Maki - I am likely to call her Mao in the coming days - looks really cute in glasses, I think

Sun (a Sumire doll) looks like a cool geek girl in this photo because of the funky pink hair and half-rimmed glasses that I so love about the Yuki Nagato doll.

I also took their picture together with my own set of glasses!

Aren’t they so adorable! I am so glad to receive the PK006B I ordered from Ebay. Glad to have found it. It was a lucky find though one of the arms on the Player shirt has been coming off. Oh well. One can’t be too lucky, I guess? I don’t mind because I know that there is a way to fix that.

When you love someone, you take the good with the bad. Though there might be funkiness like that thing about Evolution as a dependency (which I think is sucky, btw) and that there really are so many *buntu varieties out there, I love using Ubuntu and I haven’t changed distros yet.

I also love the fact that Ubuntu’s name is, well, Ubuntu. Which means humanity in African. And it reminds me that Linux is made by people for people. People who want to make their choices and let others know about the choices they could make, especially when it comes to software freedom.

I might not show up high on the radar of tech bloggers who use Linux and love it and I don’t really have that much community participation these days but still, I try to spread the Ubuntu love whenever I can. Because it’s just so great, if you ask me

There are some great deals in terms of UMPCs now. And they run Linux

I might just be biased but, srsly, I still think that Linux is one of the coolest things I’ve encountered in my life. Along with Pinky:St dolls, poi, Japanese fashion and cooking.

I suck at this. So embarrassed desu ;_;

This week I went twice with different companions. Thursday, it was Pepper. I got two new shirts from there. Last night, it was Ja. We got hoodies of the same style but different prints. I fit well in the XL size. Yay! We girls were so giddy last night because of the cheap finds!

To show how giddy we were, we had photos taken when we got back to the office:

(Thanks to Ealden for the original upload! :D)

He was such a computer geek and I guess you could consider me a nerd. We met in a geekette’s party and yet we didn’t get to really talk until our common friend said he had books of Umberto Eco. That drew me to him. And one afternoon we decided to meet up for coffee and tea in Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Greenbelt 3. He had books. I had a laptop. It was an afternoon in January 2005. We met at around 6pm and conversation just flowed on and on and on. We practically never left the table and we savored each drop of our drinks and each word that was said. It was the beginning of a series of meetings in the coffee shop.

Months ensued and we met in the afternoons, some times in the evenings. It was probably the coffee, the tea, the atmosphere. We kept talking a lot until one day I realized how much I shared with him and I couldn’t wait for the next time we’d be sitting under one of the umbrellas or on the sofa chairs. Maybe the barista put something in the tea or the coffee. Something was definitely brewing and we both took it in and it’s been a little over three years since then.

This is my Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf story. Or maybe more like my geek/nerd love story, but some of the most important days and conversations did happen there.

I think it’s my fault why three of my girls have a crush on Grey. And Grey is Kaoko’s Tae Yang doll. Kao, one of the reasons I got even more interested in Pinky Street dolls happens to have cute Tae Yangs (Grey, Seiji and Junpei) and Pullips (Aki and Sachiko). The photobook Boys of Summer came out already and I happened to download a copy.

Arc says:

Is there a way for us to meet Grey in person? I’d like to hear him play the guitar and sing.

Ohara (I have to name her yet) says:

I could just stare at him all day, really. *sighs*

Rie says:

Hmmph. Why haven’t you printed out a doll-sized version of the Boys of Summer? You don’t want us to have a copy for ourselves… *looks accusingly at me*

My dolls should be happy that they see a bigger version of Grey on my laptop’s screen. Then again, nothing beats having a photobook to ogle at while they’re at home and chilling with the other Pinky:St dolls.

As for wrist cuffs, it’s a bit harder. Designing one isn’t so difficult especially when it comes to something relatively simple. But… It’s not so easy looking for good lace ;_;

Will post pictures another time

Actually, I am considering getting a Sumire face from someone selling her on Flickr. I already have her alternate clothing. Maybe I won’t like her school uniform much anymore. Dunno.

I got an Ohara face + her alternate clothes today. Marj and I split the Ohara pack this afternoon. Ryan and Nina were both there and were showing us other Pinky stuff. Need monies!!!!

Anyhow, I am just happy that Rui repaint is coming home to me and that I have an Ohara face now