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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Heyz just posting this chart of numbers and alphabets in the international morse code - yup, so I can relate to this later when I have time. My tuition teacher's coming at 4 later on and now's about 3. Well...Yeah.
Or the second picture:
Okay. Cyas! And enjoy the morse code - if you can! I think it's quite baffling, right? I still nid to find out how they space out the things. MORE DOTS? T.T ***~~~*The Winds struck at 3.24pm*~~~
Okay! I just finished math tuition, waiting for a few eps to load, so I think I'll blog a little - you know, update you guys on my fav songs so far? Well yea I'm not those who go with the flow, and honestly I'm not mad over Linkin Park or anything. And I don't have a favourite band.
It's simple. I like what I like - what resounds with me, and what appeals to me. That's what music is anyway. I hate stuff which bang around in your ears like SOS messages from dying singers; I'd rather sit one whole day listening to the morse code (even if I have no idea of what the hell the code may represent) than hearing a few minutes of (what I call) death-rock songs. Unless their lyrics are good and meaningful; I know some of Linkin Park's songs are very very meaningful. Songs such as "What I've Done", and I think there was one song sung by the Black-eye Peas or something, which talked about poverty and stuff like that (we heard it during one geog lesson). They're good people, those bands I mean.
Oh, and speaking of morse code...I'm pretty interested in it. Will surf the net later to check out on that. It's a really useful code to know XD and it's kinda fun too, if I learn it. Well, I will have 2 ways to convey secret messages to my friends after that: Japanese and the morse code. Yay! Gotta go check out the morse code! I can't bear to lose out on that.
They use a lot of morse (short-form) in Detective Conan. I hate listening to things when I don't know them - so why don't I take a step to know them more? Yippeee! Something new to learn. This code has always intrigued me tho I keep forgetting to learn it.
Irony.
Okay! Now for the top 5 songs on my fav list! I'll start with the easiest! The one and only English song! LOL!
I'm listening to the song and putting down the lyrics as what I've heard. So yup, english songs are easy, but Japanese songs...I'll try to type out the pronounciations too, and that includes some guessing of how to pronounce the kanji - I'll train my Jap listening skills.
________________________________________Once In Every Lifetime (Eragon)It's time to move out of the darknessUse what you feel insideYour faith alone will guide youFeel the turning tide...Ts in your heartTs in your soulDon't be scaredKeep believingI know you knowDeep insideThat your timeHas come...*Chorus*Once in every lifetimeIf you do believeMan can move a mountainChange the course of history
How far...we've comeSo far...From home... *Chorus*
Trust in your path you've been chosenBecome your destinyLead and they will follow youYour truth will set you free...
Ts in your heartTs in your soulDon't be scaredKeep believingI know you knowDeep insideThat your timeHas come...
*Chorus*Once in every lifetimeIf you do believeMan can move a mountainChange the course of history
How far...we've comeSo far...From home...
Once in every lifetimeIf you do believeMan can move a mountainChange the course of history
How far...we've comeSo far...From home...
*End*___________________________________________Yay! I'm done for the first song. Oops time's up, I gtg do math. So...later then, to the next: JAPANESE SONG! OH NO! >.<>あなたがいるから, because it's too hard to listen to the song (the singer doesn't pronounce it very clearly) and I couldn't find the original lyrics.
Kay cya ppl! Bye!***~~~*The Winds struck at 10.39am*~~~
Monday, December 15, 2008
I like this song from one of the detective conan openings (been patching up on a few episodes since I missed out about four hundred .__.), and here're the lyrics.
作詞：三枝夕夏
作曲：小澤正澄
編曲：小澤正澄
君が突然居なくなる夢を
最近よく見るのよと
うつむく私に何も言わずに
ポケットの中で強く手を握り
しめた君 色を競い合い咲く花のように
物憂げな雨にさえも よりその姿が輝くように
君と約束した優しいあの場所まで
今はまだ二人 お互い走り続けようね
君と鮮やかな色になるその季節(トキ)まで
逢えない日々が 愛しさを増してゆくよ
そしていつの日にか
この世の中は選択肢が多すぎて
時々選べず迷ってしまうけれど
結局振り返ればいつだって自分が
歩み築いてきた一筋の道が今に繋がっているよ
そして人に 褒められる道よりも
自分が喜べる道 選ぶべきだと君が教えてくれたね
君と約束した優しいあの場所まで
渋滞に巻き込まれて 苛立つ時は空を見上げよう
会いたさに先急いで大切なもの見落とさないように
泣き虫な日々も 笑い話になるよね
きっといつの日か
未来が眩しすぎて 目がくらみ何も見えず
時に進む方向を見失うけれど
その光によって 今足元に伸びる び挨蝾りに歩いて行こう
GO WAY
君と約束した優しいあの場所まで
目指すそこはきっと 互いに甘えるための場所じゃない
いつかあたたかな風に包まれ抱き合える日まで
冷たい追い風に立ち向かっていこう
今はまだそれぞれに
君と約束した優しいあの場所まで
逃げ道を増やせば 余計迷路にハマルよね
たとえ標識のない道が続いたとしても
信じ合う気持ちを道標に行くよ
優しいあの場所まで
Yay I'm done! Phew! When I pasted this chunk of Japanese into the box, it was like...in one whole paragraph and there were no spacings, so I listened to the actual song and kept pausing to catch the last hiragana - so I can space the lyrics out appropriately. And I managed to do it! Whow this is actually a very very good practice. You get to skim through the hiragana (who cares about Kanji for now) very quickly, it's a kind of training, and if you keep doing it, you'll get better in reading Japanese! Yay!
I'll do that more.
Okay, really gtg now! Cya! Bye!***~~~*The Winds struck at 10.26pm*~~~
Well, I said I'd patch up some of my photos over in Su Zhou, right? They aren't really good, but I still think I'll just put it up to keep my promise. After all, it's my blog; supposed to be a registration of life! And life can't be all words! Haha XD Uh okay it's fixed.
Description: One of my favourite photos so far, no matter how shadowed my face appears. It's got my grandparents in it! I liked the angle from which this picture was taken. It's kinda unique in a way that appeals to me hahaha so I like it. A nice momento of my times with my grandparents. I call it "Backdrop of Autumn" because of that big yellow tree at the back which is one of my favourite trees. I call it "I dunno what". Sooo....don't ask me what it is! Loooook with your eyes and use your imagination! XP
WAIT. I think...........Omg that wasn't part of my collar! You know that weird thing sticking out from my collar in the picture??? *Gasps* It's a leaf! Yay! A leaf fell on me!
Description: Alright, thanks to my mom. She snapped this photo when I was laughing with my grandparents over a joke, and right when my grandpa was EATING! Lawl! Well, he was chewing on something I can't really remember. That's a mystery, ain't it? I think it was made of flour and was kinda sticky with some bean paste in it or something. Bwahahhahaa - Once again, use your imagination!
And my mom likes to take pictures of people's ugly moments - if you're kind enough to call it candid. Sheesh.
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Uh...why suddenly they say can't display page...? Dang...
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Description: That's my grandparents looking at different things - my grandpa: the signboard / my grandma: the floor. Hmm...interesting. Well let's not care about the signboard. Why is my grandma looking at the floor? Well she's intrigued with traditional chinese architecture and art. That includes tiling! Uh...mainly bcuz she's considering what tiles to make for her house so yea. Picking up inspirations or something - and one gd thing about that: she learned how to use a camera! Even tho it's a tad behind time! You have to squint and look through eyeholes (or sth) to take photos! Congratulations!
Description: Fishies! i was feeding them with the same type of food as Grandpa was eating in the previous photo - okay why does that sound so wrong - and they liked it so a whole bunch of them came. From the other side too! Many tourists gathered around to look. Well yea. That's it!
For now, I think I can only let u see this few...I'll try to patch up more later. Gtg now cya!***~~~The Winds struck at 11.08am*~~~
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
You may be thinking: why doesn't the blog music sound sad or isolated as it normally does? Well, I just changed it...Just now I was kinda feeling down, er, more of...emoing again yea...I got a little sick of listening to the same tunes over and over - and they're distant and sad, so I decided to find a new tune. And happy tunes don't lift my spirits at all.
They make me feel as though the skies had just turned sadistic.
So, no, I chose something that sounded a little...uh, inbetween? Cuz it's from Clannad. It's both sad and happy. Yay!
Now that my music's settled, I think I'll write about today. I just patched up Abandoned Soul chapter 8 yesterday, still thinking of a way to start off chapter 9. I think the readers were angry with me for keeping back the next chapter for 1 year and more...well, can't help it now, right? Apologizing doesn't do anything - I should make it all up by finishing the story while I can.
And yes, one whole day of MATH! Like that for 1 week, and still gonna go on and on, till my precious holiday ends! Yes, my precious! My precious! Argh! Gawd!
- I wonder if that's how Gollum felt when his ring was taken by Bilbo? -
Argh my head's gonna burst! I never really liked math - despite the new Chinese math teacher being very responsible and good (not talking about the amount of homework he gives) - and I think I still somewhat despise it even now. Well, at least I would pounce at some bit of English reading if I could just skip away from math. Just skip away from math! Gawd!
But then I should say I'm pretty happy with what I did today. Uh well...not much of an accomplishment, just that I found the determination - from dunno where - to just sit down for 2 hours silent by the table gnashing my teeth over a few math questions which stumped me. And I worked them out in the end! And they were correct!
Well, is that the fun part of math? If it is...then I've yet to enjoy it to its fullest.
Uh well, enough of maths. Just now I went to DCTP site and chatted a lil with Jd and this girl (name undisclosed for privacy rights). Jd thought I was a native Chinese (well yea I am) and said my English was good for one, lol! But I think he saw my blog which I've linked and he said the case was solved. Well, before that he was asking me if I was considering translation. It is a manga scanlation site he's running after all, one of the really good ones too (at least I think so, it was really good).
Um...and I replied that I've only been learning Japanese for 1 year, so...incompetent? Then I realized he might be meaning Chinese translators. *Smacks head* Chinese to English. That's something I've been doing for my mom's work review. Though...I didn't say more cuz I don't think I'm gonna have the time to translate things. My parents are gonna flare up for one thing; school's gonna be busy for another. And I don't like to procrastinate (even if it's "no-choice" and not my fault) when it comes to things whereby the outcome will be for the public.
Well, as for the other girl, she says she's got some mental illness...couldn't concentrate. Well, I may as well be chatting to an artist! She loves writing, just like me!
And I realized that art is one of those things which require not specifically "concentration"; if you concentrate too much on one thing, there will be so many others out there you'll miss out! That stumps your creativity. Art is all about inspiration and creativity and expression. Art is free! Yay! So don't worry, it's actually easier to be aware of things if you cast out your consciousness everywhere - not literally, but yup. (I hope) you get my point.
Kay...feeling a little down again. I wonder why.
Just before I go though, I have this weird thing I nid to tell you guys. Yesterday night I had a dream - I think it was around 3 am, that's when my grandma awoke.
Well, why does it link to my grandma? She woke up at 3 am yesterday worrying about this bag which she thinks she lost over in Su Zhou. And weird! I dreamt of my grandma searching for a bag in the kitchen (I was searching for my own with a few dream companions), right at that time too!
Gawd. Today when I woke up and heard my grandma blab about her "lost bag" I was like "what the-" Well, yeah! It's quite a shock. Like, deja vu....(or de javu?)
Okay, on to the dream.
At the very start, I was having a really weird cycling race across the CCK roads with my older dream companions (weird, because we didn't really have bicycles and were more of leaping and flying across the roads with CARS! all around). Flashes of white light all around. Cars honking angrily (behind me was a sleek black car), and the roads looked wet and rain-slicked. I think I was trying to win something with my team.
*Something happened inbetween*
I was standing at the premises of a weird shop with my dream companions, watching blue, pink and purple lights flashing in its depths. It looked really deep, right in. I think we went there to buy something or take a look at some stuff. Maybe for a breather after the race. I didn't know what it was.
*Scene Change*
Then I was with my grandma in this kitchen (not our house's), and she was frantically searching for a black bag amongst all the bags of groceries and food. She was like fumbling along this high desk and asking me where it was.
*Something happened inbetween again*
I was standing before the entrance to a 2nd weird shop, with the same coloured lights in it. Really deep too, and I had no idea what the heck it was. Again we were trying to buy something.
*Something happened inbetween again*
My dream companions and I were stuck in this wilderness with littered green and some fields of barren earth and withering grass. We were on a rocky path - perhaps tracking or something, I dunno. Then I took out this book whose title I couldn't remember, but was very closely related to "Legacies Ennead" or "Lunaeria" which was the title of the book series in my mind, the one I had been planning to author when I was younger (not really now, due to knowing how society works...).
The book had a thick ancient brown cover, almost like a tome just that it wasn't that thick and heavy. Attached to it was a brown-leathered tube from which my friend slipped out a cylinder of soft white stone (soft?!?!??!?!?!?). There was a map of Lunaeria and adjourning lands carved on it. I was staring at it, and then I realized that the author wasn't me. The feeling was terrible, like someone had just infringed on your copyrights or something. I think the name was something which started with an M or K.
I remember saying to my friends, "This is my story! Why did she write it? How did she know? How come???"
Or something like that.
*Scene Change*
I was showing the book to my mom. She said she didn't believe, and that she would only when I showed her the map. Then I went into the kitchen and fumbled amongst the white paper bags filled with brown books; but I couldn't find the map, and at that point I woke up.
*End*
Yeah, I heard my grandma babbling about her lost bag at this point. Yup. That's all. Weird, aye?
And the bad thing about this dream...After I had it, I have a subconscious feeling as though...I have to give up something. This dream is telling me that; I feel it right here, deep down here, inside me. It's rare that I feel things from dreams, but this one keeps getting into my heart and stays there...
That I have to give up something I really love, one of my only few passions.
I have to give up writing.
Well, more of...there isn't ever a chance whereby I will ever finish writing Legacies Ennead and publish it or anything. That's the feeling I got. That I will never become an author or anything the like. That I have to fully abandon it because it's not in me and the day will never come.
I felt very hollow, like, the kind of feeling I got whenever I was about to cry or start emoing. I felt really hollow...I can't tell if it's disappointment, or submission, or merely feeling wretched or something. It's just that I do really trust this dream as part of my inner voice. My inner self has seen something which my consciousness has not; and wouldn't it be absurd, if it's okay to ignore others' judgements for what you believe, but to ignore your own knowing?
I feel like crying. Haha. It is my passion after all...writing...all five years, starting from p3 when I had first taken "Harry Potter" into my hands and kindled that flame of passion within me. I don't feel like putting it out, no, not now...I really don't feel like doing so...
Haiz...
Okay...cya. Nighties, and sweet dreams...***~~~*The Winds struck at 7.25pm*~~~
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Figured out that I should really post now, after like...weeks? Yea. I'm now in China! It's winter - 11 deg (so warm) - and we are now in Su Zhou (???!??!?!?!?!). I love the hotel room: 2 storeys, and it's pretty homey. XD
And it's got free internet access!!! Yay!
Well, I like the atmosphere over at the Su Zhou gardens --- even if there aren't pretty lil flowers dancing in the wind and now we have bare old branches QUAILING in the wind. Hmm...big difference, ain't it? I still prefer bare old branches to flowers. That means, winter to spring. My parents and grandparents all lamented about how we didn't come here in the right season; no varieted colours, no sprightly ambience, no animated spirits. Well, that's how THEY feel.
I like winter in the Su Zhou gardens.
All the old trees, the big yellow autumny trees shedding their golden leaves on passers-by, soft chilly winds, long willowy branches, a cup of warm coffee in the midst of frost, and, of course, a vast gray sky above our heads. There're many others too. Watching little ducks frolicking mad in the ponds is a good way to kill time. Sticking earphones and listening to the mp3 while traipsing the areas haha...I like to wander around with music. O.O It really adds a new level of enjoyment to the whole journey.
I'll try to patch up some photos and pictures if I have the time, and have transferred those things to my desktop. Well, look forward to it!
I've been lagging behind on Chap 5 for Earthen Blood, maybe for a few weeks. Too much travelling. Barely any time in the hotels. =.=
OH AND DETECTIVE CONAN MOVIE 13 IS COMING SOON!!! It's darn plot-related; ts got the BO in it!!! Yay! Can't wait! First time a movie so plot-related! Woohoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm hyped up.
Kay, cyas! Bye!***~~~*The Winds struck at 3.42pm*~~~
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