tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4706217247508402342024-02-08T05:53:52.861-08:00Yumekukan : Guide To DreamlandLina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-84138841507685387202020-12-13T05:26:00.000-08:002009-08-14T10:50:26.107-07:00Guide To Yumekukan (Malaysia)<b><font size="4">This blog will help you prepare for your Yumekukan experience! Rejoice!</font></b><br /><br /><br />Blogspot is stupid and makes things ugly unlike Livejournal and their CUT ABILITY. So, please use the tab above to navigate to the specific posts :D<br /><br /><b>Alternatively:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/directions-yumekuukan.html">Directions</a><br />Pictorial guide to Yumekukan @ Plaza Mont Kiara<br /><br /><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/using-joysound.html">Song Search @ Joysound.com</a><br />Using Joysound to search for your song online, in the comfort of your own internet!<br /><b>(Recommended!!)</b><br /><br /><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/finding-your-song-at-yumekukan.html">Song Search @ Yumekukan</a><br />Looking for your song on the spot! <br /><br /><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/useful-links_9035.html">Useful Links</a><br />Can't type <b>Japanese Fonts</b>? Don't know <b>Japanese Titles</b>? Try your luck here!<br /><br /><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/credits-disclaimer.html">Credits and Disclaimers</a><br />I will not be held responsible for your coke nor your dog, among other things.</ul><br /><br /><b>TIP :</b> If you're singing a Non-English song, it's a brilliant idea to bring a print-out of the lyrics. <u>Some songs don't have "hiragana" over their kanji.</u>Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-8121428519568689632009-08-14T08:34:00.000-07:002010-08-23T09:36:33.526-07:00Joysound search - Japanese Names<font size=2>So a Japanese song title / artist / show name is giving you a headache. You know what it is from the Fansubs or MP3 that you've downloaded, but darn, they are in romanji. "Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro", "Ichirin no Hana", "Seki Tomokazu", etc etc etc.<br /><br />These are Japanese titles. Japanese names. To the Japanese they are presented in Kanji, Hiragana and/or Katakana (usually kanji-hiragana mix). Online converters aren't going to help, and the Language bar can only do so much with the mountain of Kanji to choose from sometimes. So we'll use the good ol' Internet to help us find our answer :)<br /><br />For example, the brilliant artist who sang the Ending Theme for the FF7 : Crisis Core game. She's known as <b>Ayaka</b> and her song title is <b>"Why"</b>. Pretty simple isn't it? :)<br /><br />Well, pitching in her name in Romanji on Joysound brought up the following result : <div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide4.jpg"></div><br />Sad, huh? :( That's okay. The internet is at our fingertips, and answers are always just a search away. So.<br /><br /><font size=3>1. <b>Do a simple internet search on your Japanese title.</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide4b.jpg"></div>Including informational site keywords like "Anime News Network" or "Wikipedia" would make this search A LOT EASIER. Trust me. And to make your life even easier, here, have a search bar :D (results open in a new window)<div align="center"><form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box" target="_blank"><div><br /> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-6994373266436874:b7z7uffle3n" /><br /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" /><br /> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" /><br /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /><br /> </div></form><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script></div><br /><font size=3>2. <b>Check your search result</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide4c.jpg"></div>An optional step but singers like Ayaka only commercialise their first name, so you may have a few different people popping up in your result. Check their data for something you can verify to be them.<br /><br /><br /><font size=3>3. <b>Retrieve the Japanese Name</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide4d.jpg"></div>Usually they're in the biodata section up top (both wiki and ANN). Again, singers like Ayaka (Younha, Madonna, etc) only use their first names. You can try their full names first. If that fails, just use their first name. <br />Tip : Japanese names are traditionally <b>(FAMILY NAME)</b> <b>(FIRST NAME)</b>.<br /><br /><br /><font size=3>4. <b>Pop it into Joysound's search bar</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide4e.jpg"></div>Just one warning : <B>MAKE SURE YOUR CATEGORY IS RIGHT!!!!!</b><br /><br /><br /><font size=3>5. <b>Use the search bar to narrow down to your song</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide4f.jpg"></div>You could also slowly navigate through the number of pages if there's more than one :)<br /><br /><br /><font size=3>6. <b>Click on the correct title for your song</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-04a.jpg"></div>Occasionally there are several versions of a song. This one in particular seem to have an MTV unplugged version. Anyway, click the title and open up the page for your song :)<br /><br /><font size=3>7. <b>Copy down the Song Number for your song</b></font><br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-04b.jpg"></div><br />It's located down the page on the left hand side. Found it? YAY! :D<br /><br /><hr><br />In case I didn't make myself clear the first time, THE <u><b>SONG NUMBER</b></u> IS MOST IMPORTANT. IT'S THE REASON WHY YOU'RE IN THIS SECTION IN THE FIRST PLACE.<br /><br />With this song number you can immediately input the song into your 'Karaoke List' without having to go through the trouble of searching thru the book (huge and somewhat outdated) OR the remote control (still quite troublesome).<br /><br />Note : I'm aware that Yumekukan also has Korean/Chinese songs. Unfortunately I'm not sure how these songs could be searched on Joysound. You can try typing the Artist names in English and see if that works :)</font>Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-17340030245596627392009-08-14T08:33:00.000-07:002010-08-23T09:15:16.522-07:00Joysound search - Using KeywordsFor this example, I'm assuming that you don't have trouble typing in Japanese. If you do, <a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/joysound-search-japanese-name-help.html">please look here</a>. For English names and titles you'll use English keywords of course so don't worry.<br /><br />Joysound no longer entertain "partial keyword" searches on their basic search bar, so for this, we need to use their <b>"Detailed Search"</b> option. It's located right next to the basic search bar (see image below).<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-02a.jpg"><br /><br />This is how the Detailed Search page will look like :<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-02b.jpg"><br /><br />1. Choose the search category you need (make sure it's right!) right above the search field. Here I've chosen <b>Show Title</b>.<br /><br />2. Type your keyword in the search bar. <br /><ul><li>For Japanese words, use the Windows Language Bar tool to type, or one of the online Romanji-Hiragana converters.<br />To learn how to enable the Language Bar or where to find the online converters, see the <a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/useful-links_9035.html">Useful Links</a> section.<br /><li>For English words, just type at will.</ul><br />3. In the drop down box next to it, choose the <b>middle option</b> for a partial keyword search.<br /> <br />4. The pink box right under the search bar says "KARAOKE", so make sure the check box is ticked. Click the black button on the right.<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-02c.jpg"><br /><br />5. The results will pop up depending on your search category. For this category, a list of shows that contain the keyword will appear. Click on the one that you need. For example, I've chosen <i>Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon R</i> (top).<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-02d.jpg"><br /><br />6. A page listing all the song titles for the show should appear. Look through it to find the one you need. Click the title to bring up the song's page.<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/jsguidenew-02e.jpg"><br /><br />7. In the new page, find the song number that will be located as pointed above. Record it. Save it. Bring it with you to Yumekuukan :)<br /><br /><font color=red>WARNING : Do NOT copy the number on the URL. THAT IS NOT IT.</font><br /><br /><hr><br />In case I didn't make myself clear the first time, THE <u><b>SONG NUMBER</b></u> IS MOST IMPORTANT. IT'S THE REASON WHY YOU'RE IN THIS SECTION IN THE FIRST PLACE.<br /><br />With this song number you can immediately input the song into your 'Karaoke List' without having to go through the trouble of searching thru the book (huge and somewhat outdated) OR the remote control (still quite troublesome).<br /><br />Note : I'm aware that Yumekukan also has Korean/Chinese songs. Unfortunately I'm not sure how these songs could be searched on Joysound. You can try typing the Artist names in English and see if that works :)Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-60109947736700585742009-08-13T05:25:00.000-07:002009-08-13T05:26:41.739-07:00Finding Your Song At YumekukanThis post will be updated once I have them pics ready.Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-42543857049644321572009-08-13T05:24:00.000-07:002010-06-15T11:15:30.829-07:00Using JoySound<b>Step 1 : Enter the Joysound website : <a href="http://www.joysound.com">Joysound.com</a></b><br /><br /><b>Step 2 : Understanding the Search Options </b><br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide1.jpg"><br /><br /><b>Step 3 : Input Song / Artist / Show Title and enjoy!</b><br />This part is a little tricky. I'll show you how to find with an <u>English Title input</u>, since it's faster. <i>(Joysound changed their website layout sometime when I wasn't looking, so here's the updated version)</i> :<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide2new.jpg"><br /><br />1. Click on the search drop down box and select the category you need. Here I've chosen the first one : Song Title.<br /><br />2. Enter the name of what you're searching for. For my example, it's Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning". Full name would be best. <br /><ul><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/joysound-search-using-keywords.html">Guide to Using Keywords</a> <br />(example category : Show Title)<br /><li><a href="http://guidetodream.blogspot.com/2009/08/joysound-search-japanese-name-help.html">Guide to Japanese Name search</a> <br />(example category : Artist Name)<br />If you're looking for a Japanese Name / Song / Series you most probably have to type in Japanese. Look here for help.</ul><br />3. Find the right song or version (piano ver, with guide vocal, etc) that you need and click on the song name.<br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/joysoundguide3new.jpg"><br /><br />4. In the new page, find the number that will be located as pointed above. THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT. IT'S THE REASON WHY YOU'RE IN THIS SECTION IN THE FIRST PLACE. <br /><br /><font color=red>WARNING : Do NOT copy the number on the URL. THAT IS NOT IT.</font><br /><br />With this song number you can quickly and easily add the song into your 'Karaoke List' without having to go through the trouble of searching thru the book (huge and somewhat outdated) OR the remote control (still quite troublesome).<br /><br /><b>Note 1:</b> I'm aware that Yumekukan also has Korean/Chinese songs. Unfortunately I'm not sure how these songs could be searched on Joysound. You can try typing the Artist names in English and see if that works :)<br /><br /><b>Note 2:</b> The song number and url number used to be the same, but for some brilliant reason, it is not anymore. WHY JOYSOUND? WHYYY????Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-38984366299309289592009-08-13T05:21:00.001-07:002009-08-13T05:22:22.485-07:00Useful Links<ul><li><a href="http://www.mcs-malaysia.com/yumekukan/index.html">Yumekukan ( 夢空間 )Malaysia</a><br /><li><a href="http://joysound.com/ex/index.htm?">Joysound : Joysound Official Information Website</a></ul><br /><br />How to Enable Japanese IME<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.declan-software.com/japanese_ime/">Declan Software : Installing the Japanese IME</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.coscom.co.jp/help3/jpfont/jpfont.html">CosCom Japanese Language School : Japanese Fonts</a><br /><li><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177561">Microsoft : How To Add and Enable Additional Languages in Windows</a></ul><br /><br /><br />Romanji (ロマジ) to Hiragana / Katakana converters :<br /><ul><li><a href="http://kanjidict.stc.cx/">Bisqwit's Japanese Language Related Tools</a><li><a href="http://kanjidict.stc.cx/hiragana.php?">Bisqwit's Romaji to Hiragana Converter</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.whiteagle.net/jap/">Whiteagle.Net's Romaji to Hiragana and Katakana Converter</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.mauvecloud.net/charsets/kanagenerator.html">MauveCloud's Browser Tests: Kana Generator</a></ul><br /><br />Others <br /><ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia.org</a> <br />(Useful to search for Anime/Dorama titles in Japanese)<br /><li><a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com">Anime News Network</a><br />(Useful for both Anime Titles AND Seiyuu Names :D )<br /><li><a href="http://www.koreandrama.org/">KoreanDrama.org</a><br />(occasionally has Japanese Titles of Korean Dramas for you Korean junkies)</ul>Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-50708086234113022982009-08-13T05:21:00.000-07:002009-08-14T11:43:20.408-07:00Credits / DisclaimerDisclaimer :<br /><font size=2>1. <i>All the links listed are not affiliated to me in <b>ANY WAY</b></i><br /><br />2. <i>I'm just someone who came to terms with the fact that I'll be going to Yumekukan with different people everytime, so I don't want to keep explaining things to them. Also I thought it was a good information to make available online besides mouth-say.</i></font><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>The Google Map image</b> @ Location (c) Google<br /><b>The Yumekukan Map </b> @ Location (c) Yumekukan Mont KiaraLina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470621724750840234.post-11476412928311436262009-08-13T04:47:00.001-07:002010-06-15T11:47:39.092-07:00Directions : Yumekukan へCurrently the directions available on the Yumekukan website is here :<br /><a href="http://www.mcs-malaysia.com/yumekukan/location.htm">http://www.mcs-malaysia.com/yumekukan/location.htm</a><br /><br />I saw the english version on their flyer and decided to post the snippet here :<br /><div align=center><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/plazamontkiara-yumemap.jpg"><br />This map is (c) Yumekukan Mont Kiara.</div><br /><br />Anyway I plan to have a kind of visual map for the direction to Plaza Mont Kiara.<br />I'll try to get as many directional photos as I can and sort them out in a coherent way. Until then, you can either see this <a href="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/yumekuukan-map-linaisadork.jpg">embarassingly haphazard map I drew</a>, or have a <a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Map Solution</a> : <br /><br /><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh249/asliceoflove/blogger/yumekukan/plazamontkiara-google.jpg"><br /><br />Cheers!Lina304http://www.blogger.com/profile/18188017725392477894noreply@blogger.com0