I suck as a blog-keeper. Check out when my last posr was, and you'll see what I mean.

I write this on a keyboard whose key layout is all but rubbed off by gamers' hands, including mine. My hands seem to be good only for nothing. Now, watch as I use them to fend off my girlfriend's attempt to tickle me to death for lumping her in the "Nothing" pile...

I'm serious. Laughing too much can kill a person - something to do with not getting enough air properly to the lungs. It's not a funny way to die - not that death is funny in the first place.

What have I done in the past three months? Academics? Pfftz. Big fat egg there. Fan-writing? Some. Some success, lots of rewrites. Online gaming? I have a level 49 character in an MMORPG that's going Pay-to-Play soon, very soon. He's the most powerful character I ever had in an online game, and I think I'll keep him.

Emulation? I've recently finished Super Robot Taisen Original Generation 2. Once, that is - the game begs to be fnished thrice, to unlock more stories and features I guess, but when you can't read kanji and hiragana fluently, you don't care much.

Besides, I'm part of this BBS that discusses this stuff - I'll just mooch off their knowledge.

Animation? I'm waiting eagerly to leech the Super Robot Taisen Original Generation OAV, once it's released. I'm currently watching His and Her Circumstances, needing a change of pace after Chobits. I missed seeing the 24th episode of the CLAMP obra - I really wanted to see the relation dynamics between Chii's boss, a bakeshop manager named Hiroyuki Ueda (voiced by Yuji Ueda, whose other roles I am a fan/jealous of) and Hideki's co-worker, Yumi Omura. I know Hiroyuki's beef - he gave his heart to a cute Persocon who died saving him, a Persocon he married but who eventually lost all memory of him. (READ: Bad hard disk.) As for Yumi - she seems to have an anti-human-sized Persocon ax to grind, that's all I know. Then at the end of the TV series, she's seen in Ueda's shop - I want to know if that was a social call or if Yumi's looking for work there, or if Yumi's actually a masochist - I wanna know!!!

"Love is being with someone you like, even if it causes the two of you some hurt, because being apart from each other hurts a hell of a lot more." -- Paraphrased from Hideki Motosuwa, last episode. One of Hideki's more lucid moments, and I agree with him.

SPOILER ALERT: Chii is actually holding 3 personalities in her cute little head. One is her original self, Elda, created by landlady Chitose Hibiya's husband as a daughter. Elda was built to be Freya's younger sister - Hibiya-san's 1st daughter, also a sentient & feeling gynoid (pardon the Ghost in the Shell term) who falls in love with her "father" in a non-filial way, and decides to go away for good when she found out that it mustn't be. In a surprising turn of events, Elda allows Freya to transfer her 'ghost' (again, a GITS term) into her. Going 'Gaaah!' yet? Some people decide to toss Elda away, and Hideki finds her. Her learning program creates a knowledge storage shell, and this is what we know as Chii.

Then again, I'm not really new to the "machine with feelings and soul" concept - there's plenty of it in SRW, especially SRWOG2. One of them also does a heroic 'human shield' for an asshole who doesn't think much of created people, not because it's her orders, but because she develops totally inappropriate feelings for her boss. (Hmm, are they trying to tell us something here?)