Here is my list: Download the XLS or PDF of my collection, and please help give these ladies a new warm home! For those who need pictures, there are some figurine shoot I did in the past which you can find here.

Please buy everything off me! I promise you it’s dirt cheap clearance. BETTER THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE. Kindly spread the word, thank you very much!

Attention all bidders and potential bidders, please take note of the follow details:
- Last bid will end promptly at 1am, 1st June Sunday 2008.
- If your have won, kindly SMS me your number if you have not done so yet.
- Collection of figures will be at Sunshine Plaza (most likely outside KKnM) at 2-3pm, 1st June 2008.
- If possible, please bring exact change.
- I will also be bringing unsold figurines (so be smart and bring more cash, lolz).

If there are any real physical defects I will tell you beforehand, otherwise all figures are in good condition to display. Pointing smalls defects just to get discounts = epic ban hammer, fur realz. Some figurines are a little dusty, and I’ve taken the liberty to briefly wipe them with a dry tissue. Do not expect them to be in perfect dust-free condition. Who are we kidding, our rooms are always dusty.

Auction winners:
Nanoha – mistayoh c/o $75 OUTBID misakichii [BID CLOSED. PRIVATE SETTLEMENT]
Ignis – Yukarin c/o $82 OUTBID winsonkoh ($71)
Black Saber – engima c/o $70 OUTBID dusk ($68)
Melon Pan eating Shana – eltboy c/o $45 OUTBID zenical ($38)
Hikaru Death God Version – Leefe c/o $42 OUTBID Eisen (SnooSnoo) ($40)
Asuka and Rei Duo – Kokanaden c/o $40 OUTBID tragic comedy
Tohsaka Rin – Cain c/o $40
Yakumo – Rynwk c/o $30
Mai Hime v2.5 Trading Figure – bipi c/o $30
Rindou Rina – Leefe c/o $28 OUTBID Rynwk ($27)
Al Azif – MR_X c/o $22 OUTBID Shane
Mai Tokiha – Shaun Sng c/o $20
Mai Otome Collection Figure – Shaun Sng c/o $20
Natsuki – bipu c/o $20

Figures that are still available:
Hobby Japan Limited Edition Rider Swimsuit
Natsuki Kruger Action Figure
Moe Tan Trading Figures (HIGHLY DETAILED)
Dengeki Daioh! Shana series (Sept, Aug, Oct) + FREE: Dengeki Daiohs that comes with it
Keroro Commando Mission 1 (HIGHLY DETAILED)
Mecha Musume Trading Figures Volume 1 and 2 (HIGHLY DETAILED)
Utawarerumono Trading Figures
Mai Otome Figure Set 1 and 2 Gashapon

Hi people, this is perhaps the only reason why I can explain why Anime Desho Desho is dead. I’ve been grinding and levelling up in the real_world.exe as a Level 20 Kid under the apprenticeship of the famous Lvl 99 Director Eric Khoo, and this newspaper article is my report card of my labour. Tjhan has nicely announced this on RIUVA together with some artist bashing shit and I figured out it’s better to the actual article to everyone else out there who’s interested to read about it.

May I present, my real e-penis:

Yes I know, I look damn retarded and ugly here. The photographer, took like a million over pictures of me, decided to use this. He told me to do some hand gestures while I talk to an imaginary person, and this came out. I swear the next time someone tells me that, I’ll just look straight at the camera and not do anything.

At the moment, the only anime that I still religiously follow is Code Geass R2. Don’t think the community needs another CG reviewer, so I’m not writing anything about it. Also, I’m seriously considering to pull the plug on ADD and maybe join another animeblog or something as a guest writer, but ah wells. I dunno.

Here are the details:

Date: 28th March 2008
Location: LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS CAMPUS, Earl Lu Gallery Basement 1
Map: http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_33399/travel_site_143347/
Call time for extras: 12.15pm
Estimated endtime: 4 to 5pm
Attire: Semi-formal ie; Tee + Blazers, Shirts, etc

We will provide food and beverages. If you have any questions, I can be contacted at 97386097 or you can email me at written.by.nic [at] gmail [dot] com

I know this blog is as dusty and dead as hell, but if you’re still reading, here’s finally a post. I watched Evangelion 0.1 today and was mighty blown away. Now before I start talking about the film, let me talk about the crowd there. For a Monday 7.15pm show, the theater was rather packed. I occupied the best seats (B8) so I didn’t have to worry about people standing up during a Rei scene (I hear it’s becoming a meme). Most of the people I observed were either:

1. Couples
I kid you not. There was a serious number of couples in the theater, and I supposed these are the otakus that leveled up. There were a few couples dressed in office attire, obviously catching the show after knocking off from work and they look perfectly normal. Until when you realized the dude was banging his chest when Rei appears. Oh, and I swore his partner wet herself when Kaoru appear (HE’S TOO EARLY DAMNIT)

2. Otaku Groups
The typical expected crowd. I was lucky these groups were the tamer ones, as compared to groups like these and these. Nobody screamed MOE when Rei appeared or anything, but they did let out a big “WTF” when we all realized the trailer from 2.0 was cut from the movie. To be more accurate, they only said “What the…” while I continued the “FUCK” for them. They all turned and face the projectionist and you could see the fire burning in their eyes.

3. Lone Rangers
Not surprising, but there were quite a lot of solo watchers. I used to think that watching movies alone = pathetic, but lately, trying to get people to watch the films I want to watch becomes harder as my tastes are more sophisticated and thus I’ve also joined the Lone Ranger sect. But I watched it with my brother today, so hah! I’m not in this group.

4. Ang Moh with SPG
Probably here for just some albino mammaries.

And now, to the film itself. I’ve watched the original TV series thrice in my whole life, but sadly have not watched the two movies (Evangelion: Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion). Yet I consider myself a fan of the EVA series. I love Evangelion. I’m not sure whether it’s because I love my stash of Rei doujinshis more, but that’s debatable. I kid.

Generally as a whole, the film does not disappoint. It does a good job retelling the first six episodes of the series, with some changes which does not bother me (as long as they leave the legendary scenes inside, ie: Rei’s bedroom malfunction with Shinji). Shinji this time is less painful to watch, instead of stabbing myself with a fork whenever he goes into his state of angst, I sympathize with him and feel that they have done certainly added more depth to his character. You could read into his psychological scars and the complexities that exist within him even though much of the angst has been stripped down.

When the EVA 01 was launched for the first time in the movie, I shed manly tears.

Not because it was a moving scene or anything, but it was tears of happiness, as though I was reunited with a missing one after so many years. Experiencing Evangelion once again, in a theater environment and proper surround sound (ZOMFG DOLBY!) was like meeting the Pope. I’m also a sucker for shows with a long line of chain of command where everyone is simply calling out their urgent reports from their stations to, despite already pushing 40, a hot Misato Katsuragi.

Rei was awesome win, and when she spoke I realized SHNY’s Nagato Yuki was inferior. Bah, all of this lousy Rei clones. But there just wasn’t enough of her. When Asuka joins the fray in the next installment, Rei’s going to shafted even further. =(

However with all of that said, what I wasn’t impressive was the level of animation. While it’s awesome compared to the original series, it still pales behind the level of what Kyoto Animation or Studio Ghibli produces. That’s what happens when you outsource too much. WHERE’S THE NIPPON PRIDE? EVA BELONGS TO JAPAN, AND HAS TO BE DRAWN BY JAPANESE HANDS, NOT VIETS OR THAIS! (No offense to my fellow viets and thais, I love Vietnamese pho bo and Thailand’s bang cocks.)

And I think I know why the 2.0 trailer was cut from the film. I bet Cathy was just chancing with 0.1 to see the response to it. Despite minimal advertising, I bet it’s doing better than that The Leap Years (a local film). Correct me if I’m wrong, but Cathy brought in NANA but not NANA2 and also brought in the 2nd Umizaru movie but not the first. So with such a track record, I won’t be surprise if they didn’t bring the rest in. But hopefully, with the strong otaku dollar, Cathy will bring in 2.0 and the rest.

Lastly before I end, I must talk about the music. Utada Hikaru’s Beautiful World, is the perfect song to the Rebuild of Evangelion series. I had it on my PSP for months and I never got bored of it. It sticks to me because it truely encompasses the spirit of Evangelion. While I always thought 残酷な天使のテーゼ [Zankoku na Tenshi no Te-ze (Thesis of a Cruel Angel)] could never be replaced, Beautiful World actually steals the crown from it.

And that pretty much sums up my rather fragmented entry. I apologize, I haven been writing a lot of articles. Lack of practice.

Hello, it’s been while. I do realized there’s so much dust on this site it’s enough to suffocate a kid. I do apologize for the lack of update(s). If you noticed, there are ads on ADD now because even though this site is somewhat stagnant, the amount of traffic that ADD get is enough to break Maestro’s back, so upon his request, we have ads now.

The boys over at RIUVA also roped me in as a guest contributer for Kokanaden’s Otaku Helpline thingy thing which everyone should read about.

I’m currently working on another film project, a short film that I will be directing sometime in March. I’m currently writing the 6th draft of the script and once I’ve gotten some stuff in I’ll let you guys know. There’s probably going to be a chance for you guys to cameo in my film, so stay tuned ya? Hah.

Meanwhile, merry belated xmas, new year, whatever to everyone. My bad. Really.

Oh and for no bloody reason, I’m banned again from 4chan. Like what the fuck? Someone in Singapore, who is sharing the same IP string as me needs to stop fucking uploading CP. Bastard.

Me, totally T.T-ing

I finally can breath for a bit. Hi! How is everyone? I see DarkMirage has made a new site, tj han’s still making lame nyoro comics, LianYL’s BRstick still going strong, bj0rn still hopeless in love with a girl that doesn’t know he like her and some of you people got so excited over giving roses to the girls at cosafe. If I miss anything out, that’s probably because I haven’t read your blog. Pimp the links on the comment if you want to. Oh and yesterday I got k-lined from Rizon, so I can’t get on #sganimebloggers now. Fucking netsec banned me for 4319 mins. God knows how long that is.

I’m currently now on Day 6 of my film shoot, and it’s been a crazy madcap shoot so far. Sometimes I wonder why I chose to leave my cosy computer chair where I can either watch anime all day long instead of doing anything productive, but I guess I want to make something out of this boring life we’re all given. So instead of escaping to a fantasy world, I’m creating one, albeit in a language I don’t understand.

I promised pictures from the shoot, but I only have pictures from Day 1. The past few days have been moving so fast and they are all lined up back to back with 12 hour shoots, I’ve been having as little as 0 to 3 hours worth of sleep in order to prepare for the next day’s shoot. Being the AD (Assistant Director) is difficult, especially when you are new to the industry.

My boss, Director Eric Khoo

This next film that Eric Khoo is directing, is a Tamil film and I don’t understand a single word other than “Yuan de bu nen na” or “curry” or something Indian. It’s not entirely set in Tamil though, it’s got Hokkien, a little bit of Cantonese and a couple of Malay. But no English!

We have to rely on a Tamil translator for the dialogs in Tamil, and thankfully she’s very good and anal about pronunciation to tonals and whatsnot. The most important thing is that the film must be believable to the India audience. There was a local Malay film that was directed by an American (I don’t know how this is consider local since there’s an American involved, but oh wells, this is Singapore. We love our foreign talents) and they didn’t have a translator at all, and when it was screened to the Malay audience, they found out that one of the actor totally screwed up his Malay. Liek ugh.

Little India on a Sunday = insert racist joke here

Anyway, I’ll let just a couple of pictures do the talking. We shot in Little India on a Sunday on Day 1, and it was so dark. It also rained so heavily, but they never got fairer. I wonder why. Oh and the past few days have been pouring so heavily, but for some ironic twist of fate, the rain actually works well with the film’s mood. I have not been made to sign a none disclosure agreement, but I don’t want to take my chances so I’m not revealing anything other than just some behind the scene pictures.

It’s hard to shoot in a crowded environment, especially when these people have no qualms about standing around and watching you from a nose away from the screen. It’s bloody annoying. Bear in mind that the above picture is a road, and the people there practically blocked the whole road and as a result we had a shitloads of car honking and fucking up the dialog for us. Way to go!

Okay I have to run now. The work’s piling up. I won’t be seeing you guys at EOY, so bring back as many pictures as you can. Liek thankyou!

Before I make a run for my shoot now, I thought I should share with everyone about Sinema Old School. If you’re a film buff, I suggest signing up for this. I’m really excited about the prospect of a indie cinema that showcases local films and I’ve been to the the theater as well and it’s blood awesome. Free seating theater ftw.

Sinema Old School is the first sofa-styled, free-seating independent cinema for Singapore films located within the ultra hip Old School at 11 Mount Sophia. It will open its doors officially on the 12th December in conjunction with Eric Khoo’s 12 Storeys 10th anniversary celebration.

Housing a 130-seater High Definition cinema made possible by Panasonic, a film and creative merchandise retail outlet as well as studio and post facilities made possible by Apple, Sinema Old School hopes to be the homebase for Singapore filmmakers and film lovers!

Besides regular short+feature film screenings, future activities will also include technology workshops, film forums and dialogue sessions as well as gigs for local bands and musicians.

The retail store wants to be the first in Singapore to distribute and sell DVDs by Singapore Filmmakers, CDs by Singapore bands and musicians, magazines by local indie publishers, books by Singapore writers

Works can be published or unpublished (we can help publish it). It can even be self-published (a.k.a DIY!)

It will also have indie filmmaking gear and products for sale too.

Contact us if you want your works to be available for sale at our store!

Sinema Old School is also available for rental for creative and performing arts groups seeking to collaborate with filmmakers on special projects.

Venue bookings can be made via www.oldschool.sg

Also, Sinema Old School will be opening officially on the 12th of December with a 10th anniversary screening of Eric Khoo’s 12 Storeys, and they are now currently running a fundraising membership drive to keep Singapore’s first ever fully-indie HD cinema going. Eric together with the whole crew will be there for the screening and free beer before we leave for our night shoot (yes it’s damn shiong ~.~)

And you can be part of this milestone in Singapore Cinema by signing up as a Sinemaniac! Be one of the first 1000 Sinemaniac and you will get:

- 12 tickets valid for any regular film screening (transferable and valid for 12mths)
- 1 Limited Edition ilove.SG T-Shirt
- 1 Sinema cotton tote bag
- Individually numbered certificate.
- 10% discount on selected Singapore film merchandise which includes:
* DVDs
* CD soundtracks
* Limited Edition Production Crew T-shirts
* Limited Edition Posters
* Film-making gear and supplies

Membership is valid for 18 months for the first 1,000 members, and is priced at $50 (regular) and $40 (students).

To sign up, all you need to do is either:

Email them at oldschool@sinema.sg with the subject: “I want to be a Sinemaniac!” with these information in the body text:

* Name:
* Gender:
* Email:
* Address:
* Contact number:
* School: (For Student Memberships only)

They will reply you with a confirmation email and a membership number. You can come by to pay cash or alternatively, make a cheque payable to “Sinema LLP”. Or if you want, you can simply come down in person to sign up. They are located at 11B Mount Sophia, Old School, #B1-12, Singapore 228466. Just behind the middle of Plaza Singapura and The Cathy.

Okay, I gotta run. See you guys on the 12th if you’re coming.

Firstly, I want to thank everyone for your warm feedbacks and comments regarding my short film. It’s very heartening to see it being appreciated by so many, because to honest, I didn’t think it was good. But well I guess it’s natural to only want to be better each time, since you’re only as good as your last piece of work.

Having said that, I thought I should share a little more about what’s installed for me, as well as ADD in the future.

Like how tjhan somewhat accurately describe my situation in his lousy nyoro~n comic strip, I no longer watch animes, saved for one or two occasionally on crunchyroll. I blame this dry spell on Odex for their crusade against fansubs have left me without my preferred source of animes. I dislike watching stream animes, so I’ve decided to drop the whole hobby completely. If Odex thinks that by doing this they will improve their sales growth, they are seriously wrong. We’d rather drop it completely than pay money to a company like theirs. I’m sure everyone is badly affected by it, with the exception of a few who can still watch raw or download without giving a flying fuck for Odex’s letter, but hopefully you guys don’t drop out like me.

So thus, lies the shaky future for Anime Desho Desho. What’s ADD without the Anime?

Also, on a more personal level, I’ve moved on to pursue my passion in film making. Some of you have already had a taste of my abilities, and I’ve also shown my works to people in the industry, hoping to get a shot at the real deal. And today, I can pretty much announce this very exciting news.

A scene from Be With Me

I have been accepted to work for renown local director, Eric Khoo on his next film production. He’s the man behind films like Mee Pok Man, 12 Storey, Be with Me, etc. I love Be with Me, it just blows me away whenever I watch it. It is my life long dream to work with this incredible (almost God like) person, and after a very successful interview with him and his producer, I have been roped into to work for him, as… not just any small puny role which honestly, I don’t mind doing, since everyone has to start somewhere, but as an Assistant Director. Film terms wise, I’m the 1st AD.

Eric Khoo is also the man behind discovering new talents like the upcoming director Royston Tan, who recently directed 881. Royston Tan is famous for his controversial film, 15, which was initially banned in Singapore before slapping 27 cuts to the original and given an R(A) rating. 15, is seriously awesome.

We’re shooting the film on the 9th of Dec and I’ll be away for a month. During this period, this site will probably die a horrible death, but if anyone is interested to know about the insides of a production, I’ll be happy to share it here. That’s if I don’t sign any NDA, which I haven’t been given any yet. It’s a feature film, but there’s are no big stars in the talent sheet. Still don’t know some of the details yet since I’ll only come in on the 5th.

Anyone interested to be extras on the set? If we need I wouldn’t mind roping you guys in, lol.

Alright, as promised, I’ve uploaded the short film I was working on a while ago on youtube. Basically for my school, we have to produce short films every semester which is considered as a “solo project”, where we pratically do everything ourselves. Of course, we are allowed to enlist help from others. But I prefer working alone, only getting help on certain parts that I really need help with. So yes, this film was written, produced, directed, shot and edited by myself.

I won’t say it’s teh best film, because I’ll be honest and say I intended it to be a little lame. Lol. But it’s all fun, since we really have full control over everything, as opposed to a proper film crew with assigned positions and all.

Alright, let me throw in the introduction and the whole after thought process under the cut.

This story wasn’t the story that I initially wanted to do. I pitched a story about an erotic novelist who is trapped in novel he wrote, but that got thrown out, lol. Not because of the theme, but the way I approach the story was way too long for it to be a short film. So I then decided to make a quasi-funny film with a twist. I thought about swindlers after watching Liar Game awhile ago, so I started writing the script.

So.. for this film the synopsis is about a really stupid girl getting cheated. And well erm, saying anymore will spoil it, so just watch it and we can discuss about it.

I must admit that for this script, the story has a couple of loopholes, not because I was unaware, but I had to compress it to fit into the 10 minute limit. So if you’re not sure, do ask and I’ll try my best to explain it. I was more focus on the cinematography aspect of it, the camera angles, lighting and all since I’m more of a visual storyteller than a scriptwriter.

Oh and a couple of things I should point out.

My talents are all amateurs, it’s their first time acting. The girl playing Xiao Feng, is tjhan’s girlfriend. He’s a lucky bastard for a nerd (LOL), but he’s also an asshole. See the typical male chauvinistic pig in action:

[22:45] tsubaki: i’ll post my film tonight
[22:45] tsubaki: u can see your wife
[22:45] Lss: cool
[22:45] Lss: can post in on cr
[22:45] tj_han: i havent spoken to her in 3-4 weeks though
[22:45] Lss: rather than youtube
[22:45] tsubaki: u seriously suck.
[22:45] Lss: or even stage6
[22:45] Lss: better quality
[22:45] double: lol tj_han giving the cold treatment?
[22:46] tj_han: not really
[22:46] tj_han: but exam time

Okay, I kid. tjhan is a good husband. Really. Anyway, so if you think their acting is not up to par, well it’s as I explained. Dialog-wise, it’s a mix of english, singlish, mandarin thrown in. I’m sure some of you recall that I absolutely suck at mandarin. But I always shoot my films in chinese or dialect! That’s only because my lecturers are all causasians and they can’t understand it! That’s how I cheat with subtitles, just like how nyoro~n tells you shit about Gundam00!

Just kidding. The real reason why I use them is because I find it more natural on screen. While English is a main language used in Singapore, it doesn’t translate well into cinema for some reason. That’s why the locals tend to shun local English productions on tv, unless there’s some hunky cute Eurasian dude or something.

Anyway, I hid quite a bit of anime influences and music into the film. See if you can identify it.

The answers are in the credits though, lol.

For those who want to watch Byousoku 5cm, I suggest you get your ass over to the e-ticketing counter now. The sale for it is now avaliable, so hurry up. Sigh, I want to watch but on the 1st of Dec I’m working as a videographer that’s going to pay me by the hundreds for just 1 day of work.