Gundamaniac

uhoh, looks like this site might go down for a few days again. strange thing is I just upgraded to double my previous bandwidth limit. lol.

was thinking whether to get a Imageshack, photobucket or flickr account for the images since images do eat up most of the bandwidth. however I’m not so sure it would be a violation of the terms of service. suggestions would be welcomed. ^^

Stats for July. didn’t realize that I was having almost a 100,000 hits a day. woohoo! too bad my bandwidth is taking all the punishment. ^^ also I noticed that my google rank went down two notches lately. wonder if it has anything to do with the hotlink protection. :( 

anyway if site dies on me in the next few days, I’d like to apologize to folks in advance. I’ll try my best to get it back up as soon as I can. I also would like to apologize for the lack of posts recently. been trying to find time to blog these past few days unfortunately between work, tending to my recovering wife and the new baby, a little alone time for blogging seem to be scarce or nonexistent. hopefully though things would start to ease up on me on the next month. ^^; orz

omg! wife giving birth soon.

I’m not really a big fan of cosplay. and apart from the usual bouts of halloween trick or treat as a kid, I have never worn an anime inspired costume before. although it is not to say that I do not appreciate the novelty of seeing people in costumes walking around in your average everyday places like the mall or in the streets, the intricacy of a well-made costume, and the accuracy of a cosplayer’s rendition of a 2D character.

A while back, I remember a friend told me about an interview she did regarding a famous Cosplayer. I didn’t give it much thought then, thus I never realized how well-known she was up until lately when a commenting war ensued on dannychoo.com a few days ago. Danny posted on his news item section an image of one of the most duly noted cosplayers in the Philippines Blackmage9 Alodia Gosiengfiao. the comment match on the post went so bad as considerate Danny Choo ended up having to clean up all the tripe off his site.

Alodia seems to do well with her cosplay. And with disregard for all the relentless battering of inept naysayers, I sincerely hope she will continue on doing her cosplaying for folks who have an appreciation and passion for it.

Check out Alodia’s stunning cosplaying anime rendition at her deviantart or see the her interview with Cosmic Queen Val from the youtube link below

Sugar Apple or locally known in the Philippine as Atis. usually smaller than a fist, but this one it seems was bigger than both hands and probably costs as much as a sack of normal ones. 1,200php or around 30USD each. ^^;

uhoh looks like this site might hit the bandwidth limit pretty soon. I’m trying to fix this before it becomes a problem, however if my site do go offline, please bear with me, I will try to get it back up as soon as possible. I’ve upgraded my site to a better server since the old one kept on bogging down, however what I did not forsee was without the prolonged downtime, the site would generate more visitors and thus eat up more bandwidth in a month than before.
Check out the stats for this month so far, it may not be much compared to some of you super bloggers out there, but I’m quite happy on how much visitors I have so far. thank you all for coming to marvinryan.com.


some of the highest traffic contributors, looks like Danny’s Otaku.fm take’s the top spot, followed by Ngee Khiong and Danny’s official site. A great big THANK YOU to Danny Choo and Ngee Khiong! and thanks for everybody who have posted links/blogroll to this site and/or email friends about marvinryan.com. Note that I’m not saying my goodbyes here, and hopefully not even just for this month of June. I’m just hoping that the service provider would be able to come up with a solution soon before this blog reaches the bandwidth limit threshold. anyway once again my hearthfelt thanks to everyone who has been reading up here and espcially to those who have been recommending this site through links, email or word of mouth. Thank you for being part of marvinryan.com!