I found this out just in time! Skip Beat! and Toradora!, which just started airing in Japan this week, will be shown on Arts Central here the same week itself. Toradora! airs every Thursday from 11.30pm to 12am (schedule), and Skip Beat! airs on Fridays from 11 to 11.30pm (schedule).

The anime they tend to show on Arts Central isn’t generally the type I prefer, so I’m glad seeing these 2 shows being aired. While Skip Beat! might be a show that has a chance of getting aired on TV here, I’d never have expected Toradora! to be aired as well. I’ve been intending to watch these shows, and getting to see them on my TV screen would be nice. There are a lot of nice shows this season! The question is, do I have enough time to watch them all?

I finally got my copy of Lala from Kinokuniya today; I almost missed seeing it because I wasn’t expecting them to only have 3 copies left. Considering that the official release date in Japan was on the 24th, it seems that the magazine is selling pretty quickly. Anyway, I got my copy, so I’m happy now.

While I was browsing in Kinokuniya (love that place, heh), I came across the Honey and Clover artbook. I don’t remember seeing any news about an artbook being released back when the anime and drama were airing, but it turns out that the book was released only a few months ago. After coming home and seeing some scans from the book that were posted online, I really want it! I just love the art. So pretty! It’s selling at S$41 though… sigh. Maybe when there’s a 20% sale? Ah… if only I hadn’t seen it…

It’s bad to read manga right before you sleep, when the manga ends off at a cliffhanger and you have to wait a month for the next chapter.* NOOO Zero, NOOO Yuuki! I hate being tortured this way. If it was some completed series I’ll just keep going till I finish because (like a lot of other people) I need to know the ending, but in this case I have no choice but to wait.

It’s the recess week, and in the blink of an eye half the semester has passed. Eeps. I have 1 project and 1 assignment to do, and hopefully most of the project can be completed within the next week. I should get around to watching Hana yori Dango 2 as well, so that I can return Jasmine her DVD. It’s been sitting around for quite long.

I should be getting to sleep, but I feel so awake after reading the new VK chapter. Arrgh.

* I guess most of us here are used to seeing manga coming in the form of books, like those in the comic stores. But in Japan, some manga are serialised in magazines, so you get a new chapter every 2 weeks, 1 month, or some other length of time, depending on how often the magazine is published. Once there are a few chapters that are completed, they are then compiled into the book form that we usually see. Some changes might be made to then, and the book form may have some extra stuff as well.

It’s once again that time of the year, where the freshies come in, and everyone else that has not graduated moves up a year. Come to think of it, I didn’t see anyone holding a map and finding their way around today, which is a common sight for the first couple of weeks each new school year. However, I’m sure I’ll be seeing those maps being held around soon. 4 year ago, I was one of those freshies who tried to find my way around school with my map in hand, hoping that I can get to the right place in time for the right lesson. Now, 4 years later, I’m already part of the most senior batch of students.

3 months break from school, and meeting everyone again today, like what Sherry said, doesn’t feel as though we haven’t met in such a long time. I could certainly take some time to get used to having lectures once again though! Reading research papers, having discussions, doing presentations and the like, these are things I won’t be able to avoid this semester even though I don’t quite like them. But first, to finalise what subjects I’m going to take.

This version of a monthly calendar is about GTD (”Getting things dropped”) on your desktop: you can use the calendar to drag all the files on your desktop to certain days, when you expect to (hopefully) be working on them. If you didn’t make it – no prob – just drag them to the next day! For the time after August 2008, you can use the wallpaper for weekly “getting things dragged and dropped” on your desktop. It’s easy – and I hope it’s efficient.

Smashing Magazine

I saw this wallpaper online, and thought that it was a great idea to make something like that. While I like my wallpaper too much to change it, I thought that this might be of use to someone else.

I’m so free these days that I can take online personality tests just for fun. I’ve taken the DISC test a few times before, but I don’t remember taking the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) one.

According to the MBTI system (you can take the test here), I’m supposedly an ISFJ.

Introverted 56%
Sensing 1%
Feeling 38%
Judging 78%

Seems that I’m rather close to being an INFJ as well, if the results above are to be trusted. Only about 1% of the population is of that type, a big difference as compared to ISFJ, which is one of the most common personality types (if not the most common).

The personality description for ISFJ is below the cut. How accurate do you think this is?