And the shadows whisper of the good old days

Moved to new site. http://kanzaki-kun.net

kanzaki . 9:11:00 PM

Wednesday, December 1, 2.09 am

Of Updates and Upgrades

25 days.

Yeap, that's about the amount of time I have to feign ignorance and just totally enjoy myself in this country before the dreaded results come out. Not really sure how I would fare in the exams. I wouldn't say I did very badly or anything, but the thing is with all this bell curve nonsense going on it's really hard to be sure of anything. I mean, there are a lot of smart-asses here.

Anyway, the first day of my freedom and what did I do with it? I spent the whole day trying to fix my laptop!! Freaking SP2 somehow doesn't work with the freaking NUS network and it freaking screwed up my system when I tried to uninstall it! Actually maybe it was my fault also. I tried to listen to Dong's advice and uninstalled my firewall and anti-virus before trying to install SP2 again (it failed in the previous attempt also, but recovery didn't cause problems. Not a lot anyway) and when I didn't work I uninstalled SP2 and tried to reinstall my firewall and anti-virus and that's when all the shit started to happen.

Anyways, spent the day waiting for things to install and uninstall, waiting for the stupid system restore to restore the laptop (which I think screws every bloody thing up a whole lot more) and waiting for a whole lot of other shit. A real stupid waste of time.

But in the end things got all fixed up (or so I hope). Had a lot of DotA today. A little too much.

Anyway, part of me is nagging for me to write down what happened during the short leave of absence I took. But it's too much to write. So after a whole lot of summarizing here is what I have to say: Basically life here has been good so far. Living in Sheares Hall and all the hostelites is just great fun. Finally doing things that I really enjoy, i.e. engaging in meaningful conversations, throwing around super-sarcastic jokes, being exposed to the appreciation of forms of art in so may different ways (anime, songs, movies. Watched The Butterfly Effect yesterday. It's a fucking twisted movie), and also being exposed to a whole lot more tech. And games!

It's a pity though I had a hard time adjusting myself. Or maybe discipline would be the better word. Looking back all I can say is the way I've been studying throughout the semester was really just plain stupid (not taking notes, giving priorities to the wrong stuff, not revising etc). I just goes to show that you really need discipline to study the older you get. But nevermind, what's past is past. I'll do better next semester. Ganbatte!

And as I promised http://www.kanzaki-kun.net. Yeah it's a little lame but it's the best I could do~!
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Up next: Holiday commitments! Short Film and Acapella and Choir and IT Work! Oh wow!!

kanzaki . 10:09:00 AM

Monday, November 1, 2.17 am

Another Hiatus

Still alive here. I would just love to say that I've been too busy to blog due to university stuff and all that but then again a part of me knows that that's just a big fat lie and that I'm just too lazy to blog. So I won't bother coming up with an excuse then.

Exams will be coming up soon (in 18 days to be exact) and so it's really high time that I stopped settling down and start STUDYING! So I've decided to further extend my hiatus from this little blog.

The new site is up, and so is the domain. Everything is ready for launch. Just that there is really no content to support it, so I guess there's really no point in doing it.

December 1. I promise. Things will be up and running again by then.

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kanzaki . 10:26:00 AM

Sunday, September 26, 2.10 am

Utada

Me watching the 'Easy Breezy' video in Utada.com:
Good god! What's with the red lips?!

And the shorts?

Okay at least there were some shots without those ghastly lips.

And what's with the see-through raincoat?

And all the sexy shirts?

The phone booth scene is nice...al beit a little sexy as well..

And what the hell is with all the "touching yourself"?!!

I can't stand those lips...

WTF?? Look at those glasses?!

Nice car...but a bit cheesy? Shit this video doesn't make sense at all!

And what's with all the jocks?

What? That was it? Sheesh!

Sigh...I really couldn't believe that she would sink this low. But I guess it's more of a marketing thing. She probably needs to conform so that she can slowly ease herself into the market. And once they love her then she'll start shining, just like her Japanese counterpart Utada Hikaru, who is doing so well in Japan. I mean, First Love was also a so-so, average, run off the mill kinda thing, compared to her other albums. Ganbatte Hikki-chan, I believe in you!

Also listened to snippets of her Exodus album in the site. The thing is, my reaction towards this album is exactly similar to her Deep River album.

What the hell? Why would anyone wanna listen to this?

But in the end, Deep River turned out to be a great album, (or maybe it's all the repetitive listening...) so much so that I sometimes for no reason feel like listening to it all over again.

Hope she succeeds in US. Or at least does not turn out to be another Britney Spears...

Something just crossed my mind: What if she really made it big and the US starts to slowly accept the Japanese music scene?

Would we have an english Ayumi? *cringe* Or Flame? *return of the boy bands. Except maybe with real boys* Or even worst...

J-rock? *aaarrgh!*

Well, maybe it's not that bad. There are a few Japanese artists I would like to see in the US, like maybe M-flo, or Shiina Ringo, or even Heartdales. And w-inds...

Okay, maybe not the last one. I mean not for them to show up in the US (they would flop). But I've recently taken a liking to the trio. (Yes, yes, start with all the gay jokes...). Maybe not a liking, but at least respect. Because these guys can really dance quite well. And also sing averagely. So they're not that bad. You should see some of their dance videos and then decide if I'm the queer one.

www.w-inds.tv

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This was a really odd post. Maybe it's the odd songs from the Exodus album...



kanzaki . 11:10:00 AM

Friday, September 24, 12.35 am

Yummy~!

Went for a sushi buffet at Sakae Sushi in Harbourfront today. It was delicious! However it was a little different in a sense that it was not your average "go to the buffet table and grab all you can" buffet but instead they had this computer screen next to your table and you keep ordering stuff through the computer (isn't this country just so hi-tech?) and the people keep sending it to you. Which makes it more, uh, valuable because it's like ordering ala carte but then you only pay a standard price! Anyways, managed to eat quite a whole lot (even though it was just sushi and no sashimi or tempura or teppanyaki or etc,). And it was for only S$14.

Anyways today was the last day of my spectacular one week break. The bloody ironic thing is that I only had exactly one day off out of the entire week. Which I spent either playing DotA or sleeping, or in Harbourfront. The rest was just projects and tests and catching up on readings. Sigh... Well, the good news is that the finals are about 5 weeks away. Or maybe that's a bad thing. Ah, who cares anyway. Let's just persevere and get this over with. Can't wait to graduate. But that probably won't take long. SEEING HOW BLOODY FAST TIME FLIES HERE!!

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Decided to S/U my German Module. Depending on how it goes, I might even fail it.

kanzaki . 10:34:00 AM

Monday, September 13, 1.00 am

Must, slow, down...

I can't believe one week just went past like that! Holy mother of god-knows-what, this is freaking scary! I haven't even had time to settle down with all the stuff that I just brought from home. I've just only installed PhotoShop CS yesterday, and I haven't had to time to even run it just to see what it does.

And I can foresee a dark future, too. It's the middle of the term (yes! Already!) and so exams and tests are lurking around every corner. I'm gonna have to study like hell, reason being because I haven't even started yet. And then there's the marketing website thing, which is really annoying since all of my scarcely available free time has to be put into that stupid project so I can't get started on my own website yet. Talk about timing. Bah!

And today! One of the very first few free weekends I had since I got here, and instead using it to catch on my readings and homework and assignments and webcasts, I spent the whole day sleeping. But I guess I can't be too hard on myself either, since I'm getting like about four hours of sleep each day during the weekdays. It's probably just my body trying to do some maintenance, before I really damage myself.

Sigh~ Back to the books again...

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Hmm....also been smoking a lot lately. Not that I really want to, but nothing else can keep me awake, not even food, coffee, sweets, nothing. Such irony...

kanzaki . 10:00:00 AM

Tuesday, September 7, 9.43 am

Nothing can stop me now!

Talk about impulsive decisions. Decided one fine day that I wanted to go home, and so I did. It was a bit scary in the beginning though, it's like, packing all your things and passport and going out to the bus-stop and then saying, "Okay, now what?" But in the end, things turned out okay. Went back and saw Mr Tan and the rest of the guys and gals. Glad that everyone is okay, and that 'things' are getting better, or at least not worse. Somehow, with that in mind, I feel like I can just relax and concentrate on more important things at hand.

Anyways, just reached here this morning after taking the night train, so I'm a little too groggy to blog. I've got a recitation later and I wanna rest up. Will write more when I have time.

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Oh shit! I've got Photoshop 8.0 CS!!!

kanzaki . 6:42:00 PM