Lazy week, not quite in the gear to translate these past few days… and I regretted it when the weekend comes around. I was expecting to cram this chapter during the weekend, but real life had other plans for me. Work has suddenly picked up this year and I was made to work at the weekend, then my cousin got married and I was invited to the dinner party.
I think overworking has somehow killed a part of me. Since I woke up on Sunday, I had been holing myself in the computer room for the whole day doing nothing productive until 5 AM the next day, all the while skipping my three meals and live through the entire day on junk food… I honestly felt as though I was a zombie…
Well, forget about what I said on Thursday, it was vetoed because this chapter is so short!
Oh, before I forgot, I went and created a Wikia page for Demon Sword Maiden, but alas… I have no idea how Wikia works and wasted a whole lot of time on it. If anyone’s free and knows how to use Wikia, please help me fill up the glossary page~ Thanks
Thoughts of the day:
Shorter chapter = harder to translation
I played with the website coding and messed up, so I spent one day going over the error with my web developer and learned some basic web management skill from him. And remember how I mentioned that I sold my 8-year-old laptop last week? Yup, you probably guessed it already, I just got myself a new custom-build PC, so I ended up spending another day setting up my new desktop.
With two days wasted on something other than translating, I might not be able to do more chapter this week.
Thoughts of the day:
Never touch anything you do not understand.
You know, I am quite bummed when I found out the novel page of Demon Sword Maiden is not indexed in the front page of Google when I searched for the keyword. Instead, what showed up on the first page were pages from content thieves and the announcement posts. I wonder how many potential readers I’ve already lost to the thieves. 🙁
Heck, even after going through the 2nd to 5th pages, I still don’t see it indexed anywhere. Instead, I found the novel page which I haven’t officially published on Ziru’s Musings already showing up on the 2nd page, how did that even happen? >.<
Here’s Chapter 95 of High Comprehension Low Strength~
So I saw on discord from Silva that someone said they miss this series. Awwh~ That’s sweet to know~
On a more serious note, life is picking up for me and while I am free, I’d like to spend it on personal life before translating. Don’t get me wrong, I do like translating, but only as a hobby.
If anyone wants to pick HCLS up, shoot me a message via out Re:Library discord chat at https://discord.gg/Tsg8uND or hit me up on discord: 【raltzero™】| Chanticleer™#4169
When you pick up a new hobby, you have to give up on another.
I picked up translating and I have to sacrifice my time for my family and the time to indulge in my other hobbies such as gaming, and reading novels.
A free translation isn’t really “free”, think of the time, dedication, and sweat the translators pour into their work before you say or do anything potentially harmful. Most people take free translations for granted and demand for more, but they never once considered the work put behind the translations.
Correction:
Changed Dynasty to Empire since I felt that it’s more fitting in a fantasy setting
Did anyone read the news yet? If not, you should head over there and give it a quick read. The short of it; is that I will be hosting with Ziru’s Musings starting next month.
Thoughts of the day:
So apparently, my Engrish sucks in the eyes of native English speaker. Do you guys think so too? Is it really so bad that I need to hire an editor?
So many things happened last week… so many things indeed. I had to plow the hard-as-rock earth and hurt my left thumb in the process. I had to clean the sewer and scraped my right thumb in the process. I bumped into a rock and scraped my right leg, this one really hurts. And then I sold my 8-year-old laptop for 200 bucks. Yup… more than half of these events end up with me being hurt in the process, ouch!
Thoughts of the day:
I never knew I was THIS clumsy… I’m really not cut out for physical labor…
This chapter took more time than expected to translate due to all the unfamiliar terms, like the shikigami or Daruma Egg. I mean… I do know what they are, it’s just that the terms in Chinese are ambiguous. Had to ask around and look for references.
Correction:
> Changed tael to ryo
Apparently, tael is the unit used by Chinese, ryo is the Japanese equivalent of tael.
