Discoveries & Relevations

"Kittens take their first steps" video on YouTube

These kittens are so adorable!!!!

Subjects: General

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: kitten, YouTube

Earls Court 1975-05-24 video

Just found another 2 interesting Led Zeppelin video clips. These form a complete pro-recorded Earls Court 1975 Stairway to Heaven that didn’t make into the official DVD:

Part I

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: bootleg, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, YouTube

Pagey on skiffle, COMPLETE!

Now I’d just posted yesterday about the skiffle scene in the Yardbirds entry yesterday and what do I find today? A complete version of the performance + interview. I never knew about the second song. Pagey looked so sweet (I never thought I’d say that!) then! *___*

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像, Music 音楽

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, YouTube

「プリンセス・プリンセス」ドラマ化って、思いがけないナァ…

「プリンセス・プリンセス」ドラマ化!

大人気コミック「プリンセス・プリンセス」がアニメ化に続いてドラマ化!」
タイトルは「プリンセス・プリンセスD」
男子校・藤森学園には「姫」という制度があった。 それは男子校での男ばかりの生活の潤いとなるべく見目麗しい生徒を選び、 構内のイベントの度に女の子の格好をさせるという学校公認の制度。しかも衣装はロリータ

金銭面をはじめ様々な特典があると聞き、積極的に姫を引き受けた裕史郎と亨に対し、いまだ姫から逃げ出そうとしているドラマ版の主人公・実琴。
 3人の姫を中心に繰り広げられるちょっとオカシナ学園コメディ。

「プリンセス・プリンセスD」では豊実琴が主人公でドラマオリジナルのストー リーが展開します。
黒姫とは!? 裏生徒会とは!? 学園を揺るがす大事件が!
イケメン俳優が歌い、踊り、女装する!?
 「プリンセス・プリンセスD」6月28日よりテレビ朝日にて放映開始予定!

—Source: http://drama-pripri.jp/story/index.html

OMG. I’ve been following the anime and think it’s hilarious, but to make this into a jdorama, 何か気持ち悪っ O___O

プリンセス・プリンセス「プリンセス・プリンセス」アニメ

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: anime, Japanese, jdorama

Night shifts

Switching between working regular hours and night shifts can be debilitating for the uninitiated. It messes up one’s biological clock, and the feeling is somewhat like a persisting jetlag.

I may be accustomed to keeping late nights in the comforts of home after a full day’s work but the feeling is quite different from this weekly or biweekly switching pattern. At work the nervous tension lingers and drains; recoving in the day just doesn’t do it, unless I am able to pretend that day is night. I know of people who can maintain this sort of lifestyle but I just haven’t gotten the hang of it.

Subjects: Work 仕事

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: sleep

Express Queues?

Something I’ve been seeing at the Isetan supermarket every Wednesday when I go for my regular Japanese class: whenever customers with 1-2 items make their way to the payment counters, they seem to immediately head towards the only express counter in the supermart, despite the obviously long queue, even though the regular payment counters are free. This is a society where we’re so anal about ‘obeying’ signs that we don’t seem to use our eyes and heads to judge anymore.

Subjects: General

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: Isetan, Japanese

The Internet no more

Interesting piece of news. According to this article, the ‘Internet’ will no longer need to be spelt in this manner:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

For years, I’d been capitalising ‘Internet’ and the ‘Web’ because it always felt appropriate to do so. Techno jargon always seems so cool when capitalised.

Now with the net nearly synonymous with the personal computer, which in turn is as pervasive in the household as the television, the change in spelling is the milestole of a change in times where higher technology has become a lifestyle.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: internet, jargon

Emotions in writing and Wave Particle Duality

It’s so hard to write about emotional states and momentary feelings, because the process of reflection - that transpires while putting thoughts to words - alter the very subjects to begin with. I see this as analogous to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, a consequence of wave particle duality in physics, in which the act of observation alters the state of a quantum system.

How is this so?

In order to write, we assume that our subjects possess definitive states; in reality, they fluctuate with every word that is spoken or heard, every sensation received from interaction with the environment, every thought process that is made. The additional dimension of time allows us to objectively assess and rationalise these states and feelings with our belief systems. The resultant evaluation is likely to be radically different from the original subjects that are of a transient nature.

Subjects: General

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations, Philosophical Musings

Tags: Heisenberg, physics, wave particle duality

Myers Briggs

According to the Myers-Briggs-Jung test in SimilarMinds.com:

INTP - “Architect”
Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

And a facinating write-up in INTP.org which describes perfectly the personality that I am.

Subjects: General

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: INTP

Psycho Moms

Somehow navigated to this site via Neil Gaiman’s weblog.

Your Mommy Kills Animals!

Geeeee… and we wonder why kids are going bonkers these days.

Subjects: General

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations, Funny

Tags: Neil Gaiman, PETA

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