Yukana in Yukata

It’s a Yukana in a yukata. I just thought she looked mighty cute.

Yukanas in yukata are coming down the stairs,
Yukanas in yukata are coming down in pairs,
Yukanas in yukata are chasing teddy bears,
'Cause on Tuesdays they all try to catch them unawares!

Seems like I haven’t updated in ages. Wow. Not that I haven’t been writing, I had just submitted a 15-page report to god-knows-who last week, together with 360+ pages of annexes. Good luck to whichever bastard who’s going to read the damn thing.

I could upload my masterpiece-of-shit report as filler but I’ve got a feeling bad things will happen. So let’s just keep this blog totally apolitical and full of porn. Actually I’ve been churning out proper blog stuff; it’s just that somehow all my draft posts end up as one, two-liners. Since I can’t sleep, I’ve decided to clobber a month’s worth of one-liners into a totally disjointed Frankenstein-like post. Do not expect any logical flow of thoughts ahead.

First up, Rierie’s computer was down for 2 weeks bcos of a virus, explaining the lack of activity on her blog. Kagamisumi says it is bcos she surfs porn. That guy is a paed, I won’t believe his lies. My blog has been lacking activity as well, mostly because of work (or slavery, however you want to put it. Apparently slaves nowadays live pretty well. Just ask C. Ronaldo.)

I was going to finish up my summer first impressions, but since we’re already five episodes into the season - screw it.

Haven’t been watching much anime, wasting time on Battle Moon Wars instead. Akiha (Tsukihime’s resident Tsundere imouto chara) is quite broken, she’s got some youkai ability that just shrugs off the damage. Which reminds me, Itou Shizuka (Akiha’s seiyuu) has got a blog up and running just recently:

http://ameblo.jp/beerlover-shizuka/

What an apt url, cos she seems to be quite a drinker.

I did watch the 3rd Kara no Kyoukai movie though. The first two movies totally didn’t prepare me for the level of explicitness in this one, so I happily started up the movie while everyone else was still up and walking around. The first sight that greeted me (and whoever happened to be looking over my shoulder) was mamimami’s character’s boobs. Yay.

Didn’t realize till last week that I am actually due for promotion, i.e. get paid $70 more a month. Ooh, Level UP.

The catch is I’ve got to clear the bloody Eye Pee Pea Tea first. The longer I take to pass the fucking job fitness test, the longer I have to wait for my pathetic stripes. They really should take pity on old men. Oh well, at least I’m getting time-off to train. Maybe I’ll scribble another Lucky Stripes 4koma to commemorate my character class upgrade to Corporal Potato.

Cookhouse food is nice, bcos it is free of charge. The bus rides are not nice, bcos they aren’t free. Weekend duty is coming up next week, but we don’t get paid for OT, which sucks. And as old as I may be, I think there might be a generation gap between me and my boss. Seriously, I dread speaking to her bcos I have no idea if I’m being understood. Haha… ok, I’m exaggerating a bit. She’s probably a nice lady, if only a bit too pushy when it comes to sharing her faith.

Somehow, Tomoyo has been a real inspiration for me these past 4 weeks. Seriously, I mean it. She’s got a big heart (and I don’t mean pathological hypertrophy). Whenever some bugger pisses me off, remembering how Tomoyo shrugged off all the insults and accusations makes me feel better somehow. Yay for Clannad 24!

Btw, I am scheduled to attend some all-expenses-paid Bahasa courses because, well… you know. It’s a good chance to get reacquainted with the language, letting my training go to waste was quite a pity. Right now, whenever I try to say something in Malay, I’d subconsciously end off with a です or say some other nonsense which is a mix of four to five languages/dialects. Once, I almost asked the auntie selling epok-epok “Berapa desuka?”. This is what happens if your language foundations are as fucked up as mine.

I’m really hoping though, maybe one day Truly Asia’s southern neighbour (the tiny one) would go pick a fight with Japan or something. That way, I can probably con my bosses into sending me for Japanese language classes. Too bad no one gives a damn about Japan in this region, besides anime fans/otaku and probably Odex. Even the local TV stations show nothing but K-drama with bad dubbing.

Oh screw it. It’s 4am and I haven’t slept a wink. I’m so going to drop dead in the office later.

Mr Bunny's in the sky...

... waving a bunny hand down at them; The Moon is so big, “Oh God damn!”

Thought Kyoto's bunny was a bit too pink and happy so i gave Mr Bunny a new look to match the mood of the After Story.

Clannad Season 2 Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5lRXF5q8w.

There's a better quality one on Tokyo Toshokan, but there's nothing much to see really. I mean half the footage was ripped from the first season's OP and it's only 15 secs long. So we get 7.5 secs of new footage featuring Nagisa glomping Tomoya rather aggresively and Ushio hiding behind a door.

At least it serves to drive home the message that NAGISA IS GOING TO DIE!!!!

Dumpling Big Family (団子大家族 Doujin Lyrics)

Some time ago, my 7 year old cousin came over asking for help with a school assignment. It was suppose to be a poem. The cousin had somehow decided on the title "Cookery Pookery" but no one had any idea what it was suppose to mean, including the cousin. In fact, that title sounded rather vulgar in dialect.

i thought about it over a lunch of curry chicken and came up with this:

Once there was a cookery,
Which served nothing except curry.
It smelled so bad like *censored*
Thus it was called The Pookery.

Obviously, the cousin refused to submit that for homework, so back to the drawing board we went. She was rather adamant about keeping her homework squeaky-Odex-level clean, and i can't write poems unless it's vulgar. We were at an impasse. (Not really, since i could have just left her to die but i thought i'd be nice to kids for once.)

Then, a brainwave hit me. Why not just pinch the lyrics for Dango Daikazoku? It's clean and wholesome with a sophistication level befitting a 7 year old and, most important of all, her teacher would never know it was plagiarised. Well, if the teacher recognised it, he/she would probably break out into a fit of "puhi-puhi"s and award a grade of AAA+. I definitely would.

So did the teacher get a Clannad-gasm?

No... because we ended up submitting a poem about a little slime climbing a lime. Ya, totally wasted, i know. But i got the English "translation" done anyway, so here it is. It's set to the TV ver. Dango Daikazoku tune.

Dumpling Big Family

Dumpling, Dumpling, Dumpling, Dumpling,
Dumpling Big Family.

These 2 lines were censored away
For implied dumpling orgy.

Everyone, everyone get together,
Very big family.

Stupid Baby Dumpling is always surrounded by happiness.
Grandpa and Grandma Dumplings are plagued by drowsiness.

Best of friends, the Dumplings
They link their hands and dance round and round the place in a gigantic ring.

Building Dumpling City on Dumpling Planet
Everyone surfing on the Net. (Sorry, couldn’t make the original line rhyme.)

Mr. Bunny’s in the sky, waving a bunny hand down at them;
The Moon is so big, “Oh God damn!”

Very happy things
And not so very happy things;
Everything is found in this thing.

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i tried to limit myself to a 7 year old's vocabulary. So how's it? Good? Any suggestions on how to fix that line about the Internet? =p

Clannad Has Ended (Sort of)

So Clannad ends at 22, with the next few eps being extras.

I've no idea what to say abt the last ep except it doesn't feel like the show has ended. This particular Key adaptation feels rushed and incomplete. "Anticlimatic" would be the word to describe this. Sigh... All that unrealised tear-jerking potential.

Kyou & Ryou's story got screwed, Tomoyo's arc got screwed... Sigh... The only characters who got proper arcs were Fuuko and Kotomi. Fuuko! Of all people!

Sigh... The tear-jerkiness probably peaked in ep9 at the end of Fuuko's story. Kotomi's arc was rather bah, probably cos i screwed it for myself by listening to the drama cd which spoiled the teddy bear suitcase at the end.

Tomoyo's "arc" was a footnote. Sigh... All i can remember of Kyou's story is the PE storeroom and her Haruhi impersonation during the basketball match, but then again the match was part of Nagisa's story wasn't it?

Sigh... i feel cheated.

But looking on the bright side, i did get loads of Kyou-service so...

YAY!!!!

おめでとう！

おめでとう！

おめでとう！

おめでとう！

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap*

Sigh... How long it has been since that other anticlimatic ending...

By the way, i'm changing wallpapers from this...

To this.
Martial Kingdom 2 (天下霸图 贰). It's a Taiwanese game. Got it for RM7. Tujuh ringgit. Of course it's the not so original version. I've been hunting for it in local stores for months, but it appears no one is carrying it. Managed to find MK 1 in the most challenging local computer store though. Bought that one for 19 bucks. (Forgot my membership discount card or it would have been 16 bucks.)

Gameplay wise this game is very similar to Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital, only with an Wuxia (武侠) setting and minus the wacky humour. Basically you manage a pugilistic sect in Ming Dynasty China and beat the stuffing out of other sects.

Most of the game consists of watching your disciples scurrying about performing menial tasks like woodcutting or growing vegetables. You can't slap them or strap them to the torture table though, which is a pity.

Kind of fun for a simulation game, but the gameplay can be a bit slow, especially the turn based battles in MK1. On average each battle takes me about an hour to play through. Imagine the boredom when the enemy has 5000+ hitpoints but you're dealing only 100-odd damage each turn even with 10 characters gangbanging him. I haven't played MK2, but i sure hope they did something about this.

So that'll be my wallpaper until someone decides to translate Muvluv. Or until someone decides to animate Nagisa and Ushio's glorius death. Oops, spoiler. =p

Btw again, i cursed myself when i saw the RM7 version of Blue Blaster. Oh well, at least i got the nice box and the instruction manual full of typos.

You

あなたは今何処で　何をしていますか？
この空の続く場所にいますか？

今まで私の心を埋めていたモノ
失って初めて気づいた
こんなにも私を支えてくれていたこと
こんなにも笑顔をくれていたこと

失ってしまた代償は
とてつもなく大きすぎて
取り戻そうと必死に
手を伸ばして　もがくけれど
まるで風のように　すり抜けて
届きそうで　届かない

孤独と絶望に胸を締めつけられ
心が壊れそうになるけれど
思い出に残る　あなたの笑顔が
私をいつも励ましてくれる

もう一度　あの頃に戻ろう
今度はきっと大丈夫
いつもそばで笑っていよう
あなたのすぐそばで

あなたは今何処で　何をしていますか？
この空の続く場所にいますか？
いつものように笑顔でいてくれますか？
今はただ　それを願い続ける


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I decided to type it out since that Higurashi video with the lyrics is too bloody. Ok, it's nothing compared to say, Mnemosyne, but a machate vs baseball bat duel is still pretty distracting when you're trying to sing along.

Watched the 2nd ep of Mnemosyne a few days back. Rie doesn't appear in this one, but Mimi (the other Rie) was feeding Rin (Noto Mamiko) vodka mouth to mouth so i guess it's not a bad episode. And Rin had to dig a thumbdrive-like thing out of her informant's, urm, orifice, which was interesting. i don't think thumbdrives were around in 1991 right? i still remember playing games on 5.25 inch floppies. And i have like 10 times more RAM now than i had hard disc space back then. Listening to Mimi rant about that PC with the 16 bit 40MHz CPU, 128 Mb RAM and 300Mb Hdd sure cracked me up.

(I went back to watch that digging scene again. It's not like i'm interested in the anatomical excavation or the naked boobs or anything, just checking if it really was a thumbdrive. No, it wasn't.)

Talking about the 2 Ries, Kugimi won Best Supporting Actress at the Seiyuu Awards for her role as Nagi. Haha, the real heroines of Hayate no Gotoku are Maria and Ayasaki Hermione you see. Nagi is a supporting character. And i still can't believe Choco Coronet won for Best Actress. I was rooting for Nodame... I wouldn't have minded if Hirano won best singer for Sora Ga Ai Deshou or Chala Head Chala though. =p

One more thing. There was a Misuzu look-alike in Clannad 19. One of Sanae's students. She appeared at about 15:55. It might have been Kawakami Tomoko who voiced her too, haha. I would make her do it if i were in charge. I mean she did go down to record 2 lines as The Girl anyway.

Kuranado Saikou!!

Just go watch Episode 9.

A little something to cheer you up.