私の生きた証拠

According to my clock, as of this moment it’s 0:15, January the First, Common Era 2007.

Well. 2006 has been eventful. I entered the year doing something ridiculous at the computer, I left it while watching You’re Under Arrest the anime series and the first song I listened to is Jukai’s Hikari (from album Wild flower; also ED of one of the Fate Stay Night episodes).

In any case, I don’t expect too much of another year, now that I have passed the halfway mark in my short life. I’ll just live like I always had, making plans constantly and ignoring or amending them just as regularly. That’s all right, isn’t it? Not much else I can do.

Nonetheless, I am working on several projects at the moment, and I intend to continue with them still. One’s my translation efforts. Second’s a little writing project I’m starting out on. Of course, my room extreme makeover has only just began. Still, I need to get back to the mundane parts of life soon, now that school’s starting momentarily.

Well. I guess I’d want to get back to some anime or something. Just realized that typing constantly about my thoughts and life is no longer quite my thing.

Yeah. Someone said that to me moments ago.

Not that he is far off the mark. Yeah I am uncool. Everything I have aspired to be is uncool. Almost, anyway. I am about uncool as one gets without pretending to be or acting uncool.

What do I spend my time nowadays? Playing Japanese games of a questionable nature. Listening to sad songs. Drinking green tea. Sitting back in my rather comfortable chair and stone. Slaving away in front of a monitor screen. Yes, I am the epitome of uncoolness.

Maybe if I were younger, I might have gotten somewhat anxious about this. Maybe if it was another day I would have thought so. Maybe if it wasn’t raining I would have thought so. But I am as old as I am, and it is now today and it is now raining. So I can’t change the fact that right here right now I can’t be bothered.

Compared to my hectic life a few short weeks ago, what’s happening now is a vast improvement in many ways. Still, it is far from the peace that I have aspired to. Of course - life from now on is only going to get less peaceful, not more.

As I am losing my grip on my former perception and experience of the world, I am also losing some other things that I have come to treasure. And gaining some back. Slowly and inevitably it seems to me that I am losing a treasured friend, and I won’t and can’t deny that it is at least partly, if not almost all, my very own fault. At the same time I seem to have recovered another friend. I am thankful for the latter, but as to the former I guess I have been numbed to the process somewhat. Maybe only when it is completed, as in an operation with anaesthetic, will I feel the pain. But I guess by then what’s done is done and nothing can change it. Perhaps it is just as well. I am tired of thinking about it anyway.

It’s still fairly early, but I think I’ll just go to bed. I don’t want to think about this anymore. And yes - I am uncool. Have no doubt about it.

Good night, if you’re in the same timezone as I am and reading this as soon as I finish writing it.

Actually, I am not so sure what I am doing with a blog. It seems to be turning into an excuse for me to post (somewhat) badly-translated crap for a few people to read. I keep forgetting that I somehow need to document my own life so that at least I am not as obvious a mere figment of everyone’s imagination as many people have been and will continue to be.

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Done completely on a whim. Somehow I am not terribly confident about this translation, since there’s a section of which I had zero contextual knowledge and failed completely to guess at whatever it the lines were referring to, but nvm… The translation generally looks like what a song is supposed to look like. ^^

It surprised me that no one submitted anything to animelyrics, but I guess now that Hitomi no Naka no Meikyuu has already been filled in… This won’t be long now.
　
TVアニメ　「ヤミと帽子と本の旅人」エンディングテーマ
永遠の祈りを捧げて

作詞：木本慶子
作曲：梶山織江
編曲：五島翔
歌：小林沙苗

TV Anime “Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito” ED
Eien no Inori wo Sasagete (Offering an Eternal Prayer)

Vocal: Kobayashi Sanae

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Here’s something I found when I was desperately trying to delete stuff to clear space for more por- *AHEM* EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.

Some Quotes of 2006

 By Khoo Seng Teck

“Demolition works are well under way at the canteen and the hall.”
- KOH CHIN NGUANG on the state of the old hall and canteen on the first day of school in 2006. Students turn around to see that only a few roof tiles have been taken off the canteen, while the PE office and hall were virtually left intact.

“Tsunami!”
- TEO KAH HOU on the state of demolition of the old hall and canteen prior to first day of school.

“You may not know when construction works are happening over your head.”

“Heaven is under construction.”
- KHOO SENG TECK commenting on the remark made by EDWARD NG on the construction works happening in the school.

“Where are the 2004 and 2005 ones?”

“Because the HQ is slow and inefficient we have not received them yet.”
- TEO SHU LI in response to a query by a Secondary 1 student about the missing Unit Overall Proficiency Award for 2004 and 2005 plaques during Raffles Trail.

“I sat with Royce for one semester.”

“I heard sex.”
- LYE JING WEN JEROME on mishearing the word ‘sat’ mentioned by classmate LIM KIAN PENG.

“Birds of the same feather flock together.”
- CHIOH YAN HUAY scolding class 4G for not doing homework.

“Eh Ari it is RE now.”
- RAYMOND FONG telling student ARI BUDIMAN of the next period. Somehow the latter’s name rhymes (and puns) with RE.

“Shall I adjust the brightness?”
- YUEN KAH MUN during the screening of Hotel Rwanda for Social Studies.

“Philosophy cannot prove anything.”
- LESTER LIM WEI during his History lesson, to tumultuous applause of the class.

“Today I shall be speaking in defence of my bad pro-noun-ciation.”
- CHAN WEI JIE introducing his oral speech during English lesson.

I haven’t been updating the blog because of several reasons:

1. I haven’t finished translating any of the 12 songs I am working on presently.
2. I have been reading too much Wikipedia.
3. I have been busy cleaning (YES I AM NOT JOKING; I AM CLEANING) my room. I have pictures to prove it, but at present I am too lazy and sneezing too hard (from the dust and associated mites flying in the air) to really bother.
4. I have been busy plotting world domination. I have prepared maps of the USA, EU and the World to prepare for all the red and blue pins I will sticking into. And if you thought I was serious please stick a pin into yourself, kk thx thx.
5. I have been just just just too lazy. Now if you didn’t believe that, please go drink beer. ^^

That’s all for a bit, folks! =)

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I have had a long association with JLPT, or the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, or 日本語能力試験. After all, when I first took the test (level 4) was back in the December of 2001, at the age of 11.

So today I took the JLPT Level 1 examination, in a bid to secure two thousand Singapore dollars to be received over the next two years.

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