Day 30 of 30 - A Letter from Aiko

I woke up this morning around 9am to find 'あいこからの手紙' (a letter from Aiko) on the screen of my TekuTeku Angel. It was sad that I didn't get to see if there was any 'leaving' animation or anything like that at midnight, but I was excited to read the letter. I wrote down everything as I read it just in case it didn't let me read through it again. Here is the letter with translations done by me:


あいこからの手紙
A letter from Aiko

いっしょに歩いてくれて
You've given us many walks together

本当にありがとう
so truly, thank you.

これからもキミのことずっと見守ってるよ！！
From here on, I will look after and protect you!!

キミのお陰で天使になれた
Thanks to you I've become an angel

でもボクにとってはキミこそが天使だよ！！
but to me, you are the angel!!

さよならは言わないよ。
I will not say goodbye.

いつかどこかで。。。
Sometime, someplace...

また会おうね！！
Let's meet again, okay!!

あいこ
Aiko

Day 29 of 30 - Final Days

Stats for today.

Day 24

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Steps: 9,868/6,000

km: 4.93

kcal: 325

Slots: full

Happy Days: 21

Sad Days: 4

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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So I've found out a few things about Teku Teku angel. The 'big' news is, Aiko finally turned into her angel form on the 27th day :D Yay. Since I only have a few days of this form, might as well do some tests right? I didn't get to the step quota after her angel transformation, but she didn't change form. She did gain a sad day and lose half a heart though like in the other forms though.
When I press select on the main step counter screen, she has many animations compared to the earlier forms as well! When I woke up, the step counter was reset to zero, and she had a 'cranky' face as well as a sad moping face. After a few hundred steps, she actually turned into a little devil girl with bat wings o_o Kinda freaky.
Day 30 is supposed to be the last day, so I'm wondering what will happen to Aiko, and when...I'll post everything I observe though. Anyway, I happened to find the animations for this form, so here they are!
      

Day 24 of 30 - Growing Up

Stats for today.

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Day 24

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Steps: ~6,000+/6,000

km: ~3.00+

kcal: ~200+

Slots: full

Happy Days: 21

Sad Days: 3

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

今日も元気にがんばろう (With vigor, let's do well today too)

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Sleeping schedules still kinda weird (being up most the night and asleep most of the day) So another 'sad' day was added since my last post >_< I have a feeling like if you make sure the slot machine game has been played enough, your pet will give you some allowance if you don't QUITE make the step quota (give or take a couple hundred).
Anyway, I'm up early in the morning but it feels really late for me. I went out for some shopping and walked around a near by lake a bit, plus I got my weight work out in, so I met my 6,000 step quota for today.
After the 'sad' day, Aiko changed into a rather large Koala. When I met the step quota, she changed into a lovely lady o_o! According to the growth chart it's the 'Mademoiselle' stage. This is the stage before the (potential) final angel stage, and I'm happy that I never had Aiko turn into any of the 'lazy' stages. I'm still unclear what it would take to get one of those stages though. I have a feeling like if many 'sad' days happen in a row to get the hearts very low, the pet would change stages. I mean, everyone needs an off/rest day once in a while, so I imagine the game wouldn't be so harsh if you MOSTLY kept the hearts/happy days up.
This is all speculation, so I'll have to test it out sometime to see what needs to be done to change a pet to an non-ideal stage.

Day 21 of 30 - Heat Wave

Stats for today.

Day 15

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Steps: ~6,000+/6,000

km: ~3.00+

kcal: ~200+

Slots: full

Happy Days: 19

Sad Days: 2

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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Rawr haven't updated for a few days, but with (somewhat) good reason. I've pretty much been hovering around 6k steps, and about the same amount of calories/km, and I didn't want the updates to get COMPLETELY stale :P 

Sadly, within the last few days...I actually had ONE lazy day >_> *gasp* Although I've been continuing my weight work outs every day, focusing on different muscle groups, I just didn't get a good amount of walking u_u Oh well! Can't give up eh? So on the lazy day, like last time, Aiko lost half a heart and changed form to a Koala type of a thing. What's also kind of sad is that I think my time with Aiko will be up in about a week :(

Day 15 of 30 - Growing Pains

Stats for today.

Day 15

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Steps: ~6,000+/6,000

km: ~3.00+

kcal: ~200+

Slots: full

Happy Days: 13

Sad Days: 1

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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Another fine day in the 'kogyaru'/teen girl stage. Sorry for non-exact kcal/km stats again though x_x Hmm, I haven't seen many new phrases from Aiko come to think of it...maybe she doesn't care if I've had my lunch or if I'm staying up late anymore? She's got her friends and her 'mall shopping' to take up all her time I suppose u_u

I'm going to try to do a more strict weight work out regime that works a different muscle group each day. Today it was thighs/calves/lowerback/etc so yay o_o! We'll see how that goes. Also FFFFFF-I realize I screwed up the 'day' counter within the posts for the past few days =_= It's fixed now!

Day 14 of 30 - Evolution!

Stats for today.

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Day 14

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Steps: ~6,000+/6,000

km: ~3.00+

kcal: ~200+

Slots: full

Happy Days: 12

Sad Days: 1

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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So here's the dealio. I missed a day of logging yesterday, but Aiko actually evolved! I believe it was right at midnight of the 13th day (while I was out, not able to record stats) and even though I didn't quite have the 6,000 step quota met, he seemed fine about it ._.! No hearts went down, a 'happy' day was actually added to the tally... not a sad day like I expected. I guess if it's going to evolve it doesn't care so much about your step quota for the day! Wee~
Anyway, I went bowling tonight so I got over the 6,000 step quota mark, making sure Aiko was at the 'ideal' form...I guess I can't call Aiko a 'he' anymore huh? According to the growth chart, this is the 'teen girl' stage....and she certainly makes some pouty faces when she's upset ._.

Day 12 of 30 - Chillin

Stats for today.

Day 12

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Steps: ~6,070+/6,000

km: 3.03

kcal: 199+

Slots: full

Happy Days: 11

Sad Days: 1

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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...Nothing terribly exciting today. Catching up on studying I suppose. kinda wondering when Aiko might evolve, since I'm almost at the half way point for the 30 days ._.!

Day 11 of 30 - Step Averages

Stats for today.

Day 11
Pet Name:  あいこ
Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
Steps: ~6,422/6,000
km: 3.21
kcal: 211+
Slots: full
Happy Days: 10
Sad Days: 1
Pet's messages:
♪るん ♪るん ♪るん (run run run)
いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)
やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)
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Aiko is making the angry faces again >_<; Hopefully he appreciates some of my step experiments today.

I thought I'd post some step averages based on what exercise is being done with the Teku Teku Angel. These are all things you can do in small spaces (at work, in a smallish dorm room, etc...) and are nice to do periodically to break up all the sitting we do so much! Here is the difficulty scale I'm using: ★★★★★ (more stars means it's more difficult, at least when compared to the other exercises here)

Marching in place - 60 seconds
Pace: roughly 2 steps a second
Difficulty: ★

Try 1 - 128

Try 2 - 128

Try 3 - 123

Average ≈ 126.33

Side step (back and forth) - 60 seconds:
Pace: step out and in on one side about 1 second
Difficulty: ★★

Try 1 - 121

Try 2 - 106

Try 3 - 111

Average ≈ 112.66

Jogging in place - 60 seconds:
Pace: about 3 knee lifts in 1 second
Difficulty: ★★★

Try 1 - 136

Try 2 - 135

Try 3 - 140

Average ≈ 137

Ending notes:
I felt my outer thigh muscles working more during side step, but it didn't register as many steps on the Teku Teku Angel compared to marching in place. Jogging in place registered about 20 more steps than marching in place, which seems about right for the pace I was going. Though you'd certainly burn more calories jogging in place, it won't last as long as marching.

Day 10 of 30 - Guilt Trips!

Stats for today.

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Day 10

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ 1/2 

Steps: ~6,050/6,000

km: ???

kcal: 200+

Slots: full

Happy Days: 9

Sad Days: 1

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

(wasn't by my comp for the exact Japanese phrase, but something along the lines of 'let's not skip/ditch!' I'll try to catch it next time)

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Talk about guilt trips man! The last time I posted, I wasn't able to meet the step quota. So today, I wake up to find Aiko lost half a heart, gained 1 sad day, and changed to a 'non ideal' form :( Even my boyfriend thought that was a TAD harsh, lol! My sleep/wake schedule is still a little weird, and I was out at a late dinner so I was unable to log the exact distance and kcal stats when midnight came. I did see a few more messages though, but the kanjis were sooo super tiny and squished it was hard to read. I'm sure I can figure it out if I look at it with my kanji dictionary though. Anyway, I did a little step work out today so I was JUST able to get it over the quota changing Aiko back to her Panda self. Starting tomorrow I'll try to get back on track >_<!!!

I'll try to get some scans up of the instructions to go along with my article on various functions of the Teku Teku Angel soon too.

Day 9 of 30 - Bloody Hot

Stats for today.

Day 9

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (full hearts!)

Steps: ~2,531/6,000

km: 1.26

kcal: 83

Slots: full

Happy Days: 8

Sad Days: 0

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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Seems like I'm on a lazy streak or something! It's freaking hot out so it makes me want to work out less, plus my sleeping schedules a bit off so the day seems really short. Hopefully I can get to my step quota tomorrow, and hopefully Aiko doesn't get totally cranky or something XD. Aiko isn't making any angry faces today, just lots of backflips...so I guess he's cool with me for now o_-

Day 8 of 30 - Oops

Stats for today.

Day 8

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (full hearts!)

Steps: ~7,450/6,000

km: 3.70

kcal: 244

Slots: full

Happy Days: 8

Sad Days: 0

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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Missed a day yesterday ;_; I barely made it over the 6,000 step quota, since it was certainly a lazy 4th of July day. Hope you got to see some fireworks! I'm expecting Aiko to change soon, just based on 3 baby stage days.....but it seems like the toddler stage is going on longer.

I went bowling tonight, and I rarely sit so I was able to get over 7,000 for my quota today ^_^ Aiko was giving me some pretty mean looks though, not sure what's up with that o_o

Day 6 of 30 - Fireworks

Stats for today.

Day 6

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (full hearts!)

Steps: ~6,353/6,000

km: 3.17

kcal: 209

Slots: full

Happy Days: 6

Sad Days: 0

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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Hearing lots of pre-fourth of July firework action outside! Unfortunately it scares the crap out of the dog I'm living with... Anyway o3o; Aiko didn't get a lot of activity today, as I had to study a lot. Such a trade off ;_;

I made a short wish list in the 'about' tab up at the top of some virtual pets I have my eye on. I'm sure I'll add more to it later!

Here's another workout video you can try if you'd like. I got about 940 after doing this one! None of the videos I post will be too advanced for people who haven't been regularly exercising, and if they have challenging sections the instructor almost always offers easier alterations ^^

Day 5 of 30 - Work out Video!

Stats for today.

Day 4

Pet Name:  あいこ

Hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (full hearts!)

Steps: ~6,596/6,000

km: 3.29

kcal: 217

Slots: full

Happy Days: 5

Sad Days: 0

Pet's messages:

いっしょにがんばろう (let's do well together!)

やっぱり夏はあついね (summer is always hot, isn't it?)

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I guess it's kind of obvious, but bike riding doesn't give you as many steps to your tally as walking does, unless you're on a particularly bumpy trail. A ride around the neighborhood on mostly smooth pavement did give me a couple hundred though!

Try this work out video if you're totally bored, need a light work out, or if you want to up your step tally on your own pedometer! (warning: the girl is kinda...spunky ._. I guess you could always mute the video though) When I did the work out, my average step increase was about 1,500 and it only takes 14 minutes. Hope you enjoy it!

I'm really wanting to get another virtual pet, be it Tamagotchi or a strange knock-off thing XD Here are a few I was considering:
- Hello Kitty Pedometer (same shape and button configuration as the Pocket Pikachu)
- Tamagotchi Ocean or Angel
- Arukotch
- Entama
If anyone has suggestions let me know! It'd be fun to do a group hatch. I'd like it to be multi-functional, which is why I often aim for pedometer pets, but it isn't totally necessary.