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Am I the only one who hates to be asked 'How are you?'/'What's up?'/variant? Most of the time I use a noncommittal answer but it doesn't really mean anything in the end does it? When I'm not going well chances are I won't feel like discussing it first thing in the conversation! Besides, anyone and everyone asks 'how are you' and I'm not comfortable discussing how I'm actually feeling with most people who ask. So complicated... ^^;


That aside, bluie2323 has been going through some hard times lately and I really feel for her. I wish I wasn't far away and that I could be physically there for her. I've been feeling angry and sad over it all morning.
I'll just keep sending her happy thoughts and obscene text messages on her cell. Hang in there Bluieberry~! ♥


Also, I've been working on my Tea Guide a little bit. I'll have to find a web host one of these days to actually host it. Of course the simple design I came up with ended up being ridiculously complicated to program. I worked on it for hours and I still can't get the menu to work how I want it to (on Firefox AND IE). I've got a good chunk of text written out though. :D

Speaking of tea, the tea house near work opened a second floor for tea courses. I went to one course there before and it was nice. It was many years ago though. I convinced (granted it was a lot easier than I thought it would be) my roommate to sign-up for their course on pairing food and tea. Hopefully it'll be more than 'black tea: main course, other tea: desert'. XD Probably. They're good, even though they act a bit like elitists sometimes.


It's a long weekend this weekend! I don't really have plans but I do need to go to the mall. I desperately need to find an idea and subsequently materials for my Halloween costume. I still don't really have any event to wear it to except the coffee break thing at work. Sara invited me to some dance at the Laval University (apparently jpop/harajuku/rave/?? themed) but I don't really feel like going. It's probably going to filled with loud techno music and weeaboos. Not really my thing...


I randomly stumbled upon some SIREN game series music and it was good! I then went on a wild hunt for whole soundtracks and was successful! Most of the tracks aren't really easy to listen to unfortunately. It's kind of like a Silent Hill OST; most of the tracks are random noises/babies crying/moans/I'm-not-sure-I-want-to-find-out-what-that-noise-was but some of the tracks are awesome music (usually vocals). If anyone is interested let me know! [CREEPY SIREN SAMPLE MUSIC]
Now, I'm extremely curious to see the actual game. Must find playthroughs on YouTube....

Which reminds me; MY L2 LOVExLOOP OST FINALLY, FINALLY SHIPPED! I never thought I'd live to see the day this CD would get shipped to me. Why was it so hard to get a hold of? I'll never know! I even pre-ordered it MONTHS in advance!! This better be the best soundtrack I have listened to in a long time. If the preview is anything to go by it should be. I also ordered the OP/ED single CD from Lucian Bee's since I couldn't find the long versions anywhere and I wanted the free shipping. Ironically, they shipped them SEPARATELY when I specifically asked them not to. At least they didn't charge me extra for it. I swear the LovexLoop CD is cursed.


Lastly, I FINALLY have in my hot little hands Nippon Ichi's Witch Tale. FINALLY (also) after waiting a ridiculously long time for the US release. I shall put it on top of my equally ridiculously high pile of Games to Play. Emphasis on the ridiculously high.


Oh, and a coworker (the part timer but not the APT...) got the URL to my LJ out of me at work so he's probably sniffing around this blog right now... HIYA THAR FRANKY! WHATCHA DOING HERE?! TRYING TO DIG UP SOME DIRT ON ME AREN'T CHA?! AREN'T CHA?!?!?!

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1st
I got tired of my Heart no kuni no Alice layout and made a Will O Wisp (ウィル・オ・ウィスプ) one. I wanted to use another image (one of the main characters with their clothes exchanged xD) but the colour scheme didn't work out so I used the teatime illustration. I hope you guys like the new layout~~ :D


2nd
I've been trying to download the latest album from Love Solfege for a while now. I found ONE torrent and it never had any seeds. I almost bought the CD but instead I bought the latest Pop'n Music (Party 16) soundtrack and some random album from THE STAND UP. I kind of regretted it because I didn't like as many songs as I thought I would in the PnM OST. The ones I really liked were short version only and the ones I didn't care much for had long versions! ^^;;; (Why is it always that way?!)

This week I decided to leave the torrent software open and miraculously it downloaded all day yesterday. It stopped in the evening at 99.6% (again, WHY!?!). It's a .rar file so I couldn't do anything but wait. I left it overnight and the missing 0.4% downloaded, much to my relief. x____x

It turned out to be CUE and TAK files. The CUE wouldn't burn on a CD because it needed the TAK file but nothing I had recognized the TAK file. I looked online and no one seemed to know TAK files. I finally found a reply on some random forum saying to get the foobar2000 music player. It sounded like strange advice to me (especially since the person who wrote it had a 'so' every two words and didn't make much sense). I had nothing else to go on, so I downloaded it. It didn't work, BUT, it worked after I downloaded the foobar2000 TAK decoder add-on. =____= So, now I finally have the Luxury ~ classical best CD!!!!!! :D

If anyone is interested, I put it up on sendspace Love Solfege - Luxury ~ classical best. (My favourite tracks so far are BABEL, Due destini, Ricordi and presto agitato).
**Edit Dec. 05th: Here is Love Solfege's older album La Fatalité for acexkeikai~♥ (I have another album from them somewhere 'Le Blanc et Le Noir', but I can't find it...)
Love Solfege - Mignon

I also found a way to access files from a .rar file I had gathering dust on my desktop. The Japanese characters in the compressed files names were corrupted and it wouldn't extract. I could access the files by double clicking on them and listen to them straight from the rar file though. I finally realized today that I just had to listen to the files in Media Player Classic and 'save as' the file with another name and outside of the rar file. I feel kind of stupid for not thinking about it sooner. ^^;;

I uploaded that to sendspace too in case someone wanted to listen. It's all of the 'Classic Collection' albums from La Corda D'oro. The files names were lost therefore I had to improvise from CDJAPAN's track info. Some of the track titles are probably inaccurate but I did my best! ^^;
La Corda D'oro - Character Classic Collection


3rd
I am so glad it's Friday! This week seemed interminable! I don't know why! I was doing something interesting at work this week up until today. (Today is tedious and boring, at least I have good music!)
Last Wednesday was the last sewing meet for this semester. It starts again sometime in January (14th I think?). Before I moved I had bought two kinds of blouse fabric to remake the Blouse of the Devil (aka Mitsuru's) but I didn't have my pattern with me when I bought it. I explained the blouse to the salesperson and she assured me I would have plenty of fabric with 1.6 metre. I was doubtful because the blouse is all puffed long sleeves and (hell raised) pin tucks but she said she sewed blouses all the time. I trusted her. Much later, I finally gather the courage to dig around for my fabric boxes and realize with horror that the back of my pattern specifies 2.6 metres. Precisely, ONE meter more than what I had bought. I was really discouraged because: one, it was fabric from the summer collection and is now long gone at the store, two, I really love the fabric and it's just perfect for the Blouse (That Got Kicked Out Of Hell).

I asked my sewing teacher if there was anything that could be done and she worked a miracle somehow. We managed to cram nearly all of the pieces on 1.6 metre of fabric; I'm still not sure how we managed it. The only thing we had to change was remove the (nightmarish) pin tucks from the sleeves, which I was pondering doing before I realized I had less fabric and the ones from the back, which I was going to remove anyway. We also took out piece 4, and replaced it by adding some fabric to the front piece.

I hope I can make myself work on it during the holidays. I want to finish it before the sewing meets start again in 2009. I should really find a cosplay idea and get that started in 2009. x___x I don't even know who to cosplay. Usually, I'm more inspired but this year I didn't play games much. It's very time consuming and expensive.


4th
I've been looking up games and trying to find a suitable character. I know someone who will be cosplaying from Disgaea but none of the characters appeal to me. The female healer is cute but it's an unimportant character. I'm probably going to be on my own a lot this year. I want to pick a character that will be easily recognizable without other cosplayers from the same game around.
I noticed a new Suikoden (Tierkreis) coming out and looked at the characters but the problem with Suikoden is that it's hard to tell if the character will be a popular character or one of the 'collectible' ones. Personally, I like this character and this one too. The second one seems unimportant and she wasn't in any or the video trailers. The first one was featured in the trailer but she didn't play a major part. It's really hard to tell if that has any significance in the game. I think this character is important? I'm not sure I like her though.
There are also the Star Ocean remakes. The first one is out and the second is coming up this winter. I don't really like any of the characters/designs of the second one though. :/ The main female character of the first game seems fine. I'm worried she might have a terrible personality (if the female lead of the second and third games are anything to go by). Meh~~~

Can't wait for the weekend!! (I need to vacuum! XD)