音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Yesterday night, I was organizing my download folder – the last time I did it was 3 months ago – and I noticed a few folders.
Songs by Annabel.
Nice! I almost forgot them. I only listened to them for once, probably. So that was time to feel them again.
"Noctiluca" and "autonomia". Both are calm and relaxing, and what I more love is the second one, which was one from "ABC" project by Annabel and Yanagi Nagi. :moe:

autonomia
I loved track 4 "melodia" immediately, and after a few times of playing, I also loved track 2 "autonomia". About track 3, I keep my words; that song was not that impressive to me, yet that is a good song for relaxing.

"melodia". At first, it gave me a strong feeling of Ali Project; no matter from the melody, the arrangement, or the entire ambience. To confirm that, I was even looking for its composer and more information – wishing to see the name(s) from AliPro. When I finally knew my thinking was wrong (though I guessed so), I was still very surprised. I've never seen myu having such a gothic song! Well, not bad, I love that song so much!

"autonomia". The beginning is very peaceful and quiet, which fits Annabel's typical slow type (?). But the real part that attracted me was the middle part, where the percussions got strengthened. I even sort of reminded about I've. Weird, they're completely two styles... :question:

Anyway, both songs are my loves, and they made me feeling like to draw, to write, to imagine... maybe I should try to cover both of them in future, and that's true that I've decided to draw something based on them (well, when I'm not busy TA-ing xD).

The second thing happened on that night, related to those songs...
Foobar 2000 had its version 1.1.5 released!!!
I didn't know that until I opened its website – because I was staring at my foobar when I was organizing my playlist for those Annabel songs. I clicked on the "help" menu, wished to see "check for update". I was so lazy to open the website each time – I even didn't know if there was a new version.
However, good news for me. Version 1.1.5 was out, and now, foobar has the feature to check for updates, being integrated in the "help" menu! :clap:

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... and I was listening to A.T. musical vocal best! :P

Another change of it was the icon. Hmmm... to be honest, I'm not very accustomed to the new icon yet. Before, it was a white alien in a black square, but now, it's just a white alien standing alone. orz, that's... creepy!!!
Anyway, I'll be used to it... I hope... :sweat:

- Before I started a blog, I only wrote diaries everyday. As more people got a blog, I also wanted my own one. In summer of 2006 (probably July), my blog was at first launched on a blog service whose name has been forgotten completely. I spent a lot of time to think up a blog name. At that time, the blog title was... okay, I confess, that was in Chinese, and was a very awkward one. However, I was bored with that blog service -- it couldn't show Japanese correctly! orz, then how could I be fine with my talking of lots of Japanese ACG/music titles? So I switched to my.opera.com (MyO) after 4 or around posts. Another reason, I wanted to go out of native service, I wanted to meet people all around the world. I then tried to write my blog in English, yet now, I can't understand what I was writting -- my English was so bad at that time. lol

- MyO was really pretty at that time. I especially loved its album feature. As a new beginning, I changed my blog title in English. Already forgot how I came up to that name, but I kept using the name till now, and never wanted to change again. My MyO was begun in August of 2006, and in that December, I randomly opened another's MyO blog; there were lots of posts introducing how to edit CSS for modifying the current template. Superb! I really didn't know anything about CSS at that time, and by that blog's help, I finally made my first blog design. Later, I learned more from him, and I was getting better and better in editing CSS -- every time of making a new template was kind of a new challenge for me; I was excited and a bit nervous, wondering if I could manage things well. ^^; (the link to his blog, in memory of my old days, but, I can never find his new address again)

- I really love MyO; I've spent too much of time with her. Although I've changed my username for a few times, I kept being on MyO for 4 years, sharing my random writings and drawings with the world. Some of my onlines also said my English got improved a lot (I believed so too!). During that 4 years, I've seen so many big improvements of MyO (as well as Opera; I've become a real Opera user soon after I began my MyO): status, new templates, easier-using editor, integration of other networks, nice picture uploader, etc. I ever dreamed we could stay together forever -- even though that tragedy of GFW-event ever happened. Eventually, nothing lasts forever, I was attracted by a freer platform (probably the biggest blog service in the world), Google blogger.

- To be honest, even before my original blog hosted on that unknown service, I've tried blogger a bit. I didn't like that, because I was nothing on editing the templates at that time. I found the place to edit the template, but I had no idea on how to do it. As a result, what I could use was those ugly default templates (the so-called "classic templates" currently on blogger). 4 years after, when I one day strolled onto blogger with my Google account again, I was surprised -- blogger has become so unbelievably good! Not only I knew more about how to edit a template, there were much more free templates for blogger and I can modify to get my own design. Plus, the sidebar, which is the most attractive part for me. On MyO, everything is fixed, you can't re-arrange the order of the sidebar modules, you can't insert your own widgets, and you can't use some html codes either, but you can do all of them on blogger. OMG, how nice that is!

- So, as you know, I betrayed MyO my good friend, and completely moved to blogger. Although there were somewhere different, it was much easier to make a similar design on blogger. The only disadvantage was that blogger (or say, Google) doesn't integrate an individual "album" page for blogger. What Google has is Picasa, a separate service. Fortunately, blogger soon released a new feature, to make individual pages on your blogger. Good feature, so I can just make an index for my photos and drawings. To make a similar design, I firstly wanted to just post every photo/drawing as a regular blog post, but that was not that good, you may get your posts messed up. So I reminded another G-service, g-sites.

- That was the beginning of my own domain. G-site was basically good (I'm not talking about its designing template feature... which is so poor orz) so you could organize your non-post stuff well in form of webpages. The short point was there was no way to get a more beautiful web address for your g-site, unless you have your own domain.

- All right, time to get a domain for myself, huh? Maybe you would ask, why not to use my blog title as the domain name? I wanted, but thought that didn't look neat. orz Because of my strong love toward KOKIA, I was trying to find something from her works, and then, I saw the one: song of pocchong. You know all the rest, I bet.

- About current blog title, I mean the first 3 kanji, I added them just before I made decision to register the domain. The reason? I don't remember clearly, but was mostly because I saw some expressions containing the last two kanji, and thus I made my own combination of words. In October of 2009, which was about 4 months after my new domain got activated, I suddenly fell in love with the song "Rainy Soul", and that's how I changed my subtitle to that. What's the previous subtitle? I don't wanna tell! :P

- All right. Life goes on, I still love blogging, changing blog templates, digging and trying new blog widgets/plugins. So that's my awkward&boring&nuts introduction about my blog so far (from Aug. 2006 to Mar. 2011), thanks for your reading. :bow:

-- kiyo @ 2011-Mar-11 14:34 in her lab

It was snowing for a few days, and now, it's getting warmer; snow is melting, yet the temperature just made me feeling even more chilling – and today was cloudy! Well, it's normal, I know... :vain:

Anyway, go back to today's topic. Yes, No. 2!! Still about "Cotton" and "moment". Just got some newest information about those two! :excited:

Well, maybe I should talk about "moment" first, since I wanted to write about it a on Thursday already yet I didn't have time.
About "moment", KOKIA has released a short interview on her youtube channel about it. If you're interested (and able to understand it), please follow this link: :see:

http://www.youtube.com/user/KOKIAch#p/u/0/Efwk_XJeJ48

Here, I only want to say one thing, about the jacket.

*photo from KOKIA blog~<3

KOKIA posted this photo on the day she finished arranging songs in her new album. At that time, I didn't know that would be the future jacket. But...
I really love this photo! I like to look at the sky sometimes, no matter what the weather is. Maybe you've noticed, the most topic shown in my random snaps is about the sky. It's a kind of calmness for my own heart, and I was very happy that KOKIA also mentioned something similar. :roll:

Only two days, that could be the quickest recording, right? xD

By the way, on Victor Entertainment's KOKIA page, the tracklist has been posted, and this album will be released on May 18.

OMG, ALL ARE NEW SONGS!!!! :star: So, I'll definitely order this one (just hope it can be available on yesasia.com so I can also buy GC's "Stay Soul" :P)

Now, about "Cotton vol.2". Finally, Noriko put new things in that page.
The release date is April 27. Wow, the same day as Akiko's new release! Awesome!!!
Yet, now I'm more interested in the tracks:
"荒城の月" and "とおりゃんせ"!!!
I know only these two. I've Lia's version of "荒城の月", and, "とおりゃんせ", isn't that the "phantom" song that was mentioned in GARNET CROW's "Rainy Soul"??? Oh, yeah, anyway, I'm really looking forward how Noriko will perform them! :karaoke:

P.S. just made a new smiley page for DN, so cute~ :3

After two weeks of my crazy looping of KOKIA songs (around 1500 plays within one week when I'm online), I turned to loop Noriko Mitose again. Maybe that was by chance, this morning, I read in her blog, that she is going to release a new album,
"Cotton Vol. 2"
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Finally, Noriko, I can enjoy your new works! What a long time since your last release... T_T

↑click and check~ no any details there yet though. So let's looking forward it!

Her first "Cotton" was beautiful, and that was also my first album of hers – even though I knew her earlier that "Cotton", "Cotton" made Noriko becoming one of my favorite singer.

I believe this time, it will be another beautiful work. It must be, Noriko's voice is so pretty anyway~

Talk about music, KOKIA is going to make her on-stage album "moment" on March 4-6th. There is no more information about it, at least she only mentioned she was working on new songs for that from her blog. She also said she's going to make a photobook for titti. Wahhh, what a photobook it will be! I'm really curious! xD

Okay, I know actually it's not the time for me to write a blog post. I haven't prepared for tomorrow's TA, orz... and I have a paper to read for the lab meeting on Thursday... so let me end here. I'll write something new soon again (maybe).

I was hiding from my gtalk for all weekdays during this week, because I needed concentration – for my current project, which is to find out tetraloop interactions as much as possible.

The basic procedure of my project is simple: go through the database, filter all possible RNA tertiary structures, and look for tetraloop interactions (don't ask me what it is, ask wikipedia for it!). For small RNA molecules, it's very easy to say if the tertiary structure contains such a interaction. But, the hardest part is those large RNA molecules. The larger it is, the harder to check the structure – especially the software I use, which is DeepView, does not work perfectly with RNA structures.

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First, you open the (large) RNA file;

Second, you look for the loop you want to check;

Last, you hide other regions and see if it is a tetraloop interaction (in this case, it is not :P).

You see, it's easy, yet it can make you dizzy enough. Maybe I should ask my boss for a new pair of glasses! lol

I've said in last post, I was looping KOKIA's concert audio rips. Today, when I checked my last.fm page again, I was (not that) surprised by the record. I had been looping KOKIA's songs for a whole week! Superb, now KOKIA's play count increased for about 1000+ comparing with that before week. KOKIA, you're really, really my favorite artist! <3

I also got some random snaps after a pretty long while.

A big fatty hare! XDD

Finally, some newest screen shots from my DN life.

No. 1, Heaven's Judgement

You know (I hope), my priest on DN got his ultimate lv40 skill, Heaven's judgement. I really like this skill, so cool, plus Daisuke Namikawa's voice~~ Kyaa~ I'm dying~~ xDD

No. 2, Critical attack

Though my priest has only 2000+ magic attack, he could get "critical" high damage. Here, it's over 20k!

No. 3 Erase
Recently, the game got some skill attributes changed, so the company gave everyone a chance to reset our skills. By chance, I earned two chances, so I would like my force user to try another ultimate lv40 skill: erase.
It's beautiful, but I still love meteor storm. :P

Being hiding for 1.5 months!!
Gotta revive right now!

Today, just read Matsuo's blog – he was so cute! And, yes, KOKIA is my favorite artist forever! (no more explanation, it's a thing only I myself can understand.)

So, in the past one and half months, I've learned a lot,
that French is so... bad for me.
Yet I really wanna learn French.
Because KOKIA loves French... orz.
For myself, I love German the most (except Japanese, of course). At least, I can read a German word without taking too much of effort to remember the pronunciation rules.
In case of French, that is so different. There are many letters that won't be pronounced – how can I know them? That's so weird. If you don't pronounce a letter, why did you include the letter in your alphabet?! o_O
In one word, I'm very annoyed by French. I don't know how to explain it. I just don't feel good when I learn it.
Maybe, it's because I've been used to learn a language by myself?

Have been a TA for a month and half too. That was really very interesting. Though I'm really not a good teacher. I sometimes don't know how to answer their questions – I really don't know! Anyway, I need to improve on that point. :P

By chance, I got an English dubbed version of "Saikano". So, you know, I love that animation very much, and therefore, I spend several days to re-watch it again. It was my first time to watch an anime in English. The vocals were not bad, yet I more love the original Japanese voices. XD By the way, I was looping Hanako Oku's "Kusabi" for some days, and loved it a lot. Suddenly, I thought it might be good if there were a video clip of the combination of those two, the anime and the song. Hmm, maybe I can try to challenge, but, I've never tried to make a video clip. Can I really do it?!

During the last weekend, I looped KOKIA's concert again and again. I'd stopped looping her songs for a few days, but once I began to loop her songs again, I couldn't stop easily. Only she can sing so good in a concert, and only she can perform even better on a stage than in a studio! (ヽ´ω`)

Gonna end this post here. I only want to express my feeling toward KOKIA in this day, as well as to confirm my existence. So, good night~ u_u