an advice (youtube)

(I heard that the snowstorm in the US is quite bad.)

When uploading videos (especially entire episodes), try not to use keywords that the company that produced it or YouTube/Google/DCMA would most likely to use when they try to find videos that violates the usage of the video.
To make it less likely for them to find it, do not use languages that uses Latin based characters (example: English, Spanish, French, etc...) as they are most likely to search in that language and names used within Latin based languages are smillar. (However, if you must, try using full-with characters （ｌｉｋｅ　ｔｈｉｓ） instead) Since YouTube, Google and many other companies is based in the USA, their employees are most likely not to understand languages other than English (and Spanish). So try typing the keywords, title of video and the description in languages like 中文, Русский, हिन्दी, العربية, 한국어, ไทย, 日本語 and so on.

updates 2 dec

This blog:
Changed header image, removed the names of my friend's blog, updated "Anime I'm currently watching
私が最近見たアニメ" section, converted images in the "Uploaded Images" section to the thumbnail version so the blog loads much faster.

The other 2 blogs:
Added Tagboard (which is the same as the one you see here)
Added my current mood
Changed the default colour scheme and increased font size for the jap ver (except for the tagboard, which is independent)

letting you know

In case you are not aware, posts not relating to Anime can be found here. While posts in Japanese language (and some translations of the earlier mentioned blog and this blog) can be found here. (5 Dec 2006 edit: URL changed from fnfd-jap to asuna888) (8 Sep 2008 edit: URL for the english version changed from fnfd to asuna888-en)

I'm not feeling well right now, probably because I have been cleaning my room extensively (update)

I also plan to change the header image and converting the images on the bottom left of the page into thumbnails as the current ones are actually full size images that are resized and need to save bandwidth so that these images load faster (and "save our (imageshack) bandwidth").

anime i'm watching

Here are the screenshots from some of the anime i am watching currently of the most recent episode:


ネギま！？ Episode 5:

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ときめきメモリアルＯｎｌｙ　Ｌｏｖｅ Episode 7:

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Ｎ・Ｈ・Ｋにようこそ！ Episode 19:


(I plan to remove some images or replacing them with a thumbnail version since it takes such a long time to load)

vector images

Recently, I have created another vector trace and it toke me about 12 hours to do it. This image is from the "ときめきメモリアル Only Love" opening single (soundtrack of the music you hear at the opening of the show).

Here's the original image (click on image to view at its original size):




And here's the vectorized image (click on image to view it at 4311 x 4800):



You may have noticed that I did not include the boys or the background. The reason is that the background is too detailed and if I included the boys, it would appear to be more crowded and make the boys appear out of place, not mentioning that the original image was very pixelated.

Earlier, I had posted another vector image here of "ひぐらしのなく頃に" (see post dated 15 August 2006 for more info):

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I just felt like posting this:
If you were here a few days ago, you may have notice that I had hidden all of my real information in all languages in white, the background colour of the section there as I have put links to this blog from various sites where huge amount of people whom I don't know (unlike friendster, which is mostly my close friends), may come here.




.　　　　　　　　　 　 -‐ '´￣￣｀ヽ､
.　　 　 　 　 　 　 ／　／" ｀ヽ ヽ　　＼
.　　　　　　　　　//, '/　　　　 ヽﾊ 　､　ヽ
.　　　　　　　　 〃 {_{ノ　　　 ｀ヽﾘ| ｌ │ i|
. 　　　　　　　　 ﾚ!小ｌ●　　　 ● 从　|、i|　nyoroーn
.　　　　　　　 　 ヽ|l⊃　､_,､_,　⊂⊃　|ﾉ│ 　　
.　 　 　 　 /⌒ヽ__|ﾍ　　 ゝ._）　 　j /⌒i ! 　　　　
.　　　　　　＼ /:::::|　l＞,､ __,　イァ/　 /│
.　　　　　 　 /:::::/|　|　ヾ:::|三/::{ﾍ､__∧ |
.　　　　　　　｀ヽ< |　|　　ヾ∨:::/ヾ:::彡'　|


The above is best viewed in ＭＳ Ｐゴシック (MS P Gothic).

By the way, In my english profile, I made most of the text in the last paragraph (below my info) in white and purposely make it in such a way that you can only see these words: gender, female, location, Japan. (The image and the SHIFT_JIS drawing are just a distraction away from the hidden message.)

jap and chinese text readability

In order to maintain readability for chinese and japanese text, normal text for those languages will be set at 3px while headers and parts that I would normally bold if it were in english, will be set at 4px. I recommend using the Arial Unicode MS font/typeface with any sub-pixel rendering (eg. ClearType) for even better readability.

I have also added profiles in japanese and chinese since I can easily refer to here instead of my wikipedia userpage in those languages. The part of the translated profile i'm not so sure about is the chinese transliteration of my name (do the characters for it have any meaning? If so, is it bad?), and the japanese translation of the name of my secondary school (Leave it as it is (ヒトデのカトリック教の中学(高校)), transliterate the english name (ハイーシングー・カトリクー学校) or use the same set of hanzi/kanji characters used in the chinese name (海星天主教中学)?)

edit (17 hours after the above was posted): I think i'll use the chinese name.

lol

I found this youtube video posted at mrbrown.com. It's about the funny comments written for the feedback of an NTU lecturer. (eg. "If we (the students) had a moustage like yours, we can become as smart as you.")

New content

Now I have changed the image at the header and re-added text that was on the header image before the previous one beneath the current image.

I have now added some information on myself, such as the names I used on the internet. Among those names, fnfd and the1iam are the most frequently used names.

I had come across my friends' blog and saw that they link to mine (this blog) and my other friends (and more links to my friend's blog on their blog) until what I had gathered on what you see in the links section. The link is labled as follows: (name of blog, even if it is the default name or contains special characters) (full/known name of that person)

By the way, I had added about 400+ images on my Windows Live blog that I had taken from April to September 2006. I will upload more next month as i had already reached the maximum upload bandwidth for the month. Most likely images taken this month (October 2006) and the next.

Youtube account

On 5 Oct 2006 at about 4am (GMT +8), my youtube account (fnfd) was suspended for "copyright violation". The videos that cause me to received warnings are 3 Inuyasha endings (warning received in July 12 by Yomiuri Telecasting Corp.), magical hamburger (Oct 3 by Fuji Television Network, Inc.), and one piece opening (earlier today by TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD.).

By the way, I have already create an another one (the1iam) shortly after receiving warnings for the inuyasha videos as I know that the account that received warnings would eventually be suspended.

P.S. Videos that were in that account will not be re-uploaded except for the pokemon dp ending which i had improved the audio (it was too soft).

Edit (6 Oct): I have created a new account. It is sobadeniyoukoso. (I can't think of a better name at that time) It is form the words そばで (be with) and ようこそ (welcome). So the name literally means "Welcome to being with" (the excite.co.jp translator translates it as "it is in".)