音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

2009-Dec-08 (Tue), 20:41@GMT-7

✾ RE-START!

I didn’t know what I thought, but since today, December 8, 2009, I officially reset my youtube channel.
Well, I really don’t think youtube has a good interface like what a blog has. I can’t organize my stuff, video notes, comments well on youtube ? they look messy for me… but youtube is a good place to upload my song covers. For me, I’ve decided, from now on, I want to upload my songs and link them to my blog, and tag these related blog posts “singing.” Maybe I just want to get rid of my old crappy songs, I don’t know… XD
I wanted to restart a new account on youtube first, but I realised later, that I can’t change my registered email, because it’s linked to my gmail. When I tried to create a new account, I was logged out from my primary google account, and re-logged in with the new email I used… >_>
So, I finally decided to reset via cancelling all my previous stuff. I didn’t delete either my account or my videos (songs, actually XD). I don’t want to delete them, they cost me much of time to make! Fortunately, youtube supports private links, thus I could be able to still make my videos open to everyone by these cryptic links, great~
Okies, I have already set all my old stuff private, and kept a secret link to each one. (Here is a google document linked to my old stuff, if you have interest to listen, then please go. XD). Now, I can officially restart here.
Anyways, good luck for me~
2009-Nov-30 (Mon), 20:25@GMT-7

❀ I’m totally touched…

I’ve mentioned before, I’m addicted to KOKIA’s newest release: “single mother/クリスマスの響き (Christmas no hibiki).” I especially love the first song, “single mother.”
I love the clean arrangement: it’s mainly piano, together with a soft drum beat and a silent guitar. They made a peaceful, warm, sweet, sad song, full of love, and so touching. It drove me in tears, once and once again.
Finally, I decided to write down and translate its lyrics, by myself, with my heart. (I also want to do other songs, but I’m busy now ^^
I can’t say it’s the best version; it’s just our rendering of this song. We’re not translators, anyways. XD
♪single mother
lyrics by KOKIA
transcribed and directly translated by Kiyoko
modified by wintersviolet
年を重ねるたびに思う 私を育てた母のこと
普通の暮らしを守るために どんなに大変だったかと
大人になって分かったこと 大人がみんな立派なわけじゃない
思い描いた家族じゃないと 何も知らずにひどいことを言った
そんな私のいつも最後は見方してくれたよね、ママ
勝手に家を飛び出していたときも 黙って待っていてくれた
だってあなたは私のむすめだと
この歳になって強く思う 当たり前に過ごしてきた日は
あなたがそっと守り続けた 私への愛 愛をありがとう
母の留守の間にそっと 荷物を取りに帰ったときのこと
幼い日から今日までの私の 写真が壁を覆っていたこと
ろくに話もしなくなった 私の写真を眺めては
毎晩 ひとり 何を思っていたの
涙が溢れ止まらなかった
あなたが私にくれたものは 言葉ではたりないものばかり
心の奥にあるこの気持ち 伝えきれない
この歳になって強く思う 当たり前に過ごしてきた日々
あなたがそっと守り続けた 愛をありがとう ずっと ありがとう…
思い描いた家族じゃなくても ママが私のママでよかった
◆◇*─*◇◆*─*◆◇*─*◇◆*─*◆◇*─*◇◆*─*◇◆
when another year goes by, I think back on my mother and my childhood
I reflect on how hard it was to have an ordinary life
later, I realised, that not all people can do things well
"That's not the family I imagined,” I said cruelly, though I knew nothing
but you're still here at my side, mama
every time I left home, you waited patiently
then said, "Because you're my daughter."
now that I am older, I know that I lived so many ordinary days
because your love quietly shielded me. thank you for your love…
One day, you weren't there when I came home to collect my things
You had covered the wall with photos of me
and as I looked at them, I couldn't make a sound
what runs through your mind?
I couldn't hold back my tears
what you gave me is something that I can't describe with words
and now, I'm telling my overwhelming feelings from the bottom of my heart
now that I am older, I know that I lived so many ordinary days
because your love quietly shielded me. I'll always thank you for your love…
although it's not the family I've always imagined… I'm glad you're my mama
2009-Nov-29 (Sun), 19:23@GMT-7

✯ a petit update~

Omg, I haven’t updated for weeks! Busy days. XD
Just finished a paper assignment that’s due on Dec. 14, but I haven’t even started to work on another one that’s due on Dec. 8. Anyhow, the main reason of why I did like that is there will be a presentation that is needed to be based on the Dec. 14 one… OTL… >_>
So, why suddenly I decided to update here?
Hmm… some reasons. But the main one should be that I need to backup the way of output a file directory in a txt file I just know.
Run -> type “cmd”
Use “cd” to choose the folder; use “[drivename]:” to change the drive.
Type “dir /s /o >[path of the desired output txt file]\[filename].txt” (it’s for VISTA/WIN7)
Then, you done~ :3
For me, I found my output file was a 1049kb txt file for the whole music folder (yet I still haven’t arranged my newly got music in another folder, orz… >_>)
Talk about others. Recently I finally tried OPERA UNITE, and it’s really nice and fun. I love it so much, especially the fridge and the whiteboard!!
Also, I decided to use FLAC format for lossless music since now. That means, I need to convert piles of my music… Fortunately, I can batch-convert in JetAudio~
KOKIA’s new iTunes release “single mother/クリスマスの響き” is so nice! Driving me in tears… T__T I WANNA COVER “single mother”!!!
I want to change my youtube channel, and link to my blog, under the tag “cover.” Because I want to get rid off all my previous (crappy) covers and RESTART! I also don’t think youtube has a good look like my blog, and I don’t like manage too many different places/comments… I like everything being integrated into one. Like google, although I’m not a chrome support. (hey, youtube belongs to google! lol)
I’m addicted to Bizet’s “Carmen,” and Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” again.
Okies… what else?
I need to know what happened in my lab work, it doesn’t work like what I expected…
I’m attending to a pre-Xmas party in the next week, so I have to write more, faster!!! Or I’ll miss the deadline! But I AM striking to write this blog post! LOL
Busy, busy, busy life. Haha~
At last… it’s already a page (in MS WORD), is it still a petit update?