音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Exciting Brief News:
1. Mitose Noriko is going to have a mini-album, yet everything about it remains a riddle.
2. Mitose Noriko + Hirota Yoshitaka are planning to make "Yorlga 2". Just wish it doesn't take years!

I like (big) dogs, but I definitely will go with cats.
↓ "What is that living thing upstairs?" xDD

While wait for my free upgrade of Windows 10, I did an upgrade for my other laptop. It used to be running Linux Mint, but perhaps due to some firmware issue, it had random problem during sleep/re-start/etc. in which I always ended up with a force power-off.

I initially was planning to upgrade from Qiana to Rebecca, but I changed my mind for no reason, and I got the hybrid between Ubuntu and Chromium =;gt Chromixium. As I was worrying whether a pure Chromium would have too many limitations (Previously I chose Mint as I have issue with spelling/pronouncing "Ubuntu" orz).

Up to this moment, everything was running well -- although I'm not sure whether it's proper to install a netbook orientated OS onto my not-that-bad-laptop-level spec -- but at least I got the 64-bit candidate version.
Another good thing, before I never got Google's Mozc working on either Mint or Ubuntu, seemed there were some gaps between the OS and the program itself. The installation was okay, but I just couldn't activate it. However, it's painful without it (apparently the embedded Gmail alternative can't be an acceptable long-term solution), so I re-challenged it. Luckily, from someone's post, he suggested using Fcitx instead of the default (?) iBus, and thus I got the IME working without spending too much time!

Some points that I really love Chromiux (although might be true on Chromium but I didn't bother to test any more): looks and works much lighter than linux, satisfies a non-linux heaver user's needs, the OS itself supports the global Google account with sorta individual software-ish apps, the interface is more similar to Mint (= Windows-ish) rather than Ubuntu, and, the one I love the most, pressing the "Windows Button" brings me to a complete "system menu" right in place so you don't have to show desktop first.
However, on the other hand, it lacks the right-bottom show-desktop button that I'm so addicted to on Windows, and there's no windows preview while hitting Alt+Tab, and the desktop is completely empty!! I'm so used to my 4-icon-forever setup on Windows and now I'm struggling with the somehow "rich" taskbar. ~_~

I'm happy with this OS, and quickly did the first customisation for the terminal profile. But perhaps a better idea was to choose a similar theme before doing my own colouring.. I can't read! lol

I should be able to follow Akiko singing "HOLLOW", but I always end up to read the Japanese translation instead. Not mentioning the Italian, I'm just bad at old English as well.

The point of bringing this song is, I'm now literally a hollow shell.
My mental state has been so unstable since this morning. If Haruka's new best albums can moe me to death, Akiko's news on her coming soon concept album then takes my spirit away.

↓↓↓

WOKASHI -- Akiko's first Japanese style concept album!

(I'm so glad that I checked twitter this morning or I'd miss it.)

The special website is using "Otoshimono" as the BGM. Interestingly, when I just got the news, that piece indeed went across my mind. I was wishing there's a vocal version for that since its release in the end of last year!
-- Although it remains a riddle whether it would be.

However, what "wokashi" may stand for? sweetie (お菓子)? grotesque unusual (おかしい)? or invasion (侵し)? or all together? (゜-゜;)

So far, <Akakakushi>, <Hiraitesanze> and <Class::CIEL_NOSURGE;> are of a pure Japanese style (are there more?), and I love these a lot! Simply think about a collection of such songs will carry me into the world of endless crimson, a.k.a. 朱隠し (´・ω・`).
Yet I hope (and believe) she doesn't include these songs as I want new works!

But the bad thing is, it's of the C88 release, which means much more trouble to buy it. ~_~
At least a small compensation, Akiko's CD jacket proved CATS >>> dogs!!

~~Japanese style, so there must be sou!!

>>> To reach for my lost spirit, time to turn on the switch of shoujo-ai imagination!
I've made up my mind earlier this afternoon, the keys will be hinamatsuri and wagashi, with (huge) variation~

Around 20 °C, cloudy with light showers! That is the summer I'd love!!

Sometimes even I myself don't understand what and how I think.
For example, my top 3 Yuri songs are:
- 梶浦由記 / Emily Bindiger - my long forgotten cloistered sleep
- 志方あきこ - 空蝉
- KOKIA - 大事なものは目蓋の裏
it may not be true for most others, but they indeed drive me into a super yuri mood -- and thus delusions begin to surge in my head~ °w°
if just I know why I have such reactions it would be even more superb!

Since I'm on this topic, I went to read the lyrics of Utsusemi again. And I think I got a (weak) linkage between this song and Zero 2 -Crimson Butterfly-'s theme song (especially when the word "utsuro" comes into my sight). No wonder the lyrics writer is Amano Tsuki~
or perhaps that's how this song belongs to a yuri song?!

Zero. With my crappy (rank E) playing skill, I had just completed the ghost list of 1 and 3 (while referring to various playing guides continuously). At least now I can fully focusing on a smooth playing experience and no need to worry about missing a flying-by ghost -- though I still need to complete 2 first, and seems I have to do another two rounds as some photos are difficulty limited -- I actually prefer the normal end but I want to play on nightmare.. u_u

Also, I dropped the plan to get PS3 versions of Zero 1-3, as they don't have Japanese voice included (wtf)!! Calling "Oneechan" is definitely cuter than "Mayu"! (つд⊂) But the benefit (?) is that I don't have to struggle with the ghost list, as I'm not dreaming for all S ranking in the missions. Impossible!

Being keeping using cameras recently (both in Zero series and in real life), I did a few basic comparisons today:

conclusion: apple is rubbish.
conclusion II: I want Sony's newest compact camera but eventually I decided to save money for more CD's/games. xD;;

Haruka's best collection box will be out in early August, and the CD jackets she posted on twitter had already moe-d me to death (so that's my spirit who is actually doing the writing right now).
Meanwhile, Annabel's new single will come out by the end of August. At first when I heard about the title 「夜の国」 I thought it's a new album (or at least a maxi). Such an attractive title should have more songs in it but the reality isn't always like what you expect... (￣д￣;)

-- No idea how long it had been, Opera Stable hasn't fixed the dead Ctrl+Tab and now I'm using the Developer version, and css from some pages are rendered weirdly..

The temperature finally decreased since last weekend's heat-up. Although I don't want to bring it up I have no choice here:
↓
あついかゆい、かゆい　うま…

Looked upon the sky with lots of cloud clusters, my mind was full of the desire of a downpour.
-- Actually, not a downpour, but it did rain a bit today.

There's no way I can love summer. With various flowers it's beautiful, but meanwhile, the bugs.. in another sense summer is the scariest season.
When it's hot, everything in my daily life goes off-key (literally off-key for some instruments) and collapses, which can be proven by the increased chance of bumping into this or that, and my head simply goes blank, or is overwhelmed by a huge mixture of all horror games I've done (earlier it was Silent Hill 0 plus Biohazard 4, and more recently with the addition of Zero -crimson butterfly-.. lol).

And I kept dreaming about to hide somewhere as my aestivation, probably in the Manor of Sleep: the snow, the complicated and maze-like design, and the cute ghost girls.. that's the most ideal place isn't it!

As it was too hot for me to make my brain work properly, I decided to spend the two 31°C days with Zero 3 -shisei no koe-.
Only after one round clear, I still didn't dare to challenge its hard mode. While I didn't remember much details, I ended up with 11 hours in total to clear the second time normal mode (my 1st time play was around 17 hours). From rank E to rand D, yet I lacked quite a lot of points to fully upgrade all the three cameras.. orz So later on I tried the missions, and failed hard. For most (95%) missions it couldn't be better than a miserable E rank, and I wanted to point out, the time of retry was much higher than Zero 1 or 2's missions. I don't mind if you make the S rank to be difficult to obtain, but at least let poorly-skilled players like me finish them without being frustrated: Mission 1-3, 6-4 and 8-1 really trapped me into despair that I wanted to punch the staff who designed such harsh missions on the face!
If Hunters are the trauma of Biohazard, the Stroller Grandma is the trauma of Zero 3!
-- So that I never dream for All-S-Rank in any of the Zero series (because I know it's impossible). ~_~

However, Zero series is definitely the most beautiful (and moe) horror game (especially Zero 2)! It's just normal if I scream while doing Biohazard of Silent Hill, but in case of Zero, I usually get so excited like "Mio and Mayu are so cute (with the dark yukata or the gothic lolita costume plus glasses °w°)", and this is probably why I tend to do Zero at late night without feeling tired (or stressed).
So if someone is weak at horror games but still wants to have a try, this will be the No. 1 recommendation.

Regardless how touching the ending is, I couldn't stop to poke in when Rei pushed the boat with Reika and Kaname's bodies: don't "read" the lyrics/poem, "sing" it! You have a nice voice and I believe you can stay on-key!

Next, I'll eventually do Zero 3 in Hard mode, (and Zero 2 in Nightmare mode).

Lemon is awesome. As I drank more water with lemon concentrate, my mug cup became just shiny clean as new. It works much more efficient than the regular dish soap, or toothpaste!

snippet 1.
Earlier in this week I got to listen to some one singing the song "Lady Jane" by the rolling stones, and I began to laugh before the song finished. The reason was straightforward, the lyrics is so embarrassing! How could they wrote it and actually sang it? (Leporello: If he continues, I'll laugh.) In this sense, Noriko's dark love songs are way, way better!

snippet 2.
I think I won't to be able to play a cello ever -- The true thought after looping Mozart's Rondo K.617 for hours. I stopped every time when the cello floats up. It's just too erotic to make me concentrate! (；´∀｀)

snippet 3.
Big blame for Haruka's 10th anniversary premium box and the two Biohazard Revelation games, I'm now in parsimonious mode and have cancelled the original plan of getting a Xperia M4 or Z4 (unless my current Arc breaks into 5000 pieces).

snippet 4.
As of the game "Zero Nuregarasu no Miko", no matter for how many times I look at Kozukata Yuuri, I think she's like Rorona from the Atelier series, in terms of both the hairstyle and the clothing.

It could be my longest record for a text parser script, spanning over 10 days. The concept doesn't sound complicated, but since we're asking the machine to work for us, we get to spend time making it happy.

While not being the most capable free software, I had no intention to switch from Aria Maestosa to another midi sequencer, which was because of not only its name but also its XML based save files. Its biggest drawback for me is that it can't produce a nice printout of the score. Later on, "Lilypond" showed up in the top hits when I searched for a sheet music printing software. When I read about it uses a text-based input, my brain was ready to initialise another code fight, that could bridge the two.

The idea didn't sound hard: you read through Aria XML by track, take each pitch and its length, and convert into the Lilypond format. But meanwhile, you have to consider when the notes overlap, with or without being of the same duration, different names for the same pitch, dotted notes or triplets, etc. Since Aira only supports one key signature per track, and the time change is applied to all tracks, the only big problem was how to organise the notes. After scrapping off a few pages, what I ended up was a rather complicated structure (once again I really love references!):

$score->{$track_number}{track}=[
	[
		[
			[
				[
					{
						pitch_number=>4~119 || 0,
						pitch_base_note=>1/2/4/8/16/32/64,
						pitch_has_dot=>1/0,
						pitch_is_triple=>1/0,
					}
				], #pitch1
				[], #pitch2
				...
			] #chord1
			[], #chord2
			...
		], #voice1
		[], #voice2
		...
	], #measure1
	[], #measure2
	...
];

I was indeed lost for so many times and during the early stage of designing the main structure, I kept inserting and commenting out "print Dumper $xxx; die". (；´∀｀)

Of course I'm aware of it can never be perfect: it has mysterious issues with triple timing, will mis-calculate double dotted notes' durations (not a big deal as I rarely encounter double dotted notes), can't automatically produce grace notes and composer info (how much you can expect from a midi file?), requires manual editing to change keys, modify track names, add other marks, or this or that. But for my personal use, it's good enough. Finally there's a way to print nicely formatted sheet music in any key, or with transposition (which can be done in either Aria, Lilypond or my script).

The Outcome:

[1] which helped me testing the ground basics and revealed the issue with triplets.


and,
[2] which gave me a chance to look at more about layout formatting and also disclosed a stupid yet severe bug in mapping pitch to note names.

In conclusion:
Plain text is just sweet like glass harmonica!

宣言するわ、私は夏が一番大嫌い。
あつい、あついかゆい、
かゆい　うま…
↑ このネタもやめて欲しいんだけど…＾＾；

最近懐かしく他のプレイヤーのバイオ実況プレイを見ているところなんですが、見るほど私はバイオ1のリマスターとバイオ6をやりたくてたまらない。(だいぶ前入手したのにプレステ3がこっちにないのでできない。しょぼ―)
ＲＶ1&2をもちろん入手するつもりだけど、同じくプレステのせいで年末まで後回しって予定になりました。

そして今はがくがくバイオ3を再プレイ中！
「本編Ｓランク取らないと絶対にマーセナリーズやらない！」と去年ハンターにトラウマにされたのち自分への戒め（？）。そしてこのワタクシは8回目のプレイで遂にこれを果たした。
8回で初S…長かった…
そして期待したのマーセナリーズ、マジでミハイルに惚れてた。
ハーブ一個しか無いので慣れるまで時間かかったけど、その後この人の強い火力がサクサク私に＄9999の無限弾をもたらしてくれた。
「無限グレランやマグナムひたすら撃ちまくったらゲームとしては全然面白くない、ただの殺戮だ」と心に念じ、この無限弾を勿体無いことにさせないため、私はこうしてハンドガン縛り（EAGLE禁止、だが強化弾可）を始めたのです。
結果はね、予想通り、うまく行かなかった。
死にまくっていた→あのくそ歯ぐきネメシスのお陰でね！！(ﾟдﾟ )
ミハイルだけでなく、カルロスとニコライをも使いたい！　><

つーか、歯ぐきネメシスと戦い過ぎたら指が痛くなる。十字キーとコントローラ自体があんまりにも硬くてタコが出来そう…でもゲームプレイで手にタコができたら絶対に笑われるからいい加減なところでやめないと。
なんと、私も一度だけでもいいナイフ縛りやりたい！と言う願望が在りましても叶うことが…たぶんできません。

この下手くそプレイヤーの私を置いといて、バイオ3とほぼ同時に私はＣ言語を改めて始めた。
あの2006年度の私と違う、今度こそコイツをちゃんと働いてもらいたいです。
しかし、Ｃ言語はもう過去のコイビトです。私はすでにPerl依存症になったからどうしようもない。
絶望的な間違い：
↓

そして我が儘な発言：
みんな一種類の言語だけ使えばいいのに…

最後、お久しぶりな音楽トピック！…じゃなく、ただの一言コメント。

七瀬光（伊藤真澄）　――　境界の彼方　劇場版　オリジナルサウンドトラック

劇場版アニメを見るかどうか謎ですけど、とりあえず伊藤真澄さんの音楽だけは逃がさん！
そして驚くほど再びAnnabelさんのスペイン語が聞こえるなんて、幸せです！
こんな美しい音色の中に、私は溶けちゃいそうです。♥

志方あきこ　――　暁

他の3曲はもちろんあきこっぽくて素晴らしいですが、私が一番気にいるのがやはり『歪』のフルバージョン♪

みとせのりこ　――　Love Songs

この人は「Vierge Automatique」以来全然新曲を出す気がなさそう（間違えたら謝る）、けどベスト連発のお陰で昔の入手できない曲がいっぱいもらったし割にいいかな。みとせのLove songか、滅ぼそうな歌ばかりなので本気に数えてみたらそんなものがありますかと疑問しても、今度は「rapyer」が収録されたので私的には文句なしです。(ﾉ´∀｀*)

最後の最後、
私の左手の指、ＡＧＬが早く上がったらいいなぁーー♪

When I saw the calender I was relieved, seems I still have time to fill up the hole I left in this month. I was distracted seriously during the past 30 days and thus had left a big span. Now look at the screen shot I had for my unfinished drawing, which was made on March 29; today is April 29, it's exactly one month!
Yet I had never left an artwork untouched for that long...

I was dealing with a couple of incidents that were much more troublesome than using solely a knife to stab zombies. Troublesome, I'm not completely negative here though. I'll come back to this topic later on, but now, time to close the span of my top priority!
-- it doesn't mean I'm going to write this post using all '<span>' instead of '<div>'. ^^;

After "a literary moment", it was my second time doing a full size background (I think others such as "Marionette Fantasia" don't count as that's mainly a big single object). Full of uncertainty, but it was really fun. Maybe next time when I'm out of drawing ideas, I can remake of existing works to improve both the characters and the background.

In my high school PE class, for a few weeks we were asked to perform a technique of passing the basketball to the basket, regardless whether or not you love this sport (apparently I don't care it at all and my degree of interest was negative). No matter how many times I see the demo, either I could do with my hands and I couldn't run properly, or I could run but I lost the ball (at that time I even had the impulse to punch my PE teacher on her face, why didn't she just leave those who having no love with the stupid orange ball alone?).
Not only in my high school, I had trauma in all/ PE classes, from elementary school until to the first two years of undergrad, nor I'm a fan of any type of sports so I never watch Olympic games or so. I know my body is poorly coordinated. I can bump into the table/chair/etc edges while seeing it's right in my way (it's strange that I've never hurt myself while handcrafting -- maybe it has nothing to do with body coordination).

SO GOD KNOWS WHAT MADE ME TO BEGIN SOME GYMNASTICS TRAINING! (on the scale of my hands though.)
-- Hope I can increase my AGL eventually. (´∀｀;)

Last words:
Today when I was talking to someone, I got this idea: if I happen to have two (male) cats, I'll call one "Chris" and the other "Leon", similarly, for females one will be "Jill" and the other will be "Ada"!! :3