Who would have ever thought!
Cosplay? Comics? Games? Japanese stands? Where?
PISA?!!!!! O____________________O [click click]
this is a first! I just found out and it's this weekend >< The cosplay competition is actually the Italian selections for the European Cosplay Summit O___O Hope I'll be able to go have a look at what they're doing.
In the meantime, I have a Japanese dinner planned tomorrow with my ex-Japanese course buddies ^__^
So, I have a lot to do, and nothing to do. You know that feeling, right? Like, in your head you know you got loads of overdue work, but somehow can't manage to pinpoint one thing to do XD
Scandals!
What's with this Naohito scandal >< The playboy image doesn't fit him at all. I wonder how this will affect his creer from now on T__T
The reputation of actor/singer Naohito Fujiki has taken a serious blow due to allegations of an affair. Fujiki, 35, has been married since December 2005 and had his first child one year later. But now an article in the latest issue of Shukan Bunshun says that he's been fooling around.
According to the magazine, Fujiki's lover is a cabaret club hostess in her late twenties. They apparently met last October while Fujiki was on tour. The woman says they hit it off immediately, and they carried on their affair. After learning that she was pregnant a month later, she says she was urged by Fujiki to have an abortion, and was even given several million yen.
When asked about the matter, Fujiki's agency said they were unable to comment for now due to the absence of his manager.
source: Tokyograph
And the Pi x Yuu rumors have come back again >__> People have nothing better to do (and apparently me neither, since I go around reading that stuff XD)
So... Johnny's. So many solo projects going on this summer ne~ For some reason I got fired up most about Okura's solo concert. Wanna go wanna go wanna go ><
Change of subject: New Dork? New Pork? New York?
When I saw that (I was at work) I was so gonna explode from ROTFLing XD
And apparently some Japanese think that their ability to express themselves vaguely is one of the things that make Japan/Japanese great --> Take a look at the top 20 list.
Summer talk, summer dramas:
So many interesting dramas, so little time. Code Blue yesterday was more interesting than ep01. Too bad ratings dropped to 16% (from a 21.2% for ep01)!
Some people were a little weirded out by Yamapi's character. Is it just me or is Aizawa arrogant? It's not you. That's the way the character is. Yamapi says in one of his jweb entries, "if you felt that Aizawa was irritating it means I did a good job."
Yesterday's episode had 2 outbursts that didn't come out too well. First from the heli nurse, then from Shiraishi. 2 scenes poorly performed. Yamapi was good. But maybe I'm biased. I hope not. I usually cringe when any one of the idols I like sings off key or acts poorly. I didn't cringe yesterday ^__^
Mao. Only watched half of it today 'cause I had to take my granny to the dentist's. Waiting for the RAW -which will hopefully come out faster than the one for CB. But I'm really loving Ono and Toma in this ^_^
Both Mao and Code Blue have great OSTs, and I'm addicted to both their theme songs, especially Code Blue's HANABI by Mr. Children. How can you not like that band. I love their music ^__^ I think I'm gonna buy this single when it comes out, and perhaps with it one of my favorite mista-chiru albums ^_^
Man, laptops are great, but during summer they're like heaters >< especially if you're working with them on your lap while sitting on the bed XD
Personal news: Work
After my sudden lack of work due to paper submission, my boss assigned me something new. Now comes the part I'm not too excited about. Gotta learn new languages.
I was checking out sed and on one site the following was written. I love the dude that wrote that site XDsed (stream editor) is a marvelous utility. Unfortunately, most people never learn its real power. The language is very simple, but the documentation is terrible. The Solaris on-line manual pages for sed are five pages long, and two of those pages describe the 34 different errors you can get. A program that spends as much space documenting the errors than it does documenting the language has a serious learning curve.
A programmer's worst nightmare is 0 documentation, or documentation written really badly. Well, maybe there are worse nightmares for a programmer, but still..
Anyho.. gotta create some sort of handling of mail logs, and web-based interface for system administrators (and maybe users) to query the logs easily. I'll stop there 'cause I'm sure no one's really interested in this XD
On the other hand, that talk about Dublin .
My boss today was decided. "I've decided that we'll go!"
We'd agreed that, even if we weren't sure 100% we'd go, for today we'd at least book the hotel. When we were about to do that, he remembered he had to check something with the administration. When he came back, not too happy, he said he might not be able to go, but he would gladly have me go on my own O____O I was speechless. He gave me some time to think about it. I have 0 confidence in going alone. The problem is not the trip itself, or being in Dublin on my own -which would not be the case, 'cause I have a friend who's there for work. It's that I'd be representing our group and supposedly discuss the paper we submitted and answer questions. I might have written that paper, but I have never worked with that system. I never had a hands-on experience, so many details are not imprinted in my mind, and I often panic when people start asking me really detailed questions ><' So I don't know. You're gonna say, "Are you crazy?! How can you miss on a chance like this!?" I know. But... self-confidence. Mine is very close to zero ><
Enough already. I've written way more than I thought I would.
Tomorrow is Yasuko to Kenji!! Remember it's at 9pm Japan time (which means 1pm UTC).
Have to start translating CB. Somehow don't feel like it though XD
By the way, I'm doomed XD Now, every time I watch some Japanese drama I start thinking how I'd translate the lines XD
PS. sorry to all my friends. I haven't been around much lately. I get shivers just thinking of checking out my f-page >< If I start going back in time I'll never finish reading XD But I'll try my best to keep up with you guys <3
PISA?!!!!! O____________________O [click click]
this is a first! I just found out and it's this weekend >< The cosplay competition is actually the Italian selections for the European Cosplay Summit O___O Hope I'll be able to go have a look at what they're doing.
In the meantime, I have a Japanese dinner planned tomorrow with my ex-Japanese course buddies ^__^
So, I have a lot to do, and nothing to do. You know that feeling, right? Like, in your head you know you got loads of overdue work, but somehow can't manage to pinpoint one thing to do XD
Scandals!
What's with this Naohito scandal >< The playboy image doesn't fit him at all. I wonder how this will affect his creer from now on T__T
The reputation of actor/singer Naohito Fujiki has taken a serious blow due to allegations of an affair. Fujiki, 35, has been married since December 2005 and had his first child one year later. But now an article in the latest issue of Shukan Bunshun says that he's been fooling around.
According to the magazine, Fujiki's lover is a cabaret club hostess in her late twenties. They apparently met last October while Fujiki was on tour. The woman says they hit it off immediately, and they carried on their affair. After learning that she was pregnant a month later, she says she was urged by Fujiki to have an abortion, and was even given several million yen.
When asked about the matter, Fujiki's agency said they were unable to comment for now due to the absence of his manager.
source: Tokyograph
And the Pi x Yuu rumors have come back again >__> People have nothing better to do (and apparently me neither, since I go around reading that stuff XD)
So... Johnny's. So many solo projects going on this summer ne~ For some reason I got fired up most about Okura's solo concert. Wanna go wanna go wanna go ><
Change of subject: New Dork? New Pork? New York?
When I saw that (I was at work) I was so gonna explode from ROTFLing XD
And apparently some Japanese think that their ability to express themselves vaguely is one of the things that make Japan/Japanese great --> Take a look at the top 20 list.
Summer talk, summer dramas:
So many interesting dramas, so little time. Code Blue yesterday was more interesting than ep01. Too bad ratings dropped to 16% (from a 21.2% for ep01)!
Some people were a little weirded out by Yamapi's character. Is it just me or is Aizawa arrogant? It's not you. That's the way the character is. Yamapi says in one of his jweb entries, "if you felt that Aizawa was irritating it means I did a good job."
Yesterday's episode had 2 outbursts that didn't come out too well. First from the heli nurse, then from Shiraishi. 2 scenes poorly performed. Yamapi was good. But maybe I'm biased. I hope not. I usually cringe when any one of the idols I like sings off key or acts poorly. I didn't cringe yesterday ^__^
Mao. Only watched half of it today 'cause I had to take my granny to the dentist's. Waiting for the RAW -which will hopefully come out faster than the one for CB. But I'm really loving Ono and Toma in this ^_^
Both Mao and Code Blue have great OSTs, and I'm addicted to both their theme songs, especially Code Blue's HANABI by Mr. Children. How can you not like that band. I love their music ^__^ I think I'm gonna buy this single when it comes out, and perhaps with it one of my favorite mista-chiru albums ^_^
Man, laptops are great, but during summer they're like heaters >< especially if you're working with them on your lap while sitting on the bed XD
Personal news: Work
After my sudden lack of work due to paper submission, my boss assigned me something new. Now comes the part I'm not too excited about. Gotta learn new languages.
I was checking out sed and on one site the following was written. I love the dude that wrote that site XDsed (stream editor) is a marvelous utility. Unfortunately, most people never learn its real power. The language is very simple, but the documentation is terrible. The Solaris on-line manual pages for sed are five pages long, and two of those pages describe the 34 different errors you can get. A program that spends as much space documenting the errors than it does documenting the language has a serious learning curve.
A programmer's worst nightmare is 0 documentation, or documentation written really badly. Well, maybe there are worse nightmares for a programmer, but still..
Anyho.. gotta create some sort of handling of mail logs, and web-based interface for system administrators (and maybe users) to query the logs easily. I'll stop there 'cause I'm sure no one's really interested in this XD
On the other hand, that talk about Dublin .
My boss today was decided. "I've decided that we'll go!"
We'd agreed that, even if we weren't sure 100% we'd go, for today we'd at least book the hotel. When we were about to do that, he remembered he had to check something with the administration. When he came back, not too happy, he said he might not be able to go, but he would gladly have me go on my own O____O I was speechless. He gave me some time to think about it. I have 0 confidence in going alone. The problem is not the trip itself, or being in Dublin on my own -which would not be the case, 'cause I have a friend who's there for work. It's that I'd be representing our group and supposedly discuss the paper we submitted and answer questions. I might have written that paper, but I have never worked with that system. I never had a hands-on experience, so many details are not imprinted in my mind, and I often panic when people start asking me really detailed questions ><' So I don't know. You're gonna say, "Are you crazy?! How can you miss on a chance like this!?" I know. But... self-confidence. Mine is very close to zero ><
Enough already. I've written way more than I thought I would.
Tomorrow is Yasuko to Kenji!! Remember it's at 9pm Japan time (which means 1pm UTC).
Have to start translating CB. Somehow don't feel like it though XD
By the way, I'm doomed XD Now, every time I watch some Japanese drama I start thinking how I'd translate the lines XD
PS. sorry to all my friends. I haven't been around much lately. I get shivers just thinking of checking out my f-page >< If I start going back in time I'll never finish reading XD But I'll try my best to keep up with you guys <3