Wednesday, December 31, 2008

AMV Release

After trying out a few more softwares, I've decided to reencode a few of the previous music videos and upload them to Mediafire. The encodes are of x264 encoding in mkv container, with 2 audio tracks (instrumental and vocal) and 2 subtitles (romaji and kanji).

Finally I'm getting the hang of timing karaoke. Hopefully the timing isn't off by a lot. Without further ado, here's the links to the MVs.




Upcoming MVs, 
The brilliant green - Ash Like Snow (Gundam 00 OP2)
FictionJunction YUUKA - Honoo no Tobira (Gundam Seed Destiny Insert Song)
Tommy heavenly6 - Pray (Gintama OP)

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Chiaki Ishikawa - Prototype

My third karaoke MV to date. Now I'm getting used to timing, it's time to work on the font styling. Tried looking at the source code for some reference karaoke templates but went crazy trying to understand the alien language...

Anyway, this is the ending song for Gundam 00 second season. One of the newer songs that I like :P Luckily the MV's audio stream can be totally replaced by the album's vocal and instrumental audio tracks... if not..... I'll just faint, just like when I wanted to make the karaoke MV for PSI missing....totally out of sync...


For those who're interested in the original file, here's the url: TBA 

Sunday, December 14, 2008

L'Arc~en~Ciel - Shine

Here's the second karaoke file that I made. This time I made it using 2 audio tracks in avi container, one with vocals and the other without. Any L'Arc~en~Ciel fans who wants it can get from me :P


For those who want the original file, you can get it here TBA 

Friday, December 12, 2008

Bolt

Went to watch the movie with my brother, Alvin, and his brother yesterday afternoon. The beginning is like... OMG the dog so overpowered. Almost fainted when they revealed that it's just a movie shoot....

The movie actually sets me thinking of several things... Being kept in a world of your own, believing that your host (in this case, Penny) is constantly under danger, not knowing that i's all a farce. It kinds of sum up how I've been leading my life in the past, where I've always in my own elite environment where everyone's doing so well. My social circle consisting of all the high achievers etc., and I don't have to make any decisions for myself, my future. Now that I'm thrown into NUS, things starts to open up to me. I start to realise the world is not about just myself. To be honest, I would like to believe in the good in all the people I've known. But reality tells me otherwise, especially those insurance agents who only find you when they think you've got money to invest in their policies....

I think it's very pitiful for someone to not know the exact situation around him/her. The total absence of timely information makes me insecure. Maybe that's why I tend to be very "auntie" and "kay poh". Or maybe, just maybe, it's θŒδΈšη—…. No information = no need to dispense. LOL.

Overall, it's a great movie, with deep underlying moral values to be learned. Highly recommended for parents looking for educational movies. 

P.S. Although most probably the children can't understand the underlying message... That's what the parents are for isn't it?

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Flow - World End

I've nothing better to do over the holidays so I ended up doing some subbing for music videos. Haha I spent like 2 days just to sub one 4 mins worth of MV... and the lyrics doesn't really sync as well as I wanted it to be. But anyway, here's the link for anyone that's interested.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

JLPT

Been rather lazy to update, especially during exams. This semester had been quite hectic, with tests and tests and tests weeks after weeks. Surprisingly, this is also the semester which I din update my blog a lot of times during exams =P

Just chionged from EXPO to Bukit Timah for my JLPT, the test was kinda, weird. At least I know I couldn't get full marks haha. There goes my dream of being the 6 in 150000+ people... Well, I'm rather thankful for NUS's Japanese teachers for making our listening q uizzes so fast that most of the NUS people I met thinks that JLPT 4's listening is playing at half the speed of what we usually get :P Hope I can get the results I want this semester *crosses fingers