Been a while since my last post here, almost 3 months!

Anyway, I’m going to Japan tomorrow for holiday. Going to visit Tokyo Game Show on the 26th and 27th, so expect more news about that event

Just got my twitter set few days ago, and it think it’s quite neat for small news

my twitter id is ronaldhw let me know if you guys have twitter, so I can follow you all

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

May the year of ox bring you more moe ^_^

Having holiday at the moment, it falls at the same day at Australian Day

Happy 2nd Anniversary to this blog

二年の記念日おめでとうotadesho.com !

been a long journey from when I started this blog. Thank you to everyone that make this blog last this long

Quite busy at the moment, so there’s no special like last year

The content supposes to be a figurine, Maryan figurine from Kotobukiya that I had planned to take photo yesterday…

But…

It was something else! ><

- A component cable for PS3
- A wii skin guard
- A 1000 yen JPN PSN voucher

Great……. great thing to start this year heh… I guess I will still have to wait for my 1st figurine to arrive for this year :p (which will probably Alter’s Gwendolyn)

I’ve sent email to them yesterday but still haven’t got reply from them (sent all those images as well). Any of you had experienced this issue before?

I’ll put update here when I receive reply from Play-Asia.

15-01-2009

Got email from them to return the item back to them:

> Please post by normal airmail and we could refund you the postal cost by
> our store credit. With your return parcel please include a letter
> describing your problem as well as your order ID as reference number.
> Latest will be very important for us to handle your case. We are now
> investigating your case and will ship you the correct items soon.

16-01-2009

Sent the item to them via air-mail. Quite expensive shipping cost.. $17.35

I hope they refund this shipping cost and ship my item soon..

27-01-2009

Received the correct item, and play-asia refunded my shipping with coupon.. (why coupon! that means I cant combine with $10 or $8 off..)

It’s that time of year again 28 now! one year older but always young at heart Happy Birthday to me!

Play-asia is having 15% for most of all in stock items (not all, even though they said all in stock items..).

The promotion will run until the 31st of October 2008, and seems like you cant combine with coupon.

For non discounted items, you can use this coupon to get 5% discount: UK-GCS-BKJ (multiple use coupon, coupon only usable when you have $50+ total purchases)

hint: you can actually use the coupon, first you need to buy something that is not discounted eg: this one, then go to check out, put in the 5% discount code, go back and add the items that you want to buy, after you have added all the items you want to buy, go to “My Cart” and remove the 1st item (the non discounted one), and then hit check out, you will see the 5% off at the check out screen from the coupon that you entered for the 1st item

Click here to read more information about Play-Asia October sale.

Okay here are the photos, some aren’t opened yet.. most are my comiket purchases, and several aren’t mine as well

Some posters (and bag that I cut and turned it into posters )

Moetan books

Some other books..

Cherry girl wall scroll (aka tapestry), very good quality wall scroll, lined up at 5.40am and went straight to hobby japan booth to get this one :O (well actually to get the dojin for suneo)

One of the official booth game brochure that I keep for laugh, see what are they using for attack… (haha)

And last one, To Heart 2 another days water bed.. it’s big, very big.. around 200cmx90cm i reckon.. it is heavy..

If you see your item (that you asked my to buy for you) in the pictures above, send me an email (ron at otadesho dot com) so I can arrange the delivery.

Now waiting for my 2nd box… should arrive 2 weeks from now, got my figurines and several more magazines there

Also I just received Miki figurine, which I will do photo shoot soon need to readjust my camera settings and play around with the lighting again, been almost 2 months since I did my last figurine photo shoot ^^

Just found out this cool application that allows you watch Japanese Live TV for free, thought to share with you all

List of available channel (may change) :
Swiss TV SF2
CNBC
ABC Radio 1008 Osaka
TV Asahi
TBS
TVK
MBS Radio 1179 Osaka
RF Radio Japan AM1422
TV Tokyo
Nihon TV
Fuji TV

The quality is a lil bit low (youtube quality), but all are streamed real-time. and yes it’s legal

The application is only for Windows, so Mac users (including me..) have to use bootcamp to view it. (New version supports mac, windows, and linux)

Download: link

[10 April 2009 Update]

Seems like the streaming site has stopped working, but I found another application to watch Japanese TV, download the program from: http://tvants.en.softonic.com/

[28 May2009 Update]

The site is back up, you can download the client again. This time they have windows, mac, and linux version. Thanks Satoshi for letting me know.

Site was suspended for 2 hours due to spam; and almost got terminated too… Lucky that the hosting customer service accepted my explanation that it wasn’t me who did the spamming -_-

Anyway, it’s back up and I’ve updated wordpress to latest version… (and spammer, please don’t spam my site)