疲れる日々
March 16th, 2007lately between doing other things, i haven’t had time to post, or too much to say. life is pretty full of uni/work/gaming. but not posting for what is gradually crawling towards a full month is not my style, so i thought i better say something!other than the monotonous java bugfixes i work on most every day at work, i have been spending my time doing..
manga!
i have been reading the NANA manga, and wow – its the first time i’ve started reading a manga series from the beginning, and i’m really enjoying it. the last time i read a manga seriously was the last chapter of “kodomo no omocha” – just to see how the ending was different from the anime (was told it was a lot better… and it was!). i have caught up to where i watched the anime up to, and am now watching after i read each episode as time permits.
i find it really awesome that they fully captured the manga – every frame is portrayed perfectly to the anime, every line of dialogue and thoughts are translated perfectly. a lot of the anime conversions out there lose a heap of detail, or even change the story, so it was nice to find this out 
. i can basically read the manga and have the sound of the manga in the background for read-along stylez!
riding!
i bought myself a bike. nothing special – just a ~$400 road-style bike for getting around the place. i was planning on saving money this year, but after losing my concession fare on trains (part-time enrollment ftl) and doing a few calculations, i would save over a year period quite easily.
its also just as fast to get to work (and even faster for the 80% of days when the train never comes) clocking in at ~22minutes. only thing i miss is stereo sound – there’s no way i’m keeping both in-ear headphones in my ears while riding… because i would hear nothing – that can’t be safe ^^;
piano!
i’ve been learning planetarium (ootsuka ai) on piano. i guess i’ll try and perform this and put it up on youtube at some point at well. should really spend more time playing piano than i have been! so much fun making progress on songs.
うひょ！いい自転車じゃないか。
最近私も自転車を乗り始めたといっても、たいしたことないよ。家から大学へだけだ。orz
ところで、奨学金のことだけど… JASSO、HUMAPがダメだったが、貯金とOS-HELPをあわせば行ける。なんとかなるよ。