音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Like Joachim, I believe I also have 3 phases: normal, yuri/moe and zombie (and if Shadow Hearts series has PS3 digital download version that'll be a definitely buy!). Right now I must be the zombie. No exaggeration, continuing doing that for 10 days made all my bones locked.
>> The trade-off for 100% willpower is, to have 0% of HP left.

If I decide to do something, I'll for most of times complete it quick without much delay, but in contrast, if I leave it behind, no one knows how long it can be.
This applies to what I just did as well. I bought it 5 years ago, and did less than 1%, until last week. I eventually decided to give it a conclusion otherwise I can leave it for another 5 years. So that my tank of willpower was full, which made me rushed to the end in 10 days.
-- and just now I got an email from Animate saying my copy of "wokashi" has been shipped, which means my currently pending drawing is again late (regardless it's like 85% done)! xD;;
But at least I did something.

10 days, and I think I'm not slow. I've been leaving my other things aside only for that, and I didn't think I can hold for another week. Maybe it's true for most people, that when you're desperate, your mind may have so many unusual thoughts. During the second half of doing this, my mind wasn't expecting a beautiful piece; instead, I kept thinking, "the butterflies must be extremely poisonous, see these bright colour combinations!"
When I managed to finish everything by 16:00 today, suddenly all my nerve cells began to go hibernation. Now I feel my hands have lost all their sense on how to type on a laptop's keyboard. I know I need a break. Although it's to be ironed, I don't have any more interest to do it, at least not today. More importantly, I get to ask my mum how to iron it as I can't do ironing properly. orz
However, to be honest, the happiest thing after it's done was: I can finally cut my fingernails. I had to keep them or the entangled threads could drive me hysterical.

I'm not going to write much today, my brain is already blank. If there's anything doesn't make sense, that's not my fault. ( _ ) ﾟ ﾟ

I saw this tweet in the very morning, and liked it so much so I'm embedding it here:

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— スガシカオ@フォロバ中 (@shikaosuga) August 31, 2015

the reason is this. Anyway, he made me want to refeel Higurashi! xD -- Although I don't think I'll actually watch it again. The last time I watch an anime was probably back to this February.

I don't know how. But that annoying thing just made its way onto my working PC. At first I saw the interface of a program running in the system tray. I didn't pay attention and simply assumed it's a junk software came along some free package. I went to control panel and uninstalled it, but the real mess began after. More and more often I got pop-ups/embedded ad's that couldn't be blocked by my only one browser Opera; eventually I noticed the poisonous name appearing beside.
It took a few days when I reached the conclusion that it's a virus/malware/whatever -- I've been quite calm while dealing with such things actually. So I did a quick scan and it detected an unknown bug. Of course I selected to remove it, and even reinstalled Opera. However, seemed this time the crappy bug liked this PC and resisted to go.

As previous uninstallation didn't work, and Opera's extension manager didn't list it, I decided to google for some others' experiences.
-- And quickly learned it's useless.
Most most search results told me to install this or that, which are all a sort of antivirus software. No way! I was already like a cat with flatten ears; if the only thing I could do was to install another sound-like-rubbish-or-even-another-virus "antivirus" program, I'd rather to reinstall the whole OS.

So, before I proceed to the awkward yet effective ultimate resort, I gave myself a last try.
If people, or even Microsoft itself, say that Microsoft Security Essentials isn't that good, I don't care. I've been using it all the time since 2009 and had no security issue (until now?).
To not only maintain my trust toward this program, as well as to not bother with finding/trying/evaluating a third party alternative, this time I gave it a full scan, which I hardly perform (it's not my own computer, so I'm lazy). Again, the same bug was there. It looked like the previous removal request didn't work, or somehow it got a second life. Whatever, I took one more step by looking at the "details".
Perhaps at that moment I knew what to do. It did say "to remove these folders immadiately" with a list of about 7 virus-like directory names, all under "C:\Program Files (x86)". So that's the real reason? I couldn't tell, but I did know how to permanently remove them.
Things afterwards were straightforward. Reboot, re-full-scan (nothing), uninstall and reinstall Opera just in case, and search in registry for "unlocker" just in case (again).
No more installation of unknown programs, no wipe out of OS, no much of hassle, and a happy end.

In last month, I tried out Chromixium and wanted to stay with it. But in last Wednesday, I eventually switched back to Linux Mint 17.2.
Hope I'm not like an idiot. orz
A couple of main reasons. 1) I can't make it to get used to an icon free desktop, 2) a better geared up mint should handle more tasks easier, 3) better compatibility, in terms of both soft and hard wares. P.S. the built in colourful icon sets are good!
Yet a few missing goods. 1) the cute icon set, 2) a less demanding running, 3) which is also the most important, a fully functioning fcitx-mozc. It's working on mint, but I can't bring out its settings and have to use ONLY the romaji mode -- I want kana input mode!!
I got Anthy worked with kana mode, but it's not as flexible as mozc (like by typing "kao" you can get tons of kaomoji). u_u
At least, I finally figured out how to separate the most of linux stuff from your home directly so you can switch between different versions. My future updates/try-outs/etc. will be less tiresome as I don't need to copy my stock music/videos any more!

I'm never a real penguin user; I use windows 99% of time. So a kana-less Japanese IME doesn't really hurt. ^^;

A "kamikaze" hachimaki!!
However, it's too wide while using in a normal way. So I decided to use it as a hairband.
ACTUALLY I DOUBT I'LL WEAR IT THAT OFTEN! lol

No. 2.1

Shimotsukin 10th anniversary Premium box! with her real signature!!! ≧▽≦

And another thing a piano can do nicely~

I initially wanted to make my own rips, but quicked dropped off the idea. There're 6 discs!! I don't want to wait and just hear my disc drive spinning. So I got a digital copy from someone else's rip.. ><''

No. 2.2

For Silent Hill, I'm okay to play EU or NA versions (with a desperate fight against the inverted X and O though), but I can't stand with how Biohazard is titled in non-Japan areas so I keep buying the JP version (thankfully that PS3 discs are region free! <3).

No. 3.1

And really it comes the expected desperate fight for the X and O switch. I'll see... ~_~

There're a few more items will be coming/released shortly, so I'll have a "part 2" when they're all gathered up~

- Last week it was mostly smokey, due to the wild fire from the west. I feel so bad for the trees, and nothing else.
- So far, I've managed to handle the basics of C,G,D,A,d minor (let me use it instead of F!!),B♭ and E♭. Surprisingly the one with the lowest compatibility is B♭! I myself don't understand, that how come the skipped over E♭ is easier?! The blessing of Umineko? :3
- Over the past two months, I've been completely owned by my roommate's cat! <333 And I've changed my mind again: I'll have at least two cats in future, and I'll call them Piccolo and Viola. As my mom also wants a dog, s/he will be called Timpani! xDDD
- Today's (wired) internet was even slower than James May! °A°

Suddenly I'm addicted to the concerto for flute and harp, K299. It's so sweet. In terms of my way of interpretation, flute = lemon and harp = honey => a refreshing taste!

Akiko's "wokashi" trailer is out, and thus my goal that to finish the over 1 month drawing was delayed again. I was completely drowned in the vocal version of "otoshimono", and couldn't stop looping even the short sound clip for almost half day. I'll see for how long I can loop when the full version is released. Sep. 16, I CAN WAIT!
Yet I don't think there's a point to release such a sample CD on Comiket. She could just use sound cloud or youtube instead.

"Otoshimono" simply stimulated all my synapses. Today, my mind was flooding, with quite a lot of imaginations. My current status must be having only 1 SP (=sanity point in Shadow Hearts). I even doodled a draft, which would be my next drawing, at work! But too bad I forgot to take it with me when I left. Hope no one touched my desk after. XDD;;

Now let me return to the topic of the long-lasting unfinished drawing.. no, it's not finished, finally.

My belated birthday gift~

Hinamatsuri Variation

Basically the same as a traditional hina-dan, but the five musicians are the main reason to use "variation" in its title. Apparently I'm much more with western classical music, and, I did think it would be fun to do so. From left to right, the five are usually arranged by the size of their instruments. So I kept the rule: harp, cello, violin, flute, and vocal. Perhaps only the vocal can be seen "unchanged" from the original.
Plus, it was such a different experience to combine western orchestra instruments and the traditional Japanese outfit. Yes, it was fun, really!

While to make the background wasn't a hard work, it was a heavy-duty process. Yesterday, when I was going to quit Photoshop, I checked and was amused by the giant temp file:

23 Giga! It indeed took a while to save the file. xD

FYI, initially the background and overall make-up were supposed to be patterns of wagashi, but I changed my mind and used chiyogami instead. Although I was thinking to drawing them individually, I quickly gave up the idea as it would then take me forever.
For the hina dolls, main references are this and this. All chiyogami patterns were directly obtained from here.

I don't own a set of hina dolls in real life, so at least let me own one with my desired design~
Not only the musicians, but also the female emperor.
=> 私の世界に男なんかは要りません！！例えどんなにスコット君が好きでいても、私はレオン×ハニガンを応援します！(´∀｀*)

Speaking of "Otoshimono", I tried to play its main melody, in a reversed fashion. The result was.. a bit weird, but very amusing. It first popped up when I picked up the sheets that fell onto the ground. And for a moment, I couldn't tell how I should place them until I saw the clef -- a piece had no sharps/flats or any other text. Maybe it could be a new way of self-entertaining, that to play a piece...
like this... ↓