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I'm back! It has been sooooooo long~

toshieayano — 2010-11-03T01:36:30+09:00

Hahaha~ It has been so long since I updated my own blog! Like 2 months? Omg~ I failed to keep my words. And I feel that I have negelected this place totally T.T.

Anyway, things have been fine for me. Work has been going fine. Other then that, nothing much has happened. But I am here this time round to complain!

There I am living here and this stupid country is making me more and more irritated. Importing all these foreigners into my country is already posting great threads to our jobs. You can obviously see that our citizens are struggling to fight for a job with the foreigners in OUR OWN COUNTRY!!!. I felt sorry for them all but not my country that's for sure. Its like in our hometown but not having the hostel treatment that we should have.

Now its worst, we are being bullied by them. I am one of them recently. These few months, those stupid foreigners(i don't know where are they from) are dragging furnitures and making a whole lot of noises disturbing us who are living under them. So of course we complain them. For the first time, the authorities checked on them and remind them which they listen . After like another 2 months, they are back to their usual. So we make another complain and this time round, they ignore them! Still dragging and making loud noises! Now we could not do anything! Obviously we are been bullied and nowhere to seek help IN OUR OWN COUNTRY! Great job to our goverment. I really hope this post can spread like fire.

Like to know my country? Please search google "foreign workers problems" and look and how much results is pointing to the same country. The answer is obvious!

Comment on this post, make trackbacks. ALL INTERNET MARKETERS, MARKET THIS POST! Free contents for you! Make into ebook, whatever. Make it viral! LOL~

Anyway, yeh. End of my fustration. Hope its a happy post next time round. I'll be back~

Hurray! I've got a job offered!

toshieayano — 2010-08-23T03:41:12+09:00

Yey~ I've got a job offered after so long job hunting period finally... It's a nice job to me. It's on my interest on internet marketing and also a 5 days work! Accessable location too~ I've sign the contract immediately but found out that I've gotta travel! Omg~ Although it's too sudden for me but maybe I should give myself a chance? It might be a simple 2 page contract but after analysing it, I've got alot of question marks(Should have take my time to read)... But nvm, it's a not really important except that I had to make a big decision that I had to fly((Never flew b4).... T.T

Hope that it will be a fun, learning and relax enviroment with friendly people working together. Working stress is definately unavoidable. Oh yah... I'm being reminded on my punctuality, I've gona buck up on that. Hopefully I can work smoothly through my probation peroid(6 months) and keep the job stable. Of course, I must learn the skills! Haha~ Good luck to me^^ Ganbate ne!

Coming days will be a REAL busy days for me. REALLY REALLY busy!!! My school freelace + work. Omfg. Anyway, just hope that I won't screwed my job... No.... I WILL NEVER. Lolz~ Alright, hope I'm able to find some bit of time to blog here and there.... Cya~

Hobbypedia Collectibles (A newly opened Blogshop!)

toshieayano — 2010-08-23T01:55:19+09:00

I has been sooo long since I updated my blog, here's the big news I'm annoucing. The website I had been doing had.... failed! The process of implementing electronic payments was so complicated that I had given up T.T.

But the good news is, I had open a new blogshop! I had been busy updating the blogshop which is the reason why I haven't been blogging here much~ This blogshop is selling everything out of the ordinary! Do you like to collect toys, figurines, apparels or cds? That's the place for you. We are selling collectible items of different kinds! Not only those listed here. So head over to Hobbypedia Collectibles and take a look. You might be finding something eye catching~ Support us! Cya there~

Mizuki Nana's Raw Voice(Unprocess voice)!

toshieayano — 2010-08-04T03:14:15+09:00

What's more to say! Nana's raw is as good as the CD mastered version! Being nana's mixer muz be really easy! Unless special effects are needed, if not... with some really basic clean ups and simple basic effects will do the job! No need any hardcore pitch correction! So... lets enjoy some good stuffs ^^

My babe has arrived! Finally~

toshieayano — 2010-07-23T04:32:57+09:00

Hurray, it finally arrives after waiting so long after I had order. Guess what's it? It's a bluetooth watch that I've longing for! There are quite a few different types of bluetooth watch available around manufactured by different companies but non is selling in my country! Epic fail~(;￣Д￣) For mines? Mines have the most basic functions and actually nothing too fancy. Why? Because I'm having a very tight budget and I bought the cheapest! :P Heck care about other brands, I gona review on this watch. Hehez~

Ok, the model is LM958 from LM technologies(China Made). Supposingly, LM tech has stopped production on the product long ago. I duno how that online store get it. So far it's the cheapest bluetooth watch that claims to detect caller ID(name or number), SMS notification from mobile and also equiped with mobile thief guard ability.

I'm so excited when I recieved the parcel! So many things are in my mind while waiting for it. What if its lost during shipping? What if its a incomplete package? What if its faulty? What if...... Ah... For now... It's looking fine!

Once I open the parcel, there this very new box that looks very nice(the little torn area at the corner was made by me while I was removing it from the parcel package).

Continue unpackaging that box was a tin can containing the watch and it's assesories. Waoh~ a tin can.... Cool~ I think it suits very much as a gift too~

Straight out of the box:

What's straight out of the package?
- A manual book
- An adoptor charger (plug not suited to AC socket in our country- need converter )
- A USB to DC socket converter wire (For used with either the dc adaptor or direct charging with PC's USB port)
- The bluetooth watch

I wasn't expecting the watch to be this big, it looks small in that display picture online so I was expecting something quite small. Anyway, the size is pretty acceptable comparing it to many people wear big gadgets on thier wrist nowadays. LOLZ. And the watch was running according to my country's time! Was that set on purpose?

Functionality:
For the menu interface, I over complicated it initially. Until I understand the menu, its very easily and straight forward.
There are 2 digital buttons, a selection and a set button. Simply press selection button rapidly until desire icon is highlighted, then press set button to toggle it.

There are a total of 7 icons each represents different functionality.

From the left:
- Bluetooth icon(1st icon) > To toggle on/off bluetooth on the watch, also shows bluetooth on/off status.
- Pairing icon (2nd icon) > To activate/deactivate pairing, also shows pairing on/off status.
- Connection icon (3rd icon) > When activated, attempts to reconnect with the mobile when connection breaks, also show connection status.
- Thief Guard icon (4th icon) > To switch on/off thief gaurd option. Watch will vibrate will mobile leaves user 5-10metre away. Also shows thief guard on/off status.
- SMS notify icon (5th icon) > To switch on/off SMS notify when recieved message.
- Contacts icon (6th icon) > When activated, will attempt to update its phonebook from mobile for use with caller ID names.
- Battery Idicator (7th icon) > Show the status of the battery left

Using the watch:
Using the watch is fairly easy, just select the 2nd icon to activate the pairing option then use the mobile to complete the pairing sequence. Upon successful pairing, the watch is ready to detect incoming calls and SMS. When connection is interrupted, simply using the 3rd icon will regain the connection if mobile is within range.

The tricky part is sometimes when disconnected, my mobile is unable to gain connection with my watch with the 3rd icon or even by repeating the pairing process. However a few attempts are needed and the connection will eventually be successful. I still had yet figure out the problem. Other then that, the watch works perfectly OK(SMS notify not working because my mobile does not support)!

During incoming calls, the watch vibrates and showing caller ID(and name if available). Pressing set button rejects the call or pressing selection button will accept the call.

Bugs found:
Omg~ Usually bugs ain't easily found. In this case... Ah~ Lolz...
- Pairing status > It doesn't matter if the pairing icon(2nd icon) shows paired or disconnected status, as long as the connection icon(3rd icon) shows connected status everything else works. Looks like fake status to me.

- Caller ID bug > With the watch updated with my phonebook in my mobile, some caller names does not show when they called. Only numbers are shown instead. I had still yet to figure out why...

Things to improve:
Although it's the cheapest bluetooth watch amougst others. I still think there are at least something very basic to improve.
- Battery life > Most gadgets will be facing this problem. Since its a watch and the battery is suppose to last. I think its something to improve. I had played around with it(navigating menu, playing with income calls, vibrate and
vibrate and vibrate.... lolz) like 2 plus hours. The battery has drop a bar! Opps O.o"

- Accepting calls > The watch for now, accept calls using headset profile(talking with handset). I don't see the need, if I were to talk on the phone I might as well answer it with my phone. I would rather it accept calls with hands free profile(talking through phone's loudspeaker), or at least provide an option to do so. I think it will be really useful!

After all, it's a very nice and lovely watch to me~ With those user friendly interface, large OLED screen(really crisp clear view!) and pretty acceptable size, it makes a good watch! 1 very great feature with it is if you had forgotten to charge it for serveral days, the bluetooth function and the OLED menu screen will not function but the time on the watch will keep running for like another 2-3 days(i think)? Oh, also forgotten about the watch needles that are able to glow at night ^^.

Oh btw... although it dosen't concern me much as I'm a chinese but... whats with the chinese menu in the watch??? Lolz...

What's the best after all? No one is selling in my country! Only me(or maybe a few others) have it! Wahahaha~ (大笑!)

Mizuki Nana's 恋の抑止力 MV???

toshieayano — 2010-07-16T02:11:15+09:00

Hey guys, here I juz found some pretty interesting stuff man. Usually we don't see Nana dancing... but here we can see her in action for this music video(is it even music video???) Anyway... here we can see her dancing one shoot in a single cue without NG(LOL!). Seems to me pretty challanging and not some MV we seen around(a static view througout).

Those moves are like some para para moves and quite static but do you think I care? Haha! I only know that she looks like a cutie here and I'm a fan of her voice, not her dance(笑)! Anyway, go on enjoy her dance in the video and maybe those moves might be available in some para para arcade machines soon? I dont know, cuz I dun play....

And the background seems to be very good for green screen filter. Maybe I'll create some interesting effects when I'm free yah? <-- Dun kill me, King Records! T.T

A company, an employer and his irresponsible acts....

toshieayano — 2010-07-12T18:46:38+09:00

I don't know what to comment. Should I put the blame on that employer or should I count myself even worst luck then before. Compare my luck to a list of people and I believe I'm the last one, no one goes even lower unless you say die as an option. I hold myself until now to post this because that guy say he's gona confirm with me my job on monday which is today. It's all bullshit.

What happened?
Last thursday(8th july), I already had an interview appointment at about 3pm. Then this company(name confidential to keep my arse safe) that I had interviewed before called up in the morning, asking me to go down immediately! I was like errr..... so fast. Then we managed to change to the next day(friday).

Then something came through my mind. It will be really confusing if I will to clinch 2 jobs and choose between them. So I reconfirmed with that employer: "So I will start working tomorrow?". He said yes. So... yeh! I've secured a job! Case closed! Hurray~ Next, I thought yah I'm happy with it and might as well skip my afternoon interview and prepare to work tomorrow. So I took the effort and inform the employer interviewing in the afternoon that I am not going.

Who knows what the hell in the world had happened, the employer that's hiring me call again in the evening. Its 2 urgent missed calls while I was in the toliet. I return the call once I'm done and this was what he says:"Ermm... Can you don't come down first tomorrow(friday)? We'll confirm you on monday.". I went mind blank straight. I blindly say ok loh, what can I do? Only sometime until after the conversation ended, then I start regaining my mind back. Then I started to get pissed!

Yah, so my job and an interview was screwed on the same day(And mind you[employer], I really wana blurt you and your company out at this point! Still holding myself!)! Ripple effect huh? As some manageral level, any words spoken carrys some weight and responsibility here. Its not like you and your friend had a meet up which was cancelled off last minute where nothing will happened! You as an employer are speaking on behalf of the company and it concerns your company reputation, not only on the clients side but also employees' side also!

And my this friend also, talk to him about this and he say what dumb and he will go for the other interview whatever stuff. Easy talking big, no need pay money mah. Haven't yet meet this kinda shit don't come and bullshit with me and act all smart arse. I mean at one look at people and their acts, usually can roughly know how smart or dumb this guy is right? Not use acting smart alex and talking big one. It will only increase my prejudice against that guy(I don't usually pre judge a person unless they do some brainless stuff and disturb ppl like this - I always accept ppl who they are first). And I still have business relations with him? Omg~ Feeling like backing out my shares.

Anyway, some people need "school fees" to know their characters($ cheaters) while others just need some situations to know them. Good enough, I no need to pay to know my this kinda "friend". His already in working force for sometime le and a whole mouthful of "working experiences". But still cannot see that he's able to think mature. Haiz...........

Good friends are hard to come by. Luckily, I still have true friends that I need not wear "masks" to face them. Haiz... yet another unhappy post on my blog....

Review on Sony's Nex 5

toshieayano — 2010-07-12T05:39:55+09:00

Haha~ I've get to hands on one of the latest DSLR camera released by Sony at one of the Sony shop around~ The model NEX5 packs a bunch of DSLR goodies into a size of a compact point and shoot camera. This is one of the reason why I am tempted by this camera.

I always thought that why must DSLR camera be so big. Now Sony has realize the dream of having the power of SLR functions in a compact camera size and on top of it, it offers interchangeable lens just like an actual DSLR.

I was in that Sony shop asking so much questions that the manager thought I was gona buy it! Lolz~ Anyway, he was pretty patient with me and that was very nice. Haha~ Every was pretty impressive on this camera, the auto focus, the HD video, Aperture Mode and Shutter Mode. It also offers an extra mount fix to let users fix on standard alpha lenses(autofocus not suppprted). You can also plug some extra assecories like optical viewfinder, flash or microphone in the multi assecories port.

There are only some things that I think it is not as good yet.
- No built in optical viewfinder and flash
- Multi assecories port can only plug 1 assecory(if optical viewfinder is used, there are not more ports for flash)

Personally I feel that its original lens are no as good. I am looking for pretty big F stops for a strong background defocus effect(I have yet tested the super zoom lens). Although the camera can have a alpha adaptor mounted to fix those standard alpha lenses but its autofocus is unable to work. That was the major factor holding me back from buying....

I think the big factor about it is its LCD. It can be tilted up to 80degrees for low angle shots or down to 45degrees for bird eye view shoots which is very useful! No DSLR or even point and shoot which I know does that! Handphones? Yes! LOL~

Overall, this camera should be really handy for somebody who are planning to use DSLR for a start. It's quite user friendly. I am still considering about it~

Cosfest photos are up!

toshieayano — 2010-07-07T05:44:53+09:00

Although these photos came up abit late. But I think it doesn't really matter right? Lolz~ If you had not went to the event, I would suggest you take a look at these photos~ Cosplaying in my country seems to be improving every year. That's some very nice thing to see^^.
By the way, they did play Nana's song during the event! Yesh Ah! Mizuki Nana is started being regconised by singapore! Way to go Nana! Okie, let's look at my photos for now. Click on the photo to look at the rest... Enjoy!

Cosfest 2010 set(click to view):

I can't stand shooting on compact camera anymore! T.T

Some stuffs to update....

toshieayano — 2010-07-02T04:33:41+09:00

My blog updating frequency is getting less and less. Yeh, because I am still some "wondering around" guy that is still jobless.... Every other stuffs are gettng less and less interesting.

Anyway, I'll try hard to keep up with my updating frequency. Today will be yet alot of things to update due to the consolidation from the past days...

Food!
Some decades ago... I've eaten at this so called japanese food court at one of the shopping centre.
This is what I order. Chicken cutlet omelette rice! Comes along with a miso soup. Doesn't it look tasy? Hohoho~

Bought new cloth
Uni Qlo recently release a series of anime shirts and one caught my eye. I just bought it on the spot, omg~(⌒-⌒)

Doesn't the design looks nice? Haha~

Now about my interviews
Ok, now for something that I really don't like to speak about... Job hunting~
Yesterday, I went for an interview for a position of internet marketer. The whole interview session round up in 5 minutes! Omg~ What has happen? Maybe I do not have a marketing exp... I don't know, seems to me the whole thing has fail badly... (Very very very sad...)
Today is another interview for a position for motion graphic artist/video editor. The working enviroment omg~ Each of their staff has a studio room of their own to work in! And they offer a even higher pay then I ask for! But but but.... I think I really fail to impress them with my abilty or confident? Anyway, it doesn't look too bad after all.
But either way, hopefully to get settle down asap. Hopefully my shitty luck has change even abit and I will be very happy(truely from heart).

My Web Progress
Now for my website update. Now other then graphic design, I am now intergrating electronic payments into my site. I plan to open up the payment option only after the first Alpha testing phase. Alot of work left to do....

Yep, that's the update for now... Catch ya guys soon~

Nana Mizuki's 8th album! IMPACT EXCITER

toshieayano — 2010-06-10T05:31:49+09:00

The name alone makes me excited. Yeh, expect some hardcore tense music from this album man. Release on the 7/7/2010-(nana day/ nana month in jap). Omg~ That release day was obviously on purpose to Nana's name!

That "exciter" in the name means alot to me man. If you play with VST plugins for song tweaking, there's this rack call exciter and it brings impact and liveness to whatever sound you are tuning.

Here's the first leaked song from one of the radio rips. Although no the usual Nana's style but still as nice!

ミュステリオン - Mysterion

Can't wait for the release~ Keep it up Nana~ Gambate ne...

Sweet dim sum and main course at hong kong resturant...

toshieayano — 2010-06-10T05:22:51+09:00

Went down to one of the hong kong dim sum resturant for dinner at the Square Mall few days ago. Very busy till my blog posts are outdated. Yeh... I noe that. Anyway, sweet food served (笑)~

Firstly, I and my friends share some dim sum that just look awsome!

My main course? Egg fried rice served with duck meat and special suace. To top it off, I get myself a chicken brewed soup.

Sweet! Doesn't that make you drool~ Lolz....

My tenppan, my blog yahoo ranking and interview... So much things to blog today.

toshieayano — 2010-06-01T21:44:31+09:00

I gona admit that I am getting more and more lazy to blog. Lots of things had happened that had been dissappointing and spoilinfg my mood. Haiz... Anyway, heer are all the updates...

My tenppan:
Went out at night 2 days ago and my friend suggested to eat tenppan. Hmmmmm.... interesting way of eating. Each of us have a electrical stove and the tenppen is left there to cook. We cook the raw meat ourselves. Lolz~ Taste not bad...

My interview:
I had an interview appointment today. It's pretty far man. Took me about 1 hour plus to reach. Anyway, that place looks not bad. Very studio look alike, similar to those animation production houses. Those people are very nice and friendly too. Didn't expect an internet marketing company to have such a pleasant working enviroment. They have plans to expand their business and might in need for more manpower. For now, they have no answers for me as I guess they might be gathering people first. Only when they start their new business then they start confirming people for working which will be end of this month(june). From our discussion, I can see that they are more interesting in getting freelancing people of different talents. Getting fulltime jobs? Maybe like 50% or even lower chance to get one. By hook or by crook hopefully able to work with them, doesn't matter freelancing for fulltime as I think there will be alot to learn inside^^. But for now, I really worry about getting stable income... Conclusion? Duno... I duno.... I just duno~~~ ARG~~~

Blog ranking:
Haha~ Happy to found that my blog hit the first page of yahoo.jp(japan) for "toshie" keyword serach term. Hmmm... I suppose "toshie" is quite a common keyword? How many toshies' are there? How many webbies with toshie's name/keyword are there??? I believe quite alot, and I can hit the first page. Not bad huh? Lolz~

Blog Traffic:
Hmm... After I had posted some news on ALAN(阿兰), there seems to be a direct impact on my traffic... Immediately, I can see some traffics coming in and they are all from japan.

Eh.... Is Alan really so popular in japan? NOOO! Alan is more popular then Mizuki Nana~!!! Omg~ Thats pretty disappointing. T.T

Website progress:
Yeh man... Lastly will be blogging on my website(webring) progress. I had done the moderator controls, now working on the admin controls and hopefully to complete it within 2 days. I still got all those layouts and designs~ x.x" Btw, since Alan is popular, I might start with my favorate Nana Mizuki category together with Alan category for a start in alpha version for my site. See how's the responses...

Wow... It's a pretty long post for today... Haha~ Anyway, lazy but not dead. I'll keep the updates coming! Cya~

Setup new trading account (ocbc)

toshieayano — 2010-06-01T20:25:16+09:00

Yeh man~ I went to setup my new trading account at ocbc. Saw my friend's ocbc trading platform and it looks more user friendly. Although the trading fees for sgx stocks are same with my old philips peoms account, the fees for trading US stock are even higher. But one big advantage for ocbc trading account is it's mobile trading platform. Yup, they develope trading platform for smartphones and that's really useful if you wana trade on the go or in urgent situations where you heard important news outsite.

With my occupation status, I need to pay in upfront the amount to trade before the broker enters my positions. Damn! I just need a job for time being man. As simple as that but yet its as hard and whatever is happening on the earth~ Everything is screwing up, my life, my plans and my future..... Just before I can start my first step. Where's my lady luck??? Haiz...

Anyway, that "sell in may and go away" quote for stocks trading are indeed true. Look at all the crazy situations happening in the stocks market now. Even my $$$ are going crazy inside so much that I don't even wana look >.<". Need to leverage my money inside now but I HAVE NO MORE $$$!!!!. Luckily not much funds inside, I can just put it aside first. Back to jobs, I juz need a stable job now~~~ My damn luck, please.... Lolz~

阿兰 ALAN

toshieayano — 2010-05-27T11:25:46+09:00

That was a short intro for an artist name Alan(阿兰). I don't usually go for chinese songs but her voice did caught me >.<". And after some searching, I remember I did had a post on one of her songs singing jap. She does sing jap songs and I believe she quite popular in japan too~ For those who don't know her like me, she's from tibet china but able to speak fluent jap~~!!! OMG~

Anyway, what caught me was her voice on one of her song which I first heard. Hitting those saprano highs with some pretty angelic voice is not what anyone can do and that's what surprises me. Don't believe? Then listen to her song. Lolz~

Not only that, she also has some powerful vocal around man. Below is one clip where she's singing a jap song live in an apple store. Her mezzo forte voice level is like crazy....

Yeh man, she's not just some pretty face only artist. The wow factor is there and I think she needs to be recognise and deserve the credits. Woho~