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With only a few hours left till the new year I thought it would be a good idea to look back at 2009 as well as set some goals for 2010. I’ve seen this done on many other blogs and it seems like a good idea.
So 2009, this was a fairly big year for me. Here is a small list of some of the things that happened:
There has been quite a lot of snow here in the UK over the past few days. I decided to go out yesterday and see if I could get some good photos of it.
I took a lot and I don’t think there is a need for a long description, so enjoy.
(If you don’t want to scroll through you can view thumbnails here)
I’ve definitely been getting more and more into Vocaloid recently. I mean, I’ve been listening to songs for awhile now but it’s only the past month or so that I have started to take an interest in the producers and knowing who actually makes the different songs.
Yet another Vocaloid related album in my collection. This album was released last month though I only noticed it a couple of weeks ago. I ordered it from a site called otaku.com, I bought something from them around January but hadn’t been on the site since – but the service was very good last time so I didn’t have a problem ordering there. Sure enough it only took a few days to arrive.
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I’ve been thinking of getting a new console recently but can’t decide between the PS3 and Xbox 360. My main motivation for this is to play Final Fantasy Xiii when it comes out next year. Which console to get is a pretty tough choice and there seems to be lots of people for and against each one.
I haven’t done an update on my Japanese progress for awhile, so I thought it would be a good idea to do a post on where I’m currently at and things I’ve been up to.
I guess the first thing to say is that I finally worked through the whole of RTK. The 30 day goal I posted about awhile ago was both successful and unsuccessful. The whole thing kind of went wrong after a last minute planned trip to Paris which messed up my schedule and it was hard continuing straight away after that. However the momentum I had built up still kept me going and although it took a lot longer than 30 days I eventually finished. Where I am now with RTK is keeping up reviews and slowly breaking down my (rather large) failed pile.
Well… not really that related to Halloween but taken today nonetheless.
I was away in the peak district the whole of last week coming back this morning. Taking a break was quite nice – especially having no access to internet or my laptop. It was kind of bad not being able to do my Japanese reviews while away, but I’ve pretty much caught up on them now.
I have to say this has been a pretty good Autumn – hardly any rain and not too cold. The trees are really nice colours as well, lots of orange and red. I did take a lot of photos while away but very few came out well. I mentioned it in a different post that i would be trying to use manual mode on my camera as much as possible. At the moment when taking a picture I just tend to set it to some random settings and then adjust it depending on how it turns out – I think I’m slowly improving through this trial and error method. I’m also planning to read up a lot more guides to try and understand which settings will work better – hopefully I can eventually be a good photographer.
Anyway, now onto the photos I took today.
A few weeks ago I decided I was fed up with my useless earphones which caused my ears to hurt and had rubbish sound quality. I’ve been wanting a decent pair of headphones for awhile as I spend a lot of time listening to Japanese music as part of my language learning process.
I’ve been looking forward to these CDs for awhile as I pre-ordered them over a month ago. I was kind of hesitant to order them at first as they both contain several songs I already have on other albums. They are both pretty much made to go with each other so I felt I had get both of them which is fairly expensive, But because I ordered so early I could get the first press editions which both come with a poster so it was worth it.
I started this game recently. It was one of my impulse ebay buys when I saw it for a few quid and thought it looked alright. I got it a couple of months ago but haven’t touched it once – I was trying to finish Final Fantasy iii first but I just haven’t been able to get into that game at all.
