Lol, blog, hi.

I've almost completely forgotten about you.

Or maybe I just don't ever feel like posting in a blog anymore, since nobody reads it. Which is odd, because I write a lot in 750 Words, where nobody can read it.

Maybe I should try promoting this blog or something. It'll be difficult, since my real life friends (which isn't that many) don't talk in English, and I don't think there's anything of interest here for my English-speaking online friends. So.

Oh, and here's a long overdue Happy New Year:

Happy New Year!

Man, I should do better than that for next year. I remember making a .gif fireworks some years ago. It was for my country's Independence Day, but stil. It was pretty awesome.

Some folks might put up some New Year resolution think here. I have no such thing. I just hope that this year is going to be better than the last.

Oh, and get a better social life. Being a loner is hard.

Does anyone know where does this song came from?

Direct link, in case the video doesn't appear here:

It's a remix of Reincarnation from the third Touhou game, I know that much. I also know that it's quite possibly the most beautiful music I've ever heard. What I don't know is who made this arrange, what circle he/she/they is/are in, and where was this beauty first heard by the public.

I know the video description said it's made by El Dorado for the album Solaris Lues, but I have Solaris Lues and thsi track is not in it. I've also searched the Touhou Wiki for all songs that El Dorado has arranged, but Reincarnation is not mentioned.

So if anyone have any idea where does this particular arrangement came from, please do tell. I've enabled comment in my Posterous blog, in case you're looking at this from my Blogspot blog.

NaNoWrimo began yesterday

My first day didn't really go as well as I thought. School was murder, didn't even have enough to write five sentences. And by the time I got home, either my brain or my health was acting up again. Icouldn't think properly enough to write.

I did manage to get some words out by night, but they're so horrible I don't think I'll be using them for anything.

Any the story itself was not turning well in my head.

I'm not making any excuse, NaNoWriMo is all about throwing those excuses out of the window, after all. I'm trying to make a decision.

It seems I wil fail at this year's NaNo, again, for... what? Three years in a row? I never have a good commitment with my stories, always ending up with some unfinished excerpt that isn't even halfway there. Except for this one I've been working on but hardly ever written that I started when I was 6 or something, and is still mutating into something larger, they all fail gloriously.

So I suppose all I can do is either pouring way too much love on one story, or simply giving it too little.

Decision reached.

I'm still gonna join NaNoWriMo, but I'm gonna cheat. And I'm not going to call it that, I'm going to call it... actually, I'm not sure I'm going to call it anything, other than that weird alternative to NaNo.

So, the deal is, for 30 days, I'm going to write (preferebly also 30) short stories, with about the same wordcount goal and with the same system as NaNoWriMo. I don't care how many stories I'm going to end up with, or even if they ever reach their conclusion or not, I'm just gonna try it.

And another addition to the rule: They have to take place in the same universe as the three stories that I first planned for the actual NaNoWriMo, including that massive fanfic. Whatever the stories might be, they have to be clearly related to any of these three, whether by taking place in the same time, place, or using the same characters.

Who knows? By December I might already have enough to piece together into a novel.

 

 

Pirates of the Caribbean

Is the greatest movie(s) of all times... or at least compared to the all the movies I've watched, though it does have lots of tough competitors.

Just watched the Curse of the Black Pearl ealier today, because I somehow missed it for 5+ years. I love it so much.

Fun fact: All this time, I thought it's spelled "carribean", with double r and single d. I've been lied to my whole life.

Am now moving to Posterous Spaces

This post is to be autoposted to my Blogger blog.

Am now officially moving to Posterous Spaces, assuming it can live long enough. Its FAQ about Twitter's takeover is suspicious, and its official blog hasn't been updated in months. It's Twitter account is still tweeting, though, so it's probably not going to be so quickly abandoned.

I'm going to enable autopost to my Blogger blog, though. If you just happen to like Blogger more for some reason, or if Posterous is being laggy, my posts are still going to be available there... here... In my Blogger blog, basically.

Cheers.

 

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!