After a Few Months

How I miss this place!! Yeah, now I have some times to write a new entry after boring months without internet. Actually I need to attend a family gathering but I told my mom that I'm kinda tired and I need some rest at home. At first my mom didn't let me, but then I won. So now I'm alone in this small house, only with my sister's laptop and a modem.

Oh right, maybe it's kinda too late but I spent my new year holiday in England, at my aunt's house. I visited great places there, such as Cambridge, Norwich, London, etc. I don't know if I should tell you about my experiences there, but I think I can write my favorite parts of my holiday.

My.. Dearest.. UTAU..

So yeah.. I'm finished with the voicebanks, but oto.ini is sure difficult me. Now I'm making the .frq files for all syllables (anyway, please ask Mr. Google in case if you don't know what's .frq file). The friend which I asked for help said that the simplest way to make the oto.ini is using SetParam, an application in OREMO. Before, I deleted it since I didn't know that OREMO can do such a thing. Fortunately I still kept it in Recycle Bin. So all I needed to do is restore the folder.

At the start, I'm planning to make Shira has Indonesian voicebanks but since I still have a plenty of things to do beside UTAU (such as school assignments, family gather, tests, vice versa) so the original reclist would do. But I haven't finished all of them yet. I only recorded the usual syllables. I pass the ones which appear rarely (you should know how noisy the room when I was recording; my sister kept asking for his laptop, my brother protested me to be silent, and so on--that's why the recording isn't completed yet). And I missed the "cho". It appears on World's End Dancehall while I was testing my UTAU's voicebanks. Well, tomorrow the voicebanks should be done (I can't let my Shira waits too long :P)

Shounen Ai?!

Perfectly, I disagree with that. Same with shoujo ai. Logically, it's a taboo right? If everyone like that, no doubt humans will extinct. And the weirdest thing ever is many girls are crazy about shounen ai, and even yaoi! OMG. I'm sure they don't really care about themselves. I mean, if I met a really cute-looking guy in an anime (usually girls like those shounen ai and yaoi things if it's in an anime or manga) I'll think that I want him to be real so I can be with him. Also in shoujo ai or yuri, definitely I'll close the picture and I'll never open it again. Well once, I read a yuri manga. I just want to know what is it like and it disgusts me. So I swear to myself I won't read that kind of thing anymore.

I spent my day in front of my damn laptop. But somehow it's crashed; AGAIN (no wonder why my teacher said to me to get a new one). I'm deciding to make Soune Renzi sings Romeo and Cinderella -Another- (have I told you that sometimes I'm Renzi's user?) but I messed with the intro. Well yeah, all I need to do is mixing the vocal and the instrument. And I use Romeo and Cinderella instrument. They're the same, but in the -Another- version, there's a silent part longer that in Romeo and Cinderella and I forgot to edit that. Let's just say I need to make 10 parts of it, and mix all of them into one. I'm done for 4 parts and then I need to change all of them. That's tiring, I know. That's why I stop and think to continue it another day.

Talking about Renzi.. OMG, my UTAU! My lil bro asked to me, "Sis, how's your UTAU? You said you're gonna use my voice right?" I tried to dodge, "Ah, right. I'm still looking for some informations." Well that's true. But beside that, I think I need a new microphone. Alright, all I have to do is using my 2 days holiday really well with making my own UTAU. But.. I hope my dear laptop wants to cooperate with me tomorrow and so on ;____;

Song of the day; I'll just say Len is a girl here so it's okay

UTAU Project

.. and I'm still got stuck on it. Geez.. What's wrong? Is it because of the program or my laptop or myself? I already asked around, and find the answers but sometimes I don't get it or it doesn't work. Now I'm still waiting for another reply in VO (yeah, someone has the same problem with me and I'm glad). Well, I have a friend from Youtube. Probably now she's working with her own UTAU and maybe I can ask her. But she said she's not an expert yet, but she'll try to answer my question. Yet I haven't asked anything to her. Oh well. Maybe I just need to solve my problem with more effort.

Talking about UTAU, I already made my UTAUs' designs. I'm planning to make at least two UTAU. Their personalities, their outfits, their character items, everything. So here they are.

1. 松風　シラ　(Matsukaze Shira)

Probably Matsukaze means the sound of wind over the pine trees. And Shira.. just taken from Shirayuki which means Snow White. She has short hair, shorter than Rin's (I guess). The color is.. maybe cream and green on the each tip of her hair. Deciding the colors was the hardest part. I even asked my lil bro for suggestions.

Okay. So she's childish, careless, always curious about something, self-centered, cheerful, sometimes nosy, and.. else. Her height is about 159 cm (around 5'2" feet; eh?) and her weight is 45 kg (99 lbs). She's 16 years old. She likes apples, books, trees, friends, sleeping, eating, and cooking. She dislikes fire, hugs, kisses, insects, being hate, bullied, yaoi/yuri, ghosts, and get dirty. And her character item is chocolate (any other idea?). Her outfit's colors are dominated with green, black and white. I can't describe it well, so just wait until I finish the drawings. Her eyes' color is gold (reminds me of Train from Black Cat).

If you say she looks like me, she IS me. Well, she's not. Just the personalities. Her height and weight are counted into my wish-list. I'm so skinny and short.. Stop.

2. 松風　フライ　(Matsukaze Furai)

I don't know what Furai means. It just came across my mind. Whenever I type it in hiragana, it turns into katakana automatically. Anyway, their surname was Kazetai. But it seems I can't type both of them in kanji. They don't match. So I searched around for words within kaze (kaze means wind, in case if you don't know). His hair is black with blue color on the tip. I think I won't change it since I already like the color. Personally, I like his name. Furai. Sounds cool, doesn't it?

His personalities.. kind to everyone, friendly, funny, surprising (erm.. spontaneous, maybe?), strong, secretly always keeps Shira safe, popular, clumsy, and cheerful. He's younger a year than Shira, which means he's 15 years old. He's taller than Shira thou. 167 cm in height (5'4" feet) and 50 kg in weight (110 lbs). He likes jokes, teasing someone (especially Shira), sports, wagashi or japanese sweets, studying (somehow..), and lying down on the cold floor. He dislikes serious people, summer, cooking, failed cookings, dark, dogs and mosquitoes. His character item is ichigo daifuku (it's already decided <:). His outfit's colors are black, blue and white. So the difference between Shira's and Furai's outfit is just with the blue and green thing. His eyes' color is red (this one reminds me of Eve, from Black Cat either).

Furai is Shira's stepbrother. They have same father, but different mother. So we can say their father married with Shira's mother. When Shira's mother already pregnant, they divorced and their father married with Furai's mother. Shira born, and about a year later Furai followed.

And now, both Shira and Furai are travelling around the.. cyber-world (?) or world instead. If they're being asked about their nationalities, what should they (or I) say? Maybe they can only sing Japanese songs, but.. Can I just put the information that they're travelers?

About their outfits, I just can tell you that the outfits look really traditional. I don't know how to put it but they do look traditional. Wait until I post the pictures.

Song of the day (not from Vocaloid, sorry); I was planning this song would be Shira's debut song. but..

Burnt Cookies; AARGH!!

No, I didn't make cookies yesterday. But two days before today. Yep. Cookies. I made some cream scones before I helped my mom with her pineapple jam-filling cookies and cashew-and-cornflakes cookies. Almost half of our cookies are burnt. Especially my cream scones. About 2/3 of total are burnt. Oh well. My mom sprinkled some powder sugar on the scones, and it tastes delicious--a bit. Guess it'll be better if I dip the scones in melted chocolate. But maybe next time.

After I'm done with the scones, I helped my mom with the pineapple jam-filling cookies first. The jam was handmade. Our maid made it before. And of course it's not as smooth as the canned pineapple jam. I don't really like pineapple jam, so I don't want the cookies as well.

After that, I helped my mom with the cashew-and-cornflakes cookies. My lil sis and I mixed the butter and the sugar. Like usual, my lil sis did it with her own way. Like, moved the hand-mixer forward and backward or right and left. I shouted at her to move it in circle, and she just stopped and didn't move the hand-mixer. Oh well. We laughed all the time. When my mom done with the cashew, I mix both the mixed butter and the cashew by hand. The mixed butter was so... soft... It could be the softest thing I've ever touch (okay, stop).

And like usual either, some of those crunchy cookies are burnt. But you know, when our maid baked the cookies, once the... oven? No, the stove. The stove on the upside was covered with crystal glass (I don't know what its name but it is the same kind of glass with the glass in cars' windows). Suddenly, the glass broke. Not all of the glass, but the.. tip of each side. I didn't there when the glass broke, but it must be an awesome view when you see a glass that broke by itself. My mom said it's because overheat. Well yeah, we baked the cookies with two ovens at once. And both ovens used the stove for the heat.

Okay, that's all. I'm not really on a good mood to write. Just want to remind the.. erm.. "sweet" memories with cookies.

Song of the day; I already listened to this song before I know the PV.

Day filled with Bad and Luck

I found a kitten, and I lost her in the same day. Kinda funny, isn't it? I found her while I was went home. She's really small, and she sounds really low. I bought her home, and our housemaid hardly accept my idea to keep the kitten in our house. And so, I took the responsible to take care of the kitten alone even though I wasn't sure.

I bathed her, dried the kitten with my old shirt, made her bed by shoes box, and asked my dad to buy some cat's food. He bought 2 cans of cat's food. I gave a can to the kitten. I decided, her name is Law. After she ate some of her lunch, she slept on her bed. The last time I saw she still on her bed is around 8 PM. Then, I saw a big cat which likes to hang around my house walked across the kitchen. And the stairs (well, I kept Law upstairs where our housemaid dried our clothes) is near the kitchen! After I heard a sound, I ran upstairs and checked Law's bed. She isn't there. I searched around, and still I couldn't find her. She's still a little kitten, I don't know if she could jump to the roof and walk away.

Now, it's raining. I went to save Law's bed and her food so they won't be wet. My left foot is bleeding because I stomped on a rock while I was running. Oh gosh. Can't I just have a kitten once more?

Anyway, I don't really like my grandma from my mom. She's way too old, and too childish. When she watched a drama, I sat beside her and surfed the internet. Suddenly she asked me, "Is he her boyfriend?" oh my God, couldn't you see I'm not watching anything? And when I'm still surfing the internet, she said, "You need to eat veggies." Gosh! What's wrong with that?! It's not dinner yet! Yah.. Now you know I'm not as kind as you thought.

Song of the day; LenXGumi! Though Gumi didn't took enough part on it

A Week Left

I already spent the 1st week holiday on my hometown. It wasn't fun, it was AMAZING! INCREDIBLE! On the 2nd day I was there, my mom's family (like my cousins, and my aunts) and I went to a beach. It took us about.. 6 hours to the beach. But the view is satisfying! So we didn't feel exhausted or else.

Next day, we went to waterfall. The water is cold (of course). I played the water slide, ALONE. Wonder if I can go there next time with my siblings. On the way to the waterfall, we passed the hospital where I was born--Catherine Booth. I didn't have time
to go in, so I just looked at it from the street.

Anyway, when I was on the way to the beach, we stopped for a lunch on my aunt's.. err.. how should I say it--lake? Nah, something like that. We had grilled fishes and boiled shrimps as a lunch. Quite mouth-watering, isn't it? And on the way home from the beach, we also had lunch on my aunt's lake. Grilled fishes, grilled shrimps, boiled shrimps, and boiled crab. Okay, now I'm bored of those seafood.