Temporal Paralysis

It seemed inevitable that I might as well go into it; a lot of people are doing it, one has been saved by it, many are touched by it and it’s the most trendy platform in which Facebook is just another competition:  Twitter.

LOL Japan never cease to surprise me. (Credits: {link:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=5811164}とだしん{/link})

After a consultation of fellow bloggers on the IRC (what, that ancient technology?) on the benefits of Twitter, I succumbed to the hellhole that is Twitter. I have to say, I’m very much intrigued by it.

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Let’s start off with tickling MrMayat’s weakness for Yuno (of Hidamari Sketch).

By now, every other blogger has announced the upcoming Hidamari Sketch’s 3rd season production. More Yuno, more yay slice-of-life, more… hmm… Why did I do this again?

Oh, yes, to tease MrMayat.

More Yuno goodness? (Credits: {link:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=2267594}いずの犬太{/link})

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Have some Makinami Mari Illustrious. (Credits: {link:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=5425150}否{/link})

This post is inspired by my desire to purchase a new mobile phone, and subsequently finding out that some phones do not have gapless playback.

Now many of you may be wondering what the heck is a gapless playback. So to take a leaf from Wikipedia:

Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. Gapless playback is common with compact discs, gramophone records, or tapes, but is not always available with other formats that employ compressed digital audio. This may be a source of annoyance to listeners of music where tracks segue into each other, such as some classical music (opera in particular), progressive rock, electronic music, and live recordings with audience noise between tracks.

I’ve been eying on Sony Ericsson’s Walkman line for quite some time; I realized much later that none of their phones are equipped with gapless playback . I am irritated, but no less optimistic, since the only other gapless playback-enabled mobile phone is the iPhone. (To be honest though, I don’t see the hype behind the iPhone branding, other than the fact that its tactile screen loses its sensitivity every 6 months, which in my opinion, is a fatal mistake.)

Have some more of personification of inanimate objects — iPhoneko-san! (Credits: {link:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=4913902}ギンガ{/link})

So thus, continues my search for a mobile phone that has gapless playback. I want to listen to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon on the go, and all the multimedia-attuned mobile phones out there have failed me!

I have a few cliques and significant others of mine who have started listening to Malay indie music. I had been ignorant about the scene for a long time — give my thanks to Los Angeles and Tokyo for infilitrating my consciousness — because, truth be told, my last interest in the Malay music scene was probably in 1997. Perhaps the only other song that I hold personal feelings with is Exist’s Untukmu Ibu (back in primary school the teacher asked me to sing that as a small mock karaoke contest with another – female – classmate of mine who sang another song that I forgot whose band it belonged to).

So for most of my musical journeys, I wandered to the West, searching for music that fits my interests at heart. When anime became a staple of my entertainment consumption, naturally I adopted the various idiosyncrasies of the Japanese music scene to suit my taste. Even so, I only favoured a few artists that came to mind – none of them are too niche to be considered “indie.”

So when my significant other tell me of Yuna, I was floored.

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Today, I like to talk about Bakemonogatari.

Did I hear Senjouhara Fascination? Credits goes to いずみ({link:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=5448831}pixiv{/link})

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The year was 2007. It was one day before Singapore celebrated its National Day. It was also the day that I received the foreboding letter that everyone has come to know of.

The one letter that forever defined my viewpoints of the world

(I decided to make public what happened in the three years between then and now, for it shall be known that I was that person who decided to stand his ground. The rest of the Internet populace will discard this piece as frivolous nonsense coming from an unknown blogger; those who had known me – both in real life and those who knew me through IRC and/or frequent exchanges via blogs – will no less be surprised by my revelation. If people decided to hate me, that will be fine: I have since am serene in this matter, and it will not matter to anyone anyway.)

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Hmm?

SPANNER-KUN!

I watched Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou (or I preferably call it “Well Understood Modern-Day Magic“) up to Episode 2. The idea of using computer programs to write so-called “Codes” (euphemism for “magic”) to control electronic/electrical stuffs is uniquely amusing to the point that I decided to take a stab at watching this show. Unfortunately, a few things pop out of this show:

1. The art direction is average.
2. Story line is average.
3. Character development is average.

That sums up the whole idea about Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou. To be honest, this is just another show on the sidelines, considering the plethora of other better shows being shown in Japan.

Google Reader and Anime Nano helped me a lot: I was reading an interesting column by an anime blogger who had posted up his post, crying out to all bloggers to stop using fanarts without explicit permission from the author.

The list of anime blog posts related to the post are staggering, the least to say.

Image credited to bj0rN. Follow his drawings at {link:http://www.drawr.net/bj0rn}http://www.drawr.net/bj0rN{/link}

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