Many readers have left, mostly given up hope on any possible updates. For those who are still desperately checking back weekly for a new post, thanks for the support and I shall give a brief explanation on the dead silence that has been plaguing this blog.

TJ is currently in New Zealand spinning and cleaning test tubes. It’s part of a university programme he signed up for. He’ll be back in Singapore in July. For now, I think he just realised that living alone on his own income sucks out more life than school work and anime.

Ascaloth has officially graduated from otakuism so Clannad and KyoAni fans please stop waiting for his return. Be happy for him.

Kokanaden never really wrote for this blog.

Crest probably doesn’t have a new favourite anime to tl;dr about. It is third year of college after all.

G-Man has always been a mystery.

Breadpit is another mystery to me.

Tsubaki never really cared about this blog. He’s waiting to leave the army to start on his career.

Soshi is busy in Japan right now. Anyone on exhcange would definitely prioritise the overseas activites over an anime blog.

Hynavian has graduated from college a while back. She’s now working, and that means 0.001 posts per day.

As for me, I still have plenty of ideas for BRSticks, but I have no tablet nor scanner. Besides, stickmen are hard to draw. Serious business I tell you. I am currently in California doing exchange, so watching anime is the least of my worries right now. My car loan is yet to be paid off, and there’s still the bill for comprehensive insurance and rental and lessons and food and groceries and omfg gas and AAAAAAAH@WTFBBQ932U4P20RJUPQ@#$!e!@e

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That’s what I thought of when I see this figure. This figure in my opinion, has a very good pose. Back then, we had the awesome Saber Lily by GSC which cost like $120 SGD? (I managed to resist the temptation somehow) but now… they finally got my achilles heel with this figure. And from mikatan’s blog, there will be more information on the blog tomorrow, probably putting a price tag(Can I hope for this figure to be below $100 SGD? ;-;) and more wonderful pictures.

God bless my wallet…

*EDIT: HOLY COW IT’S OVER $150 SGD but on the other hand… it’s scheduled for release around July so I have quite a long time to save up till then… On a side note, has anyone tried amiami to order figures? Seems like they are offering it like around $115 SGD after discount
amiami’s Link
GSC’s Link

EKUSUKALICUMMMMM!!! It looks like cum, seriously…

Original Link

Some of you might have noticed a deathly silence on this blog, well that is because Ascaloth has a real life sort of girlfriend now so he no longer needs to watch the sissy Clannad shows and blog about them, and I myself have been travelling somewhat extensively the past 2 weeks.

Let’s see, I flew up to Hong Kong, then went into Guangzhou of China, went to several of its cities, came back to Hong Kong, flew up to London, was going to fly down to Amsterdam but the flight got cancelled and got stuck in London till the 27th when I will attempt to fly to Amsterdam again, after which I will return to London and fly back to Hong Kong to fly back to Singapore, after which I will go to New Zealand for 5 months of research assistant internship.

I don’t know that many UK or even Dutch anime bloggers, hey I realised PSgels might be Dutch. Anyway so I’m meeting up with Runningkid (no longer a blogger), meeting lots of old friends from high school and middle school who are now studying/working in the UK, doing touristy things and getting stomachaches from dubious kebabs run by Middle Eastern immigrants. Funny how I didn’t get a stomachache in supposedly less developed China. Damn Brits. I have to say that Britain is not exactly a nice place at all - the weather is surprisingly true to popular belief (that is, totally shit and gloomy), the water is so hard it looks like milk, stuff are expensive, people aren’t friendly etc. But it’s still sort of nice I guess, educationally.

Asian countries are probably better to live in permanently. I’ve never visited Europe prior to this, and am not that much of a Euro-phile (we’re weeaboo lol) so the food, while fresh and alien, is really scary to order as I have no idea what the hell stuff are. I’ve had to keep asking, to the amusement of the shop people. The buildings are very nice, but also have the downside of being a bit old so aren’t as well designed as modern buildings in newly-rich Asian countries functionally. Looks is one thing, but I’m not so romantic as to be able to like living in a pretty, historical building with a lack of amenities.

I’m thinking I would probably like living in a) East Asian countries then b) the US, and then Europe and New Zealand, followed by Australia. I’ve not been to Central Asian, Africa and South America so I can’t judge them. Actually, Singapore is really nice to live in for people who like stability and are on the nerdy side, since the Internet censors can be beaten by a simple proxy.

I have some photos of London up on facebook, but haven’t had the time to do my HK and China photos. So I’ll just update them all when I reach New Zealand and get settled in.

Hope you guys enjoy this day with your 3D/2D waifus. And don’t forget that it’s the season of GIVING!!!

Scifi - Almost all anime has some degree of scifi, but these are the mainly scifi ones, most have mecha.
FLCL - Stylish to the max.
Gatekeepers and GK21 - watched together, its simplicity belies its depth. Still one of my favourite super power shows.
Vandread - Pioneer of CGI mecha, cute girls and nice plot twists.
Read or Die OVA - Stylish super powers and snappy pacing, exciting.
Scyred - Lots of angry boys shouting with super powers.
Full Metal Panic (all 3 seasons) - Simply one of the most epic in terms of action and comedy, could’ve been one of the best scifi if not for the blasted Lambda driver bullshit.
Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex and 2nd Gig - Seriously, if you don’t like this you must be… yaoi fan girl.
Macross Zero - Beautiful valkyries.
Gundam Seed - Despite the hatred Seed Destiny garnered that took the gloss off the original season, Gundam Seed was a fantastically exciting series.
Overman King Gainer - Cynthia and the Dominator.
Rahxephon - I got bored but thought it was good.
Last Exile - The anime that made Range Murata and Steampunk big in the anime world. Epic.
Planetes - Simply the best scifi anime of the decade. Probably of all time so far.
Burst Angel - Sexy girls, some nice mecha, namely the highway patrol car.
Diebuster - Super animation, nostalgic and clever tie-ins to the original series, and simply the largest scale battles ever fought in the solar system. Besides Gurren Lagann.
MS Igloo and all the other OVAs of the non-Gundam Weaponry - I like these the same way people love car shows. Functional and inspiring mecha design and great animation, plus an unexplored subject matter in the big UC universe.
Zipang - Singapore got featured? I can’t remember, but WW2 is exciting, especially if an Aegis missile cruiser joins the fray.
Eureka Seven - Flashy, touching, and Renton becomes a man. Cemented the thought "Bones is genius".
Sousei no Aquarion - This one is here for the song, voted best song of all time. And the super funny cross dress episode.
Gun x Sword - I like this because Van quietly kills the villain at the end, with no fuss and emoshit about how killing is wrong. A simple chop of a defenceless old man, and THE END.
Noein - It’s not bad, somewhat pretentious though.
Speed Grapher - I love the dirtiness, the smuttiness, the fantastic ending where the bad guy sort of wins and also the 2nd ending song. Plus Saiga has awesome super power.
Code Geass - It’s so melodramatic and full of twists, it’s like some Gundam Seed on steroids.
Ergo Proxy - It’s not really cyberpunk.
Flag - Possibly most realistic use of mecha I’ve seen, plus the unique cinematography.
Freedom Project - Looks like Akira eh?
Zegapain - KAMINAGI RYOUKO. The show is meh but not that bad, the reason it is significant is because it brought Hanazawa "KYRRRRROOU-CHAN" Kana to stardom.
Darker than Black - Best superpower show, in my opinion. Slick, mysterious and stylish yet brutal, it’s better than great.
Dennou Coil - Creative, with a wonderful storyworld.
Engage Planet Kissdum - It kinda sucks but for the fact that it’s very funnily bad.
Gurren Lagann - Escalating power levels spiral into the biggest battle known to anime ever. Revived manliness.
Heroic Age - I like the Starcraft ripoff concept.
Gigantic Formula - Super all-star mecha designer party,  it’s sort of some epenis contest.
Gundam 00 - It’s not as good as Seed for sure, but I still like it. The mecha look better than Seed’s for sure.
Moonlight Mile - It’s like Planetes on retarded mode, with lots of nudity and sex.
Towards the Terra - It’s like watching some 80s show.
Tetsuwan Birdy - It would be really good if not for the horrid animation they tried to pass off as some avant-garde bullshit.
Kaiba - Everyone knows its good.
Toaru Majutsu no Index - Arguably bad, but it introduced Railgun.
Tytania - I’m hoping for its 2nd season if not I’ll strike it off the list. Space opera is a dying genre.
Xam’d - It’s like some rushed, fail Eureka seveN. But even a rushed fail E7 is good enough for the list.
Rideback - Very very exciting mecha designs, very very boring story.

Comedy - It’s hard to separate harem/romance from comedy.
Galaxy Angels - Few people like this, but it’s one of my favourite comedies, simply because it’s long. I like long series.
School Rumble - The first season was pure gold. The others, shit.
Pani Poni Dash - Sort of kickstarted the rubbishy trend of spamming references and hidden text.
Ichigo Mashimaro - Cutest comedy ever.
Gintama - Gintama has elements from every single genre. Seriously, there is NO genre it doesn’t cover, even yaoi. It’s just too good, pity a downward trend has been developing but the filler episodes are mostly really creative so it’s ok.
Kyou no Go no Ni (OVA) - Ignoring the tv series, the OVA is pure dirty fun.
Lucky Star - Despite constant derision, Lucky Star is not bad, the characters are likeable.
Minamike (first season) - The first season was like another Ichigo Mashimaro.
Detroit Metal City - It’s funny. Also created a thousand memes.
GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class - GA is cure, light-hearted and educational.

Shounen - Everyone seems to hate shounen, but I think shounen manga is one of the mainstays of anime and as long as nasty fillers and anime originals stay out of the way, they are not bad at all.
Naruto - until the stupid fillers starter, this was one of the best shounen ever.
Kekkaishi - Unlike typical shounen, this one gets better and better.
Claymore - Ruined by newly created crap ending.
Soul Eater - Beautiful animation and choreography, bad bad ending.

Fantasy - Anime has a lot of lameass fantasy RPGish shows.
12 Kingdoms - If not for the fact it is incomplete, and people hating it for starting slow, it’ll probably be considered the best fantasy anime.
Kino no Tabi - Painful to watch in a good way.
Narutaru - I LOVE KILLER POKEMON.
Elfen Lied - Made violence trendy again.
Gakuen Alice - Is this fantasy? Anyway, it’s sweet, cute and has super powers.
Suzumiya Haruhi - Duh, but the 2nd season is not that awesome. Yuki is good. Very good.
Pumpkin Scissors - Poor PS has no sequel to tie up loose ends since GONZO died. Alice is great and noble, most noble of anime characters.
Zero no Tsukaima - This is example of how really bad stuff can be made entertaining with clever use of WW2 weaponry and superpowers.
Ayakashi Ayashi - Criminally overrated to the point of its cancellation. Creative use of kanji as weapons.
Rozen Maiden - Nice dolls.
Seirei no Moribito - Kamiyama Kenji can do no wrong, epic.
Oh! Edo Rocket - It’s unique. Very very unique, with lots of wit and anachronisms.
Tower of Druaga - One of those shitty shows that people love because it simply has job classes.

Action - Again, this category is for shows with tiny or no element of fantasy or scifi but lots of action.
Gunslinger Girls - The manga is better. But the manga is so good that the anime is worth mentioning.
Samurai Champloo - YEEEEEEAAAH. Funny, exciting and stylish to the max. It’s all about style here.
Basilisk - Ninja deathmatch, with one skill each. Full of violent and sex. Yes, I approve.
Maihime - Pioneer of girls fighting girls hime-style.
Shigurui - Most exciting samurai anime so far.
Black Lagoon - Despite the lame English, Black Lagoon is full of the nice things we like, namely death, guns, hot girls, battle royales, twins, Russians and crazy people.
Baccano! - Tied with Champloo for best of this genre, genius blending of timelines to make a fun and engaging story. Also see note on battle royales. We love battle royales.
Kaze no Stigma - I think I said it before, but elemental super powers are very attractive. Plus badass main character. Pity the story’s unfinished cos the author is as Deader than Corpse.
Tokyo Majin - It’s like some gatekeepers anime with voodoo hocuspocus instead of gate power. But a lot shallower.
Garei Zero - Super upgrade of bad manga. It’s one of the fabled "anime better than manga" examples.
Golgo 13 - How can one not love a guy who makes women’s gynies tingle just by his impersonation of a corpse with a flagpole stuck into it?
Kurozuka - Hackslashmashup with vampires.
Souten Koro - Who knew the much-derided Cao Cao was such a badass?
Sunabouzu - It’s like batman, except batman is half the height, fights in sand, and as pervy as a 100 Catholic priests.

Sports - This is the key category where my list differs from most people, who don’t have a SINGLE sports anime. Hey, it’s actually my 2nd favourite genre.
IGPX - Robot racing while beating the shit out of each other. The rules don’t make sense but the robots are lovely.
Kaleido Star - Girly, but brings tears to the eyes of even hardened viewers. SO SO PURE.
Major - Uber long running, following the life of Goro from baby till adulthood. Now he’s 19. Pure, traditional sports anime for the whole family.
Yakitate Japan - Despite its gradual deterioration, Yakitate Japan is the only cooking anime in the past 10 years. Cooking is sports.
Capeta - It’s actually the best sports series of the decade, hugely underrated story about how a poor kid with no money wins gokart races which are basically for rich kids.
Inazuma 11 - I have a totally crazed love for this. It’s like Captain Tsubasa on steroids and heroin at the same time, people cast super novas and fire demons to score goals.
One Outs - The exaggerated thinking man’s sports anime.
Basquash! - See IGPX, except with ugly mecha and action that doesn’t make sense. Actually it rather sucks.
Ookiku Furikabutte - Slight yaoi undertones going on but it’s a refreshing sports series with no overpowered main characters, which can’t be said for ALLLL the other sports series.
Cross Game - It’s actually more a romance anime, isn’t it?

Drama - Only reasonably realistic real life anime here.
Beck - Best music anime ever. Not much competition there, lol KON.
Genshiken - Best otaku anime ever. Realistic too.
Yomigaeru Sora Rescue Wings - Best erm rescue anime ever. I cry every episode.
Kaiji - It’s like a dumb version of Liar Game with higher stakes and ugly art.
Moyashimon - Cute and educational with zero story.
Kurenai - Haha, bones popping out as blades is realistic for me, you laugh? Kurenai is basically about the girl and the guy, so yeah.
Eden of the East - While not as good as people hoped it would be, it’s still really interesting.

I might have missed stuff out, feel free to add on or flame my choices.

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So my exam, the first paper on food safety in Singapore, ended at about 11 am. Since my next paper (a terrible one on food engineering) is only on Tuesday, I thought I could catch a quick movie to heal up my HP/MP before resuming the book-hitting. Tsubaki sent me an SMS, which read "Eva 2.0 is fuccccccckiiiiiing best show everrrrrrr" or something to that effect, and since Tsubaki (along with Darkmirage) is probably the most film-savvy person I know, I chose to trust his taste and rush off to the only cinema showing the movie here in Singapore. Actually there are two cinemas but the other is located in a rural farming area 240 miles away (angmokio lame). We contemplated heading down to AFA for a short while, but decided, nope, waste of time.

The movie is bloody fantastic. Not just because it’s Evangelion, I’m not that big an Eva fan even though it’s pretty much one of my first mecha anime all the way back about 10 years ago or so. The animation, shock value, story, deaths and battle scenes alone make it really exciting and watchable, adding onto the sense of nostalgia invoked. I was seated beside LianYL, and some random woman who was accompanying her boyfriend. The woman didn’t get the story, no surprise, since it’s a sequel to the first Evangelion movie. Then again, the boyfriend didn’t either. But as I prepared to laugh at them,  I realised I didn’t get what the fuck was going on either, besides giant monsters descending to try to destroy Earth multiple times and giant robot monsters saving the day time and ago. In a gory fashion with lots of blood and destruction, topped off with meaningless religious motifs and jargon.

The thing about Eva I don’t like is its pretentiousness, especially in referring to the good old 2000 year old version of Harry Potter. The Japanese find it cool of course, to make lots of references and allusions to the Bible, but it’s sort of as cool as making references to Harry Potter. Yeah it’s funny when done in the style of Gintama or South Park (ooh I love South Park now), but when it takes itself seriously, it becomes cringe-worthy.

Nevertheless, this minor setback aside, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, with its complete revamp of the original animation series. The first movie was roughly a condensed version of the initial part of the series, but the 2nd is where the deviations occur, and boy are they big ones. I shan’t spoil it for you much except Asuka DIESSSSSSS. DIEEEEESSS like the COCKROACH under YOUR CRUSHED SLIPPER. Just kidding, she doesn’t die because she appears in the preview for 3.0 with a giant eyepatch pirate-style. Rei dies too. There’s this cocky new pilot megane character who looks straight from Air Gear, she’s quite funny and beast-like.

The voice-acting is fine, except when they spoke in English. While most of them were OK, much better than the usual standards, Kaji’s seiyuu was horrible English-wise. Rei also becomes a hell lot more responsive in 2.0, I distinctly remember her being little more than a doll from Darker than Black, but now she’s sort of into cooking and matchmaking too. Asuka progresses really fast down the tsundere route and has tonnes of fanservice, but she dies so you can’t fap over dead people. I never liked Misato, she’s a very 90s character, the beer-drinking uncouth adult single woman stereotype.

But the single biggest difference in 2.0 is that Shinji is not a wimp. In fact, Shinji becomes a total clone of Renton from Eureka seveN, while Rei becomes a Eureka. The final battle of the movie was very very E7 in style, with flashy lights and metamorphosis of robots. At the end of the movie, I thought 2.0 was E7 with added gore and Bible names replacing Rock names. That makes it awesome though. There were parts where the Ikari Dad acts like Holland, and pressures RentonShinji into running away, only to return when help is needed. He’s a lot better as a main character now.

The battles and their animation are the best seen in anime I think. I don’t think I’ve seen better animation for mecha. The only ones that comes close are Diebuster, also by Gainax and maybe GitS. The new Angel designs are beautiful aesthetically, and the sheer destruction they bring is pleasing. There’s no  longer much emphasis on the Eva weaponry, in fact only the twin-tailed non-Asuka girl uses weapons much and she chuck them aside quickly. Most of the fighting was done hand-to-hand or rather, MOUTH TO FACE.

 The funny part about the movie is that it never ends, it’s like there were several points I thought were the ending of the show, mostly after big battles the pilots barely win. But no, suddenly they continue into drama and civilian life again. I was praying that there would be no cliff hangers and that battles would be concluded properly, and my prayers were almost totally answered. Except for the final battle where Shinji wins and then suddenly the credits roll after everyone says OH 3rd IMPACT WOOOOOOO. At this point, 3/4 of the cinema goers left and I had a huge amount of pee stored up but had to stay because I suspected there were more scenes after the credits.

My guess was correct and there was a cliffhanger showing Kaoru stabbing Shinji’s Eva with a lance from the Moon, and then the preview for 3.0 was shown. HAHA LOSER people who left early missed this! My pee stream lasted an exact 60 seconds, I timed it.

The Japanese, besides Ghibli, don’t make good movies in general. Almost all the live action movies are horrible. Most of the animated ones are mediocre, such as Vexille, Steamboy, Brave Story, Shamballa, E7 Pocket Full of Rainbows, the 10000 Naruto/Bleach/Dragon Ball originals etc. Because of this, and the fact that Eva’s actually great, I think Eva 2.0 is sure as high a must-watch.

OTL

That Orange symbolizes the cockpit? I will leave that for you to decide.

PS: Does anyone knows where can one get the best deals on automatic watches?

Out of all costumes. This is her latest hairstyle. But I’m sure no guy will notice the hair initially.

We did this interview all the way back in September, but due to crippling amounts of school work, I’ve never really gotten around to posting it. I thought the effect’ll be better nearer the AFA’09 date anyway. But due to the oldness of it, some of Mika’s responses might be outdated. Anyway, you can check out her facebook profile and add her as a friend, it’ll boost your e-penis. You just need to know the correct keywords to search for, totally revealed in this post.

Note: This interview has been edited for fluency and length. Photos courtesy of Mika herself. I’m sure she didn’t take some of those, so if you find your photo up here, just drop a comment and I’ll credit accordingly.

TJ Han: So Mika, are you really a Mika?
Mika: Nope, it’s just a name we randomly picked after getting selected for the maid cafe. I go by the name Chloe, or Liting.

TJ Han: How old are you? I’m sure the millions of fans would want to know if you’re of legal age! Of course, some of them might prefer you to NOT be of it… damn lolicons.
Mika: 18!

TJ: Sounds like a lie to me. It probably is, but we’ll let the readers find out the truth for themselves. When is your birthday?
Mika:  Jan 27.

TJ: Be sure to send her gifts. Any hobbies?
Mika: Shopping , eating, sleeping, jogging!

TJ: Holy shit, that’s like… quite the usual hobbies for a girl with no hobbies. I think you forget to mention clubbing and partying, looking at your numerous clubbing photos lol. Now, you’re essentially famous for 3 things – Moe Moe Kyun Maid Café, Amateur Model Photography and being a booth babe. How did you get into these?

Mika: Last November, a friend who was already a model recommended me to go for it too! So I read up about TFCD (note: this means free modelling in exchange for free photography) and built up a portfolio via good photographers. Unfortunately, a lot of perverted guys are pretending to be photographers these days, and most of the requests I get nowadays are all for nude, lingerie, bikini or gstring photos. So I haven’t really been doing much amateur modelling recently.

A couple of months back, my agent emailed me to tell me if I wanted to go for a casting, which was a full hour long! The crteria was that we had to be cheerful, pretty and must know how to act cute. So that was how I got into the maid cafe thingy!

TJ: Wow, that’s a lot to comment on. We all know the local photography forum, Clubsnap, has been overrun with horny guys who just want to take pervy shots of hot girls. Ah, so the AFA organisers actually put in lots of effort into selecting their maids. That’s nice to hear. But do you actually like anime, or watch it?
Mika: I like anime, but have no time for it. I like anime with pretty boys, you know, the romance kind. I love dramas more though, especially Taiwanese drama.

Mika here doing some modelling for a fashion boutique.

TJ: What do you think of geeks, nerds and otakus?
Mika: I can’t click with them! I read your article on how Nerds make the best boyfriends, but I still find nerds and geeks boring. But nothing wrong with otaku though, It’s normal to like stuff a lot right?

TJ: Hehe, I bet she just didn’t want to offend her otaku customers! Nobody likes otakus, come on! Not even otakus like otakus! How has “training” for the maid café been like? (note: this question is as of 27 Sep 09)
Mika: : We’ve had only one training session so far, but I was ill and couldn’t go for that. I heard from the other girls that training seems to be fun, they teach how to draw cute characters, speak simple Japanese etc.

TJ: Tell us some of the little behind the scenes secrets the maids have!
Mika Most have boyfriends. They look better in real life, compared to the photos.

TJ: Btw, Mika here is single. You guys can join the queue of 3000 and growing. Yeah, I’ve seen the photos of the maids out of costume and they look so much better. I guess maid costumes by nature are terribly unflattering compared to regular fashion. Who is your favorite maid and why?

Mika: Miyake! She’s pretty and cute! Small petite, shorter than me. She has lots of supporters.

Nice.

TJ: I see you have 3420 friends on facebook, and the list is growing by the minute. Do you seriously know that many people or are 90 percent of them horny stalker males?
Mika: Yeah, I find it hard to differentiate between people I actually have met, via my work or in school, and random strangers, and so I just accept all of them as friends. I just make sure not to leave any private stuff on facebook. I have trouble with my inbox because lots of people send me weird messages, talking about how they want to get to know me, some of them can be quite creepy. I didn’t convert my profile page to one that has a fan page because it’s quite pretentious, since I’m not a celebrity.

TJ: The funny thing is, I just saw one of my university classmates add you as a friend on facebook, and I questioned him about it and he totally knows you don’t know him. He just added you because of your hot profile picture and the fact that his friend knows you. I guess that’s a feeling us normal not-so-hot people will never understand, the pain of having too many people lust after you?? Anyway, what are the difficult parts of being a model/boothbabe/maid? People think it’s easy money, like maybe a few hundred an hour just to look pretty?

Mika: Looking pretty is actually pretty hard when you’re dead tired, annoyed or sweaty! We also have to stand on heels throughout the whole event and swat off touchy guys without causing trouble. We constantly have to think of ways to escape such guys. Some assignments especially those that involve alcohol are full of touchy or weird guys. There’s this guy, who takes his handphone camera and goes super close and keeps following, like 5 cm close! His eyes would be totally not looking at his camera, but busy ogling the girls. Could be one of the reasons I don’t like nerds, as many of these pervy guys are nerds who walk around alone. The touchy guys, especially Caucasians, put their hands around waist, sometimes butt or hip. And we  still have to smile despite this.

She worked as a "mingler" for the recent formula 1 GP held here too. What’s a mingler, you ask? Someone who mingles of course.

TJ: I guess that’s one of the reasons they have to put up such high pay, if not no hot girl would want to do such a job. Besides, the pool of hot girls is rather low in the first place, so this natural "talent" is what employers look for. God isn’t fair, hehe. But yeah, nerds can be creepy, such as Kowtow man and Waterbottle Rapist. What do you think of your new found fame? Were you always such a popular girl?

Mika: My blog hits have increased to 1000 a day! When I go out, people recognize me, shout my name or just smile at me. After events, lots of them tag me on facebook on their photos they took and I’ll be shocked to find out that they are on my facebook friend list. When my schoolmates saw me in the newspaper for the maid cafe, they asked me lots of questions too!

Mika wondering why people know her.

TJ: You do post a lot of photos of yourself on your blog, so people flock to see it right? Have you ever encountered jealous girls who bitch about you, or do any nasty things? You know, people tell me that some of the photos you post on facebook and your blog are very slutty, though I don’t quite agree because these are standard portrait photos. But yeah, the more conservative people might have a different impression of you.
Mika: Last time there were lots of girls in school who bitched a lot, but not anymore nowadays. It’s because I’m friendly, and don’t have a bad attitude towards people. So after these girls talk to me, they realise I’m not like what they think I am at all, so it’s alright. BUT I have had a girl in school tell my best friend stuff she doesn’t like about me. Also, there was this guy who had a girlfriend, but asked me to be his “scandal” . As in, he likes his girlfriend but wants a fling. I was pretty disgusted by that. Oh and sometimes when out on the streets shopping or something, I can sense guys staring at me when they are with their girlfriend and their girlfriends won’t be happy.

Booth babe @ a games convention. You guys might have seen her around.

TJ: I’m sure that guy you mentioned had balls of steel lol. But the truly interesting thing is, who the hell uses the term "scandal"  in that context? That’s just bad English, so I’m sure that guy is a loser. But he has a girlfriend so he’s less loser than otakus. Poor otakus. Anyway, I think it’s human nature to stare at hot girls, so girls please don’t get angry, it’s like breathing. As you said, you have a rather popular blog, which you update often. Why do not you allow comments on the posts?
Mika: I just don’t know how to do it!

TJ: Pity, because I bet there’ll be awesome hate comments. Do you feel great that people are interested in your life?
Mika: To be honest, yeah it feels nice. Sometimes, I update my status on facebook just to see how many people would respond, and what they would say. Stuff like, "I’m hungry" would get lots of people offering to buy food in exchange for meeting up, but I never accept their offers. It’s fun.

TJ: You so evil. Give us a rough number of how many guys have tried and failed to win you over. Why have they failed?
Mika: Too many to count, like when I login to MSN messenger, over 20 talk to me but I’ll only know like 2 of them, the rest are just random people trying to ask me out. I’ve had about two to three boyfriends in the past, but we broke up quickly because I couldn’t stand how they tried to restrict my life, and prevent me from having fun. I’m also finding that most guys my age are way too childish so I hang out with people about 3-6 years older now, both guys and girls. In the first place, it’s quite impossible to like strangers who straightaway try to date you. But I’m not intending to get into any relationship for now!

Not hard to imagine why girls get jealous.

TJ: Did I just hear the sound of a thousand hearts break? Yeah, if I were you, I’ll totally make guys grovel at my feet, buy me free food, drive me around, buy me fancy gifts and then still not date them. We want to maximise our benefits! But then again, I’m sure you’re not as evil as me so you won’t do that. Life is fair, if Jesus made me a super hot babe, I’ll probably do bad, bad things to this world with my beauty. OK, tell us the craziest thing you’ve done in your life!
Mika: I’m quite boring! Haven’t done crazy stuff at all. My craziest is was with my very best friend, we’ll walk around and see people with interesting clothes and ask to take photos with them. Oh, and take a long journey from woodlands to orchard just to eat wanton mee. I don’t smoke or take drugs so I’m not that crazy.

TJ: In other words you drink a lot. Haha. I’m pretty sure you’re lying though, those totally don’t sound like the craziest stuff you did. Are you sure?
Mika: Hmm, yeah ok when I started out modelling, I didn’t really dare to offend people so I agreed to do a few rather more revealing photoshoots, like lingerie and bikini ones. Don’t do them anymore though, those were reeeaaaally uncomfortable for me! I’ve also done a fashion shoot with this guy called Tungtung, which lasted for 8 hours!! 8 hours! But he was a professional, so it was good.

What appears to be a scary photoshoot.

TJ: OK I bet everyone’ll stop reading at this point and rush for their Googles, to find the pictures. Don’t bother, I’ve tried, nothing comes up. Sad. Haha. I guess the lucky photographers have it on their hard disks. How about the most embarrassing moment?
Mika: Nothing much.. ok I have a story from my secondary three days. I skipped school twice in a row, and then the next day I went to school, but was late and my teacher called my house to tell my mom and later showed her a forged letter that I made to cover for the absences. Haha! I was really scolded for that.

TJ: That’s not very embarrassing. I’m sure you’re lying again and probably lots more fun stuff remain in your heart. We need to play some truth or dare. Ok for our final question, what do you see yourself doing in a year, 5 years and 10 years’ time?
Mika: 1 year – still doing events and photoshoots maybe? 5 years, in university, doing some finance-related course? 10 years on, hopefully an investment banker!

TJ: I’m pretty sure she doesn’t know what an investment banker does and how tough the workload is. Nevertheless, good luck on your dreams! Actually, if you were born in Japan, you’ll probably make it big as an idol already. Too bad.

WHY HAVE YOU NOT BEEN POSTING!!! (ﾟДﾟ )

Hmm… it’s been a while since I posted. After my ITP(Industrial Training Programme), I pretty much went into a game orgy on the wii and played games like NO MORE HEROES, SD GUNDAM SCAD HAMMERS(It’s a game that can destroy your wrist if you play excessively), DEAD SPACE: EXTRACTION and of course ZERO: TSUKIHAMI NO KAMEN.

Anyhow, back to my rant. I’m surprised that the typical cheap scares and random battles has significantly decreased, even the ghosts seem so weak, especially the final boss. On the other hand, the plot is pretty good and the character designs are pretty. To tell the truth, it’s not very easy to understand the whole game if you don’t have decent understanding of Japanese and for my case, I had to flip a Japanese=>English dictionary quite a few times to understand the files and notes I picked up during the game but worth it if you want to understand better. By the way, there’s a translation coming out pretty soon so if you want to play it in English, here’s your chance to do so.