About Kalli Manzilime

For ages now, I've thought about giving myself an alias. The reason I decided this mainly because I wanted to separate my real life from my internet/creative arts life, which, I feel like, is a pretty understandable reason. It took me quite a while to decide on a name that suits me and the creative works that I do, but I've finally landed on the name Kalli Manzilime. 

For anyone curious, the name 'Kalli Manzilime' is a pun, and for anyone who knows the way I like to name my characters for stories, this wouldn't at all be a surprise. Kalli Manzilime comes from the 'calamansi lime' which is one of the citrus fruits that I like (but don't have much access to here in Australia xD). Although I've mostly tried it mixed with vodka, it's one of my favourite fruit flavours. It also comes from my country of origin, being the Philippines, and basically looks like a tiny, cute lime.

 Now, it's a good thing this blog is hard to access on the internet since this is *sort of* a secret. Because, here's some information about the "rules", for lack of better word, for this alias.

1. People that I know, and are close to, in real life can know that me and Kalli are the same without me getting weird about it
2. I'd much prefer that the peeps that know me online see my name as Kalli instead of my real name

And that's it ^_^

Short Online Diary Entry #11 - In search for a piano piece

I remember back in 2019, when I was doing year 12 music, one off my pianist classmates played this one piece. I didn't catch on the title or its composer but man, it was one of the loveliest tunes I've ever heard. Honestly I'd do anything to get a hold of that title. And that's why now I'm listening to mixes/compilations of piano pieces by piano composers until I find what I heard. Yeah, this is gonna take a while... But, I'm determined!

Short Online Diary Entry #10 - Music theory for probably the 5th time again

Yeah, I'm doing another round of music theory self-study again. I'm dedicating a notebook to it, even. This is likely mainly because I've gone back to watching some music theory/analysis/etc. channels on YouTube again. I've been feeling really inspired to compose again and also get into understanding music altogether.

Speaking of which, all this has been making me want to actually overcome this one area of my shyness where I'm too shy to get back to piano lessons again. My dad says he might still have some contact with the piano tutor I had back in primary school (I last played with her back in 2014). A bit nervous, but I really want to consider it.

Short Online Diary Entry #8 - Probably gonna get into stealth games soon

A family member told me I should get into stealth games. You wanna know why? They thought it'd be absolutely hilarious since I'm real crap at being careful. ABut then again, a majority of the games I grew up playing were super fast-paced (especially run n' guns) and was really all about bruteness, with the exception of more chill games like the Sims. A good place to start is Hitman, which we've had for years. I only remember playing it a couple times, but I was never clever enough to figure stuff out at those times. Anyways, I'm kinda excited.

Short Online Diary Entry #6 - Uni readings

So it's not a very good reading day for me. I've been planning on reading (and sleeping?!) since 12 AM and now it's 5... I'm gonna sleep now, but I'm not very happy that I've stayed up this long, I'll be honest. I've got uni tomorrow at 11 AM and I still need time to shower... Yeah. Things ain't lookin too good right now. At least I've been making progress on my Dyrus' Men project!

Short Online Diary Entry #2 - Trying to sleep (night 2)

I'll be totally honest, camomile tea doesn't taste the best, but that's probably because I downed over half a cup last night. I've had some earlier tonight, actually. It's 4 AM again. I'll go straight to bed this time. Let's see how I do...

Also, I'm back on my HTML experiments, again... (Additional thought: Funny thing. I swear, I'm making up whole sites more than creating actual art pieces. Maybe I should wake up earlier so I'm more  motivated to draw up something big again...)

Short Online Diary Entry #1 - Trying to sleep

Havin some camomile to help me sleep at the right time again, although it's like 4 AM. Y'now, knowing that I'm a daytime person stuck with the wrong sleeping schedule... To elaborate, I do tend to spend a lot of the daytime asleep and all of the night awake, but, I can't say I enjoy it or even function at my best when I do that. That's something I really want to change.

So, this is all I'm referencing when I say I'm using camomile to help me sleep:

Maybe, I want to go out of Google dark mode.
I don't exactly know my thoughts on it, to be honest, but I might.

A challenge before Winter school

 Once all my uni stuff's cooled down, I've decided I'm going to challenge myself with a small comic project before I start Winter school. It's going to be a Spectrobes fancomic about the shady three-man team from the origins game, set after the game's been completely finished. 

A dumb whim

 I've decided I wanted to go through the entire Menahat arc and write down about all the dialogue I could find with Dyrus' henchmen.