Daily Monday is here!

After hours of coding and staying up till 3 AM just because I couldn’t leave my work undone, finally, I finished this new layout! I named it Instalike cus it looks like the Instagram profile page. Haha. It’s been awhile since I’ve actually coded something from scratch, to be honest (well not really, some of the codes were recycled from my old themes). I was confused and stressed because I forgot how things worked in WordPress. God bless the creator of Google Search for always helping me out when I don’t know what to do.

Also, I changed my blog name just because! I just felt like changing it haha. I don’t know why I came up with Daily Monday but it just feels fresh? Something like starting a new week, starting anew. I don’t know how long I’ll stick with this name, but it’ll probably change again soon lol.

The layout is not 100% bug-free yet, and some of my pages haven’t been updated to suit the current changes so you might discover some errors. I’m also still working on the mobile version of this theme. Please do let me know if you found one so I can (hopefully) fix it. If there are any suggestions, I’d be happy to take them as well!

Until then!

Makeover

I finally updated the theme a bit. It’s been awhile since I’ve retouched my blog’s appearance ever since I got my hands on Hobonichi. I started filling my daily journal more often than I could maintain regular posts on this blog. Sometime along the way I even forgot that this blog existed at all. 😥 I guess I won’t call myself a blogger anymore right now, but perhaps I would continue this blogging activity closer in the future once my university life starts. I won’t have time to fill and decorate my journal wonderfully everyday after all. Ah, life. (I feel so old now.)

For these past few weeks I’ve been buying things that I’ll bring for my trip to Japan this coming September. There are quite a lot of things that I need to purchase that I’m afraid everything won’t fit into my luggage. I’ve bought several warm clothing, bath stuff, a bolster (seriously why are they so rare abroad), and other necessary medicines since I get sick pretty easily. 🙄 The university will have another meeting for us students to discuss more about what needs to be done before arriving in Japan so until then I guess I’ll just have to hold my shopping activity.

Anyways, I’ve also been catching up watching a lot of anime recently. Most of it are shoujo genre, though. I finished Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii yesterday and I must say it’s a really good anime (adapted from manga). I really love their insert song which Nike (the female protagonist) sings. I’m also watching the first season of Spice and Wolf. It’s not as bad as I thought as well even though it may look boring for the first few episodes. Now I’m just wanting to watch and know more about the characters!

As for this year’s birthday (which I celebrated 3 days ago), nothing much happened. Lol. Mom and Dad wished me a happy birthday. Dad only sent an edited image with a text ‘Happy Birthday Katherine’ and sent it to me through Whatsapp, though. I guess he’s just busy. My aunts sent texts through Line. Lastly several high school friends who happened to remember also sent wishes from Line. Haha. I do wish I could’ve actually gotten something for my b’day, though … Oh well.

That will be all for this update post, I think. 🙂

White Ver 2.0

I’ve finally got the chance to update this website’s layout into something at least ‘decent’. This layout was originally named White for it’s plainness but in the end it looked to similar to my previous layout which has a mixture of salmon red and tosca — my favorite color.

One thing that I’ve never had in my previous themes were footer widgets. I decided to put one in this layout for a variation. The sidebar does look cleaner now that it only has a menu and search bar. What’s more was that I actually (kind of) succeeded in making some sort of responsive theme. Almost eight years of blogging and I’d just discovered how to tweak codes about CSS Media right now. 😐 I still have lots to learn about.

Another thing that I changed was the favicon! It’s now a daisy. I kind of found it through the google search engine so I don’t remember the source. It reminds me of Dengeki Daisy.

Well, anyways, I’ve tested this site in iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad. I have yet to see how it looks like in Samsung smartphones, but it looked pretty much OK the last time I checked using my bro’s.

Lots of thanks to Kiev (that nick, though) for listening to my rambles when I was restlessly tweaking my codes.

Hello world!

I finally finished redesigning my blog! It took me days to get it done since I had so much homework and tests to prepare. Sigh. I couldn’t retrieve my old posts because the old database couldn’t be accessed. I guess I’ll just have to restart this blog from square one.

The theme I’m using was an old one that was used by Aozora. I modified it a bit so it looks bright and cleaner 🙂 I also made the favicon by myself. It’s an anime character called Umaru.

As for the blog name … I kinda threw away some Japanese names since it’s kind of mainstream and boring right now. (Oops). So I just randomly used google translate and got Somniatis, which means ‘dream’ in Latin, as my blog name. I’m really fond of it right now since it sounds unique! 😀

I’ll have to recreate some pages later on since they’re all not complete yet. I also plan to renew the emoticons when I have the time! Until then, please bear with this boring blog.