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Small Talk:
Damn you, Adobe. Always changing the shortcut keys and interfaces with every new version. And now you’ve removed ImageReady, wtf?

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Mini update:
I figured I might as well do the rest of the covers. Only up till Book 6, though.

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I downed a bit too much coffee earlier this morning, and after I got most of the important work done (somewhere around 8am or so, since I started somewhere around 4am), I ended up sitting in front of the PC bored as hell. So, I started to do some random stuff. And here’s the result.

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Desktop of the Month: Girls with guns almost always make nice wallpapers.
It’s been a crazy year indeed. Previous years felt like they just went by but 2008 felt like it was dragging its feet all the way. Maybe because of the amount of time I spent doing real academic work was so little compared all my other side projects.

There were a number of little successes, mostly personal ones and also a good amount of significant failures as well. New friendships were forged, but not long before I screwed it up and botched it - I dare say it was a first for me, and I must say it was quite a shocker.

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Small Talk:
For those who have been waiting for some F1.4 awesomeness, here’s a post full of it. My camera bag was packed in the luggage, so the only lens I had was mounted on the A200 which I carried in my backpack at hand luggage.

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My trip to Phuket was but a short one, but here’s a travelogue anyway. Well, it’s traveling with sort of a shoestring budget so we couldn’t really afford to stay goof around for as long as we had liked. The journey itself was pretty much an uneventful one. After all, it’s only AirAsia, so unless something dramatic happens, it’s like taking a long trip on board a levitating bus - plus whatever immigration hassles you have to go through.

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Small Talk:
‘Kara no Kyoukai’ actually translates to ‘The Boundary of Emptiness’, and not ‘The Garden of Sinners’ as is the common misconception. Oh, and here’s another wall of tl;dr.

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Some people don’t understand why I’m such an incurable Type-Moon fanboy. I have never completely played through any of its two most popular productions, the Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night visual novels. I have only really watched two anime adaptation of their products yet I can never be fascinated enough by them. It was probably the character designs or storylines, I can’t put a finger on any of it.

The animated adaptation of Tsukihime did not happen (I reject your reality and substitute my own), and the adaptation of Fate was a little bit more than mediocre (and that’s only thanks to the magic of the amazing Kenji Kawai). What really sealed the deal for me was the anime adaptation of Kara no Kyoukai, Nasu Kinoko’s early novel publication under the name Notes (before Type-Moon was formed together with illustrator Takeuchi Takeshi). It was often quoted as being the prototype to Tsukihime, with many similar elements in both intellectual properties being carried over.

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I want to give up. So, so bad. If you really think I’m not doing the right thing, or doing it wrong, be my guest and give it a go. I’m more than willing to give you all the authority you’ll ever need. I’ll sign every paper you want me to. If I’m not good enough for you, if the things I tried to do just don’t make the cut, if my intentions aren’t sufficient for you to accept my efforts,… then perhaps you are right.

However, I only have two questions: can you do better? If you can, will you do it?

Sure, I can’t be your Robin Hood, as much as I tried to, but would you stand up and be someone else’s hero?