neko’s thinkbox

Tadaima, kaerimashita. Well, it took me a long time to do this. For some reason, I have been avoiding my own blog for over a month and a half… Don’t ask me why. Maybe I was in a state of oversaturation again… And that even if I was only following two series. Haven’t been in touch with anime ever since my last blog post. Well, maybe sorting out the hundreds of random episodes I have been downloading all this time. So… What am I going to tell you now? A lot of things, actually. Since it is too much, especially for such a run-on entry, I will divide the news into sense units after the jump.

Blogging matters… | Real Life… | Studying in Japan…

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Blogging matters…

1. The first news is that I will obviously resume my blogging, although I wonder if I can get back to anime this easily…
2. After giving it some serious thought, I decided to stop blogging Claymore. It’s really no fun trying to summarize and interpret a series where most of the readers already know from the manga what the next episodes will be like. Makes me feel like an idiot when others obviously know better (then again, I ask of people to correct me when I am wrong… man, I’m a hypocrit :P)
3. As for what series I will be blogging next is yet to be decided. Need to check around the existing series, although I suspect that most of them have quite a few aired episodes already…
4. Hmm here’s your mission. Give me a suggestion on what anime I should be blogging. Pretty please? I bet there are a few anime this season that aren’t covered (or not covered enough) by the other bloggers.

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Real Life…

1. Natsuyasumi (summer vacation) is long. Veeeeery long. But not as long as Longcat.
2. During this natsuyasumi, I spent most of the time playing Pangya. Yeah, couldn’t get rid of that addiction. Whenever I was fed up, I played Touhou to keep me distracted.
3. Anime? No, I started watching the US shows I used to despise a year ago. Latest addiction is 24 and House M.D. Remember, it’s NOT Lupus.
4. Went through a lemon cure to “detoxify my body”. How it works? Swallow the juice of one lemon (raw, ie. without thinning it into water, nor adding sugar, etc) the first morning, 2-3 hours before lunch. The second morning, it’s two lemons. The third morning, three lemons. And so on, for 10 days. Yes, on the tenth day you will have to drink the juice of 10 lemons. From that day on… the lemon count goes backwards. Meaning, Day 11 is 9 lemons, 12 is 8… Day 19 is the last day, where you will be back to one lemon. And after that you are cool. This treatment is very healthy since it brings you a lot of vitamin C in the morning, etc etc and apparently heals over a hundred small diseases and stuff…err like Psoriasis, Obesity, whatever my mum bought that book and I didn’t read it entirely yet. Caution, it is not recommended for people who suffer from stomach ulcers or low blood pressure.
5. How do I feel now? Honestly, it didn’t really work wonders. I do feel a bit invigorated after that, but I didn’t mutate into a superman (yet). Actually, I didn’t really want to get some kind of healing for some disease. I just felt like that would be a fun challenge to meet, to see if I could bear the juice of 10 lemons (around 500ml of juice… hard.). Since I could repeat that treatment 2 weeks after the first one, who knows, maybe I should redo it :D
6. Melty Blood Act Cadenza Ver. B = WIN. Cannot play without my beloved Hisui :3
7. Random stuff, uninteresting. That’s life for ya, huh.
8. Season 3! WHAT!!?!

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Studying in Japan…

1. As you might have forgotten, I am currently applying for a 5-year scholarship for undergraduate students to study in Japan. While the scholarship lasts for 5 years, the first year would obviously be an intensive Japanese course, followed by 4 years of… Media Studies. It was a random choice I made in a haste, because I was told that my first choices were too random or so.
2. Last Monday I had an exam at the Japanese embassy in Luxembourg. They tested me in English, Maths and Japanese. English exam went perfectly well, Maths on the opposite was a real disaster, and Japanese went much better than I had imagined - there was Japanese A, B and C, and A and B were understandable since there was Hiragana transcription over the Kanji… C was too complicated for me. I also had an interview with two representatives of the embassy and one of the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg.
3. While I was having a bad feeling about this, I got a mail from one of the representatives saying that they wanted to recommend me to the Japanese Government… I am honored. Then again, I needed tons of documents from my former High School, which is unfortunately closed until the end of August. The deadline being the 27th of August, I was in a pinch. But luckily we found a compromise, and I’m really thankful to all the people who helped me out these past few days.
4. Results will be out in January only… Meaning, I would have nothing to do in the meantime. That’s why I decided to apply for a semester of English language at the local University of Luxembourg. This will cover by back in case I won’t be granted the scholarship for Japan, in that case I would continue in this direction and eventually study either in the UK or in the US (only to reapply for a scholarship for one Year in Japan XD).
5. If I am granted the scholarship, then… YATTA! and I will be off to Japan next April. But until then……………. We’ll have to see. Patience…

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That should be all for now. Of course, I will be whoring this entry in the #ab channel so those who forgot me will have to remember me. If you don’t, you suck ^^

Don’t forget about recommending me some anime to blog about, because I am lazy as heck at the moment to check each of the anime in my folder and to compare it with blogging coverage… I bet you know one or two series that aren’t being or not sufficiently covered in the blogosphere…. Got a poker tourney now, l8r.