So I’m long done with my midsems now. Enjoyed for a few days after they ended – watched some movies and anime, and read some manga, lol. And chilled out with friends. Got back to work a couple of days ago. There was this thing about designing the front cover page for an e-magazine at our college. Have taken part in it and already submitted my entry. I’ll put it up here if it gets doesn’t get selected, or a link to the actual magazine if it does. Though I’m still not completely sure whether it’s even been accepted or not, heh. Well, whatever. I had loads of fun designing it even though I had to stay up almost all night for doing so. Reminded me of the good ol’ days~

Now I’ve got this month of April planned out a bit because bro always keeps telling me to schedule my time n’ all. I’m deliberately gonna avoid any kind of C programming this month because I just don’t feel like it at the moment. Bro was a bit pissed off with my attitude but as long as I’m doing something productive, I guess he’d be okay with it. So I’m thinking of starting on Actionscript and Flash – doling out a few animations by the end of the month. And I really wanna put in all my effort this time. So hopefully, I’ll be able to put up an animation or two the next month. :) There’s a little bit of a problem with my PC not being upgraded for more than an year but that’s okay as I’m gonna get it upgraded in a couple of days. Once that’s done, my RAM will increase to 2 GB and I’ll be able to get softwares like Maya and After Effects working on Zoe. n_n Isn’t that so cool? xD I’m also planning to go for some additional hard drive space but I’ll have to consider the budget for that. RAM, Graphics card and mainboard upgradation is a priority. Then if it’s possible, I’d like to get about 250 – 500 GB HDD… will cost anything from 2500 to 3500 rupees. Which one I get depends on how much does the rest cost. If I can wrap it all up in about 9k, that’d be just in budget so I guess that much will be okay.

On a different note, our college’s techfest TechnoAspire is going to be held soon – on the 16th and 17th of this month. I haven’t taken part in anything this year… I really don’t think I’m upto the level of the competition right now so I’ll leave it to the next year. Right now, I’m gonna be more focused on honing my skills and knowledge rather than chasing stuff I don’t get just for the sake of it. But I’m still gonna be a bit busy considering I’m a volunteer for the C-Debugging event. I especially chose this event to be a part of so that I can learn something along the way as well. Though I’m not really sure how much will I be able to gather from it all but hey, every bit counts, huh? ;)

As for an update on anime/manga, etc. side, I’ve been watching Zombie Loan recently. Well, I had started reading it a few months ago but it hadn’t been completed then ( I don’t think it still is although I haven’t checked up on it for quite a while now ), and I kind of liked it a bit more than all the shoujo stuff that I normally come across on the usual animanga sites, so I decided to give its anime a shot. Turned out that they had pretty much stuck true to the manga so it was quite predictable. Not that I’m complaining because most of the ones which deviate from their manga are pretty much disappointing. Of course, there are exceptions like Fullmetal Alchemist and CardCaptor Sakura, but these are few. Anyway, Animax had recently launched their movie, LaMB, of which I just watched the first half. I would have watched the later half too but it was being telecasted at an inconvenient hour so I didn’t bother. Wasn’t that much fascinating either. Animax also premiered Tears to Tiara and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood in the last week. Tears to Tiara was quite okay even though I haven’t really played the game ever but it looked worth a watch. It’s your usual action and warcraft with a bit of magic thrown in ( as much as I could make out from the first episode ). I’m thinking of following it for a bit while… afterall, it’s just gonna be aired once a week. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, on the other hand, I got a downloadable video file before it was premiered so I watched that, of course. Honestly, I think it was okay-ishly good. I don’t really like the OP or ED themes. Neither do I think that the art was any better than the former series ( though admittedly, it was quite similar to the manga ), the former one was prettier. The story, while claiming to stick to the manga, wasn’t really doing that as far as I could see, but it was fun watching it nonetheless so I guess I’ll give it the benefit of doubt. Either way, this is one anime I’m definitely gonna ardently follow because whatever they do, they can’t possibly trash it as the storyline’s too damn good for that. Hopefully, we’ll get to see the real Wrath soon, hee~♥

Okay, this is it for now. I got to go about doing some work now… maybe I’ll start on the 3D graphics book though I can’t do much with it without installing some kinda 3D software first. Hmm, and that will have to wait for a couple of days until I get my RAM upgraded. Meeeh~ Anyway, I also have to think out a few animated applications I will have to build this month. And prepare a storyline for them. Alright, I’ll do this then. – feeling sleepy now ~_~ -

Laterz~ Ja ne!