Dear Chibi,

A couple of days ago Starcraft 2 season 4 commenced, and consequently the placement matches took place. As expected, nothing too exciting happened XD I was placed into the same leagues as Season 3. I don’t think I’ll be promoted any time soon, so I’m just going to play, have fun, and get better at my own pace. What’s the hurry?

End of Season 3 snapshot:

I’ve also been mucking around in the NA server and even played our placement matches with Kaz last night XD The two of us as well as Melody got placed into Platinum! Oh, that was funny 8D

Dear Chibi,

Today I went to Parramatta Westfields to pick up a little new friend :D

The queue was quite long! We waited for about 30 minutes.

Ta-da! Share a Coke with Chibi! 8D

Chibi and her twin sis hanging out..

..sharing some sushi for lunch..

..before going home to meet Jen =D!

~The End~

Dear Chibi,

I’ve always loved checking out new Sailor Moon fan creations, whether it’s fanart, cosplay, webmanga, fansites, toys, films, anything! Considering how old the series is, it’s really amazing how strong and passionate the Sailor Moon fan community is today :)

With Sailor Moon’s 20th Anniversary just around the corner, I’ve decided to share a small selection of moonie projects that I like. There are a ton of stuff out there, so this is just a tiny glimpse of awesomeness :}

Sailor Moon Fimo GASHAPON by LolleBijoux

Sailor Shredded Moon wheat by Cycyn

Sailor Moon Biscuits by Lizzy

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Dear Chibi,

About a month ago, I received an email from Image Edizioni, an Italian company who produces “Sailor Bandz”- a new Sailor Moon merchandise which are basically moonie-flavored rubber bands! Now I have to admit, when I first saw the email I thought it was spam. I didn’t click on any links (incase it had a virus!) and took it to twitter to get some confirmation. It turns out it is genuine and several other Sailor Moon webmasters have been contacted. So I sent a reply to them and today.. I received this in the mail:

OMG. BANDZ GALORE XD I was all jumpy and giggly when I opened the package. I feel like a kid again :D I mean, they are just silicon rubber, but they’re moonie themed and they glow-in-the-dark and are glittery… :3 Plus, who doesn’t love freebies?

Brad of Moonkitty.net has also made a video about it here on youtube.

You can buy these from their e-shop or see all the different versions here. I’m not paid to write about this, getting free samples is just fun :D

Dear Chibi,
Season 3 of Starcraft 2 has arrived! I played my placement matches for 1v1, 2v2 random and 3v3 random and ended up in the same league as last season- Platinum in 1v1, Diamond in 2v2 and Diamond in 3v3. I’ve come a long way since my bronze league days, so hopefully with a little more practise (particularly on my micro), I can get into Diamond league this season (solo) :D But of course, I’ll need to maintain Platinum first! XD

Meanwhile, I’ve got a new SC2 friend named Dstyler (thanks to Burpy) and 2 nights ago we decided to play some 2v2. Now, Dstyler is a much better player than I am. I’ve versed him three times before and lost pretty convincingly. I didn’t think he would want to team up with me but we did end up playing, kinda doing ‘whatever’ since we didn’t have much of a game plan. Surprisingly, we won 4/5 of our placement matches (Dstyler was dropped in the game we lost) and ..we landed in MASTERS LEAGUE! woohoooo! :D We were both pretty excited when the blue shiny starred icon popped up. yay!

Now to make the other ones look pretty too =D

Dear Chibi,
Just in time for the XianJian QiXia Zhuan 5 game release in July 07, 2011- I’ve completed a set of ‘Chibi Dolls’ of the four main leads: Jiang Yun Fan, Tang Yu Rou, Longyou and Xiao Man.

Jiang Yun Fan was probably the easiest to draw out of the four, since his outfit was relatively straight forward (well..compared to the others!) I found it strange that both his shoes were different, but I guess no one likes things in pairs anymore :p

Tang Yu Rou was the first of the set I drew. I really like her character design, especially the petal dress. I had a fun time drawing her :) This one is dedicated to a lovely person.

Long You was rather tedious to draw, lol. His outfit is really confusing and it was a little hard finding a good reference image since most of them were slightly on an angle. I like how it turned out though, his hair was kinda fun to draw too.

Xiao Man..why are you so adorable? She turned out to be my favourite chibi doll (beating Tang Yu Rou by a teeeny weeeny bit). I don’t know, but she came out way better than I thought. I had a lot of trouble getting her hair shape right with the bandana. Her outfit may appear simple but it’s very very detailed! There’s a lot of texture /beads and colours on the fabric. Her hair piece was also good fun to draw :)

And…I guess that’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed looking at them :}

Dear Chibi,

Yesterday I logged onto battlenet to play a ladder game as I normally do after work. Surprisingly, I was promoted to the Platinum league after winning the match :D! OMG!

As of 6th May 2011

It took me a few moments to register before I started squealing in joy XD Usually I know when I’m about to be promoted, as I’d consistently win games and be evenly matched with opponents in a higher league. I suppose this time the transition from gold to platinum was a lot earlier than when I was stuck in silver and bronze. I’m not sure I’m good enough to be in platinum level yet. I felt like I was just sitting on low gold (with about a 27 wins, 21 losses). I guess we’ll just see how I go. It is an encouragement though since I thought gold was the highest I could reach :)

I didn’t think I’d end up having 2 blog posts about Starcraft in a row… please, don’t mind me 8D