I Almost Forgot How To Play Saxophone

I miss the rain sometimes ._. Artist: Botan

"All students with missing blocks sit in the lounge and do nothing." 
School's orders. I shall obey. I spent 2nd block sitting there accidentally eavesdropping on the girl sitting 1 foot away (seriously you could've sat anywhere else, why next to me :c) with friends who would come every 10 minutes to gossip while I played DS.
In other news tried to play saxophone today and I forgot how to assemble it.. Is it mouth piece or neck first? Mouth + neck? I don't remember :(. Can hardly play. The effects of 2 months is crippling ;_;. Reminds me of when I first joined last year and by Friday I was so sad that I felt like giving up :(. BUT I DIDN'T! AND I'M HERE NOW. YEEEAHHHHHHHHHHH!
More business 10 tomorrow so let's hope I learn what the course is :p. Less than 12 hours of sleep this week so far ahahahahahaha gotta sleep. GOTTA SLEEP.

Cyu tomorrow.

Quantum Physics, Environmental Care, and Inspiration

Duu du dudupdupu.. Artist: Tsujiki

Lucky number seven, weekend's seven, seven o'clock TV's seven, July's seven. I love the number seven, it just sounds so pleasant, even the letters look balanced nicely. It was just that day that made me think. I was running down the stairs without a care, what was I rushing for again? I don't think it was important enough for me to remember, but the next thing I knew, I awoke to a white ceiling. Clouds? Was I in heaven? Turns out I had tripped down the stairs and miraculously survived with seven fractured bones. Though all I could manage to think about now was whether my luck had doubled or divided.

7 DAY UNTIL SCHOOL

or something....

Uhhhhh.. Where do I start? Writing.. Didn't magically get better.. :( A week until school, haven't gotten my schedule stuff that everyone is talking about. Summer feels like it should go on forever, it's been so long since school and I'm sick of talking about this. Reading about someone nag on about school is ok to read from one person or two but this is just redundant. Filler talk is filler talk ;_;. Watching live streams while I cry over how bad my story idea was today. Read about quantum physics, I think I understand it less than I know that I understand it.
I talked to my mom and dad about this a while ago but: the only people who can afford to think about how a third-world country is doing or how plastic is bad for the environment are the well-off people with time. So basically only people that have lots of time will use that time to give a shit about this and that. The people in the bad situations (omg think about the feral sea-cats) are so absorbed in their shit that they shouldn't be concerned in stuff like which package used of more recycled material than the other.


In more useless news I've slacked on the bass practice this summer and neglected my duties for too long. Summer was the time when I started back in 200..9? Because I had too much time and decided to pick up something new. It was a budding love that continued until grade 9 crashed on me with work*COUGH* and projects*COUGH*. I think playing in a band was a big boost though, playing with others really improves your playing too overall. That and I was able to play while standing for 3 months or so (standing is tough, eh). This summer, gaming took up this empty hole and now I guess I've renewed my love for this beautiful 45-stringed instrument. I will do my best this year (too). Not sure if band is willing to band around this year though. We shall see. 

So motivational. I made my own picture because I'm also an artist.. :)

Been trying my best for mediocrity since 2010,

See you.

Day 7: Goodbyes, Tearful Stories, and Band Dreams

Reminds me of EVA... Sortof :9. Artist: K, Kanehira

Hi there!!! Uh, mm... My name? Er, my name isn't that important. Huh? Well if you insist, my name is Blog. I'm not that good with talking really.. Do you like to talk? I'm willing to listen. Oh, I'm not visual enough? Sorry.. I try my best with story telling and all that, erm, I guess you'd be better friends with Vlog..


Ladies and Gentlemen! There you have it...!! The 7th and hopefully last day of the great blog collapse. This time I wrote in the blog's perspective. Blog is this lame kid that likes old-man stuff and traditional media that no one chooses to put on their PE team :(. Vlog is the trendy kid that everyone claims to know. Yeah. One day I'll be put to so much shame because of this week of posts that I'll hide them away and they'll be known as the "lost years" just that 1 week is not 1 year and I'm not Shakespeare. Fine, I tried my best ok.



UNCHAIN- Across the Sky
This music can be best described as.. Sunshine. Probably. It's happy I guess, but sounds more warm. Just listen and you'll get it >_> lol.


So what'd I do today? NOTHI.. AGH, DON'T SAY IT!!! I DIDN'T JUST DO NOTHING. Actually, we(family) sent off my sister to the greyhound/train terminal so she could get on her flight from Seattle to Puerto Rico. It was a tearful goodbye. LOLJK! SHE'LL BE GONE FOR 2 WEEKS, GUESS WHAT THAT MEANS? SISTER'S GONE, PARTY'S ON! Naw, I'm joking :<. Funny thing is that once she gets back, my dad will be going to HK. Sister comes home, Dad leaves. Rofl.


Erm..WAIT WAIT. I'm not done for today. You know the band that I posted about (yes it's so rare that I talk about the band outside the paragraph :0!!), they met in middle school. And their lineup hasn't changed. Hoooolllyyy BOWELS! That's such a magical thing for a band. I love reading about this kinda band history stuff, especially when they got together back in highschool or something. And it's even more magical when they've been together all those years and pursued their band dreams. ;_; Now that's a tearful story.
AAAAAAAAAAND, CUT.
Yes, that's about all I have to say today. Here's a gayming picture:

That was nightmarish to edit. Probably because I only know how to use photoshop.. Which is hilarious because it's weird and difficult to use :(. I didn't printscreen anything today so here's what I've been doing recently. Slam dunk.... I ruined it.

Food porn! Save us from this monstrosity mediocrity! Thank god for pizza! Artist: Usatan

We will be returned to regular broadcasts as soon as possible

Cyu.

【晴れのち桜】【 Hare nochi Sakura】 Romaji/Kanji Lyrics

I never do this so.. This is a real first lol. It's spring break and I like this song, meh might as well :P. Original song from 40mP:
Music: 40 mP 
Lyrics: 40 mP 
Illustration: 40 mP  Vocals: GUMI

「晴れのち曇りのち雨でも 

"hare nochi kumori nochi ame demo
　そのまた次が晴れならそれでいい」と 

sono mata tsugi ga harenara sora de ii" to
隣にいる君が笑うから 

tonari ni iru kimi ga warau kara
自分が少し小さく感じたんだ

jibun ga sukoshi chiisaku kanji tanda

満たされないままの僕ら 

mitasarenai mama no bokura

自分勝手な未来を夢見るけど 

jibun katte na mirai wo yume miru kedoまた同じ朝が巡る
mata onaji asa ga meguru

追いかけた空に　浮かべた君の笑顔 

Oikaketa sora ni  ukabeta kimi no egao
今ココロの中に咲いた 

ima kokoro no naka ni saita
立ち止ったときに　動き出した物語 

tachidomatte toki ni ugokidashita monogatari
あの頃の僕に「サヨナラ

ano koro no boku ni "sayonara"

「あとどれだけ冬を越えたら 
"atodoredake fuyu wo koetara

僕はここから前に進めるのかな」

 boku ha koko kara mae ni susumeru no kana"
隣にいる君が笑うなら 

tonari ni iru kimi ga waraunara
それ以上何も要らないはずなのに
sore ijyou nani mo iranai hazu nano ni

桜の花びら舞い落ちる　その瞬間に 

sakura no hanabira maiochiru sono shunkan ni
長い　長い　冬が終わる音がした
nagai nagai fuyu ga owaru oto ga shita

色褪せた空に　浮かべた君の涙
iroaseta sora ni  ukabeta kimi no namida

今ココロに虹を架ける 

ima kokoro ni ni niji wo kakeru
立ち止ったときに　動き出した物語 

tachidomatteta toki ni ugokidashita monogatari
あの頃の僕に「ありがとう」
ano koro no boku ni "arigatou"

見上げれば、晴れのち桜

miagereba, hare nochi sakura

世界　消えて　忘れて　無重力の遊泳

Music is it's Own Language

Here's a picture of today's weather, minus the flowers and all lol. Artist: Jun

The song of today's post is here!

The band for today is The Band Apart :D! I talked about them in yesterday's post and I'll probably bring them up again since I really like them. The song is called "Flower Tone". Not their best song in my opinion, but the song makes me happy. I don't think this has anything to do with the theme of this post. Just to let you know before you start thinking weird stuff, like yesterday, the song won't always have any relation to the post. I guess this post makes me feel better since it's been raining all day.. I don't like rain.


Er.. Today I wanna make a short post about music. I don't like it when people discriminate music because music is sound..No.. Music is art in the form of sound. Which means that anyone who can hear can appreciate it. That's why I don't understand why people have to draw the lines between other things like appearances or language.. I think music is something that can be enjoyed no matter what language it is, seriously, music is music, whether the language is understandable to you shouldn't stop you from listening to it. Which is why I like instrumental music! Sometimes, no words can mean much more. Which applies to instrumental music. There's nothing like lyrics to distract you from the story the music is trying to interpret itself. Try to listen to some, close your eyes, and picture what's going on. This is a music exercise so any music students out there have probably done it before.
I think music is a good thing as long as you enjoy it and it sounds good. Which means no physical attractiveness should compete with how you judge a musical artist. 


I don't know if I'll talk about this again but I'll give a quick bit about my own musical background. I started piano around the age of 3? I continued it until I was 11. I quit because I didn't like it, but by now, I've come with the conclusion that it just wasn't my instrument. I was really bad at it, didn't try very hard, I didn't enjoy it. I might pick it up again though. By the time I was 11 we had to choose to play instruments in school for a band class. This was in grade 6 and 7. It was a really exciting moment, I decided to play some sort of baritone horn, but when the day came to try out instruments I tried blowing the mouthpiece of a trumpet and I just couldn't do it. I felt really ashamed.. I don't remember if I cried but it was a sad feeling since I'd made my mind about it all year. I could do flute and clarinet fine so I chose alto saxophone. Which I still play today! I'm glad I chose sax because I've learned a lot from it. I've been playing for about 3 years now and it's really fun, even though I come across a lot of hard stuff here and there.(I play it in jazz band). The last instrument I learned was bass, probably one that I enjoyed the most because I'd progressed a hell lot faster than the rest. I started this around late August last year, so yes, I've only been playing for about a year. I remember having nothing to do all year so I'd just sit down and practice my bass. This one is special because I started out with a crappy model and worked up to the one I have today! I paid some of it so it's really.. special to me. I don't have a picture of my saxophone, but I have some pictures of my current bass somewhere..here. Maybe I'll post some pictures of both later on. Just to let you know, yes I learned little things here and there, like recorder, castanets, triangle.. Little percussion things, I know :). I also learned guitar this summer.. Something that I will play on and off, not really learning it properly and playing it when I feel like it XD.
I think music is one of the few little things that I can actually brag about to people, so to me it's something really awesome. Also that it's something that everyone all ages and participate in. There are no limits, so pick up an instrument and pursue it!

I'm done for today. See you tomorrow everyone!

I guess today's theme is rain? This picture is pretty cute too,
I think there's another one that follows it, maybe I'll share that in the future. 
Artist: Gemi

Blacksmiths in the 60's and Instrumental Music

By now, you guys are probably thinking my favourite colour is blue or something.
Really, it's actually black, but blue is a soothing colour to the eyes, no? Artist: kkzt

Yes!! I've finally gotten this music box here to work. This is idea for those lonely readers who read in utter silence and need something to cheer them up in the back (LIKE ME)!
So here's a nice little tune from a small band I found online called Oyu (お湯). The name means hot water.

The song is called "me and you" and it sounds like an instrumental version of the band apart.  The song link leads to the video version that not all people can view unfortunately(blame nico nico douga :P).

I will probably feature more music from this band..? Mainly because I like the way they sound: a real nice mellow feeling that I like (like the band apart~~).
Futhermore, I'ma link the bands with available last.fm pages because it'll give you a good feel of who they are and most importantly: who they sound like :).
I'll probably put up some other songs that are stuck in my head later on.

Today I will stick in the bits that i didn't feel like putting in with yesterday's post! Yay!
I actually don't have much that I missed out actually.. I would usually put a day description here, but there isn't a lot of describe since I woke up at 2:13PM.. Really :p~. 
I started watching The Sacred Blacksmith. I think the animation is ok, not that great though, story telling was alright, plot and music is pretty average. I started it because Manglobe produced it and I really like a lot of their stuff (Samurai Champloo, Sengoku BASARA, Ergo Proxy, Michiko to Hatchin, even Sarai-ya no Gorou which is a 2010 anime). I'm only in ep 1 right now so I can't say much yet, but it gained a lot of popularity and it's already a novel and manga so yeah. Btw the anime was released in 2009.. 
Here's a pic:

Here we have a female night in some out of world time period which according to wiki is 44 years ago, so.. what, 1966? Somewhere around the times of when Martin Luther made a big speech, The Beatles big music time was also around here, first human landing on moon, Kennedy was assassinated, China was brought forth a new rule that made everyone sad, some crazy shit happenin' in UK, more shit happening in Vietnam , and meanwhile, this girl is in a sort of late-medieval setting with funky looking armor, fighting monsters with a guy with a FREAKIN' UM.. RAT TAIL? (+lolis)

I don't know how knights tie in with katanas, so let's just think of this as complete fiction, since it is.

Here's the synopsis taken from wiki:

If you don't wanna read it, I'll summarize under.

44 years ago, a great war known as the Valbanill War raged the land. One of the war's most dangerous weapons was the Demon Contract, where humans sacrifice their bodies to become powerful demons. Realizing the damages the contracts have caused the land, the surviving nations made peace and banned the use of the Demon contracts.

Cecily Cambell is a 3rd generation Knight from Housman, one of the cities of the Independent Trade Cities, a democratic federation of cities. As her grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Trade Cities, she is proud of her heritage and wishes to protect her city as a knight, like her father and grandfather before her. One day, she fights a mad veteran of the war causing trouble in the market, and, inexperienced and overmatched, faces defeat. But she is saved by a mysterious blacksmith named Luke Ainsworth. Cecily is impressed by Luke's katana, a weapon she has never seen before, and asks him to make one for her. Her involvement with Luke will bring her to an adventure she never expected.

Basically after this war, people get these contracts where they become powerful demons but a lot of places have realized that it causes some major shit so they've banned it. Then comes in this female knight named Cecily Cambell and her whole family runs this knight shit so she has to continue it. But she sucks at fighting and she's always saved by this white guy with blue eyes HOLDING A KATANA (so he's an American tourist who just came back from Japan lol~) and she asks him to make one for her (greedy bitch) since he's a blacksmith and she's never seen one of them katanas before.Then they go on adventures that I haven't seen from ep 1 yet.

The OP's name is "Justice of Light".. I'm very bothered by the title.
Anyone tired of letters? Here's a picture of something cute I got the other day ROFL.

I really like these tabby things but I don't know when to use them... Moreover, these ones are cute and and you're supposed to write on them. How much harder could this get?? 

Do you guys come into the situation when you look at something special and don't want to use it?! I'd like to use them but I actually don't know when and where because I usually don't use these anyways lol. Btw my friend got them for me otherwise I wouldn't know how to get them either.

I just realized that I've been talking about anime all this time that I don't need to continue. I'm going to end this post with ANOTHER SONG by Oyu (お湯) and a cute picture.

This song is called "Ld". And here are my tag artists with Oyu: The Band Apart, toe, ACIDMAN, UNCHAIN, He, and mostly whatever ties in with The Band Apart. All cool bands that I recommend for this kinda mellow stuff! 

Tada! Cute picture :) of cats of all seasons!

For the non-chinese readers here's clockwise from top left:

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Artist: aobe

See you tomorrow everyone!

Nostalgia's Way

Here's some sunset picture since it's the end of the day. Artist: Mifumoto

I originally wanted to talk about time travel and stuff like that, but I figured it would take research and fuckin' hell no am I going to spend more time researching on stuff like this. 

Sorry for misleading you.

Just to continue with my post about Burning Qu'ran's and Terry Jones. I read an article about students from Iran threatening to kill Terry Jones. I SUSPECT THEY'LL CHOOSE TO KILL HIM WITH FIRE.

I'm wondering how I can spice my blog up. Sometimes I think when I say the things I write, it makes them a lot more interesting. But I don't think vlogs would do that well either. I don't know where I'm leading my blog anymore. Not sure how many misleading blogs I'm going to write either.

Sometimes I just like to tune out of everything and think about what the fuck am I exactly doing. Why am I trying? Why aren't I trying? Why is everyone trying? Why am I at school?
I don't always find a good answer but if not, I'll make an excuse for myself.
THIS BLOG POST SUCKS.

I have officially begun about nothing and will end in nothing. I don't even want to talk about school anymore. There is nothing to talk about. I'm starting to wonder if I thought I would have anything to write about when I took Daphne's daily blog challenge.
My blog post isn't going anywhere today and I have no picture compilation to show you. Oh. Wait a bit..
I'd like to talk about my evolution as the Christa I am today, and my past music taste.
Lol, this is a weird topic because I didn't think about it until I heard that Julian Casablancas from The Strokes released a solo album today. I'm very late, I know. But I remember the old days when my favourite artists were: The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, and.. Feist (Vampire Weekend later too, I think). I don't know, I used to like rap a lot too. This was all in grade 6. Grade 6 was a weird year for me, I liked to act very mature and had a cool taste in music and I liked to be "outgoing" and hang out with people which were usually my older grade fr..iends? I don't know anymore. There was also a time when I really liked Elliot Smith and this folk singer.. I forgot his name. I went through bands like um, those plastic bags you use for garbage storage -cough-. I still listen to The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys' old stuff now and then, but it's rare and I don't think of them much. Seems like this turned out to be quite a long post. I'll end this with one of my favourite songs by Arctic Monkeys because their music gives me a nice nostalgic feeling and Alex Turner's voice is so cool.
Goodnight, world!

Well, this was a nice trip down nostalgia. I don't regret anything and I'm continuing to move on. And since live is always cooler (DOES NOT ALWAYS APPLY TO POP BANDS), here is the live version of "Fluorescent Adolescence". The reason why I don't listen to them often anymore is because their newest album and single SUCKED ):. They changed quite a bit media has caught onto them.

Arakawa Under the Bridge × Bridge

Nino-san! From the first OP of Arakawa. Artist: Hou

Hey guys, for once, I woke up this morning. Knowing exactly what I wanted to write. YES THAT'S IT! ARAKAWA UNDER THE BRIDGE SEASON 2!!
I'm talking about this because I found the trailer for the second season today, and it features Hoshi playing strumming a guitar the wrong way and producing good sounds...And it's live action. -cough-. I'm wondering if I should explain Arakawa in a nut shell. Well, to anyone that will read this I might as well explain (excluding Daphne, that is). It's about this tighassed guy that has a family rule. That rule is to never be indebted in someone, but one day he comes close to drowning in a river and a young girl comes to his rescue. He then realizes that his whole life is indebted to her because she is the reason he is living at the moment. So he lives under a bridge with her.. And they're sort of a couple lol. It's awesome because of side characters though.


Since I went on a pointless rant yesterday, I'm going to tone it down today. I don't have much to say apart from the fact that my courses STILL weren't changed and I fell asleep while watching a video about HOW TO CUT A FREAKIN' ORANGE. LOL. Nice subject when we're talking about safety rules, really. I see the relevance but you know, everyone else is thinking the same thing.
I shall put this up:

Is this a "Just Talking" post?
I'm just talking to myself now ._. .
I'm going to have to fill up some space for another 20 so lines so I can put in a RHCP song as a joke relating to arakawa under the bridge, (huh? You don't get it? Maybe you're just UNCULTURED TEHFACE).
Good lord, I hope no one reads this besides Daphne.
To anyone that is reading this and not Daphne, I would like to know why you're here, please tell me in the comments, because I don't know why you'd be here. Really.
It is 12 AM and I need to get some things done before I go crash on my bed and turn into a piece of concrete.
I know this is not 20 lines yet but I don't like to force things to come out of my blog, that isn't right. (I do this every other day.)
Good night, world. And I shall leave you with a Red Hot Chili Peppers song called: "Under the Bridge" (I LOVE THIS SONG.)
DAPHNE, LISTEN TO THIS, THIS SONG IS AWESOME, THIS BAND IS AWESOME-ER!



I stopped bothering to edit my posts lol.