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Happy Chinese New Year 2012

Hecko X — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:31:01 +0000

This video goes out to all my Asian friends; hope y’all had an awesome new year.

The art in the video was drawn/painted by marydoodle, an absolutely amazing artist whose videos you should subscribe to right fucking now.

I’m waiting…
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Close enough – enjoy.

P.S. Yuan, you still owe me committee cakes, FFFFFFFFF.

The Golden Age of Video

Hecko X — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:31:17 +0000

An ‘old’ song (by pop standards) made up of various famous film quotes that I re-discovered some weeks ago and have been listening non-stop to since.

The song was created by Ricardo Autobahn with the video being edited and produced by Diva Schematic.

2011 Stats and a Happy New Year!

Hecko X — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:59:16 +0000

Source: http://purrduedvm.blogspot.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope y’all have had an awesome year 2011 and will all safely enter 2012 with your friends and loved ones!

I decided to make a 2011 stat post like Idid back in 2008 and 2009 (the 2010 one was deleted…).

General Stats

Up-time: Since January 1st
Total amount of visits: 31,061
Total amount of unique visits: 29,112
Total amount of pageviews: 43,081
Highest amount of visits in a day: 198 (January 7th)
Lowest amount of visits in a day: 0 (January 19th – Februar 8th; site down)
Highest amount of pageviews in a day: 273 (January 7th)
Lowest amount of pageviews in a day: 0 (January 19th – Februar 8th; site down)

Top 5 Most

Amount of Visits from a Country

United States of America: 7,836 visits
Indonesia: 2,427 visits
United Kingdom: 1,807 visits
Brazil: 1,604 visits
Canada: 1,391 visits

Viewed Articles (amount of visits, main page not included)

How to Make Fried Noodles: 4,753 visits (Post)
Grand Fantasia: 3,394 visits (Review)
Robot Unicorn Attack; Play It, But Not Too Much…: 2,379 visits (Post)
Doubt: 2,378 visits (Review)
Koka Noodles: 1,377 visits (Review)

Viewed Articles (time on page)

Fan Art and Gifts: 01:28:14
Music of the Moment #8: 00:26:44
How to Make Fried Noodles: 00:20:20
Grappler Baki Chapter 8: 00:15:41
Fut-Fut-Fut Freestylo: 00:14:59

Visits from a Source

google: 25,000+ visits
(direct): 2,771 visits
facebook.com: 518 visits
yahoo.com: 350 visits
mangaupdates.com: 336 visits

Merry Christmas 2011!

Hecko X — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:21:34 +0000

Photo of Nash on my desk

A very merry Christmas from M Dash!

I spent my Christmas with Nashayla and her family, having my first Danish Christmas since childhood, when my grandparents were still alive, and trying certain foods for the first time ever! :D

The day consisted of us going to church, singing, coming home, eating a feast of a Christmas dinner, singing some more, and then opening some presents.

I got a gift certificate for 10,000 Japanese yen (for books) and a framed photo from Nashayla of herself, which is now sitting on my work desk ♥

CAESAR THE GUARDIAN KITTY!

I gave a lot of gifts this year, totalling roughly 2,000 DKK! owo

I gave my mom a “best mom in the world” medal and money.
I gave Nash’s dad the album Flash Gordon by Queen and two beers from Sarajevo.
I gave Nash’s mom the book 1Q84 (the first one in the trilogy).
I gave her sister a pair of breakfast bowls, since she recently moved out.
I gave Nash two pairs of white gloves and a joke gift.

Our presents were well protected by the guardian cat of Hell’s gates, Caesar! >:3

All in all, a pretty awesome experience, and I’m really grateful that they let me take part. Apparently, it’s a first for her parents to let outsiders join ^^’

Nash's joke gift: hat and gloves of Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece; her favourite character

1 Year Anniversary

Hecko X — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:43:25 +0000

'Sup, brah? Whatchu lookin' at?

Not much to say; it’s our – Nashayla and I – one-year anniversary today, the day before Christmas Eve~♪

I had wanted to take her out to her favourite restaurant, but it was unfortunately closed for the holidays, so we went for a sushi place where I’ve gotten in good with the owners ;P

We then came home and exchanged gifts – she gave me a penguin game and I gave her a penguin sweater to keep warm during winter – and watched the animated Pixar film, Ratatouille. She fell asleep halfway through while hugging me, it was so adorable ♥

So yeah, short post, but I just wanted to share my happiness for tonight ^-^

December Updates 3: Geocaching

Hecko X — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:13:13 +0000

Hecko and Eutaku finding a cache during late-night stroll

First, for those who don’t know what geocaching is, here’s a short explanation provided by geocaching.com:

“GEOCACHING is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices and then share their experiences online.”

So, a few days ago, I was watching the news on TV, and they had this exposé on geocaching, which was the first I had ever heard of it. Loving treasure hunting and solving riddles, I decided to look further into it online, and discovered just how vast this game actually was.

I decided to give it a go, registered as a free user on geocaching.com, and downloaded the free, open source application, c:geo, for my Android phone (apps for iOS, Symbian, and Windows exist as well, just Google them).

It’s a pretty good app, but my phone’s battery life is shit, so it dies after only 3-4 hours of caching… I wish I had a proper GPS though, so I wouldn’t have to worry about my phone dying, but I make due for now.

To date, I’ve been geocaching for 5 days and I’ve found 6 caches (follow my progress here and on my Twitter). I think the low number of finds are directly related by me still being a greenhorn and because I’ve only been searching after nightfall, which makes it pretty difficult as well, due to limited visibility. On the other hand, there’s also less of a chance of being spotted, so…

A giant Winnie the Pooh we got to see thanks to GeoCaching

It’s good fun though, and a great excuse to get away from the computer and get some mental and physical exercise, and it’s easier to stick to than the elephant thing I tried, since I don’t have to take pictures.

Another great thing about it is that you get to experience new, interesting places, even in your own neighbourhood, that you might not have know existed. I, for instance, found a bunch of new playgrounds and saw beautiful artworks and fun stuff I never knew was so close to where I live ♥

But since I like geocaching so much, I’ve been trying to get others into it too, which I’ve managed to do with a moderate degree of success. I’ve even suggested it to Eutaku as a publicity scheme for Genki; spreading out 5-10 caches with a wristband in each as a “First to Find” prize, giving them free entry to the convention.

Anyway, I hope to one day go on a crazy cache hunt with a bunch of friends, so if this sounds interesting to you, please do give it a try ^-^

Funny Japanese Fanta Ads

Hecko X — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:09:54 +0000

This was shown to me by Usk. To understand some of the references, enable annotations.

December Updates 2: Scanlations

Hecko X — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:55:06 +0000

WTF happened to scanlating?

As most of you must have noticed by now, I haven’t released a scanned chapter of anything for a solid five months. The reason for this is quite simply that I’ve ‘quit’ the scanlation business – major groups as well as my own thing – due to lack of time and motivation.

This is not to say that I’m not still working on a minor project, it’s just that I refuse to start releasing chapters of it until it’s almost done. So to those of you who’ve been kind enough to send me drawings for credit pages, don’t worry, I’ll use them eventually! OTL

Also, for those of you who have been reading Grappler Baki: Thanks for the support! The manga has been taken over by the people of U Mad Scans, so keep an eye out for it there. Fair warning though; they also have +18 releases, so pay attention to what you click.

December Updates 1: Food and Candy Reviews

Hecko X — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:28:02 +0000

I keep failing to update my blog, which is horrible. However, while I don’t update, I have actually been working on a few review posts, but they’ve just been a long time coming.

Noodle reviews

My basket was overflowing

Some time ago, I decided that enough was enough; I wanted to try brands of noodles other than my regular Xing Fu chicken flavoured noodles, to see if something could beat my favourite noodles.

So, determined to try what else is out there, I went to Asia Town in the heart of Copenhagen, and bought noodles for crazy amounts of money. The dude behind the register gave me a discount, because I bought more items than he cared to count.

I’ve bought both cup noodles and noodles in packets of various brands and countries of origin, so I look forward to trying them all. I even bought a bowl specifically for this purpose.

Candy reviews

Candy from KAIKI

I have a ton of candy reviews in the making as well. I bought a bunch of random Japanese candy on eBay some time ago, though not all made it to Denmark unscathed (1/5 became inedible). Nashayla’s dad also recently returned from Japan, where he bought me two types of candy, which I was pretty happy about.

Additionally, KAIKI gave me a delayed birthday present of 500 grams of assorted Asian candy that she bought for me while she was in China. It has like 50+ different candies, so it’s gonna take me forever to review.

I’ve been considering taking candy reviews a bit more seriously, and making a different blog for that exclusively, where each post will be about a single piece/type of candy, but I doubt I will have time for this, which is a shame. I barely update this one as it is, after all.

Fail Haircut

Hecko X — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:50:51 +0000

Finland is a character from the web comic Scandinavia and the World, which property of artist Humon.

NSFW Google Game

Hecko X — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:34:33 +0000

A few years back, just for the lulz, I made the ‘hypethesis’ that if you added “asian girl” to any single search term, regardless of what it was as long as it was a common noun, you’d find at least one pornographic image on one of the first three pages. From then on, it would become a game to try to think of a search term that WOULDN’T result in a pornographic image appearing.

I recently remembered that game, so I figured “Fuck it, I’ll share it with the Interwebermernet“, and made an image thingy with rules explaining the game. I updated the rules a bit since Google’s image search has change over the past few years. So, well, here:

October Update 2: Work

Hecko X — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:15:30 +0000

Pimped Comic Party website

Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, it’s off to work I go~ ♫
Or not really, I work from home, LOOOOOL!

One of the main reasons for me not posting here so often anymore – other than plain meh – is because I am prioritizing work.

Right now, I’m trying to finish translating and typesetting 170-ish pages by the end of the month, which is a bit FFFUUUUUU- since I also have an exam coming up soon, not mentioning the paper due Friday /whine whine whine

ANYWHO, other than the usual Comic Party work, I’m also now doing a weekly post (in Danish) over on the Comic Party website, hoping to get more traffic to the site thus creating more buzz and hopefully more customers, so I won’t be out of job.

The Banana Cosplay site

In addition, I recently got a job as the webmaster over at bananacosplay.com, which is a site for cosplay merchandise. They ship internationally, in case some people out there are interested!

Why am I working so much, you may ask? Because I need the money, duuuuuuur. I’m trying to save up for summer, so I can fiiiinally take a trip to Osaka in Japan and be all OM NOM NOM NOM on their food.

October Update 1: Relationship

Hecko X — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:31:41 +0000

Intense stare of teh sexy /ay caramba

See that really hot Asian chick on the right? That’s mah sexy señorita~

Since the last update, we had some… turbulence… in our relationship, but we managed to work past things and have been together for 10 months today :D

These last few months with her have been AAAAWSUUUUUUM! We’ve been going out a lot, having good times, hosting events for friends (like the mahjong thing), and playing Tekken; AAAAAAAAAAAWWW YEEEEEEEEAH!!

So guys, too bad, she’s mine! And considering she went through the trouble of getting me a 110 cm tall inflatable penguin, you’ll have to pry her from my cold, dead hands if you want her!! D8<

Okay, not really, I’m not that creepy… BUT IT WON’T BE WILLINGLY!!

Penguin of fucking awesome!! Nashayla on the right, Tux in the middle, Nash's colleague on the left.

Awesome Frog

Hecko X — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:09:06 +0000

I so imagine the frog just shrugging it off and be awesome.

We’re on a Horse

Hecko X — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:35:36 +0000

Imitation, flattery, and all that pizass.

Old Spice commercial (original)	Puss in Boots (homage)

The History of English in Ten Minutes

Hecko X — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:03:32 +0000

10 funny, short animations about the history of the English language made by The Open University.

Chapter 1: Anglo-Saxon	Chapter 2: The Norman Conquest

Chapter 3: Shakespear	Chapter 4: The King James Bible

Chapter 5: The English of Science	Chapter 6: English and Empire

Chapter 7: The Age of the Dictionary	Chapter 8: American English

Chapter 9: Internet English	Chapter 10: Global English

Nyan Cat Goes Bollywood

Hecko X — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:07:20 +0000

Remember Nyan Cat? Well, shit just got real…

Life Update Part 4: Comic Party and Elephants

Hecko X — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:10:11 +0000

CP#4 cover
Left side by Yamazaki Urita
Right side by Sandra Norup Andersen

Well, long story short, we managed to finish Comic Party #4 only a few days behind schedule (albeit the 3rd schedule…) and it has been sent off to the printers.

And yes, I have actually been taking pictures of elephants, but because I got some last second extra work on Comic Party, the pictures have been taken sporadically, and I haven’t really had time to turn them into .gifs and upload them.

That being said, work on Comic Party #5 has already started, and I will try my best to find time between school and work to upload the elephant photos. On a ‘sadder’ note though, it seems that several of the elephants have been sold ahead of time, so there’s no chance of getting all 102 elephants.

Life Update Part 3: Nashayla

Hecko X — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:53 +0000

About three weeks ago, Nashayla and I had our six month anniversary. She had been planning it for a while, and had meant for it to be a surprise, but I unfortunately spoiled parts of it because I like to deduce stuff… ;>.>

Regardless, I had an absolutely wonderful time with her; we went to the movies and watched Kung Fu Panda 2, then we went to Tivoli Gardens and tried a few rides, and finally, we went dining at a restaurant. We also exchanged a few gifts; she gave me a tie and Kung Fu Panda + Happy Feet on DVD, and I gave her a silver necklace for her crucifix, since the one she had from childhood unfortunately broke.

Sadly, the weather turned out a bit bad and we forgot to take any commemorative photos :c

Nash and I, dining with her family.

Anywho, recently, on July 5, it was Nashayla’s birthday. She was supposed to go dining with her family, but I got invited along also, since I’ve never had a meal with both her parents (I’m a pretty picky eater, so it’s really embarrassing for me…). Regardless, I was invited to a small, Italian establishment really close to where I go to school.

The food was excellent! I wasn’t much for the starter, but I absolutely loved the main course and dessert, so all in all, a pretty good place. It was still a bit awkward to have her dad pay for me though… OTL

Nash at the Vietnamese restaurant.

Two days later, I took her out for a birthday dinner, just the two of us. I had hoped to take her out to her favourite Vietnamese restaurant, but because we had the worst storm in Denmark in the last 500-odd years, they were closed due to water damage. Instead, we went to my boss’ aunts Vietnamese restaurant, which wasn’t bad, but a tiny bit bland (the food, not the restaurant).

The place itself was pretty cozy, and the paintings reminded me of the ones my late grandfather used to paint, so looking at the walls reminded me of my childhood. The service was pretty good, but the waitress should have buttoned up her shirt some more; way too much was showing… ;>.>

Life Update Part 2: Back in School

Hecko X — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:16:24 +0000

The two textbooks I'm using for class.

In the last week of June, I returned to school after a one-year long leave of absence to earn money to help pay back bank debts. It went decently well, I think, around 45,000 DKK including my savings. Anywho, my leave of absence ended in June, and I am to finish my last year of my bachelor’s degree this coming school year.

Since I still very much need to work, and also because studying Japanese takes a lot more time than people think, I decided to take my electives during summer school, which is also why I’m not in Serbia right now.

As can be seen on the right, I’ve chosen Consumer Behaviour and Internet Marketing, as I plan on taking a master’s in marketing, if I’m to take a master’s at all. Consumer Behaviour is pretty interesting, but Internet Marketing is incredibly dry and boring.

Anywho, I’m currently doing my mid-term exam in Consumer Behaviour, which is due in about a week, and is actually kinda fun. At the same time, I’m also trying to find a way to study up on Japanese, because I’ve become insanely rusty, so I’m not exactly looking forward to Year 3 Japanese after the summer vacation ;>.>

Having already finished my electives by then though, and no longer having to spend time on Genki, I’m feeling confident that my skills will significantly improve, as long as I keep my head in the game, so best of luck to me! :D