So, start of the Summer Holidays for me, and I’ve loaded myself with tasks and events already?
Sorry for the lack of updates or posts as of late. It’s been Christmas and so my good employer has been giving me lots of time at work, I still haven’t cleaned-up my room, not much Anime watching sadly, and generally unproductive in terms of productivity? (Except for work that is…)
:: Generally
I’ve been working on getting another (yes, another) site layout done… There’s a lot to do, and I seriously don’t think I can get it up and running by the start of the New Year, but we shall see how that goes… I’ve been going out to the City quite a bit these holdiays so far, some by myself, some with friends… Never actually ended up buying anything substantial…
I’ve seen Tron. -twas alright.
Other than that, my Christmas was pretty mediocre. (My family doesn’t really do Christmas =P)
Will be hanging out with some of my friends on NYE. Nothing wild. Just a hopefully tame movie marathon thingy.
:: Technology
I got my Bamboo! =D Dell Venue Pro‘s are out in the wild! Now where’s mine?
My mobile telco, Vodafone’s getting it’s guts sewed…? Okay, well… customers, (including me) haven’t been very happy with their service recently… I’d say it has to do with a sudden increase in traffic due to their buyout of 3 and their new “infinite” plans… And so now people are suing them…
“Oreno Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai”, or OreImo for short, has been well received by otaku and anime enthusiasts alike, and is by far, “the best series of this season”, with many claiming “best of the year”. (at least an ongoing poll says 10% of DannyChoo’s readers believe it to be better than K-on! and Index) If you’ve already read Leon’s blog about his thoughts on the series, then you’ll know that he highly enjoyed it, and he might even agree with the previous two statements. I am no different. (Stole a few images from you Leon, hope you don’t mind?)
As the series finishes it’s “good end”, and we wait for the alternate ending, OreImo has been an incredibly well put together anime, and I have loved almost every minute of it.
To think it’s the end of the year already… School’s out for 6 weeks, which you’d imagine to be plenty of time to get side projects that are otherwise interrupted by school completed but… not really…
Anyway, so just a quick post about my “Operation Clean-up” for the end of 2010 in preparation for 2011. There are a few other clean-up operations I need to do, which include clearing-up my limited hard-drive space, and getting much of this website cleaned up… But that’ll be done later. =P
November was an unusually dry month… and by dry, I mean, lacking interesting content rather than unseasonal… In fact, we’ve actually had quite a bit of rain… But yeah, so this goanna water dragon payed a visit to our school earlier in November…
I got super-excited, and super-proud of Japan when i heard the news that the Blu-ray disc version of “Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st” topped Japan’s weekly Blu-ray disc charts, selling 58000 copies over the November 22-28 week. Furthermore, “The DVD version ranked #2 on its respective chart with 22,758 copies. The film had taken in 380 million yen (about US$4.4 million) at the box office this year.”
Listening To – ♫ “Encoder” by Pendulum, and “Innocent Starter” by Nana Mizuki ♫ Currently Eating – Deep Fried Squid, Chinotto (Bitter Cola), Cake, Profiterole, Ice Cream. Mood – Tired, Saddened, Mildy Depressed, Wants a life other than this…
:: Generally
I’m supposed to be writing a speak for English, but I am so not in the mood. Eveything just seems… worthless…. Yeah, I know, this sounds like some teen-emo-rant thingy but really. I hate this world. For some reason, more today than for a long time. Though, none of this emo-talk is due to some bad argument with my parents, or whatever normally makes people depressed/emo… I do have all my upcoming exams and assignments, as well as not getting much sleep last night. (By that, I mean 4 hours. Which I cannot live on), but they’re not the reasons either. Believe it or not… it’s all thanks to some Anime and fanfics…
:: Anime Related
This is bad. This is really bad.
As some of you may know, the Nanoha Movie has just been released on DVD and Blu-ray. It reignited my mild-ish Nanoha obsession, to the point where I think things are getting a little out of hand… Although I’m restraining myself not to see it till early January so that I can watch it with my friends, I’m finding I need to get quick doses of Nanoha without having to re-watch the series.
Now, I love Nanoha. And I love Fate. I also love Nanoha and Fate. In fact. The “Nanofate” ‘couple’… is my favourite Anime pairing… Which lead me to the wonderfully insightful Nanofate.us, a group dedicated to the pairing, and a fansite containing many translated doujins, as well as providing a large-ish dedicated image board, and fanfics. And recently, I became very attached to a fanfic by ‘Satashi‘ titled: “Saved by the Bell“.
I love how it’s an alternative story-line. The young-adult years, in a world where they aren’t searching for Lost Logia, or “Mahou Shoujo” for that matter. Some things kind of shocked me at first, (mainly Precia) but it’s very cute and sweet. (Makes me all warm and fluffy inside. XD) I’m only up to chapter 12 right now, and I don’t like some of the decisions that Nanoha’s making, but it can’t be helped. (Then it wouldn’t be as interesting I guess)
:aww:
:: Technology/Gadget Related
I’m still waiting for the Dell Venue Pro. After playing around with a Samsung Omnia 7, I definitely want the Venue Pro. It’s basically the same thing except the Venue Pro has a slider portrait QWERTY, which I don’t necessarily need, and if the Venue Pro doesn’t come out in December, the Omnia may be my option.
Speaking of which, when I was playing with the Omnia at an Optus store, some Indians come in, (not meaning to be offensive or anything) see the Nokia N8 and start yelling loudly in excitement. They start playing around with it, trying to find the camera app, while saying how good it is. Meanwhile, I’m playing with an Omnia 7, whizzing through zune, camera, photos, people etc. And by the time I’m finish…ed. They were still trying to find the camera app… Fail.
In my search for a laptop, I believe I’ve narrowed it down to two: HP Envy 14, and Asus U43JC Bamboo… Not sure which one, am leaning towards the Asus for a number of reasons, but the Envy definitely still has a lot of pull for me.
I find the PV for the Bamboo to be much nicer than the Envy’s…
Anyway, that’s a quick-ish wrap for me… I need to get back to English…
It’s been an interesting and fun week with lots of arrivals and had some outings which have been rather interesting… I would have loved to have taken a lot more photos which were more meaningful and representative of the somewhat awesome week I/we have had.
Yes, these are incredibly late, in fact, the World Expo closes on the 31st of October (tomorrow) but, better late then never? Well anyway, back in May 2010, I went and saw the Shanghai World Expo 2010 for two days, and spent half of my time there waiting in lines to enter pavilions. So, here are the photos of some of the beautiful buildings of the Expo 2010. It’s a shame most of them are being demolished/dismantled once the Expo’s over…
Unfortunately, there really hasn’t been anything eventful ever since the end of the Holidays. I have been loaded with a lot of maths homework, and it has been rather annoying. I feel incredibly envious of those who have just completed their HSC… Can’t wait for mine to be over!
