All Posts by  Takako

This is what happens when two very different hobbies come together. Oh, and "At last, my arm is complete again!" *lightning and thunder*

No, I haven't suddenly decided to adopt a musume, although believe you me the idea has been sitting in the back of my head for QUITE some time. I suppose the thing that's stopping me is the sheer unavailability of an Alter Saber, oh and of course her...

So over the past couple of years or so we've been seeing a new food trend from Japan here in the Philippines: "fast-steak" restaurants. There are two major franchises operating locally: Sizzling Pepper Steak, and Pepper Lunch. My partner and I made o...

While I've been a fan of movie stars and bands and singers and even the occasional mecha or two in my life, there's one thing I had never done for all of those fandoms where there were real people: send them fan stuff. You know, like write them lette...

After finishing National Novel Writing Month in 2009 I decided to take up the challenge that was thrown down to us novelists: continue making 2010 a year of doing "big, fun, scary" things. So I took up crochet. The last time I did anything of this s...

[ Lots of details and rambling on the subject over at my blog: Otaku Crafting: An Introduction ] Define Otaku: "people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games" Define Crafter: "someone who participates in a particular han...

[More backstory and information over at mai burogu: http://popgoespj.blogspot.com/ ] You all remember the one where I bought myself a netbook and named it Hamster. Now I've also scored one more significant item for December. That new loot really puts...

Just a celebratory post to introduce to you all my "baby". This is an Asus Eee 1005HA Seashell and it answers to the name of "Hamster".

So, yeah, we all know that when we go out to cons and other gatherings of the otaku persuasion we have to expect to carry SOMETHING home: a new daughter, comics, posters, figma, nendoroids, books, CDs and DVDs, etc. etc. With the current global focus...

I think I posted about this video before the dccom/figure.fm reformat. Now I'm reposting the video for a good cause. You see, Darrick Regondola, the guy behind the Granado Espada version of the Wonder Girls' "Nobody", put the clip up for competition...

For me, oatmeal is not just a breakfast item. The way I make it, I can eat it at any time of the day, so long as I have access to hot water. I made this particular serving with my favorite oatmeal add-ons: condensed milk and cubes of cheese. Do you l...

'Twas on October 7, 2008 when I gave up playing Granado Espada for good and moved on to my next MMORPG, the instance-reliant, turn-based strategic/tactical MMORPG from nDOORS. Atlantica Online has a sort of birthday mechanic where all characters who...

...Or that's the way it works in the Philippines anyway. Here are just a few of the events that are coming this month. COLLECTICON 2009 October 10-11 Robinsons Midtown Mall Atrium Ermita, Manila <strike>ANICON 2009 October 11</strike> CONFIRMED: <b>P...

Picture from http://www.ccc.govt.nz/CDEM/BeReady/ - one take on a bug-out bag. So what is a bug-out bag or BOB, you might ask? Wikipedia sez: "A bug-out bag is a portable kit popular in the survivalist subculture that contains the items one would req...

Photo is a LONG shot of Marikina City in the Philippines at the very height of the floodwaters. Comrades Gon 29point55 ( http://www.figure.fm/post/en/2693/How+Figma+Drossel+Made+Her+Mark.html ) and wannbe17 ( http://www.figure.fm/post/en/2720/Typhoo...

(Everyone's doing intro posts again - here is my contribution to the mix. :D) Name: PJ, but I'm a female PJ. On dc.com and figure.fm, I go by "Takako". Elsewhere, I was known as "NineMoons". Age: almost 27 Hobbies: blogging, reading, cooking, playin...