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So it was yet another exhausting day at work yesterday, and I was brain-dead by about 8pm. Finally managed to stop working and leave the office. I walked to the bus-stop as usual to wait for my bus. There, I spotted a blind uncle, who was holding a walking stick (the type which the blind use) and standing at the bus-stop. He looked a little lost (or maybe it was all just my imagination), but being blind, I could immediately guess that he would want to know what was the bus service which just passed him. I looked around the bus-stop, nobody was helping him. He was all alone. I mustered some courage to approach him (I'm quite shy when approaching strangers haha! XD) and said in his ear above all the traffic noise "Uncle, what bus service are you waiting for?" It took him sometime to realise someone was asking him or approaching to help him. He said "77 or 106, 77 or 106." I turned my head to look at the electronic-board with all the bus services and bus arrival times. Quickly, I searched for 77 and 106, they were arriving in about 3 or 4 mins as reported on the board. For me, my bus was arriving in another 6 mins. I was relieved to see that his bus would be arriving earlier than mine, so that I could see him board the bus first, before I make my way home. But then again, I think if my bus were to arrive first, I felt obligated to wait til he boarded his bus, even though it may cost me another 20 mins in my precious "time-is-money-is-everything" working day.I replied the uncle "I will let you know when your bus arrive ok?" He said "thank you ah" and plonked himself down onto the seat at the bus stop. Soon, bus service 77 arrived and i reached out to hold him by his right elbow. "Uncle, bus 77 is here already." He stood up hurridly, probably paiseh, and extended his walking stick. The bus stopped somewhere behind another SBS bus. Able young adults who just knocked off from work like myself are rushing to board it. I told the uncle that the bus was behind. He stopped walking. My guess was that he did not want to walk that far and I could understand why. I flagged for bus 77 to stop right infront of me, and pray that the bus driver could see why I was doing that. Fortunately he did, and he opened the bus door. I tried to help the uncle up to board the bus, the bus driver actually came out of his driver's seat to help the blind uncle up the bus, and he waved a sign of "thank you" to me. Of cos, the blind uncle himself too said "thank you" to me. I felt a rush of goosebumps and my face was flushing. I hope nobody was staring at me. Felt good and proud that I did something good for someone today, even if it was such a simple thing as being the eyes for a blind old uncle.
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posted in "life" on imeem blog on feb 24, 2009 at 12:22pm
current mood: proud
I've just caught the entire series of Basilisk anime over the weekend. Before I write a review of what I think about it, I'll talk about the Opening Theme of the anime first.
No matter which anime, the first thing and foremost thing which catches my most attention, would be the opening theme song. Maybe the music part is really important to me, or maybe it is just the thing which draws me into the mood of the story. I'm not very particular about song lyrics as long as I can "feel" the emotions from the way the singer expresses him/herself. Some songs may be very meaningful or beautiful lyrically, but if I just don't understand or can't relate to what it is trying to express, no matter how nice the lyrics are, I just would not get drawn to it. Which probably explains why I've been listening to Japanese songs since I was as young as 13, and get "scolded" from other family members disturbed with my constant "obsession" of listening to Japanese songs. (Japanese anime / manga were expensive to get, and CDs just started getting popular over cassette and video tapes. Internet was just starting to boom, there were no such thing as youtube, wikipedia for me to search for songs or things I would like to read up on. We only had the encyclopedia then, and that alone was like such a hugeeee amount of knowledge and information for me to learn and absorb.)
Oops, sorry I digressed into my "childhood" times. But anyways, just to sum it up, as long as the song is EMO enough, then I'll most probably enjoy it lol~! Basilisk's opening theme song is by this band named "Onmyouza". Usually I would get bored / irritated with the opening themes of animes, having to listen to them everytime I open another episode of the anime. Once I get bored, I would just drag the video cursor to skip the song.
For "Koga ninpocho", I have no idea was it the time I had to spend waiting for the anime to load online anyway, that made it so easy for me to listen to the song over and over again. So just a little earlier tonight, I searched in Youtube for this song, found out that this band is kinda like a Visual-Kei Jrock band (which brings back some of the jrocker blood in me). Somehow this song (especially the Live version) reminds me alot of XJapan's music. I really like the guitar riffs and especially the guitar solo, maybe because the guitars were Ibanez, which was why it sounded like XJapan? I found it really interesting that for once, there is actually a Jrock band which featured a female leading vocal^^. In my opinion, I think this adds a very very nice touch and twist to the usual guy-ish jrock opening theme which alot of animes features. A female voice just makes the song so much more "fluid" and portrays a more subtle impression, otherwise it might have given me the impression that this anime was all macho-action hack-and-slash type with a male voice. It does help that her singing voice is not the cutesy / ultra-sweet type either. I appreciate this singing voice of hers, although it made me imagine her to be much older (she looks around my age? o.o), but the way she sang it adds a very very womanly tone to the song. I wish to be in her shoes, but I guess it was just not meant to be for me. It was always my dream but I guess I shall not bore you with the hopes and dreams which I had but never got to fulfill. I liked her smoky-eyes too in the Live version video clip.
So here I'm linking 3 different versions of the song for your enjoyment^^ =x
1) Basilisk Anime Opening Theme
P.S. I love the flute part where the anime version was ending too! (Kinda fits the story well with a flute tune)
2) The MV version (gotta love the kimonos o.O lol!)
3) The Live version (Nice performance!)
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posted in "anime" on imeem blog.
I'm exhausted. It has been a hell of a week.... meetings non-stop, requests for data and statistics non-stop, lunch-less, Over-Time (OT) clocking, sleepless... and also having to put-up with hellish bitchy-ness dumb office politics for 5 straight days is really killing me. I often wonder when it would take away my life. I'm so glad that its finally Friday, TGIF! But of course, to get myself "ready" for the weekend and rants out of my system so that i'll be off to a fresh start, I'm here blogging all my frustrations and unhappiness away.The week started off quite irritatingly, there was a temp / contract staff who was here since last Thursday to this Monday, to fill-in the position of another junior staff. Of cos I'm welcoming to anybody who can render any additional help to any of my department colleagues. But this one was.... >.<Then came other disasters like having to work with this *beep* over the past few days for an urgent case. For someone in her position, it was her responsibility to come up with the case. But of cos, she has to rely on yours truly for the statistics and data. For someone she had to rely on, she was throwing too many last-minute "eh u have to do this for me, eh u have to calculate that for me". And not even a single "thanks" or "thank you" afterwhich. Such last-minute requirements in such a short time, I could have told her I need at least 3 days in advance for such information from me. I thought she was a really nice colleague in the office, until I had to work in this case with her. =\ Oh well, there are always good and bad happenings / events in the office. Some may turn out to be nasty, but end up being nice friends and vice versa. I'm just starting to really get to know the pple here...
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posted in "work" on imeem blog on feb 20, 2009 at 17:45pm
current mood: irritated
Here I was playing Audition halfway.... then I got dc-ed. I thought there was something wrong with my connection, so I double-clicked the Audition icon..... No response. "Ok", so I thought I'll restart my pc and try again. Still no response.... "Ok, guess I need to try shutdown." STILL no response for the 3rd time in a row. I tried to go ahead to Audition SEA forums. But I got a "Page Load Error" on that too. Guess Audition is down for tonight ^^; Maybe I'll try to pass that mission on DJ Max now instead =x lol! Always believed in the phrase "Once a gamer, always a gamer." XDSidenote: Kinda stumbled upon old pics of Audition days like yearssss ago. Earlier tonight, I was really lucky and managed to pull off a x9 perf combo! Ok I know that's not much.... I know pple who could do more than that. But it was kinda reminiscence that after so long, I was able to do a x9 again. I'm getting worse and worse at the game with passing time x_X Enjoy this nooby screenshot of mine!
Note: Posted in "game" on imeem blog on feb 17, 2009 at 12:09am
Well, this is the first time in a very long time that I've written on a blog. Since this site is about music, I thought I'll just do a post on music which I like... Afterall, I think I'll just die without music in my life. It is everything to me. And it helps me to express some emotions which I can't express in words. Best thing about it, it is theraputic to me... soothes me when I'm angry, cheers me when I'm sad. Or sometimes maybe even allows me to indulge in my sadness, to allow me to do what I need to do, feel what I need to feel, get over it, and start to feel happier^^. So, with my very first blog post on Imeem (omg) lol, I'll start talking about this song by "Setsuna F Seiei" (who would have thought a Gundam Meister can sing?! lol XD) Ok, I'll admit it...... I chanced upon this song while doing some "research" on the sexy male voice actor for Zero from Vampire Knight =x (Please don't blame me, when I say sexy, i meant the voice, not the person. Although I know many gals go ga-ga over the cute Japanese guy, especially when he kisses a dog on his interview clip over at Youtube lol).This guy doesn't have the best of singing voices (although he does damn good voice acting for Setsuna from Gundam, Zero from Vampire Knight, Yagami Light from DeathNote, Tamaki from Ouran High. Yes, its a very glorious list.) But something about this song attracts me greatly to it. I'm not sure if it is the fact that it is supposed to be sung by Setsuna, or its the tune of the song which appeals to me (I like songs with this type of beat). So, just sit back, relax and enjoy "Suupu~"!
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posted in "music" on feb 16, 2009 at 11:28am
current mood: tired
