Tomo-chan's Place for Ramblings

Batch BR Releases #2

2012-02-17T04:00:00.000+01:00

Since I already mentioned it before, here's the information on our second Batch release.
We actually wanted to have this one for January, but things came up, a script was stubborn, and it took me forever to find the errors.
I tell you: trying to adjust scripts by other typesetters, especially if you do not write your own effects with the same program, is nerve wracking, seriously time consuming and drove me nuts.
What really made this batch release taking so long was "Haru no Arashi". It was previously done by one of our new typesetters, that came and went within 2 or 3 releases - Meyouu.
I really had no idea about template karaokes n stuff before that, but during the past 3 weeks I actually learned a lot, and also realized - it's not my program of choice!
I love you asscalc!

Anyway! This Mano Batch includes the following singles:

Otome no Inori
Hajimete no Keiken
Sekai wa Summer Party
Kono Mune no Tokimeki wo
Love & Peace = Paradise
Haru no Arashi
Onegai Dakara…

You will especially enjoy the last one "Onegai Dakara", because it was encoded in all it's 60fps splendor and looks like you can dive into the video and touch her face. I was seriously drooling over this video when I saw the encode...I think I freaked out SC quite a bit right there.

The good news with this batch is, that we still had all the scripts up until her 7th major single. We will also do her 8th and 9th single at some point - we even kept the BR raws for that and have scripts waiting - but the sad news is, that we will probably drop her after that. I didn't much enjoy her latest 2 singles and I'm not going to force them on me, or SC for that matter, since he's not the biggest fan of her anyway.

Okay, that's it for now.

The next Batch-torrent will be out early next month, if everything goes according to plan. Stay tuned!

Batch BR Releases #1

2012-02-16T22:43:00.001+01:00

Hey there everyone!
I think I forgot to talk about a few releases that came out in the past month from H!F, so here we go.

Late last year UFA released the BLUray DVDs for most PV singles of their affiliated groups, especially Hello!Project. Since we do like us some BR quality, we, SC and I, decided that we'd release our old videos in the new and shiny BR resolution and quality. And that's what we did.
Since we do not have all the scripts to all the songs anymore (okay, honestly, we mostly still have those that I worked on personally, but not the ones that other Typesetters did) we decided to grab those videos that we still had scripts for and release them in a batch.
But since adjusting scripts can be time consuming, and we try to find any mistakes that we previously overlooked, this took us longer than we thought.

Our plan now is to release the videos in Batches according to groups (C-ute, BerryZ, Mano, Morning Musume). Since we never worked on any Smileage related videos we'll skip on those.
That said, our first Release Batch was C-ute.

The Batch Torrents includes remakes and adjusted scripts for the following Singles:

Edo no Temari Uta II
FOREVER LOVE
SHOCK!
Campus Life ~Umarete Kite Yokatta~
Aitai Lonely Christmas
Kiss me Aishiteru

The highlight in this batch was definilty "Kiss me Aishiteru" since this is a new release, that we never released previously. It is also the first finished project of one of our new typesetters. He's unfortunately kind of slow, but he is thorough, which is why it takes some time but the end product is really enjoyable.

'Nough said for today.
Please enjoy this Batch and look forward to our next one (which is Mano Erina and should be out today).

Saiunkoku

2012-02-11T01:30:00.000+01:00

Yay!!

Yesterday morning my friend, that has been staying here for the past 3 weeks, left and I was finally able to get my apartment back to myself, which also means I was able to get some work done!
I was glad to have someone stay over, but what was first planned out as a 1-week stay turned into a 3-week stay. It was okay - we had lots of fun here, had a lot of different things to do and everyday something new to eat or had friends over - but since we couldn't be alone at all, it was also rather hard on both of us. I didn't think it would turn out this hard to be together with someone for 3 weeks. I guess I was used to being alone and getting stuff done in my own time. What made it really hard was probably that he was sleeping in my living room and I couldn't enjoy my TV, or work at whatever times I want. BUT, it's fine. I had fun, and I know I'm not going to see him for a long time now.
Oh well.

So, I was able to get one project done today. It's Saiunkoku Monogatari Opening and Ending. It turned out quite fine. I actually had everything uploaded when I decided to change something again, so I had to upload an Ending Version 2 right afterwards.
I hope my client will love it.
I guess I'll give you an update and screenshots whenever I get an okay.

So for now that's it.
I guess I'll see you all again soon!

Twitter

2012-02-06T19:16:00.003+01:00

Hey there, everyone! Did you see the few changes I did to my page?

I haven't been doing a lot of fansubbing stuff lately. I currently have a friend staying over until he is done with his Masters, that's why I'm not really around much.
I did add Twitter to this page, so you can now follow me on Twitter and Facebook! \o/

Anyways, thanks for over 10000hits (even though the visitor numbers in the right navi bar are different) on the page. I couldn't believe the number.
Hope to have some new stuff reports for you guys soon! Until then stay healthy and creative!

Christmas & New Years releases!

2012-01-10T12:50:00.002+01:00

Sorry everyone! I nearly forgot.

Here's what we at H!F released around Christmas and New Years. After releasing the Shige² concert performance we were up for a little surprise for you guys on the 25th, right on Christmas. We decided to release all the different versions for the second single of MM's kyuuki-members: "Only you".
I have to say it turned out quite awesome. The Font search alone took me several ours, but I think I found the best to go along with the jewelish feeling of the video as well as the effects I wanted to create. YAY for that!!
In total we released all 5 versions of this song, keeping the effects the same, but changing highlight colors to fit the background.

After that, on the 31st, we released the last of our special release spree we had prepared for our followers and friends. This time it was a concert performance from one of our favourite groups (at least from mine). It was one of the few performances those guys had and it was definitly one of the best - both voice and costume wise. We're talking about Zoku v-u-den's renedition of the V-u-den hit song: "Koisuru Angel Heart".
We kept the feather intro of the PV that was released years ago and changed some of the effects.
JUNJUN I MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As always we hope you enjoy our work and we'll see you back after our hiatus.
See ya!

Happy New Year!

2012-01-05T14:41:00.002+01:00

Hey guys!

I wish you all -belatedly- a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I hope everyone is doing well and had wonderful holidays with your dear ones.

I've been at my grandparents and it was great. We didn't give out any presents this year, but that was fine. We hat lots of fun, a beautiful tree (that I get to decorate each year) and good food and company.

Now the new year started and I've got lots of job applications to write, so there probably won't be a lot of updates for the forseeable future.
I hope that will change, whenever I find a job and have a -not so erratic- scheudule.
I'm also going to update you on the last two H!F releases we put out before New Years. But I'll probably do that tomorrow.

Okay now, folks, I got to get some work done.
Until later!

2011-12-22T22:04:00.003+01:00

Hello and Happy Holidays, everyone!

I just wanted to say that I updated my YouTube Account with new clips of karaoke effects that I've released so far. No, they are not in any particular order or sorted a certain way... I just uploaded whatever I have in my clip maker at that moment. (anime for the moment)
Since YT and copyright is bitchy I cut off most of all the video material and start somewhere inbetween lines. That way i can forgo some problems.
I have no idea how long that will work, so go take a look as long as you can!
Have fun and look forward to my next release!

Pink! Pink. Pink?

2011-12-17T11:45:00.000+01:00

Hello there! It's time for our weekly release, right?

Well, this week we had a very pink release. Very, very pink!

This is actually back from 2009. We wanted to release it as a special to Koharu's MM Graduation (we did release her signature song: Furusato, from the same concert), but never got around to do it. After that it was part of our trainee program, but that didn't work out either. So I decided to finish it for our Christmas Special, because I know there are still Koha fans out there, even if I'm not one of them.

Either way! Really cute, very pink, and a little emotional.

Have fun with this release and look forward to next week!

There are still at least 2 vids coming out for you before New Years Eve!!!

Bring back the Old School

2011-12-07T23:24:00.001+01:00

Hey everyone!
It's been some time. Due to the power outage in some parts of the West Coast we're pretty late in releasing these, which is why they pretty much came out back to back.
So here's what we got for you this time.

We first released this really old concert performance from the H!P '07 Wonderful Hearts Concert. This was at some point a trainee project, but we never found someone to actually work on this. As we're trying to get out the really old stuff now (and since trainees want to work on more recent stuff) and concentrate on the newer stuff later, we're pumping these Old School videos and perfs. This marks the oldest perf we've still got in our work pool.
Combines some of the most loved members into a great Melon Kinenbi song - Kousui.

Sometimes I’m really amazed at what can be found on my HDDs. In some deeply buried folder I found these nifty timings for a song that I have loved since it came out – even though I’m not a big Ishikawa fan.
This marks the 8th single by Country Musume and also the last one they released together with Ishikawa back in November 2002. (Wow, that song is really old!!!)
Unfortunately, since this project is pretty old, and due to a forum crash a few years ago, we lost the information as to who did the initial timings. So, to whoever thinks s/he worked on this for us: we’re sorry!!!!!!

Have fun and as always you can find the video were we always store them ;)

totally unrelated

2011-11-25T17:01:00.001+01:00

On a second note: I PASSED MY DRIVERS LICENCE TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!

*dances around*

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

2011-11-25T16:57:00.001+01:00

I hope everyone had a wonderful day yesterday with family and/or friends celebrating Thanksgiving. Or maybe you're going to do it on the weekend?
Well, for this occation we've just the right PV to go along with. A slow autumn-y PV with the lovely Mano Erina in front and smileage as background dancers. This was Mano's 4th single and it was also one of the few that we're still missing of her. Now we're only missing the latest PVs. Guess we've still got work to do!

Well enjoy and have a great evening"

Problems'n'Releases

2011-11-20T13:00:00.000+01:00

Time for a new blog post!

Lots of stuff going on right now. Though before everything turned upside down and became the utmost chaos I was able to finish a few new PVs and concert performances. So stay tuned and check out the H!F homepage frequently. You'll see our new surprises there soon.

Also, thank you for over 500 followers on our H!F facebook group. We appreciate it!!

Unfortunately that's it for the positive part of this post.
Things happend that turned out quite bad for me. I lost my income and am now living off my saving, which aren't too big anyway.
Unless I find a job very soon it's going to be a nightmare. I'm not sure what I should do and sometimes I feel like crying. But since crying never helps you get back on your feet, I'm trying to stay positive. Not sure what's going to happen in the future.

Wish me luck!

2011-11-19T13:56:00.001+01:00

So this is the first in our release spree that will last you until christmas. Each week we will either release a concert performance or a PV.
This was an amazing song and it was also one of the last performances that was held by the Rokkies together. If I'm not completely out of the loop Eri graduated a few weeks later.
Ookii Hitomi translates as "Big Eyes" hence the first pic in this capture where they make google eyes for Reina! haha

Stay tuned for next weeks release! And if you can leave us a comment either on the torrent, FB or on our groups Homepage ;)

Creative week

2011-11-10T01:01:00.001+01:00

Hey everyone!
Thought I'd post a quick update on things.
I seem to have found my muse again. Finished 4 new projects in 2 days and started on my next one already. All of them are for H!F.
So my German followers should be happy too, because we're also going to have German versions of most of them.
Maybe we can actually finally catch up with SOME groups, but who knows!!

I also finished all of the important anime assignments, Tlc's and translations so far.
Next up are 2 new projects by freebooter-anime. I'm already excited about them!!!!

For now off to bed. See y'all again soon!

Onna ga Medatte...

2011-10-27T15:22:00.000+02:00

Sorry for taking so long in updating, again.....!

Here's our latest release. It took us some time to finish this, but it's finally here. I actually had to work on it, because SC asked me to help out on another project - the Keitai Deka The Movie 3 Morning Musume. Kyushutsu Daisakusen! -Pandora no Hako no Himitsu- Movie! It was released on the same day and featured the "Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai" song, as well as "Namidacchi" (also previously released by us). Since I already had to work on the Medatte song for the Movie I decided to just work in the whole PV as well. So that's why it's here and done.
I'm glad, and I hope you'll all like it. I had to work on some parts using really old methods - like working and positioning letters by hadn. That was something!

2011-09-23T13:28:00.000+02:00

WOHOO!! Just finished working on my 6th and last song for Macross the Movie. I hope there's not going to be any more "suprise" vids I have to do.

Working now on a very OOOOOLD Movie Karoake and TLC: Leda (I think the original title is Fantastic Adventure of Yohko: Leda). It's fun so far, even though it's not my kind of movie. But that never really stopped me before, and it's not doing now.

After that I have to finish that Gundam video I've been dreading so far. *sigh* I really don't wanna work on it.

Followed by a movie Karaoke for one of SC's surprise projects. What will it be?! What will it be?

Hi, I'm Plüsch

2011-09-18T22:25:00.000+02:00

Hi. My name is Plüsch, which means something like fluffy, and I'm new to this household. I hope you'll all love me!!

And now me and my owner Tomo are going to bed after an exciting weekend at the Connichi Con. Nyan!

Release spree!

2011-08-29T01:25:00.000+02:00

Hello everyone!
It's been some time since last we released anything (that I commented on).

Well, it's time for some new releases. So what will you get in the next few days?

These are the releases that should come to you soon: (If you didn't guess them already from our hints on FB or on my blog)

Concerts:
Takahashi Ai, Niigaki Risa and Tanaka Reina - Take off is now! (MM Concert Tour '09 Haru ~Platinum 9 Disco~) - Awesome version of this song. This marks also the last time this song was performed on stage. I really love it. The dance introduction was great and I loved the distinctive reagge style of this song.

Yaguchi Mari & Yasuda Kei - Otome no Shinrigaku (H!P '08 Winter ~Kettei! Haro Pro Award '08~) - I'm a big Marippe and Kei Fan and this was a project I insisted on and had to coerce SC to work on. I'm glad and grateful that he did so and I really hope you'll all enjoy it too. I still think we need more Marippe and Kei videos! Vote with me here!!!! Marippe looks so cute!!!!! *fangirls*

MVs:
There are going to be other videos then those that I list here, because we got someone else working on other projects. These are the ones, that I've been working on....

Himuro Ibu (CV Sugaya Risako) - Elegant Girl - A really sweet song, that isn't really my style... I actually don't like Risako much, but SC is a big fan and loved this when it came out. ( I remember him talking to me about the awesomeness of this song an hour after it was released.... ^_^) Since our friendship is something that is based on give and take and trust I gave this PV a try and actually liked how my effects turned out. SC loved them, so it was a win-win for all of us. Enjoy this powerful girl song!

Berryz Koubou - Otakebi Boy WAO! - This song was seriously giving me a headache. I really love this song, but it's been lying around for months now because I couldn't figure out how to make the perfect effects to fit this absolutely awesome song (and still make it my own)! Right after this song first came out, and I was next deep in shit, a lot of people released this song on YT and other sites, making it a No-No project for me, as I hate competing with other peoples releases (especially since a few releases actually looked a little like what I had planned for it). After I read some ppls comments about how H!F was getting slow and couldn't keep up and someone or other had to just release this song and not wait for the H!F version I actually put this project on hold. I still think that decision was okay. This video turned out just as I envisioned it back then, and it doesn't look like any of the releases that I was competiting with at that time.

Abe Natsumi - Iki wo Kasanemashou - I've been a secret Nacchi fan for most of her career, but never had the chance to actually work on one of her projects myself. This song turned out to be one of my favourite songs by her and I hope you'll enjoy it too. I love how my effects suit the song. Never had to generate blades of grass before. Huh..! (Did you figure out that the lines sway in time with the beat? That was a bitch to program... Thanks to OJ for his technical help there!)

As always you can get them at the right place (which I'm not going to write here).
Until next time!

Macross Movie Karaoke

2011-08-24T13:07:00.001+02:00

I started working on some new Anime Karaoke yesterday. For this project a lot of different karaoke specialists started working together. I get to do 5 songs in total. I finished 2 of them so far and am working on the 3rd.

This one was the first on my list. "What 'bout my star?" by Ranka Lee is song 08 in the movie and my first song. I kept the effects simple because Ranka begins singing really slow and gradually sings stronger. I did work with different "special" effects, like flying dots and dollar symbols as well as stars whenever the word star shows up.

This one was pretty fun to make, too. This is also the first song in a series of commercial songs by Ranka Lee. It's called "Kaitaku Juuki" and is song 10 in the movie. I tried to copy the barrier tape that you can see in the background. It actually worked pretty awesomely!

Okay, that's it for now! Time to finish of song 11.

concerts....

2011-08-04T06:00:00.000+02:00

MVs alone would be boring, right?

Here's an old treasure!

Thunderella

2011-08-03T00:00:00.001+02:00

This one I think you'll love!!!

Previously uncommented Releases

2011-08-02T17:44:00.003+02:00

For the sake of completeness here a list of the uncommented H!F Releases... since last October (okay, we didn't release a lot of stuff in that timespan...) and before we release stuff again YAY \o/

MVs:

Berryz Koubou - Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda!

Berryz Koubou - Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda! (Hawaii Ver.)

I really loved this BK song, because of it's meaning "Friends are just Friends". Friends are important for everyone so this one I decicated to all of my friends. Since we liked the song, and SC wanted to, we also released the beach version of this song. Don't like it much, but the effects were the same.

Berryz Koubou - Seishun Bus Guide

This song took actually a long time to finish because of the effect difficulty. The highlight effects weren't that hard, but the driving bus with exhaust fumes.

C-ute - Aitai Lonely Christmas

C-ute - Aitai Lonely Christmas (Dance Shot Ver.)

C-ute - Aitai Lonely Christmas (Christmas Night Ver.)

C-ute - Aitai Lonely Christmas (Christmas House Ver.)

This Batch Torrent was probably one of the biggest we had so far because we decided, since we loved the song so much, to release all 4 versions of it. We also released this around Christmas!

Concerts:

Buono! - Urahara (Buono! Live Tour '10 ~Rock'n Buono! 3~)

With this video I had a lot of fun. Lots of colors to fit the costumes of the girls. Not sure what else to say as this song is just too awesome to speak of...

Shin Minimoni - Mini. Strawberry~ Pie (H!P '10 Winter Kachou Fuugetsu ~Shuffle Date~)

I've always been a big fan of Mini Moni, back in the days. When they announced this little renedition of the group I was really happy, especially with the line-up. I hope you all enjoyed my flying strawberries! I'm still trying to get SC to let me do some Mini Moni song...

Okay, so that's it from me. I hope I didn't forget any releases. Until the next time and some new releases!

No Comment ^^

2011-08-02T14:03:00.002+02:00

work in progress

2011-07-26T06:40:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to keep you all updated! We finished working on 3 new videos, two of which are PVs and one that is a concert MV.

I hope you guys will be happy about the new releases, that we'll bring to you soon.

So far I'm working on an entirely new project, which is pretty old. So keep tuned!

I hope to see you all back here soon!

work progress

2011-07-16T17:33:00.002+02:00

Wohoo!!

New Project.....!

2011-07-11T23:38:00.000+02:00

Coming Soon!

Getting back on track

2011-06-18T11:11:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone! How are you all?

I'm quite fine myself. Driving lessons are over for now and will continue after I have my theoretical examina next month, July 6th. My teacher said it was smarter to just wait for after it and schedule some more lessons right before the pratical driving test. Something about being fresh and having sat behind the wheel before the test makes for better driving during it. I guess I believe him since I'm considering it. All in all everything went well so far. I didn't have any accidents. I only made a few mistakes in total (whew! And I really had a looooot of insecurities and angst before). Oh, and once I nearly had an incident with a pedestrian - but that wasn't actually my fault. He came out from behind a big car, I couldn't see him and he just boldly walked into the street, even though there was no crosswalk. And even though I was driving very slowly, I wasn't able to stop in time, because he walked right into my side mirror. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I nearly threw up after that because I was shaking so hard. Nothing happend. My teacher berated him, loudly, out of the car window and we continued on, since I had to move forward on that street.

Right now I'm at my grandparents place getting ready for my upcoming exams at the end of the month. I'm really nervous, since those two exams are the last I have to take. WOHOOO!!! I'm not sure how I'm supposed to actually get all that information in my braind, but it's working just fine right now.
I actually started revising for the test a few weeks ago - that's earlier than I ever started before in my whole life. I normally tend to revise for tests like 2 to 4 days before it actually takes place, and I actually do it not on the first date there is for the examina, but on the second or third. This time I'm doing it radically. Starting right now with the first.

Okay, have to go, my family just arrived.
Laters!

My driving lesson car

2011-06-06T16:13:00.001+02:00

New Anime Karaoke done!

2011-05-23T00:12:00.000+02:00

The last few days I was pretty busy. I finished up the karaoke for the anime "Ace wo Nerae!" - finally!!!!!! - and am now working on the last few tweaks on Gundam 00 the movie Karaoke. This movie is awesome. I love the songs and the feel of it. I'm not much of a Gundam fan to begin with - I'm more the Macross kind-of-girl - but still, this vids are amazing.
Unfortunately it took me longer than I initially thought.

Sorry, guys-for-who-I’m-doing-this.
(okay, "who" does kinda sound weird in this constillation.)

Wooot...

2011-05-22T21:12:00.001+02:00

Hello guys!

A lot has been going on in the past few weeks. I had my first week of theory driving lessons and I got to meet up with my friends. Since I'm in a relationship now and we actually planned on me moving to his house in the near future, a lot of stuff was going on, but it seems, like I don't have to take things as fast now.
I was actually just informed that my hubby still has insecurities and doubt and he's not sure whether he really actually wants me to move up there. He told me it's going too fast for him - which is true. We were going real fast with this.

So now I’m back to my old life. He wants to see what happens and wants to take some time sorting out his life and stuff and me? I’m going to find a job, get my new internet connection I was actually going to get when I first met him again and will do as usual.
I’m really disappointed and also hurt, because a few weeks ago everything was just dandy and he couldn’t move me up there fast enough. Now this.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do from now on. Possibly just continue as is and start working on some karaoke stuff again. Working helps, or so I’ve been told…

Hi there!

2011-05-06T17:33:00.004+02:00

Hey everyone!

Sorry for not being around much!

A lot has happend since I last posted anything. I'm now in a relationship again, after 9 years. These are exciting news for me, so I've been very, very busy.
Seems like this is going to be something serious and I've been traveling there and back and back there again for the past 2 months.
Right now I'm going to stay in Vienna for at least the next 2 months, since I started my drivers licence courses and I still have 2 exams to take at the end of June.
After that I'll move to his new house, which is in Germany and I have to pack all my stuff. So just everyone knows - I might be away for a while again soon.

But for now, there's a few karaoke scripts going to be out soon.
So stay tuned!

Add: This picture was taken at the end of March right in front of the University building for Japanese Studies. It's also right in front of my class rooms. A beautiful Sakura Tree.

Yumm!!! Sushi

2011-03-16T13:07:00.000+01:00

Bahhhhh

2011-03-10T14:15:00.000+01:00

University courses started again, which is okay. I'm kind of excited to start hearing lectures again. Unfortunately the one I'm sitting in right now is starting laaaaaaaate!!!! I mean it's okay to be a little late here and now, but both professors were already in the room, looked at us and disappeared again! What the fuuuuuuck?!?!

I just hope they end the lecture on time or else I'm going to be late for my next set of classes.

Plane Tickets, signing up for classes, first raid

2011-02-25T06:09:00.001+01:00

Hey everyone! How do you do?

I'm fine myself, but a bunch of stuff has happened.

Out of the blue a friend asked me to help him buy some stuff for his new house. He's actually my ex-boyfriend (from 9 years before) and I'm kind of excited to actually see him, again! My plane tickets arrived so I'm really reeved up to get some shopping done, and maybe get reacquainted again. It might be fun; at least I hope so.
The last time I saw him I was actually stupid enough to get him together with his soon-to-be-ex-wife. Heh..... (Man, that was pretty stupid of me.)

Also the new collage semester is starting next week and I'm pretty excited!!!!! I signed up for 3 classes as if now, but I might throw in another 2 or so. We'll see.

Finally we got together enough people to start the first real raid since the new extension pack is released. It took some time - actually a really long time - but we finally have all the dedicated raiders we've been waiting for!!!!!! Today I had my first glimps of these new raids, so I was really nervous. But it wasn't as bad as I thought. Though in the end we didn't get to kill the first raid boss. Nevertheless we were able to get one violet trash epic so we're quite happy. Can't wait for Saturday!!!!! Because then we're going again!

It's late now. I was watching The Guild season 2 on YT and it's time for bed now. Good Night everyone!

Run Deathwing Run

2011-02-17T19:09:00.000+01:00

Cursed.....

2011-02-06T03:54:00.001+01:00

Just a short message, but I'm out of commission again. Another of my HDs decided to die an early death after just 6 months being with me. I think I'm cursed with failing HDs... My karaoke HD is showing problem tooooooooo~~~~ Oh no's!!!!!!!

Sigh

2011-01-22T20:00:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody!

Sorry for not writing as I promised, but a bunch of stuff happened recently, one of which is me having to take two additional exams this coming semester because I couldn't add a few hours for my curriculum.

This sucks big time, because I'm loosing another half year. Oh well. I might have provoked it. I probably could have asked earlier if I can credit those hours, that in fact I couldn't or write a few more exams to begin with.

Another thing was that I was busily finishing up a bunch of German releases for Kizuna, so SC's HDD can finally loose some extra MB's. He was most greatful! Thanks again, SC.

Of course we also finished a Christmas release for H!F. Heh!

I'm now sitting at the movies waiting for Bourlesque to start. Until later, guys!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2010-12-31T23:42:00.000+01:00

Hey Guys,

I just wanted to write a few words to you.

Thank you for reading my blog and suffering all my rants.

I'm glad that you took notice and followed some of my escapades.

I'm sure the next year will bring new blog entries and stories from me, my life and my work.

I hope that you'll find your way back here and get in touch with me through this site.

This year 2010 brought me a lot of different experiences,

like how I could burn my hand so badly that I still have the scars to show,

or how I finally was able to finish my bachelor study program and am now contemplating not doing my masters and going straight to work,

or how I finally gathered all my courage and applied for a Green Card (oh, I'm still so excited).

Thank you for going through all this with me.

I hope to see you all back next year!!

Good Health, Happiness and Luck to all of you.

Yours,
Tomo-chan

Hello everyone!

2010-12-20T19:21:00.000+01:00

Hey guys!

Sorry for not updating my blog on a regular basis.

I've had a lot on my mind and totally forgot to write up posts.

So, just to keep you all updated!!
I finished my Bachelor and will now enroll to my Masters Degree. WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

It took me a long while and I'm really happy, that I was able to finish it.

Also,

HAPPY belated HALLOWEEN!!
I even forgot about THAT! And I love Halloween!

Since Christmas is now right in front of us I want to wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I'm going to be at my Grandparents playe starting tomorrrow, but still, have a few very special days with your loved ones!
I hope to at least try to get some more posts up and update you all on the various releases that are out and other such stuff.

Until then!

Yours Tomo

Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeee!

2010-10-16T00:15:00.001+02:00

Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeee!
Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeee!
Happy Birthday, dear Tomo!
Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeee!

Diamonds are a girls best friend!

2010-10-13T02:13:00.002+02:00

Aren't we just awesome!
Here's another great BR-concert performance. As I mentioned in my previous post I gotta say I love this one even more, probably because I also loved the band from which High-King covered this song.

Anyways! Please check it out and I'm sure you're going to like it. Effects are simple but fitting.

Have a niccccccccce evening!

PS: WoW shut down 2 hours ago for maintenance (patch-day). I'm totally bored and started working on translating some of the songs to German. So behold the upcoming German PV releases!

PPS: I'm also going to do a German Diamonds version, YAY!

First BR-Release!

2010-10-12T13:13:00.002+02:00

Hello, everyone!!
Did you miss me?!
Well, I missed you guys, but that's not relevant. Here's what's been going on!

I've been quite busy finishing up a few projects there where still partly done. So since that is now done we present you with our next release.

This one also marks our very first BR (Blu-Ray) concert Karaoke PV (we did release the MC sessions of this concert in BR quality though. We're so excited to be able to present you with this and are mightily glad that UFA decided to release this awesome Concert on a Blu-Ray DVD. Thank you UFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111.....

Anyways!
This song is so great. I do love this kind of song and I hope in a few days you'll get to see my favourite Song of this particular concert.

But for right now we have this one: High-King - Destiny Love
The lightning, outfits and styling of the girls is just great and they do sound very good together. I wonder if they'll ever release anything again or if Tsunku, in his mighty palace way up high, will someday release something else for these girls.

Up there you'll see a screenshot of it.
Hope you'll enjoy this as much as we did.

As always, the releases are available in Xvid ans h264 in Hello!Online.

There's a side note for all the h264 lovers out there: We had trouble with the encoding and for some players it seems to be out of synch. We are very sorry, but after troubleshooting with other encoders and re-encoding it for several times we couldn't fix it (though we were able to fix the double-duration issue with had with it).
To read more about this problem, a list of players with which the release works correctly and any other help you might need, you can check out the original blog post on our Hello!Fansubs Blog

Well! See you all next time.

PS: On a side note - Bakuman was licenced in German so now I can't work on the karaoke *cries* and I so did look forward to it. This show is amazing, so make sure to check it out and buy the DVDs whenever they might come out! (I have no idea if it's going to be licenced in America though.)

It's official...!

2010-10-05T22:29:00.000+02:00

It's official now...

I applied for the Diversity VISA Program and am now an entree to the chance to get a Green Card and Residency. I'm actually quite excited though the real excitement starts now. I still have to wait until May next year to possibly hear back from them.

You all, whish me luck. I really want to migrate to the U.S.A.!

New Release

2010-10-05T22:26:00.001+02:00

Hey there!

Sorry for not being around much. I had some stuff to do and now it's finally a little quieter.
Here's one of the lastest releases I forgot to announce.
It's actually one of SC's favourite songs so I really gave it my all. The effects are quite simple but I think they fit the song and mood really well.

The song's called "Koucha no oishii mise" which means "The store with the tasty tea".
Also there's a little something in there - so please take a closer look at the echo parts the girls are singing. You might see that the colors move in the same direction of the color owner ;)

Buono! deshita!
Tomo-chan deshita!

Oyasuminasai, minna-san!

Looking better

2010-09-21T06:51:00.000+02:00

It starts to get better!!!!!

Is wasted

2010-09-19T03:15:00.000+02:00

I drank too much. Night folks

New Release

2010-09-17T00:21:00.001+02:00

Can you believe it?
It totally forgot, but here it is. One of our latest releases.

THis one is a concert performance from MM' 10 Pikapika concert. The song is so awesome we had to share. I hope you'll enjoy.

I can't write any more right now. My finger hurts, I can't really move it and typing on my keyboard is like the 9 hells. Will be back whenever I don't think I need to cut off my finger to get rid of all this pain.

Looks bad, hurts even more

2010-09-15T01:12:00.000+02:00

Yuck!!! The shiny stuff is something for blisters and to cool the tender area. It's starting to scar.

good news: I'm home now
bad news: my external krk HD was fried. We were able to save almost everything. Will report more, soon-ish.

Day 2 - no blisters or fluids

2010-09-14T22:21:00.000+02:00

Huuuuuuuurts

Ohjea

2010-09-13T21:02:00.000+02:00

Looks awesome, tastes even better.

Burn. Burn. Burn.

2010-09-13T19:01:00.001+02:00

Well well well...

And it hurts like a bitch.

Kirby pawaa

2010-09-12T17:32:00.001+02:00

Sorry guys, no Internet service without roaming fees. Meanwhile look at this little guy!!
I bought it at the con!

The adventure begins

2010-09-10T08:39:00.001+02:00

Hi, guys!!

The great adventure begins today. I'm going to the Connichi convention in Kassel today, and I'm real excited!!! I hope to have time to keep you updated.

Until then, bye bye!!

Atarashii megane!

2010-09-04T22:15:00.000+02:00

My New glasses that I got before I left for vacation. They are cute, brownish and fit me well.
Going to bed now, night!!!!

Going home

2010-09-04T09:39:00.001+02:00

It's time to go home. My vacation was great. Now it's time for my routine at home again. Guys, see ya all soon!!

CSS is a bitch

2010-09-03T03:40:00.001+02:00

Honestly, I've been working on this like forever and getting nowhere. But let's start at the beginning.

Today my aunt came to my grandparents place. Since I was able to get a few things done today, and we're going to celebrate my grandparents 50th (marriage) anniversary tomorrow (well, today actually), I was sitting around with my aunt talking about web-design and the new page she's trying to program and how I saw a few things that looked kinda weird. She's doing fine! Considering that she's nearly blind and doing it just because she wants to.

She actually learned how to use CSS stylesheets and HTML. Not bad at all. But she was going in a wrong direction with it, using way too many layers and styles and actually making her page hard to work with.
So I sat down and got to work on her code. ;( First thing I did was scrap 2/3 of it. She didn't write it correctly, jumping up and down in layers and code and making it hard to work with the existing styles the farther you scripted.

I thing I got most of it sorted out, though I will have to look on it again later today. Funny thing though is, that I actually didn't have a lot of know-how at first. I just sat down, looked up the information I didn't know and worked like a fiend. I think i like CSS. I might try to learn more of it. Won't hurt either way. Craaaap!!!!!!!
It cost me nearly 5 hours and now I only have 5 hours of sleep left.

Good night everyone.

Net in the middle of the woods

2010-08-31T10:45:00.000+02:00

Woah! I'm tired.

Hello everyone! Yesterday was a fun day and I also got to complete 2 new projects. YAY for me!
Unfortunately, I found out how to get internet on my notebook.
"What's so bad about that?", you ask? It would probably be something very nifty to have around (Internet is soooooo cool), but for me it's like an addiction. As soon as I have net access I need to surf on the internet and I tend to loose precious time. It's amazing that I even have internet access here in the middle of the woods. My grandparents are so modern :-)

After fixing up my computer with internet access yesterday night I stayed up until 2 a.m., although I swore it wouldn't be up longer than 12 p.m.. Guess that didn't work out. The consequence was that I promptly overslept today. *sigh* My grandparents are really tolerant, and I'm glad for it, but they do tend to tease me later that I overslept.

The fictive part of my brain likes to blame the lack of sun outside. Since it's rainy and dark you might have the possible excuse that you didn't see it was already this late, unfortunately I have a working clock right in front of me, so I guess I could have checked the time to be on the save side.
Guess that excuse won't really work after all.

It's pissing outside - what I mean? Well, it's raining and that since I woke up this morning (I was awake for a few minutes around 6 a.m. and didn't even consider rolling out of bed; too freaking early). I generally don't have anything against rain, but honestly, I'm here on vacation; I would love to sit outside and get some sun. I'm not really a sun person anyways. As soon as I sit too long in direct sunlight or it's getting later to midday my allergy tends to mess things up. So I generally only enjoy the early morning sun or the late afternoon/evening one. I guess I'm not going to get any more sun here. The forecast looks pretty damn bad - rain until after the weekend *sigh*.

Hope everyone is doing well.

I'm now going to work on some AKB song I started on yesterday.
Byeeeee~

report

2010-08-30T10:18:00.000+02:00

Hi everyone!
The first week of my vacation is now over and it was splendid. I didn't have much time to write any blogposts or to upload any pics. Most pics are from my little cousin anyway ;) and I don't think that's very interesting for you guys.
Anyway. My little cousin Lisa left happily with her mother last Tuesday and I was finally able to get some stuff done this weekend. YES! Though I forgot to write here earlier.

It's raining here right now. We had great weather the last week with up to 35°C, but right now it's effin' cold and we are considering firing up the oven, though it's a little early in the year to start with that. The forecast said it's going to be cold the next few days, so I just hope it's over quickly and we get back to mild autumn weather. 8°C is freaking cold for the end of August.

Since I also finished reading all 6 books I brought with me I'm now working like a fiend on Karaoke effects.

I finished 7 krk's since Saturday - so I'm really pleased with that.
I still have 3 more to go before I can start with anything non-anime related.

The time sure flies by. I won't be home until friday eventhing this week and next week I'm going on a convention and won't be around for a few days. And after that I need to concentrate on my studies.

Oh well!

I'm going to update the anime working list now --->>>>>

See you guys some other time!

Hi there!

2010-08-20T15:50:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody!

Time for a short update on what has been going on before I go on vacation in 2 hours.

So, our special release has been finished. I'm talking about the PVs to the very much loved and very awesome anime Nana (TV). It's been a pleasure to work on those as it was also an anime I helped with the karaoke for both Openings and Endings for a German subbing group. The anime hasn't been licensed in Germany even though the fan community rather large.
Guess they are either waiting on season 2 (due whenever the autor finishes with the manga) or they are never going to do it.
I have to admit that I never actually saw this anime in its entirety. I guess it just wasn't my kind of story.

ANNA inspi' NANA (Black Stones) - rose ~strip me edition~ --> OP 1
OLIVIA inspi' REIRA (TRAPNEST) - Wish --> OP 2
ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA (Black Stones) - Lucy --> OP 3

OLIVIA inspi' REIRA (TRAPNEST) - a little pain --> ED 1
ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA (Black Stones) - Kuroi Namida --> ED 3

I released those PVs both in English (TLSC-Subs) and German (Kizuna) ;)

Otherwise been busy with Boajjang stuff and Anime Karaoke.

now I have to go!

See you all later!

Tired......

2010-08-18T15:30:00.000+02:00

Takin' a short nap

BoAjjang new release - BoA Dangerous Perf

2010-08-16T21:09:00.002+02:00

Time for a new release, right?
I've been rather busy getting a lot of new releases out there. Mostly they were Interviews or other some such things from the newly returned Asian Idol Star BoA (Kwon) to her homeland Korea. She's been busy over the last few years as an accomplished artist in Japan and after 5 years of absence she returned to her homeland with a new album, comeback stages on TV and other such things.

This is the first of 2 performances we're going to make.
I hope you enjoy this one.

Mediafire

Devastating news! - 3 MM members to graduate

2010-08-08T18:18:00.001+02:00

OMG! I'm crying rivers here! (figure of speech)

This morning my world kinda got a crack in it. Tsunku decided to graduate 3 girls at the end of this falls concert tour!!
Eririn, JunJun and LinLin are leaving Morning Musume somewhen in the second half of the year.
I'm not sure what I should think about this. I can actually understand it at a small level, but then on the other hand I can't.

Kamei Eri seems to be having problems with her skin and needs to get treatment for it. Since doing a lot of physical activity, sweating and costume changes between the performances, it seems like her condition got worse and she wants to get treated for it. I can understand why she wants to do that, but she's also my currently favourite member of the group. I don't know if I should cry or be happy for her that Tsunku lets her leave. Maybe a little of both?
Tsunku stated that after she got treatment and she's recovered he wants to talk about her future carreer, but we all know that's a lot of hot air, right there. We had an incicent like that happen with one of the old °C-ute members, Arihara Kanna, she left for treatment for her foot disfigurement and she got booted out to never return.

HA HA ha! I believe it, when I see her again.

On the other hand, JunJun and LinLin joined MM in 2007 and they improved so much. It seems like Tsunku just wanted them to get better and gain experience to graduate them and turn them out to the Chinese media. I hope, after some time and getting some more lessons, they're going to be singers again. One can only hope.
Tsunku didn't yet state if the girls are going to leave UFA after they graduate or if they just graduate MM and move on to something else. I guess we'll see at the end. I'm wishing them the best of luck!

I wonder what happend to the korean girl that won the auditions.... *huh*

Oh, and the 9th gen auditions startet!!!
Maybe they were all too old for the group? I mean JunJun and Erin were like 22 years old or so.... *huh* But LinLin was still pretty young (19).

oh well..........
Back to work!

woot!

2010-08-08T17:58:00.000+02:00

Hello again!

I'm finally back. Okay, I have been since Wednesday but then, I had a lot of work to do so I actually forgot to write a blogpost.
My uncle drove me home with his car, so I actually didn't have to pay for a train ticket. Saved me 7 €, woot! The real reason behind it was a closed up kitchen drain in my sink. Since he at one time learned to be a plumber it was a lucky stroke that he was at my grandparents place. I could actually ask him to help me AND be driven home at the same time. Thanks again, uncle!

I'm getting things done. It isn't as fast as it could be but that's okay.
I finished working on that One Piece OP13 song and am working now on Strike Witches 2 OP (as you can probably see on the right side ------>>>> )
It turned out great, thanks to one of my friends - OutlawJonas! Thanks for helping me out, OJ!!!!! He helped me fix some code I wasn't getting anywhere with. Now, my rocket girl actually has airstreams shooting out behind its feet jet nozzles. WOAH! I can probably never use that effect for anything else, but it was still worth it ;D

On a side note, I finally got my two Warlock ICC-10 gimmicks yesterday. Trinket and shieldhand. =) Now I can start getting my Shaman ICC equipped! Wussa!

On the road again

2010-08-02T10:13:00.001+02:00

I'm on my way to my grandparents. BTW. This seat pattern is very. Yuck!

On a short notice...

2010-08-01T18:34:00.001+02:00

I just heared yesterday that my little cousin is going to my grandparents place and I promised to keep her company so I'll be heading out to my grandparents early tomorrow morning. I'll probably be back by wednesday or so.

Otherwise things have been quiet here.

I kinda talked myself into 6 new projects as you can see on the right side in my Anime worklist. I don't know why but I just said yes. *sigh* I'm that stupid, yes sir.

On another note: Our first and only s/mileage release in H!F just came out and we decided it also was the last one. SimpleSubs has been working on the pre-debut pvs and will also be working on the majo releases. This one was an exception as our new Typesetter already released a version in his native languages and I was so delighted with that version that I wanted it to be released in english too. This is why it was finally released today - on Wada Ayaka-chan's birthday.

Hope to see you all again soon!

Thursday Release

2010-07-22T09:00:00.014+02:00

So here we are again, and yes, we're back with another release. Can you believe it?!
Well, I can't, but we're still going to release it.

This is the latest Single PV that our beloved Mano Erina-chan has released until now. I did tell you in last weeks post, that it was announced that there will be another release in September. Can't wait to see if it's going to be a ballad - eeeeeeew! - or an up-beat song - yeeeaaaah!
I guess I'll just have to wait and see on that one.

So, here is the lastest Song "Onegai Dakara..." which is an up-beat song with a few techno elements in it. I enjoyed working on this one, as it sure was something diffrent from her other up-beat songs. She normally has very "sunny" songs, which means with a lot of cute lyrics and movements but that's it. This one was actually a little deeper. Guess I just love that right now...

Hope you will all enjoy it.
The effects are somewhat different then what I can normally use on H!P releases. H!P doesn't release a lot of techno-ish songs right now.

So, do you know what song is actually missing right now? We've got still one more left to release to make her discography complete!

See you all again soon.
Hope you aren't dying of a heat stroke?!

As always, releases are available through H!O.

Hello!Fansubs Official YouTube Channel

2010-07-21T22:20:00.001+02:00

Wohoo!!!!

H!F jumped on the networking bandwagon and decided to open up their own YouTube Channel. We're currently uploading old videos and performances on it, so stay tuned.

Here's the Link again and please, spread the L-O-V-E!

Buono Godness!

2010-07-20T09:00:00.000+02:00

Hey guys!

Did you have a great weekend?
We haaaaad! And to celebrate this we give you the latest and currently last release of our favourite girl band Buono!
This makes it the last single PV release we can give you as we now finished all of them.

I still remember when we first startet out with the very first PV. Back then GTO was the exclusive Typesetter forthis band and I later got the chance to take over his position. Do you still remember it? That was back at the end of 2007. WoW! That makes it nearly 3 years already and the girls have given us one awesome single release after another!
If you didn't have the chance yet you should make sure to check out their songs! They are really awesome, for various reasons...

This one is still one of my most beloved songs from Buono!, so I'm especially happy to be able to present you with this. We played around with different fonts and colors and I hope it looks good for everyone. It was very hard to find the right styling to go with this awesome song.

There will be a few other Buono! Release from us in the future, though, because we're going to give you a few awesome moments from their concert tours. You really shouldn't miss out on them! One of them is going to be from our new Typesetter - NottMiyabi. Thanks for joining us in our quest to give our fans the very best karaoke PVs they can get.

Wooooah it's been so long

2010-07-19T19:43:00.000+02:00

This is the Real Circle of Life

2010-07-18T17:38:00.000+02:00

Hello everyone! Sorry, I can't keep you updated, but my computer is not working right now. We've got some issues here and won't be able to fix them until probably late on Tuesday, maybe Wednesday.

There are still going to be some releases for you guys, though, so keep tuned.

As for now here's a little something I found on Youtube, and I have to tell you - it is kinda accurate. Not for me, but for some...
Have fun!! And see you soon again - hopefully!

Buh... Computer issues - again

2010-07-17T12:50:00.000+02:00

Bah!

The World!

2010-07-15T09:00:00.003+02:00

Yes, since the first of my 4 PVs are out here comes the next one for this week
This time we've got a diffrent artist for you.

I hope you'll enjoy this PV as much as the Buono! one.
We're still trying to get all her PVs out and kinda realized we were still missing one of her older PVs. Also, it has been announced on Tuesday that she's going to release another single in September this year.
I'm actually really excited about this. Dunno why. I really don't like most of her ballads, but I adore her fast-paced stuff. Let's just hope this song's not going to be a ballad!

Okay, enough talk, here's the Thursday release!

Mano Erina-chan with her 3rd Single "Sekai wa Summer Party!"

Have fun! As always available at Hello!Online

One down, one to go!

2010-07-13T09:00:00.012+02:00

Yes, the topic says it all!
We're one down and still one more lovely song to go.
From which band you might ask?

Well, Buono! Of course!!!
How can't we bring you the loveliness of these three ladies? After the discontinuation of the anime show Shugo Chara (and its various sequels) the band came to a sudden stop of activities this February. Avid fans, like me, hope that the girls are going to still get a few singles now and then. We'll have to see what UFA will do and how Tsunku will decide. They certainly earned their success!

But there is no time to mourn for you. Since we bring them to you in order of release here's our penultimate/last but one Buono! release - Bravo Bravo DOUZO!

Enjoy!

As always the release is available through the Hello!Online Tracker.

PS: Psssst! There might be another Buono! release next week. Stay tuned!

Hello!Fansub releases coming up!

2010-07-11T18:16:00.001+02:00

Yay!
Today was a good day! We finished up a lot of old/new projects, both from me and our new Typesetter!

I have to tell you, I'm really happy that SC found this TSer. He's working a lot like I am, which means we don't have a lot to QC and there's just minor stuff to do.

<3 Nott, I might love you!

I hope you guys will enjoy his work as we do. Soon coming up by him: yume miru fifteen and independent girl

As to my own projects here's what's going to be released soon:

Can you guess which artists these belong to?

One of our crazy days

2010-07-10T20:59:00.001+02:00

SC and I have been working on quite a number of projects and the more we work together the whackier our conversations get. This is one of our chatting scessions while working on 2 projects.
It is actually rather long so I split it up. =) Hope you enjoy some randomness - this also means there are going to be new releases out soon!

Tomo-chan says (18:45):
woah!
SacredCultivator says (18:45):
Yeah?
Tomo-chan says (18:45):
P-A-T-I ~~~
Tomo-chan says (18:46):
P-A-T-I! scripts up
SacredCultivator says (18:46):
Nice ^_^, yippee, will get on that after I finish up burning something.
Tomo-chan says (18:46):
sure. though make sure you make a QC
SacredCultivator says (18:46):
Hai hai
Tomo-chan says (18:47):
oh - and ^^ in case you don't read the forum thread before you encode ... you need to replace the treasure font
*_* there's a new star shape in it I used for the pv
SacredCultivator says (18:47):
Thank you. Hopes that the overwrite works right
Tomo-chan says (18:47):
well.. if you get awesome U's flying around.. then you're screwed
SacredCultivator says (18:48):
haha will check.
Tomo-chan says (18:49):
I had to retime the darn thing
bad SC
U forgot to time the breaks
*tsk's at you*
SacredCultivator says (18:50):
No no.. I didn't forget
At that time, I never timed in breaks yet
Tomo-chan says (18:50):
oh, come on.. it's not THAT old
shit

SacredCultivator says (18:52):
Ah rights.
Tomo-chan says (18:52):
oh.. and sorry. but I was to lazy to make another set of colors
so everything is the same
but we do have 3 effects in it
SacredCultivator says (18:52):
Uh ohs
Just previwing...
And I'm seeing your coding
Tomo-chan says (18:53):
uh-oh?
SacredCultivator says (18:53):
Instead of Romaji
Tomo-chan says (18:53):
what?!
*grumbles*
SacredCultivator says (18:53):
Woah this is whacky.
Tomo-chan says (18:53):
it's perfectly fine here
T_T
SacredCultivator says (18:54):
let me screenshot
Tomo-chan says (18:55):
oh wow
open it in aegi
xD it works
there
*sigh*
crap!
SacredCultivator says (18:56):
Yeah checking it through aegi
Nopes, not fine in aegisub for me.
Tomo-chan says (18:56):
gah!
*balls a fist and shakes it at the injustice of it all*
SacredCultivator says (18:57):
If anything, just looks as if some codes aren't properly "closed"
Cause some parts look just fine.
Tomo-chan says (18:58):
yeah... everything were effect2 was in... I got an error parsing it.. but it looks fine. the codes are closed too.. sec. I'll take another look
SacredCultivator says (18:58):
kk
Tomo-chan says (18:59):
ooooooooooooooooooooooh
SacredCultivator says (18:59):
Someone was tooo sleepy =P
Tomo-chan says (18:59):
nope.. the code is fine
just some wacky error that doesn't make sense and my program likes to spit out
that's why this shit is still beta and nobody but me and a few friends are using it

(one explanation later)

Tomo-chan says (19:01):
then open it in vdub and tell me if you still have the problem
SacredCultivator says (19:01):
kk
Thumbs are Up
Works now.
Tomo-chan says (19:02):
YAY for me being awesome
SacredCultivator says (19:02):
Wow.. funky program you using.
Tomo-chan says (19:02):
\o/ yeah
the funny thing is .. I'm giving out the same script for 3 different karaoke lines in romaji kanji and translation, but it only gets whacky in the romaji
unno why
stupid program
glad we could fix it quit eeasily
SacredCultivator says (19:03):
Yes, at first I was like.. is Tomo-chan being a jerk and messing with me here...
Tomo-chan says (19:03):
xD
naaaaa... not me
at least not if I can help it
that is
^^ *makes innocent eyes at you*
SacredCultivator says (19:04):
Hehes, one of these days when you're ultra super tired... it might happen.
I get a script and it's for like another PV/Perf
Tomo-chan says (19:04):
haha yeah
but even then it wouldn't be on purpose
just me being awefully tired
SacredCultivator says (19:05):
But I'd probably mess with you and say you did it on purpose.
Tomo-chan says (19:05):
yeah
you're just that evil !
^^ j/k
SacredCultivator says (19:06):
Hehe, I just like making others laugh/smile is all ^^
Alrighties, encoding, although don't mind the quality for QC.
Tomo-chan says (19:25):
okay.. just tell me when it's up to review
SacredCultivator says (19:25):
kk
Up
Tomo-chan says (19:37):
*sigh* you know, sometimes I really despair on the fonts available out there but not will fit the video I want to work on
*grumbles under her breath*
and in the end you end up looking at the same fonts again and again and you start to question yourself on how often you have considered using that font, how often you actually used it and how often you will stare at it in the future and consider using it *sigh*
SacredCultivator says (19:39):
Right... Heck I think some people stick with just about the same font for most of their things.
Tomo-chan says (19:39):
but that's barbaric!
SacredCultivator says (19:39):
And to CUSTOM create your own font (not symbols) is way too much work
Tomo-chan says (19:40):
yeah. who's really going to do that
LOL
SacredCultivator says (19:41):
The people that created the fonts we use =P
Tomo-chan says (19:41):
I'm even questioning my color choice right now
*sigh*
SacredCultivator says (19:41):
Color-choice is definitely a downer since sometimes the best ones are those that just make things very hard to read / pixelate.
Tomo-chan says (19:41):
I knooooow
SacredCultivator says (19:42):
And it kinda sucks if you change the color-scheme within the video, if the scene changes, it doens't look as pleasing.
Tomo-chan says (19:42):
and I also have to think on which releases are going to be out what fonts I used there and if I can use the same font again so soon
SacredCultivator says (19:42):
Don't go starting a Document of PV/Perf's with the listing of Font used.
Tomo-chan says (19:42):
GAH!
SacredCultivator says (19:43):
It'll just make you go crazy.
Tomo-chan says (19:43):
no... don't need to. I remember most of them
SacredCultivator says (19:43):
Since if you really don't re-use a font, the font you choose may not work at all.
Tomo-chan says (19:43):
x_X
cause most of them I had to costum fit for the pvs
haha
how important are diffrent colors for each girl in our songs for you?
SacredCultivator says (19:50):
Not that important really, since their colors are all actualyl similar
clothing*
Momo just stands out the most, but it's cause she's wearing barely any black =P
Tomo-chan says (19:51):
since I’m not using black/red/white for this song it doesn't really matter
it's more of a... do we need to retime it so I can apply different colors for them or not kind of thing
some spacing is really weirding me out
SacredCultivator says (19:53):
Hmm, if it's too much trouble, then probably no need to do that, retiming.
Tomo-chan says (19:54):
hehe .. you're just lazy! Admit it!
*pokes at you*
SacredCultivator says (19:55):
Hahah, slightly. If it were when I first started, then okay, but it's 'done' so that lazy factor does play a bit =X
Tomo-chan says (19:55):
hehe
figures
^^
trouble is .... as I see it there's two effects... and that's a little boring because there won't be any flying stars/hearts/orsomesuch
so we might need to make it look "good" by adding different colors for the girls
*sigh* I hate it when I have these fixed-walled-in-ideas
hmmm where did we put that darn bus guide song?!
SacredCultivator says (20:12):
All rights, hopefully won't take me too long, since I'll have to do the same for Kanji
I think it's in primary PV folder since we don’t' even have timings for that one.
Schism said he was near completion for it, but since then, I haven't seen him online.
Tomo-chan says (20:12):
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh
okay~
I'd need a damn organizer for all these projects
I'm getting sloppy and forgetting who's working on what
gah!
anything new on bravo?
SacredCultivator says (20:13):
Bravo?
You mean Smileage?
Tomo-chan says (20:13):
qc encode anyone~?!
xD
SacredCultivator says (20:13):
Missed my message?
Tomo-chan says (20:13):
seems like it
SacredCultivator says (20:13):
I said it was up
After you asked
haha
"tell me when qc is up"
Tomo-chan says (20:13):
I take it all back *grabs it*
SacredCultivator says (20:14):
And I replied "up"
=P
Tomo-chan says (20:14):
I read that as "jup" or "yup" which means yes for me
sorry
SacredCultivator says (20:14):
ooo ahha
Tomo-chan says (20:14):
*leeches like a fiend*
gimme gimme gimme
I love you 1,6mb dl speed
SacredCultivator says (20:15):
Lol, and I'm here just figuring out if I'll end up doing the splitting stuff correctly.
Tomo-chan says (20:16):
same line timing. split lines.. the line with the 2nd part gets a free timing without a syllable behind it connecting the lines
looks smashing to me. you like P-A-T-I! and DARN it... found an error in it
*goes to look if she can fix it easily*

(a QC and some explaining later)

Tomo-chan says (20:22):
okay. I was able to fix the kanji thingy. .. how do you like the vid otherwise? any comments?!
complains or anything else?
SacredCultivator says (20:23):
Only thing I noted in regard to effects were the stars.
Since it puts too much emphasis on primarily Airi, so was thinking to maybe throw in hearts (for MOmo + Miyabi)
Tomo-chan says (20:24):
uhh... there are little sparkly things there too
and I wasn't really thinking on airi -.- more like I was thinking on the pv Nott did
^^'
SacredCultivator says (20:24):
ooo
haha
Tomo-chan says (20:24):
I was shamelessly copying it
*_*
SacredCultivator says (20:25):
Well, I'm just saying that' how I felt about it is all.
Tomo-chan says (20:26):
uuuuhhhhhhhh *doesn't want to change that because she would have to do it from scratch and after that still have to change all those things by hand again she did now*
>< *is being lazy*
SacredCultivator says (20:26):
Then scratch that.
It's fine.
Tomo-chan says (20:27):
AH! I know why I used them *is trying to come up with something* there's a star in the credits ! HA!
SacredCultivator says (20:27):
Updated splits of Our Song up on FTP
Tomo-chan says (20:27):
okay. will reupload bravo shortly
SacredCultivator says (20:27):
Can't use that excuse!
Cause I got you to
There is also a Heart in the credits
Right above the Star
Tomo-chan says (20:28):
dang! you should probably add one of our silly conversations to one of the release comments sometime xD ppl will laugh
SacredCultivator says (20:29):
Show people that it isn't all up to the TS'er and that I actually have input on it?
haha, no thanks.
Tomo-chan says (20:29):
XD hehehehe
ooooh... well, I do consider your comments ... just not on all releases *cough*
sry~
*huggles*
SacredCultivator says (20:30):
Well you know it's primarily up to you whether you choose to use my input or not.
Tomo-chan says (20:30):
but I mostly do
SacredCultivator says (20:30):
But I'm just saying that at least my opinion is accounted and considered.
As I know most group just go... Here you go TS'er.
You're done? Okay I won't QC, it's a go
Tomo-chan says (20:31):
wel, that's what QC's are fore
and I totally screwed that line up again
*sigh* here I go ^^
SacredCultivator says (20:31):
You're tired, I'll let you slide.
haha
Tomo-chan says (20:31):
thanks. you're so considerate and kind to me
SacredCultivator says (20:32):
Well I'm not gonna go crazy on you at the risk of losing you.
Tomo-chan says (20:32):
haha
SacredCultivator says (20:32):
If I were a turd and had numerous TS'ers (active), maybe I'd risk that =P
JUST KIDDING, I still wouldn't
Tomo-chan says (20:32):
that sets it all into perspective, yes, sir~
^^

Lee Seung Gi - Words Hard To Say

2010-07-02T20:11:00.001+02:00

It's been a while since last we had a BoAjjang release, but here it is. It was done 2 weeks ago but finally released this week.
I'm glad it turned out as it did.
Thanks to everyone who helped out on this and its numerous QC versions.

This was released both on MU and MF. Links can be found at BoAjjang.com or the forum entry to the release.

See ya all soon with the next couple of releases!

Woah!

2010-06-29T11:43:00.000+02:00

Isoge! Isoge!!

I need to hurry up. My last exam for this summer starts shortly and I need to revise some last minute stuff I forgot yesterday.
When I was doing my daily good-morning-browsing through my internet bookmarks I saw that SC released another PV. I actually thought it would be out tomorrow! OH well~

Since I don't have a lot of time to make this post a longer one - here it is:

Berryz Koubou - RIVAL

Nearly done

2010-06-26T14:11:00.000+02:00

Time for a short update!

My second exam is over and it was pretty pleasant, which really means nothing more than that. I have no idea if I passed or not.
Nevermind then.

One other exam coming up next tuesday after that I'll be able to get some more stuff done.

It also seems like next tuesday there'll be 2 new releases.

Laters~

Cute Boyfriend

2010-06-22T19:49:00.001+02:00

Hey guys!

Just a short update inbetween revising for my upcoming exam on Friday.

H!F finally released another PV.

It actually was done last week, but SC decided to space the releases out a little so we'd get more exposure. That's fine with me.

Here's what we got for you:

Melon Kinenbi - Kawaii Kare

A beautiful song from the girls. We later found out that there was some kind of get-together scene at the end of the PV, which pleased us to no end. That's how we like to see our girls.
Unfortunately, the band disbanded in early May after nearly 11 years of making music together. We were glad that we were able to put out the other 3 PVs of the girls around that date in May and now here's the last one we had planned for that occation.
We're just a little late - sorry about that. But I was really busy with other stuff and then I didn't have the motivation to actually work on it. And now, since I'm back to study-mode again, my subber-motivation is back. HAHA! Yeah, that really happens every time I'm right in front of some stupid exam. Oh well. Let's just hope I passed this time!

Oh, before I forget it - here's a picture!

Another release is comming up next week so stay tuned!
A hint: There's a rival out there.........

First exam over...

2010-06-21T17:04:00.001+02:00

this was Round One out of Three!! I hope the others go well too

Awesome Day

2010-06-19T11:00:00.001+02:00

Have an awesome day!

And be at least as awesome as this cute little guy is!

(That's the stuffed pet my aunt had with her at the hospital yesterday.

His name is Hand-full, because he can easily sit in the palm of my hand)

New releases coming up!

Exams...

2010-06-15T15:36:00.000+02:00

Hi there.

I'm feeling stupid again.

Exams are coming up and what am I doing? Working on Karaoke, again. Every time right before my exam week comes up I tend to fall back to this work routine. It's also, in 99% of the time, the time when I get most of my stuff done. Funny how that works!

Anyway.

Seems like my HD is dead again. On the up side - I was able to actually save all the data that was stored on it. I'm so glad! I’m going to get some more stuff done and then… well, we decided to make another run on ICC10 tonight. Not sure if it’s really going to happen, but since on Wednesday they’re going to reset the IDs we’re going to just try it.

Catch you all later!

... finally!

2010-06-14T23:49:00.000+02:00

YAAAY! After another bout of wiping around the floor and generally having a lot of fun with those ICC Boss Monsters we finally made it past Lady Whisper's Horror Chamber and even got to do the Air Fight!

I don't exactly remember how often we wiped at Lady but I stopped counting at around 12 times.

I'm just happy that we got to have a great group, with great people in it, that said: "okay, we all died but then it was fun. Let's do it again!"

Thank you all for joining us. I hope we'll see you back at Boss Fight 4!!

It seems like our dream for a serious and steady ICC10 Boss Raid isn't just a dream anymore! WOHOOO!!!

First ICC10 Guild Raid

2010-06-12T21:41:00.000+02:00

Today was our very first WOW guild-intern Raid in ICC10. Unfortunately we didn't get very far as we had a very hard thunderstorm right before we wanted to kill the Lady in the first wing.

We were pretty inexperienced but had a few experienced ppl in the raid which helped us a lot. We didn't quite wipe as many times as I thought we would. YAAAY!

Here's a first picture right before we wiped the very first time at Marrowgar. It only took us 3 tries to get it done properly.

Computer Crisis

2010-06-12T21:32:00.001+02:00

Hello guys.

Thanks for all the (private) messages I got.
Unfortunately I couldn't save any of my files. The good thing is that my new external HD with 2TB Save just arrived. I'm quite happy about it. Will install it soon.

Hopefully I'll be back online and able to download again soon.

Greetings!

Addendum:
Woah - seems like my HD likes me again. I just saw that it works again. Woooot?!

Sad News

2010-06-09T09:31:00.000+02:00

I've got pretty sad news.

First, sorry for not being around. Since I came back home from my grandparents place my home system is going bogus on me, I couldn't really work on anything and it is awefully hot here (sidenote to self: you definitly should invest in air conditioning *sweat*).
Then, the worst of the worst things happend:

HARDWARE CRASH!!

My Download/RAW/Anime/Dearest-to-my-heart HD decided to tell me it's going to walkout on me. I'm pretty sure it's a rebellion. Really. Cause, right before I left everything was fine. I turned down the computers, unplugged them and even made sure there's no apparent electricity turned on around them. They should have been well rested when I came home afterr that week. I thought they would purr for me again, telling me: "Yes, welcome home! We're ready to work with you again."
Guess again.
Now I've lost around 500gig of the latest raws I had stored. All the anime stuff I still had wanted to keep and some other stuff.

My main HD is thinking about a strike. I think I can smell it - or maybe that's just the heat.

So, to come to a conclusion: Sorry, can't work on anything right now. Computer not working properly. Need new HD. *sigh*

Oh, and to make things worse..................... Exams coming up! HA!

2010-05-29T20:20:00.000+02:00

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

Last day in paradise

2010-05-29T15:30:00.000+02:00

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!

Addendum day 6

2010-05-27T22:11:00.009+02:00

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?

2010-05-27T11:15:00.000+02:00

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

2010-05-27T09:48:00.000+02:00

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.

day 4 - working, or not?

2010-05-25T22:34:00.019+02:00

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

2010-05-25T08:59:00.000+02:00

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!

day 2 - numb thumbs

2010-05-24T09:59:00.001+02:00

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.

day 1 - nothing eventful

2010-05-23T09:53:00.001+02:00

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!

tired

2010-05-22T21:30:00.000+02:00

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 @_@••~

Short Notice...

2010-05-19T10:30:00.000+02:00

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!!!

Finally reached LVL 60!!

2010-05-15T09:24:00.001+02:00

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

Kawaii kare

2010-05-13T19:40:00.001+02:00

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

Just so everyone knows!

Melon 3rd stage

2010-05-12T22:58:00.002+02:00

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!!!