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The world through my myopic eyes

The Making of RIUVA

I spent this afternoon observing tj han, figurine collector and critic, at work. As you may know if you read his blog RIUVA, tj han has a habit of taking pictures of his figurine purchases from every possible angle and … Continue reading

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Public Service Announcement

We interrupt our regular scheduled programming (okay I lie, there’s no such thing) to bring you yet another public service announcement from Ramblings of DarkMirage: DarkMirage and Dark Mirage Spot the difference. You know who you are! And no, it’s … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer: The Fall of a Giant

I was looking at the visitor statistics for this site in Awstats yesterday when I noticed this… Note: August 2006 results taken on 20/08/2006. As you can see from the above rudimentary table that took all of 10 seconds to … Continue reading

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Lightbox JS and Firefox

The new loading image I changed the default loading.gif of Lightbox (as you may have noticed in the post below) and modified the CSS file as best as I could to fit the new dimensions and it seems to work … Continue reading

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Wanted: Image Tagging Software

While searching for pictures to be used for the next Japanese lesson chapter, I realized that I really need a new way of organizing my image folders. Sorting pictures by the series they come from is good and all, but … Continue reading

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The Music Theory

So I was listening to my playlist of illegally-downloaded perfectly legitimate songs while on the way home from taking a JLPT mock paper just three hour ago, and I thought about the songs and how I’d rank them. I should … Continue reading

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Unlimited Essay Works

This guy deserves respect. A++ if I were his teacher.

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kwok: お帰りなさい~

Kwok from lolicontrol returned to Singapore last night. It seems like he hasn’t updated his blog yet because he is dreading about going back to work tomorrow… Shia and I just met him a few hours ago at his house … Continue reading

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Guide to Kinokuniya in Singapore

Honey & Clover Vol. 8 rocked!!! (Okay, so I’m almost a year late…) For no particular reason, I shall talk about Kinokuniya in Singapore today. Bear with me here… Note: This image has nothing to do with Kinokuniya As you … Continue reading

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4chan does good for Finnish band

Remember that flash movie I posted here some time ago? Well apparently, the song was a 1995 remake of an old Finnish song by a band that had long gone inactive. However, due to 4chan and its crazy shenanigans, the … Continue reading

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Greensvale no Naka no Mori

So, I’m still alive. I think. School holiday is almost over… Sigh. I need sometime to recover from this depression period before I blog (semi-)regularly again. Anyway, Summer Days is out but somehow the entire world, or maybe just my … Continue reading

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Home Sweet Home

…not. Damn I’m missing Japan already. Gao… Anyway I just got back from the airport and I’m dead tired. Will blog more when I feel less dead.

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