A pizza fat CC is fine too.

From NY Times:

Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.

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Just a random plug to get this news around.

To all my fellow countrymen, [current and future] Wordpress bloggers and enthusiasts, I bring you good news of great joy! WordCamp is coming to the Philippines!! To those who don’t know what WordCamp is, it’s basically a Wordpress conference, organized by fellow Wordpress enthusiasts, for fellow enthusiasts, where you’ll get to learn tips and best practices on Wordpress development and/or blogging.

We owe a big thanks to the organizers of this event, a group of Mindanao bloggers who were also behind the success of the 1st Mindanao Blogging Summit held last year in Seleria’s hometown (Davao), for bringing WordCamp here ^^

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Yoshitoshi Abe is one of my favorite Japanese illustrators. He is famous for his work in Serial Experiments Lain, NieA_7, Haibane Renmei and Texhnolyze.

One thing that I like about his art is the degree of realism in it. Compared with most anime/manga art which are simplistic in portrayal, Yoshitoshi Abe’s art has a lot of detail. It takes you to worlds beyond ours!

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FACE MY WRATHH!

I never really intended to rant but sigh…

I was randomly checking my animesuki forum profile today when I noticed that I was given a negative reputation for my comment regarding episode 4 (and also episodes 1-3 if that person reacted to my deep-frying post), for praising the anime for the changes it made to the novel. It was way back April, but I just noticed it now. He/she gave this justification for deeming my post as realll baddd: “censorship is bad. approving it is even worse.” What’s this, have I lost all my freedom to choose which of the anime and novel I prefer now? Mind you, I wasn’t outright bashing the novel, I was actually showing both sides, with a strong leaning towards the anime. And what do you know, I’ve watched till episode 6, noticed bits of the novel that was changed or wasn’t included, and I thought how nice it would be if they included that (the scene where Murasaki got hurt, the elaborate details about Shinkurou’s past, etc)! ARGGHH. T___T

I couldn’t care less about the reputation stuffs, really, but I do know for a fact that I do not deserve this negative reputation. It’s not like I b*tched, like “Down with the Kure-nai novel!! you filthy book filled with pedo loli vibesss!!!!” Ok, so you (whoever you are) disapprove the censorship in the anime. Is it because you favor the additional innuendos in the novel, among others? Whatever your reasons are for preferring the novel, it’s your opinion, and I respect that. Respect mine too. Am I not a free citizen entitled to my own opinion? You’re like censoring my opinion too, with what you did.

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While my fellow chef absolute0 prodded me to join MyAnimeList months back, lazy old me didn’t get to update my list until recently. While Owen and his constant MAL preaching did get me to stop bumming around MAL-ing, I’d like to think I did it for the sake of my fans (LOL!). So yeah, feel [...]

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There’s only 1 day left before the Anime Blog Awards Nomination Phase ends, so I’m not sure if this post will still be of any use, but anyways. Anyone who has an anime blog who’s currently reading this, please get your nominations in by April 22, which is coincidentally, Earth Day (although I wouldn’t have known about this if it weren’t for that Starbucks promo XD).

The top 5 nominees in each category will be selected for the next phase, the actual voting, which will run from April 25-June 1.

In behalf of my fellow chefs who are still hibernating at this wonderful Springtime, I’d like to once again thank everyone who nominated us! We may not have a chance to become part of the top 5 nominees, but one nomination is enough to touch the heart of this little bunny *bow*

So anyways, I finished placing my nominations (partly thanks to the power of copy pastah lol), and to spare me the agony of having to write about my selections for each category, I’m just going to highlight one which I consider to be the most personal of all, The Most Influential Blog Category.

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By now, I think most people know that the whole ABCDorama was just an April Fools Joke. Sorry for deceiving you guys, especially to those who trusted me so much, who believed I didn’t know how to lie Contrary to popular belief, I am not a saint, not like the selfless [...]

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I am tsuntsun desuu~!

I just came home from my trip, which is the reason for my blog inactivity, as well as my temporary detachment from the recent activities in the blogosphere. The current hot dorama topic spells ‘ABC’, and I’m not too happy with that, considering how I’m supposed to be part of this group.

I stay away from e-doramas as much as possible, because they’re nasty and ruins all kinds of fun. But since the current ABC issues involve not only its spearhead ‘leader’ Owen, but the rest of the members of the group, I felt compelled to say my stand about/against this, especially considering how I even made a post in defense of ABC (and Owen). How ideal of a group it is, and how un-nazi-esque or dictatorial it is. Or so I thought.

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While our hamster chef is still deployed and busy in Japan, she managed to grant me yet another one of my wishes (yes she’s my genie hamster! X3), a set of Shugo Chara cards, with the Amu x Ikuto card I was hoping for!!! This caught me by surprise coz she initially told me the card I wanted wasn’t in the pack she bought. teehee~ She’s one lucky hamster, considering she got this special card despite a 1/30 probability

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So I ordered a bunch or random stuff from Play-asia last February coz I found their Year-of-the-Rat Sale too hard to resist orz. That, in turn, allowed me to participate in their Year-of-the-Rat raffle draw, though I already forgot I was even part of that. Until, I got this news from Play-asia, that I won a $30 coupon! w00t!

I’ve thought long and hard about this, before finally deciding on buying myself Talkman^TM for PSP. It’s a neat little voice-activated translation software, somewhat like an interactive traveler’s phrasebook, which you can use both as reference and practice tool for various languages, primarily Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean. Another Talkman version, the Talkman Euro, has also been released, supporting English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese (or Chinese, in the Chinese Talkman Euro version). I ordered the former one, which comes bundled with the USB microphone for the PSP, so I can readily use it for brushing up on my sucky Japanese and Chinese communication skills.

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