音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

A few years ago, I loved Bilson's performance of Mozart piano sonata immediately, without knowing it was played on a fortepiano instead of a modern piano (I still can't really tell the difference now though). Since then, in addition of my addiction to Sir Gardiner's Mozart performances, I was extremely pleased to discover their collaboration on Mozart piano concertos later. Some people don't like that they used a fortepiano, and said it sounds like a toy. However, I've listened to many versions including big names like Uchida Mitsuko, and still prefer this "less rich" fortepiano's tone the most.

And finally I added this into my physical copy collection. After almost 3 weeks of waiting, it arrived on Monday afternoon, and my disc drive began to spin like a centrifuge that evening.

(But I only ripped them, completely forgot the tagging (fortunately I have a script to batch read track list from existing cue files)! Σ( ﾟдﾟ)；

The only complaint I'd have to say is that the booklet has only one real photo. It would be greater if there're more.
→ Another fact of mine: I like middle aged men with big glasses!! （*´▽｀*）

On the same Monday, I went to Walmart and got an KOKIAngel-food pan. Although cakes from it are supposed to fluffy, my first try using it today didn't turn out that well. But actually, such a pan really helped to keep the surface flat, and thus I'm happy.

I mean, it's soft, but not as fluffy as I expected. Perhaps the reason was the amount of material. All recipes I found were using a 17 cm pan, while what I bought was about 24 cm -- the only kind Walmart has!
Next time I'll go up to 7 eggs. The crazy big world. u_u

On my way going to Walmart, I saw this was simply beautiful, like falling sakura.

But I'm pretty sure they're not sakura petals!

On the other hand, baking is definitely easier than making wagashi. I tried to make some daifuku today as well, but the resulted stuff never was even like a manju! orz

Fine. I swear I'll never try them again (but I do want to try making some youkan once I get a pressure cooker and some agar powder). To be honest, parsing gigabytes of plain text won't making me so disorganised.

At least, during programming, "die and rebirth" can be done over and over, but during wagashi-making, there's only one chance per set of prep.

In this sense, playing with "C-sharp" is also easier..

Meanwhile, I'm more confident on omu-rice though.

As long as you don't pick on the top egg cover!

今はいろいろ複雑なんです。だから、KOKIAさんのニューアルバムを買えなくて、聴くことすらできません。
→　だって、去年は「女の子でありますように」と願ったのに、結局何もかも私の側からすれ違いました。
いつもそうなのかな、なにか一生懸命思っても想っても、必ずほかの落ちになる。私の願いは、呪われたかもしれないですね。
志方あきこさんの「オトシモノ」がボーカル化されたのは叶ったけど‥

結論：1/2の確率なんて私は絶対に賭けたくはありません！

On last Wednesday, I went back to the just-moved-in new place. My room mate said her nyanko was lost. I hoped it won't be a bad incident happened right after the move-in. But I somehow felt everything would be just alright.

↓ and I was right:

She was hiding under the frame-only bed. Perfect height for her! xD

But indeed, she's strong. 3 days after, she's already sleeping in ease like this:

and on me.. (thus I couldn't move. xD;;)

and I believe I only have 3 stuffed toys..

When was M3? As less music was of my interest, the only source letting me being aware of it is (mainly) Haruka's twitter.

Annabel did have an album too, but sadly, it's completely out of my favourite style. -- I really wish binaria could have some actual audio releases, instead of a wooden-made-ish USB drive and other "solid" goods.

However, even though not being a shota-con, I have no complaints toward Haruka's Lanjerd series (although I stopped digging much into the story since its 2nd single). A film or 12-episode anime could be done (as the booklet is made in this way).

Yet, when I saw the last page of its booklet... Akiko, and now Haruka... 何じゃみんな中二病や、としか思わなかった…
↑ But, this is how a story is made, isn't it? -- In terms of this, I'm the same.
Glad to see a happy end. (o・ω・o)

The happiest moment to me isn't going to KOKIA or even the Vienna New Year's concert, but is to hold a cat tight and let her purring in my arms -- Cats are so elegant that I can never refuse! （*´▽｀*）

→ Xperia Arc's another magic: turning a cat into a ghost.

This cat, at least from my shot, looks unhappy, and its pupil and iris are all together black, making it like a lingering ghost in a haunted house apartment. But it may (yet very possibly) due to my miserable camera sensor, as in that day, I didn't bring my real camera with me, and from that far, there's no other way but to force zoom in for a close-up shot..

I sent these pictures to my friend during the night, and she said she's scared -- even though they themselves are in a quite bright afternoon!

The whole March and April are crammed up, that I couldn't find a chunk of time to do any "serious colour harmonisation" while enjoying the new buddy ClipStudio.
Regardless, I've got one unfinished at a progress of 3/5, and one pencil draft, plus this (again) unfinished doodle.

Anyway, the experience with ClipStudio is excellent (but drawing on a Surface is too smooth to get used to quickly)!

To keep myself sane, I avoided "caTra" and switched to loop Mozart's piano concertos over the past 2 weeks, but very often, when I try to sing a piece of melody, Akiko's "PF alpha" will be one of the top options.
So like what I decided last time, I eventually spent this weekend to figure out the musical pattern of the first track of caTra.

My goal was simple, to obtain a playable sheet music for this unique petite toccata. I'm glad she sang them in note names, which making the "dissection" much easier (in this case, it's also much faster to just write down in the numbered notation).
↓ Although in the second half, it was all like these crazy progressions.

So far, the machine produced organ version, although emotion-less, sounds good. Just like how one plays Bach's toccatas.
To me, even Sound Horizon's "Baroque" isn't really that Baroque, but Akiko's this "PF alpha" (my personalised nickname for the long title) has gone across the borderline of my standard for the Baroque style. :3

I'm fairly aware of that it's impossible to actually produce those 32nd's, but I think I can make something for the rest parts.
-- Not that good, but it's indeed fun!
While processing the 30 seconds, I gradually understood and began to feel how a mutagen changes genetic sequences in living cells. xD;

Too bad this song isn't in d minor (it begins with 1 flat = F major though)..