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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
12:23 am	10 taboos during the 7th Lunar Month. Something from 23rd Aug Xing Ming papers: A little different from the norms, but people might want to take note. 10 taboos during the 7th Lunar Month. 1)Leg hair -Hair represents our Yang force, strength. Avoid cutting hair, plucking eyebrows/leg hairs on nights (when Yin force is strong). Doing this will unbalance our aura by weakening our Yang. Our hair is liken to the Heaven (天), the moustache to Man(人) and our leg hair to the Earth(地). As humans walk on the ground with our legs, the leg hair is the most important source of our Yang force. Plucking them out is liken to removing our protection, thus inviting the invasion of our Good Brothers. Shaving affects too, but to a lesser extend. 2)Laundry Moonlight is considered Yin-aligned luminescence (as opposed to Sunlight) and is said to gather energy. Wet items (湿气重） gathers Ying energy easily, so hanging wet laundry out in the open at night (balcony etc) will allow them to absorb the Ying energy of Moonlight. When an item of clothing is rich in Yin energy, they attracts Good Brothers to possess them. Wearing such clothing increases the likelyhood of falling ill. There's also practices in older times of not (proceeding with the act of keeping clothings into closets, so as "not to close in the wandering spirits into the closet too" (以防把游魂野鬼收进衣柜). 3)Videogames From the Taoism point of view, one's internal essence (精气神 [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Treasures_(Traditional_Chinese_Medicine[/url])) is very important. Staying awake at night while sleeping during the day weakens internal essence and thus our aura, allowing spiritual bodies to close their gap with us. Prolonged playing of videogames at night not only weakens our energies, but also focuses our concentration which leads to us forgetting our Self (令人过度专注忘我), increasing the ease of Good Brothers possessing us. 4)Large body of water Water is said to allow vision to another dimension. Taoism has a training, filling a copper basin with water while having one sit facing the basin. 24 candles representing time is placed surrounding one and the basin. When the lights are turned off, it is said that one can see spirits through the water. 5)Football matches It is said that ghosts are fond of liveliness and frolicking, thus people put up wayang shows and getais to entertain them. This is also why there's frequent talks of hauntings in wayang stages. For the sake of oneself and other people, try not to kick up too much of a ruckus when watching a soccer match, and remember to put up ample lighting so as to increase the Yang energy. 6)Bus rides Dead ends are stoppered, so human energy (人气) doesn't flow, thus spirits like to gather in back alleys and backends. As such, while taking public transport at night, try to avoid the seats at the bus's end and the last carriage. If on a double decker bus, the risk on the lower decks are higher as spirits, coming from hades (地府) prefer lower grounds to higher. 7) Lifts It is said that lifts can go through to the hell's gates (地府鬼门关). When taking a lift at night, one should face the lift door and press the close button, instead of lazily hanging your heads and wait for the doors to autoclose. This is because Yang energy is strong on a man's front, and thus is able to block off the Yin energy which comes in through the lift opening. If you see a single person looking expressionless in the lift, well buddy, I would suggest waiting for the next lift. 8) Drinking If one goes drinking with friends at night, do limit yourself. If you feel like vomiting after some heavy drinking, don't do it in the back alleys or beside a wall where Yin energy is prevalent, or you might risk offending Good Brothers. 9) Smell Spirits calls out to people with fragrance. If you pick up a strange scent at night, do not comment on it ("hey, something smells!") or the spirit will take that as a reply to their "invitation" and stick to you. 10) Red Clothing Red is like fire. Fire at night is consider Yin fire. Wearing red at night is liken to wearing the fire onto one's self, causing internal fire to flare, emotions to rage (阴火导致肝火旺盛，脾气变差), even influencing one's bodily health. Walking around while burning with Yin Fire, it's hard to not attract the attention of Good Brother. Pro Tips: 1) Stick in groups to increase the Yang energy 2) Avoid drinking to excess, as 天灵盖 will open, as though we're opening the doors as invitation for a possession 3) Avoid deserted places as it increases the likelihood of meeting with you-know-who. 4) Ladies are considered Yin bodies, so for our female friends, try not to loiter around when it gets late. Note to self: don't play Fatal Frame at night. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 19th, 2010
1:10 am	処女はお姉さまに恋してる ～２人のエルダー 　　　プレイ完了。 三週くらいかかったかな？全体的満足でした。前作をやったと櫻の園のエトワールを読んだから（半分くらいだけど）尚更です。あちこちに前作からのつながりが見えるから、面白さがアップした。 感想が多すぎて、逆に言い難いのです。こころの中で整理するからまだポストします。 一番好きなキャラは薫子。ちょっと馬鹿っぽいけど、それなりに愛しいところもたくさん感じられる（私的に）。声も可愛くて。薫子役の声優の波奈束風景さんは、薫子そのキャラクターをとっても上手に演じたんだと思います。 でも、やっぱり千早が好きです！（笑） じゃ、時間が遅くなったので、次回までごきげんよう。 (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
9:16 pm	Another dream.... this time of one where I got pickpocketed, or rather, have my wallet switched with someone elses and the security guard is thinking that I pickpocketed the someone... Current Mood: weird (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 15th, 2010
10:27 am	Why is it that the recent series of dreams which I have are all of some bad situations? -first dream can't remember -Pestered by a ghost in a lab coat -third dream can't remember -Driving and then got chased by police who somehow got a warrant of arrest. -Sort of a gang fight (with sniper rifles!) and police intervention edit: another one from my afternoon nap -returning to your home unlit and with a feeling of dread Current Mood: weird (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
6:47 pm	暁の護衛～罪深き終末論～ プレイ完了 総体の感じは．．．微妙。 本当に前作との繋がりがたくさんあって、内容自体も面白いが、なんかエーンデイングが物足りない感じ。　さっぱり過ぎるというか、何か忘れたというか。 表側のルートは麗華メインみたい、ですが最後に”これで終わりか？”って感じ。アキラとの決着も軽すぎる。もっと双方もやってほしかった。それと、正樹の登場も違和感満々。本当に息子想いかも知れないけど、こんな登場方は彼のイメージに相応しくないのではないのか？ 裏側の内容は面白かった、でもそれだけ。裏ヒロインたちのルートとはみんな短すぎる。インパクトもない。 まとめに言うのなら、始まりはとっても良いが終りはそうでも言えないって所か。 キャラクターランキングはキャラの数でやりがたいが、トップ５ならこうでしょ： １）薫 ２）麗華 ３）絆 ４）ツキ ５）翔子 α）正樹　+　海斗　 はあ。謎に纏うのは良いかもしれないけど、もっと正樹の内心を描写が欲しかったんだね。 (Comment on this)
2:49 pm	quarterly thingie... Getting more and more lazy nowadays. ( February ) ( March ) ( April ) ( Cats ) Ok, gonna be really sianz as boss says our followup on cases is not up to par and want us to go back on Saturday to followup cases meh. Well, as stated, if people have time to facebook or surf net, I guess they should go followup on their cases instead. *shrug* (Comment on this)
Friday, April 30th, 2010
11:56 am	After near one year of struggle... ... well, not really struggling, but nevertheless, I've finally passed my stupid driving test! Now legally, I'm qualified to drive a class 3 vehicle on the public roads. Although I don't have any plans to do so anytime sooner. All in all, it's a nice thing that I don't have to go back for lessons and worry about tests anymore. Current Mood: relieved (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
4:26 pm	[quote] -----Original Message----- From: xxx xxx XXX [mailto:XXX_xxx_xxx@xxx.xxx.xx] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:17 PM To: IT-Helpdesk Subject: Mouse is slippery Hello IT personnel I am xxx xxx from (some department). I am hold the lenovo X200 notebook. The mouse is slippery and is difficult to control. Can you help? Thks! [/quote] See? This is the kind of people I deal with. Current Mood: drained (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 19th, 2010
1:47 am	かしましコミュニケーション　プレイ後感想 AXL第六作品がようやく終わらせてしまいました。基本的に満足した。 シナリオ担当の北側寒囲は前々作のPrincess　Frontierと同じですが、Princess　Frontierよりかしましの方が気に入った。ついでに前作のLike a Butlerよりもです。 主人公と共に同じ学園の部活の仲間たちと一緒に過ごす時間、大勢の人に経験があるのだろう。馬鹿騒いで、楽しみの時間。そんな事、私自身もあった（十五年ぐらい前けど）。この作品をプレイした時、色んなことを思い出した、だから少し愛しく思いました。でも実際に、本国の部活は作品内のように毎日あるわけではない。精々一週で一回だけど、あの時の私にとってはかけのない勉強からの息抜きの大切の時間。ま、それをほって置いて。 ストーリーは軽いもので、乗り込む易い。外国の美少女（しかもお姫様）が同じ学校に転入して、主人公の生活に絡め、ドタバタなことになる。ちょっと使いすぎる筋ですが、私はそれでも好き。王道というかこれ？ 四人のヒロインにそれぞれの物語がある。大体、エストと円のルートはムハール絡み、純と榛名は国内。今回はどんのルートも文句ない、みんな好きにも言える。 エストルート-　主人公とお姫様が恋人同士になって、幾つの困難を乗り越え、最後に辿り着くハッピーエンド。王道ですね。 円ルート-　円先輩の正体は、共同ルートでなんとなくわかる。色々のところで“やっぱり！”と言いたい。 純ルート-　幼馴染ルート。なんだか、親切な感じがする。幽霊が見えるとでもほんとの願いではないとくると、私もなんとなく純の真の願いがわかる。ちょっと当たってみると、本当に当たったんだ．．．私そんなに展開を読むのは強いのやら、ストーリーが定番すぎるのやら．．． 榛名ルート-　まったく何の展開も読めない。どうやって主人公が榛名の彼氏になれるのか、ストーリーはどういうエンドなのか、読めないから楽しめる。 ルートランキングとすれば １）エスト ２）榛名 ３）円 ４）純 キャラランキング １）榛名　-　ツンツンと言われても、本当は優しい人。ちょっと表現が不器用（というか、感情表現の方法がわからない）ですが、とっても可愛いに思う。毒舌とドSの発言も面白い。 ２）エスト　-　すべてのルートでも彼女の主人公への愛情が見える。そんなや優しく愛しい人と共に恋に落ちたら、誰でも喜ぶのだろ。ムハールのエピソードでは活躍がほとんど最後に押さえられたけど、共和宣言の時はちょっとかっこよかった。学園でラストシーンの再開は予想中ですが、やっぱりめでたいと思います。エストちゃんの初々しさと天然な所、一般人以上の優しさ、萌えるね。 ３）円　-　騒ぎ大好きそう、でも肝心な時はとっても頼もしい。この人といっしょにいると、退屈なことはまずないだろ。 ４）純　-　幼馴染キャラ。ついでに大食いキャラ。でもそんな純さんは、主人公への気持ちは本物に間違いない。若い頃からの想いは、成年になる時に恋の気持ちに変ると限らない。純の場合は長年の努力が実るな感じで、ほんとうによかった。 作品のテーマはどうやら“異文化”です。それぞれのキャラクターはそれぞれの“異文化”に興味を持つ、でもみんなは同一の研究会にいって、完全に分かり合ってることはなくても、みんなは一緒にうまくやってる。そんなことに私たち社会人の人々が学ぶ価値があると思います。 AXL次の作品はなんなのか、期待しています。でもその前におとボク２は楽しみにします。 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
8:39 am	We meet again... Remember the indian man in http://yc-tan.livejournal.com/71749.html ? I saw him again just now at the harbour front bus stop. I think he still recognize me too, since he distinctively MOVE towards me and start burping and blowing his nose and generally trying to be obnoxious. I think he was facing towards me as well, like challenging me like that. I ignored him. Well, after a while he turned around and board a bus (no middle finger this time). As he sat on the window side, I can clearly see that he diao me through the window. So then my bus came and I board it to my work place, and in the middle of the trip, who could be waiting on the incoming bus stop but the dude himself? My bus was pretty crowded and I was near the exit while he was stuck at the entrance after boarding, but I could still see he's burping and coughing away at the other passengers. Don't think he saw me on this bus though, so should be a coincidence. After a while the bus clears up, the guy went up the upper deck while I got off the bus after I reach my work place. I think the next time if he boards a bus before me and he tried to diao me, I'll get my camera ready and snap him (if of course the bus exit has closed). (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
8:04 pm	初三liao... ... and I've spent the last 5 days of holiday lazing around. Highlights: -I've failed my driving test for the third time. -I've finished 3 boxes of pineapple tarts, kueh pankit by myself. -I have not touched my H since the start of CNY <= an achievement if you ask me. -I still have 3 more days of leave, so I'll be starting work only next Monday. -My First Aunt came over from Malaysia and is gonna still with us till the end of the week, Yup. All in all, things are still normal. A happy Chinese New Year to everyone. *shiny* Current Mood: lazy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
2:11 am	3 months. We're still in time aren't we...? Timecheck, nope we're still not into quarterly...yet. ( November ) ( December ) ( January ) ( Figma ) ( Random shots ) Anyway, recent happenings? I've signed on for another year, with no pay increment. Call me stupid, but times are hard, so I don't want to take chances. Ok, just call me unimproving. I know that I have a really laidback attitude, lazy even. But things should be easing up this year, since I've finished my debt with the DD Saber, and Auntie's place is cleared, I might really be able to start saving up, despite all the skeptism. [rant (skip if you want)] Work itself is still dealing with retards. Well, I guess retards is still ok if they go through special school, but in our case we don't have those, and the retards themselves aren't really keen to prove that they're anything but, as evident by the fact that they don't want to troubleshoot and just ask for onsite directly. "Oh, my lotus notes is not working. Can you please send someone down?". Ok, she said please, but that's not the point. Can't you guys at least let the helpdesk troubleshoot first? People are confusing the helpdesk line with something to call forth an engineer. I tell you, if we're not there to provide first level support, the onsite engineers will DIE LIKE DOGS from running to the obscenely high number of users who calls in. Although one could always argue that the helpdesk agents can all convert themselves into onsite agents and add to the manpower, but honestly I don't really think we're gonna be enough... Another thing I want to point out is that around here, everybody thinks that we're psychic or something. Imagine you receive an email with the oneliner "My lotus notes is having problem, please advice.". ... ... ... Umm... ok, so what's the problem? Picture the below scenario: Patient works into Doctor's office: "Doctor, I'm not feeling well." Doctor: "Ok, take this medicine 3 times a day and you're be as good as new." Must be some incredible doctor there. But this is what the users' expect us to do. And people still ask me why I *facepalm* so often. All in a day's work I tell ya. I really wonder, what is their standard in hiring? Don't they look for people who at least understands how to operate a computer? Or at least not retarded enough to follow instructions? Many times have I heard the user say "I'm not computer-literate so please send help" and oh how was I tempted to ask them "then why the FUCK are you working here? Go work somewhere where they still use the pencil and paper.". Then there's this incident where the printers are having some setting problem and them users can't print two sided. In the words of the user who logged the case: "Please assist to solve the issue quickly as we're having a meeting coming up and we don't want to kill too many trees by printing on one-side only". Hypocrisy I tell you. For god's sake all of you are using laptops. Laptops are portable. You can just look at the softcopy of the slides on your laptop if you bother to bring them to the meeting room 2 floors up. We will be saving even more trees that way wouldn't we? Not that I see that you really care about the trees though. Damn hypocritic retards. [/rant] I'm still having my daily doses of H, as well as going back to reading light novel texts. I found out that I need happy games. I can't really take naki games or those with depressing/heavy themes. My life is as Emo as it is, and adding to it is just masochistic. Or do they say that the person is masochistic, that's why they want to add to their emo-ness? It's pretty interesting to do a self-analysis of our own lifestyle as compared to the norms, but sometimes you'll just get more and more confused as to what you really want. For me, I'll just skim the surface and go with my flow. On the subject of H, we have OtoBoku2! http://otbk2.com/ I can't wait....But will Mizuho oneesama still make an appearance, since this is set two years after? Recently the gang has started playing RO again. Although I made a High Wiz, I don't really think I'll have the time to spend in MMORPGs, what with all the H and stuff. We'll see what happens. Ok, end of post. And yes, I've copy and pasted the whole thing just incase LJ decides to be a jerk and eat up my long post again. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
7:36 pm	Oh you silly cat.... Xiaohua's sleeping posture is really lol. ( pic inside ) Current Mood: amused (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
1:36 pm	Back from Reservist. Well technically I was back officially on the 18th itself. Clearing leave yesterday and today was the correct choice. I spent a good part of yesterday unpacking and washing the stinky stuff. For the ICT itself, well, it was actually quite ok. Sure we had live firing and Excercises, but surprisingly things went on pretty smoothly, especially the live firing where we split into two separate sessions for our two platoons and breezed through them without much delay. The outfield excercise's Old Camp Compound was quite bearable too (we even had power and water) and the excercise itself isn't too tough. I guess it could be due to the fact that I was transferred to a different platoon from the last few highkeys and the previous one was definately more shiong. On the personal side, I spent my birthday in camp. Sucks. On my birthday, we have our IPPT. Sucks more. On the IPPT itself, I buang during my Shuttle Run and sprained my ankle. Sucks even more. And MO only gave me Light Duty for 3 days, which meant that I still have to attend most of the shit, and just nice Live Firing is on Friday, the day when the Att B ends. On the flip side, the second IPPT on the last day got cancelled due to a long period of Cat1 lol. Ok, let me just try to adjust back to civilian life before I begin my work next week. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
1:50 am	Be gone for reservist in about 3 hours. Feh, spending my birthday in camp. Sounds good enough eh. Well, at least I've finished Commu. It was a good play. I'm satisfied. Ending was also pretty clearcut so I don't have to mull over it like I did with Memoria. The soundtrack is pretty much to my liking with moeru BGM and songs. I hope the OST and also the fan book comes out soon. Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
9:00 pm	I shudder in fear.... All hail your new GOD! http://moemoedoll.blog95.fc2.com/blog-entry-1663.html *rolls for 1d8 SAN loss* (1 Comment |Comment on this)
10:41 am	Someone up there must love me... I got my leave cancelled, I come back work on the earliest shift, our system goes down and all my cases are piling up and I have to log manual cases, later I have to input all the shit back into the system when it's up. Great man. Just great. Screw all of you bastards who send emails. Current Mood: angry (Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
1:13 pm	Cannot already lah.... Nabe Driving Test fail again. Current Mood: rejected (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
1:16 pm	Again, three months consolidation. Think I better start updating before the things really overflow into 4 months interval basis. ( August ) ( September ) ( October ) Ok, last week was another round of BCP (Business Contigency Plan) which I hated so much since the first time. This time we have 4 days of it where we split our team into two places in preparation for H1N1 or some shit. We have no access to our problem logging system on the second site and thus have to log Manual Case Logs, which in turn has to be transferred to our colleagues in the main site where they have to input the logs into the system. Fucking Double Redundant work. After two days of main site (730am to 7pm) and two days of second site, plus my Saturday duty, I'm ready to kill someone. I don't feel like I have any weekends for that week. That's why I need to enjoy this weekend. Signal Heart seems to be a little lackluster compared to Memoria, so I'm just trying to complete it and go on to the next game. Next week is the release for COMMU - Kuroi Ryu to Yasashii Oukoku, which should be pretty good. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
12:38 am	メモリア　プレイ終了。 I shall type in English this time. I pretty much like the character design and the plot isn't too shabby either. The opening song is one which I had looped for the past month or so. Now, I'm not really capable of processing time travel plots, whats more Memoria also touched on pararell universes. After finishing the True End, I tried to create a flowchart of the events of the plot. Hmm.... there's still a few points which I'm not sure off, like which future did Yukie actually came from that allowed her to pen all the Gate notes, or what exactly happened in Yuuki's finale that triggered the true end "Memoria". Hopefully a fanbook gets published that explains all these. Character-wise, I like all of the heroines, no haters here. But I loved Haruna the most for her forlorn expression as she sees the main character who lost his memories and Kanami for her earnest personality and the ability to fall in love with the main character once more after she loses her memories again and again. Well, what's up next.... I have the World Love Organization fandisk, or I can start on one of the many new games released. Current Mood: satisfied (Comment on this)