Sora Quote

“Although my heart may be weak, it’s not alone. It’s grown with each new experience, and it’s found a home with all the friends I’ve made. I’ve become a part of their heart just as they’ve become a part of mine. And if they think of me now and then… If they don’t forget me… Then our hearts will be one. I don’t need a weapon. My friends are my power!” ~Sora~

Bersamamu-Vierra (PianoCover) liat deh walaupun ga sempurna .hhee

flashback

I get this photo from the magazine of "chung hwa" ChildrenSchool Butterworth ! Teacher choose us to shoot this photo for our school magazine

When the science classes

"i'm look funny" xD

ChildrenSchool Butterworth Graduation photo

POLICE MALAYSIA

another bad day of mine..
it really pissed me off!!!!
firstly...
it's about my examination in school..
add math paper..
so damn stupid all the question
duno whether i can get more than 10 marks or not tim...
=.=
and then..


i want to complain about the police of Msia
stupid sial!
today is my first day of driving my mum new car...
and yet...
met an accident like this
there was no car around and i just piao like usual..
who knows...
there was a bloody block infront of it..
shit..
i sensed danger in my heart ad
but acting like very steady while passing through it..
and....
kena stop also..
shit lo..
but finally i also managed to escape..
by paying them duit kopi..
nia sing..
don't know what kopi they drink..
gave the first time they still yim 3 yim 4...
mata duitan..
bo bian lo...
what can i do for avoid from the cb saman..
haiss...
suen la..
nvm nvm
at least can see my dear..
i already fully satisfied..
^^

inside Anime Festival Asia 2009

inside Anime Festival Asia 2009

I am a supporter of Rapid Culture since many years back. Only managed to speak to Yanjie for a while since he was busy serving customers.

One of my favourite toy vendors Falcon's Hangar is also there. Cliff & Calvin were in high spirit. Calvin told me the stall set up started since two days.

Odex is still going strong! Booth was crowded with people buying first DVD issue of Gundam 00 season DVD with boxset. Also have Code Geass & the DeGrayman.

The stage area. Screening of anime was also held there.

Announcement of Sangokuden junior model kit winner.

Moving around Anime Festival Asia 2008 definitely is much easier than Toys and Comic Comic Convention 2008. Maybe it's not a Sunday or perhaps the other possible reason could be due to the entrance fee. Good thing about ticketing is that it's more focus on the target group so that the venue would not be choked up by passing crowd.

AFA09 Singapore

hmm , i'm after saw this event's
FESTIVAL ANIME ASIA 2009 at Suntec Convention & Exhibition
on November 27-28th 2009 same with event's our moeslim ,eid adha

Anime Festival Asia 2009, or AFA09 for short, was held over 2 days in Singapore at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Center. The event is in its second year running and is meant as a celebration of Japanese pop culture. And I’m sure it has been a tiring two days for organizers, exhibitors and visitors alike… I know I am. I trekked the event for 2 days and the aftermath are sore legs and the following field report of my experience this year.

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Anime Festival Asia an event focusing on Japanese animation and popular culture, ones again returns at 2009. AFA2008 was a highly successful event that attracted many people even from other countries..

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One addition this year is the Moe Moe Kyun Meido cafe. It is a good idea although I didn’t try it out as I find the prices of the food a tad too expensive for me. Probably would have been good for the experience, but oh well.

As like last year, one of the attraction of the festival is the anime concert. The theme this year is I Live Anisong and the organizers invited a strong cast for the concert this year with the likes of Ichirou Mizuki, Yoshiki Fukuyama, May-N and Shoko Nakagawa, a.k.a. Shoko-tan, and not forgetting Hatsune Miku. But poor me have no money to attend.

I did however, manage to catch Shoko-tan in person during her autograph session.

It was really tough jostling with so many people around trying to take photos of her and the security guards looking to push everyone away…LOL… I manage a few shots eventually though they didn’t turn out very well. >_<>

There were plenty of live stage events throughout the two days event though. And kudos to the organizer, I feel that the live stage was a big improvement from last year with bigger arena and better content.

This year’s event were also swarmed with cosplayers. Even though I do not know much about cosplaying, I do feel that there are major improvements in the quality of the cosplays this year compared to last year. And I also ended up taking loads of photos of the cosplayers. I had intended to do a separate post on the cosplayers but I guess these lot will do. ^^.

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Sorry, I just had to post that last Gundam cosplayer … LOL … I guess some cosplayers are hit hard by the economic crisis. ^^” Anyway, jokes aside, while it was hilarious, I thought it took a lot of courage to do something like that knowing that you will probably end up as a joke.

Due to the limitation of the exhibition arena, the cosplayers actually spilled over and started to gather at the level 3 foyer where there was huge space. Needless to say, it was also swarmed with photographers. Thus, it was really hard to make eye contact with the cosplayers when taking the photos. It is especially so for my point and shoot camera to jostle for attention against the DSLRs. ^^” That said, many of them did try to make as eye contact with as many photographers as possible.

There were many K-ON cosplayers, as well as Sheryl Nome and Ranka cosplayers. My favorite of the lots this year would be the Black Rock Shooter cosplayers. Their cosplay were all really great and it must have took them ages to do the gigantic Black Cannon.

Overall, I thought the event was pretty good and probably slightly better than last year. I just wish that more space could have been allocated to the exhibition arena. And hopefully, next year, maybe more figure exhibitors and makers like Alter would be invited. And of course more idols and seiyuus. Onegai shimasu.

Hope all who was at the event enjoyed the occassion. Looking forward to AFA10. Ja, mata ne! ^.

Music and Heart

Musik sejak zaman dahulu telah disadari manusia sebagai suatu keajaiban. Hampir semua manusia tergerak olehnya. Nada dan irama telah juga menjadi bagian dari diri manusia, bunyi-bunyian alam, denyut kehidupan, dan alam semesta. Bahkan ada yang mengklaim bahwa manusia adalah musik, semesta adalah musik.

Maka dari itu pada halaman-halaman blog ini, kita akan mencoba mengeksplorasi keajaiban musik, keajaiban manusia, dan keagungan Tuhan. Eksplorasi itu dapat melalui review musik, kritik musik, baik dari kritikus maupun dari seorang pendengar awam, dan tentu dari komentar-komentar pembaca.

Sungguh saya berharap blog ini menjadi titik bangkitnya jurnalisme musik klasik di bumi Nusantara Indonesia. Dan juga sebagai titik bangkitnya perkembangan musik klasik di Indonesia.

Semakin mendengar, semakin mengerti, semakin merasa…

Makna yang tersebunyi di dalam hati…

Mengapa musik menjadi bagian dari alam kesadaran kita…

Mengapa kita sebagai manusia tergerak olehnya…

Mengapa kita bertumbuh darinya…

Ask Question? Please ask. From it we will learn something together…

Pianist Award Indonesia

Ananda Sukarlan

Ananda Sukarlan adalah sosok yang jauh dari ungkapan kacang lupa pada kulitnya. Pianis dan komponis Indonesia berkelas dunia, yang kini bermukim dan menjadi warga negara terhormat di Spanyol ini, ingin menyelengarakan sebuah program menarik yang berpuncak pada pemberian penghargaan kepada para pianis Indonesia berbakat lewat "Ananda Sukarlan Award for Best Indonesian Pianist 2008" pada Juli mendatang. Inilah hadiah untuk tanah airnya dari musikus besar yang ulangtahunnya ke-40 di tahun ini dirayakan di berbagai negara. Program yang dibuka untuk para pianis Indonesia berusia di bawah 25 tahun ini merefleksikan minat Ananda Sukarlan dalam mengembangkan musik sastra Indonesia sekaligus musikalitas peserta. Diharapkan kelak mereka bakal mengikuti jejak-jejak visi, perjalanan serta keahlian sang maestro. Melalui program ini pianis-pianis berbakat Indonesia diberi kesempatan untuk tampil memainkan komposisi para komposer dunia dan Indonesia. Kompetisi ini akan diselenggarakan di Jakarta, tanggal 23 - 26 Juli 2008. Program memainkan komposisi karya komposer dunia dan Indonesia akan dibagi dua babak, yakni babak penyisihan dan babak final. Sebagai ganjarannya Ananda sudah mempersiapkan puluhan juta rupiah bagi para pemenang. Untuk Best Indonesia Pianist 2008 pemenang akan diganjar hadiah Rp 25.000.000. Hadiah kedua Rp 12.500.000, hadiah ketiga Rp 7.500.000, serta penghargaan khusus untuk interpretasi karya komponis Indonesia sebesar Rp 5.000.000. Untuk babak penyisihan tiap peserta diwajibkan membawakan komposisi-komposisi berikut ini. Pertama, satu prelude dan fugue karya Bach atau Mendelssohn atau Shostakovich atau satu interludium dan fugue dari Ludus Tonalis karya Hindemith. Kedua, satu etude karya Chopin (kecuali Op. 10 No. 3 dan 6, Op. 25 No. 7 dan Trois Nouvelles Etudes), atau satu etude karya Liszt (dari Paganini Etudes, Etudes Transcendentales or Three Concert Etudes), atau satu etude karya Prokofiev (Op.2), atau Rachmaninov (kecuali Op. 33 No. 3 dan 8, Op 39 No. 2 dan 7) atau Scriabin (kecuali Op. 2 No. 2, Op. 8 No. 8 dan 11, Op. 42 No. 2 dan 4, Op. 65 No. 2) atau Stravinsky (kecuali Op. 7 No. 3) atau Brtok (Op. 18) atau Debussy. Ketiga, satu komposisi berdurasi lima menit atau kurang, karya komponis Indonesia seperti Yazeed Djamin, Mochtar Embut, Amir Pasaribu, Jaya Suprana, Trisutji Kamal. Keempat, bagian pertama dari Sonata karya Haydn (kecuali HOB XVI/23 in F dan HOB XVI/37 in D), atau Mozart (kecuali KV 545 in C Major "Facile"), atau Beethoven (kecuali Op. 49 dan 79), atau von Weber, atau Schubert. Dari babak penyisihan akan dipilih enam finalis. Pada babak final, keenam finalis terpilih diwajiakan membawakan resital berdurasi 45 menit, yang terdiri dari pertama, bagian-bagian yang belum dimainkan dari Sonata yang dibawakan pada babak penyisihan. Kedua, satu karya penting dari virtuoso dalam gaya romantik, berdurasi maksimal 12 menit. Ketiga, satu komposisi berdurasi 5 menit atau kurang, karya seorang komponis internasional, dengan tahun penulisan setelah 1908. Para finalis membawa empat kopi partitur untuk diberikan ke juri sebelum gilirannya dimulai. Keempat, Rapsodia Nusantara No 1, komposisi baru yang megah untuk piano karya Ananda Sukarlan, dengan durasi enam menit. Karya ini akan dikirimkan ke seluruh peserta secara gratis melalui email dalam bentuk PDF. Peserta yang berharap dikirim melalui pos wajib membayar biaya pendaftaran lebih dulu. ____________________________________________________________