Showing posts with label sweets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweets. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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..

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Laptop!! Welcome Home!!

So my laptop is already fixed now, yay! But well, the internet wire isn't connected well so I use my dad's.

Honestly, I make this post is just to show you some great videos :D

1. Lily's Chloe

This is the first song I've heard from Lily, the brand new Vocaloid. The comments from her other clip said she's the mixing of Luka and Rin (and I think I'll got some difficulties to differ between Rin and Lily) and she does sound like Luka. But I think I'll prefer Lily though. Well, some comments on her Super Sonic Dance said they don't like her. I bet they haven't listened to Lily's Chloe >:)

2. Gumi's Forever Tears

I like this song, after I know Lily. Honestly, I didn't really listened to this before I found out that Chloe song author is the same with this one. Can you tell the similarities between those songs? Well, I can but I don't have the right way to explain it ^.^"a

P.S. : Four words; I love those songs very much. Eh, those are six. And now it's ten.
Okay, lame joke

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Sweets? I'm Coming!

Yes, now I'm still searching for some sweets recipes after I got chocolate truffles, Nanaimo bars, and cream scones recipes with me. I've found S'mores, peppermint bark, apple crisp (believe me, I already tried to search for this about hours), and others. Well, the easiest recipes to make is S'more and peppermint bark. For S'more, let's just say all you need to do is bake small marshmallows with chocolate chip between 2 graham crackers in the oven. It's really simple, but one question; where can I find graham crackers? I already googled it, and I don't get any results. Graham crackers aren't sold in Indonesia. Sigh.. And so, all I have to do is make it by myself. The problem is, I haven't found any reliable recipe. I mean, graham crackers homemade recipes with the pictures of the processing. I don't want to search for it on Youtube, it just makes my plan worse. Geez, bring your mom's laptop while you're trying to cook something in the kitchen? That's not even funny.

Okay, I give up. I have to accept that I can't find any graham crackers recipes with pictures. When I saw this, it's like making graham crackers is easy than I expect. And well.. Why don't I start to make it tomorrow? Nah, no... My mom's gonna leaving tomorrow. Why should I call it--for calming her mind? Sorta.

Since my mom's gonna "calm her mind" for a week, I think I need to wait until I can make all those recipes. I can kill my time with searching for more easy recipes, planning where can I buy the ingredients, and stuff (maybe some of those ingredients only able in BIG supermarkets on BIG cities, means I really need to wait until my mom visits her friend who lives in a big city). I've counted how many times those recipes require heavy cream on it. All of them. All of the recipes I printed out. About printed recipes, I think I'll print S'more and graham crackers recipes (though I don't know when I will make them).

Oh yeah, one more thing. I've been wondering; why people like to add some liquor or alcohols mixed in their sweets, like cakes and chocolates? Seriously, in my chocolate truffles recipes, it said you have to add some kind of alcohol which includes water (well, alcohols have hard-to-remember names, aren't they?). What're those alcohols for? It is okay if I don't add those, isn't it; since I won't add them?

Song of the day; VIVA Gumi! Yay! So this is what people called with second impression (?) Wonder if I can find Gumi sings duet with Len