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27-year-old Malaysian Hannah Tan, now aims to make her debut in Japan. A singer-songwriter and TV personality, Hannah Tan hopes to make a name for Malaysia there by using her music and movie scripts.

“Japan is a leader in digital technology, so I’m trying to see what I can bring back to change the way people do business in the entertainment industry,” says Hannah.

Source: the Star

Anime fans in Asia might recognize her as the ambassador of Animax Asia.

It will be interesting to see how far she can make it in Japan. To be honest, I don’t expect her to make it very far. ^^;

More pictures of Hannah Tan in the full post.

Check out those eye… bags.

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Last Saturday and Sunday (October 18, 19), the Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival (KLPF) was held in Times Square, KL.

Before this event, I had put up a poll, asking if I should go or not. You guys said I should go for the girls, and so I did.
First up, a warning- I am no photographer, and I do not know much about photography or cameras. What you’ll see in the following is a mix of blur pictures, and some flukes nice shots. Also, because I went there for the girls, you will only see a minimal coverage of the festival itself.

A corner shot of the main booths for the festival

Well, the festival site was… pretty okay. Not as big as I had thought it would be.

When I arrived, there was a presentation going on. Since there were no girls, I did not bother listening. (LOL)


Let’s take a look at some of the booths..

This was just a test shot for lighting, honest! ^^;

I want one of that..

Some camera parts at the Olympus booth

Fujifilm- the one that brought us the model shoot out. Thank you Fujifilm!

A couple of gorillapods.. I could use one of these

There were a lot more booths, but because I wanted to save my camera battery and memory for the model photo shoot later, I stopped taking pictures of the booths.

At 3:45 PM, the model photo shoot began, just according to keikaku as scheduled. I was a little late to reach the stage, so I was pretty far back at first. As the shoot progressed, some people left, and so I got better positions.

All the photographers waiting for the ladies. The stage area was packed!

There were quite a number of people taking photos from on top as well, though I think their objective was to get pictures of the crowd.

Some smart people were standing on chairs (that were present on-site)

After a little waiting, the first model came out. For the sake of reference, I shall label models as Model #1, Model #2, etc.

There were a total of six models, and each model had two outfits, meaning twelve outfits in total.

Model #1

Model #1 and #2

Model #2

Model #3

Model #4 (My pick!)

Model #5, #6, #7

Model #5

Model #6

Model #1

Model #1 and #6

Model #1

Model #1 and #2

Model #2

Model #2 and #3

Model #3

Model #3 and #4

Model #4 (I think she looked much better in her first outfit..)

Model #5

Model #4 and #5

Model #5

Model #6

Group photos

And that concludes the model photo shoot. As soon as the emcee anounced the end of the shoot, the stage area cleared really quickly.

Suddenly, it feels so empty

While I was taking pictures of the crowd, I realized that the photographers were gathering at one side, and taking pictures of something. I rushed there as fast as I could, and it turns out the models posing off-stage for a bit.

But they only stayed for a while, and I was in a bad position, so I got no good shots.

BTW- In case you were wondering, this is their changing room.

Maybe I should have rushed in? LOL

Time for the all important question-

Which model was the prettiest?

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My vote for best cosplayer goes to this girl

Last Sunday (28th September) was the second day of the ACGC 2008 Finale. Since I already (sort of) covered the booths on my previous post, I will cover mostly cosplay in this post.
The cosplay competition was held on this second day of the convention, afterall.

Once again, a warning- I have level 0.1 0 photography skills, and since I (usually) refuse to use flash, the following contains both clear pictures and blur pictures.

Well, if you’ve read my coverage of day 1, you would know that all the computers at the convention were down for a long while. I got to the convention a little later this time (at around 1 PM), but it was good to see all the computers up and running already.

During both day 1 and 2 of the convention, random computers were running CoD4 at random times

After arriving home on the first day, I looked at the pictures I took, and was highly unsatisfied with the quality. So for day 2, I decided to try different settings.

What I deemed to be the convention’s “rest area” during day 1 was turned into a “cosplayer’s square” in day 2

Unfortunately, trying all those new settings drained my batteries. And since I am so noob, I only got tons of blur, unusable, overdeveloped, and underdeveloped pictures. As a result, I have much less pictures to share today as compared with day 1 coverage.

All the CoD4 tournament computers properly set up this time

I realized I forgot to mention this during day 1 coverage. There were a couple of (as some of my friends call it) CoD4 clans there. Like this one clan that’s supposedly one of the best: ESP (Eat Sleep Play)

Mr. Pikachu and Kitteh of ESP

Grr of SWL

Oh, remember the Panda Hammer I mentioned in day 1 coverage, and the queue it formed for the booth? Well, the queue got wayyyy longer in day 2.

The line stretched all the way towards the outside of the convention site

I had thought of getting one myself, but after looking at the massive queue, I gave up immediately

Anyway, who cares about all that? Let’s move on to the cosplayers. Once again, I will need help with identifying some cosplayers, so please feel free to point out any familiar characters.

Not sure if she meant to cosplay as Kurauchi Anna, or if she was just wearing the maid outfit from He is My Master

This next cosplayer, IMO was the most epic of them all. XD

Gao Hai of Code Geass R2

Ran Shuuei on the left, and Ri Kouyu on the left, both from Saiunkoku Monogatari. I can’t identify the character in the center

Keroro Lady from day one!

Apart from just cosplayers, there were some pretty goth-loli girls there too.

Girl on the right is <3

I really hope someone can help identify this character! I need to watch the anime she comes from. lol

Not sure who exactly, but some Naruto girl?

Graham Aker from Gundam 00. It’s the reverse trap Gino from day 1. I also found out later that she’s one of the judges for the cosplay competition

Hollow Ichigo from Bleach

At the Mo Siang booth, Runup (the company that owns Mo Siang) had a dance performance.

There was a dance performance on the first day as well, but I missed that.

In my panic, I forgot to use flash, and I even failed to get a shot of their finishing pose. So fail, me.

I also realized that I should have taken a VIDEO of the dance. Epic fail.

Spitfire (far left) from Air Gear, and Cross Yuki (far right) from Vampire Knight.

The three musketeers uhh… what?

Alternate costume Zasalamel from Soul Calibur (Thanks to Panther for helping identify this character)

Amane Misa (left) and Ryuuzaki/L/Lawliet (right) from Death Note

Why is L wearing shoes?

As with almost every anime convention with cosplayers, there will be a Narutard Naruto cosplayer or two. There were quite a number here, but I did not take many pictures of them. The only good Naruto cosplayer, IMO, was a (reverse trap) Gaara cosplayer (and I failed to get a picture of her. Yay).

There was this one booth, Gamefe, which was entirely Chinese (meaning I did not understand what their booth was about). But they seemed to be promoting some games, and a singer/actor.

The lady in the dark dress is the said actor/singer

Suigintou from Rozen Maiden

At this point, my battery died already, so now it’s pictures taken with my phone. *Cue horrible quality*

Am not too sure, but I think La Corda D’oro?

Spirit (left) and Maka Albarn (right) from Soul Eater

“MAKA CHOP!!”

For the cosplay competition, there were only 8 contestants. To name a few, Spitfire, Gaara, Hollow Ichigo, Spirit, and Gao Hai.

For the competition, each contestant had to do a performance on stage (with or without aides). Spitfire did a “skating tutorial”, Hollow Ichigo did a fight scene, while Spirit re-enacted two scenes from Soul Eater. Gaara, along with a few other Narutards Naruto cosplayers did a dance routine.. first to High School Musical (struck out for great justice), then to the “Ask a Ninja” theme song. XD

IMO, Gao Hai had the most epic performance. He forced a guy to hold a banana while he sang a Chinese song, then he suddenly grabbed the banana away from him and the tralala song played. XD

But as for who won the competition, I do not know. There was an hour an a half before the results were announced, and since my camera batteries were dead, I decided to head back home early.

Overall, the second day of the convention was much better as compared to the first day.

Albums: Day 1 Day 2

Day 1 coverage here.

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Last Saturday and Sunday, the ACGC 2008 Finale (Anime Comics Games Convetion) was held here in Malaysia, at the Mid Valley Exhibition Center.

But before I continue, I must warn you- I have photography skills at superb as a blind potato, so what you’ll see in the following is a mixture of clear pictures, blur pictures and very blur pictures.

I arrived at Mid Valley at 9AM. The convention was scheduled to start at 10AM, so I loitered around until about 9:30 AM.

At 9:30, I snuck in through the staff entrance (LOL), so I got to take a look around before the crowd arrived.

The stage where the events were held

Note that the pictures from this point on are out of chronological order.

Some games I expected hoped to see were Red Alert 3, Emil Chronicle Online, SPORE, Dead Space, and Soul Calibur 4. But let’s take a look at the booths there…

The U Mobile booth. As far as I know, they are a 3G service provider. And they support orenji.

Poser.. =_=ll

The Mo Siang booth. Some MMORPG in English and Chinese.

Top Speed - some MMO racing game by IAH

A couple of chibis playing the game. Looked like an average racing game to me.

Being advertised as one of the features of the ACGC, here’s the Nintendo booth.

The WiiFit. I did not get a chance to try this.

Aside from the Wii and WiiFit, Nintendo also had a couple of DS Lites (5 of them) for trial.

They attached the DS Lites to platforms, and in such a way that you couldn’t take out the stylus to use. So while everyone was using their fingers to try and play, I took out my phone’s stylus, and started laughing at everyone.. in my heart.

This booth, OffGamers, was pretty lulz. In the morning, almost NO ONE was paying any attention to it. But after people started to find out that you could get “Panda Hammers” (the thing the girl is holding in the top picture) at this booth for free, a QUEUE started to form. No other booth had a queue.

The panda hammers. They’re pretty cute, no? XD

Fantagetar. Another MMO I know nothing about, and want to know nothing about.

As I moved along the convention area, I was delighted to see an ECO booth.

*BUT* all the computers were down. YAY.
In fact, just about all the computers in the convention were down til lunchtime (or later).

At 2 PM, I get back to see this.

All screens blacked out except for one, which was playing an ECO trailer.

20 minutes after that, and all the computers are playing trailers. I pretty much gave up on this booth at that time.

Later still, at 5PM, I decided to just take another look at the booth, and guess what I see?

YES!! ECO!!

But then I noticed it was all in Chinese. orz

On the outside of the ECO booth, we had Angels Online (and some other game, which I’ve forgotten about already).

Because it was an Anime Comics Games Convention, I had expected this (following) booth to be there.

ANIME TECH

I refuse to upload any more pictures of their booth.

Except maybe this poster.

Sasuke - a traine and teammate of Narut

There was this booth, Michael Soft, that constantly had people hanging around.

Their product was this system that would let your computer run without a hard disk. Not something that would normally attract many people, right?

What? Over 200? You mean it’s not over 9000?

The real reason this booth could attract so many visitors, was probably because they had WORKING computers. And all the gamers wanted to leech off of that.

Towards the end of the convention site, there were the CoD4 computers.

Unfortunately for the CoD4 players, the tournament, which was supposed to start in the morning, started at 4 PM, and lasted until past 10 PM (Note that the convention was scheduled to end at 9 PM). Why?

Because their computers were rendered useless too

They ended up using only one row of computers, which really slowed down the speed of the tournament.

As one of the better booths around, there was d_code Toys & Hobby.

A figure, gunpla, etc. online store. They had some pretty cool stuff up for display.

Is Haruhi supposed to be sitting on Nagato’s chair? O_O

There was also this coolsome car, which was mostly ignored throughout the convention.

At one booth, there was this SC4 banner, that made me think that I would get a chance to play the game. But noooooo. There wasn’t even a single PS3 at the convention site.

For PS2 as well aye? I must get this game then

Right at the end, there was a whole row of tables that were rented to artists and the like to sell their goods.

But honestly.. Their goods aren’t that great. ^^;
Not quite up to standard (unless you’re talking about Malaysian standard).

X chains. When I saw this, I immediately thought of Squee ^^;

I bought this comic, Project: Durian. I will talk about it some other time.

Another doujin. The cover is.. honestly, quite a turn off.

The woman who was selling the above doujin! Keroro Lady!

Well, there were a couple other booths there, but that’s all I’m willing to show. The rest were pretty minor.

Those who go to conventions regularly/have been to a convention would know that there is always at least a lady model or two, there to pass out flyers, provide assisstance, and the like.

This convention was no exception, and thankfully, there were PRETTY ladies.

The Wii girls were veeeewii pwiitty. *shoots self for lame pun*

As I was trying to get pictures of this cute girl, another girl at the same booth was glaring at me. I soon got too freaked out by her glare to try and take any more pictures.

This girl on the left was pretty much glaring at everyone too.

Race queens?!

She’s so pretty!

I realized only later that I had stopped her twice for pictures. How embarrassing of me.

Even though the cosplay competition was not on this day, there were a couple of cosplayers around. I’ll need help identifying them, so don’t hesistate to point out a familiar character.

Kikyo(?) and Luffy

This Luffy cosplayer was a rather hilarious guy. Throughout the first day of the convention, he was taking other characters props and playing around with them.

I could be wrong, but… Mulan?

Reverse trap Gino Weiberg!

Moar reverse traps. Himura Kenshin on the right.

Yet another reverse trap. Some character from Prince of Tennis I think?

As identified earlier, Himura Kenshin.

Axel (who later “switched” costumes to become Spitfire)

Kurosaki Ichigo on the right.

Everytime Luffy tried to shoot, the arrow would drop

Ichigo’s props

Wahaha

The mask Ichigo is holding belongs to Hirako Shinji. Did not see any Shinji cosplayers though.

Yaoi shot?!

Well, overall, I’d say that the ACGC 2008 Finale day 1 was pretty fail. Most of the computers, as I mentioned, were not set up properly until 12 PM+, the people there for the CoD4 tournament had to wait WAY overtime, and they had so little GOOD games to play there. I really wanted to give RA3 and SPORE a go, but this convention didn’t have either. :\

Day 2, on the other hand, was much better. Stick around for a post on that.

Albums: Day 1 Day 2

Day 2 coverage here.

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Ebihara Yuri is a Japanese model and actress. Her first big break was when she became an exclusive model for CanCam, a fashion magazine.

She’s acted in a couple of dramas before, and you can see a list (of those she’s acted in) here.

Some of you might know her as the model for McDonald’s Ebi Filet-O (For you non-Japanese speaking folk, that’s a shrimp fillet).

Ebi Filet-O commercial below.

Another Ebi Filet-O commercial.

And another one.

Okay, I’ve gone a little overboard with the commercials, but here’s one last one ^^;

In an Oricon poll a few months ago, a question was asked: “Which ceebrity would you want to be smiling at you in a fast food restaurant?” Ebi-chan got eighth place! (Source - Alafista)

Now- for her data ^^

• Name: Ebihara Yuri (蛯原友里)
• Nickname: Ebi-chan (エビちゃん), Yurippe (ゆりっぺ), Yurichan (ゆりちゃん), Ebiyuri (エビユリ)
• Birthdate: October 3rd, 1979
• Birthplace: Sadowara, Miyazaki, Japan
• Blood Type: O
• Height: 169cm
• Weight: 48kg
• Bust: 82cm
• Waist: 56cm
• Hips: 84cm
• Shoe size: 24.5cm
• Hobbies: Basketball, and dancing
• Special Talent: Swimming

Sources - DramaWiki and Wiki.theppn

When Danny mentioned her, I instantly fell in love. ^^; She’s so pretty, don’t you think? She’s got a great smile too ^^

Visit her official site here (Japanese).

Images in this post pulled together from multiple sources which I have failed to mention but can be found from a simple Google image search.

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Just thought I’d show off share some loot I got- four Shana posters.

Photo of this poster taken with flash here

My personal favorite. Same picture taken with flash here

Got all of these from the Youth Comic Station- 1 for RM3 and 4 for RM10.

They each measure 1′ 2” x 1′ 10 1/2” (570 x 428 mm)

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