Being alone in life does have some benefits. No one would annoy you and avoid you from getting your work done and done well. No one would be needing your attention at many time periods of the day. No one will nag at you. No one will seemingly be a liability for you. No one will spend your own hard-earned money. No one will call you every night, removing your chance of a good night’s sleep. No one will be your rival in case there would be a third party in your relationship.
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Anime Blog Awards
To anyone who’s remotely an anime blogger, please do vote for your favorites at the Anime Blog Awards!
I’ve been on and off the scene for the longest time but I think you guys are awesome. Whenever I’m not busy I fire up my feed readers and collective blog aggregating sites and see what good stuff you have. Often I regret missing out on many things because I don’t skim your blogs often, but it’s kinda nice to back read and enjoy the fandom which already goes beyond the mere watching of anime. Some of the best entertainment I had didn’t even come from the episodes I watched, but the multiple summaries, editorials, insights, rants, comedic banter, etc. coming from the anime blogosphere.
On a technical side note though, my current dilemma in reading your anime blogs is because I can’t manage RSS feeds the way I want to. I wanted a system that searches within RSS feeds and updates the search as necessary. Say I like “kyonko” or “true tears”, so I write them as a keyword then the system should search the RSS feeds for those keywords. The search keywords should be saved so I can get the latest stuff related to Kyonko or True Tears as they run through the feeds. So far, the system that I found nearest to my needs was Opera’s own newsfeed reader. It does the exact thing I want, but unfortunately Opera must be running 24/7 just to catch the feeds. I don’t have a 24/7 server, and I hate losing articles because Opera is offline when I go away. Next was Google Reader. Google’s is nice because it’s online, it has archives of the feeds themselves so I don’t worry about losing articles, but it doesn’t allow for saving searches. I would need to type the search everytime, and because it’s AJAX-online it’s a bit slow in doing that. If only I can save searches on the side this would have been perfect too. Maybe you techies know what I should do. It’s either doing something about the feeds such that Opera don’t need to be online all the time, or maybe looking for some unknown website or service that caters for my exact need. Do you know of any solution?
I think that my feed problem and its solution can be beneficial to the sheer number of content out there today. Some of us anime bloggers are busy people, either at school or work, and may not be able to fire up their browsers and readers everyday. At the same time, like this Anime Blog Awards thingie, we want to show readers and fellow bloggers that their writings and musings are being read. If I can set it up properly, I think I can reach out to interesting articles from even new or obscure blogs based on my own interests. If you happen to mention, say, Kyonko or True Tears, indeed I will be able to catch your article, as opposed to mere simple feedreading where there are a lot of articles I’m not interested in (like mecha anime). Also, it’s not limited to my keywords too, I could catch your article in terms of Category so that I don’t miss out on generic editorials not necessarily related to my keywords. I think this is a good idea for my reading, and I hope you adopt this kind of idea too… if you’re a busy person.
Anyway, please support the community by voting for your favorite blogs, and it will be open for readers soon too. You can be assured that no matter how busy I am, I am at least lurking some of you guys. I’ll be trying to comment on your blogs too. Keep up the good (work) stuff!
JLPT Verdict
My [results->jlpt-atfermath] are in, and…
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Merry Christmas!
This pic was actually taken in Japan during my Christmas there last year. Kinda somber and dark eh? Well there are more shiny places, although this is already a Christmas attraction. The location is called Yebisu Garden Place. Those lights on the trees change color, so you might as well enjoy the atmosphere. Actually there’s a nice Christmas Tree:
… so it’s not all that bad.
Random stuff I know, but really I just dropped by to greet you Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!
Here the celebration is more subdued so there are no animu pics… but here’s some cake:
My best wishes to you, your family, your relatives, your friends and loved ones. Your bishoujos and lolis too, I guess…
JLPT Aftermath
I’m surprised that I did better than I thought I would. I’m really positive about the result, but I should leave it be and move on to other things before crossing my fingers for the results (still 3-4 months away).
Granted JLPT Level 4 (that’s what I took) is nothing compared to many other people around, but hey it’s a headstart. Anything to justify my 5% knowledge of the language… who knows, can I proclaim 10% now?
I bet a lot of you took the exams too in your part of the world, and so I bid “good luck” to us all!
JLPT
Everything is on hold because I’m “pretending” to study for the JLPT. I’m destined for failure though, so please just comment to pity me on this page. I’ll be crying for the rest of the year, so I don’t think I’ll blog again until next year.
I bid everyone goodbye, again, for now. Thanks for all the support… if there ever was.
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I found it, the meaning of life.
I put it together and this is what I found.
– Japan is the primary advancer of technology.
– Advancement of technology means easier and increased communication.
– Increased communication capability causes [information overload->information-overload] due to ease of access.
– With information overload, it is easy enough to get any kind of entertainment you want, [legal or otherwise->bluemist anime blog pirated edition].
– Because you can get anything you want, you also get anything you don’t want, [causing overload on yourself->anime-blog-saturation-2].
– Some people can’t handle the overload, or handles it too much to care about society, and [social misfits are born->bluemist anime blog pirated edition service pack 1].
Ergo: Japan is planning another World War, slowly taking over the world in an indirect way. Someday half the world will be made up of losers who don’t care about life, and shortly thereafter, that half will slowly die out, making it the worst genocide in human history.
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Another one of those leechers. And another one.
So many copycats these days.
I am annoyed but I usually leave them be. Usually those are mere web scripts. And they link back to me anyway, which is good. Good enough to help me gain more readership. Unfortunately some readers they invite are those —-tards, you know, the people who hardcore-ly defend their anime as if it were the second coming.
I think it’s about time that I speak against this rapidly annoying form of anime fandom, and hope to find the main problem of which it stems from.
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It’s awesome! Anime blogs including mine are being copied! Thanks for the visibility. Gives me more visitors. On the other hand, don’t you get pissed off when someone copies your works for their gain. Maybe that sitey is generating profit. I demand some profit too. Please donate $$$ to the cause. I need to buy more eroge.
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Reintroduction
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I’ve been in this business (yes, blogging – serious business) for two years now, and as regular viewers would notice, the frequency of my posts are slowing down. Now I wonder if I could take this thing into a different direction now.
I’m giving it another shot.
I’m not going to say my plans, projects, etc. anymore… you have to see it for yourself. I hope that this new thing will make you laugh, go “WTH is he thinking”, or just plain fun… and maybe a little bit moar dorama too. This modern visual culture from our crazy friends at Japan is really going wider and wider with more people (and —-tards) getting in on the action. So I’m giving myself one more chance to revitalize my craft and provide you readers the entertainment that I’d love to share you.
More to come! I really mean it!