...yet I still live!
1st
I got tired of my Heart no kuni no Alice layout and made a Will O Wisp (ウィル・オ・ウィスプ) one. I wanted to use another image (one of the main characters with their clothes exchanged xD) but the colour scheme didn't work out so I used the teatime illustration. I hope you guys like the new layout~~ :D
2nd
I've been trying to download the latest album from Love Solfege for a while now. I found ONE torrent and it never had any seeds. I almost bought the CD but instead I bought the latest Pop'n Music (Party 16) soundtrack and some random album from THE STAND UP. I kind of regretted it because I didn't like as many songs as I thought I would in the PnM OST. The ones I really liked were short version only and the ones I didn't care much for had long versions! ^^;;; (Why is it always that way?!)
This week I decided to leave the torrent software open and miraculously it downloaded all day yesterday. It stopped in the evening at 99.6% (again, WHY!?!). It's a .rar file so I couldn't do anything but wait. I left it overnight and the missing 0.4% downloaded, much to my relief. x____x
It turned out to be CUE and TAK files. The CUE wouldn't burn on a CD because it needed the TAK file but nothing I had recognized the TAK file. I looked online and no one seemed to know TAK files. I finally found a reply on some random forum saying to get the foobar2000 music player. It sounded like strange advice to me (especially since the person who wrote it had a 'so' every two words and didn't make much sense). I had nothing else to go on, so I downloaded it. It didn't work, BUT, it worked after I downloaded the foobar2000 TAK decoder add-on. =____= So, now I finally have the Luxury ~ classical best CD!!!!!! :D
If anyone is interested, I put it up on sendspace Love Solfege - Luxury ~ classical best. (My favourite tracks so far are BABEL, Due destini, Ricordi and presto agitato).
**Edit Dec. 05th: Here is Love Solfege's older album La Fatalité for acexkeikai~♥ (I have another album from them somewhere 'Le Blanc et Le Noir', but I can't find it...)
Love Solfege - Mignon
I also found a way to access files from a .rar file I had gathering dust on my desktop. The Japanese characters in the compressed files names were corrupted and it wouldn't extract. I could access the files by double clicking on them and listen to them straight from the rar file though. I finally realized today that I just had to listen to the files in Media Player Classic and 'save as' the file with another name and outside of the rar file. I feel kind of stupid for not thinking about it sooner. ^^;;
I uploaded that to sendspace too in case someone wanted to listen. It's all of the 'Classic Collection' albums from La Corda D'oro. The files names were lost therefore I had to improvise from CDJAPAN's track info. Some of the track titles are probably inaccurate but I did my best! ^^;
La Corda D'oro - Character Classic Collection
3rd
I am so glad it's Friday! This week seemed interminable! I don't know why! I was doing something interesting at work this week up until today. (Today is tedious and boring, at least I have good music!)
Last Wednesday was the last sewing meet for this semester. It starts again sometime in January (14th I think?). Before I moved I had bought two kinds of blouse fabric to remake the Blouse of the Devil (aka Mitsuru's) but I didn't have my pattern with me when I bought it. I explained the blouse to the salesperson and she assured me I would have plenty of fabric with 1.6 metre. I was doubtful because the blouse is all puffed long sleeves and (hell raised) pin tucks but she said she sewed blouses all the time. I trusted her. Much later, I finally gather the courage to dig around for my fabric boxes and realize with horror that the back of my pattern specifies 2.6 metres. Precisely, ONE meter more than what I had bought. I was really discouraged because: one, it was fabric from the summer collection and is now long gone at the store, two, I really love the fabric and it's just perfect for the Blouse (That Got Kicked Out Of Hell).
I asked my sewing teacher if there was anything that could be done and she worked a miracle somehow. We managed to cram nearly all of the pieces on 1.6 metre of fabric; I'm still not sure how we managed it. The only thing we had to change was remove the (nightmarish) pin tucks from the sleeves, which I was pondering doing before I realized I had less fabric and the ones from the back, which I was going to remove anyway. We also took out piece 4, and replaced it by adding some fabric to the front piece.
I hope I can make myself work on it during the holidays. I want to finish it before the sewing meets start again in 2009. I should really find a cosplay idea and get that started in 2009. x___x I don't even know who to cosplay. Usually, I'm more inspired but this year I didn't play games much. It's very time consuming and expensive.
4th
I've been looking up games and trying to find a suitable character. I know someone who will be cosplaying from Disgaea but none of the characters appeal to me. The female healer is cute but it's an unimportant character. I'm probably going to be on my own a lot this year. I want to pick a character that will be easily recognizable without other cosplayers from the same game around.
I noticed a new Suikoden (Tierkreis) coming out and looked at the characters but the problem with Suikoden is that it's hard to tell if the character will be a popular character or one of the 'collectible' ones. Personally, I like this character and this one too. The second one seems unimportant and she wasn't in any or the video trailers. The first one was featured in the trailer but she didn't play a major part. It's really hard to tell if that has any significance in the game. I think this character is important? I'm not sure I like her though.
There are also the Star Ocean remakes. The first one is out and the second is coming up this winter. I don't really like any of the characters/designs of the second one though. :/ The main female character of the first game seems fine. I'm worried she might have a terrible personality (if the female lead of the second and third games are anything to go by). Meh~~~
Can't wait for the weekend!! (I need to vacuum! XD)
I got tired of my Heart no kuni no Alice layout and made a Will O Wisp (ウィル・オ・ウィスプ) one. I wanted to use another image (one of the main characters with their clothes exchanged xD) but the colour scheme didn't work out so I used the teatime illustration. I hope you guys like the new layout~~ :D
2nd
I've been trying to download the latest album from Love Solfege for a while now. I found ONE torrent and it never had any seeds. I almost bought the CD but instead I bought the latest Pop'n Music (Party 16) soundtrack and some random album from THE STAND UP. I kind of regretted it because I didn't like as many songs as I thought I would in the PnM OST. The ones I really liked were short version only and the ones I didn't care much for had long versions! ^^;;; (Why is it always that way?!)
This week I decided to leave the torrent software open and miraculously it downloaded all day yesterday. It stopped in the evening at 99.6% (again, WHY!?!). It's a .rar file so I couldn't do anything but wait. I left it overnight and the missing 0.4% downloaded, much to my relief. x____x
It turned out to be CUE and TAK files. The CUE wouldn't burn on a CD because it needed the TAK file but nothing I had recognized the TAK file. I looked online and no one seemed to know TAK files. I finally found a reply on some random forum saying to get the foobar2000 music player. It sounded like strange advice to me (especially since the person who wrote it had a 'so' every two words and didn't make much sense). I had nothing else to go on, so I downloaded it. It didn't work, BUT, it worked after I downloaded the foobar2000 TAK decoder add-on. =____= So, now I finally have the Luxury ~ classical best CD!!!!!! :D
If anyone is interested, I put it up on sendspace Love Solfege - Luxury ~ classical best. (My favourite tracks so far are BABEL, Due destini, Ricordi and presto agitato).
**Edit Dec. 05th: Here is Love Solfege's older album La Fatalité for acexkeikai~♥ (I have another album from them somewhere 'Le Blanc et Le Noir', but I can't find it...)
Love Solfege - Mignon
I also found a way to access files from a .rar file I had gathering dust on my desktop. The Japanese characters in the compressed files names were corrupted and it wouldn't extract. I could access the files by double clicking on them and listen to them straight from the rar file though. I finally realized today that I just had to listen to the files in Media Player Classic and 'save as' the file with another name and outside of the rar file. I feel kind of stupid for not thinking about it sooner. ^^;;
I uploaded that to sendspace too in case someone wanted to listen. It's all of the 'Classic Collection' albums from La Corda D'oro. The files names were lost therefore I had to improvise from CDJAPAN's track info. Some of the track titles are probably inaccurate but I did my best! ^^;
La Corda D'oro - Character Classic Collection
3rd
I am so glad it's Friday! This week seemed interminable! I don't know why! I was doing something interesting at work this week up until today. (Today is tedious and boring, at least I have good music!)
Last Wednesday was the last sewing meet for this semester. It starts again sometime in January (14th I think?). Before I moved I had bought two kinds of blouse fabric to remake the Blouse of the Devil (aka Mitsuru's) but I didn't have my pattern with me when I bought it. I explained the blouse to the salesperson and she assured me I would have plenty of fabric with 1.6 metre. I was doubtful because the blouse is all puffed long sleeves and (hell raised) pin tucks but she said she sewed blouses all the time. I trusted her. Much later, I finally gather the courage to dig around for my fabric boxes and realize with horror that the back of my pattern specifies 2.6 metres. Precisely, ONE meter more than what I had bought. I was really discouraged because: one, it was fabric from the summer collection and is now long gone at the store, two, I really love the fabric and it's just perfect for the Blouse (That Got Kicked Out Of Hell).
I asked my sewing teacher if there was anything that could be done and she worked a miracle somehow. We managed to cram nearly all of the pieces on 1.6 metre of fabric; I'm still not sure how we managed it. The only thing we had to change was remove the (nightmarish) pin tucks from the sleeves, which I was pondering doing before I realized I had less fabric and the ones from the back, which I was going to remove anyway. We also took out piece 4, and replaced it by adding some fabric to the front piece.
I hope I can make myself work on it during the holidays. I want to finish it before the sewing meets start again in 2009. I should really find a cosplay idea and get that started in 2009. x___x I don't even know who to cosplay. Usually, I'm more inspired but this year I didn't play games much. It's very time consuming and expensive.
4th
I've been looking up games and trying to find a suitable character. I know someone who will be cosplaying from Disgaea but none of the characters appeal to me. The female healer is cute but it's an unimportant character. I'm probably going to be on my own a lot this year. I want to pick a character that will be easily recognizable without other cosplayers from the same game around.
I noticed a new Suikoden (Tierkreis) coming out and looked at the characters but the problem with Suikoden is that it's hard to tell if the character will be a popular character or one of the 'collectible' ones. Personally, I like this character and this one too. The second one seems unimportant and she wasn't in any or the video trailers. The first one was featured in the trailer but she didn't play a major part. It's really hard to tell if that has any significance in the game. I think this character is important? I'm not sure I like her though.
There are also the Star Ocean remakes. The first one is out and the second is coming up this winter. I don't really like any of the characters/designs of the second one though. :/ The main female character of the first game seems fine. I'm worried she might have a terrible personality (if the female lead of the second and third games are anything to go by). Meh~~~
Can't wait for the weekend!! (I need to vacuum! XD)