It's like a party in my pocket

Personal rant incoming. Feel free to not click the button.

I do notice that I've mostly abandoned this blog. No, I don't mean to do it, like I did to my old Wordpress blog. I already put a disclaimer that this is a personal blog and that I don't pay attention to how I write here, so it's nothing like being ashamed about the blog's quality. It's just that I can't really find time to write, recently. I'd love to blame school and its ridiculous amounts of tasks and homeworks, but that's not it. I always find something else to fill my free time, none of which, unfortunately, have anything to do with the blog.

Yes, I do realize that nobody care, considering I never bother to care that this blog is even read. In any case, on to the rest of this post.

Touhou is like... some sort of creative magnet. It'll attract the most professional of artists to make fanarts, the most skilled of musicians to arrange its songs, the best of writers in all sorts of language to make fanfic for it. You just can't help it. Once you're into the fandom, or even just slightly in, it will tug on your creative strings.

Thanks to Japan's lax law about self-publishing and indie media, Touhou is also able to amass a kazillion of professional and professional-quality fangames. I already talked about Lion Heart's Mystical Chain before, an action-fighting-beat-em-'up game about the three magicians of Gensokyo which is definitely worth any gamer immune to seizure-inducing danmaku{aka: most Touhou players}'s time.

Tonight, I'll be serving something more fitting for those strategist whose eyes cannot stand seeing fireworks being sick.

Splash screen, because its presence is always overshadowed by the main menu.

Celebrating Indonesia's Independence Day

 (( Originally published on 17 August 2012, or at least I attempted to. Blogger then came in and tell me that, yes, beside cooler yet more annoying interface, connection with your Google account, and the ability to customize your blog's appearance, Wordpress is more reliable than he is. ))

Here's a gross generalization: There's about hundreds of nations in the world, most of them have one special day where they proclaim their independence against whatever force was holding them. Today, 17 August, 67 years ago, is such day for one country in particular, something which probably will go unnoticed to those not involved with it, and sometimes even to those who are.

This country is my home nation of Indonesia. 67 years ago, taking advantage of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (not that I approve of it), the founding fathers of Indonesia proclaimed our independence from the Japanese empire, and by extent Netherlands as well.

Bah, I can't seem to write coherently these days. I've been working on this programming project as part of my crash return course in Python, and as a result my brain starts to spout sentences in variables and riddles rife with programming jargon and built-in Python functions. Might need to spend the vacation actually vacationing, lest I'll be driven mad.  

For those not in Indonesia, or for those who doesn't use Google for some crazy reason, here's a gift from those folks at Google Doodle to celebrate the day.

Hurrah!