Sunday, 30 January 2011

VOCALOID

Ever heard of the phenomena known as VOCALOIDISM? Do you wonder what it is?

After some recent events, I do think that I should blog more about anime and jpop. Here I would be introducing you to the world of Vocaloid!



Vocaloid is a product from the Yamaha voice synthesizer technology. With this software and a few other tools, you could now write a song and have the said software to sing it for you! As such, Vocaloid is sold with the concept of singer-in-box.

As you can see above there is a drawing of a girl. That girl is the virtual character Hatsune Miku, one of the most popular Vocaloids existing in the market. Of course Vocaloids also cover male voices. But to be honest, most of the Vocaloid2 series could not sing English songs as good as compared to Japanese song. That's quite a shame for those who could not understand the Japanese language.

In fact, my exposure to Vocaloid was the sole reason for me to learn the Japanese language in the first place. Sadly, my favourite smart.fm website will no longer be serving me to improve my mastery on that language, at least not without a fee.

I admire the fact that everyone can create music with Vocaloid! To see so many artists emerge on Youtube with the rise of Vocaloid just gives me the idea that everything you dream off can be achieve, with the help of technology of course!

So here I present you, Hatsune Miku!!



Grenade

Hmmn... when can I get my hands on a camera of my own? I really want a DSLR to take photos.

Wait...

Most probably I will neglect the camera after I get one, just like my Bamboo graphic tablet.

Guess I better put hold my plans of getting a digital camera for the moment...

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Firework

Happy 2011! Glad that I could have a fresh start in life! Now I'm gonna try to forget all that shit that happened last year.

I know I did not update this poor blog for more than a month. No excuse for that. I know I seriously lacked of determination and willpower.

So to put it to the extreme limit, one of my new year resolution is...

NO INSTANT NOODLES FOR A YEAR!

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13th January 2011. 10:38PM. Rainy.

It's been 13 days since I tasted instant noodles but I still crave for it. After all, instant noodles is like my staple food, just like rice is to most Asians. I think I kinda understand why it is hard for smokers to quit smoking already. Craving leads to suffering.

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Oh my gosh, am I close to attaining enlightenment? Guess I could call myself an false prophet or arahant already.

Well, enough of my fake doctrine. Goodbye, for the moment. Do stay tune for more crap.