By The Melody from the Coffee Prince soundtrack. A good one. I still need to get more songs. Maybe I'll get some later. This reminds me, I should probably watch Coffee Prince at some point. Even if it's a Korean drama. It looks good. Since I already posted this song, I'm not going to again.
Today was much warmer. It's perfect weather for Summer! 77 degrees and sunny with a light breeze. What could be better?I started filling out a character description for 1 of the new ones. I got stuck on how to describe his hair. I have a perfect image in my head, but it's hard to put down. I wanted to type more of chapter 11, but ran out of time. I also just realized I've got only 4 female characters. In the future, I probably should make more, to even it out a bit.
Played some more Irish tunes. Was much better this time. I felt more into it too. I worked on a sentence from the grill's manual. Didn't get far, because my computer decided it needed updates.
I made onigiri again. This time using craisins (or dried cranberries), little orange sweet peppers, and some of the 5-bean salad as fillings. They were surprisingly good! Also, the orange peppers looked really colorful inside. (They're a very bright orange.) Kind of a nice visual thing while eating.Had a small spinach salad with it. It's really fun to experiment. The new rice we got tastes really good, and holds together nicely. That's good because it's a 5-pound bag. I'll have to really like it. I'm also looking for more good online Japanese TV sites. Yomiuri seems slow lately, so it might be good to find another for the time being. Might get a wider scope of the culture, too.
I started watching Yumeiro Patissiere yesterday. The title literally means Dream-Colored Pastry Chef. Kind of odd, but interesting. The food is awesomely drawn! Looks almost like the real thing. I might get hungry after each episode. The main character's voice is really annoying. That's the only part I don't like. It's so high-pitched. More so than most anime girls. It's a lot better when she's not so excited about things. Her name's Ichigo, and she loves sweets. She used to be overshadowed by her younger sister, who's a very talented pianist. She has a talent for being able to immediately tell what ingredients are used in different sweets, and who made the ingredients with a single taste. After trying a sweet from Henri Lucas, and describing it, he tells her she should enroll in St. Marie Academy. The main campus is in Paris, but there's a boarding school branch in Japan. (2 hours away from where she lives. ) She agrees to it, and enrolls. Through this she hopes to become a great Patissiere, like her grandmother was. She eats a buttload of sweets. I'm usually not a fan of the shoujo style, but it doesn't look too bad that way either. It's really funny, and cute.
In O-Parts Hunter, the Mekisis changes into something really weird, almost scary. Just when Ruby and Amidaba were about to be killed by Zenom OPTs, Kirin comes in and saves them. Kirin isn't an OPT, but he seems to be the only 'normal' man that can fight them. He knew Ruby's father. He's awesome at fighting them too! After Jio tells the leader of the Resistance that he's trying to find Ruby, he tells him to go search for her. He can't say it in front of her, but he says, "But she is a precious friend to me!" She's the only reason why he's still in that city. Jio starts to fight Wise who's controlling Mekisis. (He's in the pic above. Creepy looking guy.) Wise is going crazy with power. He thinks of the citizens and Jio as toys. The leader finally makes the broadcast exposing how the government and Zenom have been working together. He tells everyone to fight alongside Jio. The city uses the steam to blind Wise, and the beam from Mekisis is useless in it. Kind of a cool fight.
In Fairy Tail, Deliora's in the process of being resurrected. Natsu and Zalty fight. Zalty can control time with Time Ark magic. He wants to control Deliora and make it his. It seems Zalty is defeated at one point. Erza had tried to stop the ceremony so that Deliora wouldn't fully resurrect, but she's too late. It's fully resurrected finally. Gray, again, was about to use Iced Shell. Which would kill him in the process. Natsu gets in the way and tells him he doesn't want him to die, that's why stopped him the first time. Natsu tries to fight it, but as soon as he lands a punch, it crumbles. It was already dead. Ul as the ice had slowly killed it over 10 years. After realizing what she did, brought Gray and Lyon together. They're not through with the mission, they still have to turn the villagers back. The Moon Drip itself might not have caused it. Later, they realize Zalty is behind it. Just then, he turns Erza into a demon. Only she looks a lot better than the villagers. She plans to destroy the moon! Saying it will be easy.
I played Effing Worms. As a huge worm, you try to eat as many things as you can. That's humans, dogs, cows, airplanes, etc. Very funny and fun to play. You can die from being hit too many times by missiles and guns.
I decided to see how Zero would look in the meme. I think I might use him. In the story, he's got a lot of emotion. Might be the most emotional? So, it should be fun with him. The only problem is his hair. It's supposed to be like a spiky mess. But, I want it to be similar for each square. I can do some memes that involve more characters and aren't about emotes after this.
Youtube: An awesome vid about the Bad Friends Trio from Hetalia. Prussia, Spain, and France. Song fits them remarkably well:
By The Melody. At first I wasn't sure what to make of this one. But, it's grown a lot on me. And, now I love it! It's also from the Coffee Prince OST. Which is a Korean drama. This is the opening theme. I've looked at some info on the show, and it looks interesting enough to watch. Even though, I'm mostly interested in J-drama for obvious reasons.
Well, I went to services again! Wahoo! It's becoming a habit again. (I used to go every time we had services, years ago.) This time our cantor led it. She told us about what she learned at a conference for Jewish musicians. She met some really famous people, sang all day long everyday, and came up with some new ideas for our congregation. New songs, saying the Birkat Hamazon more often (prayers after we eat, to give thanks), getting the kids more involved through teaching songs at the school, and more. I like Birkat Hamazon, so that would be really nice. I'm surprised the kids at the school haven't learned very many songs. We had them drilled into our heads when I was in Sunday school. But, then again, I've heard the school's been pretty messed up lately. It was a pretty nice service. There was barely a minyan. In order to have a full Torah service, we have to have at least 10 Jews show up. We can't count the non-Jews who come every once in a while. We can count the Torah itself as one Jew, if it gets close. Some communities object to that though. I find it kind of funny, but a nice fail safe.
It was also my dad's b-day. In case you didn't know, he's transgendered. (And will be living as a woman full-time soon. It's a bit complicated.) So, we got him a vanity mirror. Then, we went out shopping. Went to Old Navy for the first time. I heard their clothes were good, and they looked nice in their ads. The clothes were ok, but the decor... It looked like someone puked up bright colors everywhere.I felt like I was going to throw up. It was so intense and the music was blaring, I had to get out of there pretty quickly. Next, we went to Sears. I started feeling a lot better there, seeing the more 'subdued' colors. Nice break.
Next, we went to Hakata. Which is an awesome Japanese restaurant! I think this one and Maneki's are the only ones I like in this area. The others are just horrible. We ordered a sushi sampler for an appetizer, like we sometimes do. I only like the tekka (tuna) and kappa (cucumber) ones in their sampler. With every dinner, you get pickled bean sprouts and miso soup. I love their bean sprouts! Their miso soup isn't the best though. Very bland. Tastes like there isn't any dashi, and very little actual miso. I got my fave, the chicken teridon. Chicken teriyaki rice bowl. So good! I love their rice too! Oh, and I used chopsticks for the first time on the chicken. I can't believe I actual got the hang of it finally! When I was much younger I just hated the idea of chopsticks. Plus, I wasn't very patient. So, it was nice to finally get it. Now, I have to practice with more things. For dessert, I had fried icecream Japanese style. It's vanilla icecream enveloped by cake, and that's fried in tempura batter. It's good stuff! I also like it Mexican style, which is slightly different. I love how you can watch the head chef as he works. That's always fun. He's not flashy about it, but it's nice to see.
After that, we went to Joanne's. I got a wooden male mannequin or model for drawing. It will help me see the proportions in 3D. I can bend him in different directions to see what certain poses look like too. I thought he was way too twisted at first, and that there might be something wrong with it. But, after getting used to it and working with it, it was fine. The only thing I don't think it can do is have the legs wide apart. So, if I want my character standing with his legs wide apart, I'll have to figure that on my own. I really think it's a good tool though. I also got a cool pencil sharpener for my colored pencils. I tested it already, and it works great.
We also saw the Lovely Bones. Very trippy, but a good movie. I liked the artistic elements in the 'inbetween' world. Really cool looking.The idea was interesting too. Had a pretty good ending also. I like movies where the murderer gets his comeuppance. They made him extremely creepy, too.
Today, I watched part of NHK's Gymnastic's Cup. It was amazing! Mom went to the annual meeting for our congregation. People want things run a bit differently. After hearing a little about it through her, I'm thinking maybe I should be even more active. Maybe even try to plan things. I don't think I can be on the board, since I'm not a paying member, but I could do other things. I don't know, we'll see. We also went to Joanne's and picked up the stuff I talked about before. We didn't have the coupons yesterday, so we had them hold everything and came back today.
Youtube: Hilarious Japanese ad:
A funny Chinese Mentos ad:
A weird, and oddly funny game from China:
Poor corn cobs:
The Eastern European Funk music video. This was the song entry from Lithuania by InCulto for Eurovision this year. I'm starting to really like it. Maybe more than the song that won the contest from Germany.