Haruhi Figure

by Sander Tams 12. November 2009 19:41

Today nothing much happened. After school I just went to the Taipei Metro Mall again to look at figures. I ended up buying Haruhi below.

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For the time being I am mainly just trying to learn mandarin as much as I can and helping out here and there. For an example I've been helping with my host brother Alex' preparations for his interview with rotary this weekend. He's going to be an exchange student next year and he'll have to make a good expression if he wants a better chance to get to Europe, since that's more popular amongst the exchangees from down here.

Today I ate sashimi and homemade crab (so watched a couple of those getting a chopstick poked through their head even).

Yesterday and the day before, I ate in Tianmu though, so if you want to see some of what has happened recently, go check out my photostream on the soon-to-be-portal site. (Click the picture below and click previous untill you get bored.

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Also today, I went to another class at my school to speak English with them for two hours. I guess I was kind of an instrument in testing them also but anyway, the guys asked me to go and play basketball with them this Sunday. I guess can do if I didn't forget some super important meeting there.

Nite guys, it's been so late when I get to bed every day in this week. I'm looking forward to the weekend.

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Japanese Figures and Donuts

by Sander Tams 5. November 2009 16:22

I went to the Taipei Metro Mall two times just this week. I take the MRT around the area it's located underneath several times every day, yet never heard of it just until this Monday where a teacher on my school asked me if I had been there yet. It's an awesome and quite big place with a lot of shops, all underground. That'll be one of my really big projects in the future - to cover some of the underground malls around Taipei because I believe they're probably not something you're going to see very much in little europe untill a few years have passed.

However, today is reserved for figures. Actually just three of them, because I'm not really a big collector just yet.

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And there it is, my entire collection. All off them are rather cheaply obtained. I bought two packs with random Haruhi figures in figures in at a discount because they were the last two that a street store had for sale some day pretty long ago already. At that time I got the two standing on the red circles or whatever-they're-called for just 200 NT$ total. I think the version I have of Yuki (the one with a raincoat) must be quite popular amongst haruhists around here. I can see her in a few of those kindof flee-market-stores where anyone can rent a box and sell used stuff. The pack you can get her in usually costs 150 or 200 NT$ but you cannot see which of 6 female Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu you get. That's the way most of the figure selling for the smaller ones work, so people will often try to collect all the possible ones for a type of box and then sell the ones they get too many of. This results in that this kind of figure can usually be found in mint condition below the price of the random box.
However, this figure here always costs 200NT$ and up, so I guess I was lucky on my first buy, hoho. Not going to sell her though, I can see why people like this figure.

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So today I also went to Taipei Main Station. I bought some donuts there at Mr. Donut. They always look and taste really great so I bought there a few times before. It's quite some time since I did it last though, as they're a little expensive compared to other food here and also will make me fat if I keep eating them.
I had to go there sometime soon though because I had some coupons I got from earlier purchases. They're from some promotion where you can collect points to get a little bag for free there. I had 7 of them and you have to hand in 10 points to get the bag. The promotion runs out on November the 10th so that's why I wanted to buy more.
What a shameful day this is. I have failed my anticonsumerist ideology. I got just the points I needed though (the coupons are little scratch card so you have to use your luck again.) So yeah... I guess I'm becoming a real Asian now, eh?

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You can prepare a plethora of goodness quite easily with donuts like this I tell you.

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So here's Mikuru. I just bought this one today in the Taipei Metro Mall before I bought the donuts. Actually I spotted a number of characters from Lucky Star in one of the many "flee-market-stores" there this Tuesday when I went there for the first time, but when I came back to check them out again I saw this one and decided it was worth the 200 NT$ on the price tag. I bet the previous owner paid a lot more than just 200 NT$ to obtain this one, it's quite detailed and good looking I think. I don't understand why the owner decided to sell it actually, it seems to be in pretty good condition too. I'm quite satisfied with my loot today I think.

Now tell me, have I gone completely insane?

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Så går det løs igen

by Sander Tams 23. May 2009 19:26

 

Det er med stor tilfredshed, at jeg kan melde, at jeg har set et nyt afsnit af suzumiya haruhi, som muligvis er første afsnit af hvad jeg forstår som sæson 2.
Om det så også er det, forbliver et spørgsmål jeg ikke med sikkerhed kan svare på endnu, men indikationer peger da imod det.

Man kan sige så meget som: At internettet er temmelig forvirret, og at det er de færreste, der har lagt rigtigt mærke til det endnu. (Jeg kender et par blogs, som vil råbe op i det samme nyheden når til dem, som åbenbart ikke har fået fat i det endnu).

Jeg kender allerede synderen. Det er helt sikkert holdet bag serien, som er lige så vilde efter at forvirre os.

Men grunden til, at jeg siger indikationer peger imod det følger:
For en række måneder siden kunne man pludselig finde på internettet, materiale fra overvågningskameraer, der dokumenterer to menneskers indbrud og mærkelige gøremål på en skole midt om natten. - Selvfølgelig fiktivt, men inspillet af virkelige personer (i modsætningen til tv-serien, som er anime og derfor selvfølgelig med tegnede skuespillere).
Rygterne stod på, at dette lange og kedelige stykke film, hvor man skulle anstrenge sig for at se, hvad der foregik - og i øvrigt fik at se en massse klip fra overvågningskameraer fra steder hvor disse personer slet ikke kom forbi, at stykket skulle være en teaser/promotion/forvarsling om sæson 2.

 

Om ikke andet, så er der i hvert fald et nyt afsnit at finde. Jeg glæder mig rigtig meget til at se flere, hvis det rent faktisk er sæson 2, der er i gang. I øvrigt vil man opdage, når man har set afsnittet, at der er en reference fra en række hændelser på internettet for lang tid siden, som beskrives på ANN.

Kan tilmed sige, at det er en spændene udvikling historien har gang i, og jeg vil mene at dette afsnit bestemt gør en noget klogere på verdenen (og som vi alle ved: For hvert svar du får, kan du stille mindst to nye spørgsmål), så sørg nu lige for, at du også har lyst til at se resten hvis det kommer. For mit vedkommende bliver det i alt fald meget svært at lade være.

 

 Om ikke andet: Denne episode blev sendt d. 21 (2 dage siden), så vidt jeg ved. Det bliver sikkert nemmere at finde ud af egentlige ting, når folk begynder at skrive mere om det, bedre søgeresultater kommer frem i google, og wikipedia får opdateret siden om suzumiya haruhi. I alt fald ved jeg, at afsnittet hedder "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody". (Det gælder vist også for de oversatte versioner af de light novels, tv serien er baseret på.

 

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Suzumiya Haruhi til April?

by Sander Tams 4. February 2009 22:16

Ud fra diverse anime-fokuserende blogs på nettet, ser der ud til at være gang i endnu nogle Haruhi numre.
På Sankaku Complex, ses en artikel, skrevet i dag, som redegør lidt info fra et nyhedsmagasin på japansk, som tilsyneladende har fundet ud af, at sæson 2 af Suzumiya Haruhi muligvis skal sendes på japansk TV til april.

Dog skal man nok ikke føle sig alt for sikker, man fik jo også på et tidspunkt i sidste år at vide, at det ville bliver oktober 08, og det blev det jo ikke.
Desuden kan det også meget vel være, at holdet bag serien beslutter sig for at lave "en ny historie", istedet for at følge videre, hvor sæson 1 slap. Selvfølgelig følger de stadigvæk de light novels, som serien bygger på, men de kan jo altid lave alternative fortolkninger, eller evt. animere forgående materiale (ja, det er hvad rygterne går på, at vi får mere at vide om, hvad der skete forinden sæson 1 - hvis altså "forinden" er et gyldigt udtryk i en verden som Haruhis).

 

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Er man helt ude af stand til at vente, så kan man jo håbe på, at der findes en version af Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou, som virker på ikke-asiatiske Wii maskiner. Tja... Dejlig er seriens univers, men det er lidt strengt, hvordan den skal malkes sådan for penge. - Som alt andet Japansk selvfølgelig. Anime og japanske spil har vel alle en meget stor tendens til at avle horder af merchandise.

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