音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I read in KOKIA's blog, about a delicious dish she just tried: Tamago kake gohan (卵かけご飯 / egg sauce over rice). She also mentioned that is an orthodox style of Japanese food.
Really?
So, I wanted to try it for today's supper.
I didn't read the article from wikipedia. I also didn't dare to eat raw eggs. However, it's true that I like half-cooked eggs. I boiled water, and put an egg for about 5 minutes. Then, I broke the egg, and decanted the semi-liquid egg onto a box of pre-heat rice.
Then, all done~

After adding some soy sauce, with some miso soup, that was really a delicately good table d'hôte!

@pixiv

This drawing was inspired by Mai Kuraki's song "Revive".

Recently, I am watching the anime "Detective Conan". I have a huge gap of about 150 or more episodes. So, after a few weeks of searching and downloading, I have been watching the anime for weeks.

Now, the episodes I'm watching are using Mai Kuraki's song "Revive" as the main theme song. I loved the song immediately. The Latin influence was so nice and made the song very catchy.

Why not drawing something?

Thus, I drew it, and got very excited to listen to the song time after time.

(I didn't realise that this picture is so huge [that is, 15MB] until when I uploaded it.... o_O)

I noticed today's Google main page gave me a new logo. I saw it in my iGoogle homepage, so that logo was kind of smaller. At the first glimpse, it gave me the feeling of a piece of draft paper with some circles on. By curiosity, I clicked the image and it linked me to a search theme of "Pi Day."

↑ Google's Pi-Day logo.

Interesting. Anyways, the first thing on the wikipedia page that attracted me was the huge pie with a huge "π" written on it. Pi almost equals 3.14, thus the Pi-Day date is decided to be March 14. Nice idea.

Okay, since I was having my belated breakfast, I sliced the last bun into halves, spread a thin layer of raspberry jam onto one side, and wrote the Greek letter "π" with mayonnaise. I didn't have a real pie as my breakfast, but the bun made pie didn't look bad, did it?

↑ my bun-made Pi

As an out-class practice, I was working on a restriction map problem since the last night. The problem itself was basically simple, yet I spent rather a long time to do it.

When you digest the genome with enzyme A, and you get 2 fragments; you digest the genome with enzyme B, and you get 3 fragments. Then, you digest the genome with both A and B, and you get 4 fragments. Now you need to analyse the lengths of the fragments. If you see the total length of two fragments from A+B is exactly the same to one fragment from A, you may confirm one of enzyme B cutting sites by measuring the length from the end of the genome/enzyme A cutting site to this enzyme B cutting site.

There were three enzymes used in the problem. I made a draft of two of them, but when I tried to confirm the cutting sites of the last enzyme, I couldn't get all fragment lengths exactly match in other conditions (the combinations of using enzymes, I mean).

But my idea was absolutely correct. I was pretty sure about it. About the instructor of the class, I know he is often in the situation of "I-lost-my-thought." Thus I came to doubt the position of fragment bands in the illustration, which was drawn by the instructor, I guess. Some bands, although they look like at different horizontal levels, is it possible that they actually have the same size? Thinking about it, I tried some changes on the numbers of the sizes of each band. Amazingly, after several times of changing, I got all lengths matched.

I spent much of time due to the stupid badly drawn illustration sure enough. orz…

completely a random work.

@pixiv

I'm having my light weekend in the end of February.

Began from the last November or December, I finally got my Graduated Driver License Level 7 yesterday afternoon. Actually, I didn't spend more than a week to read the handbook; I was just lazy to read; I wanna know why though… the result wasn't bad. You are only allowed to make five mistakes. Mine was three. Yet I was a bit worry when I had already got two wrong answers within the first ten questions. Anyways, I got it~

I've been watching the ultra-long-anime "Detective Conan" for a few weeks. – Because of it, I haven't got time to watch "Top Gear" and "Discovery Channel." – I was amazed because of that this anime has been continued for 13 years, yet I still like and want to watch it. I was also a bit depressed by that they changed the cast voice of a main character, Mouri Kogoro. I only watch one episode with Mouri's new voice, so I can't tell if the new voice performs a good or not Mouri. But, I just like the form voice, which stayed for 13 years with us…

I updated a Windows 7 Japanese package. Now my display language is Japanese. The font it so cute, I can't continue without mentioning it.

I made a plurk account on February 7 or around, and stopped using it by yesterday morning. Basically, plurk is like twitter, but it makes every single update a conversation-ish mini-post, and thus, the overall view of your plurk profile seems very organised. I like it very much. But, I can't help the truth that I'm a google fan (I don’t like chrome that much though ^^; ), so when google announced their new social communication product: google buzz, I gave up plurking. I don’t like twitter, as well as facebook (the fact is that I've got my facebook for three times, and finally they all ended up with I quitting using facebook; I am not a FB-fan apparently). Although google buzz is like plurk – to make each single post conversation-ish, there is an important difference between them: on plurk, if you don’t update frequently, your karma will drop… it's annoying sometimes. Who can keep active updating if they really don’t want? In one word, google buzz for the win! (I wish Opera Community may support embedding g-buzz into our sidebar like twitter…)

I'm addicted to Kenji Kawai's music suddenly. I like his music before but never been like that mad as now. I also got his concert video in 2007. I love the ballad "Kugutsuuta – Kagerohi wa Yomi ni Matamuto" very much. Especially the concert version. The drum is EPIC!!!

At last, I suddenly liked the online mini-game "Ninja Ropes Extreme," and played it till midnight yesterday. I found it via opera widgets. You may also play it online directly. The rule is simple, but it's not easy to play. My highest record is around 96YD, but when I checked the top 5 listed in their site, someone has got around 1000… that's … kind of shock. How did they make it? I wonder. XD

In the end of February, I finally got a light weekend to enjoy. Not bad. Try to keep this light mood on in future too~

@pixiv

Recently, I’m addicted to the song “VII” by Akiko Shikata (志方あきこ). I think, Ar Tonelico III Hymmnos Concerts brought me back to Akiko after a long while without listening to her. Why “VII”? I can’t tell. I loved this song at the first time I tried it. I especially like its introduction. This is a darkish song; in the introduction, the chime and music box made a nice effect. Then, strings slid in with an intense baroque-ish style. Akiko sang in that song with a rather higher pitch, which also gave the song a very grotesque ambience (actually, it’s not such a grotesque song at all xD).

However, after times’ looping of it, I printed its lyrics and decided that this song is in my song-cover-list. I’ve tried to sing it for many times, and thus it didn’t take me too much of time to practice it before I recorded my first sample. Although there were still many parts I needed to practice more, my first sample was not that bad (yet I didn’t save the sample; I was off-key in the middle part >_< ).

Later, suddenly, that idea spurted in my mind: why not draw an image for this song? This song is so full with darkish-elements. A girl in gothic styled would fit well definitely!

Thus I started to think about it and try to draw a draft. Sincerely, I didn’t have any other thought about what it would be like. I didn’t know what kind of drawing it would be. Just, I read in its lyrics, something about mirror, okay, I’ll set up a mirror in it. Thus, it’s normal to make the character to be in front of the mirror, or maybe also to touch the mirror. A mirror would look nice if it’s in a dark room. Also, Seven Sisters of Purgatory were mentioned … (it’s a song for Umineko!!! I just realized it, and I just realized that this song should be read as “seven.” Before I read it as “V two,” orz) the whole scene would be a conversation between the character and the seven sisters. But it’s almost impossible to draw the seven sisters (lol), so I decided to put seven shining dots around her.

So far, I made up the basic things in this drawing. After it, everything was easier. Little by little, I finished the drawing of the character. Oh, yes, since the lyrics saying a girl with black hair, I chose to draw Tohne, a girl with long and black hair in my own to-be-started fiction, for this drawing (gosh, I need to find a time to start my fiction, or it won’t be started forever!).

For the background setting, firstly, I wanted to put the mirror vertically (normally), but I changed my mind since I’ve noticed this mirror image I got via google image would be look nicer if I get it floating in the air! And, about the room setting, I thought a chess-board-styled room was the best, though I DID drop watching the anime Umineko… and the seven shining dots, I tilted them to make the drawing looking more balanced.

I just don’t know if my image fits your image of the song “VII,” but… who cares?

Edit:
It’s 15:44, I also finished recording the song finally. I don’t have much to say about my cover, just, I’m so glad that Akiko kept the chorus in the instrumental version, or this song is impossible to me. I also recorded the speaking Italian of the song, and Akiko’s laughing made me nervous… x_x