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Yeaaay!! Lupakanlah masalah YAJ!!
Sumpah, gua happy banget mendadak!!
Karena ada sesuatu yang gua incer-incer!!

Whohoooooooooo!!!

I Love You FULLL!!

Mwah, mwah~~~

*alesan akan disebutkan besok malem, saking happynya ga isa disebut sekarang xDD~*

Bah, bah, bah!!
Ayaka gua kalah di angka 2100, NAJIS!!
Gua pengin marah-marah sekarang...

Mami gua juga tambah stress...
Belanjaan NewS dia, kalah juga...


Effin HELL!!

*kalap pengin BELANJA MACEM-MACEM!*


Pokoknya barang-barang yang aku incer-incer itu kedepannya harus dapet!!
Huh T___T

*cari2 yen buat beli sisa single ayakanya*


Eh, ini jumat tanggal 13 yah??

Pantes....

Ahya, nyokap katanya ngajak liburan pas Februari besok...
Antara Malaysia, Cina, Korea, ato Bangkok...

BAH, ga ada opsi Singapore ato Hongkong? T____T

Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...

I was watching a show at Tash's place called Psych, it's not bad, you should check it out. Basically, this guy with excellent observation skills was accused of being an accomplice during a robbery after identifying the true perp too well, and to get out of it, he claimed to be psychic. With his best friend Gus, he tries to assist the police by solving a lot of difficult cases using his "psychic" powers (only way he can, though he is still doubted by a couple of cops).

Anyway, I tend to pay too much attention to the credits flashing on the bottom of the screen as the show starts, and I'm glad I did this time. Michael Adamthwaite (Yzak in Gundam SEED) had a role in the show. He played Rory, a bloke doing community service with a stress line. I won't give away too much more than that.

Okay, and here's my "get this" thing. I was told ages ago that Mum and Dad were married the same year I was born. Okay, fine. Then I learned it was in November, while I am a December baby. Okay... Then, after seeing the date on my birth certificate, I found out they were wed on the 27th of November 1985. Let's see, in the span on ten days...

26/11/85: My best friend Gabby was born.
27/11/85: My parents got married.
06/12/85: I was born.

Yep, nine days after they got married, Honeymoon would've been cut short due to my being born. Wow...right? Seriously...wow...the things one learns...

That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!

PS--Saw Kurenai no Tsuki subbed this time, and since I can understand a lot more than "Genji", "Heike", "Kaerinaifu" and characters' names, I'm able to follow it better. Still wish it had a better ending though...and of course, the tears flowed during a particular scene... Oh, but I love Sensei's threat for the bandit! And seeing Atsumori's sad expression so many times made me just want to hug him.

I'm glad certain things were revealed in the OVA, such as the relationship between Benkei and Hinoe and Atsumori's truth.

Finished Neo Angelique ~Abyss~ -Second Age-, now to watch Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight Guilty, and then onto Pandora Hearts.

Oh, and I'm getting the Neoromance Christmas CD for my birthday!

Hey everybody! My friends and I have been working on a little Haruhi-based project (with funding from Image Anime, which is an anime retailer in NYC, so please forgive the product pushing ^^') which involves the S.O.S Brigade living in New York City!

So far there's two episodes and one promo out!

Episode 0: Watashi no TV wa Pilot

Episode 1: Night of the Living Horror Cliches

Episode 2: MECHA Lekka Hai, MECHA Lekka...OH GOD, THE BUDGET!





(  There's also a couple of pictures we took at the shooting! )

Thanks for looking! 8)

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Bisa dibilang hari ini hari yang happy as usual~
Masalah utang beres, masalah laen2 beres semua, tinggal menikmati hasilnya aja ^^v
Well, walau hari ini capek total, tapi nyenengin banget!!

Mulai dari chatting ama Melisa pagi-pagi yang bikin stress karena sebuah site bernama YAJ~
Lalu tidur 4 jam, jam 11 bangun seperti biasa....
Urusin paket~ Kabur!!

Pertama sih ke TIKI, beres!
Lalu ke CIMB Niaga untuk ke MoneyGrams lagi, tapi disana, setelah nunggu rada lama buat nanyain kursnya, abis mau dicoba ternyata tiba-toba offline, disuruhlah aku kabur ke CIMB Niaga Jalan Parangtritis yang jauhnya setengah matiiihh....

Nah, sampe sana, ternyata orang-orang sana GA PERNAH transfer MoneyGrams, jadinya cuman tanya-tanya dan telpon2 supervisornya dulu ampe 30 menit... Jam 14.30, wow wow~ Udah mau bisa gitu, suruh balik besok!! Katanya dah ditutup, KEPRET~

Ya udahlah, gppa, sekalian berbakti bagi bangsa dan negara, ngajarin orang-orang bank untuk transfer via MoneyGrams, wkwwkwkwk...

Abis itu, mabur ke kantor pos pusat yang lagi mati lampu, nanya2 pengiriman ke US berapa (dan akhirnya baru diketahui kalo Montreal itu di Canada, hahaha, bego kan? :p). Besok balek ke Post Office lage deeh... Akhirnya, rVn-Musikindo go international juga, wkwkwk... Emangnya cuman Utada ama Agnes yang bisa Go International? Gua juga bisa gan!! *ngakak*

Bablas ke Kujira bangunin si Guguk bego~ Wkwkkw... Lanjutkan ke Burjo, terus mabur ke rumah Dicky buat bayar utang pulsa ke Ninda, hehe... Biasalah, ngobrol2 ga jelas sambil nonton Spongebob... Doh, Tuhan... Kapan kau turunkan hujan di Jogja?? T__T

Sampe rumah, inet dipake Nita, mabur ke warnet urusin transaksi YAJ si Melisa Meong Meong~ Abis itu ke ATM lagi, beres!! Sampe rumah, liad sesuatu di barang yang aku incer-incer di YAJ... Bah, bidding udah mencapai angka 1020 yen sementara aku kasih maksimal ke agency 1000 yen...
Panik, stress, protes, ga terima, dls dls... Mencoba untuk SMS dia, dan diperbolehkan naek limit jadi 2000 yen, thanks God, REALLY THANKS!!!

Udah mulai lega, akhirnya capek ga tertahankan juga, bobok dulu deh...

Minggu ini pesenanku dari HMV dateng juga:
ayaka - Winding Road
ayaka - Clap&Love/Why
ayaka - Te Wo Tsunagou
ayaka - Anata To
ayaka - I Believe
ayaka - Okaeri

dan tinggal berharap barang dari YAJ ini bisa dapat... Kenapa aku berharap banyak? Karena barang-barang ini bisa lebih murah daripada aku order langsung dan tambah ongkir... Masih ga enak juga ngerepotin temen kokonya Melisa banyak2, mengingat Melisa juga mau pesen rada banyakan gitu, hehe T__T Paling tar titip game, ama beberapa CD-CD ayumi, ayaka yang belum punya, dls, maksimal 15000 yen deh... Heheh...

*berdoa mendapatkan barang-barang ini :*
ayaka - Real Voice
ayaka - Jewelry Day
ayaka - Why/Clap&Love Limited CD+DVD
ayaka - Koi Kogarete Mita Yume/Yume wo Mikata Ni
ayaka - Minna Sora no Shita

kalo dapet, jadi koleksiku tinggal... Um...
ayaka - Mikadzuki
ayaka - Melody ~Sounds Real~
ayaka - Koi Kogarete Mita Yume/Yume wo Mikata Ni (Limited Edition)
dan ayaka - Sing to The Sky (+DVD Live in Budokan Limited Edition)

I love ayaka :D *korek2 tanah cari puluhan ribu yen yang mungkin ditanem ama kompeni*

Seperti kata Sunflower's Garden dalam openingnya Hunter x Hunter GI Final, BELIEVE IN TOMMOROW!! Hari esok akan lebih cerah dan membahagiakan kalo kita mau menjalani hari ini dengan sebaik-baiknya, berpikir optimis dan yang terbaik!!

Just wanna say, "Thanks God, akhirnya gaji masuk juga ^^v"
(rebes2 buat bayar utang ama buat simpenan akhir tahun)

Yaaak, gara2 shinhw4_girl, yang daritadi update status FBnya ga jauh-jauh dari godaan YAJ, diriku pertamanya terketuk untuk menyadarkan dirinya... Tapi lama-lama daku sadar, YAJ, situs keparat penjual barang-barang rare dengan harga mahal dan kadang murah ini, itu bukan situs keparat...

Tapi sebagai motivasi kita untuk mau menabung dan mencari uang demi bisa mendapatkan barang-barang itu!! *optimis thinking!*

Dan sampe rumah, kena godaan lebih parah lagi, search 'ayaka' dan iblis pun mengintai dimana-mana, pengin-pengin-dan-pengin -__-a

*gantian kena sindrom YAJ gara2 shinhw4* T___T

Impian gua, maksimal akhir Januari 2009, semua single dan album ayaka, aku harus punya, ga peduli!! (sorry ayu, kalo lu mau gua sampe segila ini, mending lu istirahat, lu liburan deh 2-3 tahun gitu...)

Semangat taa, nabuung!!

Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...

Everything I'd ordered finally arrived~! On Monday, I got my Ciel plush as I mentioned. Yesterday, my Sebastian plush as well as the charm mascots of Ciel and Sebastian arrived (I have the figures sitting on my lappie, but they need bluetack since their heads are heavy...). Finally, this morning, my cards and brooches arrived, along with the Vampire Knight plush I bought for Tash.

I just had a look through the cards to see what pictures they had. Oh, there were some good ones, such as Grell (in human form) shyly dancing with Lau, one of the Grell (shinigami form) with William and Undertaker, and thankfully they spared no expense on the tutor!Sebastian and lady!Ciel images. There's a very cute one with Ciel looking like he's more than a little peeved about having to dress up the way he had. Oh yes, and a nice one of Grell (again, shinigami form) with Sebastian and Pluto (who is wearing nothing other than a collar and chain leash).

I still plan on getting the Sebastian nendoroid figure that comes with extra facial expressions and a cat. Someone did something amusing with theirs on DevArt, they put an M&M in Sebastian's arms while the "ahh, I love cats~~ <333" expression was in place and it made it look more like "ahh, I love M&Ms~~ <333" instead XDDDD

Oh, Tiffy-chan, finally got you a CKD gift. They had wallets at Videoland, so I got you a black and white one. I got black and gold. I'll send yours to you by the end of the week.

Before I close this entry, quick birthday shout-out to...Clavis (Angelique), Nagase Kaede (Negima), Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) and singer/seiyuu Suzuki Tatsuhisa (Viscount of Druitt in Kuroshitsuji, performed OP of Sukisho).

That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!

Entahlah, iseng pengin nulis aja...
Nggak tau yah kenapa, bawaannya happy mulu sekarang...
Dah kebal masalah kali yah? LOL~

Tadi sih abis nulis blog, tidur yah...
Have a strange dream, tentang someone else yang berkaitan dengan orang itu (no need to mention here)...
And at least, i could think of that person, she's covered in black...
Well, ga tau kenapa, terakhir dapet kemampuan ini sejak masih pelayanan di gereja 2 tahun lalu...
Bingung, bingung... Apa sih ini maksudnya? Sabodo...

Semalem abis rusuh maen PB dan RO bareng Gerri, Doyok, Gregor, Vicky dan Dicky rame2, seru2 aja seh ya... Happy birthday aja deh buat si Guguk, yang langgeng yah ama pacarmu (baca : Vicky)

*ngakak ga karuan*

Semalem juga sempet gundah gara2 ada seseorang terang-terangan mau jual barang yang aku kasih, tapi yah, aku ga masalah ya... Cuman sih, bukannya itu tandanya ga ngehargain pemberian seseorang? Pendapatku aja sih, no comment... ^^v

Yooozzzh, besok ke MoneyGrams~
Jangan deket2 Yahoo Auctions dulu ta, ntar 433 dolar ini kepake buat YAJ pula :p

*kabur sejauh mungkin sebelum ditabokin ama shinhw4*

Yeeph, nothing to write about yesterday or today~
Since i've been so happy and could keep my happiness all the weeks ^^v
Thanks to Gerri, Doyok, Vicky, Dicky, Melisa, and the others yah...
You're the best!!

Ohya, ada rumor bilang kalo gaji diundur tanggal 24, tapi ada yang bilang juga tanggal 11... Wow... Pihak Gramedia bisakah menjelaskan?? Ada beberapa kontributor yang ngamuk-ngamuknya via FB neh~ Kalo aku mah, sante aja~ Hahaha... Ambil sono 1,8juta gua kalo ga niat dibayar!! Tunda mulu!! Hidup dibikin enjoy aja kalee, ngapain mikirin duid?? xDD~ ^^v

Edit : besok tetep masuk kok, xi xi xi...

Just believe in everything, and you'll get happiness that the God or Allah or Ayumi Hamasaki will give you more xDD~

*nerusin tepar lagi gara2 ada seseorang lupa ke ATM :p*

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Some posters (3).. There's Tsuruya (sp?), Mikuru, Yuki, and Haruhi. :3 They are pin up types, so yeah, bathing suits.

(Click the fake cut!)

Thanks for looking! Also, first post, so apologies if I messed up anywhere! ;o;

Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...

My Kuroshitsuji items are starting to arrive one by one, just ten minutes go the courier came and dropped off my Ciel plush. When I have batteries for my camera, I'll take photos of the items I receive.

Ciel's looking at me with a funny expression on his face, kind of his bored "ah, whatever, this is pathetic" facial expression used in humorous scenes (I don't think anything will beat his expression when Sebastian starts fighting the dolls by singing London Bridge Is Falling Down...I swear, his expression reminded me of Miffy the rabbit (dots for eyes and a small x for the mouth)).

But this is awesome, everything is starting to arrive. I hope Sebastian arrives tomorrow, I'm terrible at cooking (thankfully I'm getting better, just don't ask me to cook chicken if you wish to live) and I know Ciel will be wanting lots of cakes. XDD



That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!

Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...

Another seiyuu b'day is upon us, this time I'd like to say...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHINDOU NAOMI~~!!!

I'd also like to say Happy Birthday to Minamoto no Kurou Yoshitsune from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3 and Sha Gojyo from Saiyuki who also celebrate their b'days today. So, for my marathon this year...

Crush Gear Turbo (Shindou-san is Kuroudo)
Get Backers (Shindou-san is Ban as a child)
Gundam SEED (Shindou-san is Cagalli, Torii and Eileen)
One Piece (Shindou-san is Kohza as a child as well as other characters)
Pokemon Advanced Generation episode 12 (Shindou-san is Noriko)
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3 Onsen omake (I don't have Kurenai no Tsuki anymore, must redownload, but I do have the raw of the chibi omake)
Saiyuki Premium
Gensoumaden Saiyuki
Saiyuki Requiem
Saiyuki Interactive: Kibou no Zaika
Saiyuki Reload
Saiyuki Reload Gunlock

I hope I can fit those plus songs and dramas into my day...but I am quite amused at the fact that Ishida-san and Shindou-san (Athrun and Cagalli) celebrate their birthdays a week apart, though year won't be the same.


That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!

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Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...

I'm feeling better today.

I just found a vid of the live performance of Promised Rainbow from Neo Festa 10...the vid includes Tanaka Hideyuki and Taniyama Kisho who were only there on the 7th, so what I'm watching is the performance from December 6 last year...MY BIRTHDAY!!!

I couldn't be there personally (lack of passport, money, and language skills kept me from going) but this is just awesome!!

That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!