Jyoshikousei16

Oct. 24th, 2009

On Vox: recording from my performance..

Tonight I was playing as an opener for a charity concert with my friend Yukari. I guess we did a good job.

We played the theme song from Princess Mononoke and The South Wind (an Irish aire) We had fun, and that is all that matters (despite messing up)

I did learn some things...

1) it is difficult to get a d-minor scale in a d-major whistle... those half holes get tricky

2) it is difficult to an irish whistle to... well anything

3) making mistakes (see lesson 1) doesn't matter as long as your have fun

4) The theme song to Princess Mononoke sounds awesome on the low irish whistle in D (major that is)

Afterwards was the dance... and guess who asked me to dance... the person I love the most in this world.

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Oct. 13th, 2009

On Vox: Baby RuRu-chan

I finished this pic in a matter of hours on friday. I am sorry I didn't link this picture here...

Anyway, RuRu-chan is another baby bunny of mine... She sleeps and plays on my bed with all my other bunnies..

and here is the picture i drew of her

For some odd reason, vox is eating the link back to deviant art.. so if you want to see a bigger version go here..

http://fav.me/d2b83nv

I hope you find her cute and love her as I do

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Oct. 10th, 2009

On Vox: Newest picture

Oh my!

First of all, sorry to marianne, i forgot to sign up for a conversation this week :( Maybe I can find some other time to get it in

Second of all, I did manage to finish my latest bunny picture :)

I think I am going to start to use my Deviant Art account more often. That way if people like my work, they can order prints/mugs/etc I don't get much of a profit (only pennies), but if anybody wants a print, it is a good way for them to get it. Besides, I would be happy if somebody wants my work...

Here is my latest bunny pictures.

I am glad I am getting better. I really work hard... and I LOVE doing it

Printemps 2 by ~jyoshikousei16 on deviant ART

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Oct. 8th, 2009

On Vox: Typhoons

There was a typhoon last night.. and I woke up at about 2:30. My little bunny Pyonko found her way between my arms... I heard only wind and rain, and there was some lightening. I asked my little Pyonko, 'ohhh are you scared?' and she said yes! So i pet her and put her on her blanket and told her everything was going to be OK.

Then we fell asleep again.

I woke up and listened to the radio to get info about the trains. Of course they were late... But the express line from my house to the baby office (11 stops, 63 min) was not running. So I had to leave earlier than normal because I knew the trains were going to be slow. I would have to transfer instead of take the normal route. Naturally I was in a rush! I left my phone on my bed and ran out the door! Well I get on the train and head towards Tokyo.

5 stations into the trip the train came to a stop... The announcer said that all the trains from Saitama to Tokyo are stopped because of the wind. To get to Tokyo, we have to cross a river. Apparently there was a lot of wind across the bridges and it was not safe to run the trains across.

Well after waiting for about 20 min, the announcement came that the train will be stopped until 12:00. Bad because I start work at 11. Worse because i left my phone at my house and I couldn't call BABY to let them know. So I went to the McDonalds (luckily they were still serving breakfast, that is the ONLY thing I can stomach there) because they had wireless... or so i thought. I wanted to connect to the net so I could email BABY...

It was then when i realized that i have the english webpage i have been building for them on my computer! and I have the phone number to the office on the webpage!! So I was able to use a pay phone and call in and tell them I would be late.

Needless to say, my normal 63 min commute turned out to be a 3 1/2 hour commute via 3 trains.

The way home was smoother, but crammed, because the express line was not running...

but I am home now, after a long long long day...

and Pyonko is happy

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Sep. 5th, 2009

Babybunny

Babybunny, originally uploaded by Peppyvalina.

My new character BABY bunny

I haven't done anything like this for a while...

She came to me when I was sleeping, which is an easy thing to do with all the bunnies I have on my bed! I hope you like her

oh, and sorry for the watermark. I need to protect my characters for now

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Sep. 4th, 2009

On Vox: Here comes the snow kitty...

So I went out today and splurged a bit... not on the Indian curry I ate... well, yes on the Indian curry... but on the new snow kitty.

That is right I upgraded my little macbook to snow leopard. It was only 3270 yen so I figured why not.

So I get home and back up my important files (baby website database!!! need I say more!!!) and then popped in the disk and off it went. Like promised set up was pretty easy. I just put in Shimotuma monogatari (Kamakazi girls for those of you in america) and cleaned my room... It started out saying it would take 45 min... then 1 hour 6 min... and I don't think the timer was right throughout the entire time.

I think maybe it was the scene where Momoko and Ichgo just got back from Daikanyama and Momoko asks Ichigo if she could do the embroidery for her is when the upgrade was done... so yeah, about an hour.

The first reboot took a bit longer than expected, but it was loading things for the first time (again)

Vola! it was done and it took changed my desktop back to the default. no big problem.

I guess I did run into some little funny things when I first got started. Safari took a bit longer than normal to load up at first. Then the top sites were slow as molasses. I had faith, I figured it was just the first time. Mail acted a bit funny too. And some other programs where not rendering windows properly.. I got a few blank screens.

But then I rebooted and everything worked as promised. It took only about 40 seconds to boot up, down from about 1min it took before. All the apple programs seem to work better now. Iphoto used to take a long time to open up... not it doesn't take to annoying long. Preview is much much faster, and is what it needed to be in the first place. As a designer, I want images to open up quickly and painlessly!

Now Safari is pretty stable. the top sites is lightning fast, and it runs my localhost development stuff much much faster!! That will make life at BABY a bit easier. My CS3 collection seems to run a touch smoother too.

And best of all, my 18 gigs free turned to 33 gigs free! I really gained a lot of space with this upgrade. Now I need to trim out my iphoto library and free up more space

It is too early to say for certain, but initially I am happy with the streamlining it offers...

AND I am VERY happy with the ability to see my illustrator files via the icon! that is nice little touch! Now I can remember what it was I did!

So is snow leopard worth it.... for $30 yes... it will really streamline your system. So it is a nice little performance boost for the price... it feels like my little macbook got another gig of ram :)

So next upgrade will be a new backup drive... then 2 more gigs of ram... maybe.

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Jul. 22nd, 2009

Writer's Block: Life of the Party

Do you know any party tricks that can impress a crowd? Or even just a little kid?

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simple

play the spoons : )

Jul. 19th, 2009

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well I still have a cold...

on friday, I spent most of the day in bed

On saturday, I couldn't do anything

Today, I completely lost my voice!!!

I hope I get over this bug soon,

but there is an advantage..I presume. One little silver lining to this cloud...
muhahahahahah

na..

even with the silver lining, which is great for me personally, this cold in the summer really does suck :P

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Jul. 17th, 2009

On Vox: sick...

kyaaaa

I am so not felling well right now. I have some sort of summer cold. I don't think I have a fever but I do feel drowsy, and I ache all over.

I had my interview with NHK yesterday, and I was sooooooooooooo not feeling too well. I woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat, and riding the train wasn't all that good. Luckily I managed to get a seat after 20 min...

But my head was very very woozy all day... I tried my best for the interview, but my japanese was sooooo off par. Oh well, as my friend Steve said, speaking foreign languages is like playing sports. you have good days and off days. Unfortunately yesterday was an off day ;p

BUT at least my hair was looking good, that was my biggest worry!

It was fun to interview I suppose :) as a media major, I spent most of my time BEHIND the camera, not in front!!!

anyway, I will let you know when the program airs...

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Jul. 10th, 2009

On Vox: me and my friend..

This is just me and my friend, Kaoru 'Captain Canada Kindness Kicker-of-Asses Concertina Carl' Nakajima playing some Irish tunes...

I hate how FLAT and DEAD my hair looks in the humidity...

and this was only the second time I had ever played the second tune (the Finnish Polka)

cscc-Polka Set -Britches Full of Stiches, Finnish Polka, Armagh Polka, Ballydesmond #3

We even have a name for our group... the Central Saitama Celtic Connection! I hope to have a concert soon!

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Jul. 9th, 2009

On Vox: soon to be on TV again..

So today at work we get a phone call from NHK, which is Japan's version of the BBC... They run a couple big TV networks and radio networks...

Anyway, T-sama, who is in command of the office takes the call and they were talking and I was really paying THAT much attention...

Until T-sama tells me that the person from NHK wanted to talk to ME. She she interviews me on the phone and we talk about the webpage and stuff...

and NEXT WEEK they are going to the office and bring the cameras and shoot me working or something like that.

AKA, I am going to be on TV as a lolita, AGAIN!

I think this is just the FUNNIEST thing ever!! I am laughing my head off at this irony!!

and I hope the office is cleaner when they come, (but I don't expect that!!)

I wonder how these sort of silly things always happen to me!

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Jul. 7th, 2009

On Vox: ME? win a popularity contest????

What is this???

ME?

little ol' ugly me with NO fashion sense whatsoever... winning a popularity contest

Considering I would receive hate letters in high school telling me to stay away from people I wanted to be friends with...

this is a first for me....

I am the Myasianfashon Girl of the Week

http://www.myasianfashion.com/dignews/display_article/id_62/MAF-Girl-Of-The-Week/

And mom, I mean that : )

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Jul. 1st, 2009

On Vox: this is what i needed

this is what i needed to read : )

I should pull things from this site for lesson material

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Happy

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I realized that there are 3 things I really want to do in life

1) make pretty pictures
2) make music
3) be happy

3 requires a lot

I can think of 2 things I need for it to happen : )

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Jun. 28th, 2009

On Vox: I had a good weekend

This weekend I went to Jim's celtic music camp in the mountains of Nagano just to get away from tokyo and everything!! This was my third camp, and I had improved so much since last time! I had so much fun because I was able to play along with most everything, even the songs I had never heard before! Jim even complimented me on my ability to pick up some pretty difficult patterns in some of the Cape Breton reels Kaoru was playing...

And I added 'kindness' to Kaoru's set of nicknames... My newly-declared brother, Daunt, gave him 'kicker-of-asses' as a nickname... (Daunt's wife said we look/act alike so we are not siblings... didn't know I had a brother from New Brunswick)

So, as of today he is

Captain-Canada Kindness kicker-of-asses Concertina Carl Kaoru

It will increase from here on out!

I had a great time playing my low whistle... I love it because it sounds more like an alto flute more than a normal whistle. Here are some jigs... I always messed up in the beginning because I forgot how the tune went! that happens quite often to the best of us...

Jigs

And Mari's wedding...again I am playing the low (not high) whistle

Mariswesedding

my polka set (again on the low whistle)

Polkaset

and Daunt was nice enough to sing us this tune...

Sailoraintasailor

and saving the BEST for last... Captain-Canada Kindness kicker-of-asses Concertina Carl Kaoru and I (on the high whistle) doing John Ryan's polka. This song was also preformed by the group Gaelic Storm in the third-class party scene in the movie Titanic.

Johnryanspolka

Needless to say, this sort of thing went on from 4pm to 2 am, and started again bright and early the next morning!

I am glad I had fun this weekend... and I am glad my whistling has improved so much..

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Jun. 27th, 2009

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Note:
Sleep is a good thing!

Celtic music camp this weekend!! Yeah!!

Ok, thats enough

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Jun. 26th, 2009

On Vox: i need sleep

I need sleep

and a lot of it

SO I am going to go to a camp this weekend...

and I decided NOT to bring my computer... I will just work if i do...

I have been working on this site every free second i have had from morning until 1-2 am

for 3-4 weeks straight....

SO THIS WEEKEND nothing

I am taking a break

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On Vox: Working at BABY X4

So just a quick update for those of you who are interested

I found something out today

Mrs. Isobe is AWESOME... like Awesome totally cool Awesome AWESOME

I showed her the site, and the CMS.. and yeah, it was really cool!

Then when I explained it to the Mr. I was so nervous I forgot Japanese....

I forgot to talk all about the shopping cart options!! doh!!

but anyway, he wants me to do myspace stuff. so I am doing myspace stuff tooo

anyway

i need sleeeep

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Jun. 24th, 2009

On Vox: kya----

Ok, I spent the last two days (8 hours a day, mostly in between my normal paid work) building a product database for BABY

I have it set up as easy as posable so that anybody can go in, enter the product information in japanese and english and have it display to each languages page

oddly enough, the english pages are working beautifully in safari, but not in Firefox nor any other browser...

whereas the japanese pages are working beautifully in every browser!! LOL funny thing is that the japanese pages are just a copy of the english pages... oh well, looks like i have a bug to fix.

Shopping cart

that is still a problem. I am going to recommend that BABY switch to either the same service metamaru is using, OR build one myself...

bleh, i am not a coder, i am a graphic designer!

but i guess i can pick up a new skill... how hard can php be?

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Jun. 22nd, 2009

On Vox: I did it!!

I did it!! I got the BABY page working in the CMS system I think would be perfect for BABY

It is fully bi-lingual too! Japanese pages/English pages... all with one database

Well, the pages are WORKING, and there are a few little bugs to work out...

Now I can EASILY add 500 entries to the product database, and get it all working!!

We also have to figure out what to do with the shopping cart... and I have to convince Isobe to spend the money to but the CMS system. I have convinced K-san this is what we need... and S-san will totally be on my side once I show her how EASY it is for me to get these pages set up and how easy it is to manage.

The fact is, any online store now should be running a CMS system to manage their system. Doing everything with just Dreamweaver (as baby has been doing)

I think it is incredibly geeky that have a bilingual store sitting on my computer! All we need to do is hook up a shopping cart, add the images and it could work

Oh boy, am I going to have fun THIS week

Anyway, please wish me luck on thursday. If we can win Isobe over on this CMS system, then we can have an English version of the BABY store done in a few weeks time!

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