Final Judgment

Just like last year, I'm once again accepting fan submissions for Eternal's Christmas 2009 and New Year 2010 releases to be inserted into whatever that is going to be released. I'm doing this much, much earlier this year so that hopefully more people can participate and people have more time to work on stuff.

For those that are interested, if you want to submit a fan art for Eternal to be included into the Christmas and/or New Year releases (you can do one for each, more than one for the same holiday, whatever), it has to be based on a manga scanlation project that Eternal is working on and it has to be an active project. One of the Tales of Series is your best bet. You can visit the projects page to see the list of the current active projects. Future projects that you know about (it has its own forum already if it's a future project, just compare the forums with the projects page on the site) will also do.

No stealing other people's fan arts and claiming it as your own! They must be fan art that is done by you!

You can also do a collage of different characters from any of the projects or a collage of characters from the different series that Eternal is working on. Please use only official art, art from manga or maybe even novels! No using other people's fan arts to do this!

One last thing, I will also accept colored manga page(s)/panel(s) related to or from any of Eternal's manga scanlation projects, so if you want to color in some page(s)/panel(s) either from Eternal's currently released manga chapters or something that you have, feel free!

To sumbit, e-mail your finished work(s) to eternal@eternalmanga.net

Please include some text, like "Merry Christmas - 2009" for Christmas for example, into your submission and be sure to include your name or nickname (this is a MUST), a URL if you want, like linking to your LJ, whatever, to identify that it's done by you. Also, please make sure your submissions are not too large and do not exceed 1 MB in size if possible. If they are too big, I will resize and resave them to make them smaller, to my own discretion.

Thanks a lot for reading this and I really hope to see more stuff (compared to last year) being submitted in =)

The deadlines are as follows; For Christmas, 24th December 2009 at 12 PM GMT +0800. For New Year, 31st December 2009 at 12 PM GMT +0800.

Finished doing my surgery to my computer, which I replaced my spoiled case fan which I had no idea when it broke down but I knew it was going to when the speed of the fan dropped to like 500 rpm ish speed...

I've also installed a new 500 GB (462 GB actually that I can use since the HDD needs some space to store god knows what so you never get the full amount of disc space on a hard disk...) SATA internal hard drive...and now I'm going to store my personal stuff there. I was struggling with the huge amount of unwatched anime on my main hard disk (system hard disk where the OS is installed in...) and I had to burn them to DVD-Rs and delete them off the main hard disk. Not even my external hard disk had helped much, but it was fairing better for sure, since it's a 250 GB external, but this is actually my back up drive so other personal stuff other than anime are also saved there (Might get another external hard drive sometime down the road for backups). Now I don't have to worry too much about running out of space to store my unwatched anime and having to burn them to DVD-Rs for a really long time.

The variable bonus from my job for FY 2008 just came in. It's only 60% of the total amount though...the company will only give the other 40% later in September...probably in an attempt to keep people from resigning, not like I'm going to, considering that I may not be able to get myself another stable and better job at this point in time with the economy in recession and all. I still want to see if I can perhaps dig out some money next year to take some basic Japanese classes, since I've more or less gotten everything game consoles wise (going to get a PSP soon) that I wanted from last year and this year (got lucky and got a Korean NTSC U/C unmodded Wii for really cheap...so I actually have extra money now), unless Namdai decided to slap us with a release of a mothership Tales of Series game (and they're going to bring it to the US) on the PS3 (this year's mothership title is on the Wii, hopefully it gets a US release...*keeps fingers crossed*) next year or something...

I going to stop by the game shop near my workplace during lunch tomorrow and get myself a long overdue I wanted to get last year PSP. Hopefully it doesn't rain then, I don't want to carry an umbrella =/

On an ending note...Happy Birthday to me? I feel old compared to some of the people on my flist...

Now to go try out that TV Tuner I just bought...I ended up with an external >__>

The first thing, I've just received in the mail the Jade Special version (Jade holding his Catalyst weapon) from the Tales of the Abyss One-Coin Grande Figurines that I had bought from funk_mastah_ion. So now, with that last figurine, my collection for the Tales of the Abyss One-Coin Grande figurines are now complete (all 13)! I had bought an entire box of 12 from CDJapan about one or two years back when it was just released, and I got all the normal versions for the six characters and the special version of all the six characters minus Jade with Ion. So happy to have the entire set now.

Now I just need to wait for the Tales of Vesperia one to be released XD

I've also finally pre-ordered Vol 1 of Tales of the Abyss Anime DVD. I'm a freak...haha. I just love to get things/collectibles related to Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss and now, Tales of Vesperia is in the list too XD, although I get all official serializations of the manga tankoubons for any of the Tales of Series.

My paycheck and 13th month bonus is also finally in. Another happy thing XD

So, with my paycheck, I've finally ordered ToS: Dawn of the New World and Blue Dragon games from Play-Asia, and also bought the Guidebooks for ToS: Dawn of the New World, Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata. Although I won't be able to play ToS: Dawn of the New World cause I haven't bought my Wii yet, but I thought I might as well get the game first anyway, since I've got some discount coupons from Play-Asia, but I probably won't be getting the Wii until sometime between April 2009 to June 2009, so won't be playing it until then. I want to be absolutely sure that I have the money to get it without it affecting some of the more important things I need to pay for first, like my for Web Host (No web host means no site for Eternal, Chinese New Year stuff, my manga and my needs (like food, etc) :S

I wonder when will more information for the Wii mothership game for 2009 be revealed? I hope it gets a US release, maybe like around the later half of 2009 or early 2010, which would be perfect timing for me since I'll be getting my Wii at the later part of the first half of 2009, which will also give me enough time to mess around with ToS: Dawn of the New World.

P.S. I still have one more coupon left from Play-Asia, 12 USD discount for a minimum of 100 USD purchase. I won't be using it, since I've already gotten what I want from there already, and it's only valid till the end of 2008, so if anyone wants it, I'll give it to you. Just drop me a reply :p

P.P.S. Just in case you're wondering, the coupons I've used are the 5 USD discount for 50 USD purchase and 8 USD discount for 50 USD purchase, since I would save 1 USD more XD. I've ordered the games and the guidebooks in two separate orders, and both of them with free shipping too.