After a month of my laptop being in computer rehab, Alienware has finally decided that it had recovered enough to be allowed to come back home. I hope that this time, it will have recovered for good; rehab takes such a long time.

I’ve finally started catching up on some anime. This may come as a surprise, but I never actually finished Honey and Clover II until now. Yea, I know, so sad. I was kind of dissatisfied with the ending, but mainly cuz what I wanted to happen didn’t happen. I’m sure this happens to a lot of drama fans, so it’s ok.

Speaking of that, I found the PV for the opening song while looking for an mp3. The song’s stuck in my head now -_-;;. I must say, this is one really weird video. You can see it here. I assume all of you have divX codecs installed.

I also finally started watching Spring 2007 anime. I’m having trouble finding out which ones I should watch though. I’ve watched 7 episodes of Gurren Lagann and the first of Gigantic Formula, but that’s about it. I’m open to any recommendations that you guys have. I’m think Idolm@ster might be a bit cool.

And for the last thing in this post, DiscountAnimeDVD is having a 30% off Tokyopop sale. I already have 14 items, most of the Tokyopop titles, lined up on my cart. I’m ready to order once the 14th volume of Negima! hits on the 29th (or doesn’t hit and gets an ugly “arrival delayed” message on the page).

And I totally forgot about it. The actually birthday was on the 22nd of the last month, but now is better than ever. Since then, this site has seen about 26K hits and 48K page views. Honestly, I’m not quite sure about those numbers. I think the data is brought up by a lot of people coming here from Google Images or something, but no matter.

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And by love song, I mean a very well rehearsed fan-made lightsaber duel, so I’m not talking about Saikano. I mean, what can be more romantic than a sword duel?

Apparently, there’s this lightsaber duel video that became an Interweb phenomenon called Ryan vs. Dorkman. I never saw it, but they seemed to have just released the sequel to that video. You can watch the video down below, or you can watch the superior divx version here.

Another folding post from me. Don’t worry, this will probably be the last one from me for a while. With the release of the PS3 and SMP clients for Folding at Home, my interest in FAH has been rekindled (again.) I decided to make my own team (60521.) Feel free to join if you’re aren’t already part of a team (I’ll assume you all have been folding ) Btw, the link to the main folding page is on the right sidebar.

You can probably tell why by looking at this page. Won’t be able to fix this until after my exams this week…

MIT has this thing called IAP. It’s basically a month long vacation from schoolwork. I decided to do two things with my break, 6.270 (an autonomous robot competition) and watching Chinese soaps. My favorite one was Return of the Condor Heroes.

If you downloaded the archive in the last post, you can probably tell that you won’t be able to open it. I was dumb and changed something that I shouldn’t have. To open the file, you have to change the extension to .7z first. Sorry I’m uploading a new version now.

EDIT: New file uploaded, you can either dl it here or go to the previous post.

Hyperlink fixed (>.<)

I think this is for a Japanese kids show…. I guess that’s why it’s so cute sounding. Please enjoy.

And the worst part is that this crazy sounding headline is actually true. BBC wrote an article on this on Wednesday.

That is what some polite Japanese tourists suffer when they discover that Parisians can be rude or the city does not meet their expectations. The experience can apparently be too stressful for some and they suffer a psychiatric breakdown.
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This year alone, the Japanese embassy in Paris has had to repatriate four people with a doctor or nurse on board the plane to help them get over the shock.
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On average, up to 12 Japanese tourists a year fall victim to it, mainly women in their 30s with high expectations of what may be their first trip abroad. The Japanese embassy has a 24-hour hotline for those suffering from severe culture shock, and can help find hospital treatment for anyone in need.

Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas!!!

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