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Another drawing was done this afternoon~
Inspired by Hanako Oku's song "Yuudachi (which means 'evening shower')".

I loved this song long time ago. Yet I suddenly got inspired by it a few days ago.
And until now, I don't know why... xD

Based on that song, the main element of what I was going to draw should contain the sea and sunset. Although the song title is "evening shower", I still prefer sunset. Because in the lyrics, most things are related to sunset not the rain. In my opinion, this song is depicting the scene after the evening shower~

At the same time, I was going to choose some songs for my characters from my (pending) story. I've done a few, but it's not easy to choose, especially when you want to do it on purpose. In most of times, I just follow my sense. This time, my sense told me, this song is good for one of them.
Yuka. A half-heroine. No any reason, I wanted to use this song as her image song... ^^; maybe I will talk about more in future, but right now, I have nothing to say...

Then I began to draw. Really, I'm not good at drawing in this aspect (downward). The right arm looks weird, but I don't know how to change it – I wish I had some large mirrors around my room so I could see myself as the model. xD
Anyway, I will improve myself, but this time, the drawing doesn't look that good. ^^; The rest of the working was not hard – coloring, shadowing, and merging. While looking for a good background, I've tried at least 6 candidate pictures. Each one looked good but none of them was superb until I tried the last one. Then, I tilted it, ohhh, the tilted version looks so nice! Better than normal horizontal version, I think~

For the part of lyrics – it's my habit to insert the lyrics of the song that at first inspired me. I typed it first, but there was no good Japanese font on my computer. Eventually, I decided to write it by hand – I did want a handwriting-like font but I didn't have one. Then that's the one you see now. The text was written by me. :P
Moreover, this was my first time to try shadowing my work by using a way larger character (make sense? xD). Though it looks fine for me, does it look strange for you? :3

My next drawing should be targeting on "Hontou no Oto / The Real Sound" the song by KOKIA. I've got my vague idea two weeks ago since the album's release, but I haven't decided how to draw it. Hope I can figure it out soon~

I was going to write this post two weeks ago, but, in last week, I was bus making my new blog template, and in this week, I was busy making a powerpoint presentation for lab meeting... :down: However, now I'm back and wanna talk about all new music since my last post.

This album is very excellent, though I'm not a big fan of her non-doujin songs. I didn't like her "best collections", but those songs, in this album, sound so good! The most important difference between this recording and the original versions, may be the using of acoustic instruments. I'm bored with most of electronic instruments in current music; songs in this album can give you a different feeling. I do think Haruka's voice matches better with this kind of instruments.

I finally found this album in last week! :excited: It has two discs; the first one is a collection of Ancient Colours Infinity series, and the second one is a collection of other songs by bermei.inazawa. About the first one, I've talked a lot before; however, here, songs are made by another arrangement. They sound similar but they do have another fresh feeling to the listeners. About the second one, I only know the ones from Higurashi. So most of them are very new to me. I especially like the song by Annabel, btw~~ xD

Wow, KOKIA never mentioned this single in her blog (as far as I know)! And I was very surprised to see KOKIA's name being together with Saiyuuki. It's so hard to link these two names, no? :P
About the music, they're a bit different to KOKIA's typical style (in the first song). To be honest, I didn't see anything impressing in this single... (plus it has my "favorite" erhu... →_→) but I love Ura Kiyohide's arrangement (especially in the second song). It's a good relax to listen to this single.

I JUST RECEIVED MY COPY OF THIS ALBUM YESTERDAY!!! I'M SO HAPPY NOW~~~ :happy3:
I've already looped this album since for not less than 15 times within a few days. This album is just EXCELLENT! Not only that all songs are new, KOKIA also did a wonder job. Like what she said before, this album is like the sky, linking everyone together via the music.
Open the booklet, I smiled. Every page has a photo of the sky. Different sky, in red, in blue, with clouds, with sunlight, serene, or vivid. Her songs are the same, with emotion, power, warmth, gentleness, or love. Ohhh, I must write something for this album later. My favorite of this album should be "本当の音 (the real sound)". It touched me again~ T T/~~
I also ordered the DVD "moment no moment" and a book about her stage life (secrets[?]). Gosh, and thus I had to pay for the middleman's fee as well. Probably I won't buy any other CDs in the rest of this year, but... who knows what happens if KOKIA releases something again? XDD

New season is good. Now, the new waiting albums/singles are from Akiko Shikata, Noriko Mitose, and eufonius. Also, in the end of June, GARNET CROW is going to release a single.
It was raining in last week. Looking at the outside rainy view, listening to either the gentle KOKIA or the mysterious bermei.inazawa, I was very satisfied. :full:
Being surrounded by my favorite music, is such a piece of huge happiness~

I was planning to write this post yesterday, but I was too lazy tired to write anything. Too many things are to be written, but here in this post, I'll only write about the daily life of this week.

My boss said in last week's lab meeting: "and that will be a busy day, hope we can survive."
Actually, there was a lab from neighbour city would visit us on Monday, and in the afternoon, from my and their labs, two members would give a talk on a semi-remotely connected seminar. We were also going to have lunch together before the seminar, which was at 2. Yet, they may arrive at noon because that day was also a day to vote. Moreover, on Monday, one post-doc and two summer students were coming to my lab (my boss emailed me and wanted me to go to lab at 9, orz). So, new comers' arriving, a lab's visiting, seminar... who can't say that's not a busy day?

When the day came, everything was just like usual. It was not too bad, because I was not that late when I arrived at my lab (20 past 9 -_-). Nothing trouble happened on introducing the lab to our new people. My boss first had a long talk to the post-doc, then near noon, he wanted to talk to the new summer students. But how come he also wanted me to be there?! Though my current project is sorta involved in their project, is it necessary to let me listen to my boss's "basic biology lecture" that was begin from "what DNA is"? OTL

Anyway, just 10 minutes after his talk, the neighbour city lab came. So we were heading to the restaurant. Then, it was near 12 already. On the way, one of my lab members mentioned about the two summer students. "The two computer kids are really look like computer kids."
"Why look like?" I asked curiously.
"Well, as I know, all summer computer students were quiet. Like..." then he listed all summers he knew, and said how quiet they were.
At that point, he was right. The two summers were really quiet. That quietness while staying with them was not the same as staying in the room alone; you know someone else is here, but it's even quieter than only you being there. xDD

The seminar... like the presenter said, was cursed. In fact, she was supposed to talk in March, but the talk was delayed to this Monday, and was delayed again. Since this is a semi-remotely connected seminar, speakers from remote sites may not present due to this or that technical issues. Before the talk, our speaker tested the connection and it was fine. But when it was her turn to talk, everything was not working, and even the technician didn't know why. Firstly, we just wanted to fix this problem and let other speakers to talk ahead. Yet until the last one finished his talk, the problem was still here.
"Are you frustrated for being coming with us?" they asked the other speaker, who was coming from the neighbour city and was going to present on that seminar as well.
"Well, a little bit, but I did enjoy the lunch."
"However, we can present to each other."
Their boss' suggestion was the beginning of another nightmare... xDD;;

After our talking-to-each-other, it was 15 past 5... gosh, I was so sleepy (because I was trying to come to lab at 9 this morning... :P). According to my boss' plan, we wanted to go with everyone to a bar. Oh, no, I don't want that! You guys' busy day ended, but not mine! I was supposed to give a lab meeting to talk about a scientific paper, and I haven't looked at that! Go home, go home. Before I thought up a good excuse, another one in my lab already said he was going home. Good, at least I'm not the only one who don't want to go. xD

I don't know how everything went later. The busy Monday ended, yet it's not that terrible as what I thought. Hope in this month, everything can go well too.

Since last Thursday, there was a terrible odor lingering in biological science building. At first, I didn't know what that was and thought someone broken a bottle with some terribly smelt chemical. But at noon, I heard from others, that they found a dead rabbit in a vent of this building and this was the resource of the bad smell. Oh, how come a rabbit can go into the vent? Stupid rabbit, which was the comment from my lab. My boss, who is not a humor person, also said "horrible rabbit" during that day's lab meeting.

Although my boss isn't that humor, his thought was sometimes very funny. "At first, I even thought that was ... cheese." he said. ￢_￢
If so, how expensive cheese that would be! xDD