I know very well how they feel. After living for years on end in a cold country like New Zealand, spending time near the equator where the temperature is a constant 30C is capable of driving people to extreme measures to cool themselves down.

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written by astrobunny \\ air con, attempts, azusa, cool, fan, heat, hot, ice, imagination, k-on, make believe, methods, mio, mugi, ritsu, summer, sun, sweat, swimsuit, yui

Last autumn me and Kagami went to the New Brighton beach for a nice relaxing day trip. This summer however, we went again, this time a Konata tagged along to accompany Kagami.

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written by astrobunny \\ beach, brighton, fish, flowers, fun, hiiragi, izumi, kagami, konata, new brighton, photos, pier, statue, summer, whale

Ok so today I suddenly acquired something I never thought I would actually get. It was actually because my last phone died a painful and horrible death. Kagami was pretty excited about my new keitai for some reason. I thought Japanese people weren't impressed by the iPhone?

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written by astrobunny \\ 3gs, driver, fail, figma, iphone, kagami, sucks, summer, uniform, unsigned, white

Not too long ago me and Kagami came here in springtime. Now, a completely different set of flowers grew to take the places of the early bloomers. For those of you in tropical countries, contrary to popular belief, summertime is no less colourful than spring. Kagami reports.

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written by astrobunny \\ 50mm f/1.8, figma, flower, flowers, garden, hiiragi, kagami, mona, rose, roses, summer, summertime, sunflowers, vale

I was in the cathedral square last night along with a crowd of people watching Black Velvet's New Year Concert and the countdown to this year. Of course, Kagami the stowaway followed me.

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written by astrobunny \\ 2010, andrew, black, cathedral, christchurch, end, event, festival, figma, harpman, kagami, new, square, summer, velvet, year

Kagami: Ahhh... summer is great. The wind is warm, the sun shines all day and you don't have to hug at your scarf and breathe like a dragon.

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written by astrobunny \\ channel, documentary, figma, kagami, summer, tsukasa

Like, literally.

written by astrobunny \\ hot, mafuyu, seitokai, summer, temperature, what did you think i was talking about

The figma scene's been slow lately so there aren't a lot of new ones to talk about, but I actually haven't opened my Signum yet. I'll leave it till later when I feel more motivated, more recently however, I managed to get my hands on a figma Konata and Yutaka. Yes. I know the box says Izumi Konata, but the reason I add the Yutaka is because even if its just the head, we all know that an anime character's identity really only resides in the hair and eyes. Everything else is a variable.

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written by astrobunny \\ bow, fast change, figma, heads, kagami, konata, senpai, summer, uniform, yutaka

And here I was thinking that Princess Lover was the best show this season. Little did I know we were in for some epic rock breaking and soul harvesting in Tokyo this season with Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 shaking up our 5.1 surround speakers. I don't know if there's any hype around this but it certainly isn't enough. I've got high expectations for this show.

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written by astrobunny \\ earthquake, mirai, richter, summer, tokyo, tokyo magnitude 8

Heh. I can so see those bloggers with Haruhi broadcast order speculations on their site deleting posts now...

written by astrobunny \\ 15513 times, 594 years, again, and again, eight, endless, endless eight, finish, forever, goto hell;, haruhi, how long will you continue reading this?, jmp start, keep going, keshite owaranai, loop, never, never ending, repeat, summer, very long, you'll never get there