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I can’t sing T____T;;.

So, let’s talk about people who can sing.
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This song is from the French movie called les Choristes, which was released around 3 years ago. The song Vois Sur Ton Chemin, meaning ‘Look to your Path’, was nominated for the Best Original Song and was performed by Beyoncé Knowles and Jean-Baptiste Maunier from the choir La Chorale des Petits Enfants De Saint Marc at the 2005 Academy Awards.

La Nuit (The Night, 夜)
Lyrics: (from here)

Oh nuit vient apporter à la terre
Le calme enchantement de ton mystère
L’ombre qui t’escorte est si douce
Si doux est le concert de tes doigts chantant l’espérance
Si grand est ton pouvoir transformant tout en rêve heureux

Oh nuit, oh laisses encore à la terre
Le calme enchantement de ton mystère
L’ombre qui t’escorte est si douce
Est-il une beauté aussi belle que le rêve
Est-il de vérité plus douce que l’espérance

Translations: (from here)
哦，夜
刚刚降临于大地
你那神奇隐秘的宁静的魔力
簇拥着的影子如此温柔甜蜜！
如此温柔
是你歌颂希望的音乐寄语
如此宏伟
是你的神奇
将一切化成了美梦奇迹！

哦，夜
仍然笼罩在大地
你那神奇隐秘的宁静的魔力
簇拥着的影子如此温柔甜蜜！
难道它不比梦想更加美丽？
难道它不比期望更值得希冀？

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GARNET CROW Official Site

They re-designed it!!! It looks so cool!!! Ahhh….~~~ I look forward to their next album. <3 <3 <3 <3

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So far, this blog really hasn’t been getting a lot of readers. This doesn’t bother me all that much, but really gives me insight into how blogs should be written, or at least in the way I think is correct. But a righteous way to write a blog might not exist in general; it only exists to me because I think maybe that’s how they should be written.

I’ve always put off having a blog since I last had one in grade 10, I think. And since then, I’ve always thought that the longer you have the blog, the longer you start to dislike it because more people come to your blog to read it, and then consequently have less and less freedom to write and/or rant about your life, in apprehension of other people’s feelings. Thus, you began to want to start another blog. This applies to many other online portals to your life, among one of those is MSN Messenger. I think a lot of people change MSN’s frequently, because the list of people just expands until you can’t manage it, so you start another one. This is the reason why I do not spend vasts amount of time on MSN lately. It is also the reason why I haven’t had a blog in a long time.

So the true art of blogging to me is to write about things that is bothering you, that people can relate to. Not just limited to your friends, but also for people that randomly stumble upon your oasis on the world wide web, so they can glimpse in your world. Having said this, judging upon the amount of comments I get, I have a feeling that what I’ve written so far has a very straining percentage that everyday-life people can associate with. I feel that this is mainly due to my obsession with Japanese Actors and Dramas. Many blogs that have the same interests post up on recent rumors from Japan and other Asian countries and many lyrics translations. (I’m thinking about Jland here) So, to be slightly more ubiquitous, if only just for people that randomly stumble upon my Eden, I will try my best to adhere to “The Art of Blogging”, and maybe translate some Japanese lyrics? (Although, if you’ve read the last couple of lyrics translation posts, you’ll know that maybe it’s not a very good idea *lol*)

On another note, here are updates of my life because of my recent days of anti-civilization:

1. I burnt parts of my hand and wrists while trying to fry meat paddies. But I have a good hunch that the skin is healing, albeit very disgustingly what with blisters and all. x.x.
2. I have finished reading the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and have read some pages on Wikipedia regarding the Harry Potter series and also some character pages on hp-lexicon.org. Now that the series is finished, I have so many thoughts and comments. First and foremost is the ending of an era: it feels such a long time and also a very short almost infinitesimal of time that has started the moment I forced myself (yes the word is forced) to finish reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I have so many feelings regarding this phenomenal book series. I have all of the American editions of the book, and my favorite one (although this is often shifting between the recent ones) for the longest time before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In which case, the spine has totally slip down the middle when Fred and George gave Harry the Marauder’s Map. Therefore, every time I open the book to read it, I’ll always start from that scene *lol*. Anyway (getting sidetracked here), I feel that a part of me has also finished with the books, the more I go back and read it, the more it has reminded myself just how much I loved it. It feels like having another glimpse of my childhood. And just maybe, just maybe I’ve matured somehow. Although this is merely just blind hope really.
3. I’ve recorded and consequentially heard myself sing Jay Chou’s 发如雪 so many times that it feels weird to hear Jay Chow sing it.
4. My parents said to burn a CD of all the songs I sang this summer for them before I go back to university. They didn’t say the going back to university part… I just assumed.
5. I miss my friends. =(.

I got two reviews for the chapter 1 of Birthday Party but I think I will rewrite parts of it because it’s enjoyability is unsatisfactory to myself.

I haven’t gotten chapter 3 of duet yet, I wonder if she removed my email from the mailing list because I’ve somehow offended her the last time I sent an edited version over.

Over and out.

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When I woke up, the apartment smelt like rotten bananas.

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I am currently in the middle of chapter four of Harry Potter and the Death Hallows, and I’m at the computer to post on my blog? Why you ask? When I have such a gripping book to read?

For some reason I put on the NOIR blanc dans NOIR album from Noir by Kajiura Yuki and for some weird reason the first song on shuffle was ‘love’ by See-saw. It was such a sad song and I just couldn’t keep on reading HP7 because I was so afraid Harry would die. I guess I just didn’t want it to end that way. So I’ve holding out as long as I can before going back to the book. Which is stupid, because that’s exactly how I got the cruel spoilers about the Half-Blood Prince last time. But still, the music is making me even more sentimental than usual…

So, onto other issues. Let’s share a photograph.

Seeing double? If so, read on.

My uncle called me last night and we talked about the latest Harry Potter movie in Chinese. And he told me he ordered me a copy of the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I was shocked, because I had already ordered a copy for myself. So, when I said I’ll send it back to his address, he said he’ll just go out and buy it tomorrow. So now I’m stuck with an extra copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have a couple of ideas what to do with it. Here they are:

1. Return my original copy to Amazon. Get money back and buy some textbooks for next year.
2. Give it to a friend who needs it.
3. Donate it to the library.
4. Keep it.

Choice #4 is definitely out of the question; I would just feel extremely guilty and un-deserving. But choice #1 probably is the most reasonable choice. At least I’m using his money correctly now. I’ve always used his Christmas money on Amazon to buy stuff that I don’t really need, ie. manga. So maybe I’ll use it to its advantage.

Let’s digress from Potter mania.

I started reading this lullaby again the day before yesterday, and I just had to stop because of the new book I got today. I’ve been wanting to write about this ever since I got back from Misaki’s house less than a week ago. So while I read this lullaby again, I realized just how much impact Dexter had on Remy, and how much she changed by meeting him. I feel that now that I’ve gone back and read stuff for the 2nd or maybe even the third time I feel like I can appreciate it more. It happened while at Misaki’s too. It was the 4th time I’ve seen Nobuta. wo Produce with someone else. The first time was with Phil, the second time was with my cousin back in China, the third time was with Amy and the latest time was with Misaki. Every time I notice just in which places the actress of Aoi was. And I also remember what parts each one find funny, what parts that they thought was weird and amusing, which parts they were confused about and how I had to explain it. Just this last time, I realized how Shuji, Akira and Nobuta were a lot like Harry, Ron and Hermione respectfully. Except the fact that Ron got the girl and Akira didn’t. Okay, I feel that I’ve begun rambling and not much of this post makes sense… Sorry.

Last thing before I go back to reading. I found a line very interesting while I was reading this lullaby. On page 175, halfway down, the line was the first line of the paragraph. It said, “It was July 15.” And so, I found this really funny and coincidental. Hehe.

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So, I’ve completely humiliated myself (refer to the post below, if you really need to know). So, to somehow regain my sanity and integrity, here is ‘Our Love’ and ‘Listen to the Sea’ in much better quality and accuracy.

F.I.R. - 我们的爱
My memories emerged when I reminisced my blurry childhood:
a blue sky full of flow-y clouds.
You said then, that we would go hand-in-hand,
until the end of time…

Ever since then, I’ve been afraid to glance upwards,
Scared that my sky had become colorless.
From that day on, I forgot how to breath…
And tears, would never
never flow…

Our Love…
Passed and would never return.
Even now, I am still silently waiting.
Our Love, I understand,
has already become your burden.
It’s just that I can’t ever let go,
that last warmth… that warmth which you gave me.

Ever since then, I’ve been afraid to glance upwards,
Scared that my sky had become colorless.
From that day on, I forgot how to breath…
And tears, would never
never flow…

Our Love…
Passed and would never return.
Even now, I am still silently waiting.
Our Love, I understand,
has already become your burden.
It’s just that I can’t ever let go,
that last warmth… that warmth which you gave me.

I don’t need to ask you if you still loved me,
Right now, I just want a sky all to myself.
Leave this choking world,
no longer alone…

Our Love…
Passed and would never return.
Even now, I am still silently waiting.
Our Love, I understand,
has already become your burden.
It’s just that I can’t ever let go,
that last warmth… that warmth which you gave me.

张惠妹 - 听海
Write a letter telling me the color of the sea today.
The sea that stays with you during the night. What are your emotions?
Gray means you won’t say, and blue is hesitation.
Yet the drifting you, with your crazed heart, stopped where?

Write a letter telling me what you want to dream about tonight.
And the me outside of your dreams, do I give you endless choices?
I clenched onto this heart, couldn’t even close my eyes this whole night.
Our affections are obvious, then why don’t you come close?

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
While breathing out a sigh, and wondering who’s been heartbroken,
and not yet calmed…
Surely it’s not me; at least I’m fairly calm.
But the tears, even the tears, don’t believe in me…

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
This sea truly is a bit too sensitive—
it has been crying with grief ’til dawn.
Write a letter to me, and let it be our last promise—
Expressing your emotions when you left me.

Write a letter telling me what you want to dream about tonight.
And the me outside of your dreams, do I give you endless choices?
I clenched this heart, couldn’t even close my eyes this whole night.
Our affections are obvious, then why don’t you come close?

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
While breathing out a sigh, and wondering who’s been heartbroken,
and not yet calmed…
Surely it’s not me; at least I’m fairly calm.
But the tears, even the tears, don’t believe in me…

Listen…
To the sound of the crying sea.
This sea truly is a bit too sensitive—
it has been crying with grief ’til dawn.
Write a letter to me, and let it be our last promise—
Expressing your emotions when you left me.

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The wind could carry all the labor away,
in spite of my exertions it’s not real to me.
Your words will come floating in the air,
so let us just surrender ourselves to the sky… Rie fu - Beautiful Words

Do you still remember yesterday, that summer day?
The moment that was blown away by a swift wind?
Seemingly taking everything along,
Leaving only loneliness and precipitation… 林俊杰&金莎 - 被风吹过的夏天

Although I want to tell you about this feeling,
somehow my voice can’t keep still; I can’t say it.
I need to voice it in words however way I can.
More than anything, I want this hesitance to disappear… 東方神起 - HUG (Japanese Version)

Inside this heart, hiding, are swirls of worry.
I must keep going in front of me;
Which way is the road?.. ayaka - I believe

As it is, my love will not reach you,
I’m by myself, hugging myself to sleep.
Please give me your love once again,
even if I could go back in time… Crystal Kay - きっと永遠に

If there was no future,
and that everything of today will end,
what will you do?.. SHOWTA. - Trans-winter ~Fuyu no mukou gawa~

There’s no life, no life without it’s hunger.
Each restless heart, beats so imperfectly.
But when you come, and I am filled with wonder;
sometimes I think, I glimpse eternity… LENA PARK; Westlife; Secret Garden - You Raise Me Up

You were my strength with I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak.
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see.
You saw the best there was in me.
Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach.
You gave me faith cause you believed.
I’m everything I am, because you loved me… Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me

Claim an open soil,
even if it’s merely a tree… 胡彦斌 - 蝴蝶

Until hearts are shattered,
and dreams are buried under the mists of river south,
then we’ll understand… 林俊杰 - 江南

(You can’t say I didn’t try. Lyrics translated very roughly and possibly very much incorrectly by me.)

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Physics II
Physics III
Introduction to Materials Science
Year Two Seminar (non-credit)
Calculus II
Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences
Organic Chemistry of Biological Molecules
Linear Algebra I
Intermediate Physics Laboratory

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For second semester, I originally had Calculus, every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Which would have been 8 consecutive hours of class on Wednesdays.

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IT WON’T LET ME ADD Chem 213A because apparently available seats are reserved and I do not meet the reserve capacity requirements. And then it won’t let me add Chem 223B because I don’t have the prerequisite, which is Chem 213A.

Grrrrr… So my appointment was 4:30 today, but then after I did everything I realized there was a problem cause Chem 213A is restricted to my Major but then the Helpline is only from 9am to 4pm…. GRRRRRRR.. This is stressful enough without the ‘errors’. I’m going to wake up early tomorrow and call them.