The First Jobless Days

"San ka pupunta?" "May bago ka bang work?"

Those are some of the question they asked when I resigned my job. After 2 years, I felt I have to improve myself outside the company.

I may be Mr. Jobless, but that doesn't mean I will be useless. Saturday, I choose to stay home and practice my guitar. I practiced the opening riff of "Green-Tinted Sixties Mind" and worked on my vibrato. Later in the afternoon, while my father is sleeping in my room, I decided to study Blender, a 3D modeling software. After some tutorials, I made my first scene in less than a day.

A simple winter scene

(I made the flag and the hat on day 2)

Today, I made two different models (By experimenting on different functions of the software).

A simple octopus

(the four other tentacles are at the back -__-)

A mouthless Poring

(had a trouble making the mouth)

I can't believe I made these in less than two days. I am very happy about my newfound skill. I just wish I had a faster PC for fast renderings of the models.

Tanya Markova

Tanya Markova, is another OPM band on the rise. Yeah, whatever.

Seriously, when I bought this album, I really don't know who the hell is Tanya Markova except for their song "Picture Picture", which, I don't really like the first time I heard it. I didn't even know about that the latest single of the band is entitled "Disney".

Ok. I bought the album. The album design and packaging is good. Now here comes the important part, the songs.

On the back of the album, there are 20 tracks to listen to. Some of them are just fillers. The first track is just a cool intro, which is about an intro of a fictional radio station called "665.9 Radio Inferno". Then the next track is a rock track entitled "M.I.M." Quite a surprise because the sound is heavier than their single. Next is the mellow song "Disney" followed by "Picture Picture". Listening through the whole album, I conclude that this band's genre is experimental/fusion. You can see traces of ballad, rock, punk and metal. My personal favorite is "Linda Blair", which is a song about a child who is possessed by an evil spirit similar to the excorcist. Well, that track is more of cute than scary.

Overall, I really liked the album. Not because of the musicality, but because the songs are fun.

Hale No More

Ok, this is not really new anymore.

Wandering redkinoko's blog, I stumbled upon one of his older post, Hale finally disbanded. Champ, the band's vocalist, want to go solo and wants to be an actor. Surprising? I dunno. Not really shocked to know this.

Oh well, I've been a fan. I even have an autographed CD of their first album. I enjoyed it.

So goodbye Hale. It will be a long wait for us to find another Pogi Band.

Now when will Cueshe disband? >.>

Laura Shigihara

For those who, don't know her, she is the composer and the singer of the theme song of Plants Vs. Zombies.

After hearing her voice, I researched more about her and found her website. Luckily, she has some of her songs posted on the site. I was supposed to be listening to Greg Howe but I couldn't resist playing her songs on my music player.

So how good is her songs? Think of the Owl City + Plants Vs. Zombies + Cute and Pretty voice. The songs sound amateurish but I think it is better than most of the pop songs being played on the radio. :)

I'm in a Rainy Mood

I recently learned about a new website called RainyMood.com.

Basically, it is just a site that plays a continuous high quality sound loop of rain. The idea is that you should play it with your favorite music so you can relax. At first I was skeptic because why should I play a rain sound loop on a hot day, or why should I play it when it is already raining. I thought it was nonsense, but still I gave it a try.

First Try: Played a Heavy Metal song with RainyMood.
Results: I wasn't relaxed, I was headbanging.

Second Try: Played a Jazz music on Youtube with RainyMood.
Results: Both buffers every couple of seconds. Who can relax with that?

Third Try: Played Lone Sal Bug by Buckethead (I have the song on my PC) with RainyMood.


Results: Brilliant! The song compliments with RainyMood!

I tried other soft acoustic songs. It works perfectly. You can also try jazz songs for a classy feel.

After a couple of song you wouldn't notice that RainyMood is actually playing. Now I just have to figure out how can I play RainyMood offline so I can play it simultaneously with my Portable Music Player/Cellphone.

Music Feature: Sanagi by Asaki

I'm also a casual DrumMania player (Casual 'cause I'm not very good at it). One of my favorite artist in that game is Asaki. He is notable for his songs like Gekkou Chou, Sanagi, Hotaru, Akai Suzu and many more. The songs he composed were incorporated with Japanese Visual Kei, Classical Japanese, Classical European and Jazz. Most of his songs are very difficult to play.

The song above is the full version of Sanagi which is included in his album Shinkyoku.