29. Mai 2010

just finished reading this. going to be home soon...

Last day in paradise

Time sure flies!

I really haven't realized yet, that I actually am going home today.
The two additional days with my grandparents were just mag. I love how they enjoy every day and it's nice to see the garden blooming outside; not that we had a lot of chance going out since it's been raining nearly the whole week. Well, okay, last weekend was very, very, veeeery sunny. But since then it's been constantly dark, cloudy and rainy, with a little hail and thunder inbetween.
I still think that I love this life. I definitly have to get a garden and a house one day. My appartment's pretty dark - maybe it's time to renovate? Up until now I didn't have a green thumb for anything that's considered vegetation. But I don't give up. If I look at all the wild flowers and the petunias my granny is potting I get this longing, though I really don't think I should start gardening in my miniscule rooms. It would be diffrent if I had a balcony. Oh well, since I don't let's dream on.

On a bright note - and with all the sunshine outside - I was able to finish translating three whole episodes in the last two days. I actually only planned on doing two, but ended up doing all the ones I still had with me - which is three. We're now officially at episode 16 - only another 10 to go until Connichi (I think the series had 26 episodes, total). I guess I'm actually going to keep my goal. WOAHs!

Since I still have some time left before my train leaves - it's not now (stupid typo - I always type it wrong in the first try) half past three and the train is going at half past seven. We're going to have dinner around five. Guess I'm going to get these two PVs done before I leave.


Beware:
Clover MV
AKB48 - Sakura no Shiori

I'm so glad!

27. Mai 2010

Addendum day 6

Hey there again!
Sorry, I know - there was a flood of posts today but I wanted to keep up with all the affairs and started typing them out early this morning and tried to set the date of the post to previous days to make it look a little more realistic.
After writing up the last post of day 6 a few things happend - most of them not very "exciting" so I'm not going to share. There are probably only 2 or 3 more exciting news.

First would be  xD I helped out my gramps fixing a hook on this tractor (see pic on the side). The pic was after we fixed it, of course. One of the steel ropes he uses to haul tree trunks around was eroded and he decided to cut the piece with the problem off and make a new hook. Easier said than done. That was sweaty work - I tell ya! I really needed that shower after it. We had to hold the freaking cable with four hands (grannys and mine) while my gramps fixed the hook and stabilized it. I had a cramp in my left hand right after that - just before he rapped my left hand knuckles with his hammer. OUCH!
Luckily nothing serious happend and I had a relaxing shower and footbath right after that. I so deserved it!

Then when I was looking up train connections for my ride home tomorrow it seemed like there were no connections between 9.30 am and 6 am the following day anymore. WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! Up until now there was at least one more connection around 7pm for all the late travelers.
Seems like they cut the connection - huh.
Well. Since I don't want to be home this early tomorrow (would be home at around 11am) I decided to stay another day - because, amazingly enough - there's a 7pm train connection on Saturdays. Who would have though?! This is actually pretty logical - first of all I came late to my grandparents placed last Saturday when I arrived here - it was shortly after 6pm. I kinda messed up the whole day and ended up in bed pretty early. And now should I miss a whole freaking day again (this time it's a friday) just to be home really early and end up playing Warcraft because I'm bored out of my wits?
Well, guess again. I'm staying here. Right were I am - well, maybe not in from of the computer... heh

There's one other thing - unfortunately I didn't get a lot of things done. Family and relaxation came first. But on a bright note I finished translating one Anime Episode and I'm nearly done with Episode 2. Isn't that great? I'm happy I at least got that done. Whew!

Maybe I'll be able to get a PV or two done tomorrow and on Saturday! That would be great.

Well that's it folks! I'm going to bed after I finish translating that show.
Good Night and hear you guys either tomorrow or after the weekend!


day 6 - my last day?

Today is my last day here.
The weather seems to be fine - actually the sun is burning down and we're awaiting the thunderstorm that should go through here soon. At least the forecast told us so. Right now, though, we have blue skies, but that doesn't mean anything here. It only means that the thunderstorm later will be really bad.

Yesterday the weather was really horrible. The first time ever we had a tornado here in Austria. Everyone is still in shock. We can't really wrap our minds around it. Also, more than one person died due to the thunderstorm, hail and floodings that we had yesterday. It seems that a thunder also crashed in our house here but since we had everything turned out it didn't cause any damage.

My granny fixed something on the baldachin for Lisa - I told her she had to do it the other way around but she still did it diffrently the last time so now today she fixed it. Now it looks even better! I think my cousin will be happy.

We're going to have lunch soon. Potatoes, spinach and sausages. YAY! I'm looking forward to it!
After that I'll try to get some work done but since I'm going to go home tomorrow morning I won't be able to get a lot done.
It seems like the train times were shortened again and so there's no train going from here to Vienna after 9.28am tomorrow morning. Seems like I had my holidays but without having time to really do anything.
I didn't even have time to finish the books I took with me. Normally I'm able to finished 2 to 3 books in a week - but this week I barely finished one!!!!!

O_O''''

Oh well. I'll survive and everyone else will to if I don't get the stuff done. I don't really care anymore.
It'll be done when it's done.

Time for Lunch! ByE!

day 5 - it could only get better

That's what you'll probably think but yesterday was horrible - well, mostly.
It started out by me waking up very late. It seemed to have rained during the night because everything was wet. It was nearly 9.30am so I hurried to get some breakfast and then take my laundry outside. The sun was shining again and we wanted to do the laundry and hang it up to dry in the sun. The dark laundry was able to finish drying but after lunch and a well deserved nap it started to rain - and rain hard.
The downpour was really hard. It was grey and dark and our white laundry was still hanging outside on the line to dry - ha ha ha - well, now it was rain-washed, again. Since I just woke up from my catnap I walked down and got some hot cocoa and a small piece of cake. My gramps came back from doing some woodwork and he decided to also take a nap - so now, since it was dark and raining and we didn't have anything to do, we all took another nap.
I decided to listen to a radio play of The Three Investigators and crawled into bed while playing on my IPhone. Since it was raining so hard and we had a thunderstorm right on top of us I couldn't go and work on my computer.

That afternoon my aunt called and since my granny just finished making a fancy cake with cherries my aunt decided to drop by for cake and dinner. That was fun, but again I didn't have time to work on my computer. *sigh* Later that evening I watched "Stargate Universe" and after it I went to bed. I was still tired - seems like the weather played a trick on me - and fell a sleep really fast.

The day was funny. I loved having my aunt here and an old friend of the family came by too - unfortunately now the cake is nearly gone *cries* And I had requested it since I hadn't had a cake for a looooong while.

25. Mai 2010

day 4 - working, or not?

Today I hoped to get a little work done!
I woke up early and was full of energy. After an early breakfast I helped my granny with cooking. The weather was fine so I enjoyed reading my book outside and generally enjoy the sun.
I didn't get a lot done today. We finished working on the piece for Lisa - it's a kind of baldachin for one of her dolls. It looks quite lovely. Now I've got the table for myself and can finally get some work done - hopefully.

But in the end I ended up doing nothing. The day went by in a breeze. I took an early shower and later watched some TV. One of my favourite shows were tonight "A home in happiness", where a crew of craftsmen renovate a very old house for a family that is not capable of doing it themselves. My grandparents decided to go to bed early and I watched the show alone. Later I found a few documentaries on TV - one was about the biggest kids in the world.... WOW!

It was after 3 am when I went to bed... *yawns*

day 3 - ouch, sunburn

After a fitful night of sleep we drove off to visit my grannys sisters. We were invited to lunch and coffee. The sun was shining pretty hard and after lunch we went outside. My gramps and the husband of my grannys sister went into the barn to check out some new equipment he bought. After that we all started to trudge around the property. The daugther of my grannys sister built a house right next to the one we stayed in and they were also renovating the very old farm house they had their business rooms in. Naturally we had to check everything out - and I was trudging around right after them, after I had all three furballs on my lap and they had their due scratching. I was covered in gray and white hair after that.
They had a really sweet and jung dog who was covered in loooong long hair and two seamese gray-brown cats which I pitied because it was scortching hot and they had a lot of fur.

For coffee all the other sisters arrived and we had a merry round. I really enjoyed the food but again I was not fit for conversation. I guess it's just not my forte if it's not about music, games or books. *sigh* I held on until shortly after 3 pm. Then I gently nudged my grandparents to go home. My gramps still wanted to haul in the hay this afternoon and my granny and me wanted to start on something for Lisa.

So off we went - and I had a nasty sunburn in my face and on my cleavage. Ouch!

24. Mai 2010

day 2 - numb thumbs

Since I came here a on a very short notice only my grandparents and my favourite aunt knew that I was here. This sunday my Uncle, her wife and my cousin announced themselves to come over for Lunch and Dinner and to have a little chat and to catch up with current affairs. I was pretty lucky. My little cousin - who started to go to school last autumn - is really funny to play with. Even though I'm actually 25 I still enjoy playing around with her. I don't know why, but I'm not into adult talk. I wouldn't know what to say and I probably couldn't say anything anyway so I'd sit around, stare dumbly at a corner and hope nobody starts talking about me, student life in general or anything related to being fat or having to go on a diet. *sigh*
Those are basically the topics they always cover when I'm around - which is why I'm not around.

I snatched up my little cousin - by the name of Lisa, btw - and dragged her off to watch the Sunday Märchen/Fairytale on TV (each Sunday there's a new Märchen running on that channel and I really enjoy watching it). So, we were treated to a new running of "Cinderella", which was actually nice. They tried to go away from the Cinderella everybody knows from Disney and go back to a fairly accurate version of the märchen by the Grimm Brothers. I actually liked it - though they tried to experiment with mood coloring and music. That was pretty annoying, but oh well. I still have to say that I like the Czech version of that story the most - even though it's old and not very accurate.

After that Lisa and I started to play with her Nintendo DS. She wanted me to try to open a few gates in her new game - a game with a turtle named Franklin. We successfully finished 7 levels before my thumbs began to get numb. So later we went a little outside. I enjoyed the sun while Lisa gathered me a few dandelion leaves so we could start making a crown. That was fun. My fingers were all sticky and green after that, but Lisa hat a lot of fun which is what I wanted.

Later we had Dinner - my grandfather has his own schedule which is why every day shortly after 5 pm we have to have dinner, but today we were late. It was after 6pm and it was very yummy. After that Lisa went back to watching TV. Her kids shows started and if she's alone she's not watching them, but she loves to watch them - guess what?! Yeah, I was watching them with her. We were able to watch a few shows before her parents decided to go.

After everyone was sent off I kissed my grandparents good night and went to bed. I was able to finish the book I was reading - Glory in Death by JD Robb - and started on the third installment of the series - Immortal in Death.

23. Mai 2010

day 1 - nothing eventful

It's been a while since I had my last real holiday. Amazing enough I consider a holiday at my grandparents place in the alps as the ultimate holiday. It's beautiful here. We're smack-dap in the middle of the woods with another two houses in the clearing. Round us there's lots of wood and grassy streches. A few feet from here is a small trickling stream which how longer you follow it the bigger it gets.
Spring's finally here. Everything is green. You can even see how the trees around us grow.

The first day was pretty uneventful. We didn't do a lot because I came in late. Just a late dinner and a little TV watching with my grandparents. After that I went to bed and read a little (as you can see in my previous post I was really tired).

Catch you all later!

22. Mai 2010

tired

I finally arrived and pretty tired so I'm heading to bed in my Snoopy
PJ's and call it a day. Tomorrow some family is coming over, so no
time to actually get something done, but there's always Monday!! ....
hopefully @_@••~

19. Mai 2010

Short Notice...

On a Short Notice I just want to tell everybody that I'll be away starting from Saturday until probably late next week. I'll be online through my Iphone and post something from time to time, but won't be here for long posts.

I'm going on a short Translation & Typesetting Holiday. Whazzat? Well, basically I'm packing a few things, take my notebook with me and my External HD with all the typesetting stuff on it and seclude myself to a place with no internet. Why? To get some stuff done, of course!!!

15. Mai 2010

Finally reached LVL 60!!

I finally made it!
My Orc Shaman reached LVL 60 today. I'm really happy. Now there's no stopping me. 20 LVL to go!


YEHAAAAA!!


On a side note - Ranma 7 Karaoke finished~~~

New Project added on to-do list: Tales of Symphonia OVA Tethe'alla OP + ED

13. Mai 2010

Kawaii kare

Just got a note that my Timer finished The other Melon song that was pending ;-)

Just so everyone knows!

12. Mai 2010

Melon 3rd stage

It's time for the 3rd  Melon Kinenbi video in our release special. Again, I'm very sorry that we took so long but now the 3 PV’s we had planned are out and one more to go! But due to that video not being timed yet it's going to take a while for us to finish it. So be patient!
Since our Melon Special is now "over", temporarily until I get timings for the other vid, I'll concentrate on some of the older releases we have stacked up. I think I'm going to work on some Buono! Vids next. We’re missing the latest two!

I'll keep you all updated.

As for now - here's a thumbnail of the new release. Its Melon Kinenbi’s very first single! It was released back in 2000 and I still love this vid very much. It’s funny and a very good example of the video quality back at the beginning of the century was. It’s funny how the quality has changed over the past 10 years.

Well then, ‘nough said. Hope you enjoy the release!

As always the releases are available through the Hello!Online Tracker... Have fun!!!

Melon 2nd Stage

Finally! We’re finished with this song and going in the second round of our Melon Kinenbi release special (I think SC will release it either when he come back from his classes or before he goes to bed). I’m sorry I took so long but I’m again craving my WoW addiction excessively and trying to get rid of it again… it doesn’t really work though. I’m still going to try to get these pending releases out as soon as humanly or at least Tomo- possible.

This is our second release of this group special and we’re probably going to put out another 2 within the next few weeks. We’re actually planning to do their 1st and 11th releases too. But that’s another story.


This release is actually the one I already wrote about – the one with the big file size. After watching our QC version we decided to skip the huge-ass pixilation effect and go with something a little smaller and better fitting. In the end it turned out just as we had first planned and I’m very pleased with the finished result. I’m just sad that I had to skip on the pixilation effect, but if truth be told it didn’t look very fitting, so I’m a lot happier now.

I hope you guys will like how it turned out too.
This is actually one of my favorite song – but I think I already told you that…

6. Mai 2010

final score of the day

finished script; size: 38mb
holy crap
still working out the kinks. stupid pixels!!!!!

add: here's another better quality pic

5. Mai 2010

karaoke approved!!!

just read that my SARS movie krk was accepted!!!!! yaaaaaay With any
luck I can also release the pv to the song,..... aqua timez rulz

4. Mai 2010

MELON's NOT DEAD

Yesterday was the day that Melon Kinenbi, one of my favourite groups from Hello!Project, had their last concert. They decided to go their seperate ways after 10 years of making music together.
I'm honestly very sad but also very proud of the girls. They were the only group that had no additional members since they started the band and they kept a semi steady release stream which was also nice. They also had a very mature sound to them.
If asked what song I loved the most it would definitly be "It's unmei" (It's fate) a very awesome single from the early stages of their career. I think it was actually their 4th or 5th single - it's the 4th, back from 2001, I looked it up!
Another song I pretty much adore and is still one of the greatest concert songs every is "saa! koibito ni narou" which is also their 5th single (again, looked it up).

Well, to comemorate their disbandment and last concert H!F decided to do a few of their songs as well as Utaban releases. I saw that SC already released all the Utaban songs and also the one PV that we had ready for the release "Namida no Taiyou" - again a very good song, also a very sparkly one.
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to finish the other two songs we had planned for this day but due to me having exams last week and then I had to get some stuff at home done I wasn't able to push them out earlier. I'm going to work on those now and with luck one might come out later today and the other somewhen tomorrow.

Again, my apologies, but, haha, noone knew of those songs, so you guys can't be mad at me ;)