Came back from the Mediterranean cruise! The sights were wonderful.
Well, now it’s time for a reality check. I still didn’t register enough courses for the fall semester. And at my 4th year, I’m about to run out of mandatory courses to pick from. But I have no clue which electives I would be interested, both in and out of my program of study…
Today is Canada Day. Ironically I never celebrated Canada Day in Canada since I immigrated three years ago: the first summer I didn’t know about it, and the next summer I was in China instead, as well as this summer. I know this day better as the anniversary of the establishment of the Communist Party of China, but of course, a lot of other great things happened on a July 1st.
Maybe I’ll be able to have my next Canada Day in Canada.
In the meantime, PS238 is an awesome webcomic about superpowered children and the school they go to/live in.
今天是加拿大日 (加拿大的国庆日)。讽刺的是，我从来没有在加拿大度过加拿大日；三年前的第一个夏天，我还不知道加拿大的国庆日，而之后一年以及今年夏天都在中国度过。对我来说，这一天是中国共产党建党纪念日；不过当然，七月一日曾经发生过很多大事。
也许下一次加拿大日会在加拿大度过吧。
另外，PS238 是一部绝佳的关于超级英雄小学的网络漫画。
10 hours and 1200 pages today, again.
So for the UI project I chose to redesign the building interface of Second Life a month ago, without giving too much thought about it. And of course, didn’t manage to do the first part of the project on time, or even at all. Now the deadline of the second part is coming close…
I think I might just have made a bad commitment.
Trying to do the impossible. Worse, I chose to do it alone. Frig. Now I only have two days…
To top things off mom thinks I’m planning to go to Anthrocon and is thinking of tagging along! I deferred the problem of scheduling until Monday but didn’t really give it a thought either!
On top of that I am just so used to browsing stuff and doing nothing I just don’t want to do any real work at all. I get very easily addicted to reading random stuff… easily spends 10+ hours browsing every day.
I shut myself in this white box, in front of the blue box… not even virtually socializing. Let’s not even talk about the real life.
….
and I can’t even keep my mind on writing blog either. It’s just like that…
Bleh, I don’t even know what to say here (this paragraph revised two times). Just that I suck. In short: I haven’t succeeded in my own effort, so I’m afraid and would prefer to stick to familiar stuff, like reading addictive websites and never studying. I’ve been doing this for 10 years, it’s damned familiar to me. Nothing I have is of my own effort. Either it’s from my parents or I did it effortlessly.
But living alone, having no one to guide me…
I want a roommate.
FursuitTV 4 year anniversivary tomorrow.
好像前一天还在上海玩太鼓之达人呢，一下子就到了二月份了。周六在河对面有动漫展，决定过去看看。结果在8路公交车上……上来几只小动物。“难道是兽人？——哎？！Zets?! 你怎么……?!”
结果两天下来都跟在兽装后面拍照片……实际剧场、讲座、文艺表演都没有去 (赶774狐的生日派对，结果过去基本上就是睡觉玩游戏+争抢喇叭)。不过，拍了大概有170张照片，收获不小。
It’s as if I was playing Taiko no Tatsujin in Shanghai just yesterday, but February has already swiftly arrived. There was an anime con on the other side of the river, decided to take a look on a whim. On the way there… some critters boarded the route 8 bus. “Furries? … Wha… Zets?!”
Ended up taking pics after fursuiters for the whole two days, didn’t actually went to see manga showings, panels or masquerade (was hurrying to 774fox’s birthday party, but only things I did there were to sleep play games + fighting for the loudspeakers). But 170 (usable) pictures were taken, quite a lot!
蓝色的狐狼Sio是个很可爱的女孩子，穿上兽装之后更是萌暴了～不过可惜已经有男朋友了。他的兽装也是Sio做的，不过可惜不太像老虎。很棒的一对呢。基本上卡库尔两天就跟着这一对后面当照相机+电灯泡。(然后回来每个人都说我拍得很好，真的么^^||)这次Coser也很多呢，但是基本上是拣自己喜欢的作品抓拍……特别注意的是卡库尔借戴了一下.hack//GU版本的 Kite的帽子。虽然Cosplay是讲究效果不讲究舒适的，可是帽子真的好～舒服，可惜没有拍下来……(不过听说帽子做的太小了，带上假发就不适合了) 另外还遇到了从蒙特利尔来的兽装穿着者Fufu一只?!
Sio, the blue folf, is a very cute girl, and even more so when wearing her fursuit~ too bad she already has a boyfriend. His fursuit is made by Sio too, too bad it doesn’t look like a tiger much. A great couple. Basically Kaku was following the pair for the whole weekend like a lamppost / photographer. (And everyone said I took great pictures! Really? ^^||) A lot of cosers as well, but I bacially picked those from my fave works… Especially I borrowed the hat of .hack//GU version of Kite, although cosplay is more about effect and less about comfort, but the hat is just so~ comfortable, too bad didn’t took a picture of it… (But he said the hat was too small and won’t fit after donning the wig) Also met a fursuiter named Fufu who were coming from Montreal
总之虽然有些遗憾，可是也很高兴。最后买了个铃铛回来，喵呼呼～
I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell I have a bell…
然后是图片喵！
好想多玩一会儿Rock Band…
貌似Sio和Kain一样都是喜欢机兽的狐狼?
I don’t know why, but I’m feeling down for the whole week. Just nothing gets me up, and I have no idea what’s making me feel like this. I tried to listen to music, play games, watch stuff, natch. Maybe it’s that I keep my homework not done until the next minute. Maybe it’s that I’m afraid of failing more courses from bad marks again. Maybe it’s me sleeping late every night. Maybe it’s that I can’t make the bedbugs go away on myself and my landlord won’t cooperate. Maybe I just don’t like the landlord because the cleaning lady rants to me every time we meet. Maybe it’s that there’s just not any space to fit my books and computer. I want a better desk, but I don’ t know how to deal with the original one. I want a fursuit too. Feeling fursuit deficient like Da-Fox did. Definitely not depressed because Da-Fox is moving back to Quebec, but I’ll miss him. Because I only know that today, and I’ve been down for the whole week. Maybe I’m just hinting to myself after having seen that “Clinically Depressed Robot” DnD 3.5 homebrew feat. I feel like tacos. Or maybe a benzene ring. The robot, of course, was Marvin, the paranoid Android. I had realized that I have bedbugs for almost two months now, but no way… the exterminator only came once. Sure, I’m responsible to keep the place clean… but I’m not responsible for the bedbugs. I mean, who would wash all their clothes, every day? That’s going to put a dent in their living expenses. They seem to have been gone now, but you know… the eggs are kinda hard to spot. If killing bedbugs were so simple, would I ask for a exterminator? Why can’t I have raccoons as pe(s)ts? And what kind of lame exterminator misses one corner of the bed and inside of the mattress? And I can’t hire my own exterminator either. I would if I could… I’m so going to move out. But I can’t leave a bedbug-infested room to someone else.
… watching FursuitTV with a clip of Ottawa fursuiters back from 2008. So want a fursuit! But my fursona’s kinda boring… how can I make it attractive? Someone’s selling a raccoon fursuit on FurBid too. Very cute! But not quite my style. And I’m not sure about playing a character that is a carbon copy of someone else’s fursona… I’m not even sure I’m able to afford a fursuit. Sigh, no job… What am I good for? I can’t speak French or Japanese. I can’t code. Well, I can, but I have no experience. And I wouldn’t want to work on a project that is proprietary unless it’s my project… And I have no time. No time as in, I spend all my time online. Need to be able to plan and prioritize! And maybe say no? Have too much hobbies. Argh! Forum, FurAffinity/DeviantArt, IRC (6 channels), coding, drawing, flipping through YouTube, SecondLife, Twitter/Identica, writing blogs, and the occasional homework. And WikiFur too! And I’m supposed to put all my time to all of them… I can speak Chinese and English. But being able to speak Chinese does… well, if I go to take a job in calling people, they are looking for people who speak Mandarin Chinese. Cool! A foreigner working in China will need to have skills that are unique… that Chinese citizens can’t compete. I have no unique skills… Everything I do, somebody does it better than me. But nobody does all the things I do. Really, have you heard of someone who speaks English and Chinese and interested in Japanese, internationalization and localization, user experience, game design, draws stuff, pretends to be a cat in his spare time, typography, mascot costume creation and performing, and learns the theories of computing for a profession? Not that I like mathematics.
Maybe I worry too much about my fursona being boring. Lots of fursuits are plain too. Simple ideas executes perfectly is still perfect idea. And the performer is more important than the suit. Of course, cheap suits are often performed by untrained actors… like that random chicken that wasn’t expecting another mascot to show up. Nyahaha! “What’s with the raccoons?” Indeed.
What kind of personality should I have in suit? Or maybe, what kind of personality would I have in suit? Maybe I would need a character to act as (unbelievingly). Or maybe I would put on my head and immediately behave silly. No way to know without trying!
Kakurady’s modus operandi is stylishly cute. Shota! Of course. But also urban style. Zeitgeist. Probably not the type to pantomine, but use exaggerated gestures instead.
… Want so say something poetic here, but run out of words. Bah, never good with writing. Rather impressed that SPark writes good stories in addition of making fusuits. Totally not what she studied in postsecondary education, ha. “I like that YinWolf girl, she makes Deoge’s costume and doesn’t afraid of anything.”
Oro said I’m his only fan! Yay! But I can’t fan over nothing… maybe a good idea to commission a Baren Warvarrl fursuit. That sounds like a good idea!
And yeah, there’s somebody who would commission transformation stories… I almost believed they were real. Sadly when I woke up I’m not a kitty. Maybe I need to concentrate more?
Kagerow Yotsuba tweeted a app that tests what’s the highest pitch you can hear. But my computer refuses to play sounds higher than 20500Hz…
I would certainly be excited if I woke up as a kitty. Even a plain gray one. So with a gray fursuit maybe I could pretend… Maybe wasn’t that bad at all.
Next time I’m doing this I should announce my intentions of each paragraph I write… almost 1000 words now. At first I just want to get ideas out of my system, but ended up aiming for words. Translating this would be a daunting task though.
Touhou charaters in Rhythem Heaven.
Rant over…
… that’s a cute raccoon fursuit. I love the ringtails! Red panda and Tanuki too. Foxes and squirrels. Bunny! Cute doggies are okay, but not a wolf. Otters are fine too. I really have no idea what catches my fancy. If somebody asks what would you be if you can be an animal… I won’t be sure.
… Zigzaggon? Luxray? Lynx are cute too. Heh. Back then I was a fan of Lion King too. Tigers are no thanks because they are about to extinct. How sad…
What makes them cute? A good question for another day. Why do I like Jai Dingo so much? But that’s not for today. I can’t draw doggies. Today it’s sleep time.
Molecules with benzene rings in them tend to smell nice. So will I.