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Charlotte's adorable once you get past the long, big, black thing that eats people.
It's been like a year since I last did one of these. Amazing.
On the other hand, that's how I'm feeling lately. Sleepy. No free time these days.
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Merry Christmas! I'm not planning to put up anything for the rest of today, and I'm thinking of whether I want to put anything up for tomorrow right now.
Made this earlier today. It's supposed to be a chocolate mousse, however it seems to have solidified in the fridge and became a chocolate ganache. Made with silken (soft or smooth) tofu and Lindt dark chocolate (my brother got a lot of chocolate for Christmas).
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Sorry. It's probably more accurate to call this a Month with Kenn or something like that.
I wonder what this could possibly be?
WE ARE X!! WE ARE X!! WE ARE X!! WE ARE X!!
Stay tuned. I've got more stuff to put up in the next few days. Backlog desu.
Image heavy, as always. This time more so though.
:) Scunt is a portmanteau, the 'sc' from 'Scavenger' and the 'unt' from 'Hunt'. Hence, 'scunt'. My cousin coined the word, and everyone started using it.
Excuse me while I recover from a possible case of primary pneumothorax.
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A dancing doll. Yes, that's right. And no, it's not possessed. Saw it on Dannychoo.com just now.
For those who don't remember, last month, or exactly 32 posts ago, Natural made a post on BJD's. Well this one is a tad bit different. You can see more of her at the owner's website.
It's a 60cm Ball Jointed Doll, with modifications to it's limbs to enable movement. I read somewhere that it's got 25 servo's in it to give it it's motion. It's called 'The Super Dollfie' and here, it's dancing to Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca.
Dancing to Levan Polka. The modifications to the limbs aren't very noticeable and really allow a wide range of movement, in the arms at least. It suffers the same problems that many robotic engineers face though, being bipedal, it's difficult to do motions with the legs without it falling over. Super Dollfie would probably be good at Para Para.
Here she's dancing to Bad Apple. For those who haven't seen it yet, I recommend you go watch the stylized shadow PV. The doll's movements get better and better everytime he does a video, and in this one it's almost a tad bit scary. Probably not a good thing to watch if you're doll-phobic. Autonomous dolls probably would scare the pants off of them. Miko outfit is great too.
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Kenn is a happy man. =')
One could say that this was breakfast. Does the photo look familiar? I reused an old photo from a while back to save time, seeing I had the same thing today. Orange chicken, mixed veggies, fried rice.
As if to reward myself for a good two weeks of hard work (and my piano prof. agreed that I worked hard), I decided to get myself a figma. However, I really didn't want to make the trip across four cities (North Vancouver, Burnaby, Vancouver, Richmond) to get one, so I settled for going to the Sakura Media at Metrotown (Burnaby). Their selection of Figma is a little less than stellar, but they did have Domo. There wasn't his usual colour of brown, just Lemon Yellow and Cornflower Blue.
However, I came home to quite the surprise...
I'll party harder than ever now. Yes, that preppy looking kid is me. Haven't taken the tag off yet, which you can see dangling off the side. Was too excited, and my mom doesn't know I bought it.
It's a tad bit tighter than I thought it'd be. Can't fit my glasses under it, so my vision is severely limited with the horse's head mask on. You see through the holes in the nose and mouth, so it's tunnel vision. I've got terrible eyes too, so I pretty much can see things clearly for about 30 centimeters in front of me.
I also got a black robotic face mask, but it doesn't seem to fit me too well. It doesn't seem to fit anyone in the house. Well maybe my sister. It's puny. Much smaller than I thought it'd be. I'd say it was a waste of money, but it costed 50 cents...
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I think I've spent more time on one of those (a bus) for much longer than I was in class. Of course, the buses weren't quite as cool as the one pictured. I don't remember seeings flames coming out one of the headlights either...
Tis what the century egg looks like. I think that's what you call it anyways. At home, we usually call it by it's Cantonese name. Yes, I can speak bits and pieces of Cantonese. I speak more Vietnamese and Cantonese than my siblings do.
Still waiting for Keroro 16 though. I'll apologize to Chapters for saying that they were slower than Sakura Media. Speaking of which, on my way out of Chapters, after picking up C&H, I overheard a kid talking to his dad. Unfortunately, for most young, caucasian kids, Sakura Media is the only Japanese merchandise shop they'll ever know for a long time. Hence the reason why they refer to Sakura Media as 'the Anime store'. I cringed a bit when I heard him say that, knowing all too well the contents of his translucent plastic Sakura Media bag. Naruto, or Bleach. One of those two over-rated-Shounen-Jump-flagship series was hiding in there. e_e
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Alright, so no classes on Thursday, so there's not much to blog about. Threw in a little something to take up some space.
Breakfast. Rice, some pork ribs of some sort, cucumbers, little Mandarin oranges, and a nice cup of Taiwanese black tea. Tasty, filling, and warm. Perfect for those cold, dreary mornings.
Lunch for Kenn. It's snack bread. Or at least that's what it says on the box. On the left, it's topped with margarine, and cheese. On the right, the one on top has bananas and Nutella, while the one of the bottom has Peanut butter that's been sitting in the fridge for god knows how long, and bananas.
Not feeling too well after eating that peanut butter one. Not sure how old that peanut butter was.
Anywho, haven't had dinner yet, and I'm pretty sure phở is on the menu tonight.
Here's the 'little thing I threw in to take up space'.
Waaaay back in the days, before Mp3 players were around, before the first iPod came out, I had this: a portable CD player. I used it before I got my first mp3 player years ago, and when I had it, Mp3 players did exist, contrary to what I said in the first sentence. It's become pretty obsolete now that I had the iTouch.
Ahh, Hit Clips. Anyone remember this? It's idea was cool...at the time at least. And of course, that time was around 2001 or something like that. Was around the time the Back Street Boys and N'Sync were at their peak of their popularity. It's sound quality was absolutely terrible, but at the time, it was awesome because of it's size compared to a lot of the other music players back then.
This suggestive looking thing was my first Mp3 player. It had about 64mb of data capacity, and lasted me a year or two. Used it back when I just got into anime, so much of the music was from either Bleach or Naruto. ^^; Quite embarassing looking back at it now.
Huzzah. First iPod. Also, the first iPod...I think. Compared to my Mp3 player, this thing could hold my entire computer for all I knew. 20GB compared to 64MB. Yeah, that's a real difference. Plus the sound quality was so much better than the cheap Mp3 player. I guess I used this four to five years ago. My, how technology has changed. ^^;
I lost my iPod or something, because I started using my PSP (fat one), as a music player. Couldn't hold too many songs on this. Had to keep room on the memory stick for games. Sound quality wasn't bad though. Huge for a music player, though having the games didn't hurt in class.
Compared to the PSP, this thing is tiny. Got it during grade 11 (I remember this because of all the antics that happened during that project, which I've lost all the photos of). Yeah, I realize that it's upside down. Was on sale at Visions, across the street. Stopped by what was once a Buns Master bakery (also across the street) for a lucky penny, 'pepperonya' roll, and other baked foods. Inside joke...kinda.
Still use the Shuffle every now and then. Often on long trips as a backup for when the Touch dies.
Finally, this is what I use now. It's the iPad Nano! I kid. It's an iTouch. We've probably just spanned almost 10 years of technology right there. xD
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Well, being an early 90's kid, I've gone through a few gaming consoles out there. I've lived with my cousins my whole life, so we'd share consoles, to get the best of both worlds.
Before I talk about my gaming stuff and technology through the years, I'll talk a bit about my parents. If you remember, my parents (and aunt and uncle) run a new restaurant here in Vancouver, and down in Richmond. They meet a lot of people running the business, and every now and then, they meet someone quite interesting. They've met more than a few notable new anchors, and recently, the son of a person in a position of power. He gave them his dad's business card.
^^; It's not often you get a business card from Japan here in Vancouver. No clue where Nishihara-cho is, but I do know where Okinawa is. ^^; Was quite surprised when my parents showed me the card.
And now, back to the technology.
This was probably the first gaming console I played on. Yes, I'm that old. I played on a classic, retro Game Boy before, though I never owned one. I remember playing Snow Bros. with my cousin way back in the day. Fun times.
Probably the first gaming console I owned. Got this for my birthday in grade two I think. ^^; My faovurite games were Pokemon Puzzle League, Super Smash Bros. (the very first one), and Mario Cart 64. This was during the height of Pokemon's popularity, so I also owned a few Pokemon games with it, including Pokemon Stadium (to go along with my GB Pokemon Blue, Red, and Yellow), Pokemon Snap (so fun, so fun), and Hey you! Pikachu! (cutting edge technology at the time).It eventually broke down and disappeared. ^^;
While I had my N64, my cousin went along the Sony route, and owned the PSone. Played a lot on it,memorable games include Vanguard Bandits, The Legend of Dragoon, and Crash Bandicoot.
My cousin upgraded to a PS2, while I went to the Game Boy Advanced.
This bad boy lasted me a long time. From grade five to grade nine I think. Had lots of games for this one. ^^; Enjoyed the Fire Emblem, Pokemon and Final Fantasy games especially. It's definitely seen better days, and I didn't move onto the DS, going to the Sony's PSP from here.
It was around the time I got the Game Boy Advanced that I got my second computer. My first computer kinda died, though it was way back when I was a total idiot. ^^; Didn't know the ins and outs of computers very well.
Not quite sure where my first computer went, but this one is my second one. It lasted me a few years. I remember playing Maple Story on it. I think it was the first computer that I watched anime on, though I'm debating whether I can truly call Bleach and Naruto anime. It died at the hands of my sister. Not quite sure what she did, but she did something that fried it's insides. ^^; It's now been reduced to a nice piece of furniture.
After my second computer got fried, I got this bad boy. I have to say, this guy lasted me a long time. Okay, so another few years, but I went through a whole lot of crap with this thing. I started my descent into Otaku-dom, and I started Ragnarok Frontier on this machine. Not sure where I'd be right now if I hadn't met the people I did on RF. ^^; The laptop took a few falls, and stopped working properly. It sits in my closet, patiently waiting for the day it gets revived...
I got my PSP a little after I got my laptop. As you can see, it's now missing it's circle button after it fell out somewhere, so I can't really use it anymore. This guy's got a whole lot of memories etched into it, especially Monster Hunter. All that hunting is probably one of the causes of the circle button's failure.
Got this computer so that I wouldn't always be on a laptop. ^^; Was a bit reluctant to move over to a desktop PC, as I'd have to transfer a crap load of files. After a few hitches, this machine is running fine. ^^; The one I currently use. It's not very impressive, though it serves it's purposes. I still played RF on this machine in it's earlier days. Not for very long though.
After the circle button on my 'fat' PSP fell out, I went ahead and got myself a PSP Slim. I like the Piano Black colour better, but I was buying from a friend of my brother, so I didn't have too much of a choice. ^^; This one's still going strong.
Back in October, you might remember that I made a post about buying a PS3. Well it's still here, and I've gotten another game or two. Ugh. Demon's Soul. I've made lots and lots of progress on it, but ugh. Was too lazy to get a picture of the Wii, so I'll include it's story here. I got it well before I got my PS3 and second PSP. My sister mainly plays on it now because the games take less than normal amounts of thinking. Wii Sports, Wii Restort, and some crappy looking carnival game thing.
My most recent tech purchase. I suppose the reason is reverse of the reason I got the desktop PC. I'll probably be using this for composition and school. At the moment, I mainly use it for it's portability. ^^; Can't bring my PC out into the room where the PS3 is, so I use the laptop.
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Hey guys, on the laptop again. Haven't been using it recently, no real reason to. Anywho Microsoft had a promotion for a month (ended today) where you had to put keywords into their search engine, Bing. Each time you put keywords in, a meter went up. At 50% they'd give a present, and at 100% they'd give a special present. Knowing Japan's users, they reached 100% in no time. Result is after the jump.
Yes, that is my desktop. And so are the next five. The five Bing girls. Which one is your favourite? Mine is split between ナナ ＆ ナナコ. These five are different and seperate from Madobe Nanami, the special character bonus for Windows 7. They all have 'ナナ' in their name, referring to 7, of Windows 7. ^^; The Nanami you see down below isn't the same Nanami as this Nanami.
ナナ
ナナエ
ナナコ
ナナミ
ナナオ
