音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

2010-Dec-12 (Sun), 16:54@GMT-7

❆ Annabel healed me~

From my last.fm profile, you can see I've been playing arcane/Annabel's album "Seisai no Astraia" for a lot of times. I love this album, and I've found another real healing voice.
Annabel. I knew her from Higurashi series, but I really paid more attention to binaria, where she and Yanaginagi collabed. Finally, I was interested to get more her own music, so I got this album.
This is a conception album, yet I did not really understand the world of it and some backgrounds. I just enjoyed the music. From the title, it is supposed to be a very ambitious work. However, the first half of the album, yes, and no for the second half. For me, the second half is rather warm and cosy. All tracks have a good connection to each other. You'll not think anything that does not fit into the entire setting of the world. From slow to fast, or relax to intense. This album is really different from those average doujin music, I mean, they are excellent. The melody can make you comfortable and relaxed. This album fits a silent rainy or snowy day, you stay at home and enjoy the music with the serenity.
I'm really lazy to write something like a review; I just STRONGLY RECOMMEND this album. Each track is worth to be loved. Yet I still have my own favourites: track 5, 10, 13 and 14. especially 10 and 13, I have been looping them for times. … and… because I loved track 13 so suddenly, I tried to record it…
Ohh, to sing a slow and gentle song is so difficult!
But…
☆○o*:━:*o○☆○o*:━:*o○☆○o*:━:*o○☆○o*:━:*o○☆
P.S. Just got Akiko Shikata's 2010 concert single and the songs are good!
I've figured out how to connect to Dragon Nest JP, so I will be able to use the serial code of the white wings I got from buying KOKIA's "long journey" mini album!!!! Oh Yeeeees!! :clap:
2010-Dec-07 (Tue), 17:25@GMT-7

✾ Re-construction and…

Hmmm…. Long time no blogging… :down:
However, as you saw, I've changed my blog template again, to the new "whitish butterfly" theme. I know that's a stupid name for a blog template, but that was what I thought up at the very moment…
The reason? I was kind of getting bored with my faint blue template, and still believed that a white template is always perfect since it's clean and neat. Later, when I was strolling on lastfm, I saw someone's profile having a link to her website, and that was a web material site. Ohh, yes, I got inspired and drove myself crazy to make a new template.
I love this template, but the only problem is, my small netbook can only show the middle area, which the side vertical butterfly decorations are not visible due to the small screen… lol
Another thing, using emoji, was always what I would like to spend time on. I love to use some – not too many of – emoticons while blogging, however, that was not easy to link each one in terms of html code. So I found in someone's blog, in which using a java script to enable the convention from code to images, and that's what you see now in my blog, I've installed the gray penguin, pesogin, in my blog. Welcome, pesotan~~ :yes: I first saw that penguin since 2005 or around, but didn't know more about it, and I was happy to find out the real name now~!
– and I'm not regretful anymore that converted from MyO to Blogger! Oh, well, I'm still an Opera user, you see~ :tea:
The last thing. I really love Dragon Nest! I know I've said that before, but just want to say it again. Currently, I'm 4 levels to go to the ultimate lv40, and I did enjoy a lot. I more and more want the NA version launches, and… oh, I wonder where the person got the information, but I just saw on wikipedia, they said DN's NA version will be released on Jan-27, 2011…
!!! is that true…?
Anyway, I'm looking forward that. I'll definitely play again even from the very beginning. This time, the classes I will try are not supposed to be changed a lot. Basically, force user, priest, and bowmaster (now, I'm play a bowmaster at lv20 sometimes). I've made my warrior becoming a swordmaster, but I guess I have to drop this class. I really don't like melee yet being a warrior you have to stay close to monsters… which is too hard to control for me… so as the fourth character, I might try an element lord! I love mages sure enough! :teruteru:
Oh, I forgot to say…
GARNET CROW is gonna release a new album!!!
"parallel universe"

Limited version

Regular version
However, why this design reminds me the world of Oz? XDD
According to their short message (shown on their homepage), this album will definitely give you a happy feeling. It will also be another trying for them to gain another style. Sounds good, I'm looking forward it (I don't know if to buy it though, depends my own feeling later :P).
Also, during KOKIA's winter concert, "winter rose", they will release a memorial trump…
Ohhh, I WANT IT!!!!!
Yet it must be a good at the live house... T__T
However, in the end of this year, I just wish I can post more and finish most of my German textbook~! :P
2010-Nov-12 (Fri), 11:07@GMT-7

❅ sidetrack

November 12th. I'm not in the mood to work properly.
Out of anyone's expectation, our dear boss appeared in his office around 11:00!! His regular working time is 13/14:00 - sometime in the evening/mignight. You see...
But he left his office soon after he arrived, so I guess he must have a meeting/seminar/etc or he couldn't come that early!!
He tends to talk with me more often than before, which makes me nervous to see him. I'm not having the same thought as him, so I don't want to follow his schedule and just want to do my work in my own scheduled arrangement... orz
Also, my current work is to refine an alignment including 37 sequences. Mostly, that was not hard to do, but you know, you always see some special guys among a harmonic group. Those unique sequences made me headache, and took much longer than I ever thought to finish them.
Yesterday was holiday, so I got a day off from work. I spent the whole day being in front of Kosmoton--my dear snow-white VAIO--tried to finish another new chapters of my story, but... when my day ended at near 2AM, I only finished 1.25 chapters. Ohh, must be quicker from now on, or I can't catch up the word count!!!
↓ my current progress on Nano
(side story: just while inserting the html code for this screenshot, I was confusing html code with BBcode... -__-|| )
Because needed to concentrate, I listened to a lot of soundtracks, and got addicted to the OSTs of "Chrno Crusade" composed by Hikaru Nanase; I also got addicted to music from "Haibane Remnei". Therefore, my last.fm listening record told me my daily tracks have been increased up to 109 tracks per day!! LOL Superb!
By the way, yesterday I looped arcane x Annabel's "西征のアストライア (Nishisei no Astoria) (I don't know how to read the kanji though...)" for more than 6 times!! I'm not a kind of person who does lots of research about the story inside an album--I do care about them somehow, but not too much, it may be way too exhausting. However, I didn't read the lyrics/introduction page at all yet, I just looped the song. OMG, I had never loved Annabel's voice that much, even for binaria!!!
Anyway, now I'm looping binaria's new M3-26 release: "delightful doomsday". Firstly when I heard of this title, I thought it's too weird. But the songs were really very good. Still the typical binaria style, mysterious, unique, beautiful and serene. Ohhh, I got excited by the second song "花紺青/sumaruto (it means a series of blue-violet colours; yet can also mean 'cobalt glass')" a lot. I guess I would try to cover it when November goes away!! XD
This morning, by chance I opened my translation of KOKIA's 2010 Europe tour blogs, and got shot... how could I forgot to translate one of those posts? Must be because I copy-pasted all her posts, then click and translate them one by one, thus I omit one of them... kay, I will finish it after November... T__T
Yet it's so strange that I do the translating work only for myself though I actually understand Japanese. :P
In last weekend, I got the BGM box of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes", two box sets, 22 CDs!! So I had to spend 2 days on tagging them... which was entirely nuts. I was lucky, since I dropped my idea to tag each track with the composer's name. xD and, got inspired by all those music, I found the novel again, and planned to read it sometime later. I just feel sad each time when look at the death of each character I like... *sigh*
Currently I'm reading Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" Japanese version, on a snail pace though. I remembered my high school days, with my electronic dictionary, I've read so many novels, including some Jules Verne and Yoshiki Yanaka. Ahh, so nostalgic~~ so, time to read them again, when November ends, of course.
I'm still playing "Dragon Nest", and wish it can be available in NA soon! I love my sorceress!! <3
Suddenly, I wanted to change my blog template again... yet I have no idea right now. ^^;
And I guess I should end my randomly written sidetrack. ;)