this post would be yet another rare non-anime entry:

now lets talk about penspinning XDDD
(i 4got whether i posted it b4 lol)

well, penspinning is really a fun thing to do and a challenge to learn and an ABSOLUTELY great way to kill time when ure bored.

here are just some pros and cons of it:

the GOOD points:
-trains up ur fingers' flexibility
-kill time
-fun
-beautiful combos can be created to make urself go "WOW!"

the BAD points:
-dropping it causes ur parents to rant at you due to loud noise
-repeatedly dropping when trying to learn new trick
-if too engrossed = cant pay attention in class
-spoils ur pen

but do NOT worry =D here are some tips to "remove" the BAD points!
-place a stack of papers on the place ur practicing etc. to cushion the drop
-its just something to kill time, dun let it affect ur studies, do things at the right time! but u still can spin ur pen while paying attention in class!
-modify a unique pen that doesnt contain any ink and spin it to prevent urself from spoiling a usable pen

u people could have already seen someone spin a pen and u urself could most possibly spin a simple trick as well, like thumbaround and charge (google or youtube this if u do not understand... but thumbaround basically means the normal 360 degree turn ard ur thumb and the charge is making the pen spin in a circle continuously between 2 fingers) IMO, learning tricks from youtube is a great option too and many of the tutorial vids has slow motion which will enable u to see how exactly the trick is executed. patience is really needed to practice this "hobby" as ppl tend to give up learning a trick as they keep failing to succeed once. My tip is just keep trying, keep dropping and retrying and u'll eventually be able to succeed once and sooner or later, be able to perform it. i started learning it ard sec1 and slowly went on to learn more and more tricks, mostly via youtube 1st and from my friend who always tend to perfect it easily. i myself have only perfected some of the common tricks and the others are only ard 80% passes and hard to perfect i would say. Linking different tricks together to form a combo is even harder and they need to seem beautiful... i mean thats the main point right?

the pens im using to spin now are modded pens and cant be used for writing at all. its just a special tool made for spinning. modding pens is fun and are much better to spin as well. u could mod a lighter pen which can go fast but lesser stability IMO, i prefer heavy ones as they are much more stable... but most importantly, the pens need to have a center of gravity at the middle to make sure that the pen is balanced at the center, having the cg not at the center would prove difficult to spin.

pens that i recommend to use for modding:
-pilot G2, superb grips
-zebra pens, unique caps

try nt to spin a pilot G2 w/o taking out the ink or modding since ive spoilt quite a number of them after repeatedly dropping them on the floor... (try to prevent to drop ink pens, they LEAK!) my friend currently uses a spin pen entirely made up of paper. i did see a pro penspinner using only a normal pencil to spin his tricks... that is really PRO O.O!

anyway heres my current combo with my current spin pen, 65% to my next generation pen XD

the quality isnt gd =.= took it using my phone and this combo isnt perfected yet, the last move only has like 30% success rate when added into a combo

managed to catch up with Sora no Woto and episode 7 was really different from the other episodes since they did show a serious portion in it, about Filicia's past and the identity of the woman who Kanata saw blowing the trumpet and Rio who learnt the trumpet from her, was a princess. Closing to the Obon festival, the platoon decides to celebrate it together with the people and Filicia starts to have dreams about her previous platoon who had all left her during the war when their tank was blown up. Filicia was then rescued but her comrades were all gone and that memory caused Filicia to space out in the episode and accidentally cut herself while making the paper lanterns. It was a great episode though, much were disclosed about the war and their tanks really look unique O.o seems to be that that Princess seems to come in contact with everyone, maybe in the past, since Kanata, Filicia and Rio have already met her in the past and possibly Kureha and Noel as well.

Baka to Test 7 was quite a touching episode and more facial expressions were shown on Shouko, her change in expression really makes her beautiful u koe... anyway, the whole episode was about Shouko and Yuuji going to an amusement park to have a mock wedding and all this was planned by Yoshii and the others. Yuuji really didnt take much time to disclose the identity of the attendants where Hideyoshi however, "escaped" the fate by throwing his handphone away when Yuuji called him. Voyeur was also found out after Yuuji flipped up Shouko's skirt and Himeji too, after seeing how frantic she was when Yuuji tells her Yoshii was going on a date right now. Hideyoshi managed to convince Shouko to bring Yuuji to the haunted house after saying that Shouko could hug Yuuji for as long as she wants once inside but Yuuji had almost died in there when his voice was mimicked to say something unfaithful to Shouko. I thought that there was a slight Ookami Kakushi parody there where Shouko's red eyes looked similar to the hunters in Ookami Kakushi. After the sorta failed mock wedding, Yuuji finds Shouko and tells her that she has got the wrong guy but she tells him that she doesnt think so. Quite a touching scene at the back but hilarious at the front, love this series XD

much much more was revealed in Ookami Kakushi latest episode with Hiroshi's face getting listed on some list that could be the people that could bring trouble to the town or that they could still leave the town and had not "converted" into the wolves yet. Hiroshi had also revealed the murderer's identity to the investigator that came to the town and Kaname was also captured and thrown in a locked room. She overhears the person who was locked next door to her and it was the girlfriend of Issei. She asks if similar things had happened between her and her lover and talked about the red moon being ominous and the cleansing. It did seem to me that Kaname was too close in discovering the secret of the town and was thus locked up and Isuzu was said to have been resting in the Center and nothing much of her condition was revealed. this series is now actually moving to quite a nice stage :D

managed to catch up with Ookami Kakushi 6 and the story is developing towards a more "anticipating" side and scenes with Hiroshi now knowing who the person with the scythe is, ... it was Nemuru O.o they kind a look-a-like at the start so i wasnt surprised by this... the scene at the front of episode 1 was also shown in the latest episode and more things could be revealed about the so called rules in the village and wad was actually happening to the people living there. Maybe also about the Hassaku which i dun tink is normal too.

still have Sora no Woto to catch up though... =X

anyways, A-TAN is kawaii XDDD




KAWAII DESU NE!~~~

arghhhh, im missing quite a couple of episodes D:

anyways, HnG 260 could signal to the end of Athena's arc and maybe move on to wad's gonna happen to Nagi now after losing her inheritance, although i doubt that she really did though...

Chuangyi doesnt seem to publish HnG anymore so i went to get the Taiwan version =D A-TAN!~~~~ sadly there split the entire arc into 2 volumes =X wanted to only get vol. 17 with most of the End of the World chapters ... BUT vol. 18's cover has A-TAN =X gosh, shld be getting 18 sometime soon lols =.=




heres an Animax commercial on K-On! which had scenes from the live dubbing session during AFA 09 =D



the spring 2010 anime list is out too (got a tipoff from sgcafe) so heres the list :

railgun is just making me bored for the latest few episodes, maybe due to the lack of action and story development... well, at least Index "appears" in the latest episode but nothing much is developed as of yet...

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu's 6th episode is really PURE hilarious! epicness at every moment, even the Hideyoshi's unique gender is introduced. Much fanservice for Hideyoshi was in the latest episode but yet as epic as ever:

"This swimming top... could it be?... HIDEYOSHI'S?!"
*looks over*
*faints*
"Hideyoshi! Cover your chest!"
"Naze jaa? Washi wa otouko da!" << +1

P.S. my translation isnt 100% correct ok...

the water devil game is pure hilarious too, Shouko's long hair really looks like she's some devil dragging Yuuji to the depths of the water below...

"Kirishima-san..., you could play water devil with Yuuji, you win by drowning him and then performing CPR on him afterwards..."
*nods"
"WRAGGHHHHH" << +1 Yuuji gets thrown in the water... +1!!!

anyways, here's the shadow art which is clear and smooth that is similar to the stop motion animation:



HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJt3EkTlwc&fmt=18

happened to past by this video... its said tat it uses stop motion animation, well... dun mind the details, just enjoy it :D love the music!



1 word:

Beautiful!

will be updating once a week from now =X away to study...