音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

So strange. Even I can't recall any phrase of this Kalafina song, this was the very title popped up in my mind for the later block.

Timpani simply make me happy, either from Mozart's "Voi signor, che giusto siete" or Kawai Kenji's "Hanamoyu Main Theme". While the latter is my newest refresher. Although, in my case, as long as I have plenty of Kenji's gorgeous timpani, I don't really care about who does the vocal. It features a special person and it's really "fun" to see these two names being together again. I did hesitate while editing my cue sheet, but just like what I said, I'd go with Kenji this time even that's Akiko doing the back voice. However, let me be picky as well, the only drawback is this track is too short. I want to enjoy Kenji's timpani their collaboration longer!
--Too much strikethrough? It can't be helped! I can't give in Kenji's orchestra + chorus arrangement, it's way too impressive to let me go with Akiko. What can I do? (´・_・`)

Speaking of Mozart, music arrangement for the scene when the Count lifts the dress that covers Cherubino is... so marvellous! Also, the final choruses of his the most three famous operas are all so loop-able! =ω=

花燃ゆ、私も燃える～
Time for some pre-liner notes~

Yes, let me collect the flag: My daughters are the prettiest! (>ω<)

I spent a while to doodle the initial draft, which I don't know how long exactly it cost.
--No, the only person who can view (and understand how to make use of) my scribbling draft is myself.
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~8 hours to make the entire outline. Here I was in another Mozart mood. The harpsichord was driving me crazy, in terms of its spelling (I kept spelling as "harpischord"..) and its appearance (you know the doodle doesn't have to be detailed)! At first I considered using AI to make it, but the lines would look too straight to go smoothly with parts. Moreover, I did ignored some fine details: how I should draw the keyboards, and where exactly I should place her fingers -- actually I don't know the answer, and I'm not aiming for accuracy anyway.

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~4 hours to play around with paint bucket. The most fun part was to assign colours to the dress. Initially I tried some bright and lovely colours, but eventually fixed my mind with the somehow "formal" black+red combination. Also, I omitted the bows, since I'm lazy. orz My Mozart mood still lingers. -- By the way, the score is Mozart's K.545 ( ´∀｀)ノ

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~2 hours to do the shadows and other edits. A hidden theme of this drawing was designed to be "feathers", so I spent quite a lot of time to deal with their hairpins. Hope they don't look unbalanced (at least I don't think so). No screen shot for my fb2k, but I was listening to "Le Nozze di Figaro" (which was why it was mentioned at the very beginning).

Apparently no more time tonight for me to do the final make up (unless I have a day off tomorrow). I'll leave it to next week. At current moment, I myself don't know how it will look like! Maybe this time I should attach a DG label and create a just-for-fun CD jacket!

It was sunny this morning, yet it was snowing. Snowing, or maybe I should say tiny hexagons falling--whatever, simply watching these crystals made me happy. "So why are all snowflakes hexagonal?" I tried to think about it. I'm pretty sure we were introduced such a topic when I was in elementary school, but apparently I remember nothing.
Nature is full of secrets, like a woman~

But how wonderful, you have both a sunny sky and falling snow. The entire city was in pure white, as if being made from sugar.
So let's call it sugar snow!

At that moment, even the best fortune-teller wouldn't tell I would buy some ice-cream this evening--I didn't know this myself either.
Like I said, in last week I was very unhappy with my got-for-free iphone. However, owning an extra phone means I could play around with my android without worrying about breaking it and lose the basic phone access.
--at least you have the chance to tweak the little green robot before becoming a super hacker.

I did think my goal was straightforward: to update the v2.3.4 to a newer version. I'm well aware of that google play kindly removed any apps that can't run on my gingerbread, which stopped me enjoying more developed features that are only available with a higher version.
First, (without knowing any single piece of android related information,) I attempted to install the newest lollipop. The ROM was there and was claimed to be suitable for my Xperia, but soon I realised such an update couldn't be done as easy as how you do with your laptop--the boot loader of mine was, sadly, not allowed to be unlocked.
Fine, since it looked a bit dangerous to force unlock it, I then aimed to the much safer official Ice-Cream Sandwich.

With zero experience, the very first step: flash the firmware sounded scary. But you're working with android, there will always be plenty of sources ready for you, and your machine keeps its well-being. It sparsely took two days, but I learned so much--better than just press 'update' and wait and got lost when iphone got stuck itself.
Once you have tried it, you'll know it's not really hard at all. And the more important, it was fun! Goodbye the useless apps coming with the brand!!

Perhaps I will eventually process to dive further to unlock the boot loader someday, but for today, as a small celebration of accomplishing something for my little Ando-chan, I bought some Ice-Cream (didn't make any sandwich though :p).

P.S. Loving this drawing so much. Ando-chan kawaii~<3

At last, the closing (also flagging) statement:
--My daughters are the prettiest!

As if waking up from hibernation, it's time to write something as a record of my recent life:

In my opinion, there're three types of people who use apple stuff -- people who:
1. are apple fans,
2. received one for free,
3. don't know how to use computers/related electronic devices.

and I believe I belong to the second, if it ever happens.

The first thing I did after the 1+ month vacuum was to get a new SIM card and to activate my new "object that is doomed to be blamed": an iphone5.
A petit and fun interlude: I spent almost 1 hour to browse all the available numbers. Since I didn't find any ended by "4869", which is my top choice, I had to choose between my secondary preferences: "1412", "1812" and "4649". The result: Tchaikovsky won~

Right after I activated the new SIM, it couldn't find the network. Since it's pretty normal, I decided to make the thing happy by upgrading its system so I could figure out about the network issue afterwards.
But what followed wasn't making me happy at all. The second time start-logo-loading bar stopped moving at near 95%. When I googled, someone said the update may take 30 minutes to hours.

Fine, I should do something else while waiting. My LipAura(=laptop)'s fan has turning like mad since last November. For many times I wanted to do an in-depth clean-up but I didn't. Seemed today it was the chance. I removed all screws to take out the disk driver and expose (a small part of) the green mother-board-ish thing (I'm bad at hardware ^^;). Unfortunately I couldn't make it to reach the fan. I think I roughly used up half can of compressed air, and I could see the dust got blown everywhere -- there's a layer of dust stuck on the outer surface of my disk driver...
Before I only did simple dust removing around the vents (which apparently didn't work well). This time, spending about 30 minutes eventually took effect -- As quiet as nothing is running~
--and it was still around 95%.

If so, perhaps I should go challenging myself by watching the newest (raw) Detective Conan special:

Not bad, for the entire 1.5 hours, I understood 95%.
--and it was still around 95%, what the hell?!

The worst could be wait until it runs out of battery, until I figured out how to force shut down. And the second boot up finally had no problem.
Anyway, this can't prevent me complaining. 1, a simple USB-connection doesn't turn it to a small drive; 2, the initial screen has so many icons that I'll never use -- my android came with a clean screen; 3, the app centre asks me to enter my password if I quit once -- my android doesn't; 4, there's no google Japanese IME and its built-in IME is hard to use, plus, there's no plenty of good-enough (and free) apps to let me choose; 5, there's no hole to allow me to attach a strip -- don't mention the add-ons (=extra $$).

At last, due to my afternoon-evening fight, I haven't got a chance to open them... u_u

As a non-apple user, it's my fault to even try one. I miss my Xperia!! Σ(ﾟдﾟ)#

>I'll try to collect all the following sound clips as my future ring/msg-tones:

• biohazard 4's 「ありえんなぁ」、「う◯こだ捨てろう！」、「また会おうぅぅ」
• Rorona/Totori's "たーる"
• the antique doll (in Corpse Party)'s evil laugh (which I already recorded)

>A guy's standard of judging about "erotic" is too subtle (?) to me that I probably won't understand forever...

>Ichika-chan and me -- It had been 10 years!!