Utrecht - 2009
Enough said.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Soft launching my new blog layout
Tadaaa.... I finally manage to get a new layout for this blog. Being a dummy on html/css/xml, I choosed to (again) find an existing blogger template. There are dozens of brilliant blog designers out there, giving away free templates for us dummies.
I've been pondering between choosing a dark-sleek look or a bright-cheery feel. Finally this layout caught my heart: Baby Cute from Ipietoon. I find this layout to be cute and fresh. Of course to make it more of my own, I have to make some minor changes. I changed the header with an image I grabbed a long time ago from one of my favorite manga: Nana. I also changed the search and blog title icon with these cute ones I grabbed from Tutorial9.
Ipietoon has a nice collection of blogger templates. If you go to my songs blog, you'll see that I've also changed the layout with another template from Ipietoon: Black Brown Pop.
I still want to tweak both layouts a bit, such as changing the header font... But all in all, I'm happy with the new looks. Hope you like them too!
I've been pondering between choosing a dark-sleek look or a bright-cheery feel. Finally this layout caught my heart: Baby Cute from Ipietoon. I find this layout to be cute and fresh. Of course to make it more of my own, I have to make some minor changes. I changed the header with an image I grabbed a long time ago from one of my favorite manga: Nana. I also changed the search and blog title icon with these cute ones I grabbed from Tutorial9.
Ipietoon has a nice collection of blogger templates. If you go to my songs blog, you'll see that I've also changed the layout with another template from Ipietoon: Black Brown Pop.
I still want to tweak both layouts a bit, such as changing the header font... But all in all, I'm happy with the new looks. Hope you like them too!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The origins of my blog address
Hmm, so this morning I received a comment from a guy, saying that he thought my blog is a homosexual community, since maho in his (Indonesian) vocabulary means 'manusia-homo' - gay man. Uh-huh. I never knew that :-/.
Undoubtedly the word maho can mean a number of things. I know that it is the name of a beach in the Netherlands Antilles, for example.
FYI, the word maho came up from my love of Japanese mangas. I don't speak Japanese, but I know that maho (or mahou) can be translated to magic. If you google for mangas, you'll come across quite a few titles with the word maho in it, such as Mahou Gakuen Maho Maho. See a short Q&A in yahoo answers on the word maho here.
So maho-days here simply means Magical Days! :)
Undoubtedly the word maho can mean a number of things. I know that it is the name of a beach in the Netherlands Antilles, for example.
FYI, the word maho came up from my love of Japanese mangas. I don't speak Japanese, but I know that maho (or mahou) can be translated to magic. If you google for mangas, you'll come across quite a few titles with the word maho in it, such as Mahou Gakuen Maho Maho. See a short Q&A in yahoo answers on the word maho here.
So maho-days here simply means Magical Days! :)
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