Passed

Arrived in the mail today

Yay, I passed by a 15% margin – passing score for JLPT4 is 60%. As expected grammer is my worst section. ^^;

Now for the next level…

Why I dig xkcd

binary reads as ‘base 2′ for those who are lazy.

Iaido

でわありません　(Iaido it is not)

Found at Japanprobe

This looks so fun! Wonder why there wasn’t a market for guys too, would love to give it a try, albelit without the cheesy acting. The two attackers are probably hamming it up for the camera thou.

If anyone is wondering, Iaidō (居合道Iaidō) is a Japanese martial art associated with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard.  – Wikipedia

x2 sword = x2 damage xD ~via moe.imouto.org

Time waster

more about “Time waster“, posted with vodpod

Lovely way to waste an hour on a rainy saturday afternoon. ^^

Let there be light

And there was light

“… Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth”

Agonizing is the hours spend staring at the candle-lit celling.

There was a brown-out at my neighborhood last night. Power supply was patchy coming and going at hourly intervals, even when the power is resumed it seem as if the voltage was fluctuating constantly; cue in flickering light. Of course, my picky PC wasn’t really happy with the power and it opted to commit hara kiri. (Thank haruhi it was recoverable)

Feels really out of it with nothing to do, no charge on the PSP, no TV, no internet, not even a decent light to read by. Dang.

I’m so not ready for Judgement day. Perhaps this would help a little?

Meat

Imagine if you will… the leader of the fifth invader force speaking to the commander in chief…

“They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“There’s no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”

“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars.”

“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”

“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”

“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”

“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”

“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they’re made out of meat.”

“Maybe they’re like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage.”

“Nope. They’re born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn’t take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?”

“Spare me. Okay, maybe they’re only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside.”

“Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They’re meat all the way through.”

“No brain?”

“Oh, there is a brain all right. It’s just that the brain is made out of meat!”

“So… what does the thinking?”

“You’re not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat.”

“Thinking meat! You’re asking me to believe in thinking meat!”

“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?”

“Omigod. You’re serious then. They’re made out of meat.”

“Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they’ve been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years.”

“So what does the meat have in mind?”

“First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual.”

“We’re supposed to talk to meat?”

“That’s the idea. That’s the message they’re sending out by radio. ‘Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?’ That sort of thing.”

“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”

“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”

“I thought you just told me they used radio.”

“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”

“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”

“Officially or unofficially?”

“Both.”

“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”

“I was hoping you would say that.”

“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”

“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say?” `Hello, meat. How’s it going?’ But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?”

“Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can’t live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact.”

“So we just pretend there’s no one home in the universe.”

“That’s it.”

“Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You’re sure they won’t remember?”

“They’ll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we’re just a dream to them.”

“A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat’s dream.”

“And we can mark this sector unoccupied.”

“Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?”

“Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again.”

“They always come around.”

“And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone.”

Was watching Ep 8 of the Sarah Connor Chronicles when I remember this excellent joke I found on the net some time ago. Real side-splitting stuff. =D

Summer Glau as Camaron the Terminatress

Did I mention “Cameron” is cute? She’s my fave actress now. =3

How long had it been

Since I updated? ^^;;

So much happened this few months… Afa came and went, so did Danny. Gordon became a full fledged trooper! Chun continued to chu(r)n out Suenaga 姉妹 art…

Felt I haven’t accomplished as much, the least I can do is to dust off my blog a bit here before I leave for my vacation to northeast China.

A report of what I’ve got since last update to start things off.

Tada!

Does this counts as ‘Mikuru no Tease’?? =3

“Did you see that? I swear I saw Saber”

This batch of figmas will be the last for this year, have not planned what I should get next year but nendoroids should be high on my list, given that I’ve already pre-ordered one. ^^

Also got meself a canon 400D with a wide lens recently. While I’m not so dilligent in going around taking photos, I’ve taken advantage of my leave to prance around downtown, camera in tow.

More wintry pictures should come in the next week or so depending on my industriousness. =P

Beijing Olympics

Women’s gymnastics action ^^

Wonder if it is Pedobear approved? ^^;;

via Digg

Time of the year

To register Japanese language proficiency test!

It has been five long years since I’ve taken any formal Japanese lessons. Even when I was taking the train home after registering I was lost in memories of the time spent studying Japanese as an elective in the local university.

I remember going out of my way to get myself into the elective even though I failed to convince some of my friends to take the class with me, as such I was quite trepidacious about going to a class where I didn’t know anyone. ^^;;

Surprisingly the Japanese teachers at my university was not that bad and I rather enjoyed the lessons even they were longer than the usual classes I had to take. Doing primary school styled class activities was slightly embrassing but somehow managed to overcome it. =P

今年の試験をがんばります！

Dragonica

For those not in the MMO loop, Dragonica is a side-scrolling MMO with cutesy chibi avatars. Erm, that’s about all I know as I’ve only learn about this game’s existance through am old gaming buddy of mine recently. Localisation was done by IAHgames who also brought us Granado Espada and Hellgate London, they’re not the biggest gaming company in singapore but better than a certain huge company whose flagship product is also a side-scroller (hint hint)

Dragonica Official Trailer

Posting this because Dragonica’s CBT Alpha II is out! Received my invitation to Alpha II this morning, sad thing was that the buddy who egged me to signed up did not receive one. Damn.

Gameplay

Actually it doesn’t look very inpressive as compared to, say, Granado Espada ^^;

Also reminds me of another combo type game Cabal that I’ve tried before and dropped like a ton of bricks. *cough* Anyway since I’ve already signed up there’s no harm in trying (free games yay?)

Awwww… So cute…

Class concept art – Fighter

Mage

Thief

Archer

*Top image from MMOsite and concept art from Dragonica wiki