Today is world mental health day. I’d like to introduce to you a graphics novel by a late friend that was published last month. The novel is about a young boy learning to deal with his worries. There is no text, the entire story is told through beautiful and highly polished illustrations.

Please consider having a look at this book next time you are visiting or browsing your bookstore.

• http://meltregonning.com.au/
• https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/childrens/picture-books/Small-Things-Mel-Tregonning-9781742379791

Ch (S):

• 「小东西」
  梅尔。特岗宁

  「小东西」是一本沒有文字的图画故事书。书中描绘的是一个普通男孩的单纯世界，这个男孩感觉非常孤独，因为他有太多的忧虑。但他明白，帮助总是会离他不太遥远。

  「小东西」也是一个普世的故事，通过描绘悲伤、焦虑亦或失却，找寻自身在世界上的位置。它非常简单却美得令人窒息。

Ch (T):

• 「小東西」
  梅爾.特崗寧

  「小東西」是一本沒有文字的圖畫故事書。書中描繪的是一個普通男孩的單純世界，這個男孩感覺非常孤獨，因為他有太多的憂慮。但他明白，幫助總是會離他不太遙遠。

  「小東西」也是一個普世的故事，通過描繪悲傷、焦慮亦或失卻，找尋自身在世界上的位置。它非常簡單卻美得令人窒息。

Jp:

• http://product.rakuten.co.jp/product/Small+Things+Mel+Tregonning/c55398e9e9a8690fd50861e613e64163/
• https://www.amazon.co.jp/Small-Things-Mel-Tregonning/dp/1743368720

My Miku who arrived on Christmas Eve :). Her outfit is a bit difficult, the shirt in particular has very delicate fabric and has already snagged on my hands, I don’t have long nails. The arm covers as well closes with velcro and has snagged her body suit. The plastic tie and arm cover decorations I will leave to another day when I am more patient. And the giant long wig, well it was surprisingly ok compared to everything else.

I recently bought a new camera. My old one started to give me error messages around mid last year and has been unreliable. I’ve also been wanting a smaller camera since I never take my old one anywhere because it’s so big. The image quality seems a little bit worse but if I actually take it around, it will be better than having one I don’t take anywhere. An unexpected discovery about my new camera is that all the packaging, the camera box, lens boxes, camera box inserts and lens box inserts, absolutely everything folds flat. I have never encountered this with any other product and cannot believe how amazing this is. Usually packaging is glued together so that you cannot take it apart without ripping something, but this company uses various slots and folds so that it can almost be completely disassembled.

It seems like most photos I see nowadays are bigger than what I resize to. I’m aiming to work on a wider theme to accommodate bigger photos. However right now I will just use the img code to resize, you can always right click and view to see it a bit bigger :)

Happy New Year!

This is really cool :)

Wow my last update was quite a while ago wasn’t it ^^;
I’ve been very busy the last few months, some of which involved visiting Brisbane briefly. The most surprising part of my trip was probably finding that a MOS Burger has opened there! I asked and they said they hope to come to Sydney too, I’m looking forward to that~

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This is Peter who arrived a few weeks ago, he’s a Volks MSD Hewitt 3rd version. I bought him second hand but I think his hands have been changed because they are more yellow than the rest of him orz

I will need to buy a shorter wig and smaller eyes for him. The 16mms I have are a bit too big, and 14mms leave a gap on the side, so I guess I will need to buy some 16mms with smaller irises.

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Momiji’s new faceup~
I think she looks much cuter like this but somehow she looks less like Papi now! What!

Looks like I’ve built up a pretty big backlog of faceups, so will be focusing on that in the coming weeks >.<

Over the Christmas break I visited Canberra, my favourite place was the Cockington Green Gardens. It’s a garden full of miniature buildings, the video above is of the international section that has buildings from around the world. Sorry for the camera shake >.<

Their website is http://www.cockingtongreen.com.au/.

Life sized Thousand Sunny at Huis Ten Bosch in Japan X3!! I found this recently, how awesome is it. You can go on a cruise in it, more information is here. (The photo was taken by KimaLucifer)

The marine’s ship is there as well:

January 26th was Australia day ^^
From 10:30AM to 5PM there were these vintage buses that ran throughout the Sydney CBD. Riding on them was by donation, we ended up getting on a red and green one. The inside was so old the floor was cracked looking, there was this string running along the side with a sign that said you had to pull it to signal for the driver to stop at the next stop, and of course there was no aircon (it’s summer here). It was so cool that you got on through the back, and there was a handrail near the door like in those movies where you jump on *-*. Before that there was a blue and white one, and a green and cream one, both of which we missed. We were actually trying to get to the Mirazozo near the Opera House and saw the buses by chance, but when we got there the line was really long so we decided to go back the next day morning.

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Unfortunately we got there the next morning and the line was even longer orz
Since it was the last day we had to wait. The Mirazozo is a giant inflatable sculpture. There are no lights on the inside, all the colour is from the sunlight shining through pieces of plastic in the walls. It was so colourful my camera had a hard time capturing the whole range. The really bright red parts would show up as yellow, and the bright coloured blue and green lines would turn white. It was really interesting being inside *-*. (Shoes were not allowed)

I’ve been really lazy lately because it’s been so hot, and we’re not allowed to install air conditioners in our apartment TT__TT, so no new outfits for a little while.

Went past the Greater Union at Town Hall the other day. The DeLorean was parked inside, it looked great :)

Dolls (click for more photos)

This year there was a makeshift lightbox next to the doll table, which is where the above photo was taken =3. Makeshift because it was pretty much made out of cardboard and paper. But as you can see the results look quite nice~

There was also a photo competition and masquerade competition, which I’ll update my journal for later!

Cosplay (click for more photos)

And a bit of cosplay photos. The venue was the Australian Technology Park. The inside doesn’t look as nice as Town Hall, however the lighting turned out suprisingly well. Unfortunately I didn’t get many photos cause of attending panels.