Birthday

Summer got kinda depressing ever since my grandpa and my (indirect) grandma passed away 2 days before my birthday about 8 years ago. At that time, I always felt depressed because no one would celebrate my birthday. Everyone was mourning. And then I would throw tantrum.

Ever since I graduated from college, birthday celebration doesn't sound so exciting anymore.

Technically it's my birthday now because I was born half an earth away from where I am now. Some people started to give me birthday wishes (because Facebook time follows your time wherever you are).

But somehow I... wasn't expecting people to give me wishes. I even forgot that it's my birthday today. I wasn't really waiting for it. My mum asked me what I want to eat on my birthday, and I said, "anything".

Anything, as if my birthday is just another regular day.

If she weren't here I wouldn't bother buying birthday cake at all. And you know what, I only bought 2 slices of cake for my birthday. Not even a full round cake. Cuz I hate sweet stuffs nowadays - I have no appetite eating cakes at all.

Oh well. I guess I should celebrate a little.

Happy birthday, me! My wish is to be wiser, kinder, and more understanding.

If today is your birthday too, happy birthday, and I hope you're enjoying your birthday wherever you are.

:)

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Song Inspiration

Recently I always have good inspirations for writing new songs when I was in the bathroom (yes, I'm the type of person who would sing when I'm taking shower). And guess what? I got the melody perfect. Everything from start to finish. But I had so much stuffs to do, and then in the end when I sit down to write them down they're all gone.

3 of them. Gone.

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Moved Out and Moved In

It's time to change my "Location" from IL to NJ.

It was a pretty tough 3-day drive carrying a lot of stuffs from my old apartment to the new apartment. Took about in total of 15 hours. I stopped at Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg before arriving at my new apartment. So that's like 5 states crossed.

I finally got internet connection after 3 days of living just to wake up every morning and unpack all my stuffs.

Moving to a new place is somehow exciting, yet lonely. I know no one here but my Mum. I bet it will get lonely for a while, at least before I get to know work and know the people there.

I start missing my old town, although I can't say I hate this new town. I mean, it's pretty safe and there are groceries and shops and hypermarts here and there. It's not so bad.

It's just that I'm away from people whom I've spent so much time trying to get along with. It's pretty vexing.

Things have gotten better. On the second day my mum discovered a dead mouse in the apartment; it's so disgusting. Argh. And the management was pretty slow and disorganized, unlike my old apartment.

And there's practically nothing in the room but the kitchen. I even had to go to the first floor for laundry, just like when I was living in the dorm. Again.

After I settled down now, I've started thinking on how I should move out of here again. It's gonna be a hassle. It's gonna be even more hassle knowing that I don't know where I'm gonna go next.

Lord please give me strength to go through these hassles. They're not disasters, but merely hassles. So I shouldn't really complain too much about it.

Alright, time to sleep and regain some strength.

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New Hobby: YouTube account watch

Ever since I began composing songs and making animation movies using MMD I developed a habit of checking my YouTube channel insight and see how many people watch my video today.

Well I mean, it doesn't reach like 10k views a day. In fact, in total there was only 11.5k views. But hey, the thing is, it's steadily increasing. I'm surprised at how many people keep checking my videos every day. There are ALWAYS people who look at my videos - it's never zero.

Among billions and billions of videos up there, why my video?

I just think it's amazing. And it's really fun to watch my stats. Feels like growing a Tamagochi LOL

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MMD Hetalia - COMPLETE

Took me months of stiff fingers, clicking select-all-copy-paste-register hundreds of times and calculating where each motion should fall on. Or maybe there's a better trick to it but I did it this way.

Will I do another MMD animation? I don't know. It takes me a really long time, and I don't really have any particular song that I want to deal with. Making MMD is fun - very fun to watch when everything is done, but it's really testing my patience.

And it takes my time away from sleep """OTL

As for now, I will have to focus on moving to another city. Or town. And then I have to fill in quite a lot of paperworks. And then adjust to a somewhat new life. And then go back making new songs. And bento boxes. And drawing. And I want to continue learning Italian.

Oh so much things I want to do, so little time!!

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VOCALO.ID

Yeah!!

http://www.vocaloidism.com/2011/05/30/a-very-vocalo-id-interview/

JM: Okay.  So I know the name "Vocalo.ID" (.id = Indonesia top-level domain name) was chosen from a poll of potential album titles.  Who takes credit for that, because it’s pretty clever?

It's pretty clever because I invented that name!! :)

I'm excited...

So according to the people in the forum VOCALO.ID members in Malang will be opening up a stand during the Ohayou East Java event (not familiar with it, but if I Google it I'm sure I can find something informative about that) and give out the CDs. It will be on June 8.

Also, if I read correctly, the songs will also be played on the radio in Bandung on June 5, 22:00 W.I.B (so that's Jakarta time).

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Colorful sushi wrappers

These are some pretty cool stuffs. I knew about these soy wraps at IFT Annual Meeting Expo last year (2010) in Chicago. And I recently bumped into these soy wrappers at AMKO and Mitsuwa so I bought them.

They're really easy to use like a normal nori (Japanese dried seaweed), and they're really beautiful :)

Oh and it's also GLUTEN FREE!

I'll try using these to make bento next time :)

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