Chasing After Rainbows

Just a few days ago, I witnessed several lightnings throughout the entire afternoon. It was like a thread of light from somewhere in the sky among the clouds to the ground with bright light. I don't know exactly where it struck, but I did hear the thunder several seconds after I saw the lightning. It was so loud that I can feel its vibration. I don't know if my house is strong or how long it can last, but it was built just a few years before I was born and moved in it when I was in the first year of primary/elementary school. Thankfully, there are lightning rods on top of almost all buildings and structures in addition to the street lamps along the roads.

As I had met my original self and, with help from her, rely on ourselves. I was soon discharged from hospital the following day, though in a wheelchair. (Someone seemed to have installed a radio speaker on it for me to talk via the airwaves and be able to move the wheelchair with just my mind, though the latter tires me out easily.) At home, I agreed with the me that was not involved in the accident to have me take up Mamiko (麻美子). The name Saeko (沙江子) wasn't originally my name anyway before I entered this dimension anyway just a few months ago anyway. I had also agreed to have a different hairstyle. What is even more strange is, unlike my original, I can live without breathing, drinking or eating at all. Well, I can't anyway, even if they fed me or put some weird contraption to aid me. Would I be involved in that accident if I hadn't played around with that cloning machine, with me being the clone? Well, there are so many possible answers to that question and the only...

Inside the elevator, an old man wearing a lab coat (do all the staff here wear that?) appear to recognize me, except that I don't recognize that face. Professor: Oh, Kobayashi-san! I haven't seen you since you were discharged last month. May I know who the bloody hell are you? Of course, not wanting to be rude, I instead said: Me: I'm sorry, I don't remember. We got out of the elevator at some random level that don't seem to be the ground floor. Professor: Well, I was the one who was present when you woke up in a coma back in February. When you arrived here back then your body was so stiff that we have difficulty straightening your body. Well, here's a photo that was taken on one of the first few days you were admitted here. I was shocked, but felt like laughing out at the same time: He showed a picture of me wearing the school uniform sitting in a chair in the hospital ward in front of the empty bed. It appeared as though I was wishing for someone...

As you might already be aware of, Friendster (and MySpace ) are declining in popularity with the favor in the rise of Facebook . After switching internet providers slightly more than a year ago for a faster connection speed and being with the previous for about 5 years after just switching away from dial-up modem. Well, everything seems to be faster, but when I navigate to a certain page or clicking on things like "save changes" after doing some editing, I keep seeing the following thing (or something familiar), even today, and it appears quite frequently on any browser on any PC in my home network (It also appears at the instant I click on a link): The odd thing about this is that this does not appear on other sites, my previous internet provider or even the computers in my school that is under the same internet provider (the latter being slow when everyone streams music and video, especially YouTube ). I would normally just continue on, but as this problem happens quit...

At the end of school the following day, Hirano-san approached me and Saeko, looking uncomfortable. Hirano-san: "Kobayashi- san, Saeko" Sakeko: "What is it Aiko?" Hirano-san: "I know it might sound strange to you, but the director of your workplace my father would like you to visit..." (there was a deafening silence) Hirano-san: Visit yourself at the hospital today. And Kobayashi-san, he has something to tell you too. Me: Me? What does he want with me? Hirano-san: He didn't tell me, but you would find out soon. Oh, I would like to tag along with the both of you, but I have a tennis tournament match with another school today. So, if it doesn't drag on for too long, I might be able to drop by later on. Saeko: Erm, yeah. See you then. Saeko looked even more nervous. To get to the hospital, we took a bus from a bus stop just outside the school and traveled for quite some time before reaching it. I'm not familiar with this ...

Today is June 6, 2 days after the night when I suddenly found myself in the bathtub of my house. I could have sworn I was in class of February 4 just before that. I was wondering where my parents had went to until I saw a note in their bedroom saying something about a large amount of cash under their bed for me. I looked at the luggage bag counting it: it seems that someone had grabbed a small amount of it. I looked at my blog: there were no new entries since that date, but there was an unpublished draft dated 22 May. ......... Huh? I typed that? It says that I am unable to move and my childhood friend who is residing inside me is doing so? But I can do so normally with no difficulties.... I don't understand. I then viewed the blog of that friend of mine mentioned. ......... It says that I fell into a coma and has taken control of my body since 14 May, the day after he got into an accident. Strange part is that the post is dated 2 weeks after the incident and he even h...

I opened up the original Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file of one of my drawings and saw what was in the following screenshot: (Background) Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 : Instead of the image, I see a very long list of codes. (Left) Google Chrome 0.3 : The black outline is very obvious. Bluring don't seem to work. (Center) Mozilla Firefox 3.0 : There is a rectungular box at a corner of it for some reason. (Right) Apple Safari 3.1 : The best among all the rest. Bluring don't seem to work too. All : My signature is missing (for IE7, it appeared as mojibake near the bottom) To fix the unwanted lines that appeared in the Chrome browser, I just need to select everything in the vector editor, except the outlines that are supposed to be there, and remove the colour used for the outline (labled as "stroke"). The problem is that vectors before v0015 , outlines are not seperated from the colour, so I used v0035  instead to remove stroke lines of non-outline parts that are ...