My discovery of Visual-K bands.

I just absolutely love anything to do with Japanese pop culture and am ecstatic to discover, from a friend of mine named Mun Yen, that there is a band genre called Visual-K. Bands classified under this genre are flamboyant in their dress. Their music is very much like that of rock bands with a Japanese twist, which is unique.

These are the Alice Nines. They look really cool with their hair and style. At one point, Japanese traditional culture influenced their anime and manga. However, as anime, manga and games progressed, they took on a life of their own and developed styles and dresses that (at the time) only existed in their particular genre of entertainment. Of course, Japanese youth(and sometimes the elderly) copied the characters in manga, games and anime.

However, it was not long before the animated world influenced the real world. Hence the emergence of Visual-K bands who dress and pose like Japanese animated characters.

In their pictures, they adopt poses very similar to how anime and game characters would be drawn to pose in posters and wallpapers.

These are nice ones with light and fresh colours.

However, most of these guys have a punk-ish look. Ah!! I so miss my PS 2 back at home and my unwatched anime shows too!! These guys remind me so much of my anime and game characters back at home.

The thing about Visual-K is that some guys are given rather effeminate looks.

My Trip to Adelaide

I visited Adelaide on the 27th of June with my brother. It is much warmer than Melbourne so I could walk around without my jacket and scarf. The flight took only one hour and when we arrived, had to turn our clocks back by half an hour.

Adelaide also has the all faithful Subway. We did not eat there because it was pretty far from our Youth Hostel Association(YHA) and we also wanted to try something else apart from commercial fastfood.




On our way to the YHA, we had to cross a park known as Light Square. The walkway was fantastic and the trees were special. I have never seen such trees and I wonder what they are called.
In the park, there is also a monument with an astronomical telescope on top.
This is a road in Adelaide. The architecture here is different from that of Melbourne in subtle ways. It is rather a medley of styles all crammed together. I saw Victorian style buildings next to modern office buildings. There are also Disney-like buildings with striking colours next to one another. This does not destroy the beauty of the city but rather enhances it. The best part about the YHA is the bathroom. It is absolutely pristine! Even better than some homes can be.

Later my brother and I went to China town to get our dinner. We could not take anymore pictures because our camera died just as we finished taking photos of the YHA.

End of Term 2

YES!!! Term 2 exams are over. Unfortunately, I am not going home like the rest of my friends are. So, I am going to start planning what to do for the holidays.

Recently, I have been eating out rather than cooking and because of that, my funds are seriously low for this month. Thank goodness June is ending in 4 days.

We left the exam hall in high spirits. Wei Tong had spent most of the night, and the morning trying to catch up on some Chemical Theories and so slept straight after lunch.

This is him, just woken up and going to meet his aunt for dinner.

I am going to do my laundry in a moment and then ready myself for my two day trip to Adelaide.

While I have been busy with my work, Xin Yin has also been completing her assignments. This is her study area. She has been facing the computer for ages to come up with an idea for her poster. She is going through RMIT foundation, aiming for a course in architecture. Hence, most of her work is to do with art.

And here she is!

Jass, all the best for tomorrow!

The mother of messes

Since the holidays have begun until only two days ago, my room looked like the catastrophes that hit New Orleans and Acheh. Pa, I think this would be to your horror. Not to worry, though, things have been sorted out(somewhat) and the mother of messes has been reduced.


This is the state of my bed. I just could not bother to tidy it up after sleeping because I am going to sleep in it again every night, anyway. Ha, ha!

This looks like a replica of my table back at home. A kind of nostalgia there where my table takes a life of its own. It even seems to come at me when I sit down at it. Thank goodness I cleared it yesterday. It looks better now.

This is probably the saddest part of the whole room and perfects the garbage dump ambiance.

Something to start with.

Hi, this is my first time posting something on my blog. My blog life has been funny so far because after customizing a blog, I did not write anything at all. Afterwards, it was reported by the blog people as a spam blog. I never knew such a thing existed until I was told to fill in a form proving my blog is not a spam.

Anyway, I will start by introducing my fellow inmates.

This happy guy is Wei Tong and he stays in Cell 110 of Carlton Melbourne Cooler(CMC). His cell is two doors down from mine. He hails from Penang and has multiple charges of Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics 1. He is really tall, probably the tallest guy in CMC




This is Siu Yuin. She stays in Cell 103. She is a really cool gal with an even cooler mother. Her mother is in on all the teenage secrets that a teenage girl normally has and that quite amazes me. This is my impression of her mother after talking to her over Skype two days ago.

This is Wei Yuet. He lives in the next cell to mine, Cell 112. He is really health conscious and has been attending the gym regularly for the past month and a half. This is an outdated picture of the dude as he has now gained some pounds in terms of muscle bulk. In the next post I will include a more recent photo of him. He is really fun to be around and is one of my close friends here at CMC. He is studying to become a builder in Uni Melb and is currently doing his third year.

This is Nicholas and he aspires to be a doctor one day. That is him there aspiring hard with Chemistry lecture notes in front of him and Pokka ammunition for the long night. He dwells in Cell 215 on the second floor. His cell is also the only cell with a mirror that has his face on it.

This is Wen Ling. She is a funny girl and always succeeds in making me laugh. She may act the bimbo but she actually has a good set of grey matter up there. I am not sure which Cell she resides in but it is one of the Cells on the 3rd floor of CMC.

Now, this girl is awesome. She lifts weights, cooks and works like the hounds are going to have her head if she does not. Her name is Jasmine a.k.a. Jass. Jass goes to Fitness First, a gym here in Melbourne city. Her father is a great cook and it seems like she is going to be one in the future. She is really fun and is a close friend of mine here. She stays in Cell 314 on the 3rd floor of CMC.

This is Xin Yin and she stays in the cell next to mine, Cell 114. She is also extremely healthy and staying next to two people who are very health conscious has somewhat influenced me to think like they do. But it has also made me become more understanding and aware of health food out there. She is fun, nice and is also one of my close friends here in CMC.



This is Jovy or Zhao Wei. She is the strangest person I have met during my servitude here. She resides in Cell 304. She lives off rabbit food everyday and is so free of fat to rival that of skinned chiken breast in Victoria Market. She eats the strangest food for all three meals a day. She once ate spiral pasta with green apples, dried assorted fuits, mayonase and eggs.

The indication of which floor we are staying in is on the first digit of the Cell number. 1, for example, is the 1st floor and so on.

It has been really nice so far. The Term 1 holidays have just ended and school has just begun.