MMMiii!

I configured my music library from my hard drive and external drive and while randomly playing the whole list (198Gb combined, mostly lossy, hardly any lossless), it played this old recording of mine. I recorded this in 2006 and the song itself is even older.

It’s Stay (I Missed You) by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories.

Back then I loved to sing and record and I participated in online karaoke and what not. I would talk about songs and not ways of reducing belly fat although I was also heavy that time. Things that I would talk about would be songs, anime, drama, movies, school…

I’m trying to record songs again but I’m so out of date with everything. I hardly watch anime, because I want the series to be complete before I even start watching. Same with drama. Most of the movies I’m getting are somewhat older as well. I don’t listen to the radio. My guitar is broken. The most recent “band” I’m into right now isn’t even exactly a band. It’s GIRLS DEAD MONSTER which was the band in the anime ANGEL BEATS!.

I’m out of practice. I don’t vocalize anymore. Heck, I vocalized more when I was doing my student teaching so that I won’t lose my voice when I’m teaching in the classroom.

A~ah… *rolls* need to watch more recent anime! need to watch more recent drama!

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ahaha…. I really wanted to sing this by hook or by choke. I love listening to this song when I’m walking. It’s got the type of beat that’s nice to walk with. I’d listen to this even if it was in the middle of June. I know it’s got to be a chipmunk voice but I really couldn’t imitate it much. But I still really wanted to sing it! Muahahahahahaha

And I know I haven’t had a recording since February. :( it’s sad. Now that I’ve finally got a new computer and I could record again, I’m just not in the mood as much as before.

Warning: This recording can hurt your ears. Don’t blame me. MuahahhHAHAhahA

Snow Again

Lyrics, Music by a.k.a.dRESS
Performed by Saori Sakura

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I listen to Japanese music more often than any other language (English, Filipino, Chinese, Korean) and I rely on the internet to get a hold of these treasures. But there are some times when I really like an artist that I also get radio interviews and recordings of them. Like here in the Philippines, sometimes they would play acoustic versions of their songs for that live show. I would love to hear those real time. I found some Maaya Sakamoto acoustic radio versions of some songs, as well as YUI’s. They’re so nice, making me want to see if there’s a way I could get live radio feeds from Japan. Will satellite radios be able to pick up signals from Japan?

I know there are probably online radio stations or online versions of radio stations in Japan that I could probably tap into, but I can’t really read and understand Japanese well enough to venture into these and search. I’d rather stumble on some radio station and discover a new artist or something like what I do sometimes with random downloads.

Wouldn’t it be nice. >_<~

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Ahhh….

It was a really great show. Nice symbolic closure, by destroying the piano. You guys will always rock. I wonder when will a boxed set come out. My brother and I grew up buying and listening to cassette tapes. LOL. Iks has them all… somewhere.

It was worth the P3000 that I paid for! I hope the DVD version of that concert comes out soon. The acoustic session they had was eargasmic. I want to listen to those over and over again.

Well.. I’m tired, I’m sleepy…. and Happy.

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Ara, ara~ It’s been ages since I’ve last posted any karaoke. In fact, it’s been more than a year since my last Karaoke recording post.

The reasons are because I can’t use Audacity properly on the Mac and none of my headsets’ microphones would work on this piece of … machine. I’ve tried recording using the macbook’s built-in microphone but it just sounds so horrible.

I bought a camera recently (will post about it some other time) and instead of playing with the picture and video features of it, I discovered that it has a sound recorder that is really good. The hassle of it is since I can’t install its software on this machine (I got the cd drive jammed), it could only import pictures automatically. I have to remove the SD card and manually transfer the sound recorder files to this. And my card reader is defective. It’s so hard to transfer stuff to this. Pure hell, if I may say. So I just made 3 recordings and picked the one that sounded best and mixed it.

Don’t hate on me. I’m so out of practice. I haven’t been seriously vocalizing and so on, so I run out of breath all the time. Maybe I should get a treadmill just for the sake of cardio exercises, and breathing, which helps a lot in singing. *sigh*

So without further ado, here’s my version of yokogao (after a year and 2 days of not posting any karaoke). I just needed to record this and hear myself singing it (lol) for my sanity, because it kept on playing in my head. *addiction* This was from the last season of ARIA, ARIA The ORIGINATION.

Yokogao -acoustic version-

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I’m totally addicted to this song, and I was playing it yesterday until my fingers were almost bleeding.
Of course I needed to get the lyrics as well…

I was able to get this album thanks to ish`

Chata released Tabun Seishun under Usagi Kinoko, a doujin circle she personally runs.

Tabun Seishun was a pleasant mini-album to listen to and put on repeat as a whole. And although I couldn’t understand a thing, I like looking at the inlay and wonder if she wrote the inlay herself because it does look handwritten.

Usagi Kinoko - Tabun Seishun

hoshuu sabotte
dekoboko shita kage futatsu narande aruita

kyuu na kimagure de aoi umi o mezasu futari
nagai saka sora dake mitsumeteta

kioku no chizu tadotte
tama ni wa mayotte
soushite susundeku
chiisai koro no bouken mitai ni

zutto
sono mama aruite
dondon aruite
kemonomichi ni natte mo
umi o miru made kaeranakatta

egao tsukuru no ga tokui janai
boku no yoko ni ita no wa kimi dake de

hanashikakeru toki mo damaru toki mo
ki o tsukawazu ni irareru
kyori ga kiraku datta

futari dake no himitsu mo
yowaki na namida mo
dare mo shiranai hontou
bokura o tsunagu kioku ni natta

sou sa
katamuku hizashi to
kimi no hagemashi to
ano umi no tsumetasa o
otona ni natte mo wasurenai

futari no iru basho ga betsubetsu ni natte mo
kotoba o kawasenakunatte mo
shinjiteiru kara kimi o

zutto
jikan ga susunde
kisetsu ga megutte
sekai ga kawattatte
bokura wa kitto tsunagatteru

sunahama no kanshoku to
shio kaze no nioi
dare mo shiranai jikan
bokura o tsunagu kizuna ni natta

kioku no chizu tadotte
sanzan mayotte
yatto mitsuketa umi wa
souzou yori mo ookikatta

kaerimichi wa kurakute
kawada mo darukute
soredemo tanoshikatta
kimi to iru dake de egao ni nareta
arigatou

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This just in from an email from Sarah.

The Eraserheads is going to have another reunion concert, according to the scoop from Supreme.ph

Date: March 7, 2009
Venue: To Be Announced, but they’re deciding between SM Mall of Asia, and The Fort.
Producers: MTV and Smart

They’re just waiting for the Eraserheads to sign the contract and there will be a press con on January 19.

The fun thing is I just watched Ely and Raimund perform last night at SaGuijo in Makati with their respective current bands Pupil and Sandwich. I even got Ely to look at me and we smiled at each other. The thing was I didn’t know that it was already Ely Buendia that was smiling at me. Too bad I didn’t get to shake hands with him or even take his picture. To quote Lori after I told her about that experience, “Sasaktan kita.” (I will hurt you.)

Here are some blurry pics.

As you can see, the place was jam packed, literally. I could hardly breathe or move. When I saw Ely and when we had that smiling-at-each-other moment, it was because even the artists could hardly enter the stage themselves. Oh well.

I’m going to file a leave on that date already. I will blow up steel buildings if I have to, but I have to be there. Missing out on the first concert was a big loss, and I can’t miss this one anymore.

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I can’t remember if I put up a Christmas wishlist last year, but after seeing Sarah’s wishlist, I figured I’ll write my own too. (Gaya gaya kasi ako. I’m a loser, ya ya.) So I’ll also kind of copy her “template”

Music

• I want a grand piano, or the not so grand would be fine. But this would be totally pointless since I can’t read notes.
• I also want a violin, but … same reasoning with the piano.
• Complete (and Original, not pirated) discography of X-Japan, Yiruma, EVERY LITTLE THING, Mr.Children, DO AS INFINITY, and many many moar! But seriously, except for X-Japan, soft copies would be great.
• Acoustic Steel Guitar
• Electric Guitar

Techie

• External Hard Drive
• Awesome Desktop
• New Cellphone
• Digital Camera
• Creative Zen X-Fi 32 Gb.
• The new MacBook (Pro)
• A new layout for miii.net (Migasm is getting old)
• GrabUp Pro
• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
• faster DSL… 3mbps? Whatever’s the fastest from my ISP.
• Ultra nice speakers

Books Reads

• A subscription for YUMMY! magazine, including back-issues.

Movies/Videos

• Hayao Miyazaki box set or ALL movies.
• X-Japan concerts/DVDs

Otaku

• Nodame Cantabile anime, manga, drama, and soundtracks
• Nodame Bag in S2 (the white one with the G-Clef)

Others

• Credit Card application to be approved.
• An Oven
• A house and lot
• a new dog
• Japanese Tourist Visa
• Passport
• a Samsonite luggage for my Japan trip next year.
• Lots of money

Aahh… I’m so materialistic. And I like gadgets. *shrugs*

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I have a new bunk bed! It’s so BIG! It fills almost half my room XD

The good side of it, it’s big enough that I can stretch comfortably withing feeling cramped (except when my dog decides to sleep in the middle or on top of me). The bad side of it, some of my stuff had to be moved outside because they won’t fit in my room. Another bad side of it, I’m so lazy so … they’re still outside. And some inside… my room’s a big big Mess.

I love my new bed except that I don’t have a decent cushion for it yet. Of course I love it. I bought it with my hard earned money (and OT). I also bought a swivel chair (which I’ve barely used because of my vegetable of a computer).

Anyway, I’d think that this was enough to feel more relaxed and have better sleep, but no. With stress from work, what I would really need is a vacation. A long (paid) one. I’d love to check out possibly some Vegas vacations but I don’t have enough leave credits for an overseas trip (not to mention money!) ~_~

*sigh* Life. Wonderful.

And it’s like a Melody :D. Here’s a song by Lia from the game “Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ Shokai Tokuten”

Lia - Life is like a Melody

And here’s another song that I’ve been listening to a lot recently, also by Lia.

Lia - I dream

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This is a response to Sarah’s Top Ten YouTube Finds. I don’t really have a lot of favorites on YouTube. In fact, about half of my favorite’d videos don’t exist anymore and about half of all of the favorites are just covers. I seldom go YouTube hunting and when I do, it’s usually for concerts, covers, or music videos.

But here are some that I liked enough to favorite, in no specific order.

THE ORIGINAL Scary ‘Mary Poppins’ Recut Trailer
This one is from… Mary Poppins. It’s funny. It uses clips from Mary Poppins and presents it in a scary manner. just watch it.

Less Than Three
Well… The Internet Is Serious Business. Some people even fall in Less Than Three.

Urban Ninja
This is just cool although it kind of looks fake. But it was really fun to watch.

Hilarious japanese library show
This is just … like the title–Hilarious. It’s in Japanese but you don’t really need to understand what they say. basically, 6 guys in a library making a fool of each other or torturing each other. And you know how it is in the library…

Caramell Dansen
This is from an anime that I don’t even know. But search for it on yt and you’ll find a lot of people dancing it. This video, however, is mesmerizing.

NOFX - The Idiots Are Taking Over
This is a conceptual typographic video. I’d say it’s a new form of art. It’s really nice and deep as well.

JerryC - Canon in D Rock
I ripped this into mp3 before. But my hard drive crashed before. So I don’t have the audio anymore. Thank God for yt.

Canon in D Violin Rock - Blow Your Mind version
This is a pretty original arrangement of Canon in D. It kind of reminds me of … barn dancing? Something like that. Sounds country-ish.

NANO + HIMEKA - (not sure of the title)
Himeka finally went to Japan to pursue her dreams of being a singer. NANO’s a wonderful singer as well and I’m sure they just need to get that opportunity to get somewhere. Himeka’s one of my online buddies… more like acquaintances. We have a lot of disagreements but I have always acknowledged her talent. I LOVE her voice. But anywayz, enjoy her performance with NANO. Have I mentioned that I like NANO’s voice too? I LOVE NANO’S voice too. Check out NANO’s YouTube page and LJ as well. She’s got pretty good originals as well. I’d link Himeka’s pages too but … -_-; I wish she’d stop deleting her yt videos and the songs on her wp site.

NANO - Before Your Dreams Fade Away
This will probably be my favorite song of NANO’s. Just listen to it. The video might not be much, but the music will blow you away.

Last but not the least, one of my most favoritest singers, Mimi.

Mis - Aitai yo
Mimi would probably be my bestest friend online. I love her. I love her voice. What else could I say? Oh, check out her Soundclick page as well.

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Well… that’s about it. >____>

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