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Have a cute Cirno! | Source 

Happy Cirno Day 2015 edition! Be cool, have an ice cream till you freeze!

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⑨ Cirnos for this ⑨ Day | Source

Back again for the yearly blog revival. It's Cirno Day 2014!

Since last Cirno Day, lots of things happened... but the one thing that will never change is that Cirno is the strongest ice fairy around!

Abyssal Cirno could be even stronger... | Source

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Today revives this dead blog very briefly! Hooray!
Happy Cirno ⑨ Day! May the Strongest Ice Fairy of Gensokyo grant you a freezingly good day!

Care for a freeze? | Source

Haganai : The NEXT Marathon

And again, I was able to convince my brother to finish up the second season of Haganai as well.

Even more fun and antics, now with short hair Yozora! More Rika (and her various cosplays), more Kobato, more Meat/Sena, more Yukimura and more fun!

Some the love and relationships get more serious as the fight for Kodaka and for the club's sake converge! Frankly though I don't remember much fine details (due to the nature of marathoning), I still find this to be a great sequel to an already nice show. Now, I'm patiently waiting for the eventual second season: the journey to find Yozora and reunite the club!

Haganai Marathoned

I marathoned the series with my bro today. After being stalled on episode 4 for a while, I decided to get the whole series randomly, and just watch as much as I can. Turns out my bro really likes it too so we just marathoned the thing.

The characters are fun and so are all the antics! At first I thought it was going to go the typical harem route, but the way they handled it was quite okay.

I like Rika, despite the fact that she's a crazy fujoshi. Kodoka is a pretty nice MC too, and of course Kobato is great. Yozora sometimes gets too extreme, but that's part of her charm. Same with Meat Sena too, though someone I was ticked off at her at first, but again she's alright. And then of course Yukimura, being the trap maid samurai.

Legend of the What?

RO2 official released today...

And I completely forgot about it while playing TERA instead.

Frankly, though it did end up being a nice nostalgia fest, it was missing way too much of what made the original so good (other than the grindinest). Plus, I heard there was now full English voice acting? I actually kind of liked the Korean since hearing bad English VAs in RPGs is always a let down (like TERA).

In the end I actually didn't even boot up my client to download the new out-of-beta update. I'll just keep it there and listen to the conveniently MP3 BGM music instead.

Sad that after all these years of waiting, it was quite a letdown. I would play it a bit more, but there's really not much left to try.

Park, Soccer, Fish, Ice Cream, Elixir

The events of the day, in reverse order:

We visited some Ice Cream/gelato/yogurt place. Since it's by the weight, the pricing was almost always going to be off. I didn't get any since I got to...

Randomly visit the Japanese food/snack store downtown. The inside ice cream booth was closed sadly. However, I got my $2 Calpis/Calpico. Precious elixir for cheap.

We went to a chicken wing place. We didn't get the spicy stuff, but I did get the daily special : a fish sandwich. If you want a decently cheaper item, just get daily specials. There were large amount of varied fries (potato and yam) plus huge onion rings. It was decent and quite filling.

We were heading back to the bus to find food, but the park was quite big so we were walking around and around for a while.

We had fun times in the park. Frisbee catching, soccer playing, food eating, and ginger ale spilling. It's a good thing the mat I had was wooden.

Games and Wind

It was incredibly windy today. The lack of jacket was a bad idea, so it was a good thing I slept a lot.

We played dancing games galore on the Kinect. I had fun rigging it since it only detects the position of your hands for the most part.

Also, there was tons of food plus Jello and cake and cake. Yum!

AKB's 2013 Budokan Live

Almost 3 hours of staying up too late for the Budokan concert streamed on Youtube Music Week. Please kindly disregard any errors from this old and long post. This was largely compiled live, with a bit of resources to back up and correct any points I missed. (stuff in brackets are comments/corrections after the fact)

Also, as you may have noticed it is quite informal and leaves out a lot of details/events that you can find everywhere else.

AKB48 Budokan/Youtube 2013

Jane Doe start (Interesting...)

Skirt Hirari by HKT or NMB? (nope not even close)

Robo dancing with Mayuyu and Rena + two others (Tashima Meru, Tomonaga Mio)

Sayanee center w/ Takamina + Yuuko singing "Cross". (Wonderful.)

Kojiharu in lingerie... (singing that Garter song.)

JKT48 River (Quite a surprising to see them here, but they were quite good.)

Yukirin Flying Get Center. (Nice!)

Sayaka Center w/ Sae(!) and Mariko and Maria and... Ami.

Moeno graduating (A sad day indeed...)

MC session with Sasshi (teary over Moeno), Sayanee, Rema and Yukirin. Most likely talking about cutest members of HKT48. (hauu I wanna take you home~)

(Then starts the "battles")

JKT vs HKT .
HKT vs NMB.
NMB vs SKE.

Akarin being flexible.

AKB... 48!! (by all of the 48 family)
And Mayuyu being a DJ.

Then that charity song for the Earthquake relief.

ENCORE

Starting off with two new songs and Sayonara Crawl.

Then a huge Shoujotachi + First Rabbit for everyone. Chaotic fun ensues.

Announcement (and Shuffles) Time

5 domes tour was announced.

Hirari promoted to Team K! Yes, very good for her!

Kirarie, Yuihan and co are back to AKB with their concurrent roles canceled... (except for the Double Matsui pair). SKE48 was confused and quite pissed at Kitarie's transfer, especially with the error in announcments too.

Sae is back from SDN... however she's not looking very pleased.

Sasshi is now Double HKT48 Team Manger. I'm not sure what to feel.


In the end it was a great concert with some awesome announcements, but also a huge amount of sad and confusing announcements.

Ocean and Light Concerts

I felt quite Light today about the Ocean.


One about a big blue wave.

And the other about and essential element of life (and electronics).

Not that great mixing in general. Bass was too much, feedback galore during the wave, plus the lack of compensation for the unplugged instruments (like the great flute). Though in the end it was quite good with all the shakers and tambourines.

The electronics were interesting, though somehow I was more interested in the lighting halfway through. It did indeed evoke some great feelings at the end. I guess that's the concert feeling when you're having fun with a ton of people.

Island of art and fun

Libraries of art schools are great.

And so are those novelty shops near these types of places.

Also business cards are expensive. Especially those super custom made ones.

Jumps and Bubbles

Trampolines. Back extending pain. The act of non-flipping. Dodgeball.

Bubble Tea at a "royal" place. Orange + Dark chocolate do not mix well.

Then some bits playing Tera. I tried out a Warrior cause it seemed like fun. Also, Elin because they are just so darn cute.

Battle Games and Nerf Battle

I had some good fun playing some video games with some buddies today. Being beaten by casual AI's in NHL has never been so fun. With 6 players too.

Plus we played some of that PlayStation Super Smash clone. Strange and somehow not as satisfying. The instakill supers are quite unbalanced, as well as some of the characters. Though I guess that's the same problem across all fighting games.

Afterwards, we had a bit of FPS play with some sniper only head shot only matches. The knife is quite cheap. I also pulled out a sub machine gun in the end for fun.

Then comes the best part of the day (other than the pizza intermission).

We had some impromptu indoor nerf battles involving rifles, pistols, a rocket launcher and even a machine gun. It was indeed quite fun, especially since it was quite unexpected. One friend brought his arms while the other had them all in his home armory (bro's room).

Indeed I enjoyed it, though I was quite tired in the end.

Great Incredible Joe

Explosions.

A waved of destruction of a huge city. And also some ninja battles.

Plus an incredibly cheesy script.

All together in one Hasbro sponsored package.


Then some late night super oily but incredibly tasty beef brisket wonton noodle mix.

(This is the start of "the long late break" where posts from the ether have resurfaced after the interest in my blog waned a huge amount)

Some boards, and some Kung Fu

Boards games in a room with some friends.

Then a movie with some Kung Fu. It was apparently a sequel to something, so I was a bit lost at first. The effects and the general aesthetics were quite good. I especially liked the whole Kung Fu VS technology thing going on. The steam-punk inspired machines were great with all those gears and such. And the humour was spot-on almost every time it came up.

Another Day the Last Day of Beta

Yet another day of Ragnarok Online 2. And turns out it's also the final day of open beta testing for the North American servers.

I guess I joined a bit late, as I certainly didn't notice any huge bugs, though the amount of Engrish was still quite prominent. I wonder if they will continue to keep the Korean voice acting.

Also, I didn't even get a chance to try out the other classes and professions. All I had was a Magician Alchemist. She had green hair and these puffy princess curls. She looked pretty much like a certain green haired character in AKB0048 and was named respectively. Next time I'll be sure to name her after her voice actor instead, as a way to give thanks to her greatness during her stay in the 48 family.

Just a few more weeks until the official release, and I'll speed run through to level 25. I must try out those skills before I eventually quit this game.

Back to Mjolnir: Starting up Ragnarok 2 Again

It says "Legend of the Second" in that small subtitle.

Back again to Ragnarok 2! This time it looks a bit different from its previous incarnation.

I still remember the old Ragnarok 2 back in its perpetual beta. The few things I remember were the amazing Yoko Kanno music (that title screen music is awesome) and the inclusion of a gunslinger class from the get-go. Also the strange class-swap system that I happened to see in another MMO called Holic. I always wondered who came up with the idea first.

Of course the first Ragnarok 2 wasn't successful, so they had to revive it again. This time it's quite a bit closer to the old Ragnarok, but I still feel that it's lacking in enough nostalgia. I mean sure, the skill names and the Porings are great, but the lack of Novice class and subsequently the job change quests, plus the really simplified card system (that I still love to collect) among other things were what hit me.

I still don't mind playing the game, though it might be due to my long absence from MMORPGs in general or due to the nostalgia filtering in slightly due to all the familiar monsters and skills. I might play for a bit more till the 2nd job change or I might just quite early, but since this is beta I can mess around for a bit more.

Anyways, off to "enjoy" fetch quests and deliveries.

And actually enjoy Yoko Kanno's music!



Also, I somehow got tired when I drank this interestingly bad tasting beverage. Not quite the reaction I expected.

Robo Bug vs Clone; Plus "Baby" Form

Just pitching in on the discussion about the new movie.

Seems like our good old legendary Psychic type has a new form. And a new voice too!

Also, the extremely speedy Bug type is on the job being the villainous artificially enhanced Pokemon. Does it have good intentions hidden within?

Well one thing is for sure, the trailer does seem quite pretty and hints of X & Y are bound to show up.

Plus the extra little Pikachu and Eeveelutions mini-movie has the newest Eeveelution yet! Voiced by Shoko Nakagawa! And narrated by Atsuko Maeda! Hooray for Shokotan and Acchan, I'm sure they'd make for a great duo.

The Final Run and Rest

Finally we are done.

After almost 8 hours into a new day we finally have the chance to rest ourselves.

I just hope that we can still make it.

Time to rest and finally be done with school for now.


And I continue to cheer on my partners who have their final work due tomorrow. Good luck!

No time for Rest: The Final Run

After resting up for a bit comes the final project report.

Will we be able to finish on time?

Will we have to stay up again?

That will be answered tomorrow. However, things are not looking that great at the moment.