Thursday, August 30, 2007 - :
Ah... just came back from Archery Training..
Went there in the morning at 9am just to find out that training starts at 12 >_>
So bo bian.. need to kill time, went to T14 level 7 comp labs to play abit xD
Hmm... they changed the bow i was using, so i had to recalibrate my sight again..
So ended up shooting until 6pm ^^
Anyway, I went for my class charlet 3days 2 nights, Monday to Wednesday afternoon.
27th to 29th of August ^^
Went there, rent a bike 12 bucks, donnoe why the previous 2 times we went to rent his bike, bargain with him.. cheaper = 15 buck. And on his board, 1 day = 15 buck -_-
This times the girls came along, 12 bucks.. hmm if it's not the girls, then must be becoz his shop got zapped by lightning a few months ago and his entire shop caught fire xD
At night, as usual, we cycled to tampinese mall to watch movie, hmm.. "Dead Silence"
Scary, but not that scary that would make you scream. That's all i can say xD
The next day.. raining the whole bloody day.. ended up stuck until 4pm. Then we had BBQ till 12am, at 2am we went night cycling. Cycled to bedok reservoir then cycled 1 round there, then cycled back to the charlet xD
After that we wash up, sleep a few hours, packed up and head home ^^
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
9:11 PM
Friday, August 24, 2007 - :
Cheers! I pass my BTT and got my PDL le!!
Now i can finally start taking up my driving practical classes! woot xD
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
5:03 PM
Thursday, August 23, 2007 - :
Gambateh to all DBEN/2B/21 ppl for TF II test later ^^
Finally can relax "ABIT" after this last semestral exam.
Still got my BTT(Basic Theory Test for Class 3) on Friday, arghh.. and not forgetting my Archery Competition on 1st September and all the trainings that will be going on the following week. >_<
Anyway, cheers to Pawa our saviour and jeers to selveraj xD
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
1:19 AM
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - :
Haiz.. focus so much on researching on ODEX that i have so little time to study for my exam xD
Tmr hope the IA test all come out similar questions that i had studied =D
Anyway this Saturday have "Natsu Matsuri", going with Andy and friends. ^^
Kk.. i continue to study >_> bye-bee
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
10:02 PM
Monday, August 20, 2007 - :
That being said and done. I've join the cause for boycotting od3x.
DISCLAIMER: All images used on this post are strictly copyrights of their owners. I have never claim credit for any images used here. If you require me to remove any of this image, please contact me via email and i'll remove them as soon as possible.Here's an anti-od3x pictures: ^^
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
9:41 AM
Sunday, August 19, 2007 - :
I know there's a thousand of odex thread and related topics out there.
But being part of the anime-community in singapore, it's only natural that the anime community has to stick together. =)
Firstly, for those out there who has no idea what i'm talking about.
The main distributor for 90% of the anime in SG is from "
ODEX." If you google that name, you can pretty much find alot of criticism on them. So much so to the extent where the director of ODEX, Stephen Sing is receiving
death threats and arson online. Partly due to the comments that he had posted online on
SCORD forum (Scroll down it's the 3rd post; bottom up), under the nickname "xysing" gloating that he was too busy suing downloaders. Messages include
"Me too busy sueing people~" and
"Hahahahah! I double-6-ed so many downloaders~ serve them right!". This was reported in TNP (The NewsPaper), about 15 days (2weeks) after he had posted that comment. When interviewed, he claimed that the 'double-6-ed' remark was made 'two months ago' and forgotten about it.
(Didn't know his 2 weeks = 2 months)
They have been sending letters asking for money to reimburse their loses while threatening to use legal actions if they do not. Click
Here to see 1 of the letters that had been send. After paying the sum of reimbursement that have been negotiated, they are also asked to sign a
Letter of undertaking.
Secondly, we all know that downloading copyright stuffs is illegal. But why are we doing it?
Point 1 - Are we poor? Why dont we just buy their anime?
Reason: Their VCD quality is poor as compared to those of free fan-sub quality and the packaging is expensive. Not only that, the anime they release are 2 years back tracked. This cannot cater to the hardcore anime fans out there.
Most fan-subs are fast, effective, good quality video, has translator notes, and most importantly, they release them 1-2 days after they had been "broad-cast" in Japan. What's the point of having wait 2 years later, down the road, when you have become a busy man (NS/working life), and finally your local anime distributor decides to release that anime in low quality and wrong subtitles. And you're suppose to use this to cater to your anime desires..
I'm sure 90% (statistics is just my opinion) of the fans and fan-subbing group prefer to go for quality instead of speed. However, they provide us with low quality + 2 years late. -_-
Point 2 - (To support my point 1) We go for original figurines instead of fakes.
If you're implying that we, as fans, d/l anime because they are free and we dont want to use our money. How come we go for original figurines that can cost up to 80 SGD or more? The fakes cost merely like 5 SGD. So much so that some of us would pre-order them from figurine stalls.
If you need a reason, it'd be the quality and the collector's value. If you show your friends that you bought a fake figurine, it wouldn't be very impressive, am i right to say that? lolx
Point 3 - Okay Okay, even if we're totally wrong and have caused your sales to go down by 70% over the past 2 years, do you have to exercise your "legal-rights" to the maximum?
It's pretty frustrating to be waiting at home for the letter of impending doom. Asking us to pay 5k SGD to reimburse your loses, or you'll take us to court. Yes, if you do take us to court, we'll probably lose as you hold the "license." However, doing this will only create criticism over you and you'll probably lose your customers. (Bringing your sales even deeper)
If you has the time to hire admin staffs, US tracking teams, sending out letters for reimbursement, .. etc. Why not spend some time on your customer service? Get feedback from the anime community, why don't we buy your anime? You could have improve the quality of your anime, give student discount etc. All this could have boosted your sales and popularity..
Sadly, Odex chose to take extreme preventive measures that can destroy the entire anime community, or bringing them deeper (using other mtds instead of torrent). Imagine this.. If we all stopped downloading or watching anime online, how do we even know such anime exists? Wait for you to broad cast it on arts/kids-central? lolx. I think of the anime community, more of a free advertisement. If the anime is good, and the local distributors has them, and their quality is GOOD, i'm pretty sure we'll grab them.
Point 4 - Do we profit from those video clip that we downloaded?
There are 2 kind of people, those that download, watch, and delete.
And those that download, burn it on DVDs, and keep.
For the later, do we do retailing with those DVDs that we burned out? Do we profit from it?
Even the fan-subs discourages this action.. Thus we are not competing with Odex's retailing.
Point 5 - Infringing copyright law.
Those anime that are licensed and we illegally d/l them, we get fined. I got no complains.
However, downloading of unlicensed anime, I know it's oso illegal. But they could at least ask our ISPs to send us letters of warning instead of asking us to reimburse them on those anime that had not yet been release.. Guess we as potential consumers are already marked as "black" right from the start..
Either that, or they want to extort us of our parent's hard earned money. And those that ain't caught, will cause FUD(Fear; Uncertainty; Doubt) on them. Especially when most of the people that are caught are students, having "FUD" effect on them. (IMO - This will most probably bring down this year's examination results down a little if any)
This is the newspaper article on the 9 year old kid that got caught downloading.
Eletronic Newspaper:-
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,137645,00.htmlNewspaper Article:-
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5727/whoagb4.jpgHere's a post by someone on the topic, "Kicking kids for the profit?"
"Kicking kids for the profit?"And this is a link for some1 whom looked at downloading of anime in another perspective.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_148784.html?vgnmr=1Lastly.. I guess that's so much so for the anime Japan Culture in Singapore.
Being black and white is good, but splitting them up will only cause conflicts.
Well, that's all i have to comment on the Odex Saga and wait for the letter of impending doom.
EDIT:
P.S.
EXTRA LINKS, open them at
your own risks =)
This is the letter that you have to sign after reimbursing them.Letter of undertakingOuch! Who got owned?Link 1Remember reading the newspaper that some bloggers send him death threats?
like... "We'll beat you up & burn your house" ?Link 2
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
8:23 AM
Friday, August 17, 2007 - :
Tsk Tsk.. took this from Andy's blog.. which he took from his friend's blog.. xD
Dont worry about the minor details.. LOL!!!!
WARNING NC-16 =x
P.S.
If you ain't got any idea wtf are they doing.. either go and watch Fate/Stay Night or play their H-Game.. rofl. It's just that Saber cannot recharge her "MP" to use skills like "eksucallybar" (excallibur).
0 mp = die. =)
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
11:10 AM
Okay i'm gonna post the Nanoha A's comic now.. =d
i scared of those 56k ppl.. so i'm gonna upload them in small thumbnails.. lolx
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Sleepy Nanoha <3~~
Raising Heart: The Handheld Console.
Bath scene.
Nanoha’s daily training.
“Max power is important too ;)”…. White Devil desu…
Starlight Breaker, breaking barriers since 2006
Call me onii-sama.
So Chrono’s actually stronger than Fate and Nanoha? Didn’t expect it…
Yuri alert! Yuri alert!
Well…
This two need to get a room…
Oh man… the double entendres….
Fate… aren’t you a bit over doing it :3.
As I said…
Holy shit…. Suzuka!!
Hayate-chan…
I so feel like giving Hayate a hug here too T-T.
Gawd… the uniforms….
Hayate’s habit at work?
Poor Yunno…
Yare yare…
Uh… oh….
LOL Hayate.
OSHI…
:)
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
9:49 AM
While searching for Nanoha A's Comic.. which i found.. i found this on some1's blog.. thought i wanted to share it.. lolx!!
BTW this was taken from..
http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/category/anime/lucky-star/July 8, 2007 @ 6:40 am
· Filed under Music, Lucky Star
Aya Hirano is crack. Damn crack. She’s like freaking high on herself lol.
First off, her “Sore ga ai deshou” was pretty bland, until the 3rd minute where she goes high and starts singing in alternate serious and Konata voice. God, I so LMAO’ed.
Next, MONKEY MAGIC is even more crack. Why? Aaya-chan failing hard singing in English.
And Aya’s CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-LA is full of over-the-top screaming and win.
Gotta love Kagamin for being so cute. I can almost feel her deredere-ness when she keeps failing the high tones
And Miyuki (Endo Aya) really has awesome singing voice. Chijou no Hoshi is pretty awesomely rendered by her.
Finally, everyone’s favourite, Doraemon no Uta rendered by Konata, Kagamin and Tsukasa <3.
The rest of the songs are pretty nice as well, and this is probably one of more interesting and fun to listen CD’s in a while. Ahhh, I so wanna buy it!!! Why am I already in red this month OTL…..
Thursday, August 16, 2007 - :
ahh.. too busy enjoying my little break, so no time to blog xD
Had my Engineering Maths II semestral exam yesterday.. kinda crappy.. >_>
Didn't do quite well as i anticipated.. the difference between the standard compared with the previous 2 semesters exam paper are quite big.. =/
blah.. nvm.. i can take a few days of break.. planning to start studying on Saturday.
Left Thermofluids II and Industrial Automation..
Thermo got Pawa's note.. while.. hm.. for IA.. haizz.. i see the past year exam paper.. all test on practical usage of it.. cham liao lah... T_T
Oh yeah.. yesy finally released nanoha S 16/17 a few days ago..
Watch le.. so sad.. the combat cyborg team got 12 cyborgs +1 knight +1 summoner and 1 unison type.. total how many..? 15 lehz.. 15 vs Section 6.. hmm..
Nanoha, Fate, Hayate, Signum, Vita, Shamal, Zafila, Reinforce.. and the forward team:
Tea, Subaru, Erio, Caro and Ginga from battalion 108. Total : 13 nia..
15 vs 13.. somemore tio out-powered.. haiz.. lose until cham cham =/
Hope yesy can sub faster.. can't wait for 18/19/20 =/
I think by the the time they sub until 20, raw 24 already out xD
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
1:31 PM
Sunday, August 12, 2007 - :
Hooray!! Finish doing 06/07 Semester 1 and 2 past year papers for Mechanics.
06/07 S1 : 96/100
06/07 S2 : 100/100 =d
of coz i did it while looking at the answers xD
Stupid Q2 in 06/07 S1.. ask about the % change in torsional stiffness.. nvr even give G or θ or L.. i donnoe of other mtd then T/θ as the torsional stiffness.. haiz..
If any1 knows how to do that question.. please tell me T_T
Here.. i'll put up that question..
Q2. A hollow shaft of 70 mm outer diameter and 10 mm thickness is made from a material that withstands a maximum shear stress of 45 MN/m2.
(a) For a speed of 600 rpm calculate the torque and the power which can be transmitted by the shaft. (5 marks)
(b) If the shaft is replaced by a solid shaft of the same weight and material, find the required diameter and hence the torque that can be transmitted.
(5 marks)
(c) Find the percentage change in the torsional stiffness, (T/θ) of the solid shaft.
(4 marks)
yea.. i did the first 2 part already.. here's the answer for the question
| Q2 | a) T = 2241.75 Nm ; P = 140.85 kW ( D = 70 mm ; d = 50 mm ) b) D = 48.99 mm ; T = 1039 Nm c) % change in (T/θ) = 67.6 % |
so yeah.. if you got any clue how to do that stupid Torsional Stiffness question, do send me a mail or call me =d
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
9:29 PM
Saturday, August 11, 2007 - :
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
10:22 PM
Added 4 songs to my imeem lists:-
1. Zero no Tsukaima - I SAY YES by
ICHIKO2. Zero no Tsukaima - FIRST KISS by
ICHIKO3. Zero no Tsukaima - Honto no Kimochi by
Kugimiya Rie4. Yotaka no Yume by
Do as Infinity
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
10:03 PM
Friday, August 10, 2007 - :
Just came back home from playing LAN..
Was watching rush hour 3 with my friends at ceni leisure this evening.
After that, played at the cybercafe for an hour, $3.30/hr, okay lah.. i tot it'd be like 4/5 buck an hour.. still quite expensive, but 1 hour.. so.. play loh..
Play CS with 2 girls, they're rxn and playing style so "stone" lolx.
backstab them = free frags.. hehex..
Oh yeah, i got into the selection for the archery novice category! congratz xD
kk i go sleep le.. bye-bee
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
1:13 AM
Thursday, August 09, 2007 - :
whoops, wierd timing to blog? nahz.. was too busy playing lunar the whole evening.. that's why nvr blog =D
Anyway i still having a bad flu, so didn't went for the "PA" BBQ.. ps ah my juniors =x
Oh yeah.. my gems test.. completed it in 15-20 mins.. 12 MCQ + 2 short answer questions.. blah.. the MCQ, i think i can get about 8-10.. the short answer question.. i only have confidence in the 1st question =x
kk veri sleepy le.. bye-bee
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
1:24 AM
Monday, August 06, 2007 - :
Optics:
10 MCQ
4 long questions..
MCQ.. 6/10 i think..
The question on Optical Instrument = 50:50
the quesiton on Thick Lens, oso 50:50..
Optics = GG -_-
CAD..
1st question took me quite sometime, but more or less it's quite easy (40%)
2nd question (60%)
I only did the protrusion and the handle.. blah..
not enuff time to do the bottom (the pattern stuffs)..
if can get 2/3 (40% out of 60%), then MAYBE still can retain my A.. if not.. gonna get B+/B- le.. T_T
Tmr morning she gonna release and check with us the optics results..
After that, got thermo tutorial.. then wait like 4 hours for the IA practical -_-
But those 4 hours can be used to study for my GEM's test on wednesday.. which is the day after tmr.. =d
Mean while.. play while i can.. LOLL!! bye-bee
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
9:47 PM
Sunday, August 05, 2007 - :
Sunday.. kennot enjoy this sunday.. tmr got 2 tests, being 1 of them optics -_-
Oso got CAD test in the afternoon..
That china woman never even prepare a sample paper for us.. only made extra questions for thin and thick lens which are only 2 out of the 6 topics that are tested.. Somemore those questions are quite easy. She nvr set questions and solutions for optical instruments.. which i think is the most difficult question among all of them.. haiz.. gambateh bahz >_>
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
3:41 PM
Saturday, August 04, 2007 - :
This morning woke up at 8am, play Cronous for an hour, then had breakfast, etc etc.
Then met John Seah at T16 Study Corner at 11am and study for optics, study for an hour +, then go makan lunch (bang deli's cheap skate chicken rice) lolx.
Then went for my Archery Shootout Trial. (20m)
1 - 2 pm
was for "Control Practice", to calibrate your bow etc.
2.15pm - 3.15pm
Round 1 of shootout, 6 ends, 6 arrows each end.
First set my score was 275.
15mins break
3.30pm - 4.30pm
Round 2 of shootout, 6 ends, 6 arrows each end.
Was quite tired, so my score kinda suck'd and got only 258.
So overall i got 533/720.
Got 3 X's only, heh xD
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
7:16 PM
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 - :
Mou Ikkai!
FSN fans, if you like this, memorize the song.
Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter
7:37 PM