日常生活

It's not a very fancy laptop, but it does a good job displaying maps for various games... I actually made the final decision after playing Assassin´s Creed trying to collect the flags spread throughout the cities. It's a rather tedious task, and I didn't want to run up and down the stairs to check directions on my stationary computer. So I bought a laptop. How very lazy of me.

I decided to install and test Linux Mint. I've wanted to try Linux for a while now, but never really gotten around to. It's not as bad as I thought. Meaning it's not as tech-heavy as I imagined it to be, even though I'm only scraping the surface. :)

I'm starting the third week of my four-week vacation tomorrow. Can't say I've done a lot of creative stuff, other than my recently started hobby: cubeecrafting - even though I've only done two models so far; Kermit (which I made for my mum) and Domo-kun.

Most of my time has been spent in front of the tv; some movies and some series, but mostly playing games. My 360's in the dangerzone of overheating. (It's really not, it's nice and cool even when we've been at it for a few hours)..

We've played through a couple of games, many of which have been co-op with my brother. Played through Assassin's Creed and Gears of War. Grabbed all achievements in Resident Evil 5 (and we will probably never ever play that game again due to the long hours we've spent on it). Just an hour ago we finished Gears of War 2, which in my opinion was a much nicer (and longer?) game than the first.

Well, to break the trend of breaking my back (hurr hurr, though I think it will hurt beyond time) we're going on a trip to Stockholm on wednesday. Picking up a friend on the way there, we're not reeeeally sure what we're gonna do once we're up there -- nothing's been planned apart from the actual going-there. Think we'll stroll the city some, though, it's been ages since I was there last. Good company and a movie or two wont hurt (too much) either! :-]

As per usual, when I've been modifying a previous template to where I think it looks great, I find a new one. This theme is called One Room and was ported to s9y by YellowLed. I won't fiddle too much with it, it looks good the way it is.

I'm looking for a new jacket, something like this which I think looks pretty sweet.

The only problem is size; I've ordered from X-tra-X in the past, and picking the right size has been difficult. Especially when an L / XL (don't remember which) shirt fit my sister rather well, and she's an S..... >_>

Okay so that's just a play on words, I'm not really outsmarting Smarty. I did however get around to fixing the navigation (with the help of Smarty, ti hi) so that it now reflects what page you're on.

It's not a huge thing, but made me feel good about myself and my limited coding skills. :D

I like to read. Books, magazines, comics, you name it (as long as the topic's within interrest). I usually read a few pages before going to sleep, or fall asleep reading (either way).

I don't like laying on my back, because my bed don't allow for half-sitting, so there's no comfort in doing so, resorting to laying on my stomach. Every now and then I've found that when I'm half asleep while reading, and stubborn enough to try and fight it (but losing), I lock my neck and shoulders to keep my head up, close my eyes to doze of for a few, and......unvoluntarily hold my breath. Wtf!?

It's kind of scary, actually. Every time I wake up with a gasp and my eyes go O_O as I draw a deep breath, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

Is my body perhaps trying to kill me?

My brother calls me a weeaboo. Boo hoo, a weeaboo. But what does it mean?

Weeaboo, also known as 'wapanese', is a slang word used to describe “someone who is obsessed with Japan, Japanese Culture, Anime, etc. and attempts to act as if they were Japanese, even though they're far from it.”

Now, I'm not obsessed with either Japan, the Japanese culture or anime, nor do I act as if I were Japanese, but I am sporting a growing interest. There's a lot of the Japanese culture and traditions that I would like to try, take a part in and taste for myself. I won't dig deep into any of them here, but mention a few things.

For instance, the futon sounds and looks really comfortable and is said to be great to sleep on if you have a bad back. Guess what, I got one of those. A bad back that is, not a futon.

Japan is known for a lot of strange food, for good and for bad. Everyone knows of sushi - rice and raw fish (optionally wrapped in seaweed and dipped in soy). It's quite delicious. Something that looks rather suspicious but is rumored to be tasty is the chocolate larva, a creepy looking candy grub. Another thing i wanted to try is the canned bishoujo bread... Canned bread?!

I'm doing a self-study on speaking Japanese (I'll write more on that later on) and am concidering taking a course in Japanese at some stage. (I decided to learn to speak before I learn to write, because my brother took a few classes at some stage and the pace was rather high - it'd give some advantage knowing a little bit more beforehand, I'd hope).

Yeah, so that was a little out-of-context about Japan and stuff. I'm pondering a bigger purpose of this blog, and the topic of Japan might just be it. Just might. We'll see.

More or less two weeks have passed now and I have 'wasted' half of my vacation on, well, nothing really. Awesome.

As you could probably gather from previous posts I've spent some of the time watching anime, and I've actually watched more series than I've written about. I've started a few sucky reviews but never finished them. I should make a separate blog, just for the anime I guess, like I did with WoW over at Ogremound.. Wonder if I should get a new domain, just for that.. Heh. Started watching Ergo Proxy yesterday. It's pretty cool, real nice animations!

Thanks to my brother, I now have a new chassi. It's a Silverstone Kl01 and he won it in a contest. To make a (not so) long story shorter, the monitor he's using is mine and I originally bought it for myself. But it was too small for my taste, so I let him use it. When he won the chassi we decided to swap, and I'm a happy bunny.

I've spent some of the time reading and a few days ago I finished a book called Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn. A review is in the works. Currently I'm working my way through Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

We've watched a bunch of movies, the latest was Ratatouille which were a bunch of fun. We've also wandered through the Star Wars saga (one of my brothers hadn't seen any of the movies), and we're down to watching episode II and ending with III (obviously we decided to watch it in the right order, only halfly regarding episodes I-III as even part of the saga).

That's about it. There's probably more trivial stuff that's been going on, but who's interrested anyways? :-]

Some years back I got into anime, nothing major but I watched a few series, some thanks to my brother and my cousin. Trigun was an awesome serie, so was Cowboy Bebop. I started watching Inuyasha, but only had access to about 14 episodes so I dropped it, even though I liked it. I later found out that Inuyasha turned out to be some 160+ episodes, which I think is way too long for a serie. I kind of like short series, and 10-20 episodes are an alright number.

I saw a few more series down the line, such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, but eventually strayed away from animated series in favour of Prison Break (which I guess is one of the more recent) and such series.

Now recently I've picked up the interest for anime again. True fans claim you "have to watch animes in japanese, either proper or fan-subbed, but my mind goes numb listening to japanese voices and having to read the subs for too long (this might also be the reason why I prefer shorter series). I prefer english audio as I don't have to think as much and can just sit and enjoy the show. ;)

I watched AD Police Files, a three episodes long "prequel" to Bubbelgum Chrisis (a serie I haven't seen yet). Pretty nice, gore and nudity in a violent mixture. On the DVD I saw trailers for close to 20 series and movies, among them Ray Earth (or Rayearth, whichever) and Vampire Wars, both looking really cool. I'll try and put my hands on both in a near future. :)

Me and my brothers took a walk the other day. Looking for a good place to "run some laps" we decided to wander through a nearby forest. We walked by some parts where we used to play when we were younger, and a lot of thoughts went through my mind, memories of friends, and feelings. I miss being that kid, playing. It made me realise I haven't been truly happy in a long long time..