Armageddon Expo – Melbourne

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Photos from Supanova 2009 – Melbourne

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Videos from Supanova 2009 – Melbourne

Supanova 2009 – Melbourne

I attended Supanova in Melbourne today and boy was it fantastic. Last year we didn’t attend the cosplay contest but it was something I wanted to see this year and it was an experience I must say. For those of you who aren’t sure what cosplay is, it is an opportunity for pop-culture fans to dress up as their favourite character and play out a scene or strike a character’s well known pose. The effort put into costumes this year and the thought gone into some of the skits people did were outstanding, I was very impressed. 

Overall the event seemed to be bigger than last year, there were a few more exhibitors I hadn’t seen before offering cool things for sale, I picked up a few things including a couple of keychains, Code Geass figurine and a Code Geass novel!! There were also art exhibitors showing their awesome talents.

I definitely can’t wait until Supanova 2010! Hopefully next year I will enter the Fan Art comp too.

For now, we can look forward to Minifest, Manifest and Armageddon. I’ll also post up some Supanova photos and if it works, a few low quality videos.

Anime Review: Code Geass

Genres: action, drama, psychological, science fiction, supernatural
Themes: Mecha, Military

I recently got hooked on a new Anime thanks to the December 08 issue of Anime Update. Code Geass is a story of a 17 year old Britannian school boy, Lelouch Lamperouge, who takes on this identity to hide his royal status as the eleventh Prince of the Britannian Empire. Following the assassination of his mother, Empress Marianne, Lelouch’s sister is so traumatised by the event that she loses sight and becomes crippled. Lelouch resents his father, the Emperor, for not preventing his mother’s death and the devastating effect it has had on his sister that he vows to destroy Britannia.

Britannia conquered Japan and renamed it Area 11, stripping all Japanese citizens of their culture, freedom, homeland and the right to be called Japanese. Lelouch becomes entangled in Japanese rebel activity who have stolen a truck from the Britannian military. Further into the drama Lelouch meets an extraordinary young girl who gives him the power of Geass – the ability to control the actions of another individual to do his bidding. With this power Lelouch becomes a masked hero to the Japanese known as Zero. Using his new found ability and the identity of Zero, Lelouch takes on Britannia with the goal of making a happy place for his sister, revenging his mother’s death and giving back to the people the right to be called Japanese – however not his primary motive.

The story has a lot of substance to it that at times it can be hard to follow. It has quite a large political and power element to it as well, I am definitely not a fan of politics in the real world however I was still attracted to the story and it’s intricate mechanics. There are also subtle scenes of love and passion which if you’re someone who likes a powerful, heroic story with a touch of this emotion, it will definitely pull you into it’s world.

I definitely give it the thumbs up and it’s on the list as one of my favourite Anime series.

Story/Summary – 7/10
Visuals – 7/10
Audio – 7/10
Characters – 6/10
Rating – 7/10

BNET – go to place for management!

I recently discovered an excellent site offering various resources and information in the form of videos, PDF’s and HTML documents relating to all kinds of management topics. I’m currently in a team lead role and have done team leader roles in previous jobs so this site offers a lot of information relating to my role which is brilliant, especially for new starters in people management like myself. I definitely recommend that if you manage people in whatever role, that you check this out!

http://www.bnet.com

Earth tremor in Melbourne

Well, experienced my first earth tremor last night shortly before 9pm. I was sitting on my couch and felt this weird rocking sensation, it really felt like the couch was turning into jelly! The TV was a shaking and a rocking and my iMac and external monitor were wobbling on my desk. Quite an odd experience and freaky at the same time. It was a tremor of 4.6 magnitude so not enough to cause damage thankfully.

My fiance just assumed that the vibration was coming from our sound system! Most certainly not lol.

Anyway, here’s an article on The Age about it if anyone is interested click here.

Back at uni and with a new blog

It’s that time of year again, uni has started and we’re now about to start our third week in. Hopefully if everything goes to plan I’ll finally finish off my Bachelor of Information Technology at the end of 2010! Which I’m looking forward to given I enrolled in 2003-04. I’ve been doing it part time via distance ed which is 6 years, otherwise 3 years full time. 

This semester I’m doing Project Preparation & Professional Practice and another subject, Service Operations. One of the requirements for Project Preparation & Professional Practice is to blog about our progress so please check out my blog at http://itc306.xabit.net. Should be fun!

I suppose I better stop procrastinating and actually get some study done.

Back in the rent game…

Oh we’re at it again! We need to get out of this flat we’re in, we out grew it the day we moved in lol. It has however served us well, we’re minutes from the train station and three tram stops, only 25 minutes to the city, we’ve had little trouble here aside from having our push bikes stolen but no big loss since we hardly used them. Our recent trips to Dubbo meant we were close to Melbourne Airport to get there which was handy but time to move on, we’re getting itchy.

Not sure what areas we’ll look at aside from the fact it needs to be within a 30 minute train ride to the city given it’s where I work and it looks like we’re looking for a house rather than a flat/unit. The prices of flats in the city are high and while we could afford it, most won’t allow me to move my cat in.  

Hopefully we’ll find something soon anyway!

Pussy Cat Dolls Concert