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Last Friend | YUKALI feat. CIMBA

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Wow

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Today's my favorite song SHIKATA - First Love About SHIKATA: He is known as a producer/lyrics writer for NAOTO INTI RAYMI, BIGBANG, JYJ, J Soul Brothers the 3rd, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, Fairies, w-inds., SHINee, JAY'ED, and Miho Fukuhara.

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Ghibli Studio Japanumation Cutout Picture and its process.

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FINAL FANTASY XV - 2013 Playable Movie

I'm one of people who are anyway always looking forward to play or, at least, check the latest Final Fantasy series.

Even though some people argue that Final Fantasy has been challenging its visual quality over its story lines, I personally like Final Fantasy VII (seven), which was released after Square Enix started pursuing visual quality.

At least now, this latest YouTube movie tells that the Final Fantasy XV will be like a developed version of Final Fantasy type-0 (零式), which I completed to play without any dissatisfaction. :)

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Nestle released a new tea machine named SPECIAL.T in Japan. I wnat it.

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amazarashi - Rabu-Songu (love song)

amazarashi is a Japanese rock group debuted in 2011. Lately, Hiromu Akita, the main vocalist, gets famous for producing Mika Nakashima (中島美嘉) and wrote “Boku Ga Shinou To Omotta Noha (the reason why I thought I’d die).”

Akita’s lyrics seem to basically focus on what the lightened parts of the human mentality is, and interesting aspect of Akita’s technique is that he defines the lightened parts through the darkened human mentality within our same-all, general daily lives. It is not straightforward: This is the most remarkable and interesting part of amazarashi’s songs.

“It’s simple but complicated:” This is my phrase that describes the human life, and I see this phrase within Akita’s lyrics.

Generally, amazarashi (雨曝しor 雨晒し) means “leave something in the rain.”

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Mika Nakashima - Boku Ga Shinou To Omotta Noha (the reason why I thought I'd die)

This song is written by Hiromu Akita from amazarashi. I personally like amazarashi's songs, and this collaboration seems perfectly well done. :)

FYI, "Rabu-Songu (Love song)" is my amazarashi's favorite song: http://goo.gl/nRmErv (YouTube). I'll write abaout "Rabu-Songu" in a new post tomorrow.

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Love to Japanese Music. iTunes Store Japan http://bit.ly/MGjeQG MIHIRO ～マイロ～ / One Mic ,one life feat.Mummy -D ,ZEBRA (by avexnetwork)

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I love this video, but wait. Who is the singer(s) of this song? and what is the title of this song?

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It's on snow by Mr. Beck. (もはや神レベル！ 雪の上に現れた美しすぎるミステリーサークルの正体 | Pouch［ポーチ］から)

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I bought the green one for about $19US (¥2000) at Rakuten today. :) (【楽天市場】超軽量！ mabu ( マブ ) New 24本骨傘 ベーシック 番傘のような・デザイン・アンブレラ　。。：インテリア　ショップ　funnyから)

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Wow. I like that.

盆栽 (Bon-Sai) is a real matured tree, but their height is extremely shorter/smaller than regular size.

I'm not sure there is Bon-sai culture in other culture besides Japan (or did Japan import Bon-sai culture from other culture?)

Anyways, Bon-sai is one of many artistic works with any sort of non-chemical way.

(わあ、まるでおとぎ話の世界！ 世界中で話題の「盆栽アート」はどのように生まれたのか | Pouch［ポーチ］から)

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Sanno Hie Jinja (山王日枝神社) is one of the famous Shinto shrines around Tokyo area. This shrine locates in Akasaka, which is famous for TBS, a major Japanese broadcasting studio. As you can read in the following re-tumblog, Sanno Hie Jinja has Shin-kou Sai (神幸祭) today. These photos are taken just after the festival began.

日枝神社例祭･神幸祭の様子です｡神幸祭の模様はインターネット上で生中継されています｡詳しくは以前の投稿をご覧下さい｡

その他の写真も近日中に公式 facebook ページへ追加しますのでどうぞご覧下さい｡

[EN] These photos are taken today in front of Sanno-Hie Jinja (Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan) when the whole festival was about to start.

Shin-kou Sai, the name of this festival, takes places around the major places in Tokyo area such as Ginza, Shinjuku, and Shinbashi.

For detailed information about this Japanese traditional event (so-called Matsuri), please refer to another post. (You can watch LIVE video if you are interested.)

For your information, additional photos will be available in our facebook page.

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Male Japanese traditional Kimonos are basically tied by two kinds of Obis: 角帯 (Kaku-Obi) is one of the two kinds. Since Kimonos are categorized by its fabric and the way it is tailored, buyers need to know what kind of fabrics are being used for the entire kimono and its accessories. 正絹 (Sho-ken) is one of four fabrics meaning silk.

Today's Interesting Point in the Kimono Culture:

Although distinguishing between 正絹 or not sounds like enough when you buy kimonos--as I wrote earlier-- Kimono is also distinguished by how a kimono is tailored. For example, 紬 (Tsumugi) and お召 (Omeshi) are both 絹織物 (Kinu-Ori-Mono,) silk kimonos; however not only does the way of tailoring make differences in the  two kinds of kimonos, but situations where these kimono can be worn are different from each other as well.

Price: 12,600 yen (about $145)

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How to use iTunes Wi-Fi Snyc (Windows 7)

I spent 3 hours of research on the Internet and finally found a clue that solves to setup the WiFi sync function of iTunes on Windows 7 with AVG anti-virus software. Today, I just want to share what my setting is and my situation.

Situation:

First of all, I surely set up to turn-on Wi-Fi sync on each iPhone, iPod touch, and iTunes, and basically what I should be supposed to do is to open iTunes and turn on iPhone and iPod touch. That should be all.

However, Wi-Fi sync never succeeded, and iTunes never shows my iPhone and iPod touch on its screen even though both are in a same network.

I once turned off Firewall on AVG anti-virus software, and reboot iTunes itself; then, iPhone and iPod touch correctly appear on iTunes.

In my case, Firewall is the key to solve this series of problem on the Wi-Fi sync.

How To:

Open the setting window of AVG security, and the firewall setting from tool menu.

Choose your current security profile from "profile" section on "Firewall Setting."

Choose "System service," and open "User System Rule Manager."

Choose "add" and create a following new rule:

UDP

In-n-/Out

Remote and Local port: 5353; 9753; 3702

All network

Save setting, and reboot iTunes to see what's going to happen

I personally have no idea what 9753 and 3702 port work for. The 5353 port is listed as Multicast DNS (MDNS) at iTunes help page, but the other two ports are found on support community and blog post.

Although all suggesting posts say that the direction is "out," and local port isn't a matter for Wi-Fi setting, in my case, it does matter. I tested all possible settings, and the above setting is the only setting that enable Wi-Fi sync on my Windows 7.

BTW, if you are using Windows Firewall function, then this post isn't a solution since I switched to Windows firewall to see the Wi-Fi sync works or not, and it does work properly without any additional setting.

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ABP blocks the text area from the Gmail chat tab.

I have been wondering if it is possible to edit filters of ABP in order to use Chat system on Gmail.

Today, I just found a ABP's functionarity that lets me to find which filter affects to block the text area of Google Chat on Gmail.

"##.ad3" seems to be the one that has cased to block the text area of chat window/tab. Now, I can chat with friends via Gmail without any trouble. :)

* ABP is an acronym that stands for Adblock Plus; ABP is an add-on for Firefox/Chrome browsers.