cut.

I didn't buy alot of stuff. Just a set of Last Exile (they are so hard to find, especially collector's edition nendoroids) nendoroids in a box set and some posters as well as various fan-arts. Just thought I might support the budding anime/manga industry in SG. ^^

Towards the end of the day, I stayed for the May'n (MAY'II'IN ok ok) concert. Her voice was really good, pity that the acoustics in suntec was really bad. Coupled with a terrible sound engineer....and an over-enthusiastic bass, you could almost guess the tragedy. Admirably, she carried on with her show despite the almost glaringly bad sound.

Right before the show closed, there were a lot of mini auctions going on. Booths were holding large price slashes and I saw some really nice stuff going at around 50% of their original price. Saw some really nice and cheap Gundam 00 stuff as well, but I don't follow the series so didn't get any. If you left early, well, its kinda a waste =(

Anyway, here's some link-drops which I found over the past few days. Mind you, they took over a large portion of my time.

Danny Choo -> Really great website/blog about this British Chinese living in Japan. Runs his own company, great fun all day.

World of Anime Music -> Great blog with nice anime music and links *)

"My heart has lead me to despair. Perhaps it doesn't pay to be loyal to one's heart but still, many people continued doing it and that makes us human"