Quiet time.

At last, the busiest time of the year is over. First of all a belated MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! Hope you all got what you wanted for Christmas!

My Uncle came to visit from the other side of the world for the first time in about four years, he left early this morning. I've had a pretty good Christmas, I got a decent set of headphones (which hopefully will last longer than a month or so), a pair of converse which are fluffy on the inside and an actual winter coat (cause I've been freezing to death for the last 2 months).

Arriety is on TV and no-one else wanted to watch it so I'm in the loft by myself. (Ok, firstly, to clear this up I've referred to "the loft" many times but it's not actually used for storage, it's really a kind of hobby room, just in case anyone thought I sit alone in the attic on a daily basis...) I'm typing while watching it, it's so cute!

As always during the school holidays I've been putting off all of my work, with 4 days left to go I've still done nothing. My friends are coming over tomorrow for a revision party so it's all good. :3

Oh, I meant to attach this to the last post but I forgot:

 

 

 

I got an offer from my top choice university as well to study French and beginners Italian with European Studies. (Longest course name. EVER) My gosh, 2013 is gonna be big year. I'm both excited and dreading university next year. I'm gonna love independence and actually doing a course I enjoy. On the other hand, I'm not overly good with cooking, I can survive a day or two cooking by myself but after that, what am I going to cook?

 

On that cheery note, I'll give my top three songs of the past month or so I've been away!

 

Number 3: Len-kyun Now! By Owata-P and sung by Miku, Luka, Rin and Len.

This appeared in my subscriptions this morning and I freaked out! No this is not 96Neko's version, this is REAL, Owata-P has actually done this!

 

Number 2: Life Prolonging Treatment by neru and sung by IA.

It's made by neru and sung by IA, do I need to give a better reason? :3

 

 

Number 1: Requiem of the Endless World by Hitoshizuku P & Yama△ and sung by the Kagamine twins

If anyone else has been waiting for the ending synchronicity series for too long, this is gonna be the best Christmas present ever! I literally squealed with fangirl happiness and Hitoshizuku P & Yama△ don't dissapoint. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Just, listen to it!

 

 

 

Have a nice day! :3

Christmas shopping: done.

So I finished my Christmas shopping! Wooo! (and have no money left!) However while I was doing le shopping I may have bought something for myself: Epic Mickey 2 for wii! I knew the original plan was that my parents were gonna get it for me for Christmas but they're toying with the idea of getting me a car, so I went out and got the game myself, while buying presents for everyone else, of course.

First of, it's REALLY good, I love how it has a co-op mode now because it means my sister can drop in and out whenever she wants (she's not so much as a hard core gamer as me...) The camera problems from the first game (in that it moves as it sees fit) is all gone!

There's also just SO MUCH MORE TO DO! I'm constantly being bombarded with quests, challenges, badge hunting, film reel hunting, costume hunting, looking for people, looking for metals, looking for cloth, looking for pigs, fixing train stations... and that's not even the HALF of the stuff to do ON TOP of the main quests. Really, this is gonna take a while!

They all speak too, apart from the Mad Doctor who sings (because after all what is a Disney product without  at least seven musical numbers)! After doing the first main section of the story there's a whole ten minute long happy ending video like the end of the first one, followed by the credits. Now I must say I didn't realise that I was nowhere near finishing it but I started freaking out: I've only played it 4 times! How can it already be finished?! Luckily for me, it's not, because a second load of bosses have emerged from the pits of wasteland, it's a classic Disney villain!

I don't want to give too much away so I'll stop now so I don't ruin it! >3<



In other news MAYU HAS FINALLY BEEN RELEASED! I have been waiting a looooong time for this to finally happen! A load of vocaloid producers have gathered together and made a CD consisting of 30 different songs, so here's my top 3 off of the album!

Number 3: Blood stained switch By mothy, sung by MAYU.

I love mothy, all his songs link together, it's like a mahoosive spiderweb of songs.

 

 

Number 2:  Escape from Dystopia by CosMo and sung by MAYU!

 

CosMo is another AWESOME producer! I can't believe how hard this is to decide between all the awesome songs!

 



Number 1: A lie and a stuffed animal by Dixie flatline and sung by (do I really need to say it again?) MAYU

 

It's just too adorable!  ...and then I read the lyrics...

 

 

 

 

Byesie bye!

 

 

 

Oh and TEN DAYS UNTIL CODE LYOKO EVOLUTION!

Life can be fun!

Not an overly long post this week, I'm afraid! Not much has happened and I've just had homework to do! BLEH! It's (mostly) all done now, so I'm giving myself a well earned break.

I was in French yesterday and my teacher decided to have a debate. There were only three people in our lesson so it was the two other girls vs me. My teacher didn't want me to hear them as, well, I'd have apparently argued too well against them, so my teacher turned to me and said: do you have an iPod so you can listen to music, that way you won't hear them? My mind immediately went: vocaloid in French lesson? YES!

And so that has been the highlight of my past week! I'm going Christmas shopping on my own tomorrow so that might be fun!

Oh by the way, when I found out that the new Code lyoko series was in live action, I kinda reacted this way too! XD Now, I've seen the actors I'm FINE WITH IT!

 

 

 

I haven't been on YouTube these past few days because my Interne'ts been really slow! I got a letter today saying "we've upped your Internet speed, now you'll be able to download a film in the time it takes to make the popcorn!" I actually laughed as it's been slower now than it ever has been before! So this is the only new vocaloid song I discovered the past week, which I actually really like, so here it is:

An Earnest Unrequited Love, Wanting to Make it Bear a Little Happiness by t.Komine/Utata-P and sung by MAYU!

 

I really love her voice so much!

 

Too early to think up a title

Hiya everyone!

It's been about three weeks since my last post! Sorry! I didn't realise just how quickly life was going!

I've been super stressed out these past three weeks as there were quite a few bumps in the road trying to send of my application for university, but IT'S ALL GONE NOW!!! *happy dance* I've finally (two and a half weeks later than I wanted to be, thanks to my school...) applied to my five universities. Now I'm spending all my life checking my emails to find out if I've got any offers... I'm really worried they might see hwo bad I did in physics and be all "this girl is so stupid! Let's not take her!"

On saying that, it was probably poor judgment on my part to apply for a degree at a university that specialises in science... (Just to make it clear I'm applying for French!
^-^) So, let's just see how that goes!

So other than the panicking and endless amounts of French homework I should be doing right now, I've been working and it's one week left until I get paid! I'll be getting about £90 and when I worked out how much I was gonna spend on people for Christmas... I pretty much have nothing left. On the plus side, I have double shifts around Christmas and won't be paid until the first of January so all that money can go on me... I'm saving up for the next MCM in May. This time, I'm going in proper cosplays for both days WITH early entrance... Since I'll be paying for it all myself! Mwahahahaha!

Oooh, also we've got Lovefilm! It's brillliant! We get unlimited streaming of films as well as being able to rent games! And the anime section of the website literally makes me drool. I've rented out Final Fantasy XIII and I played it for the first time yesterday! I kept wanting to buy it but whenever I previously got money one of my friends so carelessly felt the need to have a birthday so all my money got spent on presents! NOT ANYMORE!!! *cough* Got to stop thinking about money, it's not a good habit...

Also, after Christmas I'm learning how to drive! My parents keep arguing whether to buy me a car or get me driving lessons. I sit there crossing my fingers for a car but they're expensive and I'd have to run it myself. Oh dear, I know where my wages are going! To be honest, I wouldn't care if I did have to spend my wages I'D HAVE A CAR! >_< All the places I could go!

Well, I need to wrap this up before the laptop runs out of battery so my top three vocaloid songs this week are:

Number three: This is the happiness and peace of mind society.
Creepy, just creepy.

 

 

Number 2: The Transient Apple salesgirl.

Cute Gumi song is cute.



 

 

Number 1: 1,2 fanclub

Hiya everyone!

Firstly, Blogger has very kindly deleted EVERYONE'S blogs off of my reading list, which was nice of them! Now I have to find the blogs I was following again... -_-

Secondly, now that's out of the way! I got my job! Yay! I had three shifts already this week and when I got home I was too lazy to get on a computer, so I'm sorry this post is a good week late! I work in a tiny little shop in my local town and it sells looooads of little itsy bitsy things like wooden hearts, photo frames and other cute things! The place smells soooo good as it sells incense and oil burners. The Christmas ones are on sale now so the whole store smells like cinnamon, I was wiping my mouth every 3 minutes! XD

Moving onto the main theme of this post: MY TRIP TO MCM LONDON COMECON!!!

I got up super duper early (6AM, so not that super early) and put my entire cosplay on. I got a few funny looks at the train station. Just to let everyone know I was the only one in the train station for a while, in my bright green Gumi wig. I looked all awkward and hilarious as everyone who passed me gave me a look like "what the hell is she doing?!" Luckily it wasn't too long before we were all on the train.

When we got there it still had two hours before it opened... So we sat at practically the front of the queue, there were about thirty people in front of us. Considering we had two whole hours to wait the time went really quickly! I was happy to sit there and just watch everyone walk past in their cosplays, there were so many Slendermen, vocaloids and Pedo bears.

Haven't got any pictures as I have no camera at the moment... which was depressing. I only took £70 with me and now I want more stuff! All I bought was a ASDF T-Shirt which says "I am a Stegosaurus" on the front, an adorable bag with Chibi Miku, Len and Rin on the front, and a copy of Angel Beats which only cost £10 (which works perfectly, I was sure there was something wrong with it at that price but it's an official certificated copy!)

I was gonna queue up for all the celebrities but the queue's were massive and some of them were charging £15 for an autograph. I walked away after seeing one person... There was loads of other stuff to do so I walked around for ages! There was no way to finish it all in one day!

I got sooo many hugs from people and a couple of people yelled "GUMI!" when I walked past before tackle glomping me, I felt so famous! ^-^ I have to say though, I glomped my fair share of people too, especially the Lens, Soras and Roxases.

There were so many dances going on too, I missed the caramelldansen (p*ssed off! XD) I was buying stuff and didn't make it there on time... There was a guy there dressed as a big speaker and Gangnam style was playing on repeat... all day long, people started to follow this guy round, he got a good crowd of about one hundred people following him around, me amongst them.

I went to a vocaloid meetup and met so many AWESOME people who I'll definitely stay in contact with. At the moment I'm debating whether or not to go to hyper Japan at the end of the month but I don't think I could afford another trip to a con for a while...

All in all I'd say it was practically the best day of my life! I loved all the people there and all the stuff was awesome! Next time I think I'll go for an extra day and spend one day meeting people and the other day shopping! Now that I have my new job think of all the stuff I'll be able to buy at the next one in May *drools*. Once Christmas is done I'll start saving up for MCM MAY! I want more things!

Onto my top 3 vocaloid songs this week:

Number 3: SeeU's Gangnam style:
I discovered this about 3 hours ago AND IT'S HILARIOUS!!!

 

Number 2: World Calling by Jin and sung by IA
I have a ridiculous amount of love for IA, I LOVE her voice! She's just so adorable that I want to hug her all the time! She's so sweet!

 

 

Number 1: Ama no Jaku, originally by 164 and GUMI, sung by Mayu

Mayu is Exit Tunes's upcoming new vocaloid, announced in May earlier this year. I found the demo a while back but I completely forgot about it, a couple of days ago I started to wonder if she had been released yet, so I went back and listened to it this week and it's ended up being my FAVOURITE song at the moment, I can't wait until her official release in December (I think...) I love her artwork and her little nasally voice, even if she does wield an axe!

 

 

 

With that I bid you all farewell, have a nice week! 



Just a quick post!

Hiya everyone. It's late and I should really be in bed early because I have a job interview tomorrow, so I'll have to be fast!

Firstly London Comecon was AWESOME and I'll do a full post either tomorrow or the next day, this isn't gonna have any vocaloid songs of the week... because it's late and I'm lazy but I promise I'll do it tomorrow!

Basically I just wanted to give you a linky link to my new mep group I'm starting!
If anybody wants to join feel free, just leave a comment on this post or on the actual video!

Lots of love

Lottie!

OH MAI GAWD MCM IS JUST 4 DAYS AWAY!

So... That's all I'm talking about... all the time!
My wig has arrived and I picked up my train tickets this morning after school! (I had ONE lesson today!)
London MCM here I come!

To prepare myself for this event I have written myself a list of stuff which MUST be done in the one day I'm there! So here it is!

Get there.
Go straight to the vidcon section.
Find tomska.
Get him to sign my shoes. (long story)
Find Matt.
Get him to sign my shoes.
Find the Eddsworld team.
Get them all to sign my shoes.
Buy some sh*t.
Wander over to games section.
Pray something about Kingdom Hearts will be there.
Find some Kingdom Hearts cosplayers and steal them take photos with them.
Go to the anime section.
Meet Ali Hillis.
Get her to sign my shoes.
Meet Liam O Brien.
Get him to... yup.
Spend two hours there buying more STUFF!
Lunch should be in here somewhere but AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FO' THAT!
Go to Memorabilia.
GET EVERYONE THERE TO SIGN MY SHOES! (Especially HATTIE HAYRIDGE FROM RED DWARF!)
Get to the Vocaloid Meet.
Dance with everyone!
Take ten tonnes of pictures.
Realise there's only an hour left.
Freak Out.
Wonder why I didn't save up more and go all three days.
Rush round and do everything I forgot to do.
Refuse to leave.
Get kicked out.
Cry on the steps of the Excel.
Get on the train.
Go home.


Yeaaaah. I'm never going to magaged all of this. This is just the stuff I wanna do... and I'm bringing Three friends with me! XD

Moving swiftly on: Top Three Vocaloid songs!

Number 3: Stop Nagging Me! By Owata-P (If i remember rightly?) and sung by Akita Neru.
Yes. I know she's not a vocaloid but UTAU'S SONGS ARE JUST AS EQUALLY AMAZING! So she's here.

Number 2: Don't kill the Love song. Pinnochio-P sung by Miku!

I'll tell you why in Number 1.

 

Finally!

 

Number 1:  Weekly shonen BYE BYE!! Also by  Pinnochio-P and sung by Miku

 

This video popped up in my subscriptions and got me listening to  Pinnochio-P again. I haven't listened to anything by him/her (I don't know?!) in a while and I really love the quirky songs along with their AMAZING videos!