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That's right, I'm done!

19½ years of school (and half a year of nothing) is over and I can finally call my self: Master of Science in Software Engineering! ... or something like that.

I ended the final exam with a 10. The second highest grade on the new scale (equals B on the ECTS grading scale) and one grade higher than we (me and my group mate who also got 10) expected. So it all went well!

Our censor for the exam were Erik Frøkjær from University of Copenhagen, who is kind of an expert in the area our project were in (enough to have the media contact him for expert opinions). Apparently our report impressed him enough, because neither of us did an outstanding job at the actual exam :P .

... but who cares, it is over, I am done, no more university! Now there is only the future... damn :/

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A quick update to let you know about the upcoming exams period. I have been way to busy to write anything clever here for a while.

We, me and my group m8 Tuan, hand in our project (report and product) on the 14th of June. Then we have our project exam (the only exam this time) on the 28th, and finally a ceremony where we are handed our diploma, or whatever, on the 30th. And then I have a candidate degree in Software (cand.polyt.)!

LoLBase.net have received surprisingly many (to me at least) donations and we have already bought a new server and put up a brand new design! Everything is awesome until yesterday where the main database suddenly disappeared ... wtf?! So we are currently reconstructing the data from backups and archives. With the move, the new design and the lost database we have been quite busy with that too.

Back to work...

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I am still a noob when it comes to watching anime and reading manga, but I am getting there. According to AniDB I have 82 animes, but several of these are second seasons or OVA's and others are films. So a more correct unit would be episodes of which I have seen over 700. That is the same as 12 days and 20 hours! I currently have six series and one film waiting to be seen. According to MyAnimeList.net I have read 10 mangas or a total of 662 chapters which they estimate to have taken almost four days!

I should really get another hobby?

Anyway, I have compiled a small list of some of the stuff I have learned about the world from watching anime and reading manga. It must all be true, right?

• Girls gives you a nosebleed, one way or the other.
• All girls are embarrassed by their bust size, no matter the size.
• You cannot die from an epic fight - you just get really really tired.
• At least one of your female friends is a ghost.
• The first kiss is extremely important - so is the first touch.
• Kawaii!
• Eating food prepared by someone bad at cooking can often be fatal.
• Girls and women have much bigger eyes than boys and men.
• Parents are rarely ever home.
• All girls wear skirts and they are always to short.
• For some reason girls with cat-ears and a tail are really cute.
• There is a rabbit on the moon
• Tears are huge.
• Hair can sweat.
• If a girl gets sick, and it is not a cold, she is either pregnant or terminally ill.
• If you have a childhood friend you will eventually start dating her.
• All boys are being accused of being perverted no matter what they do.
• The Japanese word for panties is "pantsu"...
• "Saving" a girl from something even slightly dangerous will make her fall in love with you - even if you are a girl.
• Small children are often really smart while teenagers are stupid as hell.
• If you are afraid of getting robed, assaulted or raped on your way home it will happen!
• Magic exists but you need a card or some other device to use it.
• All guys who does not realize it, or look for it, have at least two girls who are in love with them.

wait... that cannot be right?

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I am busy with my school project, and will probably be for the next month until we hand it in the 14th of June. That leaves even less time to come up with an obscure blog about something weird. So instead this will just be a small update about things going on ... and showing of my latest drawings.

For a few months I have been creating yet another PHP framework from scratch. It is heavily inspired by the framework behind this site, created by me, and the one we use for LoLBase.net, created by my school project partner, Tuan. About a week ago I started to transform this site into the new framework and it is going great. Everything looks so much prettier ... in the code that is. The process is not done yet, and it is very likely that it will not be in the coming month either. I have a couple of other sites in progress that also uses the framework, and maybe I will tell you about that some day :P .

LoLBase.net is going tremendously great. We have run into one performance problem after another because of the huge interest we are getting. We have solved most of them but have now decided that we need our own full-time server to handle the pressure. To accomplish this we have started a donation campaign in hope that some of the users would help us, and some have already done so :o ! It is quite annoying that school requires so much time so we have trouble finding the time to actually do some work on lolbase, and the list of feature request is loooong.

Small update? Yeah, whatever - now for some drawings. Again inspired heavily by anime and mange :P . My scanner really suck so there is random shadows and missing shadows on all images :( .

Click on the thumbs to see a larger version (preparations for a gallery I am also making for the new site :P).

Louise from Zero no Tsukaima and her whip.


Fan service! Really do not understand Japan's fascination with bloody noses?


Random girl with a gun. Her left hand were annoying so I made her cry to move it up there :P .


Tsukimiya Ayu from Kanon. As always I did not capture her face in a good way so she is not really recognizable :P .


Satsuki Kitaoji from Ichigo 100% (a classic ecchi harem high school romance comedy manga).


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... that really is not the question. You cry when you cry and that is it. If you feel like crying go for it for crying out loud! ... no pun intended - ok maybe a little.

I am not sure about when the last time I really cried were, but I believe it were quite a while ago. More precisely at the funeral of my grandmother (on my mothers side) around 12 years ago. Think it was the culmination of seeing several people around me suddenly in tears that tipped it over for me. Since then I have felt it to be close several times but never really done it. Most memorable is the funeral of my other grandmother (on my fathers side). It was a very moving event, with one of my cousins singing and all, but I was almost ten years older and apparently more prepared.

I have never cried from watching a film. One cause might be that I have not really seen that many really really sad films, so there have probably never been a reason to do so. Even though I have not seen that many I have seen some and although I have noticed a reaction, it has never been big enough to really bring forth the tears. Lately I have seen several anime series with quite sad and moving story lines and the latest have been the most brutal so far, Clannad After Story. It is the second season of the Clannad story. The first season were the first of this kind of theme I have seen and it were a bit supricing to me as it is marked as a "seinen" anime, which means it is targeted at men. The reason for this however is probably that Clannad were originally what is known as a visual novel - a computer game with lots of talk and often several cute manga/anime girls. The whole series is basically about one boy, a senior at high school, who gets to know several girls who all have a tragic problem of some kind which he helps them with. In the second season this style continues for the first episodes but it soon shifts to more or less only focus on this boys life as he struggles with several tragic events happening to and around him. Another anime I have seen which have the same kind of theme is Kanon (2006 edition). It is created by the same team who is behind Clannad, and is basically the same. Were also originally a visual novel. The main difference here however is that this time the boy have met all the girls before (when they were 7-10 years younger) but he have forgotten about it. While he starts remembering stuff some tragic events from the past are unfolded and at the same time happening in the present.

All series are actually quite good, but not exactly my kind of theme so even though I considered seeing Air, a third anime series created by the same team (and again originally a visual novel), I am not sure I really feel like it at the moment. I probably need a lot of comedy for a while :P . As mentioned Clannad After Story have been the most brutal I have seen so far, but it is only because of its length and thereby the amount of tragic events. There is no doubt in my mind that the absolute most emotional and sad film I have ever seen is still Grave of the Fireflies, yet another anime. It is weird to believe that it is by the same company who is behind My Neighbor Totoro! :o

One good thing about all this is that seeing these have proven to me that anime expands over so many different areas, from the very sad (mentioned above) over the more serious (e.g. Planetes to the mindless fun (e.g. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, Azumanga Daiou and School Rumble), and from the dark thriller (e.g. Death Note) over an ecchi magical world (e.g. Zero no Tsukaima) to some aimed at children and/or the whole family (e.g. Kiki's Delivery Service). So no reason not to watch anime! Btw, all animes mentioned are recommended :P .

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