Monday, May 26, 2008

O2


O2 (TV Size) - Code Geass R2 - Orange Range
朝も夜も恋焦がれて 星になるよ キミマモル 戦いは行方知らズ
明日と昨日の交差点で 交わらない キミとボク 今行くよ ボクは流れ星

世界が朽ち果てても 変わることのないものがある
涙をこらえてでも 守るべきものが僕らにはある
何万年何億年前からのメッセージが体内でうずきだす 鳴り響く
しゃがれた声で明日を呼ぶ
傷だらけの手で君守る

I continue to fight I continue to fight
朝も夜も恋焦がれて 星になるよ キミマモル 戦いは行方知らズ
明日と昨日の交差点で 交わらない キミとボク 運命を切り裂く流れ星

あふれる君の涙 ボクがいま奪い去る




Asa mo yoru mo koi kogarete hoshi ni naru yo kimi mamoru tatakai wa yukue shirazu
Ashita to kinou no kousaten de majiwaranai kimi to boku ima iku yo boku wa nagareboshi

Sekai ga kuchihatete mo kawaru koto no nai mono ga aru
Namida o koraete de mo mamoru beki mono ga bokura ni wa aru
Nanmannen nanokunen mae kara no messeeji ga tainai de
tsukidasu Mayoi wa nai
narihibiku Kantanda
Shagareta koe de ashita o yobu
Kizu darake no te de kimi mamoru

I continue to fight,
I continue to fight!

Asa mo yoru mo koi kogarete hoshi ni naru yo kimi mamoru tatakai wa yukue shirazu
Ashita to kinou no kousaten de majiwaranai kimi to boku sadame o kirisaku nagareboshi

Afureru kimi no namida boku ga ima ubaisaru




During mornings and nights, too, I yearn for love and I'll become a star to protect you, without knowing the whereabouts of the battle
At the intersection of tomorrow and yesterday, we don't come across each other; now I'll go, I'm a shooting star

Even if the world decays, there are things that won't change
Even if we hold back our tears, things that we must protect exist inside of us
The message from hundreds of millions of years ago starts to ache inside of my body; it echoes
With a hoarse voice, I call upon tomorrow
With hands covered in wounds, I'll protect you

I continue to fight, I continue to fight

During mornings and nights, too, I yearn for love and I'll become a star to protect you, without knowing the whereabouts of the battle
At the intersection of tomorrow and yesterday, we don't come across each other; we're shooting stars that slash apart fate

Now I'll take away your overflowing tears

Sunday, May 25, 2008

SATB

Courtesy of Winnie Wonka from NUS choir forums :D

THE SOPRANOS are the ones who sing the highest, and because of this they think they rule the world. They have longer hair, fancier jewelry, and swishier skirts than anyone else, and they consider themselves insulted if they are not allowed to go at least to a high F in every movement of any given piece. When they reach the high notes, they hold them for at least half again as long as the composer and/or conductor requires, and then complain that their throats are killing them and that the composer and conductor are sadists. Sopranos have varied attitudes toward the other sections of the chorus, though they consider all of them inferior. Altos are to sopranos rather like second violins to first violins; nice to harmonize with, but not really necessary. All sopranos have a secret feeling that the altos could drop out and the piece would sound essentially the same, and they don't understand why anybody would sing in that range in the first place - it's so boring. Tenors, on the other hand, can be very nice to have around; besides their flirtation possibilities (it is a well-known fact that sopranos never flirt with basses), sopranos like to sing duets with tenors because all the tenors are doing is working very hard to sing in a low-to-medium soprano range, while the sopranos are up there in the stratosphere showing off. To sopranos, basses are the scum of the earth - they sing too darn loud, are useless to tune to because they're down in that low, low range, and there has to be something wrong with anyone who sings in the F clef, anyway.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Soprano
1. The rest of the choir exists just to make you look good.
2. You can entertain your friends by breaking their wineglasses.
3. Can you name an opera where an alto got the man?
4. When sopranos want to sing in the shower, they know the tune.
5. It's not like you are ever going to sing the alto part by accident.
6. Great costumes - like the hat with the horns on it.
7. How many world famous altos can you name?
8. When the fat lady sings, she's usually singing soprano.
9. When you get tired of singing the tune, you can sing the descant.
10. You can sing along with Michael Jackson.



THE ALTOS are the salt of the earth--in their opinion, at least. Altos are unassuming people, who would wear jeans to concerts if they were allowed to. Altos are in a unique position in the chorus in that they are unable to complain about having to sing either very high or very low, and they know that all the other sections think their parts are pitifully easy. But the altos know otherwise. They know that while the sopranos are screeching away on a high A, they are being forced to sing elaborate passages full of sharps and flats and tricks of rhythm, and nobody is noticing because the sopranos are singing too loud (and the basses usually are too). Altos get a deep, secret pleasure out of conspiring together to tune the sopranos flat. Altos have an innate distrust of tenors, because the tenors sing in almost the same range and think they sound better. They like the basses, and enjoy singing duets with them, because the basses just sound like a rumble anyway, and it's the only time the altos can really be heard. The altos' other complaint is that there are always too many of them and so they never get to sing really loud.

Top Ten Reasons for Being an Alto
1. You get really good at singing E flat.
2. You get to sing the same note for 12 consecutive measures.
3. You don't really need to warm up to sing 12 consecutive bars of E-flat.
4. If the choir really stinks, it's unlikely the altos will be blamed.
5. You have lots of time to chat during soprano solos.
6. You get to pretend that you are better than the sopranos, because everybody knows that women only sing soprano so they don't have to learn to read music.
7. You can sometimes find part time work singing tenor.
8. Altos get all the great intervals.
9. When the sopranos are holding some outrageously high note at the end of a song, the altos always get the last words.
10. When the altos miss a note, nobody gets hurt.



THE TENORS are spoiled. That's all there is to it. For one thing, there are never enough of them, and choir directors would rather sell their souls than let a halfway decent tenor quit, while they're always ready to unload a few altos at half price. And then, for some reason, the few tenors there are always really good--it's one of those annoying facts of life. So it's no wonder that tenors always get swollen heads; after all, who else can make sopranos swoon? The one thing that can make tenors insecure is the accusation (usually by the basses) that anyone singing that high couldn't possibly be a real man. In their usual perverse fashion, the tenors never acknowledge this, but just complain louder about the composer being a sadist and making them sing so darn high. Tenors have a love-hate relationship with the conductor, too, because the conductor is always telling them to sing louder because there are so few of them. No conductor in recorded history has ever asked for less tenor in a forte passage. Tenors feel threatened in some way by all the other sections: the sopranos because they can hit those incredibly high notes; the altos because they have no trouble singing the notes the tenors kill themselves for; and the basses because, although they can't sing anything above an E, they sing it loud enough to drown the tenors out. Of course, the tenors would rather die than admit any of this. It is a little-known fact that tenors move their eyebrows more than anyone else while singing.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Tenor
1. Tenors get high - without drugs.
2. Name a musical where the bass got the girl.
3. You can show the sopranos how it SHOULD be sung.
4. Did you ever hear of anyone paying $1000 for a ticket to see 'The Three Basses?'
5. Who needs brains when you've got resonance?
6. Tenors never have to waste time looking through the self-improvement section of the bookstore.
7. You get to sing along with John Denver singing "Aye Calypso."
8. When you get really good at falsetto, you can make tons of money doing voice-overs for cartoon characters.
9. Gregorian chant was practically invented for tenors. Nobody invented a genre for basses.
10. You can entertain your friends by impersonating Julia Child.




THE BASSES sing the lowest of anybody. This basically explains everything. They are solid, dependable people, and have more facial hair than anybody else. The basses feel perpetually unappreciated, but they have a deep conviction that they are actually the most important part (a view endorsed by musicologists, but certainly not by sopranos or tenors), despite the fact that they have the most boring part of anybody and often sing the same note (or in endless fifths) for an entire page. They compensate for this by singing as loudly as they can get away with, and most basses are tuba players at heart. Basses are the only section that can regularly complain about how low their part is, and they make horrible faces when trying to hit very low notes. Basses are charitable people, but their charity does not extend so far as tenors -- Basses hate tuning to the tenors more than almost anything else. Basses like altos, except when they have duets and the altos get the good part. As for the sopranos, they are simply in an alternative universe that the basses don't understand at all. They can't imagine why anybody would ever want to sing that high and sound that bad when they make mistakes. When a bass makes a mistake, the other three parts will cover him, and he can continue on his merry way, knowing that sometime, somehow, he will end up at the root of the chord.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Bass
1. You don't have to tighten your shorts to reach your note.
2. You don't have to worry about a woman stealing your job.
3. Or a preadolescent boy stealing your job.
4. Action heroes are always basses. That is - if they ever sang, they would sing bass.
5. You get great memorable lyrics like bop, bop, bop, bop.
6. If the singing job doesn't work out, there's always broadcasting.
7. You never need to learn to read the treble clef.
8. If you get a cold, so what.
9. For fun, you can sing at the bottom of your range and fool people into thinking there's an earthquake.
10. If you belch while you're singing, the audience just thinks it is part of the score.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Updates

Got back home with a huge load of stuff from my pgp room on Sat night, then started to slack and get to my final book of my Shannara trilogy.

Slacked the whole day on Sunday, play games and read novels. Nvr got to do anything anyway. Cousins came by, and I tried to drag them into playing cabal :P

Monday: Started work out regime! Went to gym with my bro at 4, and learned a lot of stuff on how to lose weight and build up body muscle. I wanna at least lose 5kg b4 going back NUS, if more then better :D. At least I wanna be able to lift up a whole luggage full of books without help :P My bro really stunned me that day when he used just one hand to lift up the whole luggage from the back of the car... @@ I mean,, if one luggage full of clothes then I can oso... but full of those heavy heavy books? Really impressed @@ After the workout, my arm muscles feels like kelly, and I can fling them around like an octopus dy. It's a bit hard to change clothes even.. hands felt so heavy :P

Tuesday: Bought a supplement to help increase metabolism from the gym owner, then train until half dead again :P

Wednesday: As per recommended by the gym owner, From today onwards, have to go for morning walk for at least half an hour each day. walk walk walk... low carbo high protein diet... meaning no more noodles for breakfast :P

Friday: Decided not to go gym today cuz need to go for some function at night. So forced my bro to help me train at home :P Gonna make myself go again tmrw, no more slacking unless really got important reasons. I dun wanna look half-dead and have my arms flinging around like an octopus during a dinner with OAM staff mah... :P I'm the earliest again... Reached there 6.50, and to my horror only the OAM staff were there. I'm not late, but for these kind of stuff shouldn't the student rep be earlier than the staff? And by the time everyone reached there, it's ady 7.45. The horror...

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L: you shud just give up dy u know.
H: I'm trying, but it's really not that easy.
L: Try harder, it's not worth it to be like that anymore. Everytime u see her, ur just totally dazed and not thinking with ur head. Are you sure u wanna be like that? I dunno... but it seems to me that ur a total fool. Every time she's around you seem like a totally different person. Conserved and stuff. You couldn't even speak properly. Agreeing with everything she says even though sometimes it's just not you... it's painful to see you like that.
H: It's not as if I dunno... I just can't control my feelings... I know that she doesn't like me the way I like her, but everytime I see her smile, I tend to forget about it. And her singing, I love listening to her sweet voice singing... to me it's one of the world's most beautiful thing.
L: Snap out of it! Get back to reality. Things won't change for a bit. Look at you, you're not doing anything also. How is she supposed to know that u like her? Told her out of the blue that you like her? No wonder she's doing what she's doing now.
H: But... I really dunno what to think now...
L: Think about the days when you were in the 1st sem. Wasn't it better that way? You guys were all just friends. Don't you wanna go back to those days?
H: Can I?
L: Just go through this portal. It'll take you back to that time and place, without your memories of what happened til now. You're allowed to bring a memo tell you one thing u would wanna do.
H: Useless... I'm sure I'll do the same stuff all over again...
L: Just snap out of it! That's that! It's not gonna change no matter how much u think of it, so just do the best for urself now, and move on with life. I'll be there to support you whenever you are lost...

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Exam finished!

Didn't go as badly as I though they would, I think I have at least passed all the papers :)

Now to look for a place to stay... Single rooms would be nice. Air cond would be a plus. internet is a must. near NUS is a plus. if possible wanna share with people I know. nyaaaaaa... so many criteria :P

Work work! Got one week to settle all choir stuff, catalogue and stuff. After that go back intern for dad, hehe. At least will get to know what power engineers do. Anyone interested? hehe.

GYM!!!!! Gained lots of fats since I came here T_T promised to go gym with bro everyday once I get back. Maybe I shud start going next week too, since I've ady paid, might as well dun waste the membership ler...

Novel-ing. Will start either tonight, or Monday. characters as said on last post, hehehe. Maybe with some changes and some other villains add ons. shud I post per chapter I finish or until I finish the whole thing? maybe shud finish the whole thing 1st, then only post :P

game-ing. no mood. dun feel like playing. a bit sienz dy. Unless got some new games that's interesting. Cabal is nice, but still very buggy.

anime-ing! woo hoo! code geass is cool! wagaya no oinari sama, vampire knight, tower of druaga, blassreiter, bleach, Naruto shippuden, amatsuki. got any nice recommendations? :P

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