While browsing the Piggy Farm forum, I impulsively clicked on Bryan B. Wong's Live Journal. I find this particular entry amusing. Apparently, random butter tried buying some star fruits because of Bryan's Start Fruit manga.
Well, Wikipedia says that star fruit is native ot India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia (wow, I didn't know that!). My point is that I grew up with star fruit, so I never think of it as anything special (in the neither-good-nor-bad sense). It's quite interesting to see how other people find it :D
This is why I think I'll need to proceed with caution if I ever go to countries like Japan or China or Korea. They have way too many risky food stuff :)
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More new knowledge about Indonesian stuff from the eyes of non Indonesians: bilimbi. Is this what we Javanese call "blimbing wuluh"? Wahaha, fascinating! I call star fruit "blimbing" in my native tongue (which is a mix of Indonesian language, Javanese language, and some Chinese dialect of which proper name I never know of). "Blimbing wuluh" is entirely different. I think it's much more acidic or something and thus is more suitable for cooking (as opposed to eating as a fruit). Again, I never really pay attention to it so I don't know much about it either.
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I think this post somehow joins my otaku side and my nerd side. Childhood things tend to do that.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Figurine Fun
I went to Anime Festival Asia over the weekend. It was lots of fun.
Some photo highlights:
I bought myself the Kamen Rider Black/RX figurine. It has one main body to which I can attach Kamen Rider Black armor or Black RX armor. Check out my first bunch of shots on my Picasa album.
Out of the package, the figure has the Black RX armor on. I took them off and put on the Black armor. I found the Black armor more attractive; I love the grasshopper look of it. Black RX looks too neat and robot-y. What I soon found out while posing the figurine during the photo shot, though, is that the Black armor comes off far too easily. The small pieces just "hugs" the main body, in contrast to Black RX armor that can be secured comfortably. Still, I did have fun with it and to a certain extent re-discover my liking for photography.
That reminds me of Wei Man's remark about figurines. Before this, she didn't understand what's so good about figurines. Somehow, she bought her first figurines from AFA: a poseable Yuffie (of FF7, her favourite character) figurine and a bunch of Magna Carta figurines. While posing Yuffie, she saw how well-designed figurines work and she was wowed. It was fun to see her finding the charm of poseable figurine (and taking photos of them). One more otaku in our sketch group, mwahaha.
Some photo highlights:
I bought myself the Kamen Rider Black/RX figurine. It has one main body to which I can attach Kamen Rider Black armor or Black RX armor. Check out my first bunch of shots on my Picasa album.
Out of the package, the figure has the Black RX armor on. I took them off and put on the Black armor. I found the Black armor more attractive; I love the grasshopper look of it. Black RX looks too neat and robot-y. What I soon found out while posing the figurine during the photo shot, though, is that the Black armor comes off far too easily. The small pieces just "hugs" the main body, in contrast to Black RX armor that can be secured comfortably. Still, I did have fun with it and to a certain extent re-discover my liking for photography.
That reminds me of Wei Man's remark about figurines. Before this, she didn't understand what's so good about figurines. Somehow, she bought her first figurines from AFA: a poseable Yuffie (of FF7, her favourite character) figurine and a bunch of Magna Carta figurines. While posing Yuffie, she saw how well-designed figurines work and she was wowed. It was fun to see her finding the charm of poseable figurine (and taking photos of them). One more otaku in our sketch group, mwahaha.
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