2010

Thinking back on 2010, Lately it's been sucky, but when I think about it it really wasn't that bad of a year...
I've had the greatest experience of my life, going to Japan, enjoying the summer comiket, Akihabara, Maid Café. I've also had good time with Elisa, even if it did not last long. Anime north was great, G-anime sucked but oh well, what do you expect...

This year was bad on the love side, I mean I did have good time with Elisa, but it was at the start of the year, since then everything went bad...
It was mainly a bad political year in the land of the Quebec's Anime community. Lot's of hypocrisy, lots of lie, lots of useless and baseless little wars... I just don't give a shit about that anymore.

Made good friends, and good enemy...
Lots of good music got released, lots of crappy games too.
Lot's of awesome Anime, and the best Anime movie of all time.
I guess I'm complaining for nothing,
Let's all hope for an even better 2011! (Japan again I hope :D)

Comiket 79 is coming up!

Comiket 79 is coming up pretty fast, lots of new albums, especially awesome collabs coming, IOSYS&TANO*C is up there on my list, but the Album that makes me impatient right now is Kimino-Museum's second episode of Viator de Memoria. God I can't wait... I still have this awesome feeling when I listen to the first one, I sure hope episode 2 will be up to my expectations!

My to get list:
[君の美術館] Viator de Memoria Episode II
[君の美術館] Black Rock Museum 2
[Albatrosicks] MERGE THE STRAWBERRY !
[IOSYS vs HARDCORE TANO*C] dont know album name but this will be awesome
[IOSYS] 東方云符不普
[IOSYS x JOYSOUND] - 霧雨レクイエム
[SOUND HOLIC] 文 -BUN-
[いえろ～ぜぶら] 東方詠劫歌 ～Point and Eternity～
[5150] - シンフォニック東方Ⅳ
[ALiCE's EMOTiON x Alstroemaria Records x Sound Online] - THE TROIS PROJECT
[Hardcore TANO*C] TANO*C REMIXES 2
[HARDCORE TANO*C] Nanosecond Eternity
[豚乙女] 縁 (Ranko)
[豚乙女] 東方猫鍵盤2 (Paprika)
[Iron Attack] Poltergeist
[Girl's short hair] 幻想輪廻
[Silver Forest] 永き夜のロンド
[TAMUSIC] マクロスFinale-フィナーレ
[TAMUSIC] 東方弦奏歌-Sister-
[C-CLAYS] 煌彩 -KOUSAI-
[C-CLAYS] 氷凛 HYO-RIN
[Sync.Art's] Sweet&Fluffy
[Sync.Art's] ATTRACTOR
[Halozy] Cosmic Armonica
[Halozy] Halozy Remixes vol.1
[Syrufit x Cytokine] Dead man's hand (Cytokine CD), Love Hearts (Syrufit CD)
[Syrufit] - Live A-Round
[Innocent Key] 叙聖のクオリア
[Innocent Key] ココボクMUSICPARTY

Good thing I'm not in japan again... while less impressive than my summer list, it would still have ruined me!

Edit: strike trough of what I got so far.

Pourquoi vous devriez boycotter G-Anime

La prochaine convention d'Anime au Québec est G-Anime... elle se passe en février... mais vous ne devriez pas y aller.

Pourquoi? après tout, même une convention qui est poche et mal organisé peut être vraiment le fun parce que se sont les fans qui font le 'fun factor' dans les conventions n'est-ce pas?
C'est ce que je me disait moi même, et c'est la raison pourquoi je VOULAIS aller a G-Anime, malgré les énormes faiblesses et lacune de cette conventions, on est quand même capable d'avoir du fun car les fans présent sont amusant, et on a tous plein d'amis dans ces conventions. Et c'est bien de revoir nos amis durant ces évènements.

Mais selon l'organisateur même de cet évènement, j'aurais tord et les fans ne font pas une bonne convention, alors pourquoi irai-je a G-Anime si j'ai tord et que G-anime n'a pas ses fans pour la sauver de son organisation.

Plusieurs personnes connaissent déjà Luc Biron, c'Est lui la tête pensante derrière G-anime (ou l'étais au cours des 2 dernières années du moins, je n'ai pas vérifié l'état des fait cet année). Il est plus connu sur l'internet sous le Pseudonyme de CardMaster. Oui Oui! Vous le replacez maintenant? Celui qui chiale tout le temps contre tout les autres conventions et pour qui la seule façon de faire de la publicité a sa convention est de rabaisser les autres? Ou celui qui vous a vu avec un appareil photos moyenne au haute gamme et qui est venu vous dire que votre appareil est poche parce que le sien est meilleur.

Personnellement je n'ai pas l'intention d'encourager un évènement qui ne fait que rabaissé tout les autres et qui s'impose dans les autres évènements. Désolé a tout mes amis que je ne verrai pas a cette convention... bien que quand j'y pense la plus part d'entre vous boycottez déjà G-Anime donc il n'y en aura pas tant que sa que je ne verrez pas!

Désolé aussi a ceux qui venais me parlé quand Luc approchais afin de pouvoir l'évitez, vous devrez trouver un autre moyen ^^;

Very late review of 'Endless Seeker'

Here is my (Very Late) Review of SOUND HOLIC's C78 release, featuring 709sec. "Endless Seeker".

So, for those who did not know, 709sec has been the main male vocalist for SOUND HOLIC for a while already, so why does it say feat, 709sec.? Because he was the one who arranged every songs on the album.

This release is a Touhou Arrange release, and is very metallical in nature, in good old SOUND HOLIC fashion. If you liked "Phantom Dreamer" and "Metallical Astronomy", this album is for you.

I was in line for 1:30 during comiket to get my hands on this album, and it was totally worth it. It's the album I've listened to the most since that. Every song on this album is a hit. The album start strong with a remix of a song from a previous album (Night Bird from 永 -TOKOSHIE- ) called "Night Bird EX". This remix takes an already pretty good song and put it up there in my all time favourite songs. It is actually my favourite song on an album filled with excellent songs. While it can be said for most of the album, I think that this song is almost guilty by itself of giving me that urge I got recently of wanting to buy a Drum. Ken☆Ken's Drumming and abuse of the hi-hat gives me orgasm from my ear.
709Sec.'s Engrish is as awesome as ever. I don't think anyone else than him could misspell stuff like this and make it sound so epic.

It would be very long to tell about every song of the album since they are all pretty much awesome songs. The only song that is not 5 starred in my iTunes from this album right now is "Aura Ole" which is still a very good song, just not as incredible as the others.

I will however talk about "FIRE FLOWER" since it was the song from the PV released for this album that you can watch here:


While the PV isn't that impressive animation wise, the drawing are really nice. But this is a musical review so what we want to know is: Is the song good, and does it represent the album accurately?
Yes to both question, While not the best song on the album according to my taste, the drum, voice and general melody and performance of the song is all top-notch. This time 709Sec. sings half in Japanese and half English, so there's less Engrish in the song, except for the 'rap' part of the song. The drum is very powerful in the song and so is the guitar. the way 709Sec. shout 'FIRE FLOWER' is pretty epic tough, so if sometime you ear me shout this for no reason, I'm not thinking about Mario's fire flower, but about this song or Mokou.

While almost every song on this album is awesome (I have never given so many 5 stars on an album before) as a whole, there isn't a sense of unity in the album, and that would be the only negative point to the album.
so it gets 9.5/10
It really is a must listen.
You can ear the cross fade here: http://www.sound-holic.com/mp3/SDHC_CF_Demo21.mp3
See the website for the album here: http://www.sound-holic.com/_c78_list.html
and listen to the PV above.

Answer to my last post.

So I've had a lot of comments about my last post (IRL and on MSN mostly) and I've decided to explain some things...

First: Love brings more pain than it can bring happiness: OVERALL.
meaning, even if some people are very very lucky and gets more happiness from it, if you add everyone, there will be more pain.

Second: I still think that love is worth the pain, considering the world we live in.
I will probably never stop fighting, and giving my all, in my quest for what I call love.

Of course I had much more than that to say, but since I waited too long, well I forgot about it!

Love brings way more pain than it can ever bring happiness

For MOST relationship there is always 3 periods, some only have two, but most have 3, here they are:

1. The flirting/dating/pre-relation stuff
2. The Relation
3. Post relation either due to breaking or death.

 In some case there is not step 1 because couple are just formed on the go, but usually these dont last that long, however there are some examples of couple formed without the step-1, or with a very short step 1 that lasted for a long time.

Most of the time the step 1 is lived only by 1 of the 2 person involved in the relationship and end up being being painful for both if the step 2 is never reached. Of all the relations that were ever started, a vast majority never reach step 2 and this cause a lot of pain to be felt by both involved parties. The one who is in love, will feel pain for not being loved back, and this pain will be as big as his love was. The more love there was the more pain there is, but this is exponential to a point because some of the people who will never reach step 2 with their loved one will keep staying there, forever, hoping that one day she/he will look back at her/him with the same love. All this time, pain was felt, for both side, because seeing someone that loves you so much, but that you just don't like, is painful in a way too. It's not easy to know that you are going to crush someone's heart.

If/Once step 2 is reached, there is happiness, a lot of it, especially in the first days, and if the couple was really meant to be it will last... for a while. But nothing is forever, while there is a very little microscopic small chance that the two lovers will die at the same moment, this chance is so low that we can safely consider it inexistent. So one day, this happiness will be broken, either by love becoming non-existent from one side, or by the death of one of them.

Step 3: after the relationship
when a couple is breaking, there is always more pain felt from one side than the other. There is always someone who will still be in love, someone who still believe it was for life and that they should not break. Pain will be felt, and it can take up to forever to completely heal from this. Some people will spend their life mourning their first love, while it does not make them unable to love again, this feeling will always stay. And even on the side of the one who is breaking the couple, it's not easy there, and hurt too.

I have personally felt what kind of pain is related to having your love die, but My father died, and it hurts, I can only begin to imagine how much it must hurt, when the person you love the most in the world die, and how long it hurt.

So While happiness is brought by love, it will never be enough to surpass all the pain it cause in the world.

Of course this text do not apply to DOUCHEBAGS, since they can date/fuck/ho out with tons of people, without caring. Well fuck you I don't want of your false love, it's more empty than my pain anyway.

君の美術館(Kimino-Museum) - Viator de memoria - Episode I -

This is one of the album I could not get my hand on during Comiket. It was sold out when I got to Kimino-museum's table. It took a while before it got out on the interwebs, but since I've downloaded it I can't stop listening to it. I'm clearly gonna get it, whatever it takes.
So here comes my first CD review from C78 (yeah im late) and also my first review on anything for a while, other should be coming eventually I guess, but probably only after Halloween since I've got to work hard on my costume!

First thing, Viator de memoria, while being sold at C78, by a Circle who does Touhou arrange, is not a Touhou arrange. It's an Original album, containing it's own world and own story. And it's pretty important since the album is a story told to the listener. I don't understand japanese that much so far, but from what I got by listening to it over and over again, the story is about a girl who buy a watch from a shop, and the watch contain the memories of other people, who apparently had a tragedy, and a love triangle.

This story driven album is strong in emotions, and even if you do not understand japanese, the performance of the musical genius that are Kimino-museum will make you feel these emotions, The singer are just perfect, the harmony created by the singers, singing different verse, all at the same time, conveying different feelings, It's just wonderful. The lead singer, Cherose, is simply as it's best, delivering a strong performance, full of emotions. Most people ignore this but Cherose suffer from asthma, it's not written anywhere, I was ust witness to it while I was seing them live, between songs he had to use an inhalator. This doesn't stop him from singing long and powerful notes full of emotion.

fi-fy and 723 playing Eris and Ceres and also giving a wonderful performance and often sing together to create an astonishing harmony. I'm personally a big fan of fi-fy since I saw her live, she's just so cute, and her voice if so nice. Her performance on this album is up to my expectation, and actually has even made me a greater fan of her... however, I didn't really care about 723 before this, now I'm also a fan of her.

This album carry a mood with it. There is a lot of piano, and even if it's not a fast beat, the drum is always there to intensify the mood. PHEVOTT (piano, guitar and accordion) composed the music from the album and did a wonderful job, especially with the vocal harmony wich is the strongest point of the album.

The only negativ point I see with that album is that it is a little short, and the story is unfinished at the end... that's why it's episode 1. I want to ear episode 2 already!

10/10

You can listen to a preview of the album here: http://www.kimino-museum.com/memoria_ep1/demo_memoria_cf.mp3

The information page for the album is here: http://www.kimino-museum.com/memoria_ep1/
and the website of Kimino-Museum is here: http://www.kimino-museum.com/

Tags on the blog.

I spent some time editing all the tabs on the blog so they are now bilingual, also all post will have a tag for which language they are written so if you just want to see English posts, just click on the 'Post in English' tag on the left.

OMG! It's a new post!

Ok, sorry everyone I haven't posted since I've been back from japan. Lots of stuff happened, I broke with my GF like 3 weeks ago (my notion of time sucks as always). We both decided it was over, it was done nicely and we are still very good friends so do not worry about that.

I had lots of albums from Comiket to listen to, so I'm definitely not gonna review them, but I am gonna review SOUND HOLIC's Endless Seeker, which is probably one of the best album I've ever heard.

Japan was awesome and I really miss it. Sometimes I have flashes of memory that comes to me when I do different stuff, and then I feel nostalgic, and just want to go back already... I am definitely going to go back, but I hope I will not be alone this time.

Lots of other stuff happened more recently, which is actually the main reason why I have no written here yet... but I wont enter in the details of it, there is still some information that needs to be hidden.

When there is an awesome goal to achieve, when the prize is that wonderful, You just got to keep trying, never give up. Keep fighting until the end, until all of you spirit is completely destroyed, and even then, just keep going because in the end, it'll all be worth it!

Leaving

So　thats it.　im leaving in 7 hours but my checkout is now so ill hang arond tokyo for 7 hours with these big luggages lol.
It was really awesome.
Thanks for reading everyone!

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Sa fait que cest sa! Je quitte dans 7 heures mais mon check out est tusuite, fak jva me promener dans tokyo pebdabt 7h avec mes grosse valises lol.
Cetais vraiment geniale!
Merci davoir lu tout le monde!

Comiket day 3

More picture added, cosplay only this time, I only went 2 hours, the sun was burning me too much. I also went back to Akihabara, and bought one of the CD I couldnt get on Day 2.

It's my last day. Tomorow I take the plane back to Quebec. I don't want to, but oh well. I loved my trip, and I will surely come back... many times!

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J'ai ajouter plus de photo, du cosplay seulement cette foi, et je n'y suis aller que 2 heures, le soleile me brulais trop. Je suis aussi retourné a Akihabara, et j'ai acheter une des CD que je n'avais pas trouvé au jour 2.

C'Est ma derniere journée en terre nippone, demain je reprend l'avion pour québec. Je ne veut pas mais bon... j'ai adoré mon voyage et je compte bien revenir... plusieurs fois!

Insanity day 2

Sincèrement, ya aucun mot pour décrire le comiket, le vrai, le samedi, la fin de semaine. Imaginer la foule au show sur les pleins le plus populaire, faites x3 ou 4, mais en plus civilisé. rajouter a sa l'humidité accablante du japon, la sueur qui coule de partout. Sa vous donne une idée de l'ambiance. C'est vraiment fou.

Mais j'ai survécu, meme si j'ai passer proche de m'évanouir une foi.
Et j'ai réussi a parlé a Miko! et je lui ai dit que sa voie étais la plus belle au monde! Elle est tellement cute irl, sa voie est tellement belle, KKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAWWWWWWAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIII.
D'ailleurs c'est apres sa que j'ai faillit m'évanouir, mais c'est pas relier, c juste a cause de déshydratation :P

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Realy, there's no word to describe Comiket, the real one, saturday. Imagine the biggest crowd you've seen at any live event you've been, now add 3 more times as much, but more controlled. Add to this the humidity of japan, and the sweat from everyone. It might give you a little idea of what it looks like. It's really insane.

But I survived! Even if I almost fainted once.
And I was able to speak with Miko! And I told her she has the most beautiful voice in the world! She's so freakingly cute IRL, and her voice really is beautiful! KKKKKKKAAAAAAAWWWWWAAAAAIIIIIII!!!!!
Actually, it's just after that that I almost fainted, but it was not related, it was because of dehydration.

Comiket day 1

Comiket is awesome, today was probably Yaoi day tough, so lots of yoai doujinshi. I uploaded the pictures, but we got there kind of late so you wont see the super long waiting line... tomorrow tough i'm taking the first train so I will live this waiting line!

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Le Comiket est vraiment géniale! Malheureusement, aujourd'hui devais probablement etre la journée Yaoi, alors un peu trop de Doujinshi yaoi.  J'ai uploader les photos, mais nous sommes arriver asser tard alors vous ne verrez pas les photo de la super longe file d'atente. Demain cependant, j'y vais au premier train et je vais vivre cette file d'atente!

Kimino-Museum

Finally the show I went to see, wasn't just a show, it was a festival, so there was 11 band and it lasted 8 hours. It was awesome, but I didn't eat and I was tired at the end. Lots of good bands, but not enough time from each. Like 3-5 song each band. Kimino-Museum show was the best, there were at the top, and they played my 3 favorite songs. It took 2 hours to come back so now it's really late, and comiket is tomorow, so Good night!

Finallement le show que j'allais voir, c'étais pas seulement un show, c'étais un festival. Alors il y avais 11 band et sa a durer 8h. C'étais géniale, mais j'ai pas manger et jetais vraiment fini a la fin. Beaucoup de bn groupes, mais pas asser de temps pour chaqu'un d'eux. Genre 3-5 tounes chaques. La partie de Kimino-Museum  etais la meilleurs, c'étais incroyable, il's sont vraiment hot live. C'est juste plate que sa aye pas durer plus longtemp, mais ils ont jouer mes 3 tounes préféré :D
Sa a pris 2heures revenir du show, je suis extenuer et demain c'est le comiket, alors, Bonne nuit!

PS: J'ai besoin d'un lift pour mon retour, nuit de lundi a mardi, a minuit.

All Maid cafe are not born equals.

So I had a little money I could spend on maid café, so I went to a new one. It sucked, almost no service and... gaijin maids... WTF. So i left, and went back to the first maid café. Ichi-chan is so cute ^^ .

Today I also went to Ueno park and Shibuya... There nothing to see in shibuya except for the big crossing so here's a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E2DJlhXjA

Ueno is so big, the park has multiple shrine, and things to see, it's also pretty peaceful considering the number of people and tourist there.
I uploaded pictures of both places.

I also uploaded pictures of other place I went but didn't get a blog update.

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Finalement j'avais asser d'argent pour me permettre un Maid café, alors j'ai été a un nouveau... c'étais a chier. Pratiquement pas de service... et des Maid pas japonaise? WTF? Alors je suis retourné au premier maid café. Ichi-chan est tellement cute ^^.

Aujourd'hui je suis aussi aller a Shibuya et Ueno. Ya rien a voir a Shibuya a part la croisé de rue ou tout le monde passe alors voici un video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E2DJlhXjA

Ueno est vraiment enorme, le park contient plusieurs shrine et plusieurs autres choses a voir. C'Est aussi tres paisible, surtout en considérant le nombre de persone et de touriste présent.
J'ai uploader les photo des 2 endroits et aussi les photos d'autre endroits que j'ai visiter mais qui n'ont pas eu de post sur le blog.

Lack of updates

Sorry I don't update the blog more often, but I'm exhausted when I come back at the hotel. I do upload my pictures still so you can check it out!

Désolé je n'update pas le blog souvent, mais je suis exténuer quand je revien a l'hotel. J'upload quand meme mes photo alors allez les voirs!

Shinjuku

I took the wrong train for roppongi, and decided to go with the flow and go out where everyone else would... Well Shinjuku is corlorfull, but a stranger alone in there is a prey for the protitution market.  got stopped by 3 Macros and 1 gril who spoke of something that lasted 7 minutes, so I left.

I hated shinjuku very much.
I uploaded the pictures from Akihabara and Shinjuku.

Jme suis tromper de train pour Roppongi et j'ai decider de juste débarquer ou tout le monde débarquerais... Tout le monde est sorti a Shinjuku. Shinjuku est tout plein de couleurs et de lumiere, mais etre un etranger seul la dedans c'Est etre une proi pour le marché de la prostitution. Je me suis fait aborder par 3 macro, et 1 fille qui parlais de quelque chose de 7 minute. Je suis parti
J'ai detester Shinjuku.

J'ai uploader les photo de Akihabara et de shinjuku.

Akihabara, ou comment se ruiner en tres peu de temps

Soooo, I finally went to Akihabara... It's wonderfull, It's all i've been dreaming of... Maid cafe are SO FUCKING AWESOME, I got a freaking Moe overdose. KYAAAAAA

But... Akihabara is also really expensive... especially the maid cafe... I'll be on a strict budget for the rest of my trip.

I went into doujins shop, including the one they go to in Genshiken... it's... wow... your eyes just get raped, and then you ask for more... it's a good thing buying most of these would have gotten me in trouble at the custom so I didnt buy any...

The saying that, the more you go far from the main street, and the higher you get in the stories, the cheaper it'll be, is kind of true but... Once i've finally got the feel of what Akiba is... when I noticed "omg this is so cheap" is also the moment I noticed, I was out of money!

Don't worry I had left most of my money at the hotel, so I'm ok :P

I took a couple of picture but there's nothing really to see, you have to live it to feel it.
I'm going to Roppongi now, I'll upload pictures later.

Bon, je suis finallement aller a Akihabara... C'est merveilleux! C'Est tout ce dont j'ai rever... les Maid cafe sont TELLEMENT FUCKING AWESOME, jai eu une overdose de moe! KYAAAAAAA!!!!

Mais Akihabara est aussi tres dispendieu, surtout le maid café... Je vais etre sur un budget plus serrer pour le reste de mon voyage!

Je suis allé dans des Doujin shop, incluant celui u ils vont dans Genshiken... c'est... wow... tes yeux se font carréement violer par tout ce qu'il y a autour, mais tu en redemande! Heureusement que ramener quoi que ce soit de ces magasin puisse me metre dans le trouble au douanes, car je serais ruiner maitenant.

La rumeur qui dit que plus tu t'éloigne de la rue principale, et plus tu monte dans les etages, plus le prix sera bas, et vraie. Mais. Quand tu comprend enfin le fonctionnement de Akiba, quand tu te dit 'Omg c'Est vraiment moin cher ici!' c'est aussi le moment que tu te rend compte qui te reste pu d'argent!

Ne vous inquietez pas, javais laissez de l'argent en masse a l'hotel, je suis pas dans le trouble :P

J'ai pris quelques photos, mais ya pas grand choses a voir, faut vraiment le vivre.
Je vais a Roppongi maitenant, j'uploaderais les photos plus tard!

Osaka

first day: Osaka castle
The castle is hard to get too, very high, but it's very beautiful... on the outside, inside it's just a regular museum.

we ate in a cafe with maids, but not a maid cafe.
The street we were on was the busiest of the city, it's awesome to look at... and I think I got a taste of what tokyo will be when I finally move around.

every 1 in 10 shop is an arcade, and every arcade has also slot mahicnes (pachinko) in it.

In the evening Hisaki-san's daughter came with us to eat and sing at the karaoke. Both of them have a nice voice, it was a really fun evening.

day 2: more wandering in the city, pretty much the same, nothing more to say.

http://picasaweb.google.com/doshurikn/OsakaDay1#
http://picasaweb.google.com/doshurikn/OsakaDay2#

Premier jour: Chateau d'Osaka.
Le chateau est vraiment dur d'acess. Il est tres elever, mais tres beau... de l'exterieur, a l'interieur ce n'est qu'un simple musee.

Nous avons manger dans un cafe ou il y avais des maids, mais ce n'etais pas un maid café.
La rue ou nous etion etais la plus occupé d'osaka, c'Est vraiment impressionant de voir tout ce monde qui groille partout. Je crois que sa me donne un bon avant gout de ce que sera Tokyo quand je commencerais a visiter un peu.

A peu pres 1/10 des shop est un arcade, et ils ont tous des slot machine (pachinko) dedans.

En soiré la fille d'Hisako-san est venu nous rejoindre pour souper et pour du Karaoke!
Les 2 ont de tres belle voix et sont tres gentilles, ce fut une soirée tres agréable.

Jour 2:  Plus de promenage dans la ville, un peu la meme chose que la journée d'avant, rien de plus a dire.

http://picasaweb.google.com/doshurikn/OsakaDay1#
http://picasaweb.google.com/doshurikn/OsakaDay2#

Kyoto Day 2, Ayarashima!

Day 2 in kyoto started with a quick visit to the International Kyoto Manga Museum. There was a Range Murata exposition that was very nice, and 1 room wich explained history of manga. Guides were available for french and english. However the museum was more like a big library and not of big interest (except for the Range Murata exposition wich was awesome.

After that I met with Hisako-san and we took the train for Arashiyama, a little town a little north of kyoto. 

At the arrival I tryed a foot onsen... a very hot bath for the feets. I dont understand why japanese loves very hot bath that much, especially when it's so hot... but it did feel good for my sore feets.

After visiting the stores around there we went to the Tenryu-ji temple. The temple is nice, but what is more impressive is what they call the garden... I would call it a little forest. It's really huge and beautiful.

After leaving the temple we went to take a lunch and I could finally taste what I want to taste for so long. A real japanese Curry. IT TASTE WONDERFULL. The curry at the Phoenix in quebec city is really not even close to this.

After this we wandered around the town, the many shops, and the bridge. 

2 japanese style meal were included with my hotel room, so I ate alone... traditional japanese food. I didn't even know how to eat most of that stuff... and it wasn'T that good except maybe for that one surprise I got... I eated an Eel... yes an Eel... im still surprised.

In the evening we went on a boat in the river to watch the Ukai. Ukai is how japanese fishing with cormoran is called. I don't think japanese are the only one doing this, but it's stil impressive seeing the japanese doing it.

That sums up kyoto day 2.

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Jour 2 dans kyoto. Commence par une courte visite au musée international de manga de Kyoto. Il y avais une exposition sur Range Murata, et une piece qui racontais l'histoire du manga, mais a part sa c'étais plus une grosse bibliotheque de manga que d'autre choses. L'information etais disponible en francais et en anglais. L'exposition sur Range Murata etais vraiment superbe.

Apres cela j'ai rejoin Hisaki-san et nous avons pris le train pour Arayashima. En arrivant j'ai prit un Onsen pour pied... un genre de gros bain geant super chaud pour les pied. Je ne comprend toujours pas l'obsession des japonais a se tremper dans de l'eau chaude, surtout quand il fait aussi chaud, mais sa a quand meme fait du bien a mes pieds.

Apres avoir visité les magasin pres de la gare, nous sommes allés visité le temple Tenryu-ji. Le temple est tres beau mais c'est surtout ce qu'ils appellent son 'Jardin' qui est impressionant. J'apellerais plus sa une petite foret aménager. C'est enorme et tres beau.

Apres avoir quitter le temple nous sommes aller mager et j'ai finalement pu gouter a ce que j'avais tant hate de gouter, du curry japonais! Et c'Est excellent! Le curry du Phoenix n'arrive pas a la cheville du vrai curry.

Apres cela nous avons visitez la ville, les magasins et le pont(celebre).

2 repas de style japonais etais inclu dans le prix de mon hotel donc j'ai manger un souper de style traditionel japonais sans trop savoir comment... sa goutais moyen, a part p-e pour ma grande surprise, j'ai manger de la couleuvre... je pense... j'en suis encore surpris.

Dans la soiré nous somme allée sur un bateau et nous avons assister au Ukai. Ukai et le nom donné a la peche au cormorant japonaise. Bien que je ne crois pas que seul les japonais pechent au cormoran, c'Est impressionant de le voir fait par des japonais.

Voila qui resume mon jour #2 a kyoto.

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kyoto day two, osaka day 1 and 2

Too tired and not enough time to talk about it now, goo see the pictures!
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Trop fatiguer et pas asser de temp pour en parlé maitenant. Allez voir les photos!

Ajustement sur kyoto day 1!

So the name of the castle I went is Nijo castle, not Naji.
The women you can see on a lot of picture is Hisako Tatsumi. She is a Jazz singer, and helped me in my travel in kyoto and Osaka.
The name of the big shrine I went to the first day is Heian Junga.

Le nom du chateau que j'ai visité la premiere journée étais Nijo et non Naji, désolé.
La femme que vous voyez sur plusieur des photos est Hisako Tatsumi. Elle est une chanteuse Jazz, et elle ma aider dans mon voyage a Kyoto et Osaka.
Le nom du gros shrine que j'ai visité le premierjour est Heian Junga.

Pictures for the first day in kyoto are here.
Les photos du premieres jours sont ici.

My Whole hurt.

My first day in Kyoto was great, but I dont have much time to talk so Ill go fast.
Went to Naji caster, this caster is a world tresaure, it has seen the rise and fall of kyoto. Its great and I took a bunch of pictures outside, because no picture was allowed inside.

Then I went to a temple which I forgot the name of, this thing is huge!
I paid hommage to the god (bow bow clap clap bow) and bought there papers with your luck written on it. I have a little luck (which mean im lucky). The Miko was so cute but I couldnt take a picture of her.

After　this we went through Gion but we were late so we just passed by, I wish we could have　spend more time there, no pictures.

The food I ate today was awesome. Shabu Shabu here tase a million times better than in montreal.


Ma pemiere journee a Kyoto etais superbe mais je manque de temp pour en parler donc je vais faire vite.
Nous sommes aller au Naji castle, ce chateau est un tresore mondiale, il a vu la naissance et la fin de kyoto en tant que capitale. Jai pris plusieur photos de lexterieur du chateu mais les photo etais interdites a linterieur.

Apres sa nous sommes aller a un temple dont jai aublier le nom, il etais vraiment immense. jai payer hommage au dieux (bow bow clap clap bow) et jai achete un papier avec ma chace decrit dessu. apparament jai une petite chance (ce qui veut dire que je suis chanceux). La miko etais vraiment tres cute mais elle na pas voulu que je prenne une photo :(

Apres cela nous sommes aller a Gion, mais comme nous manquions de temp nous navont fait que passer. jaurais vraiment souhaiter y passer plus de temp car cet endroiit semble vraiment magnifique. aucune photo.

La nouriture ici est extraordinaire. Le Shabu Shabu goute 1 million de fois meilleur qua montreal.

Arrivé a Tokyo!

Je sait plus trop quel heure il est a québec, il est présentement 9:30 a tokyo...

L'avion a bien été, j'ai pas aimé l'expériance de l'Aréoport de Narita =/
Mon hotel est dans un trou, pi ma chambre est minuscule!
J'ai aublier le film de ma camera fak je pourais pas transferer mes photos...
mais au moin j'ai linternet dans ma chambre!
sauf que....
J'ai pas de prise electrique!
la ptite madame a l'entré est vraiment fine.
Kyoto demain! J'espere que sa va aller mieu!
Je peut pas uploader mes photos de mon apareil mais je peut a moin prendre une photo de ma chambre avec ma webcam.

I don't know what time is it for you, but it's almost 10pm here. 

The plane was nice, but I didn't like my experience at Narita's airport.

My hotel is so far from everything, my room is so small.

I forgot my Camera's cable so I won't be able to tranfer pictures.

But at least I got the internet in my room!...

but I dont have any power outlet!

The lady at the front desk is really nice.

Kyoto tomorow! I hope things will go better.

I can't upload pictures from myy camera, but I ca at least take a picture of my room with my webcam! (see above)

Time to go!

That's it! I'm leaving today for Japan, next time I write here I will be in the land of my dreams. Considering the path this blog will take I will translate my text in French for the people who can't read English well. But both version will still say the same so nobody will miss anything :)

Something incredible hapenned. Kimino-museum are doing a Live while I'll be in japan, so I wanted to go see them but I was unable to purchase a ticket on their website due to my inability to provide a Japanese address. So I wrote them a mail and they answered me, So i'm on the VIP list for the show! Isn't that awesome :D.

Well... See you all later !

C'est finalement le moment! Je part aujourd'hui pou le japon! La prochaine foi que j'écrirais ici, je serais au pays de mes rêves (sa sonne moins bien en français sa).
Je vais faire mes post en français ET en anglais pour la durée de mon voyage pour que ceux d'entre vous qui comprennent mal l'anglais puisse me suivre quand même.

Il est arrivé quelque chose de awesome, Le band Kimino-museum donne un live au japon pendant que j'y serais et ayant été incapable d'acheter des billets sur leur site pour cause d'incapacité a fournir une adresse japonaise, je leur ai écrit un e-mail. Et bien ils mont réécrit et je suis sur la liste des invitée VIP pour leur show! C'est tu pas awesome sa :D

A la prochaine tout le monde!

204 hour left before I board the plane.

I'm leaving for Japan in 204 hours, I'm really starting to get nervous.
Going to Japan has been my dream for a while already, anyone that ever spoke to me for more than 30 mins know how obsessed I am with Japan. I'm finally going there!

As you know I will try to update this blog every day while I will be over there, I'll also be posting picture to my Picasa album which is located here. (nothing to see there yet)

Started doing my luggage. I hope I won't forget anything... even If I get the feeling that I will.

If anyone has some ideas on what I should not forget please feel free to post in the comment section, it would be greatly appreciated.

ii otenki desu ne?

IT SO FUCKING HOT I WANT TO DIE.

Angel Beats' Review - written in tears

So, I just finished watching Angel Beats... while at first it may seem to be a pretty average Anime, the more you get in the more awesome it becomes. Tears are rolling on my face as I am writing this, so My review will probably not be very objective, but... the story is so beautiful and touching. The serie is funny at the right place, and so cute and sad... and sweet and... bbbaawwwwwwwwwwww.....

Kanade (Tenshi - the girl on the right) is really awesome.
While  you can predict the ending will be sad from very early into the Anime, the ending itself isn't that predictable. Some people didn't like the ending, I loved it.

For a the morons out there that believe there will be a season 2, that's because you actually didn't understand the Anime at all.

I don't really have much more to say, considering my state after watching this... while it it sad and cute, it's not sad in a "omg it's so sad I'm gonna die" ef or Nana can be, it's too cute for that.... but I'm still shocked after watching it... It a must see for anyone with a heart.
10/10

Blog's new style

Well I updated the blog's style. I made the top picture with chibis I found on the web, I learned not to hate GIMP anymore in the process.

I'm also writing this with blogger's new post editor... so far I can't see anything new but oh well. Maybe I need to add pictures and stuff to see what's new...

The style might still change again... I like the picture at the top so I made the title unreadable in order to see the picture, but I might change that later on, but really who cares about the title.

Nothing more to say and time to go to work!

Blogger's update and update about the blog

I have not been coming to my blog for a while, but a lot happened... so much that I did not know what to write... so I come back here and see that there's a new awesome template designer, so my blog's gonna change face soon.

Also this place is gonna be my Travel's journal when I leave to japan on July 31.

I'm still gonna try to write a couple of things here before I leave... while I know almost nobody is reading this here, some see it in buzz, and also some will see it in the future.

...
Since I'm writing I should actually do an update on me too. I went to Anime North, It was awesome, I got new friends, deepened friendship with some old friends and I got a girlfriend too now!
She's so sweet and incredible. She represented Canada in floristry at Worldskill internationals 2009 and finished 7th in the world, just 5 points behind a bronze medal, that's pretty awesome, and she's also international master in masquerades (cosplay).

Being proud of his girlfriend feels nice.

On another news, I'm still a Touhou freak, I still love Touhou, and I will spend a lot of money on Touhou when I go to COMIKET this summer. YES COMIKET! FUCK YEAH!
I'm also gonna go see Maximum the hormone and Kimino-museum while I'll be in japan! God I can't wait!!!!!!

I've got some advancement at my job... well not really, but kinda... I might be a floor lead soon, if we get a project that don't interfere with my travel. But even If I don't get the job I'm still happy because of all the good comments I got about my job, it feels good to be appreciated.

Nothing more to say for now!

Innocent Key - 東方セレブ

Reitaisai 7's release from Innocent Key, 東方セレブ (Touhou Celeb).
The preview videos for the album were great so I had been expecting this one for a while, but only crappy version was available on the web until yesterday. You can see the videos on the album's page on Innocent Key's website here.

The album in a whole is pretty average, most of the song are so~so and the engrish in some is simply awful, A handful l of song manage to save the album. Of course the two song from the videos, 東方格差社会 ～ウサビーズへようこそ！～ and 東方セレブ　～ABUNAI SISTERS～, are as good as they were on the videos, but Miko's and ARM's participation in the album is really what saves it for me. Miko's voice is as wonderful as always and still does the best Cirno around in the song 歌舞伎町の⑨イーン. While I don't know exactly where all the musics come from in ARM's mix, it's simply epic.

The surprise in this CD comes from track 9 however. the song 'Concealed.' probably has one of the best drums I've heard in any Touhou arrange album before. The guitar is pretty solid and the vocals are great. This track is probably worth a purchase by itself.

If you like IOSYS you'll probably enjoy the album, while not completely, the good tracks on it are really worth it.

8/10
also Miko's voice is awesomely awesome.

AKG k 271 Studio

Before anyone who stumbles upon this post start to read, I am by no way an Audiophile. I love music, I was tired of shitty headphones, had a big tax return and decided to treat myself to some good stuff.

Now the review.

The look (because, you know it's important to look bad ass): They me not be as beautiful as the 701 or 702, but they have the same design overall, a pretty fucking nice design if you ask me. They are black, closed, and give a look of "omg these look like some GOOOODDDD headphones"

The Sound: Well headphones are all about sound, but like I said, I'm not an audiophile. With that said, these headphones sound just awesome. The gain is good enough to have the perfect volume on my stereo. I even noticed a third guitar in the song "serenade of darkness" by "Axel rudi Pell" I had never noticed before.

The comfort: Once again, I've tried the 701 when I went to buy these, they don't compare, but they are still very comfortable, I don't think I'd go for 8 hours wearing them if I could avoid it. But they are still very comfortable, even with my glasses on, the pression on the side is minimal.

The misc: there's a sweet feature that make the headphones auto-mute when you remove them. I think it's neat, but I can see that being a trouble in the future, and something that might be 'the first thing to break' on them. The cable in unplugable from the headphones so if the cable get damaged, it can be changed by itself.

Overall: 250$ is not cheap, but I'm very happy about buying these. I do not regret buying them and I enjoy every seconds I have them on my head. While they could have been a little more comfortable, I have nothing to say against the sound or anything else.
9/10

Also I need to get better quality encode of most of my music now... ><

Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
The last movie from Kyoto animation, in the Haruhi Suzumiya series. It got out in Japanese cinemas February 6th 2010. Mazui subbed it a couple of days ago so I was finally able to check it out.

I'm a big fan of Haruhi, I've bought every Novel out in English so far, bought the special edition of the first season's DVD.
Then Season 2 come out, Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody was awesome and really got my hopes up... but then... there was... Endless 8... 8 time the same episode, slightly changing angles and clothes... over and over again... I understand the principle of it, it's time recursion it have to feel like a long time, and it had to feel boring so we felt what Yuki felt... but 8 time is just way too much. The idea would have been great if it would have been 3 or 4 episodes at most. Maybe they wanted 8 episodes because a 8 sideways if the infinity sign...
Anyway, Haruhi franchise took a big drop after this, the remaining episodes of the season 2 were good but not good enough to excuse the endless 8 fiasco.

However, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, is so awesome, that if put back the Haruhi franchise even above what it was after season 1.
The acting of the Seiyu is perfect, the animations are simply wonderful. Unfortunately, the version I saw had a pretty bad image quality since it came from a Camera rip, but, even having to deal with the eye cancer it can cause, it really worth it to see an animation of that quality. The story by Nagaru Tanigawa is so deep and complex, leaving you with that "wtf" feeling that a good show gives you, while giving you enough answer to actually not become a "we're just fucked up" show. Without going into too much details, the plot surprised me, which has become a very rare thing from any movie or series. It was excellent and the development of the characters was also done masterfully.
I haven't read that part of the novel yet since it is not out in English as of the time of this posting, however I've read on a forum that some parts of the story that would have been needed were excluded from the movie. I felt the movie was complete in itself, even if it left some unanswered questions, but there is still 6 more books to cover after that so it's only normal that a lot of questions are unanswered.

It's a must see for any Anime fan, and a 'you will die if you don't see it' for any Haruhi fan.
10/10.

Also...
Nagato is my Goddess. I love her.
Praise Nagato!

Dealing with stupid people sucks

Did you know it? dealing with stupid people sucks, especially when you have to deal with them in order to organize a big event in your city, and they are not even from your city, and they somehow got involved because some other people, almost as stupid as the first one, think they are important.

Buzz test

Testing how updating to Google buzz/reader is working with blogger.

Hello everyone!

Hey everyone! it's been a while! I know I never update, but making a post just about the fact that I dont ost would be pretty pointless so here's some information.

With the recent CD hunt created by the hapenning of Reitaisai 7 last weekend, someone, I think it was on /jp/, said that we needed a wiki for doujin music. I agree, so I made one.

Anyone who think they can help you are welcome to come and edit stuff!
the adresse is doujinmusic.wikia.com

in other news, miko started a new solo project called Alternative Ending. She released her first album december 30, 2009. It's called 'Everlasting Snow'.

I'm a little late on that news, sorry.
Did not have time to listen to it a lot yet, so I can't make a review, but her voice is as wnderfull as ever.

I will post more updates on the wiki and the bunch of new albums relased at R7 later.