I did it I did I finally did a GUTTURAL RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR oh   my   go s h I I thought I could never do it within my lifetime but there it was a pure 3 seconds of rrrrrrrrr at the back of my throat I was so shocked and excited and excited that I forgot to take note of how I did it. How much air did I have to force out? How was my mouth and tongue positioned? I MEAN First time I ever tried it, I developed a sore throat. Not so long ago I tried it again, I nearly drowned myself trying to rrrrrrr against a spray of shower water. This time I tried it again, it was not immediate, but somehow the structure-feel(!) at the back of my throat changed and then suddenly for that few seconds it was not a khaaa or gnaaa or grrrr just a beautiful vibration of rrrrrrrrrrrra just came out perfectly. Seriously I just I you know I was actually typing an entry that was touching on some linguistic stuff so in a topically-related way, I was just suddenly moved to trying it out again for pure entertainment But obviously, I did something right this time. If I hadn't run out of breath, I would never have wanted to stop that roll. ...So, who cares about that post! As you can see, I'm a little too estatic to be coherent. Naturally, between the time of achieving that miracle of a roll and writing this post, I tried rr-ing again. But I had, in my excitement, also swallowed that magically right amount of saliva (the amount of which of course, I failed to note) that had helped with the roll, so immediately, I went back to square one with a dry khaaa again. Then, between that and now, I managed a light "rrr" that actually wasn't rr enough but it was a clear enough vibration to tell me that I hadn't just imagined that undulated roll of guttural sexiness five minutes ago. At least I now know that it is do-able, because really, I haven't even nailed the alveolar trilled r yet. And this, is what I do practise more regularly (okay, yes, qualifier here is "more" XD), and actually much longer ago. To me, it was just supposed to be easier than the guttural r. Heck, learning the guttural r is even part of my "Wishes for the next Decade" list that actually starts from 2010. Now I've gone and achieve it one time even before 2010 has begun. What is this nonsense. XD I'll have to aim for being able to do it again then, I guess. For the record, the back of my throat feels... sticky. Wow, no wonder certain people have certain accents when they speak certain languages. It's like a different cellular arrangement in your mouth altogether. Or maybe I'm just going to get a sore throat tomorrow after all.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 :: 11:05 p.m. |

Check out Apple Daily's pagespread. Big, slick, and glossy. Fancy screwing up a picture link orz I haven't watched the match yet ('ll be watching replay), but my father just passed by and said, "Do you know the results yet?", and the way he said it makes me suspect Manchester United might have won it. Hmm. Or he could be feigning it so the conversation can remain lihthearted even if Barcelona did win. Shucks! Now this seems more likely the more I think about it! �[o�[

Thursday, May 28, 2009 :: 12:49 p.m. |

人生有幾多個十年? 最緊要係痛快

I'm so heartbroken. It's not even because of the final chapter of Saiyuki Gaiden. For once in a long while I've managed to almost complete an actual drawing, sort of... kind of... ok not really... but anyway what happens? The data goes corrupt on me. DX Thank goodness for the online backup. Not that good a quality, but nevertheless a backup. I LOVE YOU AND HATE YOU AT THE SAME TIME, EVERNOTE :D Since it's obvious words don't get much screentime in this journal, I shall resort to posting pictures. And not just any pictures, but my awesome alternative ending for Gintama Chapter 261: :D :D   D:   </sparkly text 結果還不是一樣 畜生ぉおおぉぉぉ 阿銀原來你 也會有軟綿綿的一天 只有 BAD END 的份兒啊啊啊。 的確只能怪你手氣太好了（認真 Shit there's a 0.5mm gap between his fingertip and her boob that's not supposed to be there damn you quality Yeah this is what I call an actual drawing IT ISN'T PRON ALRITE? ALRITE??? alrite I haven't posted a journal entry in X months and when I do I come up with this stuff WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. My one regret with the lesser quality is that it turned my cute "onyo~" bouncy-touchingz sound into a slightly less readable and thus less cute onomatopoeia which is completely and very not the point. Damn, my CP is GinTae but GinTsuku is plenty nice too. I even drew a picture of these two back in the Yaou Arc with an idea that was meant for GinTae ages ago. Does that mean I'm a convert...? And while I'm at that, I might as well put up the another Gintama pron arty stuff from some time ago. Yes, don't you know chicken scratch = arty stuff. Well, memories are hazy but this is what my drawing notes say: Chapter 250 Page 7 Panel (-1) KISS. Y/Y? yes "Panel (-1)" is, like, the panel just before Panel 1 and just after the last panel of the previous page. It's, like, totally not my imagination m'kay? Only good kids can see it. Look, it's called GinTama for a reason   but not -this- reason you retard Sorry I sort of skimped on Tama-chan, but I sort of lost the will to complete the drawing (because I sort of like it the way it is before I go ruin it further -_-). The owner of the very kind foot in the corner facilitating this whole event is the, hm, White Blood Cell King. Wow, awkward English name is awkward. XD Tosshi actually made the cover of the last tankoubon cover, so there is a very real possibility the WBC King could grace one of the future covers. It'll be A Very Good Thing indeed if that happens. WBCK/Tosshi is my secret not-so-guilty CP(bricked And Tosshi/Hijikata(IN THAT ORDER) and GinWBCK are very delicious as wel(chaired And I'm still stopped on the 101th episode of the Gintama anime. Right at the Itou Arc . And there are? 158 episodes and ongoing. What's the use of my celebrating yet another season (old news XD) of Gintama when I don't even watch it. More like, what kind of fan am I? D: ----------- These days/weeks have been a gathering of people from all over various countries like Canada, Australia, China, Singapore, and of course, Hong Kong. It's enough to start an H1N1 party, really. I finally met my little cousin from Canada. I've met her elder brother before, but this little girl is way less inclined than him to switch into Chinese. Such a shame, really. *sorta proud of being Chinese* In fact, all but the oldest two of my generation of cousins are educated in English-speaking countries IN FACT THEY'RE ALL IN PAIRS AND I'M THE ONLY ONLY-CHILD but that's another story - so conversations are regularly peppered with English (not that local Hong Kongers don't do that already; I don't see why Singapore used to raise such a fuss about people speaking in rojaks of English/Chinese/Malay/etc. People in a culture permeated with more than one language would be bound to lapse into that casually if they are sufficiently comfortable with it. <-sudden random opinion) But anyway, my cousins do so with those caucasian accents. And my little Canadian cousin couldn't hear/understand me when I asked "Are you comfortable?". Well, I was whispering, but I asked three times. ;_; Should've tried drawling it out in her accent in retrospect (my default foreign accent is Britishfootball pundits), but we were in a solemn setting and that [amusing imagery] didn't occur to me then. Oh, talking to her in Chinese would've worked too.*just remembered* BUT I ASKED THREE TI(yeah k enufthx Anyway when she asked cutely, "Whe~re's Si~ngapo~re?" (<-her drawl XD), I was tempted to say "little red dot on the map". Anyway#2 I learnt today that my father was also supposed to go Canada to study in his school days, but didn't in the end because of ill health. "If I did, I'll probably go there and stay there, [just like my brother]" Imagine that! And there'll be no s.C. then. ;__; And my father hated studying. So that's where I got those genes from. :D Darn, couldn't you just give me the height and sports genes (heck, my mother could probably contribute to the latter too without your help XD)and leave it at that? No need for such generosity. ----------- ... ...Once again my rambling habit took over this entry. ...Wait holy crap my father just freaking said he took me to the 六四事件 demonstration back then (in HK of course). He sat me on his shoulder. Heck, I might've thought it was a trip to a parade/the amusement park because that's when I sat on his shoulder. I don't remember the demo. Not that I knew what they were then. Amusement park. Why do I not remember such exciting things from my childhood?! ...Anyway, I'd wanted to say something about how the best thing that happened this season was the animating of Hetalia. It allowed me to find the English fandom and blossom my Hetalia love into TRUE HETALIA LUV. Try reading western history in Japanese. I wouldn't even do that in Chinese. The names are a nightmare (unless when they underlined it for you, but still...). So while I read the original strips and found Hetalia a very interesting premise, it never really became a Love until I explored that fandom, where absolutely brilliant, intelligent and fantastic people contribute to English info/historically correct fics(!!) that can be described as what I feel is eye-openingly educational, directly or indirectly. Hetalia itself is, in all honesty, not all that emotionally accurate or educational. I remembered Himaruya-sensei even wrote that he wasn't all that into history... until the Hetare-ness of Italia caught his attention. But the author does do his research, and is trivially accurate enough, but not accurate accurate. But together with the fandoms bits of info, the education comes from truth-finding and research that has never been more fun to do. And as a casual history-reader (that's why I mentioned the underlined names business -_-), this is somewhat a treasure trove. TL;DR: Axis Powers Hetalia is about anthropomorphic countries. It is interesting if you view it with the right mindset: lighthearted. Give the anime a go! The voices and sounds AND SONGS PFFTBUAHAHA make it even better. Only 5 minutes per episode. A little personal peeve I have though, is the majority of this fandom's depiction of the character of Russia as being deliberately and out-of-line InsaneRapistCreepyViolent. I'm not vouching for the actual country of Soviet/Russia here, but the depiction of the character. That fandom interpretation really is not to my liking. Sure, his mental state is questionable at times. Many times. But it is certainly not in such a way that his default state is insane. If you really just read the strips as they are, really, in normal circumstances, He is just a cute, moe blob of moe-ness. Blob is big-boned, yes, but this is the first time I've ever called an Animanga character moe, and Russia really is. (Can you hear my squeals oozing out from the lime green above?) He's about the only character so far whom I can affix both -sama and -chan to without any qualms. Heck, it's even spelled out in the profile that he's simply a childlike country bumpkin with that childlike cruel tendency. ...That's creepy, I won't deny, but not in the extremities of the fandom interpretation. Chinese fandom is not that bad - at least on the sites I've visited - but that's probably due to the Sino-Russian relation sentiments. (Normal fujoushi-ness applies, so you get Russia/China in there XD) My favourite CP, you ask? Nobody asked US/RUSSIA FYEAH YES RUSSIA'S TOTALLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SLASH THEY'RE TOTALLY MY KIND OF BLOW-MY-NOSE-IN-YOUR-ONEWAY-TICKET-TO-SIBERIA PAIRING BUT IMMA SUCKER FOR MOE ALFRED/IVAN TOO D: Man, Russia's not even my favourite character. (He's 2nd. Not far from 1st though. 1.5th?) And now I will be a complete hypocrite and post a creepyRussia. Enjoy a half-drawn psychoticness~ D: ----------- OH AND 1 ENTRY AGO I WAS POSTING IN HK. I was gonna say how cooling(chilly?) the weather was. It never got finished cos my relatives returned from sauna :D I really need to stop the too-lazy-to-type -> accumulate-one-year-worth-of-posts -> hence-make-tl;dr-entries -> randomly-bores-a-kitten-to-death cycle -_- ----------- [EDIT:] Pfft. How on earth did I forget this. Forgot how Greece's fringe looks like -.- Ages since I've doodled on my notes and the NukoCombi broke the spell. *grandparent-like sigh*

Sunday, May 24, 2009 :: 11:52 p.m. |

49 degree celsius

...That's currently the core temperature of my laptop CPU. Except it's actually cooler than normal, because it usually goees up to 63 dCelsius. ...HEY WHAT??! I've got to go now... (just when I thought I have some time there) will update and explain again!

Friday, January 16, 2009 :: 08:49 p.m. |

A 63-byte placeholder attempt at refreshing the front page.

I am sitting in on a free lesson of IO-networking right now. :D

Friday, October 31, 2008 :: 07:19 p.m. |

Yesterday, I got praised in a very, very good way. It wasn't really a praise, but the things he said were way more than a praise. and he said he recommended me during the meeting earlier on orz sorry my weak heart can't take the nice surprise At least this is different from my other part time jobs and I actually made myself useful in the real useful-to-a-company sense. But before that, there was this tragic episode earlier in the day. It was tragic in a way that you wish you could laugh right in the person's face for your own silliness but had to restrain yourself since you don't know her too well. And that she's the sales manager. s.C.: (walks into the sales unit) (A distance away, some people noticed and looked at me expectantly) (Didn't really acknowledge; walks round to cubicle of person I was looking for) (Isn't there. Asks secretary) Oh? Where's [she]? Secretary: There~ (points) s.C.: (Walks round a crescent of cubicles) (Suddenly sees her) OH! DIDN'T I JUST SORT OF PASSED BY HER A WHILE AGO? And she was wearing these easily-identifiable clothes too. I noticed the clothes but not the face when I was coming in. And I was talking to her even earlier on, so I should have known. She must think I'm stupid. orz s.C.: Ah. About [that excel-PDF problem she was having], they recommend you to download CutePDF first (spells it out for her)(explains a bit more) [Truncated for details and drag-ons] Her: Okay, so that software you were talking about... CutePDF? s.C.: Yes. (Spells it out again) CutePDF. Her: Mmm, so it's... (spells it a bit questioningly) s.C.: Yep. Cute. q-u-e-t. Her: So... (drawing letters in the air) q-u-e-t? How do you... s.C.: q-u-e-t... (Suddenly realises) Oh! I'm sorry. I meant c-u-e-t cute. q...c-u-e-t CutePDF. Her: Wait.. (again drawing letters in the air) c-u-e-t? So... s.C.: Yeah, c-u-e... (Pauses)(Composes self before hand decides to slap own face) I'm so sorry. I mean c-u-t-e. Normal cute. CutePDF. [Rest of conversation left out for imageries of violence involving wall and head] I wrote the first part of the conversation ambiguously 'cos I'm not even sure what I said. -_- I must've repeated q/cuet for at least five times before I even realised I said "q-u-e-t". She must think I'm retarded. XD And when I look back on that Namikawa entry some posts ago... What is it with me and "cute"? Am I not allowed to use "cute" anymore??? =========== [Edited for epiphany:] I've suddenly realised why I kept saying "-u-e-t" without a second thought. I've been asked to spell a certain word so often that "-u-e-t" has become part of my speech pattern. orz And I can write such a long entry 'cos nobody is in my department today~

Friday, June 13, 2008 :: 12:05 p.m. |

Few things make me explode. But oh... goodness, what... is... this explosive explosion I feel in my chest... like huge frown and a big grin fighting for space in my heart at the same time... the kind when you found just where the source of the problem lies but are powerless to solve... Nobody around me seems to know javascript, and I understand it just enough to know that the code is wrong (and I've proven so with a workaround test), but not enough to know just how exactly to reproduce the syntax the precise way I want it to work for me. It's an easy problem to solve -- if one knows javascript. Isn't that explosive? It's like a baby. He knows he wants milk. But nobody understands what he's crying out for unless he actually speaks the human language. So he's got to crawl to the kitchen and get the milk himself. And I've got to plough through the blessed millions of google search results to find a similar code structure to what I'm looking for. Except the baby has it easier because aw, nobody actually ignores a baby~[truncated for digression] In the first place why did they choose to do it with javascript anyway? Isn't it simpler and more efficient to fetch it server-side? And that's my love-hate relationship with languages/programming. You know, I've been sitting on these huge manga and anime posts since a month/s ago, which I hardly have the opportunity to post because when I could, the post were already outdated and by the time I shrugged off my laziness and updated them, the internet stops working. Here's a big hearty laugh XD to show how amused I am at how timely the home connection !=work. I wrote this post hoping to vent my explosion away by the last fullstop of the post. It's not workingggg.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 :: 03:02 p.m. |

Does anyone know how to search from a search engine special characters like !, &, % etc.? This has been bugging me for very long but now, especially, I am very awed by a difference I found between "!==false" and "!=false" and want to find out more, and if this difference is only restricted to PHP. But it is just very hard to find hits when your keywords are ! and =... Anyway, my lifetime ambition would be to find out just why my internet connection at home works the way it does(n't). I'm just posting from work just so you know I'm not dead. ...And also that YL, I still remember your question. SZS/SZBS = Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (WATCH IT. to catch up with the sadness of humanity) ZSZS = Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (WATCH IT. After you finish SZS) SZBH = Sayonara Zetsubou Housou (I demand you don't listen to it. Because if you care for your soul, you shouldn't.) Mine has long been stolen. ♥ www.animate.tv/digital/web_radio/detail_104.html

Friday, May 16, 2008 :: 03:14 p.m. |

Let's see. And the point of this entry is...?

That's it. I've gone and started Professor Layton and the Curious Village. Why, s.C., do you like to ill-treat yourself so much? Why do you insist on doing Sudoku puzzles that have more than one unique solution? Why do you like to eat chilli kangkong and laksa when you can't stand spicyness? Why do you keep moving into a position that makes it easy for the opponent(/teammate) to whack the ball into your face? Your whole life has been one big self-abuse. Mか Sか どっちなんだよ。きっちりしなさい！ But I digress. But I also have little intention to further elaborate on the first sentence so I shall digress further. I found that the sfusion spymac page was down for a few days. My immediate impression was that they've finally shut down their hosting services for good, and I actually breathed a light sigh of relief. Then I was rudely reminded of the fact that I have zero backups of the scans in my new hd, and I sucked back in the sigh of relief. Turns out it was just as well, because when I logged on to the dwindling forums of the original spymac site, I was greeted with the assurance that it was just a temporary glitch... followed by "it will not be gone forever until June 1, 2008 (see thread in Spymac forum)". EHH?! Wait! So it -is- going down after all??! In two months' time?? It's not like I've not seen it coming, but it's... amusing - for want of a better word - to know the news like this. You see the answer to the problem you are facing at the moment, then you notice the huge relevant news written in the P.S. Reminds me of a chapter in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei but I sha[truncated for length] Finding another host is not a problem these days, what with up to the tens of GBs of webspace freehosts are offering, complete with scripts and databases. When I think back on those days where 100MB was a luxury and support for scripts were rare with freehosts - those countable few that did offer them went down pretty quickly - I have to think: wow. The main spymac site has essentially become another youtube-sitething since a few years ago, and those-who-make-decisions weren't too concerned with the classic spymac side (where there ARE actually stuff about Macs) anymore, which I think was actually why my sfusion site lasted so long over there. Remember Hollosite, the backup place for spymac? Well they cared, so they took down my page because the scans violated the tos. So I won't be too sorry to part with spymac, but it was good while it lasted (except for that huge banner on top); I thought the webdav thingy was actually more convenient than any ftp service I've ever tried. Now that I'm off to find another host, I might even get around to finally using the DNS service that has been sitting around since forever. Not necessarily on a top-level domain, but we'll see. At least it would be such that I can retain the same URL even if I have to scurry from host to host. =========== What with sitefights shutting down its free service recently (which truly amazed me if only because of how many years it lasted when I thought it would be gone in a few months), I wonder if pitas will go away unexpectedly as well. Just a little tidbit for those who don't have accounts here: the "News" page has not been updated since exactly four years ago, and the admin page now is exactly like it was when I first started six years ago. Pitas, in this internet age of bbs forums and daily-updating journalism, is like a completely dead site. Except it works splendidly, has amazing uptime, and of course, its members are still updating their journals with vigour. I don't even know if the help email works because there is so little use for it. I just often wonder how they manage to keep this whole place going. Of course, it lacks auto-archiving scripts and tags and rss and all those things they offer in weblog services these days, but hey, it has no ads, no banners, allows you to customise your own layouts and entries, allows any and every kind of markup-tags you'd ever care to use, and to top it off, a short and unique (read: you'd hardly know it's a bloggering/wordpressing/diarying service at first glance) domain name. I'm happy.   <-easily satisfied, part 201 Sure, I'm not one of those who update with vigour, but I hope pitas will last. P.S. I accept that wordpress does not allow customisation of layouts due to security reasons (I rolled my eyes at the way they made the ability to change CSS out to be as though it is as powerful as changing HTML. Well, you know, you still have to be able to change the tags in the html document to fully utilise the power of css...), but I CANNOT believe that wordpress does not allow "<small>". It's in the "Blogging-for-Amateurs" bible, FGS!

Monday, April 14, 2008 :: 06:41 p.m. |

R.I.P. 2008.03.25 - Died From Hysterical Laughter

I was going to post something today. Then ZSZS #6 killed me. I mean, SZBS killed me a lot of times before. But this episode was like a nuclear implosion. In your ribcage. I'll post something when I un-die. ...But then again, I probably would have died without its help anyway, because I just attended my first football training in weeks. I kept seeing white sparks 囧 Which became more apparent when it got dark 囧囧 And yes, I'm still only up to episode 6 of ZSZS. It's my own fault to want to wait for my favourite English subs to be released. BUT I HAVE LEARNT. I will now catch up with it streamed, then download the episode when the subs come out. Which means I will now probably have a bigger chance of understanding the neta on SZBH. WTF CHAIN REACTION FRANCHISE

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 :: 11:22 p.m. |

My computer currently has 52MB free space, which will further disappear when I d/l the latest SZBH

The moment I found it available, I deleted 200MB of anime to make way for it. And the moment it got downloaded in a mere 40+ minutes, I quit several running programs and switched Firefox to Low Priority, just so it would run smoothly on MPC for the next 30 minutes. Welcome to my computer, Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations #3. I just couldn't wait to watch this episode, for reasons unclear to even myself. It could be that there were Fai-centric scenes in the corresponding manga chapters that I could read over and over and over again (which I did), and that I can't wait to hear those same scenes VOICED, and that this was the last episode, and that the last episode of such OAV series will not disappoint. Indeed, it did not disappoint. In fact, I had some fairly deep fingernail marks on my palms by the end of the episode. Yesh, The Department of Consumer Safety sez do not watch Tsubasa TR 3 with your nail uncut! Most of those fist-clenching scenes include Fai, but of course that's just my personal biasness. Double biasness if you consider Namikawa OH MY GOD MAKING THAT SOUND THT SOUND MY HEART JUST BROKE doing a rather stellar job with the scenes I mentioned above. But even for the Sakura scenes... let's just say, I winced at scenes that I didn't even think I cared much for in the manga. (They did left out the painful fingernails-sliding-against-rock scene though, I think?) AND OH, how can I forget to mention this? This did not happen in the manga and it stunned me thoroughly(well, for a few seconds at least) when it appeared (also notice how lovely the background is): [Cut] Spoiler(?) for Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations 3 THAT AIN'T TSUBASA!SAKURA YO But really, does it have some sort of significance? A hint of something to come in the current manga? Or was it just... there for appearance's sake? The script is written by Ohkawa-sensei (of CLAMP) herself, so I'd like to think that it's not just some meaningless filler insertion by some animation company. But throughout the whole series, I'd always been convinced that Tsubasa had little - if at all - to do with Cardcaptor. They're simply different universes. And by that I mean manga universes, not some in-story spatial universes that are apparently all inter-accessible via one white Mokona. Oh, and I forgot that it happened during this arc, but Fai said, "Vie a Princia" (<-forgot the spelling), which made me very happy. XD The OAV did fail to linger on certain scenes that had a much bigger impact in the manga equivalent though, i.e. panels that took up a full/double page were just treated like normal 1-second scenes, but I'll put that down to time constraints; they certainly packed a whole lot of manga materials into 30 minutes. So now... no more Tsubasa animation ~(;o;~) not for the time being, at least. And if there ever were another series, Fai's voice will be - I think - a permanent shade deeper. (<-どうでもいいや んなもん And now to look forward to the long-delayedawaited Saiyuki RELOAD -burial- #3 - Gojyo & Hakkai chapter. Which, incidentally, would also make it the last episode of this OVA series. I swear there's a conspiracy to bully my hard disk space this late March. Busgamer, Tsubasa, Saiyuki, A la Mode 3(!!!), certain coffdscoffroms, and if I'm lucky enough, Love Revo PC version. Especially A la Mode 3, which would probably take up around 2 gigs of space. And another 1+gigs when the subs come out. BUT I AM WILLING TO SACRIFICE IN THE NAME OF NEOROMA EVENTS LABU <-SACRIFICE WHAT? Gintama #94 had quality like you wouldn't believe. I can't remember being this impressed since #61, that unforgettable end-of-Benizakura-arc episode with its epic water-swift action scenes. And even then, it had distortions in the drawings here and there. But #94 was JUST. You just know a well-made episode when you see it and I told myself just that about 10 minutes into the episode. The voice-acting was well-done (Haga=NariKen!!@%!!?! XD APT.) There were no noticible distortions throughout the WHOLE episode, ...unless you count beautification as a form of distortion...         WHO R U? MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT'S UP WITH THAT HAND. Also note the willingness of the anime to depict Gin-san in a purple suit. I swear that's all they ever put him in. ANIMATION TEAM GJ. But not only was everyone very well-drawn (even Heidi XD), the little details in the movements and hand motions were exceptionally sweet (re: Lawyer Gin XD). That totally made the episode. And when it comes to such episodes, I have to download the high quality raw for keepsake. LATE MARCH DISK SPACE CONSPIRACY +1. Anyway, the quality dropped again in the next episode. Not unexpected - episodes like #94 are hard to come by after all, especially with long series like Gintama. In fact, I'd say it's generally one of the best series around to have kept up such quality (even for the worst of the filler Gintama episodes) even after so many episodes. Definitely surpassed all my expectations with flying rainbowcrack colours. Speaking of rainbow colours, the animation staff's attempt to drag on the minutes for this episode is pure win. They only dragged it for 3+ minutes this time though XD but it's good enough. They get to cut down on the work done, make it informational(?), and make me Laugh Out Loud. Gintama's animation staff is not your ordinary bunch of lazyasses geniuses lazyass-geniuses.   OIIII DON'T MAKE IT SO BIG AND CLEAR I also watched Busgamer #1. From the looks of the opening sequence, I thought I was going to be disappointed, because there were already none too few art distortions. But going into the actual episode, HMMM I guess it's not -that- bad, considering how only some Minekura-series anime episodes that ever aired have captured her style perfectly. Aside, Suwabe as Nakajou in the Drama CD sounded perfectly apt, but when I actually -see- Nakajou on the screen with that voice, it feels a bit off. WHYYY. It's just me? XD

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 :: 10:57 p.m. |

Pictures for the Valentine occasion.

NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU why am I always subjected to this kind of crackkkk As a brief example to what Gin-san is talking about, one of the DVD #7 covers that I'd recently (again) spilt noseblood over: (Eh? Why is it Hijikata-kun again? Is he so suitable for the M role?) And what does all these show? That the Gintama fan(girl)-base is crazy enough to vote for a pairing that hasn't even actually met each other yet for the DVD cover, That TakaHiji make one hot couple 囧 And GOOD JOB, SUNRISE. for bringing GinHiji to the animated screen OMG i cry tears of joy. Good job Gintama, for going into the third year animated unexpectedly and fourth year serialised. Goodness, have I really been following Gintama for that long? =========== As for the occasion itself, I received a big impactful kiss today. It went something like this. In case you were wondering, nothing in that animation was exaggerated. The ball and I performed a form of elastic collision sequence that is, to quote my teammates, "Just like those comics you read!" Yes, I could actually feel it in slow motion when I was in the air. XD And a teammate kindly executed a reenactment for me with a waterbottle. How would I know that when a superpowersmash ball hits you when your feet aren't touching the ground, you would really flip head over heels over head? I THOUGHT CAPTAIN TSUBASA WAS EXAGGERATING. You mean my childhood was not made up of lies "Who told you to jump so high? Too tall lah you." DASEE A day that passes is a day closer to my prediction that I will one day die of concussion.

Thursday, February 14, 2008 :: 10:32 p.m. |

The somewhat Daisuke-overloaded post

来たああああああああああああああぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁ I   G O T   I T   I   G O T   I T   I   G O T   I T   OH GOOD GRIEF I WILL KEEP THIS GREEN BAG FOREVER Dear dear YL has specially helped me get this month's Seigura during her trip to Japan. I can't believe she got it. I kept preparing myself for the possibility that she might not be able to find it amidst all the magazines in Japan, or perhaps she might be enjoying herself so much that she forgot to buy it on the second-last day of her trip (I can imagine -that- happening if it were me), because it only came out on 9th February. And that's the thing. All throughout January, I had been simply agonising over just how on earth I was going to get my hands on this magazine. Now, I'm usually not one partial to buying such magazines, and sometimes one could even find scans of these on the internet. But in January, I found out that Seigura was going to feature "DD" in the next edition. DD = Kishio Daisuke + Namikawa Daisuke But no, I wasn't quite moved just yet; if I had the inclination to splurge on every magazine that featured Namikawa, I'd be broke by now. His soundclips are really all that I need. Then I read that this edition will also include a Sister of Wellber interview. Wellber = Namikawa And that there will be a report on the NeoRomance A la Mode 3 event that just happened in December last year. A la Mode 3 = Namikawa ...I've not seen so much Namikawa content in one magazine ever since nmkw appeared in that issue with the Neoroma ojiisan-tachi 大叔堆裡的非大叔 XD sorry... since a couple of years ago. But Kinokuniya doesn't!!! stock Seigura, if I remembered correctly. How on earth was I going to get that magazine? And for the first time in my life, I browsed Amazon for purchasing purposes. And found that their shipping rates were so high it wasn't even funny. And some other sites I surfed upon did not really offer international shipping. So while feeling a little disappointed, I decided to resign myself to a Seigura-less fate. Oh well, I thought, it's not as if... THEN I SAW THE PREVIEW COVER. IT WAS BRIGHT AND WHITE AND SPARKLY. What happened to DD's Red and Blue colour scheme? That was around the start of February. After this traumatic incident - to see such a brilliant cover of a magazine that one cannot come to have - I had a sort of 囧 expression on, which was not very becoming of a girl who is supposed to be looking forward to the Chinese New Year holidays. I decided that I have to have this magazine at all ...certain cost, one in which Amazon shipping rates preferably do not come into play. And of course I had little luck XD   <- s.C., the girl who can afford to XD now Then one day, (WHEN DID THIS BECOME A STORY) 在風和日麗的晚上 no such thing you mad woman, s.C. realised that she hasn't visited blogs for quite some while. *pauses to wait for flying bricks* (psst btw phan~, if you're even still reading this, I've yet to rediscover your blog address...) And after she made the life-changing click to YL's blog, and read that she was bound for Japan on Wednesday 6 Feb, it took a while to sink in that... that...! There is a chance to- s.C.: "あれ, isn't it 6 Feb today?" 囧 It was night, and it was Feburary the 6th. YL has already left janai kaaaaa!!! 囧 ...so thought The Girl Who Slept Through Time, after checking with the computer clock. (Eh? Leapt, you say? What leapt? Leapt what?) It was only after several full minutes in the tens that she discovered... it was 6 February indeed, 1 a.m. in the morning. 囧 I'd like to thank my mum, my dad, my That YL was still not asleep at this hour. XD That this year's CNY sort of allowed for a long weekend, which overlapped with 9 Feb, the release date of Seigura March. That YL was only coming back on 10 Feb. ...in the order of increasing miraculity(what). Seriously. YL could very well have come back on the morning of 9 Feb but no, it had to be 10 Feb. XD So YL can you imagine? You've helped me bought something akin to a magazine full of exclusive Jay Chou contents only available in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. (WHAT KIND OF ANALOGY IS THAT???) THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHHH :D :D :D Just a little extra anecdote (NO PLS THIS STORY HAS GOTTEN LONG ENOUGH) - after I parted ways with YL, I ran into another friend. Friend K's first words to me were, "Hey, are you injured?" XD But that's another story. At the tail end of the injury conversation, s.C.: *swings green bag excitedly* Hey, heyhey! I just got something bought from Japan! K: ? What is it? How did you get it? s.C.: My friend got it for me when she was in Japan. *suddenly thinks of something* Ooh! Look, look! Isn't he cute??? *starts to nudge magazine out of bag* K: Oh my gawd s.C.!!! Obviously she has not seen this girl get this excited over a guy before. Few people have. And even then it was over 2D men. XD s.C.: *manages to take out top part of mag* K: Oh my gawd WHICH ONE??? s.C.: *pulls bag down to middle of cover* *pointpointpoint* This one! This one!! K: Omg he's so fat! XD XD XD "YES. But he's so cute!!!" XDXDXD And that's the truth. Namikawa Daisuke is frickin' adorable, behavior or otherwise. Anyway, if she had looked more closely, she might have had something else to complain about. His eyebrows. XD Seiyuu-lovers are a specialised group of fans indeed. ANYWAY I DIED LOOKING AT THE PICTURES. A nice, blissful death of hypo-nosebloodidus. The title of their 3rd single is "Dramatic Dive", so there's Mr Namikawa very nicely trying to do a dramatic jump. ...OIIIII PLZ KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIVES AND JUMPS KTHX. XD (And I swear he looks like Kusuda-san there.) The bottom left picture was ultra cool. Can't tell it from here, but certain details in the close-up made it really charming. And I swear he looks the cutest with that swept-up hairstyle on the right. It was like this in the Neoroma Ange Party photobook, and it was like this during one of the Wellber events. I love this look a lot. It makes him look a lot more boyish, if he doesn't already look much younger than his 31 years old. (32 in 1.5 months' time 囧) I forgot how to spell "cutest". Three times. Cutetess, cutess, cutetest. Omg nmkw what are you doing to my brain. And I found it really amusing that they tried to get KishioDai to be the same height as Namikawa by having him wear ultra thick soles (and Nami slightly bending his knees, in a cool way). Wait, am I not supposed to notice that? XD My bad. I only noticed it 'cos I know Kishio's about the same height as I am, yet why are they the same height in this photoshoot??? XD And to complete my happiness, the Seigura site has a short video message of them promoting their single and the Cat's Hand MOVIEEEEE. NO NAMIKAWA DON'T LOSE TO DAISAKU'S LAMELESS. XD GANBARE NMKW. I hope I'll get to watch Cat's Hand one day. On the presents page (where readers get a chance to win signatures/posters etc.), Namikawa had a couple of signed polaroids up for grabs. They have both versions of his signatures! As usual, his kanji signature is damn cute (and extremely readable 囧), but I swear his new(ish) English signature frickin' makes me scream in delight and cuteness-attack. Especially when signed with such a thick squiggly marker pen. The photos themselves had him in cool poses and the likes, but what killed me were the hand-written comments on two of the photos themselves. In his own words, marked down in those squiggly marker pens are these exact exclamation marks and random katakana: ヤベ！ はずかしい！！ and the other, カッコつけてるヨ どうすんの？ SHIRU KA, BOKEEE!!! Good grief nmkw, please don't do this. 1) You're breaking the "cool" in DD's concept of a "cool and unsmiley" unit, and 2) You are cuting me to death. P.S. To the person who thought up the concept of "cool and unsmiley", ...these are the two last people I will think of as cool and unsmiley. LOSE. :D One is crazy, and the other is... also crazy, in a completely different sense. XD And both are perverts. (EH?!) Staying true to the title of this post, may I also mention that on the same page, they have Ono Daisuke promoting his new column in another video message. I've always thought that Ono D in some way looks slightly like Gackt, especially at certain angles i.e. top-view shots. Must be his nose. XD I have nothing recent to write about Hirakawa Daisuke. So here's a picture just so he won't be left out of this post. XD NamiDai and HiraDai in BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM POSE PRINCESS LIFT. I finally posted this. I finally posted this. Namikawa-san, thou shalt not hold AND WAVE HANDS AT THE SAME TIME 囧 I know Hirarin is light - last I heard like in the 2006 Loverevo radio show he's 52kg (that's my weight too, THREE YEARS AGO. D:) - and Namikawa is stronger than he looks, but Namikawa-san, you... don't... have to... show off your muscles like this. XD No, I take that back. We so need to see this. hey that also means nmkw can lift me up just like that Watching events like this is like watching Japanese/Taiwanese variety shows, only with even more crack. I wait for the one day when all four of them Daisukes stand on the same stage. It's never really happened yet BUT IT SHALL. RIGHT? KOEI, ARE YOU LISTENING? That will be named the Fangirls' Field-day. (How come this post's ended on this note???) =========== So it shall not. Due to a certain nmkw reason, I must have been grinning to myself all the way to the field. Yes, we had a match today - with SManagementU. We won. I got an assist with a through ball! hurhur. But it was actually a through ball to a tight angle at goal. But our fantastic striker, N, latched onto the ball just like I imagined she would, and finished from the tight angle. HAT TRICK FOR HER! XD I used to be very big on through balls, but lately my field of vision and awareness have somehow deteriorated. Greatly. Getting old? D: END. (EH?!)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 :: 11:59 p.m. |

IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Mr Blond-hair-in-right-bottom-corner!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A DOUJINSHI DRAWN IN SAYONARA ZETSUBOU SENSEI??? 吹いた マジ吹いた Zanzou? =========== Thank you ZSZS, for kindly handing me the smooth opportunity to comment on the latest Saiyuki chapter. I DEAD. No, seriously. How long have I been waiting for this moment? Several years - even way before this layout (which, I promise, will be reuploaded to another host sometime soon -_-) was put up and somehow refused to leave. "Yatto yonda ne." So, you've finally said it. Said Ukoku's name to his face, that is. I can't believe how much time I spent squeeing at that sentence and having mutiple Innermind-theatres(TM) running simultaneously. It's almost, what, like Sanzo has finally deign to say Ukoku's name. At the same time, that very line that Sanzo uttered felt extremely strange (to me). I don't have Zero Sum with me right now, but from what I remembered, it just seemed very contrived for Sanzo to say "Ukoku Sanzo Hoshi" at that moment. Sure, it needed to be said at this point for the impact. But something about it is very out of place. Is it that Sanzo is suddenly saying it - name, title and all - despite having never even said it once at all? Or is it just that tagging on a "Sanzo Houshi" seemed a tad too respectful for Genjo Sanzo to say? Not because Genjo is impolite - he is when he needs to - but not when the Sanzo is one such as Ukoku. Or it could just be the lead-up. I remember thinking Sanzo could have tagged a "tte" in there somewhere, just so he didn't have to say "Ukoku Sanzo Hoshi" like he meant it. But oh, why am I nitpicking on the small details when this scene of meeting is more or less what I've been wishing for for so long? And for once, I SO wished that Minekura didn't leave her trademark toning + sound effects to depict the fighting scenes. DX Well... if all goes well, the tones will be filled in with proper drawings in the tankoubon, ...but not always. D: I, I want to know if Sanzo made that flip himself, or if Ukoku handed him one. XD XD <- you call yourself a Sanzo fangirl??? Sorry. D: Also, as noted by s.C. since a couple of chapters back, Ukoku has 4128 expressions and 979 ways of smiling/smirking. Very commendable (,Minekura-sensei XD). I await with eagerness for Ukoku to deal some serious S to our Genjo next month. That's Capital S from the Planet of Prince-Okita-Sougo Sadistic Sadism, if you will. He won't want to kill Sanzo, not at this point, but it's been a long time since Sanzo got his ass kicked. :D (OIII YOU FAKE SANZO-FAN WITH THE SMILEY FACE.) I HAVE ALSO THOUGHT OF MANY FANARTS THAT I HOPE TO BUT WON'T COME TO DRAW. OH NOES. /sadism =========== I've decided not to continue writing about SZS and Gintama. Till next(?) time then. I seriously need to stop getting distracted while writing posts. If you notice the discrepancy between the time stated under this post and the time found in the cbox post, you'll find that I took...... x hours writing this thing OДO ) [Edit again:] Who's up for seeing how my desktop and desktop look like? Thank you, you who put up scans of the chibi Gintama calendar in huge resolutions. Now I have two lovely calendars right in my face everytime I sit at the hostel desk. If you're reading this as a final bit of comfy English before you set off to the Land of Japangalish, have a great trip YL! REMEMBER I'LL BE FOREVER JEALOUS OF YOU! (IS THIS THE WAY TO SEND OFF SOMEONEEEE??!?)

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 :: 09:52 p.m. |

Things that happened in the softball game before the turn of the year: Pitched everywhere within 10cm of the homeplate EXCEPT IN THE STRIKE ZONE. Gave away 7 runs in the first inning due to walks. YAY. (And to think in the first game I only gave away 2(?) walks.) THEN I HIT A HOME RUN. :D :D :D It's a bit special because it must have been only the third homerun in a proper match for me, ever. Everything else was always only conveniently hit during trainings. >_> In the middle of the 2nd inning, I found out why my pitching was going all over the place. STUPID WIND. This is the first time I realised the flight of a softball can actually be changed this significantly by wind. And so we held them to zero runs for the next couple of innings. :D :D :D Stupid wind. And now, we are in the quarterfinals against hall sev.n. D: In which most of my football teammates are. And of whom a couple were ex-softballers. D: D: I wish myself good luck. (I left my no.99 jersey at home, is that a bad sign? >_>)

Saturday, January 5, 2008 :: 01:10 p.m. |

WHY DID I SUBJECT MY EYES TO THIS.

My mother and I had been sitting down for the past couple of hours looking at and analysing MORTGAGE LOANS. WHY. The "looking at" part was fine, but the analysing part was frankly quite depressing. XD So now I've spent the last hours of my last day of freedom (before all the activities and games start once again) CALCULATING INTERESTS. Without equations. WHY Now I must vow to finish colouring my drawing before "tomorrow" starts, or it will never get done, ever. I hate myself for letting the past week of freedom go by so easily. On the bright side, I accidentally missed two trainings today 'cos I missed seeing the messages, so I've sort of bought myself one day of time. :D THAT'S A BRIGHT SIDE??? =========== Using a mini wireless mouse for now, until I can get myself a ps/2 adapter for the Logitech. ("No it doesn't." was written using my current half-spoilt AcerNicky. Handles details better than this mini BENQ. Complicated family of mouses! ...Mice. Whatever.)

Monday, December 3, 2007 :: 10:20 p.m. |

Someone please grant me the strength to: Stop buying every single piece of junk food I come across everytime I pop into the ecomart, Recite my handphone number in English. Not going through the numbers in the head in Cantonese, then telling the person who asked, "Nine... Six... uh, no sorry, ...Eight... uh...", STOP SLEEPING 12 HOURS AWAY JUST BECAUSE I DID NOT SET THE ALARM. That's half a day gone, dammit. And someone should tell the sky not to blow a sudden rainstorm when I'm watching a particularly quiet scene in Ghost Hound. I mean, talk about very, very sudden.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 :: 05:22 p.m. |

I just watched the Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations OVA raw. So much for leaving it till after exams (since I thought it was slated to only come out on Nov 26). So now the OVA schedules I'm concerned about goes like this: Tsubasa TR 1 - 2007 November (Just out) Saiyuki Reload -burial- 3 - 2007 December POSTPONED. D: Tsubasa TR 2 - 2008 January Saiyuki Reload -burial- 3 - 2008 February Tsubasa TR 3 - 2008 March What, now I have nothing to look forward to come December? But at least the new release date for the Hakkai-Gojyo Arc now fits in nicely between Tsubasa 2 & 3. The Tsubasa OVA was generally well done (take that, TVanimeversion!), though I don't understand why they switched the order of certain scenes when it just makes the story rhythm worse. Anyhow, today was a good day to watch it because it had been raining mercilessly outside, which is the same rainswept state the Tokyo world is perpetually in. (Surround sound~ :D) The downside is that the thunder really drowned out the audio now and then, and I had to rewind several times just to hear Fai use his Deep Voice to say Important Lines. *melts* One thing that urks me though, is that Kurogane looks consistently weird throughout. And Fuuma was just outright weird in the few frames he appeared in. XD At least Mokona is satisfactorily palm-sized now... shape notwithstanding. I also loved it that they left bits of spoilers in the ending theme itself, but such that if you don't know about them, you probably wouldn't notice anyway. I can't wait for Tsubasa OVA 2 to be out. That would cover the part - and the very page - of the Tokyo arc that makes my heart ache no matter how many times I read it. Which - on a related note - I've read again recently because Chuangyi finally released TRC Vol.16 (HOMG) after a long, long time due to problems with licensing(?). Good, now that would only make us, say, 5 volumes behind the Japanese release. But now that the Tsubasa problem is out of the way, what I'm more worried about is, are Saiyuki Reload Vol.7 onwards ever going to be released??? I mean, it's still scarily absent from the Chuangyi catalogue at the moment. I don't want to have to buy the Tong Li version instead. [Cut] Okay, since I've unconsciously typed so much (AGAIN), I might as well comment a bit on the TVB Anniversary Prize Presentation Ceremony I watched yesterday. :D Thing is, I haven't been chasing any TVB shows ever since Gallen Lo left around 4 years ago. So I have little reason to watch this annual show especially since they changed the format quite a few years ago, such that the Presentation itself is strictly just -that-, without all the crack performances by the actors/resses and wacky ad-libbing by the hosts. But HAY, it's the 40th anniversary this year! And I didn't want to be in the same room as my notes yesterday, so the TV was a natural choice. When they touched on the Best Actor Award section and flashed back on the previous winners for the past 10 years, ... OMG GALLEN WAS SO LENG ZAI IN THE 1998 ANNIVERSARY. XD XD XD The cable TV didn't broadcast this event back then, so I missed it. BUT NOW I HAVE BEEN REWARDED. XD <-s.C., the fangirl who is easily satisfied with a one-second clip He was also the 1997 and 2002 winner, but THE 1998 CLIP! *squees* His hairstyle was so nice. (OH SO IT'S JUST THE HAIRSTYLE?) That must've been for his Secret of the Heart role. How I'd loved that show. The Best Actress this year was Louise Lee! YAY :D Even though I've not seen the role she played, I just think it's due time she got an award of this calibre. Obviously her colleagues think so too, since the actresses side was going all "Congratulations See Kei Je!" and the actors side even gave her a standing ovation. :D She looked really overwhelmed, especially when her daughter appeared on stage ("Oh my, why are you here?") and gave her hugs and flowers. It became even more tear-jerking when they announced the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award - the wrap-up award for the whole event. This year's award went to Fei Je Lydia Sum, but oh dear, look how heart-breakingly frail she is, wheeled in to stage in a wheelchair. Even with the same hairstyle and the same kind of glasses, she looked... so unlike her. Even Dodo Je looked completely overwhelmed when Fei Je was giving her thank-you speech. For a while I was going Don't give in! You're the host! It ended with her old friend and her daughter coming in to sing a song (one of Fei Je's own songs, I presume) with various flashbacks of her antics when she still had her health flashing on the big screen behind. Now that is some evil tear-inducing. ...Now this why I hate web-surfing. In the space of typing all those paragraphs above, I've just found out that Gallen has just finished filming his latest serial, ...AND IT'S A TVB ONE. AND he is also appearing in the 2008 TVB Calendar. Now the former I expect because he still owes TVB several episodes. But the latter! Is Gallen really so "up there" in TVB's mind? He's not even with TVB but he gets to appear in the calendar! @_@ (I'm happy, believe me. :D) I'll probably spend next week trying to find out more. Stupid Wikipedia Effect. (And I didn't even surf from wikipedia.)

Sunday, November 18, 2007 :: 11:16 p.m. |

I'VE FINALLY LISTENED TO HORITSUBA DRAMA CD 3. SO MUCH LOOOOVE. between Kurosama-sensei and Fai-sensei XD No seriously, whatever that CLAMP aren't putting in the manga (and they already putting a lot, especially in recent chapters), they're spreading the KuroFai love friendship in omake channels like this. And Horitsuba 3 wins because Nyamikawa-san gets to voice Y*** (<-spoiler?) as well. AHHHHHHH *rolls* But Nakai-san has too few lines in this drama... Doumeki please bully Watanuki more~ <3 AND this time they had cast comments at the end! It's not a group kansou thing though, regretfully. Those are usually so much more interesting than individual comments. And as expected, they each spoke only about 1 min, tops. ...UNTIL NMKW-SAN. I have no idea why I translated Namikawa's nonsense, but I fulfilled an inner peace in doing so. This man is so, so, completely random. <3 His first 1 and a half minutes of comment went about (relatively) normally, ...but isn't 1.5 minutes already too darn long oiiii?? I'll be the first to admit my Japanese listening is as bad as it comes, and he talks pretty fast, but a few seconds later I'm almost sure he was saying, "Fai to iu no hanashi tte... MAKE. Make, make to ima ushiro ga ittemasu." YES I'M PRETTY SURE THEY'RE TELLING YOU TO WIND IT UP. XD Please wind it up Namikawa-san. Nagai yo. "..Mou minna nanka zenzen... hora, mou. Miyu nanka mou kigae dashichatteru mon." Oh I love it when he does his "hora, mou" thing. And yobisute-s Irino Miyu. ♥♥♥ Yes, please take Miyu's action (of taking out his change of clothes?) as a cue to wind up. "Iya iya, sore wa iindesu kedo MAKIMASEN YO, boku wa mada."   ("I won't wind up! Not yet.") XD XD XD Namikawa has conquered all your bases the recording studio. "And lately my hobbies are..." Namikawa-sannnnnnnn. XD "No I'm not done yet, kono fade-out wo yamete kudasai..." <- Tears were somehow laughed out at this point. So I was tearing and thinking, WERE THEY REALLY TRYING TO FADE HIM OUT? XD "So lately I was... Oh by the way do you know? It's 2 a.m. right now. Well really." WELL REALLY INDEED. Suddenly that answers so many questions. Thus he continued on his completely random roll ("So everybody, how was your summer vacation? Had fun?"), and... And what's this about Anpan-man Pool(?)??? WERE YOU DRUNK again WHEN YOU RECORDED THIS, NMKW-SAN?? XD Is this the "2 a.m." you spoke of in the Saiunkoku Special??? And nearing the 3-minute mark, "Chotto, staff no minna-san, kaerijitaku toka yametekure masu..." THE STAFF MEMBERS WERE ALL READY AND PACKING TO GO HOME. "Horitsuba Gakuen. This is the 3rd one, isn't it? Here's to hope there'll be a 10th and a 20th." So do we. <3 "That'll take 10 years~ wouldn't it? And I'll be 41 years old~. 41 years old. Ah, please call me the second Yamaguchi Kappei~ when that happens." ... ... WHY????? XD Are you referring to his ability to produce a cute voice despite his age of... 42? Or have I misinterpreted completely??? In the end, his little rambling corner came up to about 4+ minutes. What with the main drama being Fai-centric, this whole CD sounded like one giant Namikawa Special... ...So much love. XD *reminds self to listen to Purisute again* It's so inconvenient without Chinese/Japanese input on the computer. I found that I need to type Chinese/Japanese more often than I realised, be it for search purposes or etc. When will the computer person return me my CD? D: =========== (The following entry was written a week ago but computer was online-challenged.) This place needs more colours. Contrary to popular belief, I don't actually enjoy leaving this journal so stagnant. Thus! Drawn randomly for some personality test, which I didn't even reach the end of because my home wireless sucks that way. I've really learnt to love using the mouse to CG in the past couple of years - whether it be quick sketches in mspaint or extravagant(?) line-less portraits in openCanvas, I really have no complaints about drawing with the mouse. Well, except maybe the part where you get carpal tunnel syndrome. From hitting Ctrl-Z. Unfortunately, after all these about the death of the thumbdrive, the HDD, AND THEN THE MP3 USB-STICK (which means I've essentially lost every single bit of computer data I've ever had at one point - I'll get to that in a future post), I now have to contend with the mouse (thence referred to as "Nicky") failing me as well. So now Nicky can't click properly, and s.C. can't CG properly. And makes playing minesweeper a pain. But not all mouses are good for CGing, as my previous few mouses have proved. (Eh, wait, or was that "mice"?) Are there any good recommendations for mouses that are value for money? I'll love it to be optical, wired, but don't know about commonly-seen dpi and all that stuff. I NEED A NEW MOUSEY. D: (Wait, why did this become a tech help post...?) =========== And 'tis the season for exams! What better way to   o p e n   u p   y o u r   m i n d~ than... A An IQ Test? :D I got a 135! And I'd really enjoyed this one too, because unlike many other online quizzes, when it tells you it gets harder near the end, it gets harder near the end. So do refrain from strolling over the first few questions thinking, but it never gets harder near the end~, and continue to multitask your dinner with this quiz (cough), and end up with like 1 minute left for each question near the end (coughcough). Which, if I may gently suggest, will throw you into a swirling state of despair. :D And if any of you are wondering, no, my mouse is not named Nicky. Not until... *glances up* ...2 minutes ago, anyway.

Thursday, November 16, 2007 :: 11:58 a.m. |

I'd never know why, but I'm still feeling optimistic about being able to recover files from my HDD, even though deep in my heart, I know the chances of that (without spending money) is less than 10%. Or even less. There's just this... lack of a hollow feeling in the chest. Am I just this much of an idiotic optimist? Or optimistic idiot? =========== The CLAMP in Wonderland PV is narrated by Namikawa-san! Yes, he now gets his own span class in my html. (And yes, that's the new-age way of complimenting.) I'd also fangirl about the first Tokyo Revelations CM, in which there is one nanosecond of KuroFaiArmGrabbingAction going on in there, but I lack the means to screencap at the moment... By the way, TRC Chapitre 167... WHAATTA PUNCH FAI XD XD LEFT HOOK AT 'IM!! XD And here just two weeks ago, I was going to write how Chapter 166 was one of the best chapters ever in Tsubasa... Oh well, it still is.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 :: 03:09 p.m. |

Two days ago, I lost my thumbdrive. Yesterday, my laptop could not boot. I really, really, wanted to cry. Anyway, here's a little dedication for the imbecile retard who stole my thumbdrive. Only such inconsiderate, irresponsible dimwits could ever get me this pissed off. Can these dolts not just think how people could have important data in their thumbdrives? How softball gloves may not just be a simple sports equipment? That people may have precious photos and contacts in their handphones? Why do some human beings just have this low of an EQ? Random quote I actually came across yesterday before my laptop crashed: No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. -P.J. O'Rourke, writer (1947- ) Relevant or not, it is interesting that when I told 2 of my friends separately that I had left my thumbdrive in the computer lab and that I was going back to get it back right then, both of them were pretty certain it would not be where it was anymore. One told me straight and simply, "Gone lah." And it certainly was. Nor was it surrendered to the Lost & Found. Is it really that predictable that society isn't as honest as people would have liked anymore? In the space of one day, how many people could have come and gone? Yet what fraction would actually thought to just snick it for whatever halfwit reasons they may have? I actually cheered up after that with an appropriate dosage of Namikawa Daisuke. I love that man. He is just so TENNENNNNNNN(BOKE) XD (see, I grinned just by typing this sentence). I really should dedicate an entry to him sometime. And luckily I actually transferred ONE very important thing back to my computer just the other day. I had called that a blessing. "Had", because, my harddisk then failed. ... I... am suitably optimistic. Just because I am. The HDD sounds bad, so it should be a physical problem. I have a whole list on what I'm planning to do, so I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. ALSO, our coach is leaving for Malaysia for good probably by this weekend to take up a job. It is sudden, but not unexpected. Just extremely sudden. Just when I feel I'm starting to shake off my injury and running decently again... I have been missing a lifetime record sessions of trainings since school started because of this injury. And I had wanted to perform back to my best just to show coach -and- myself that I still have it. He had said sometime ago that he used to consider getting me into the national team (I always thought he was joking, but now I know not O_O), but there suddenly was this period when I kept feeling giddy and immobile and my form just slid completely DOWN. <-This is my own comment, not his. I was pretty disappointed with myself during that (rather long) period. Luckily I hadn't really wanted to join the national team by then (softball side-effects?), else I'd really kill myself for not taking the chance to realise my childhood ambition. ARGH I wrote such a long entry unconsciously MUST GO CLASS NOWZ. ARGH why must my computer have to break down RIGHT BEFORE THE WEEKLONG RECESS WHEN I WOULD HAVE THE MOST USE OF MY LAPTOPPPPPPPP?

Thursday, September 20, 2007 :: 01:54 p.m. |