Chasing After Rainbows

As I was searching for missing information for my music tags (Amazon.co.jp and Google search especially), I noticed that the internet connection is ridiculously slow, in fact, even slower than my school's network speed at peak periods or my upgraded 1997 PC. The "taking too long to respond" error message keep poping up more frequently. Trying to watch the final episode of a series online here (or YouTube) seemed to give up loading less than half-way. For a new series on another site , it doesn't even seem to load after waiting on a long time. Facebook is next to unusable, Windows Live Messenger seems to disconnect me every few minutes. In fact, everything seems to take forever. When I used my laptop (which is where I'm typing this from) and connect to the same network, everything seems to be normal. All this started shortly after I installed Firefox 3. However, knowing that the PC is failing (it's made in 2002), the problem does not lie with the internet bro

I have been editing mp3 files using iTunes for quite some time, but around the time before heading to somewhere earlier this week, it seems that changes to the tags for the files I had made applied only to the iTunes music library and does not apply the changes to some of the files for some reason. However, the album images (if any) that I had applied to the files works. I first noticed this when I selected "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" where either they are located under the old name (eg. Aya Hirano <-> 平野　綾) or sorted correctly but the file info is outdated (eg. The file name (renamed by iTunes) says "アイの庭", but the title tag for the file still say "Ai no Niwa"). Besides the above, I have also tried editing in Windows Media Player 11 and the explorer of Windows XP and Vista. For Windows XP, inserting album images to the file, except via iTunes and WMP, is next to impossible. In Windows Vista, that can be easily done by clicking and dragging

At the 生徒会 camp a few days ago, I was reminded of my (dreadful) past which I shall not discuss about and made me think about my future. With higher qualifications and increasing competition for places for universities or jobs, finding a job that I like doing can be quite hard. Next thing is that I may have several friends, but I'm not really close with any of them. Finding a soul mate is a lot harder. I would be graduating from my current school around March next year. Whether I do well and be able to continue on is currently the big unknown. Graduation day is one of the most saddest moments in my life. Not only will I miss the place that I have been going for the past few years, I would also miss the people there. The graduation ceremony itself is even more saddening, where it would be the very last event in that school and possibly the last time meeting the people I had known. I think I should stop typing for now. Tears were leaking out of my eyes endlessly as I was typing this p

(If you hurry, you might be able to make it for the Firefox 3 download day which ends at 19 June, 3:16am JST (18 June 18:16 GMT) and set the world record, 4 hours from the time of post (3 when I finished typing this).) I'm back from all that camping outing, so I'm quite exhausted. There's another at the end of the month, but there is some gap in between. I have met my juniors of the 生徒会 , though not enough to know them well. I did not bring along any valuables for it, including my transport pass and camera. There are plans for MySpace and Facebook to revamp the user profiles. For Facebook, they are going to have seperate tabs which would have user info, photos, feeds, and application. Currently, all are together and looks messy when too many are there. For MySpace, I heard that they are simplifying the customization so that they are easier to navigate than the current one, which it has been critisized for. This would also mean that existing ones would not work, but necessa

Without caring about my group project , I headed to overseas. I packed my stuff including clothes and even included a notebook and a PSP. The place we headed to was............. Negeri Sembilan , Malaysia Anyways, tired from the (very) long journey, we went to have a break before continuing. It only costs RM200 for it. Anyways, we went to a wholesale center at a place called Nilai 3 (no idea why there is a number in the name). It's located less than 50 kilometers away from the capital's international airport . As it was daytime, the sun was very bright and too hot to get around without going into the buildings. I had also noticed the lack of trees. Anyways, they sell stuff that are cheaper or probably won't even find back home, but the majority of the stuff there aren't of my taste, especially clothing and religious items there. (Along the way, I noticed a food court that, despite being new, looks like a run-down state with dirty chairs and tables (which are covered

As the deadline draws closer , my team members had for some reason did not turn up for school for the past 2 days for some reason. I heard that my other classmates told the teachers that one is sick while the other is unknown. Why must we do this thing so close to the deadline when they gave us about 2 months to do it? Shouldn't it be done at the beginning or at least somewhere in the middle? If you ask me to do it around now all by myself, I probably won't be able to finish it by the deadline which is just this Tuesday. On top of that I have many other more important matters to attend to. I have to go with my family to visit my newly born-nephew overseas tomorrow, and then rest for a day after returning before the 生徒会 camp again. The thing is that the deadline is on one of the days of the latter. So where do you think I can squeeze in the time to do it? As to how I end up with these useless morons , the teacher ask us to form groups of 4-5 people. In the end, only the 5 of us

There are times where I felt that certain events have happened before, even though it might be my first time experiencing it. I'm not sure why, but it has happened several times before, like at a town I never visited before or during a conversation with someone. Some of the possible reasons include: being reincarnated, either as someone else or my current life is repeating similar to one of my earlier dreams envision that it would happen, but a long time ago via my parents or siblings etc. Anyways, I find it strange that when wearing with shorts or skirt at cold places, my legs feel no difference than at normal, even though the rest might be fully clothed and still find it insufficient to protect from the freezing cold. The highest temperature I can tolerate is 32℃ without complaining of heat. Lower if the sunlight is directly pointing at me. Slightly higher for heated water (eg. bathtubs, shower).