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Neil Gaiman Tour

Posted 2005-05-15 (日) 午前12:28 by terra

Neil Gaiman is coming to Singapore! This isn’t new news but I just had to write something about it sometime. According to his blog (4 May 2005 entry), he’ll be here around 3-6 July. The fangirl in me is trying to figure out what to get him to sign. Ideally, I would like him to sign my huge Japanified-Morpheus-by-Amano poster(s) but that’s going to be too large to carry anywhere. So I suppose I’ll just bring along the Dreamhunters HC as well as a couple of Sandman books. Maybe I’ll go to Kinokuniya, get myself a copy of the Japanese version of Coraline so that it’ll be something different… ^_^ Wonder what his schedule is going to be like. The 4th-6th are weekdays so I might have to work my leave around his visit once things are more confirmed.

Subjects: Books 書物

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Amano Yoshitaka 天野喜孝, Morpheus, Neil Gaiman, poster, Sandman

Irritation

Posted 2004-12-03 (金) 午後11:41 by terra

One of those nights where every little thing irks the hell out of you and you have no idea what’s bothering you and you just want to scream. >_<

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Xenosaga II — 善悪の彼岸 (Jenseits von Gut und Böse) — OST

Posted 2004-07-11 (日) 午前1:18 by terra

Well, from my regular sources, I managed to obtain the music two days from its official release. I played the music in one setting and to be honest I’m not that all impressed by it. (Note that I am listening to the music again as I type this, hoping for a change in opinion.)

Overall it’s a pretty album but nothing really stands out for me. It’s new-age styled music that just goes on and on. The image song with the Scandinavian-like chorals (theme of ‘fatal fight’, etc) is probably the only decently memorable song, but I feel it’s far too repetitive.

Essentially, the album sounds like a continuation of Hack//Sign, with only a few minor themes of Xenosaga I in the background providing some sort of continuity with the previous game. It has nothing of the spiritual-depth of the Xenogears and Xenosaga I OSTS. Honestly, the Nietzsche-inspired title (trans: “Beyond Good and Evil”) sounds a lot menancing than the music is.

Namco, please persuade Mitsuda-sensei to return for the next installment (which will be uh…2006? 2007? :() He really is the link to the series’ continuity.

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: CD, Mitsuda Yasunori 光田康典, Nietzsche, soundtrack, Xenogears, Xenosaga

I love Spiderman 2

Posted 2004-07-03 (土) 午後10:50 by terra

大好きだ‼

Spider Man II promotional still

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Spider Man

Wordpress

Posted 2004-05-29 (土) 午後6:19 by terra

Been trying to migrate this site to Wordpress. Thought it would have been a breeze but a whole can of worms has been opened.

Some of the main reasons to move to Wordpress are that Wordpress is opensource, coded in php (which is something I can actually play around with, rather than perl) and supports subcategories. Plus it is also enabled with a centralised built-in search program.

However, in actual implementation, I found out, through the hard way (more on that later) that its concept of subcategories is different from the way I would have had it; its code is messy and not modular enough and lacks the template flexibilities that Movable Type has.

Problem 1: Subcategories

First let me describe my interpretation of subcategories. In my opinion, subcategories should behave in a drill-down navigational way. For example, say I have a photo gallery in my site that is subdivided into different sections: friends;work; school. I would consider the photo gallery as a main category while its sub sections subcategories. You can see that system built into my current website using movable type. However since movable type’s architecture doesn’t allow that, I had to fake the look with multiple blogs.

Subjects: Websites ウェブサイト

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Movable Type, programming, Wordpress