Little Busters!

Do you ever get attracted to someone online solely from the way they write their stuff?

To me, spamming emoticons and smilies and overexaggerated *actions* don't cut it for me. I need to explain this a bit...

You see, masculine and feminine speech are more discrete in Japanese. Some words and expressions are exclusive to their gender. I find feminine Japanese writing very cute. It doesn't even have to have kaomoji, it's to the point that a girl who uses 'atashi' as their first-person would simply score more.

I follow a few native Japanese girls on Twitter and this is where I found out... Of course, one must exercise precaution that maybe the person behind the account is probably a greasy kimoota, but I would suspect that passing off and typing like a girl takes great detail in comprehending the female mind and thinking pattern and expressing it flawlessly as well, something I don't think many of us could do.

I now know why I haven't realised this for so long. Most eroge are narrated in the third person or from the shujinkou's perspective, but whenever it switches to the heroine's, it gets very interesting, basically the female mind is intriguing to say the least. Does the author really know how a female mind works? It now comes to the subject of good authors, who must express both genders for their characters equally as strong. Most eroge writers are male, and the majority of eroge heroines are superficial anyway...

Can't you guys STOP MAKING CROSSOVER GAMES? To people like me who go crazy over one universe colliding with another, this is damn overkill.

Now I dunno what I should get - this or ToV or Beryl. And I am NOT gonna start mentioning TTT Gaiden.

EDIT: ...and they've got my fave Atelier girl in, Vio of A5. A5 is my fave Atelier. Vio is not only hawt, she wears green, she loves carrots, and most importantly, her seiyuu is Noriko Shitaya, who also voices a certain Himeko Kurusugawa.

I know some of you hate micro-blogging, but for me one of its pluses over blogging is the spontaneity of it. In other words, the updater is fast-loading.

As you know I own a dozen blogs, but the thing that puts me off updating in places such as WordPress and (my embarrassingly not-so-secret) Vox is the update page that takes like 5 minutes to load. Formatting tools are handy, but shouldn't be so much that it gets really slow to finally show the update page up. But you don't need all these kind of things in a micro-blog, which would prefer you to just update with one-liner trash instead of pretty, well-thought out entries.

Clients are a blessing, as we also know LJ has clients that are real handy to use, on top of its already fast-loading and convenient update page (with draft saving, something we all wanted once upon a time). I'm quite sure there are clients for other blogging platforms (even universal clients - seen those on some Linux distros, but they're probably kinda buggy) but I'm not really keen on getting more of them.

For the record, long before Twitter began I've already micro-blogged(?) on my Xanga, which nobody really notices. Unfortunately their update page has gotten more cramped in recent times...

I've run out of ideas so... does anyone have tips on how to fall asleep?

Medication, the obvious way and anything that has to do with sheep don't count.

Inbetween emptying my room (it appears that I also need a wall repaint) and Facebook games (*shakes fist* curse you), I've began picking up the thing about making one's own food.

I don't know what you think about a guy who can't cook (if you're preparing an assault, there's a lot of us, in my defense) but I'm not totally dumb about it. I think I fare better than my brother as a matter of fact (won't even go and prepare his own noodles... lol). But before this I've always hold the perception that cooking isn't worth the trouble. I mean, a dish made in 60 minutes would be eaten up in 5. It's worse when you fail, because no one but you would have to eat the failure (or let it go to waste).

But as I've mentioned, Vamp-sama showed to me that there are simple dishes you and anyone else can make, which taste good and is healthy to boot. All it needs is just the ingredients and the spirit to try. Also, the other day my mom called me a freeloader who only knows how to eat (amongst other insults) so I'm gonna show her that I actually know a bit more. Lastly it's hearing the kitchen exploits of other people that makes me want to do the same.

I've started making my own soba. Okay fine, the main job is no different than making my own instant fried noodles, but I'd have to be a little extra creative with what I can do with soba alone, since there's no prepackaging of the seasoning that goes with instant noodles. I've now realised that this isn't going anywhere without dashi so I'd have to go and find instant dashi stock...

I find this amusing because when I dine out at Japanese restaurants I never order soba. I guess it's because I can do it on my own? But if, on this New Year's Eve I'm serving toshikoshi soba to my family, that means I've done it. Wait, does that also mean I'm only gonna cook soba from now on?

Happy birthday to sarcasteak and HIMEKA!

I'm currently in the process of emptying my room, because it's gonna be refurbished with new flooring. Strictly speaking it's not really "my" room before, since it was the place where most of the family's books are stored and I was at the dorms most of the time, but the recent house expansion means that there's a new space for the library, so I'll have to sort all these books out myself before I place them.

I'm kinda pissed because my mom isn't letting me have the PS2 in my room, despite being the only person who's playing it (yay Japanese games~) because she insists every freaking game console has to be stored in the game room, which makes it less private for me, and I don't like playing games there because the TV is placed too high (I like playing games while sitting down crosslegged). She's giving me the excuse that my room lacks space because of the PS2, but really, whose closetful of clothes are these? Her own space is a tad messier anyway. Anyway I'll have to take out everything first, then deal with this issue later. I'm still annoyed I have to do this though, and that they're spending money on my welfare (I wanted stuff like this done on my own budget) but after testing out on how much room space I'll get from this and how hygienic it is without all the dusty shelves, I think I'll just have to get on with it.

The cancelled Hello Kitty musical? Well, to this date there are still no refunds issued. The company already said that the loss from the cancellation costs about building 3 full houses, so I don't think we'll hear from them anytime soon.

Lastly, you all need to watch Astro Fighter Sunred, it's a hell load of crack. Thanks to Shimo for including the OP in his recent medley, that's where I started to know about the series. I think I'm gonna start picking up cooking because Vamp-sama is _that_ awesome.

Hello Kitty Musical out here got cancelled two days before it opened...

And I had front-row seats.

D:

1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks.

( Can't I even answer with a 'maybe'? )

I've been writing quite embarrassing stuff lately. Sigh. *shrug*

I think what they told me is true - once an opportunity shows itself, it comes in drones. I have until next week to apply for a job in the Japanese embassy. And this comes after I've found and applied for some favorable posts near home, too. Gonna really think hard about this...

The house is currently under restructuring, so it's gonna be a noisy few weeks. Not even my good headphones can put off the drilling noises yesterday morning. Which also means I can forget about sleeping in from 9 onwards.

There's a new hotpot restaurant uptown, I ate some nice shabu-shabu and would seriously like more. A lot more. I think it's less expensive than the sushi joints out here, and a lot more appetizing. Now I just need to find someone to bring along with me...

I think I shouldn't wait for l33t-raws to watch K-On!, otaru_lime looks to be too busy to put the up for this season at least. I've got Saki to watch too, I'm a closet mahjong player.

...need more yuri.

GAHRGSDF Took me the whole day to do this .-.
WARNING: Storyline summary is long-ass, with all sorts of spoilers, and heavy screencaps. Only read if you've seen it or you care less about watching it in the future.
EDIT: Made the entry public.

( Preface )

( Thoughts )

( Storyline Summary )

Ahh that was an enjoyable experience. I need more stuff like this, and I think I have quite a few in mind on what to watch next. If you were thinking about my summary, I'm just borrowing skills I learned from people like DarkMirage or Kurogane but I hope I did my best.