Thailand Summer 2009 part 1

Looks like it’s gonna be a photoblog, this time.

Besides the apple, you have a Thai species of Banana, Longans (brown), and red rose apples… *Update* There’s a dragonfruit tucked in there, can you find the dragonfruit?

This cloud won’t be affecting weather patterns anytime soon. A rarer site during the rainy season

We’re now seeing some street food in malls in Thailand, this was taken in Chaengwattana’s new “central” shopping complex

One of the sweeter and more expensive breeds of durian. The texture and scent is pretty much the same to me. XP

Not sure which species of bird this was, but it was posing for me to take a snapshot of it at a certain park. Not sure what species this is, I may look it up later.

Street Vendor food. The aroma must’ve been amazing. The extra heat probably didn’t help.

Yup, that’s right kids, it’s another yentafo picture. Except the lighting wasn’t the best, unfortunately. This is probably one of the best vendors of yen ta fo that I’ve tried.

Lunch with relatives at a restaurant in chaengwattana’s central shopping complex. Restaurant called “Zen”

Brite-View CinemaCube Media Player and bittorrent downloader.

http://www.amazon.com/brite-View-CinemaCube-BitTorrent-downloader-BV-5003/dp/B002729ZU0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AN7JK0HCRPZCT&s=generic&qid=1245878216&sr=1-1

• This looks to be the silver bullet for anime downloaders.
• It has a built-in BT client
• Hooks up to 2 USB devices (External HDs/USB Flash Drives)
• Built-in MKV support
• streaming from any computer in the network.
• Up to 720p HDMI output
• ~10 watts power draw while torrenting

But

• No Wifi
• Not clear on whether it has subtitle support (I think it has support, but maybe not for .ass subs, maybe even .srt subs on .mkv, it’s just my bet)

And it’s on sale right now, for $85 down from 110. (Enter code BVCINEMA at checkout) Free shipping with super saver.

I was just finishing up Towards the Terra, and it’s last episode glory and…

Bam, SAT scores arrived. So I went from a particular hope for mankind sort of euphoria, towards a more stressful sense of despair. I didn’t do too badly, scored only around 1800, a bit higher, only enough to complete fairly in the University of Washington, of which I am happy about.

As for Towards the Terra, I highly recommend buying the DVD’s (or borrow them from me if ya want), they’re 20 dollars a part from third-party resellers down at Amazon.com. 2 DVDs (8 eps) a part, and 3 parts, totaling to 24 episodes, in the end I was tricked into buying what’s basically a box-set anyways. 2.0 Stereo Japanese only with Subtitles and no English dubs. Is it worth buying? I’ll leave that up for you to decide, but it’s probably one of the best anime series they had in the last few years, even if it’s a remake from something from the 90s.

My pet bird just died.

His name was Neophilia, and he a long time inhabitant of his bird cage. It’s been handed down once already. However, I do not feel like I can stomach a third death. I’m calling bird rearing quits.

Neophilia was a Blue Parakeet nicknamed “Neo”
I’ll upload an image as soon as I can get on my dad’s laptop for where all the family photos are.

Not Exactly sure where I went wrong though. But I can take some guesses.
1. Expensive bird food everywhere, fred meyer had a sale on one that was already cheap but it was all sold out. So didn’t buy.
2. Fed bird pellet food that was about as old as he was, but he couldn’t eat alot of it in one sitting.
3. Hadn’t cleaned cage for around three weeks.

Errg, I feel so bad. Anyways, I was glad that I came home in time to witness his seemingly insensitive to pain death, since he looked pretty much numb. But I also cringe at the fact that last night, I could’ve saved him when he acted all Hikkikomori (huddled up to the corner of the cage and just sate there).

Tetsuwan Birdy Decode D err 02?: Back in Action

Sci-fi phaser/disruptor rifle packs an unusually violent punch.

I don’t really remember Birdy being that splatter, but the first episode of the new season is. Unlike some anime’s second seasons, it retains much of the feel from the first season, probably due to the fact that they didn’t put it off for a year or so before continuing on. So it’s both fresh in our minds as well as the scriptwriter’s.

Migration Planned

I’m planning on setting up a new blog at blog.traversiancomlog.com, trying to be pro and design my own layout on CSS at the very same time, but unfortunately, I don’t know much PHP, so it’ll be a first time for everything.

No Longer certain if Del Rey manga is to Publish .Rakkyo

http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/news/20071130mog00m200083000c.html

This page, according to the wiki, is supposed to state that Del Rey Manga has licensed rakkyo to be published in America, however, it can no longer be accessed. Also, I couldn’t confirm the plans on their official website, although Maid Machinegun looks pretty interesting…