Category Archives: Nerdy and Geeky

July 7, 2009

In Which I’m Feeling Geeky, Giddy and Fangirly– also posted in Fun Projects, Life Experience, Myself, Projects

Web Diary Professional with PaintBBS & Shi-Painter/Shi-Painter Pro integration
私の新しいシンプルなＰ－ＭＥＭＯです：）　これからもっとお絵かきをする！ (LINK)
I wonder if there are English versions of their softwares, because all of them are really cool~ It’s a bit sad that you need to understand Japanese in order to fully utilise their scripts. I spent one day getting Web Clap and Web Diary Pro to [...]

July 5, 2009

Waking Up Just to Fall Asleep– also posted in Life Experience, Projects, Rant

– Project Catharsis website – Still under construction @ http://project-catharsis.com –
Sleeping from 7pm to 1 or 2am, and then stay awake doing random and not so random stuff like:

Proofreading documents I’m asked to go through for quality control
Translating Japanese doujinshis, mangas and novels for various scanlation groups (and individually). It is enjoyable, but [...]

May 24, 2009

Why Blogspot When I Have Livejournal and Dreamwidth, etc?– also posted in Interests, Life Experience, Rant

I seriously need to work on my holiday and practicum entries, but I’m feeling extremely lazy for lengthy recaps. And some people who asked me these questions left me thinking:
Friend A: Why aren’t your journals on Blogspot?
Friend B: What’s Livejournal?
They’re so internet savvy, so it appals me that they don’t know about Livejournal. I can [...]

January 26, 2009

A Plethora of Events – Family, Streamyx, Traffic Spike, Doujin Overload 2009 and Whatnot– also posted in Life Experience, Myself

Family and Chocolate Cake: Mama and I baked a chocolate cake last night for the whole family. I didn’t have enough butter for the topping, but it turned out ok. Even the spatula was gone. I had to spread the choc over with just a spoon. It turned out quite ok, though, for a rushed [...]

January 24, 2009

eduFire for Quality Online Learning Experience– also posted in Education, Life Experience

This is written from a perspective of a student and a private tutor (not on eduFire, though). I’m really happy the beta days of eduFire is gone. It’s all live now, and lessons range from free of charge to extremely affordable. If you’re serious about learning new languages, I highly recommend making full use [...]