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Nov. 18th, 2008

  • 1:50 PM
i can see you
Go go Billy Idol! START AGAIN!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofzLsvTsM0

"White Wedding"

Hey little sister what have you done?
Hey little sister who's the only one?
Hey little sister who's your superman?
Hey little sister who's the one you want?
Hey little sister shot gun!

It's a nice day to start again.
It's a nice day for a white wedding.
It's a nice day to start again.

Hey little sister who is it you're with?
Hey little sister what's your vice and wish?
Hey little sister shot gun (oh yeah)
Hey little sister who's your superman?
Hey little sister shot gun!

It's a nice day to start again (come on)
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again.

(Pick it up)

Take me back home

Hey little sister what have you done?
Hey little sister who's the only one?
I've been away for so long (so long)
I've been away for so long (so long)
I let you go for so long

It's a nice day to start again (come on)
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again.

There is nothin' fair in this world
There is nothin' safe in this world
And there's nothin' sure in this world
And there's nothin' pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Start again

Come on
It's a nice day for a white wedding
It's a nice day to start again.
It's a nice day to start again.
It's a nice day to start again

xenoflare

  • Nov. 18th, 2008 at 10:20 AM
i can see you
cos i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee youuuuuuu

cos i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee youuuuuuuuuuu

hahaha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpuAaeFNHgQ

Go go Stevie! :-)

dervish

  • Nov. 18th, 2008 at 10:16 AM
i can see you
i seek the sky,

storyteller storywriter

burning up forever more

i will never give up

go go go i flare forth with Mela and with Hesiesh

such a great power forever more

this life this dance this eternal pulse

nothing can stop me whooooo

nothing can break me

i am the riot of the flames in the heart

such is my sword that cuts nothing into something

tearing and teasing, this thought, this implement of thought!!

OMIR!

CAN YOU HEAR MY HOWL, KAMI!?

This is my blade dance.

super robot wars

  • Nov. 18th, 2008 at 12:47 AM
i can see you
Found myself humming these songs today, and i realize it's been such a long time since i felt like a Super Robot Pilot. Kept humming Time to Come, over and over again, and then switched to Cybuster's theme song... REPPPPUUU SHIPPUUU CYBUSSSSTTTEERRR!!! REPPUUU SHIPPUUUU CYBUSSSSTEERR!!!

Let's shout it out! AKASHIC BUSTERRRR!!! COSMO... NOVA!!!!!

I WALK INTO TOMORROW, O SWIFT FANGS OF THE SOLAR WIND BLAZE WITH ME IN THE TIME TO COME!

Time to Come

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-135p90ArbY

kakero hoshi kuzu no umi wo
mamore kagiri naki sora wo
mabuta kujiru dakeja toki wa tada kuchite yukudake
makushita yume ima tori monousu tameni

machi agare shinjitsu no tsubasa hiroge
(Gotta) Take A Chance

kokoro no ipaimi yuuki ni kae
Take A Chance

yaku na yami o kirisake! Dead or Alive!!
machi mukae mirai o mune ni egaki
(Just) Trust What You
Believe In To Go!

moero kai wo mukai
sakede owari naki ai yo
Nobody kokoro no mamaja
dai hitetsu kawari wa shinai

shijitsu no mirai wo kachiru tameni machi agare ieno kagero nanose
(Gotta) Take A Chance

jibun no chikara shinjiru dake
Take A Chance
hikari nakaki doshite mo! Dead or Alive!
itsumo kigai nori wa todoku kara wo
(Just) Trust What You
Believe In To Go!

Take A Chance
kokoro no ipaimi yuuki ni kae
Take a chance
yaku na yami o kirisake! Dead or Alive!!
machi mukae mirai o mune ni egaki
(Just) Trust What You
Believe In To Go!

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Reppu Shippu Cybuster

Kaze ga yonderu
Itsuka kiita ano koe ga
Ore wa senpuu
Dare ni mo tomerarenai ze

WING kirameku ryuushi hanachi
Reppuu an'un kirisaite
WIND kanata e omoi tobasu
Neppuu! Shippuu! Cybuster

Ai suru mono yo
Atsuku moeru kono omoi
Tomaru koto nai
Ashita ni mukai habataite

WING surudoku hikari hashiri
Yami ni tsuyoku kagayaite
WIND haruka ni tsubasa yo mae
Neppuu! Shippuu! Cybuster

Wasure wa shinai
Mune no oku no kono itami
Kako mo mirai mo
Ima no ore ga mamoru no sa

WING hageshiku toushi moyashite
Ima kokoro hitotsu ni shite
WIND saigo no tatakai no toki
Neppuu! Shippuu! Cybuster
Neppuu! Shippuu! Cybuster

English translations

The wind is calling me
That voice I heard once before
I am a whirlwind
There's no one who can stop me!

WING Firing off sparkling particles
A fierce wind tearing apart the dark clouds!
WIND Flying my feelings over yonder
Hot wind! Swift wind! Cybuster

O my loved ones--
My feelings burn hot
There's no stopping me,
I'm flapping my wings towards tomorrow

WING The light, dashing keenly,
Shining brightly in the darkness!
WIND Dance, O far-off wings!
Hot wind! Swift wind! Cybuster

There's no forgetting
This pain deep in my heart
The past and the future both--
I will protect them in the present!

WING With my fighting spirit burning hot
Now, my heart is becoming one!
WIND It's time for the final battle
Hot wind! Swift wind! Cybuster
Hot wind! Swift wind! Cybuster

depeche mode again

  • Nov. 18th, 2008 at 12:44 AM
i can see you
The Love Thieves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnA0ft6DMpM

Oh the tears that you weep
For the poor tortured souls
Who fall at your feet
With all their love begging bowls
All the clerks and the tailors
The sharks and the sailors
All good at their trades
But they'll always be failures

Alms for the poor
For the wretched disciples
And the love that they swore
With their hearts on the bible
Beseeching the honour
To sit at your table
And feast on your holiness
As long as they're able

Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirits shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

You're holding court
With your lips and your smile
Your body's a halo
Their minds are on trial
Sure as adam is eve
Sure as Jonah turned whaler
They're crooked love thieves
And you are their jailor

Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirit shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

Wana

  • Nov. 17th, 2008 at 5:25 PM
i can see you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sSR24fwZfA

Wana - The Black Horn

Ending Theme, Gundam 00

Original / Romaji Lyrics English Translation

zetsubou wa amai wana tozasareta sono tobira
kokora ga senjou dakara dare nimo oshienai

Despair is an alluring trap, a door that shuts you in.
My heart is a battlefield, so I can't tell anyone.

zenmai no shinzou ga unmei ni ayatsurare
buriki no heitaitachi wa satsuriku wo hajimeru

Their clockwork hearts are manipulated by destiny,
The tin-plate soldiers begin their massacre.

inochi sae mo moteasobu noka kowarekaketa otogi no kuni de
mune no oku ni hashiru itami wo douka zutto wasurenu mama de

Are lives playthings too, in this crumbling fairy tale kingdom?
Please, don't ever forget the pain that runs deep in your heart.

yokubou wa doku ringo te ni ireta mono wa nani?
mirai no kodomotachi eto nokoseru mono wa nani?

Desire is a poisoned apple. What is it that you have obtained?
What are we going to pass on to the children of tomorrow?

ai wo shirazu yureru yurikago moetsukiteku nemuri no mori de
tomo ni ikiru yorokobi sae mo kieteshimau tooku

The rocking cradle that knows not love, in this sleeping forest as it burns to the ground,
You are so distant that even the joy of being alive with you is disappearing.

yasashisa wo shinji subete wo yurushite
itsukushimu you ni tada wakachiatte wakariatte

Believe in kindness and forgive everything.
Share with others, understand each other, so that we may learn to love.

inochi sae mo moteasobu noka kowarekaketa otogi no kuni de
mune no oku ni hashiru itami wo douka zutto wasurenu mama de

Are lives playthings too, in this crumbling fairy tale kingdom?
Please, don't ever forget the pain that runs deep in your heart.

ai wo shirazu yureru yurikago naze bokura wa umareta no darou
haruka kanata inori no you na komoriuta ga hibiku

The rocking cradle that knows not love, why were we born into this world?
In faraway lands, the prayer-like lullaby resounds.

yasashisa wo shinji subete wo yurushite
itsukushimu you ni tada wakachiatte wakariatte

Believe in kindness and forgive everything.
Share with others, understand each other, so that we may learn to love.

Nov. 9th, 2008

  • 7:42 AM
i can see you
spirits please

guide her to me, guide me to her, guide us to each other

oh Valkyries winging over last night's storm

may your thunder echo my path to my love

where are you darling

please be well be safe i love you

i'm so worried sick

but i can't let that stop me from what i gotta do

i'm coming to find you

please let this just be a nightmare

i wanna wake up

gods and spirits, guardian demons, protect my love, protect her, protect our love

that is all i ask, this lowly sorcier

thus i petition

thus i seek

thus i wish

thus i am

thus i go

Oct. 12th, 2008

  • 3:30 AM
i can see you
Stratovarius - Phoenix

I am facing the truth
I got to change the way I live
Can't go on this way
The price is too high to pay

After the rain I feel the sun
See how I run to my destiny

Life is a game
I got to learn how to play
I make my own rules
'Cause now I am free to choose

Courage and faith will show me the way
See how I run to my destiny

Like the Phoenix I rise
From the ashes of life
I don't need fortune or fame
Just some peace of mind

Like the Phoenix I fly
Leaving the lies behind
Future's golden for me
There is no one who can stop me now

I'm noble and strong
I'm walking down the road that I choose
Each day is a gift
And I know that I can't lose

A glorious future's awaiting me
See how I run to my destiny

Like the Phoenix I rise
From the ashes of life
I don't need fortune or fame
Just some peace of mind

Like the Phoenix I fly
Leaving the lies behind
Future's golden for me
There is no one who can stop me now

Oct. 9th, 2008

  • 12:08 PM
i can see you
Wisdom and clarity!

Laugh, laugh, laugh; the greatest banishing ritual of all.

I'm not supposed to get lost in the Otherworld; it's my job to go there, see the sights, find the treasures of magic and mystery, and bring them back for everyone to play with.

So! Here we go!

:-)

Thoughts on the MGS 4 Soundtrack

  • Sep. 24th, 2008 at 12:04 PM
i can see you
The soundtrack does an awesome job of putting us inside Snake's mind and emotions. The game opens with the "Old Snake" song...

Old Snake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3NvvedW1k&feature=related

... and continues with the Love Theme here, which reveals Snake's pain and grief, his sense of hopelessness, of the burden of his father and brother, of being forced into becoming a weapon again by the state, despite the disease that's ending his life, to fight his birthright because that is his destiny, of hoping for something else in his life, some sort of peace that he doesn't even have the vocabulary to articulate nor the space to grasp.

Yeah, i cried during the game. Many times.

Love Theme
The intro movie scene is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-pvKkduEY&feature=related

full version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6bqvfnPG4

English Lyrics by Hideo Kojima (song's sung by Jackie Presti in Hebrew):

Closing my eyes to the sound of gunfire
Uttering a roar
In a flash I am switched into despair
Everything for the one who lives inside the nightmare
Missing from the bottom of my heart

Wishing the world that ran out of tears
The heart is already dead
The hope
Missing until it hurts

Sleep now in the fire

  • Sep. 1st, 2008 at 12:30 PM
i can see you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8wU9DdbqU&feature=related

YEAAAH!

The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists and march around
Dont dare take what you need
I'll jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or i'll drag you to your grave
I'm deep inside your children
They'll betray you in my name

Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire

Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire

The lie is my expense
The scope with my desire
The party blessed me with its future
And i protect it with fire
I am the nina, the pinta, the santa maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire

Hey!
Hey!
Sleep now in the fire

For it's the end of history
It's caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That makes you ill
The nina, the pinta, the santa maria
The noose and the rapist, the fields' overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

YEAAAH!

Sleep now in the fire!
Sleep now in the fire!
Sleep now in the fire!
Sleep now in the fire!

Testify

  • Sep. 1st, 2008 at 12:21 PM
i can see you
Testify - Rage Against the Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSBhI_0at0

The movie ran through me
The glamour subdued me
The tabloid untied me
I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you
Yes the car is our wheelchair
My witness your coughing
Oily silence mocks the legless boys
Who travel now in coffins
On the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door

Now testify
Now testify
It's right outside your door
Now testify
Yes testify
Its right outside your door

With precision you feed me
My witness I'm hungry
Your temple it calms me
So I can carry on
My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
The wrecking ball is rushing
Witness your blushing
The pipeline is gushing
While here we lie in tombs
While on the corner
The jury's sleepless
We found your weakness
And it's right outside your door

Now testify
Yeah testify
It's right outside your door
Now testify
Now testify
It's right outside your door

Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set
Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
And the price is set

Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?

Now testify
Testify
It's right outside your door
Now testify
Testify
The war is right outside your door

Living on a Prayer

  • Aug. 4th, 2008 at 6:01 AM
i can see you
Living on a Prayer, by Bon Jovi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7H6yMy1Ks

Tommy used to work on the docks
union's been on strike
He's down on his luck - It's tough
so tough.

Gina works the diner all day
working for her man
She brings home her pay for love
for love.

She says: We've got to hold on to what we've got
'Cause it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not.
We've got each other and that's a lot for love -
We'll give it a shot.

We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer

Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear - livin' on a prayer.

Tommy got his six string in hock.
Now he's holding in what he used to make it talk -
So tough
it's tough.

Gina dreams of running away
when she cries in the night
Tommy whispers: Baby
it's okay
someday.

We've got to hold on to what we've got . . .
We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .

We've got to hold on ready or not
You live for the fight when it's all that you've got.

We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .
We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .
We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
i can see you
Goal: I want to start on my thesis and do a good paper, then i can move on with my life... and then prepare for my life after school.

Tasks:

1, Study Jambi and Riau in Southeast Asia Maps. What are the routes from these 2 places to Singapore?

This is supposed to be one of the main shipping routes from Indonesia to Singapore and Peninsula Malaysia, for moving the illegally logged wood. The other 3 are:

West Kalimantan to Sarawak
East Kalimantan to Sabah
West Papua to China

Let's buy a map later and take good look at them.

2, Print out the NGO articles and read them, identify names i can research later, either as contact points, or people i can trace online.

3, Do the paperwork for GRSS and IRB.

Overall thoughts:

I need to live as a hunter again. Breathe. Hunt. Stalk your prey, follow the trails of electronic spoor your quarry leaves behind, swim in the invisible sea of ether, in the wake of rippling thought-forms..

Come on, shaman. Time to get to work.

Bran

  • Jul. 17th, 2008 at 4:12 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3rUaJIrfc&feature=related

Bran Fendigaid
alias Bendigeitvran
Celtic God of Regeneration

Bran Fendigaid (the Blessed) was the son of the Sea God, Llyr and, maternally, the grandson of Belenos, the Sun God. His name means Raven, and this bird was his symbol. In Celtic mythology, Bran appears as a semi-humanized giant residing at Castell Dinas Bran, the later home of the later Kings of Powys. Though Bran himself was supposed to have been an early King of the Silures tribe of Gwent. There appears to be no archaeological evidence for his worship though perhaps the castle mount was once sacred to him. Geoffrey of Monmouth transformed him into an early British King named Brennius, though his story probably relates to King Bran Hen of Bryneich.

One Irish tale tells how Bran fell asleep, one day, while listening to the beautiful song of a goddess with whom he fell deeply in love. She sang of a mystical Otherworld far away on a Westerly Island. So the following day, Bran and his three foster-brothers and twenty-seven warrior-followers set off in their ships to find this wondrous land. On their journey, Bran encountered his half-brother, Manawyddan, God of the Sea, and eventually reached the land of Women. Here the goddess greeted him and they spent a whole year together happy and fulfilled. Eventually though, some of Bran's men wished to return home, but the goddess warned them that if they were to step foot on the British Isles, they would crumble to dust for, in reality, many centuries had passed since they had left home. Bran, however, ignored her warning and returned home. On reaching the shore, however, the first man to step ashore found the goddess' warning to be true, and his fellow mariners were forced to sail the seas for evermore. Perhaps Bran found some magical way back to his own time, for he is better known from an old Welsh tale, in the Mabinogion, concerning the marriage of his sister, Branwen.

Desirous of an alliance with other Celtic nations, Bran gave his sister, Branwen, in marriage to King Matholwch of Ireland. This was not, however, a universally popular move and his brother, Efnisien was completely outraged. He maimed the Irish horses and caused so much offence that Bran felt obliged to give Matholwch his wondrous magic cauldron in recompense.

Though the Irish King was satisfied with the apology, his people did not forget so easily and after some years, despite Branwen bearing him a son named Gwern, Matholwch was persuaded to eject the lady from the court to work in the kitchens. Branwen therefore sent her pet starling (for which we should perhaps read raven) to seek help from her brother in Wales. King Bran was astonished to hear of the ill-treatment of his beloved sister. He immediately gathered his mighty army and crossed (or waded in Bran's case) the Irish Sea to rescue her. Matholwch retreated westward upon seeing the mighty Welsh forces. Bran helped his men cross several mighty rivers in order to follow him and Matholwch was eventually forced to offer to abdicate in favour of his son and Bran's nephew, Gwern. Bran only accepted on the understanding that a house was also built that was big enough to hold him. Unfortunately, at the feast to celebrate the truce, Efnisien through Gwern into the fire and hostilities quickly are resumed.

In the bloodiest of battles that ensued, the Irish were able to reincarnate their dead using the Magic Cauldron, so the fighting was harder than had ever been seen before. Eventually the battle was ended, but neither side was triumphant. Only seven Britons escaped alive. Bran was not amongst them. He had been mortally wounded in the foot by a poisoned dart, only surviving long enough to request that his head be cut off and buried on Gwynfryn (the 'White Mount' where the Tower of London now stands) in Caer-Lundein (London). Upon his death the harvests back in Britain failed and the land became barren and unworkable.

The seven survivors did as they were bid and returned to Britain. For seven years they stayed in Harlech, entertained by the head which continued to speak and knew nothing but joy and mirth. They later moved on to Gwales (Grassholm Island off Dyfed) where they lived for an incredible eighty years without perceiving the passing of time. Eventually, one of the men opened the door of the hall which faced Cornwall which everthying was brought back to them. They felt they must continue on their journey to London where their buried Bran's head, facing the Continent as a protective talisman against invasion.

Jul. 17th, 2008

  • 4:09 PM
i can see you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsyu34IxU_Y

Hot like the sun
Wet like the rain
Green like the leaves
Life is a game
Stars in my head
Shine moon shine
Everything's cool
And I feel fine

Can you touch
The root that feed us
Can you hear
The words that i say
Can you feel
The music move you
Can you feel alive today

Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribedibeda
Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribeda
Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribedibeda
Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribeda

Falledal do
Falledal dea
Falledal do
Falledal da
Falledaldea
Ya vana dea ribeda

Can you touch
The root that feed us
Can you hear
The words that i say
Can you feel
The music move you
Can you feel alive today

Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribedibeda
Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribeda
Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribedibeda
Vana dea dzjo vana dea
La vana do aribeda

Falledal do
Falledal dea
Falledal do
Falledal da
Falledaldea
Ya vana dea ribeda

Can you touch
The root that feed us
Can you hear
The words that i say
Can you feel
The music move you
Can you feel alive today

Can you feel alive
Can you feel alive
Can you feel alive

Strong like the grass
Tall like a tree
Free like the wind
Eternally
Nothing to lose
Nothing to gain
Just running wyld
Again and again and again

Can you touch
The root that feed us
Can you hear
The words that i say
Can you feel
The music move you
Can you feel alive today

Falledal do
Falledal dea
Falledal do
Falledal da
Falledaldea
Ya vana dea ribeda

Bumblebees and blossom
Only trees and me
Humble bees and blossom
Only trees and me