Chasing After Rainbows

I have heard of cosplaying for quite sometime. If you are looking for them, you can find them at events like the big ones like the Comiket (both Summer and Winter) held at Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake, Tokyo, Japan or Anime North held at Doubletree International Plaza Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you don't know what's this cosplay thing is all about, it's about dressing up to look like a character and show off. The hard part about cosplaying is coming up with the materials for the clothing, props (eg. headband, sword) and most likely a wig too. Sometimes, you just need creativity with what you see in stores or already have. Finding ones that are already made may be difficult or too expensive . I have never cosplayed before, but it does look interesting. You can cosplay your favourite characters, but try to avoid popular ones (eg. BLEACH, NARUTO) or ones from more than 5 years ago (eg. Sailor Moon, Pokemon) if you want to stand out. Try those from Negima (theres one on

I like playing visual novel games, but due to the lengthy time it takes to complete a game, I had only completed 2 out of the many I have played so far, abandoning the rest. And that is when I fast forward and selecting random choices that appear. It wasn't long afterwards that I heard from elsewhere that the options that would appear and when that option was selected in a typical visual novel, would affect the entire storyline. One example is School Days , where they have various different endings from the main character choosing person A/B/C as someone they like, to person B commiting suicide or killing A. At the crossroads where the options appear, it's not clear how that option could affect the rest of the story and to what extent.    One option can make the difference between that someone liking you or hating you. In some games, not selecting an option for a period of time itself is considered an option. The typical visual novel is told from the view of the main character

A lot of bad things today: Nobody really wants to talk to me like I'm invisible or something. One of my teachers was not around for some reason and can't seem to do the given assignment and fell asleep after giving up trying to do it. about half an hour before the next lesson, I actually felt like skipping the rest of the day, but I didn't. The teacher for the rest of the day keep nagging at me about my work. I left the class mid-way, despite the teacher calling me out to return. headed downtown via the subway later on, right after point 4. There wasn't anything interesting there (or rather something that I can afford), so I headed home via bus from there. En route home, the bus stopped outside some well known middle school, obviously younger than me. Several school guys went to seat right at the back (where I was sitting) and were talking loudly. Along the way, 2 of the older ones made fun of the younger one. I pretended not to notice them (point 6) and continued to re

Today was one of the few rare days that I reached home very early. In fact, around noon. That's because I had no classes or club activities (that can drag on until night). Seeing that I have a lot of free time (and dont't feel like studying), I watched the almost the entire second season of Jigoku Shoujo (at episode 24 currently, about 10 hours later after starting) that I would normally not have the time for. Anyway, enough of that. It looks like if I hadn't joined the 生徒会, I could have had the time to find a part time job in the day instead of the evening or weekends... There is a running marathon in Singapore on the morning of the first Sunday of December (7th). My friends asked me to come along, but I'm involved with the JLPT (日本語能力試験) at a school near my house on the same day. The place will become very crowded. Closer to now is on the early-mid part of August, especially next week. There are too many things that I should be doing in that time...

Compare with these two images to see the difference between drawing and vectoring : At a glance, the obvious difference is the colours and the lines of the paper it was drawn on. Upon closer look, you can see the dirt left behind on the drawing whereas for the vectored one, you would see a transparent background ( blue or white if you are using IE6 ) instead. The 1st improved version (the one with my MySpace and Friendster URLs) didn't really make a difference other than the unwanted areas outside the drawn area removed. Unfortunately, the lines on the drawn area itself still appears. Improvements include the eyes, the area below the ribbon, both hands, and the details of the skirt. Now it looks better. If you haven't noticed already, I didn't shade (or colour) the skin or the faces on the drawings . The reason being that it would not look as nice like the one on the right. I tried to make shadows on the character, but I ended up making the skin darker. There are " w

Lately, at the east main road near my house where I would usually alight at the bus stop when heading home from school via the airport , I noticed some guys with a hat normally found at construction sites running around that stretch on both sides of the road with an odd looking machine that seems to be digging through the ground beneath it. I don't know what's going on, honestly. Based on what I know and the map with a 5KM radius around my house, it could be possible that a new subway line could pass through that road with those strange machines (my father says that they are "digging for gold/oil") to check the soil conditions as part of the planning and pre-construction procedures. They are going to construct a station around there, but where exactly, I don't know yet. In any case, there is already a station west and another south (though further than the west) a short walk from my house. Another one I would like to point out is the construction site near the sta

I went to the IKEA nearest to my house yesterday to buy a new computer table that is to be placed in the living room. That table is for the PC that is already in my room. The main reason why I am moving the PC from my bedroom to the living room is because I need my privacy, especially when I need to sleep or change my clothes. Another reason is that my sister would mess up my room around the area I should be studying at. As the current location of the PC is just 90 degrees left of my study desk. There is no other place in the house for me to study comfortably as all the other table surfaces in the house is occupied by heavy equipment or my sister's garbage.