Nintendisco down to Camden Town Now!

Facebook can really annoy me sometimes, my friend shared this flyer but for some reason my notifications didn't reach my BB today so i missed out going to this uber cool 16bit musical bonanza!

Have a read of the bitty-ness:

Take a BIT.TRIP down the Nintendisco at the barfly on Tuesday 7 February

Rising Star Games invites you to the best club night this year, in association with BIT.TRIP COMPLETE and BIT.TRIP SAGA

Rising Star Games is pleased to announce that BIT.TRIP COMPLETE and BIT.TRIP SAGA will sponsor Nintendisco on 7 February at Camden’s Barfly. The UK’s number one retro gaming club night, Nintendisco mixes the retro-inspired BIT-TRIP series, among the best loved games of the last three decades, with one of the coolest venues in London.

Members of the public are invited to attend from 7pm to 1am, where they will be the first in the UK to play BIT.TRIP COMPLETE for Nintendo Wii and BIT.TRIP SAGA for Nintendo 3DS - over a month before general release. Nintendisco and Rising Star Games will run competitions throughout the evening along with BIT.TRIP inspired drinks and offers.

“We’re incredibly excited to link up with Nintendisco on 7 February, as this represents a great opportunity to show the series to fans and newcomers alike”, said Martin Defries, Managing Director, Rising Star Games. “It will be a fantastic evening of music, games and good natured competition. If you don’t enjoy yourself, we’ll happily give back your entry fee!*”

For more information about Nintendisco, please visit: www.nintendisco.com

*Entry to the venue and Nintendisco is free.

Too bad I'm missing this right now I would of liked to get my Ryu on the SF dancefloor

FF creators @ MCM Midlands Expo

Just found this article on animepicks.co.uk

The MCM Expo may be a huge event in London but the event in the Midlands is really catching up. It has just been announced that the creator of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Chrono Trigger, Hironobu Sakaguchi, will be attending the event on the 18th February.

This famous developer will be in the UK to talk about the widely anticipated release of The Last Story for Wii, ahead of its UK release next month. Fans will get the chance to see what the game is all about while seeing the man himself. MCM Expo have also put out the call for questions to ask Hironobu Sakaguchi prior to the event, if you have any questions then please send them to david@mcmexpo.net and the top three will be put to Mr. Sakaguchi at the show.

For more information on the Midlands MCM Expo, click here: http://www.midlandsmcmexpo.com/

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I go to MCM twice a year at the Excel docklands and I'm royally gutted i won't be able to attend the Midlands one seeing the FF creators...simply to tell them their title song in the ads sucks. Stick to Nobuo Uematsu please. Ps. Moogle lead about time :D

Hyper Japan 2011 - hyped up?

Well Hyper Japan this July was certainly up tot he 'hype'!

Having been to the previous modest Hyper Japan in 2010 where even Jonathan Ross came to see what all the comotion was about, this year Hyper Japan showed it's popularity had grown 5 fold.

From approaching the queue on saturaday which almost reached the station from Olympia 2. After all the excitment of seeing lavish lolitas adorned in their colourful wigs and matching parasols I knew I was in for a treat. Upon entering and receiving a program I started marking my map for everything I wanted to see and in the ocean of people that wasn't easy. This venue was double the size of the previous Hyper Japan and now with two floors, come armed with cash and spare carrier bags people, I wasn't going to leave empty handed.

Following the loud shouts I could tell a lot was oging on by the main stage with live sushi sessions, sake tasting and my personal favourite Kanon Wakeshima was performing too! This is one funky J-pop lolita cellist playing from the age of 3,eventually got a deal with Sony label DefSTAR Records; all by the time she was 18! She even stayed to do autoographs, check her out! Her and other entertainers came in adi for the Tsunami appeal for Japan where a raffle was being held daily and cherry blossam badges were being sold to help raise money for the cause.

Amongst the stalls of pretty prints from Deviant art and youtube sensations busking were some unusal sights like the ITK robots with moving hands and event he electronic toilet display! Occasionally I stopped for a rest and a quick sugar fix from Cyber Candy and was bombared with free samples of Sushi from Yo sushi and Yakult! I managed to find rrom rare art books to colourful cosplay outfits and kitch t shirts from Genki Gear too. My only regret was not being able to get a Japanese style photo in Yukata and wig posing with a samurai sword. Next time you better belive it I'll be armed with a samurai sword umbrella too ! Fun for all, I even saw an Official Toei Animation Lufi (from One Piece) hi fiving an elderly gentleman, all around people were pleased, two floors of Japanese culture to the max. I was even invited to watch Japan Crafts make origami animals and craft beutiful cards.

The atmosphere was electric and friendly, people mingling in the bustling Maid Cafe and swapping DS friend codes at Nintendo Unleashed - who also launched a competition for answering a Zelda question to attain a limited edition Ocarina, needless to say i won one with my vast years of gaming :p

This is one my favourite events of the year so far educational and entertaining, I will be sure to follow up in 2012.

2. Season's Greetings from the Streets red DIY

Here we go again with my next diy project.

Thesaurus:

Freddie - Freddie Krugar, I'll use this in context to me hacking clothes to pieces.

I ordered some cool retro tee''s from 80stees.com and if you spend over $50 (inevitable) they reward you with a free Sesame Street t, please see Mr hip modeling the shirt below:



As you can see this is a male t-shirt and well I ain't :p

Sooo what does one do with a free t-shirt? I didn't pay for it so let's shred this baby down to size. *puts on shades*

1. Turn the top inside first. Slim down the sleeves about 3inches so as to have space to wear a long sleeved top under (yes I like layer)

2. Let's make it figure hugging, I pinned with safety pins then I made a rought stitching at all the vital points, at the arm pit, next to the bust then at the waist and lastly at the stomach area, this should work out to an hour glass figure but ha we're all different shapes.

4. get big scissors and chop that tight neck piece off. (for this piece, I wanted the off the shoulder look) Then folded the rough edges in and stitched over.

Check out the shirt after I hacked it, I bet you thought I did a Freddie.


Now here's an artistic shot of the finished top:


Ok come on me or the oh so fake happy dude above? :)

DIY: re-inventing my Wardrobe #1

So I finally plucked up the courage and patience to take apart an awful top from my past.

I'm quite lazy and put off challenging tasks till tomorrow (more realistically next year), this time the thought took me only a month.

It makes me look fat and it rides up but I do love the shruggy thing and the leopard print wasn’t too bad so rather than banish it to the charity pile I thought I’d give it another chance to redeem itself. I’m no Gok Wan but I do have an idea.

Check out the photo tot he left of what it was till I attacked it with scissors.

and trust me this was the only half decent photo I could attain.

I removed the stitching from the shrug tot he top - straight forward huh? Nope! The back of the shirt was a completely different material, it was a plain black.

>_<

Lucky for me I had other rejects in my wardrobe so I mixed and matched instead.

I decided to cut the originally black front ruched bustier from the wench style black top - no before pics I’m afraid but here is the after pic, I made the top more flattering to me and less revealing !!! Not bad, considering it's my first real DIY project.

Lack Lustre Life

You know the world is slowly dissolving into a pit of regression and compromise when an English Literature graduate can only get a job as a evening nurse at a vet. I shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a needle no less injecting a living being with it.

Rather than shoveling research, one must shovel shit. LOL!

I feel so zombified, food poisoning is soooo unbecoming - though it was nice to have a day of slouching and Jammy Wagon Wheels :)

Not even a trip to "Gamestation" can revive my hope of this depression/recession ending any time soon. It should be mandatory that men should drool then bow down on sight of any female buying a shooting game; this includes House of the Dead - this is one mother-fucking hard game.

Song of the day:

Tinie Tempah ft. Eric Turner - Written in the Stars

Japanese Club Night/CW hair awards Nov 2010

SO i had my Charles Worthington apprenticeship awards today, I had to get it re trimmed and boy was it super shiny like a brand new foil Pokemon card crisp out of the plastic wrapper. As you can see it's shaved a little but an altogether asymmetric bob with undercut (the shaved bit) Hollie (hairdresser) dyed only the shaved bit to highlight the cut.

The overall experience was interesting, I got to go to the L'Oreal Headquaters in Shepard's Bush I had to practice doing the catwalk in my ridiculously high purple high heels (with electric pink stripes) - lol i bought these from a sports shop next to Marble Arch tube station. Hell yeah check me out in the shower :p




Also a couple of weeks ago I got invited to to this Japanese Club Night by by a few mates, didn't know thye were into Japanese stuff too!

Time
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 7:00pm - Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 2:00am
Location
The King Pin Suite - Basement of Tavistock Hotel/ Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes
Bedford Way, Tavistock Square WC1H 9EU
London, United Kingdom
Created By
K
More Info
Ok, basically I want to go to this club night (even tho its on a wednesday) but I don't want to go on my jays. Its a Japanese music night and it costs £5 if you book online here >> http://www.wegottickets.com/event/92888 << or £6 on the door.


...anywho somebody please come with me :D

the official event page is here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108066935920249


Lol didn't have a clue about how to get there from Shepard's Bush and with the train strikes I was proverbially f**** but at least the tubes were working somewhat, i knew it was near Euston station as I trecked here many years ago to help do the door for my friends Indie Bingo night there.

Changed into my flats and managed to follow the dodgy buses and there I was, all the wristbands had run out so I got a smilie face drawn on my hand lol. By the time I arrived I missed the artistic ballon person and managed to catch 1/2 of a cover band,
walking into hear a ripped version of 'Here it is Merry Xmas' in Japanese :p

Kareoke was fully booked, we snooped but ended up playing this arcade fighting game called Blazeblue, needless to say i was awful but loving it.

A night of laughs, drinks, pretty Japanese singers, fake lashes and cosplay portraits!