音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

After two weeks of my crazy looping of KOKIA songs (around 1500 plays within one week when I'm online), I turned to loop Noriko Mitose again. Maybe that was by chance, this morning, I read in her blog, that she is going to release a new album,
"Cotton Vol. 2"
!!!
Finally, Noriko, I can enjoy your new works! What a long time since your last release... T_T

↑click and check~ no any details there yet though. So let's looking forward it!

Her first "Cotton" was beautiful, and that was also my first album of hers – even though I knew her earlier that "Cotton", "Cotton" made Noriko becoming one of my favorite singer.

I believe this time, it will be another beautiful work. It must be, Noriko's voice is so pretty anyway~

Talk about music, KOKIA is going to make her on-stage album "moment" on March 4-6th. There is no more information about it, at least she only mentioned she was working on new songs for that from her blog. She also said she's going to make a photobook for titti. Wahhh, what a photobook it will be! I'm really curious! xD

Okay, I know actually it's not the time for me to write a blog post. I haven't prepared for tomorrow's TA, orz... and I have a paper to read for the lab meeting on Thursday... so let me end here. I'll write something new soon again (maybe).

I was hiding from my gtalk for all weekdays during this week, because I needed concentration – for my current project, which is to find out tetraloop interactions as much as possible.

The basic procedure of my project is simple: go through the database, filter all possible RNA tertiary structures, and look for tetraloop interactions (don't ask me what it is, ask wikipedia for it!). For small RNA molecules, it's very easy to say if the tertiary structure contains such a interaction. But, the hardest part is those large RNA molecules. The larger it is, the harder to check the structure – especially the software I use, which is DeepView, does not work perfectly with RNA structures.

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First, you open the (large) RNA file;

Second, you look for the loop you want to check;

Last, you hide other regions and see if it is a tetraloop interaction (in this case, it is not :P).

You see, it's easy, yet it can make you dizzy enough. Maybe I should ask my boss for a new pair of glasses! lol

I've said in last post, I was looping KOKIA's concert audio rips. Today, when I checked my last.fm page again, I was (not that) surprised by the record. I had been looping KOKIA's songs for a whole week! Superb, now KOKIA's play count increased for about 1000+ comparing with that before week. KOKIA, you're really, really my favorite artist! <3

I also got some random snaps after a pretty long while.

A big fatty hare! XDD

Finally, some newest screen shots from my DN life.

No. 1, Heaven's Judgement

You know (I hope), my priest on DN got his ultimate lv40 skill, Heaven's judgement. I really like this skill, so cool, plus Daisuke Namikawa's voice~~ Kyaa~ I'm dying~~ xDD

No. 2, Critical attack

Though my priest has only 2000+ magic attack, he could get "critical" high damage. Here, it's over 20k!

No. 3 Erase
Recently, the game got some skill attributes changed, so the company gave everyone a chance to reset our skills. By chance, I earned two chances, so I would like my force user to try another ultimate lv40 skill: erase.
It's beautiful, but I still love meteor storm. :P

Being hiding for 1.5 months!!
Gotta revive right now!

Today, just read Matsuo's blog – he was so cute! And, yes, KOKIA is my favorite artist forever! (no more explanation, it's a thing only I myself can understand.)

So, in the past one and half months, I've learned a lot,
that French is so... bad for me.
Yet I really wanna learn French.
Because KOKIA loves French... orz.
For myself, I love German the most (except Japanese, of course). At least, I can read a German word without taking too much of effort to remember the pronunciation rules.
In case of French, that is so different. There are many letters that won't be pronounced – how can I know them? That's so weird. If you don't pronounce a letter, why did you include the letter in your alphabet?! o_O
In one word, I'm very annoyed by French. I don't know how to explain it. I just don't feel good when I learn it.
Maybe, it's because I've been used to learn a language by myself?

Have been a TA for a month and half too. That was really very interesting. Though I'm really not a good teacher. I sometimes don't know how to answer their questions – I really don't know! Anyway, I need to improve on that point. :P

By chance, I got an English dubbed version of "Saikano". So, you know, I love that animation very much, and therefore, I spend several days to re-watch it again. It was my first time to watch an anime in English. The vocals were not bad, yet I more love the original Japanese voices. XD By the way, I was looping Hanako Oku's "Kusabi" for some days, and loved it a lot. Suddenly, I thought it might be good if there were a video clip of the combination of those two, the anime and the song. Hmm, maybe I can try to challenge, but, I've never tried to make a video clip. Can I really do it?!

During the last weekend, I looped KOKIA's concert again and again. I'd stopped looping her songs for a few days, but once I began to loop her songs again, I couldn't stop easily. Only she can sing so good in a concert, and only she can perform even better on a stage than in a studio! (ヽ´ω`)

Gonna end this post here. I only want to express my feeling toward KOKIA in this day, as well as to confirm my existence. So, good night~ u_u