After weeks of productive break and various real life matters, I present some pictures from the recent Metro ComiCon at the SM Megamall Convention Center.

This is my first time attending a big local event and I could say that I quite had fun.

The Comicon.. of course is more about comics, but what I can see is that most of the cosplays and stuff are anime related. There were of course real comics and locally produced ones…

I’m not really fond of comics but I convinced myself to go. Not to mention I live close by and my friends are waiting.

The event wasn’t really that… good.. but it’s easy to have fun in it. Most I did was take pictures, look at the art works and loiter.

I also tried using the Wacom Cintiq on display.. it was pretty cash…

Some of the guys selling off their comics…

Very western…

That’s Mr David Lloyd, the co-author for V for Vendetta

It’sa me~ Mario~

And her sidekick~ Luigi~

On the first day, I was a bit hesitant when taking pictures, I only got a few…

It’s a Trap!

There were of course showcased figures and collectibles from the comic industry…

Another Trap!

The second day…

A Weeaboo dinner for a weeaboo… The food was kind of weird because it had Mangoes in it.. yes.. Mangoes… WAT

Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Free Hugs!!!

And so once again, another ronery new year for Ichiro, but still he will be celebrating in the internets to enjoy the evening waiting for a precious new year. Haven’t gone outside, still can hear the fireworks earlier as expected, although the rain pours heavy the joy of the people from the neighborhood is not extinguished.

As we can see on the picture above, it’s the neighbors enjoying themselves with the festive mood of the new year’s eve, how joyous it is for them to be together. With music, food, fireworks, cries and laughter, their ageing year seems to be complete.

Here’s one group of our relatives, they seem to be enjoying themselves…

At last this year is finally over, Ichiro will be looking forward for a new life and… a new job to fulfill the dreams that once was almost lost and never found…

Happy New Year!

Amazed by the quality of Jing Gong models on m4a1 Airsoft rifles, I took the chance to order one for myself, but after a long wait after the ‘gun ban’, my package has arrived. The rifle did not come with a box; instead it was in a black sack/bag that has strings as a garter that can close on one end. I pulled the gun out only to have a flat expression on my face. In my mind “I believe this isn’t what I ordered”; I looked inside for the manual and other stuff and saw something that would disappoint me, the manual clearly reveals it’s an A&K brand Airsoft rifle.

What I expected

What I got

The A&K M4A1 Airsoft Rifle

Already in disappointment, I took time to investigate some of the internals of the gun, much as I expected it didn’t have the MOSFET board that I wanted inside a Jing Gong so this further disappointed me. Other things that are disappointing is that there wasn’t a Sector Chip attachment and the Piston only has plastic teeth on it. But overall with exceptions to those things mentioned, everything was sturdy.

An Airsoft MOSFET assembly

Still disappointed in mind, I tried to test it out, too my surprise it was quite powerful and sturdy, and there weren’t any wobbly parts and it just feels like it’s made in Japan. The gun shot out at 430fps out-of-the-box on 0.20g BB’s. Thinking that I can just add a MOSFET, Piston and Sector gear, I thought myself that I would just bear with it. I thought of returning it but the price would be to wait again so long a probably I would receive something different and probably worse.

A few days after, I came to like the A&K m4a1; it really was so sturdy and always sounds good. And so I decided I’ll just bear with it, keeping in mind that even if I have that Jing Gong brand, I’m still bound to upgrade it soon since stock internals don’t last that long specially for China brands. One good thing is that I bought that famous red polycarbonate piston by Jing Gong and I still have it. I can just switch it later when the stock piston’s teeth fades out.

The famous red polycarbonate piston by Jing Gong

So much for the introduction and short story how I ended up with the gun, I present some pictures below together with my Reimu.

The right side of the M4A1 Airsoft Rifle

Reimu inspecting the rifle…
“Douman Seiman! Douman Seiman!”
Probably not…

Embossed white markings

The gun has metal receivers and is painted with a smooth flat black finish. It looks to be made of high quality standards…

Moar pictures…

The manual doesn’t reveal any information about the company, not to mention even the model version and the year the gun is made isn’t written.

Reimu finds herself a place to sit on…

More Airsoft related posts coming soon…

After a lot of downtime, server switches and bad database connections, Ichiro-Style! is back online. A few months have passed, but since then many things had happened with my life, from depression to withdrawal, rehabilitation to enlightenment, but whatever had happened at the end of the day, I still dreamt and pursued to be back online.

Ichiro-Style! will be resuming the blog posts and news, there are much stories to be awaited as a fair share of fun and sad things had transpired. Ichiro also had a lot of new stuff to share and will be doing a new brand of writing style.

So much for that, posting will be resumed soon and be sure to check it out!

I’m sick today, sigh… My body is all painful, and feels like there’s steam going out from my body.

So I’m gonna be resting for the coming days, and I hope to get well soon…

I was making the earlier post.. Suddenly I heard a sound outside, Dog-kun was also barking.. I went to the door and opened it..

I saw Dog-kun barking. He looked at me and stopped. I was on the door way at that time, when you turn right, you can turn right again and there we put some junks… The dog looked at that direction ( to the right side) I was like oh, there’s something on the right side…

So I went forward and looked on the right side…

Then Blargh!!! A cat went running all of a sudden

The Junks on that side got messed up all of a sudden, it startled me…

WTH!!!

I froze for 1 second! My hearth jumped, I felt like I was really gonna have a heart attack! It was my first time experiencing it, my body got really cold in just a fraction of a second, I even felt my hair stand up, my arms got all stiff, and I jumped a little bit… My heart was thumping really hard that it shakes myself when standing.

My eyes were totally still in control, it was just my body that didn’t move, I totally saw the cat, It was like in slow motion all of a sudden…

-_-

Good thing I didn’t scream.. It was like 12am… That’s totally gonna wake up everybody… XP

Whew! Lucky me, I didn’t piss myself from all that…

I went to the mirror to see myself if what do I look like after being really scared like that… There’s wasn’t much change…  -_-

So I went back to the computer, then I noticed that my hands were all shaking! waaa!!!

everything was shaking, my feet my arms my fingers.. I couldn’t type properly, I got a lot of typos in IRC, I was totally telling the IRC guys about the experience, luckily muteKi was there to ease me a little bit, he gave me link to his youtube video…

It took more than 30 minutes to ease me… I was still shaking and sweating, my heart was still thumping hard and I’m feeling really cold…

WTH really happend to me?

Have you felt really scared that you felt like having a heart attack just like mine?

So I wake up early today so that I can go to school and enroll for my summer class… but first I had to make my clearance get signed first, good thing that I only just have two left to sign on it, I just need a signature from my Guidance Councilor and the College Registrar.

So after we got our (I was with my friend) clearance signed by the guidance councilor, we go ahead to the registrars office to get our last signature… We had to wait for a while in a slightly long line.

So after waiting, we were there and told that we need our clearances to be checked first for our deficiencies in our enrollment requirements such as the required Form 137 (the last report card from High School). So then we got our OKs, but then we need to fall in line again! But it was okay, since there’s just 4 people waiting inline and all of them are our friends…

So it’s now our turn to get our clearances signed to finish, but then our registrar noticed that it’s passed 12 noon! So he told us to come back later.. WTH! we  were in the last line! she should’ve just considered our wait since we’re the last one in line… So we just went out and took our lunch then got back and wait…

While waiting, we were thinking about what to do once we get finished enrolling, so I said that why don’t we go around the school and take pictures (as I have planned yesterday). So we just waited…

The registrar arrived and we went in the line again.. We finally got there and got our clearance signed, and we also asked for our assessment form for the enrollment. We got in! now we just need to pay the tuition fee…

We got out of the office and waited in line again for the cashier… I didn’t bring money at that time, because mom told me to pay it tomorrow coz we didn’t have the money yet… So I just waited in the line with my friend who’s going to pay already the tuition fee. I saw the amount of the tuition fee, it’s 4,216 Php, it’s quite expensive, since I have thesis and all… While waiting, I thought, why don’t I try to ask mom if she has the cash already, so I texted her… She replied that there’s none yet, I sent the same message to dad… He replied go home to pick it up.. So I told my friends I’m going home to get some cash…

So I was like at home in just about 10 minutes or less (I brought the motorcycle… I was fast! XP)….

With all the hurry, it was useless, he wasn’t there yet.. So I waited…

and waited…

It was like 13:45 when I arrived.. So by 14:00, I estimate that they might have finished paying it already…

That wasn’t home yet…

So I texted him, He said, Hes going with my grandpa to the bank to get some money…

I was like “WTH! you still don’t have it!? What’s the point making me go home all of a sudden” XP

So I just waited… It’s already 14:30… not yet there…

14:45.. not yet there…

15:00.. Oh noes.. my friend is waiting for me… So I texted them to wait for me because I’m going to take a while… I also texted again dad to hurry up because at 16:00 the cashier will close…

So then it’s 15:30, I’m already having thoughts of going back to school because my friends are waiting… And I was also thinking about my plans.. I was suppose to be already taking pictures of my school for my post here :/

It’s 16:00, they’ve arrived… -_- just the same time the cashier closes.. now dad gave me the money for the tuition…

I was “Oh, just in time, now I can enroll on that closed counter…”, I felt a little bit dizzy, and my head is starting to feel funny (not “hahaha” funny)… So I was feeling like raging…

I was thining, what’s the point going back!? It’s already 4pm, it’s closed! It was just like I waited for nothing even though I had the money, the point is that, I just want to enroll on that day and take pictures after that, I was expecting I could have finished it before 2:30pm, but look at the time.. I waited for two hours and I wasted so much time… And in the end I wasn’t able to do any of my plans! grrrr….. My vision darkening… I felt I’m transforming into some evil monster or something…

When I was about to leave, dad said that he’s going to use the motorcycle instead… I was really feeling raging at that time.. so I was like “WTF!!?? FFFFFfffffff!!!!!”, So I just went inside again and sat down…

My mind totally wants to blow up, I felt like destroying things…

Oh yes, I couldn’t still figure out why I rage of this simple things, while not raging over those something that people should normally rage onto… XP

My mind was all”WTF WTF WTF WTF FFF FFF FFFFFFfff!!!!”

Mom and Dad told me to go to school and try if maybe I can still catch up… I know it’s already closed by then… So it was pointless… I just took my time and left… dad told me to use the motorcycle… yes, he saw the rage in my eyes…

So then I got to school, and searched for my friends, I was still raging (in my mind, I’m dangerous when I rage physically) and waited… we have a class at 5pm, but we started it at 5:30pm… lot’s of waiting, huh?

So we were having the class… i just did random sketches so that It would make me a litle bit bussier instead of just purely listening to the teacher, I was nearly getting sleepy at that time…

So here’s the sketch that ended up…

(pic is totally unrelated to kotonoha)

Because I was sketching.. I forgot all the rage… So my sketch shown a happy smile… :)

I forgot all about the raging and stuff and just happily listened to the teacher and doodled another random character (which is that guy on the left).

So In the end, I just ended up a little bit happy after all…

So this would be the beginning of my summer school days… I’ll do my best to have fun and study and I promise that I would still take the pictures that I was suppose to do…

Jaa!

Just wanna share my melon juice, it’s kinda hot here even if it’s evening.

This is gonna be my first photo in this site, so don’t go hard on me with this. XP

You can see there some off my stuffs… the tablet, my glasses, screw driver… a clothes pin… and  an Rx-7 model.

I’ll show you my stuffs once i sort my things out, it’s still a mess, and it doesn’t look otaku-ish…

So anyway, I’m making plans for tomorrow, and gonna take some random pics at school…

Jaa!

Okay it’s Sunday, Easter Sunday to be precise, but today I have no plans, just gonna wait for my parents to do something or go somewhere else (the beach perhaps?).

Anyway, I got my camera now, so expect some amateur pics as of now, since I’m still a learning ninja photographer, and I’m still using the basic weaponry of the art… A compact digital camera (yes, it’s not the one like the DSLRs, it’s just some cheap 2 Megapixel camera)… But this would be a good start, right? But of course, I have plans on getting those DSLR maybe after I graduate or when I have a job.

I hope we go out today, so that I could take some pics for starters… Almost forgot that I still don’t have batteries XP, gonna ask for some later…

Jaa!

Well, I haven’t been able to update my site. It’s Holy Week Here, and I didn’t do much in those days. I might be posting new articles by Sunday or next week…

Digi-Camz

Yes, I’m about to get my Compact Digital Camera, hehehe, we’re gonna post lots of candid pics right here about our town and the people. That should be nice, right?

Oh yeah, I somehow found a Japanese restaurant here in my town! It’s quite rare but yeah! I’m gonna be there and get some pics! I’m excited! But I have to save up some money or else I won’t have nothing to order XP

Jaa!