Hello thar, matie!

This fact nearly escaped us but Sugoi Stuff is nearly a year old! Yes, people. Sugoi Stuff will be celebrating it’s birthday in a couple of days.

While we’ve registered the domain December two years ago, with the aims of creating a blogzine to cater to everything sugoi, we’ve only gone formally online February of last year, just before Valentine’s Day.

To commemorate our year online, we’re launching Sugoi Stuff 2.0 starting with this swanky new design courtesy of our resident design arm, Under the Pillow. We hope that this makes your reading experience more enjoyable.

We’re also expanding!

Expect daily updates from us with posts catering to anime, manga, J-pop, gaming, gadgets, and all the other great things that we can scrounge. We’ll have and probably a couple of services and promos launched just for you. Not that we’re gearing to be a Web 2.0 company (but why not?) since we’re just doing this for fun but we just love our dear faithful readers, that’s all.

Our team is also growing. We welcome to our team a new contributor in Alvin Ace who will serve as our resident console gaming blogger.

Tuloy ang ligaya!

Osoi yo, Flori-chan!

One of the disadvantages of having a day job is that you often neglect your creative pursuits. Unfortunately, our respective day jobs are the ones that put food on the table and fund Sugoi Team’s sugoi stuff.

Gomen ne minna-san, for the long post-intervals. Team Sugoi held a meeting months ago and decided the fate of Sugoistuff. Our site owner pointed out that we put this blog up for the love of all things sugoi and not as a means for profit. Since all of us have our own responsibilities (Ye gods, who would have thought, eh?), we decided not to pressure ourselves into posting as regularly as others do in the more famous blogs. Things have been hectic for the past few weeks and I guess all of us have taken our decision to heart too much.

You see, Team Sugoi values your readership and we are quite thankful to all of you who keep on visiting this blog despite the rarity of posts. And because we love Sugoistuff and that we love you more (and fortunately, since “someone” will be going back to her “normal” struggling writer mode), please expect a more regular post interval from now on.

Dewa, kore kara yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

A big THANK YOU to all of you and most especially to Renji (RSS|CSS) and to Vlad (The Lonely Vampire Chronicles) for taking the Reflective Thinking – Taking the 8th Habit Challenge: The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007.

We didn’t get to the Top 10 but the mention is more than enough, so THANK YOU!!!

As you may have noticed, posts have been slow in coming. We have both individual and collective reasons for this but please be patient with us as we have no plan of giving up something that is very dear to Team Sugoi.

Oh, and Flori will soon be posting on her take of the Nana Day event, so watch out for that too.

So once again, Team Sugoi wants to thank all of you for dropping by Sugoistuff.net. Sugoi kayong lahat!

Datenshi has already posted his take on OngakuSociety’s Ongaku Rewind. I also have a few stuff (which border on the personal, bet you’d like that huh?) to say about the event. But being Flori, this means you guys will just have to wait it out a bit more if you want to have a glimpse of said article.

In the meantime, puhlease, enjoy Datenshi’s article.

Again, thanks to Ongaku Society for inviting us! We sure had a blast!

If you’ve been visiting this site for the past few months, you might have noticed something out of place. Here’s a hint:

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Apologies from moi, Flori.

As you may have noticed already, I have not been posting much and my Pinoy J band feature about J Crunch Ripiito is still under my drafts folder. I will post it soon. I’m just waiting for some info confirmation from people.

Another thing is, this freelance business is really a very busy profession. For some reason, the month of April has brought me a deluge of work. Not that I’m complaining, it means more moolah for me, yey! Unfortunately, it sure did cut my writing time for Sugoistuff. If you see me posting 3-5 articles per day, then you’ll know that I’m raket-free at the moment. If I post as seldom as I watch TV, then that means I have some things going on for me.

The rest of Team Sugoi are young urban professionals and therefore much busier than I am. But this doesn’t mean that Team Sugoi will be neglecting its sugoi duties. In fact, we’ll be covering OngakuSociety’s Ongaku Rewind on the 28th at Freedom Bar. We’re also still in the process of conferring about other media coverages for other events. O di ba? Sosyal na kami!

Yes, Team Sugoi may be a little quiet these days but we’ll always be delivering you the sugoi in the stuff!

Thanks to everyone who has been visiting. We surely appreciate your support! Mwahness!

Psst, oi! As you might have probably seen that for the past few days, we’re just posting and posting Philippines-Japan stuff. Yeah, you may have probably inferred we dig that stuff. Having been bonded together because of a common interest in Japanese pop-culture and its influence to Pinoy culture, Team Sugoi members are actually J-enthusiasts. The site’s name is probably a dead give-away.

So with that little confession, we’d like to announce that we’ll be catering to those who share the common interest in the Japanese culture.

Don’t worry, we’re not neo-colonials who’d shout “Banzai” instead of “Mabuhay,” we love the Philippines, that’s why we will still be focusing on homegrown stuff. We’ll just niche a bit and focus on the interplay of our two cultures.

So still visit the site for the Sugoi Stuff!

Hello, dear reader! Congratulations! You have stumbled upon one of the greatest shows on earth!

Sugoi Stuff is a blogzine that’s all about being living a great life (which is highly subjective, by the way)! Whether you’re some twenty-something yuppie corporate slave in Ortigas, or some pimply-faced teen, or some forty-something kid-at-heart, we’re all glad to have you here!

Sugoi Stuff is a brain child of a group of friends who met way back in college. After some late night huddles over coffee and tea (with witty, raunchy, and crazy conversations to match), we figured, why not share them ideas? Besides, we’ve noticed more than a handful of people from nearby tables eavesdropping while trying to hide a few laughs.

Don’t be surprised if we’ve got a lot to tell. We can pretty much cover anything. We just seem to be a great barkada that seems to have a person for any job – the computer geek, the driver, the navigator, the fashionista, the jerk, the artist(s), the politician, the future lawyer, the future doctor, the teacher/s, the manghuhula, the (wannabe) rockstar/s. Name it!

So enough of the blabber and let’s get on with the party! Sugoi Stuff, We’re Sharing the Great Stuff!