Monday, October 29, 2007

Italic sentences are the random snatches of translations I could see from NEWS’ Weeeek PV.
Alright. Because I am kind of bored because I don’t want to do the VJC Math Paper 2 now as of yet and I’m listening to the songs that Smee sent me (for like the fourth time today), I’ve decided to blog.
Okay it won’t be of like momentous events or anything – okay momentous to me – but not to you, so there’s no point in you reading this really, unless you’re also extremely bored of studying and need a random teenager’s insane/bored ramblings to entertain you for a while.
‘Let’s enjoy everyday!’
Here goes~
Okay, Smee, this is your entire fault. You got me hooked on UVERworld! And Abingdon Boys School for that matter. Ah this is stupid – it’s not exactly her fault – I’d been teetering on the edge of getting hooked on them anyway. But she pushed me over the edge!
Okay, she’ll just like eat me for breakfast in revenge.
It started with Ukiyo Crossing, I think. Was just passing through the UVERworld.org site (which I shall be adding to my links area thingy) and saw that they had a sample and listened to it and well… I got carried away. It’s an ending for a new drama – Harataki Man.
Oh then I was really depressed about my SAJC gp paper so I went online and searched randomly for songs. Then I chanced upon Rainy by them and really liked it because it suited my mood. And then, I happened to chance upon Sorrow (because I heard it was really good – incidentally, where’s the single where Takuya sounds like Cookie Monster?) and then finally =.
That one was really funny. Because I didn’t know that was the title, and I was looking for the translation/lyrics on the site. And I bitched to Smee who had trouble getting to sleep about the mysterious UVERworld song to which I didn’t know the title to and she replied that yes, that was the title just as I found it on the site and discovered that yes, it was the title of the mysterious song.
Then the next day, she felt generous and spammed me with songs. I love her!
Now I’m not exactly sure how many of their singles I have on this computer. It’s more than… okay, a grand total of 12 songs from them, not counting the Ukiyo Crossing 1:17 sample. That’s a lot. I never get more than what, 3 songs on average for an artiste, except for soundtracks and albums.
Sorry, Smee, for spamming you with song requests!
But they’re really good! As in I find that the lyrics (well, from the translations) have lots of meaning and are pretty positive. It also helps that when I’m studying, it’s nice to have something to bop along and keep you awake. Else I’ll fall asleep.
Kimi no Suki na Uta is especially nice~
I wonder how I’m going to survive examinations where you can’t bring in this sort of thing. Apparently, I’ll talk to myself and probably hum to myself as well, so please, those people sitting around me, you have been warned. Especially Smee. She sits behind me/in front of me/in my general area.
Ah I remember listening to ABS songs that Smee sent me a couple of months back but it didn’t really catch on until yesterday on Saturday when I was alone in the house and I decided to listen to them again. By playing them really, really loudly, I appreciated the songs a great deal more. I am scary!
And the band is not bad, for well, a not-so-young band in an industry full of sprightly young things. Yes we have fresh faces! And they dare to wear kilts in their PV. They’re really fresh faces. Ah hahaha.
And oh man, NEWS’s (weird English) PV is extremely random. (I think if I watch it enough, I can decipher some of the English that’s there, as they used the song’s translation as [most of] the background.) But bored la. Anyway, I can’t be bothered to do it. Ah it’s such a random and catchy song~ Adeline says they’re basically singing out the days of the week. A good way to learn Japanese. Bands really can be random. And they get away with it, along with jumping around in suits and doing stupid actions. Man I wish we could do the same.
Aggie you should hear it! You’ll love its happy-mood feel.
Ah, Arashi’s Happiness is also another random video. Really, even if you don’t understand the language (like I do), it’s good to watch random, stupid stuff from time to time. It relaxes you.
Yes I am in a mad, mad phase now, listening to random Japanese songs to relax/study. I have gone mad. If only I could add Weeeek into my player! Then all shall be perfect. But I shall have to wait till November 7 to get it. Like, 7-11.
*dies of lameness*
Okay, right, the Japanese song phase is over for now – I won’t blog more about how nice UVERworld singles are, like = (which I totally don’t understand the title) or even ABS’s Nephilim and Lost Reason – squeee I can’t believe they have full songs in English! I didn’t know it was completely in English until I checked up the lyrics. Taka pronounces weirdly~
Okay, stop.
I wonder who comes up with their lyrics… for NEWS, that is. See this line? It’s my favourite so far.
‘As a matter of fact, it’s already Thursday and I have no plans after tomorrow night.’
Okay, really, STOP!
Argh. Okay. Back to more normal stuff. I can’t believe the A Levels are next week! They’re like tsunamis and tidal waves of doom and horror and evil papers of 3 hours, sitting there and writing your guts out – I am horrified!
I am going to die a horrible death! Noooo~
I haven’t passed Math before! How! This is terrible! And it’s disgusting! I don’t feel ready at all.
And I don’t feel like I’ve actually done any biology or chemistry or anything! Only like, Mathematics. Argh. This is weird. This is stupid. And! When is the GP paper anyway?
It’s on Halloween right? Ugh so ironic.
Okay, it’s on the 31st of October. Right. On Kiri’s birthday. The poor dear. I wonder if anyone will go trick-or-treating with her. Maybe Hachi will go just to placate her.
And yay to Bleach’s 7th Opening! Thanks to Smee again who told me of it. Ah hahaha. The PV is reminiscent of the mutant Angel’s discovery of his mutant gene.
Maybe Bleach Portal will have the entire single. I know they have most of the openings and endings.
Ahh! I’m talking about anime again!
Okay. Oh man, they’re really almost here. The feeling is strange, it’s nervous but I’m not exactly a train wreck though I may not be showing it, I’ve been suffering from this terrible rash. My sister says it’s from the stress. And I’m like, really? I don’t feel stressed. I should be feeling stressed right? Maybe I just don’t know I’m stressed. The body reacts in different ways to different stimuli right?
But really, I don’t know, I feel extremely weird! They’re almost here and I’m still fa-la-la-la-ing online and not really doing anything and I should sleep soon because –
OH. I’ve been studying at Bishan library for the past two weeks! Anyone who wants to find me for anything, please go there! And it’s really a good place to study, provided you:
a. wake up at 8am in the morning
b. get out of the house by 9am
c. reach the library before 10am
d. rush to the 4th floor before a lot of people
e. save a table there and stay there for the next 7 hours.
I’ve been seeing Kailing and her friend there for the past few days! Hello Kailing! =D
And it’s usually been me and XL who go there. Not Xinli la, Xian Ling. And people join us, like Yihui or Adeline or Gerard, though it’s usually 4 people who do study together.
It’s quite good and productive and I discovered while I can do some work at home, it’s not as good as in the library! Because there’s really nothing much to do than to study there. And the atmosphere’s pretty good because there’s usually a crowd at the entrance of the library so you really have to fight for places. And they really do want to study. Since the O Levels have started, the crowds have kind of died down but not that much as now it’s the A Level people who hog the tables.
So far it’s been okay. I’ve survived 7 hours of integration and differentiation, more hours of biology and some hours of chemistry so I think I’m alright.
The only thing I haven’t touched is literature! Ah haha but I’ll probably read Othello the play later, and finally figure the later stages of the play.
OKAY I AM NOT ALRIGHT. I AM GOING TO DIE. I SPENT 4 HOURS DOING A 2 HOUR PAPER HOW HOW HOW AND THE WORST THING IS THERE WERE 1.5 QUESTIONS THERE THAT I HAD ALREADY DONE BEFORE IN MY PRELIMS AND I COULDN’T GET THE ANSWER AGAIN. WHY. I AM HORRIFIED BEYOND WORDS, I AM GOING TO DIE HOW HOW HOW HOW
(Goes into a corner and dies)
Okay, wait I can’t die yet! There’s still so much to live for! Anyway, I’m listening to random, good songs now, so I can’t just give up on life!
AND ALSO, THE PV FOR UKIYO CROSSING COMES OUT TOMORROW SO I CAN’T DIE YET, AFTER WAITING SO LONG FOR IT.
(What a stupid reason to not die. But hey, it works)
Anything goes, man.
Please spam me with random Japanese songs.
Oh and these are the English songs that have caught my attention so far:
Hinder – Lips of an Angel
Enrique Igelsias (sp?) – Do You Know
Nickelback – If Everyone Cared (MV is good for your GP) /Next Contestant
Pink – Who Knew
Timberland – Apologise
And some other songs that I can’t remember now.
‘Let me stop and think about my life on Friday/Let’s go to break the wall with our freedom.’
Asian Kung Fu Generation’s After Dark is nice. =D
Heck, so are the dozen are songs that Smee sent over. Ah hahaha.
Good luck for A Levels, everyone! =D

Important Note: I discovered that this post was almost long enough to push the ugly picture of the quiz out of the whole bunch of links up there towards the vast black space below!
SO! Ultimate random spamming now!
Oh yes, today I almost ran over Ms. Chan at Mos burger at j8. Ah hahahaha.
I shall look for lyrics to post here.
Just for kicks - UVERworld lyrics! Yay!
=: Because I don't know why they called it '='

Aka-iro no sora wo tonde,
Mata hitotsu boku wa kirai na mono wo Atsumete kono machi wo oyogunda.

Nando sakende mitatte kotae wa kurezu,
Hitori de hontou no imi ga wakaru made utaunda.

Umareta basho toka hitomi no iro ya kotoba dakede,
Boku no nani ga wakaru tte iu no?
Tari nai mono mo aru daro? Subete motome nai de!
Oeba ou hodo
Mizuumi ni ukabu kumo no you ni shizundeku.

We'll be back!
Nari yamanu miminari tomaru koto wa naku
(We'll be back!)
Boku no taisetsu na mono tachi wo (I'll be back!)
Itsuka mamori takute
Te ni iretai to negatta mono wa
Konna kokoro wo mo hikisaku kamikire ja nai!

Koraeteta namida ishiki no hate de ugoki dashita,
Tsumetai kabe ni yori kakatte naita.
Hitomi ni utsutta mono subete boku wa shiri sugitanda.
Oeba ou hodo
Ima ni wakari aeru koto wo shinjite.

Realize truth. Why?
Everyday,Battle day
Azayaka na niji ga sotto itsuka tsunagu kara.
Ushiro muita mama ja
No use chigau to omounda.

Umareta basho toka
Hitomi no iro ya kotoba dakede,
Boku no nani ga wakaru tte iu no?
Tari nai mono mo aru kara
Hito wa te wo tori atte
Itsuwari no tae nai mizuumi ni
Ukabi nagara utaunda.

---English translation---
Fly through the red sky
Find and collect one more thing that
I dislike and swim through this city

No matter how many times I screamed,
It gave me no answer
I'm going to sing until I know the true meaning

With the place I was born, colors of eyes, and words
What do you say that I know?
There's something missing, right? Don't expect everything!
I go after it and go after it
But it sinks like a cloud in a lake

We'll be back!
The noise in my ears don't stop
I just someday wanted to protect what was important to me (I'll be back!)
The thing that I wished to get into my hands
Is not a piece of paper that'll cut my heart!

The tears that were held back move past my conscience
I leaned against a cold wall and cried
I knew the things that were reflected in my eyes too well
I go after it and go after it
Believing what could be understood now

Realize truth. Why?
Everday, Battle day
One day a vivid rainbow will connect it all
If you keep looking back
No use I think it's wrong

With the place I was born, colors of eyes, and words
What do you say that I know?
Because there's something missing
People go hand in hand
think of a truthful lake and sing to it

(Stomps happily on the evil table/quiz thing.)

Posted by norbert at 10/29/2007 12:16:00 AM