Exams, there are done
So back to blogging for me
But there’s a problem…
So huge the backlog;
Code Geass, Macross, Druaga!
So much Anime.
So forgive me but — -
Ah forget it, working in Haiku is way too taxing this late at night. Anyways, exams are over. I am free until University starts in October. I have become more active in my time off. I have so much anime to blog. I have so much anime to watch before that can happen. So the blogging will happen but probably slowly at first. Probably Code Geass first. It has been a while and without blogging becoming a habit, I have been easily distracted and took so long to pull a post together.
Some more personal things:
I need to get back to some art - I so want to make some fan art. I got some Warhammer 40000 to get ready, as I eagerly anticipate the new edition of the rules coming out soon and need an Army large enough to really test run them well, and well, I really want to get some war raging done this summer. I have some studio time booked this summer as well, with little time to practice (my guitar is picking up dust and I fear for its functionality) I will have to improvise (hopefully it won’t be bad). I got so much going on this summer it is going to be as hectic and as packed as going to school. orz
Only a three days left until the nominations close… so if you are a blogger, and you haven’t done so already, get on down to the Anime Blog Awards and nominate. I’m sure we have heard this a lot already but do it. These nominations affect what we can vote for.
We will resume our regularly scheduled anime blogging soon… I am slow enough to have just watched Kanokon 2… orz
So I caught by Impz on IRC… he held me down and would do bad things to me if I didn’t check out this Anime Blog Awards. I already had, and he ‘persuaded’ me to actually participate. So I did.
So check it out if you haven’t already. I’m sure most anime bloggers have already been spammed by Impz. I even get a mention in the FAQ. XD
Also, yes, I am too lazy to post. Yes, I do have a lot of back log to post about. Yes, I haven’t been doing any of my real life stuff either. Been enjoying Koukou Debut. Yay, shoujo manga!
Note: Impz was quite polite about the whole thing actually… I couldn’t really say no.
Before this day is out, I would like to put the spotlight on two of the funniest april fools around the english blogosphere. First up is Mr Choo. I lol’d alot, there was three in total.
Mirai in her own eroge by NitroPlus.
Acquiring of more stuff.
Aquisistion by Megatokyo.
Much better than last year. XD I would so want that eroge!
As you know the whole ABC thing was a hoax… elaborate might I add. I had some lols from that but even more when I read DS’s report on the matter. This is epic! I lol’d. I lol’d hard!
Well, this is the end of one of the funniest days ever! Can’t wait until next year.
Hey, you know ‘Random Curiosity’. Scary amount of episodes summarized quickly but what really gets most people is all those lovely screenshots that are uploaded to the site, and they all lead to a larger version. Man, that takes work, care and effort.
I had once toyed around the idea of a plugin to generate all the image codes in small thumbnails all leading to a directed folder. It seems wordpress 2.5 beat me to it though with the new Gallery feature already in the packet. Let me walk you through it.
Continue reading ‘The Face of Anime Blogging has Changed - New Gallery Feature’
w00t. A stable version of worpress 2.5 is out.. I’ve already got it up on my testblog and will update this place at some point later. Trying it out, it is pretty cool and I love the new admin user interface. With the release of 2.5, I think it is high time I get back in the game of design work. I’ve been out for too long. May interfere with the meager updating of this blog though. =P
A lot of final episode about. I’ll probably blog those later…
EDIT: Done and over with… most painless upgrade of wordpress ever. I even think the admin panel works faster… managing a post has never been as easy.
First, i must apologise for being away from anime blogging for so long. It is not because I have given up anime or the sort, I can tell you that but school (the bane of any internet user) set in and with this year being my last until University, I have been busy getting my act together and that is eating up a lot of my time which i would normally use for blogging has been filled up.
Also, a boon this year as finally, after much work last year, I have finally set up an american football team in a british school and the work to set this up for this year and coaching and teaching others, has cut my time somewhat, but thankfully, the workload has now steadied itself.
I have been keeping on track with the new Winter season even though not with as much entusiasm as when it was the Summer season but after watching most of the season’s new shows, I am quite happy with the lineup and hope to blog some of the more notable shows I enjoyed.
Tommorow is also the start of the London Anime Expo and I hope to go and pick myself up quite a bit of manga (specifically DearS and Bleach) and possibly get some cosplay-spotting done. Unfortunately, I have no plans for another Gundam figure this time as I still have my Strike Noir in a box awaiting completion. =P
Hope to update more regularly soon!
Seriously though, it was July when I last posted and now it is August. I have failed at a rudimentary blogging criteria; to regularly post. I can say a lot of things (one actually being that I have not really been keeping up with anime in the last month and am just now starting to work my way through the back log) but I’m not going to use the statement I just wrote to excuse myself. I’ll use another reason.
I don’t know how many of you have actually read the about box which resides at the top of the sidebar, and how many of you wonder who Benneh is, considering the only authors who have written for this site have been myself. Benneh is my coding friend who has volunteered (been coerced to, some say) to help me in this little website project of mine (including the blog).
Our plans were to make some cool websites, maybe some wordpress themes, etc. So to the actual point of the long preamble, we spent the better part of last month creating our first full design for a design contest: specifically the sandbox design contest.
What I liked about this project was that it was purely design, and most of the coding work was laid out quite finely already. All we needed to do was produce a css and image add on design which was excellent for our first project. We only entered one design but it took a lot of work and thought. I like it and I hope we get a good standing.
Well, I hope that is at least an adequate reason why I have been gone for most of the month, and hope none of you will blame it on getting back into Warhammer 40,000. Nor will any of you expect to see some posts on a newly done Tau hunter cadre or any sort…
Seriously though, I hope to get back into the rhythm, and start fully blogging again. We sort of need to pick up the slack since the whole odex thing I guess… *catches up with some Gurren Lagann*
Note: don’t expect me to post so soon… I’m going on a shopping excursion today where i may or may not be picking up manga or dwarves.
Oh thank the Lord, the exam season is over. One of the most bothersome time of the year to me ever. To me however, it is not the actual exams themselves that worry me, it is the long time waiting and the ever too long exams. Unfortunately there was also half-term break in the middle of this time so i had a whole week with nothing to do. Now, I being the lazy sod that I am did nothing during that time, when through an exam week, I probably would have done at least a practise test but no.
It didn’t really seem to affect my game until my very final set of exams actually; Physics. It was my best subject but I guess my usual plan of no revision broke down after spending three weeks not thinking about it. If I was given a physics exam during the time I was taught, I would have aced it but I found myself blanking out the whole entire exam, for pretty much three hours. Argh…. Sadly, I may need to resit Physics, which has surprised me after how well the Chemistry turned out for me (but I got away with that by having to teach the entire syllabus to someone else who was worse off than I was).
But as my philosophy goes, it is over and done. Nothing I can do about it but try better, and possibly actually revising Physics. But as it is, AS levels are over, just now nice introductions to A2’s with some CV and UCAS work so I am hoping to have some good ample time to get to blogging again (and get back to gunpla: my Strike Noir arrived last week XD ). So yeah, hope to be back in the business…
Also, have been reading a lot of webcomics recently. That has given me an idea… Hm, but with how lazy and easily distracted I am, that idea would probably fall through as well XD
So yesterday, I found myself able to have a half day off at my college so I could go to the Ucas Higher Education Convention in the hopeful prospects to learn more about University life and also to check out the different Universities by their representatives that they sent. I also found myself completely weighed down by two heavy bags of prospectuses of which the contents are featured below.
Hopefully, at other conventions *cough*London Expo in May*cough*, I can walk away with this much free stuff.
Continue reading ‘Ucas Fair - So I’ll Be Picking a University Soon…’
