Otaku’s Hideout

Over the past few months, the economic landslide in the entire world has caused foreign currency exchange rates to go haywire. What used to be the paradise for figure collectors, importing figures, is now something super scary.

Recently I imported two figures from HS. For two figures, it used to cause no problem for me and the local customs in Malaysia. There’s a law here saying that anything using EMS/courier that is below RM500 in value, will not be taxed. (The Malaysian Customs actually counted the EMS postage fees inside that RM500. I wonder whether it’s really like that, or it’s just those freaks’ stupid acts).

My figures was over RM500. I went there, hoping to minimize the damage I get from the tax. As the figures are already super expensive. (I actually never bothered about the forex when buying and thus, never realized their value. =.= ) As usual, I declared the items as toys. I was trying to nego. (There Malay Customs there used to give me good discounts.) But instead of being nice, the Chinese Customs guy said something shocking: “These are not toys. Toys are supposed to be able to move. These are for displays. I should have tax you 30%. But I still tax you at toys’ rate, which is 15%”. I so felt wanted to punch him in the face. But I can’t. This is the first time ever I felt so hopeless when dealing with EMS. I know I was going to lose anyway, since my figures were over Rm500. Nothing to argue anyway. If I could, I would have just let them send back the figures to HS and ask them to resend them back to me, in two separate shipments. I rather spend more than profit those stupid Customs. They’re devils!

Right now, all the figure preorders I have in overseas are 2 figures hanging over at HS. But it will be discarded soon anyway. All PA orders were canceled.

As of now, I officially close ALL my figure imports. It has been fun buying figures at HS and PA.

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Ok, need to open those two figures now. (Be sure to click the “Show” above XD )

This web host of mine. Every time they changed some settings, sure it breaks my sites. This time, I guess they disabled some php settings. Since this morning, I was getting the 500 Internal Server Error. I thought it was their servers going haywire. But after i succeeded in login into CPanel, I felt strange! I read through the error log, it seems that a “php_value” is the culprit.

After some digging around in .htaccess, now I know it’s this fellow causing the problems:

php_value memory_limit *M

Back to business. They better don’t pull my sites down too much or else I will migrate. New figure post coming! XD

The recovery process took longer than I had anticipated. The incident that shattered my heart, my hopes and my spirit into pieces left me with nothing but just sorrow but yet little regret. The fact that you see the person you once treasured so much stepping into a wedding ceremony with another man, I don’t know. I just couldn’t handle that. If I were to name the strongest poison in the world, I would surely nominate that.

After so many moons missing from the blogging world, I know that all my previous efforts into bringing out my blogs would have been gone and wasted. And now I would need to start all over again from scratch. It’s ok. I had expected that. Even though I still feel the effect from the aftermath, at least I climbed up from the fall and I hope I am strong enough to stand still and get up and running.

Ok Prim3, it’s time to get going again..

Executing:
Prim3.system(reset);

Also,

A new gaming rig is being assembled to satisfy my ever growing need for the latest technology (not state-of-the-art though )

Processor: Intel Q9300 Quad Core
Motherboard: Intel P45 Chipset
RAM: 4GB DDR2-800
Hard disk: 640GB
Graphics card: Will be temporary using any el-cheapo graphics while I raise $ for ATI 4850
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech New Touch & Razer Krait
Sound card: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Casing: ThermalTake Armor+ MX Mid Tower
Monitor: LG 22″ LCD
Speaker: 2.1 (2 satellite + 1 subwoofer)

Some of the parts are from my previous rig . Since it shall be made into a general rig so it doesnt require such a high spec.

All items arrived except casing and graphics.. Can’t wait to get it online O.O