MMMiii!

Well. Yeah.

We started taking in calls last week. On the 25th to be exact. Around 11am. I only had one call, and it was a long call. Thankfully, the customer was really nice.

Saturday, 26th, I had 3 calls. Two long calls and 1 really short one. Nonetheless, my average time was long. I also had coaching and I barely passed. My score was 85.07% … The passing is 85%

Today, I think I had 4 calls. The last one I had to deal with a mac. I own a mac, but I’m not THAT well versed with it. Oh well.

When you’re new, it’s scary. It’s scary because there are some things you don’t know. But whenever a customer tells you that all you’ve done is greatly appreciated even if you didn’t really resolve the issue, it kind of gives you a good feeling. Like teaching. When the students like you and appreciate you, it makes you want to strive harder (>___>). But still, my stats are somewhat low.

If I were to undergo something like “a part of Business valuation” thingie, I wonder how will I score? And suppose the “scores” are “outstanding, amazing, just ok, and what?”

Bleh…

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This is the theme from one of the Japanese movies that I really really liked. Swallowtail / Yentown was directed by Shunji Iwai, a great director whose works are movies that I really liked as well.

Anyway, I’ve always liked to sing this song but I couldn’t find any karaoke for it. I heard it sung in an Idolm@ster Xenoglossia Character Single Kikuchi Makoto (Hirata Hiromi) and it made me want to sing it >_< even more. So … I found the chords here but it wasn’t that nice. I mean, it wasn’t that complete, no Intros or Extros or something. So I just added A - D - A - D for continuity.

I hope it sounds nice to other people’s ears. It sounds nice to me >___> (except when the strings make this weird sound). There’s also this part at the end where I should’ve filled it with something like “heeyyy yeaaaahhh” but bleh… I felt like my fingertips are about to split from playing the guitar too much. So… after like ten times of restarting from the start every time I make a mistake, I just did cut and move. =_= So you might hear weird changes in sound.

I got the link for the romanized lyrics with translation from wiki.theppn.org.

Swallowtail Butterfly ~Ai no Uta~ (Acoustic)

Lyrics: Chara, Iwai Shunji, Kobayashi Takeshi
Music: Kobayashi Takeshi
Romanization & Translation: Kristin Olson

Cover: misan

Tomatta te no hira furueteru chuucho shite
Kono sora no ao no aosa ni kokorobosoku naru

Shinjiru mono subete poketto ni tsumekonde kara
Natsukusa yureru senro wo tooku made aruita

Kokoro ni kokoro ni itami ga aru no
Tooku de shinkirou yurete

Anata wa kumo no kage ni ashita no yume wo oikaketeta
Watashi wa uwa no sora de wakare wo omotta

Yogoreta sekai ni kanashisa wa hibiitenai
Dokoka ni toorisugiteku tada sore wo motsu dake

Karada wa karada de sunao ni naru
Namida ga tomaranai dakedo

Koko kara doko e ittemo
Sekai wa yoru wo norikoete iku
Soshite ai no uta ga kokoro ni hibikihajimeru

Mama no kutsu de hayaku hashirenakatta
Nakanai hadashi ni natta hi mo

Sakasa ni miteta chizu sae mou sutete shimatta

Kokoro ni kokoro ni mahou ga aru no
Arashi ni hane hiroge tobu yo

Watashi wa uwa no sora de anata no koto wo omoidashita no
Soshite ai no uta ga hibikidashite…
Watashi wa ai no uta de anata wo sagashihajimeru

* * * * * *

Swallowtail Butterfly ~A Song of Love~

On my still palm it trembles and hesitates
In the blue of this blue sky, my heart grows lonely

After I stuffed into my pocket all the things I believe in
I walked a long way along the railroad tracks swaying with summer grass

In my heart, in my heart there is hurt
Far away, a mirage is wavering

In the shadows of the clouds you were chasing a dream of tomorrow
Distantly I thought of parting

In this soiled world there’s no echo of sadness
Somewhere you pass by, carrying only that

My body becomes honest in itself
And I can’t stop my tears, but

No matter where I go from here
The world will continue to overcome the night
And a song of love begins to echo in my heart

I couldn’t run freely in my mother’s shoes
I didn’t cry, even on the day I first went barefoot

Even the map I was looking at upside-down–I threw it away already

In my heart, in my heart there is magic
Wings, open in the storm–you’ll fly

Distantly I remembered you
And a song of love began to echo in my heart
By this song of love, I begin to search for you

* * * * * *

Romaji and English translation: Kristin Olson
kolson00@yahoo.com

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I keep forgetting to go to the custom wear sports shop. I’m supposed to be taking care of the ACHGM-DIE Jacket but I keep forgetting. Sometimes I wish we could just get a website that does imprinted promotional products and have our logo and stuff printed and we’d just have it shipped all over the world, but that seems kind of expensive. If I have it made here, all we need to pay for is the jacket, the tailor, and shipping and handling.

But I’m so lazyyyy I need to go to the post office as well to get an estimate on how much the jackets s/h would cost. orz ….

I also want to have that jacket ASAP!

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Today was our last day of Project Specs Training. In the first half of the day of the shift, we shadowed some agents again. It was… fun.

Sometime in the middle of the session, our trainer told us that our Intellicare cards were available already! So we got them from the clinic. I also took the chance to ask for Solmux since I was having coughs. They didn’t have that particular cough medicine in their medical supplies. They gave me something else, and I forgot the name.

Back to the session. The agent beside the one I was shadowing was a newbie and sometimes asked me what to do. It was cool, and he was cute. ( >_>)

When we came back to the training rooms, we ordered pizza at Yellow Cab. I was only able to eat one pizza even though we should’ve got two each. Some people ate three, I believe.

After pizza, it was a series of assessments already. I didn’t perfect it. Oh well. But at least I passed. I made a total of four mistakes that time. One mistake in one of the 6-item assessments, and 3 mistakes in the 75-item assessment. I asked the trainer about one of the items I made a mistake in and said I was technically right, so it’s okay. Besides, I still passed. It was a pass or fail thing anyway.

And so ends our Training. In a few hours, we’ll be in transition. Who knows if we’ll be taking in calls already. I’m kinda scared and excited at the same time. It feels almost like when I was just observing my supervising teacher before teaching.

I hope I get the hang of this as well.

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fragile
by: Every Little Thing

Itsumo sou  tanjun de  kudaranai koto ga kikkake de
Kidzutsukete shimau yo ne  togireteku aiwa  munashii yo

Kotoba ga bukiyou sugite  jama  bakari suru
Suki na no ni tsutawaranai  konna omoi  setsunakute

“Itoshii” de nante  iinaretenai kedo
Ima nara ieru yo  kimi no tame ni
Tonari de waratte ite kureru no naraba
Koreijou  hoka ni nani mo iranai yo
Deaeta koto kara  subete wa hajimatta
Kidzutsukeau hi mo aru keredo mo
“Isshoni itai” to  sou omoeru koto ga
Mada shiranai ashita he to  tsunagatte yuku yo

Sei ippai  senobashite  heizen wo yosou tte ita kedo
Yoyuu nado nai kuse ni  mata egao tsukutte shimatta

Aenai yoru wa kimatte  sabishisa  osou
Suki dakara fuan ni naru  konna omoi  kanashikute

“Mamotte ageru” to  ano toki itta koto
Tamerau kimochi mo  uso janai yo
Soredemo  shinjite yukou to suru omoi
kowarete shimawanu you ni  dakishimete itai

Konna ni konna ni  kimi wo suki ni natte
Honto ni honto ni  ureshii kara
Tatoeba  kono saki kujikete shimatte mo
Nigirishimeta sono te wo  mou hanasanai
Deaeta koto kara  subete wa hajimatta
Kidzutsukeau hi mo aru keredo mo
“Isshoni itai” to  sou omoeru koto ga
Mada shiranai ashita he to  tsunagatte yuku yo

_______________________

Been wanting to sing this for ages.

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daft asked me why my posts are full of paid posts. I told him that I don’t really have the time to do anything else.

I have a ton of anime to catch up on, I have work, i need to sleep, and so on and so forth. My sleep schedule is messed to the point that I stay up 40 hours at a time because I couldn’t sleep even if I’m just lying down on my bed.

I’m not really complaining. Although this is doing heavy damage to my blog. I mean, I make it a point to write about the links I have to write about, like cat furniture, even if I don’t care about it since I have to, and it’s an assignment, and if I don’t write about it I might get taken off the program.

One thing I make sure of, though, is I try to relate those non-related link and keywords to my post or try to make it natural… I mean… Make it appear like it just happened to be there.

I’m really tired. I want to sleep. And I wasn’t able to go to the mall today (yesterday rather, as it is almost 5am right now) to buy the Leatherman Micra I saw and fell in love with.

That’s how much messed up my schedule is right now. >_<

*sigh*

On another note, how do you reject someone nicely, gently, politely, who asked if he could borrow money for a month? Not like we're close friends. In fact, we're not. I've even said pretty bad things about him in the past although now I don't think of him as bad as before.
But still. I don't want to offend.

"I'm sorry, but you were earning more than me. Shouldn't you have been able to save more?"

or

"I'm really sorry I can't lend you any money. It's very little for me and I do want to spend it."

aahh >_<

I know I could hardly find the time to spend it, but I really don’t want to lend it to someone I’m not even sure if I could get back.

Maybe I should just tell him that I’m planning to get that Chinese iPhone thingie which my brother has been telling me about. So at least I wouldn’t have to lie.

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I decided to just make this a different post on its own instead of ruining the beautiful song.

Yesterday, while I couldn’t sleep, I checked my site’s stats and stuff like referrals and so on, and naturally, since I knew that my readership isn’t really that much, I checked on the links that referred Miii. There was this site (click on link below that says site) that interestingly had the flash audio player of Megumi Ida’s Tsukino Akari from my lyrics post. I checked the guy’s site to see if it had any acknowledgment or anything, like a thank you to me, so that the guy would be forgivable. Something like what this person did. Now THAT I don’t mind, really.

Some people might say something like if I put it online, then it’s free for everyone to use.

I agree. But the least this person could have done was to cite his source. When he hears it, he’ll probably have to look at his html source first to find out where its coming from, since he most probably have forgotten where he got his audio player from.
And this … person… I don’t know. Maybe my lack of sleep just really added fuel to my anger. What I originally did was renamed the file and fixed MY links on my site. But Yu told me to replace the file with something else.

So I thought…. hmm.. something incriminating. Something obscene… but I didn’t have anything of that nature, so I asked some people. Zero was able to give me one. ^_^

So…

Here’s the original text I added in the lyrics post.

Do click his link. I’m really doing him a favor, driving visitors to his site even after he did that.

[Edit] He deleted it already. No more fun. I removed his link as well.

That was exciting. Maybe I’ll start putting up song links for download and catch more people doing that… and replace it with that.

[/Edit]

——————–
To the kind person who hotlinked the flash music player on his site, shame on you, bakayarou.

You showcase your works at the same time steal people’s stuff without even acknowledgment. I changed the link for you so you won’t sin anymore. Bakayarou.

I still hope you die. Bakayarou.

I know this is a nice song, but you could ask for a copy of it from me instead of posting it on your site, as if it is your own. Bakayarou.

The reason I don’t put download links here is because I don’t like my bandwidth getting used up by other people. This isn’t a download site.

And another thing, it’s Megumi Ida. Not Emi Ida. Bakayarou.

You should be thankful to me because I’m sending visitors to your site. I linked you, bakayarou.

Oh.. I hope you liked my surprise. Bakayarou.

Again, please die now kthx. Bakayarou.

Oh man, I just love Chiaki from Minami-ke.

P.S. Thanks to Zero for giving me this clip.

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I just discovered a word today. Jobbernowl.

In simplest terms, a blockhead. Or someone dimwitted or something. At least if someone asks you “what do you think of yourself?” you could answer, “I believe I am a jobbernowl.” You’ll sound stupid spouting off hifalutin words at the same time sounding highly intelligent for saying some word the other person probably doesn’t know.

Kidnap a jobbernowl and put him in the back of a truck with a tonneau cover and scream, “I HAVE A JOBBERNOWL IN MY TRUCK!”

some people might think it’s an alien or something.

Gahh.. I need to stop saying “or something” or calling things “thingies” and “stuff”

Bleh.

I’m a jobbernowl sometimes, you know. Have you noticed how many times I’ve repeated the word, jobbernowl?

What’s funnier is in my mind, I keep saying jobbernowler.

Oh well… rambling rambling. I’m really sleepy.

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Pop and my cousins and my brothers have been watching Dr House and I find it funny at the same time annoying looking at them.

I’ve been asleep almost the whole day today and every time I got up to go to the toilet, I see them either sitting on the chairs looking up, or standing because they got tired watching TV with their heads tilted up.

I can imagine… I mean, I’ve been asleep for like 20 hours total today and my back hurts.

It would be nice if we had something like home theater furniture so that we’ll be more comfortable watching stuff and that they won’t look stupid watching videos the whole day in the dining room. It was really annoying because I can’t go straight to the kitchen without them moving aside to let me pass.

Tch.

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I’m excited to get my UP Planner. So much that I dreamt about it. Not that I’m a planner person. I just want it.

I also need to go back and check on stuff, like my graduation issues or updates or announcements. I know I don’t have any problems like unpaid student loans, but it would still be better if I drop by as early as now to find out if there’s anything else I need.

wo-hoh~ Graduation 2008 is really just around the corner. And it would be UP’s Centenary. weeee

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