i just opened my mailbox and noticed a very interesting email from this company. apparently they want to put ad to my site and i'll get paid for it. hmmm, if only i read this before i change my blog. i put it on, nevertheless. you'll notice the ad right on top of my profile side here 

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 but perhaps i will paste the ad on my new blog too, don't know it is allowed or not =p

welcome to the world of advertising~

ladies and gentlemen, friends and readers, i am glad to announce that yours truly had managed to produce her very first blog layout~  *celebrates*  this achievement is obtained after much tearing down component of html codes grabbed from various layouts provided by blogskins.com, and after trial and error session at blogspot.com for 3 whole days. many thanks to blogskins.com and its numerous layout-donors. 

this debut creation, Ekkusu no Studio, phase 1.0, is going to be put to use, certainly. however, since blogdrive does not allow users to change the html content of the layouts, i have to move out of this service, which had been with me for the past 2 years. many thanks to blogdrive.com, my faithful blogging companion while i was in SAJC.

so, my new address is:

http://www.yoshikifanatic.blogspot.com

this is my original blogspot account, before i made ekkusuchan.blogspot.com. yet, i am still a newbie at blogspot.com and its features. so, most probably i will face many dificulties regarding posting and such in the future. on such events, i will, most probably, be disturbing my friends and ask them to help me, heh heh xP

i guess that's all. probably i'll come back here time and again, maybe if blogspot proves too hard to be used by html idiots like me.

til then,

sayonara, blogdrive~

sayonara http://hanaatsajc.blogdrive.com~

home. a simple thing, always present in my life, yet sometimes i forgot to be thankful for it.

my cousin, whose mom is my aunt, who had just passed away, is here at  my house today, clearing up my aunt and eldest cousin's stuff. previously they stayed in my house before moving out to the states. i guess they never did realise how much stuff they've accumulated over the years. since there's slight chance they'll be back again, he has to throw away the junks and keep what can be kept. and now, stuff, which belongs to neither category, is giving him some dilemma: no place to keep them.

i reflected at the amount of stuff, and junk, that i own. not a small mess, definitely. but thankfully i still have the place to keep them, even if years later i'd wonder why do i own these garbage. surprisingly, this home that i'm living in, the one which shelters me day and night, giving me comfort and protect me from sun and rain and wind and cold, is seldom seen in my eyes, that is, my heart eyes. i see it physically everytime, but how many times do i be thankful for its presence? how many times does if appear in my prayers? sadly, seldom. i never forget to be thankful for my family, for their health and safety, for the well-being of my mental self, but i forget about the one which protect my physical self.

regular updates~ i've finished all 10 hours of my driving lessons. yeah, i got my license first before i'd finished the full session of my driving lessons. still don't have the courage to drive alone with my dad's car, though v.v maybe one of these days...

progress of photoshop-learning: i'm making a layout with yoshiki as my main theme *duh* but i have no idea of what to do >.< i'm learning more about photoshop and its many functions though, and it's a good thing. i tried to read some of the tutorials, about rollover buttons, and after about 3 paragraphs i stopped reading *dizzy* due to many terms which i don't understand >.< still, experimenting's pretty fun =)

to eileen, i can add you, and we both can get confused together, unless you can teach me, hehe, but i don't know your page/blog o.O you didn't leave me any url...

started playing harvest moon again. started a new farm, still the same name, Hayashi Farm, but now i'm more knowledgable about it, thanks to my cousin Lia who came by and told me all about power berries, the sprites, and so on ^.^

i really do like Kyoko Hikawa! she was my first favourite mangaka, before i even know Yuu Watase. i had just read her books again, the Chizumi and Fujiomi series, and i've decided to try collect Kanata Kara, aka From Far Away, aka Dunia Mimpi. i only just realised that the chizumi fujiomi series were released back in 1982 O.O goodness, before i was born! wow~ and not to mention Miriam, maybe in the 70s???

time to google Kyoko Hikawa for her latest works!

going to, as soon as i have a few hours in front of the computer at one go. i've downloaded several templates which i thought are good enough for me to analyse and learnt from. i've browsed through blogskins.com for interesting layouts for this purpose. i've also downloaded several pictures from Endless Dream as a base to make background graphic. hopefully soon i can create my own layout, ne.

this, of course, is learning html the hard way T__T which is the least of my liking, i can tell you that. my cousin had only just told me about DreamWeaver which can be used to create website, thus similar to making blog. yet, i don't own this software, so until i can get hold of it, may as well learn from the hard way, even though it's just a little bit, and almost made my eyes screwed up >.<

by the way, nat, another present for you, dunno if you have it, copy and paste this code to your blog:

<BGSOUND SRC="http://sg.geocities.com/miyake_neverland2/mejishironokioku.mid" LOOP="20">

i got it alongside with a really nice junichi layout, but a bit simpler than the other one i showed you before. both were made by the same person though.

by the way, the hair style that i wanted was like this:

http://artpad.art.com/?isqfyr3mk2s

it was cut that way too, but since my hair's wavy, it doesn't look like that anymore on my head v.v

ladies and gentlemen, friends and readers, i am proud to announce that yours truly had finally gotten her driving license yesterday!

*celebrates* *celebrates* *celebrates*

i am sad to say, though, that the procedure was horrendously tedious, that i even said to myself: if 5 years later when i want to extend it i need to go through this again, i'd rather NOT have a license at all.

since it was very tedious, i'll spare you from the boredom of reading about what had happened in Komdak, Daan Mogot, on 5th January 2006. let's just say that i arrived there at 9am, waited a long while before my name got registered *the others had proceeded on coz their names were registered and mine was not*, did the theory exam in which the instructor was quite humourous, waited a long while again for my turn to do the practical exam in which the instructor suddenly went bananas just because some guy took his picture and thus refused to examined us, then waited a horribly long while for my picture, thumb print and signature to be taken in which my documents went awry again and i was thrown to another group after everyone in my original group had finished taking theirs, and finally waited a short while before my name got called to collect my SIM, and it was 4.30pm when i got it, dead tired, and the place which originally so full and packed with numerous people, many of whom were smoking like there's no tomorrow, had emptied and the cleaning workers were moping the place.

*so much for the sparing of boredom...*

i am learning photoshop now. and illustrator and golive and imageready and indesign in one go O.O i can't say that i have any idea on what to do with the latter 4 softwares, but i'm learning slowly. anyone'd like to give me tutorials? ^_^

i was introduced to my bro's friend, cheryl, who's currently studying in Japan. apparently she had known that i like Japan, and japanese language and music and so on and so forth, just like she did, and had been anxious to know me, but my bro never did. so about 2 days ago i got the chance to talk to her and i got to know that she was an extremely enthusiastic japan lover, as enthusiastic as i am. she spoke in high spirirt about everything that i'd been wanting to know and been wanting to have: japanese education, and somehow i thought that she's no stranger, coz the way she talk and expressed herself was strangely similar to me and to how i imagined i'd be talking to if i meet another japan-lover.

both of us are attracted to learn the language because of similar reason, the music. and surprisingly, both of us are drawn to JRock. i don't know if this is just how i felt, but i think people who are attracted and inspired to learn Japanese language are mostly those who are drawn into JRock, not JPop. though the same can't be said to my Obachan, ne, Nat? she asked whom did i like, and i said X Japan. and i could guess which band she liked, and my guess were right: Laruku. i mean, man, their fanbase in Indonesia is humongous! just as big as Glay, if not bigger. it's such a refreshing feeling to talk to her, to hear my enthusiasm reflected in her talking. nice to meet you, cheryl!

talking about Laruku, i'm starting to like them more and more. i owned the cassette of 13 Best Clicked Singles or something, and since my dad's new car didn't have a CD player, i'd been playing it back and forth all the time whenever i'm in the car. and in my dad's old car i had put on a compilation CD of Laruku and Hyde solo songs which i like. as much as i can say that Hyde's voice had grown on me and i'm starting to like his voice as much as i like Gackt's, i can't say the same for Ken's guitar. i'm still proud to say that hide and pata are both still my favourite guitarists of all time as they can create beautiful, enganging and wonderful melody anywhere in any part of the song, not just the solo.

my driving lessons are going to be over soon. i'm getting more comfortable behind the steering wheel and this is a good sign. hopefully by February i can already become an accomplished driver. and hopefully i can start my Japanese course/tuition soon =)