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As with every Desk Diary, I’ll start with a thought: I miss travelling so much. Most especially, I miss going to Singapore. My First and Last Journey overseas before this pandemic happened isn’t enough. At all. This, on top of missing going to physical events - because a lot has happened last weekend. Setting aside the World Cosplay Summit wherein the Philippines successfully bagged its first major award (I’ll talk about it later), I saw events like Otakon in the US and Dokomi in Germany popping on my news feed. ...

For the first time in its run since 2013, the Philippines gets a major award in the World Cosplay Summit. Philippine representative Team Namikaze composed of notable cosplayers Jin Joson and AC Hernandez wins the Brother Award for best costume, a major award in the annual global cosplay tournament. The moment when Team Namikaze is give nthe Brother Award for the best costume, along with reactions from World Cosplay Summit alumni in the Philippine broadcast of the Summit streamed live on Kumu (@amboxnational on Kumu) ...

It takes a while to understand that one of the many people you treat as good friends is no longer with you. Last Tuesday, July 27, we lost a colorful person. I’ve known Lora for so long that I forgot when I first met her. Was it when she was hosting on stage? Was it when she’s getting in touch with me to write about casual games as part of her work? The most memorable moment I had with her is when I went to Baguio, joining her, Stephen and Sir Mack for Cosplay Tanabata 7, the last one in the city. ...

The 4th of July is a tradition among all Americans, but for anime fans stuck at home like me, there’s another tradition for such. It’s already a year since, and nothing has changed so far: I’m still watching online conventions, just like then. Well, there are things that have changed: For one, I don’t stay awake just because I want to see an anime con online. This time, I’m also doing it to sniff out what news is going to pop - or in my case, what feature story can my colleagues write about. ...

Whew, it’s been long since I wrote a desk diary. I’m still coping with the work stress I had, and we’re eventually at the end of the tunnel. Last month went really bad for me, but this month felt worse. I don’t know - I just went back to calm and suddenly there’s three major graduations. You must have seen us talk about Kiryu Coco’s Graduation coming up in a few days (and I’ll probably join the rest of the fans in some Discord server as we burn the night away. ...

We are at a loss - Kiryu Coco has decided to graduate on her own terms. We cannot do anything about it but to cope. In a once-in-a-blue-moon scenario, I got my good friends Madekuji-san (who lend his hand in building the Cocodex), Eighty and Ehee (from the Virtually Talking podcast) to recap Kiryu Coco’s legacy. We got around two hours of discussions celebrating Kiryu Coco’s legacy. Madekuji-san: https://twitter.com/Madekuji_san / https://madekuji.github.io/ Virtually Talking Podcast: https://twitter.com/VTTalking / https://anchor.fm/virtually-talking ...

History has been made when Lyrica and Kaheru were set as guests for a local event. These two VTubers are guests for Cosplay.ph’s second FanFes Online event held on the last weekend of May 2021. What’s more is that they had a meet and greet. For a VTuber simp fanatic like me, this is a good chance for me to meet and greet them. Just like others, I have no idea how to approach them now that I can get a degree closer. Here’s what’s in my mind: ...

You’ve seen me visit virtual Japan, virtual USA and virtual Indonesia - now I’m going to share my experiences in virtual Germany, where DigiKomi, the online edition of the annual Dokomi convention is. Aside from Discord and Twitch, DigiKomi has its own virtual platform provided by MixUp. Imagine this: You are a rounded square. All of you inside the virtual convention floor are rounded squares. If the camera’s on, we can see you. This is a perfect opportunity for VTubers to introduce themselves. ...

I’d like to be blunt: I do not like the client we’re working these days. They’re nitpicky and they change from time to time, to the point that It’s almost pointless to send drafts. My work is seeping in my life as I practice the work from home routine, and jut last Tuesday I had a bad case of being so furious that it took me an hour to calm down. I do not like revisions a lot, and I don’t know any outlet to speak of this. This current project we’re handling makes me want to break plates, glasses, or if possible, burn bridges. ...

The podcast has reached 90 episodes! I never realized that this side project of mine will end up like this. I’m expecting that I’ll be able to reach 100 episodes this year, so I’ll just keep a steady pace in producing episodes. On this episode, I have with me Red Mendoza, who is wearing three hats, but I know him the most as an anime fan and a journalist. Originally, we are to talk about a specific topic here. Since we’re eternally at a state of nostalgia, given that we still can’t hold anime/cosplay events physically because of the pandemic, we then talked about his experience covering the health beat. ...