Nov 4th, 2008 by Vik
Vik thinks Vik is overly addicted to Shiina Ringo.
Vik had 2 consequent nights of dreams about Shiina.
1st dream: Vik dreamt of meeting a girl on the street who was listening to Shiina’s songs and then became friends with her. lol
2nd dream: Vik was capture by some unknown man or some dark figure and was forced to say Shiina’s name before freeing Vik. I’m not sure what this means lol.
Btw, ringo means apple in Japanese.
Somebody save me…
Oct 27th, 2008 by Vik
Oct 18th, 2008 by Vik
Sometimes, I wonder why humans exist, especially when something upsets me deeply.
We humans are like parasites to the Earth. We use the land. We cut the trees. We kill other species. We eat them. We dominate everything we can. We contaminate the water. We dig for energy resources and metals. We change the climate. We live, we grow, we leave something behind and we die. What good are we to the animals, the trees, the Earth? We are good at killing them.
Are we part of an experiment to see our future? Experiment by whom? Are disasters part of this experiment, for manipulating our number? What is the hypothesis?
Aug 25th, 2008 by Vik
Sorry about the lousy photos. They are from my humble little HP lol. I was sneaking around when I took those pics so they had to be done quickly hehe. (Some areas were not opened at the time but there were some access points so I went in to look around since the next lesson will be in an hour.) It’s easy to get lost if you don’t have a good sense of direction. It’s almost like a maze if there are no signs showing where is where.
Pcitures:
Aug 18th, 2008 by Vik
Basically, it’s just a list I copied from Paultan.org and then edited/simplified for the purpose of ease of comparisons and references.
If anyone knows where to get lists with rankings from 1999-2004 please provide the link. Most lists only tell the first in each category. It’s true that people tend to only look at number 1s, but it’s not bad to know others below it, right? Otherwise, the list will be boring, because chances are, you are going to see lots of BMWs. ;P
Aug 1st, 2008 by Vik
Own a Sennheiser PX-200?
Regretting not having ears the size of babies to wear this thing? lolz
Can’t hear the bass at all? Wanna throw it into the rubbish bin? >=O
Woohoo Maaya’s new single was out months ago.
Now these are the rankings of the single.
First Week Sales
Oricon: 31,250 (#3)
Soundscan Japan: 49,423 (#1)
Second Week Sales
Oricon: 12,550 (#6)
Soundscan Japan: 14,637 (#5)
Third Week Sales
Oricon: 12,886 (#6)
Soundscan Japan: (to be announced)
I think these figures are one of Maaya’s best yet.
I personally like the second song, Kotomichi, more than the first, Triangler (anime Macross Frontier opening song). Though, the 1st song is nice too but the first 20 seconds sounds kinda forceful.
The 1st song is composed by Yoko Kanno 
though this time the lyrics aren’t done by Maaya herself. Apparently people are having a hard time figuring out some words on the 1st song.
The second song, Kotomichi, is acoustic. And I love acoutics. It’s nice because Maaya can express her beautiful voice without all the sound from noisy plugged instruments.
Lyrics for Kotomichi
Lyrics: Sakamoto Maaya
Composition and Arrangement: Takada Michiko
kimi no sukina tokoro nara ikutsu datte agerareru n da yoisso mou kirai ni natta tte
ietara ii noni
moetsukite nokotta kakera wo hiroiagetaisetsu ni poketto ni shimatta
kanashikute namida mo denai futarimaru de ai wo kataru you ni sayonara to yasashiku tsugeta
kanjou wadare ni osowaru demo naku mochiawaseru mono
nanoni jibun de sae itsumo umaku bunrui dekinai
odayakade kowakute tsuyokute azayakade
sore wo tada ukeireru dake
tokubetsu datta toki ga owatte iku no wo shizuka ni mitodoketa ato desayonara to yasashiku fureta
aishite ta kehai no naka de
that I’ve come to hate you
I pick up the burnt up fragments remainingand place them carefully in my pocket
The two of us, sad, didn’t even cryWe gently said good-bye, as if we were talking about love
Emotions arenot something that that are taught to you by someone, they are something you always have
Yet I am never able to classify them well myself
Peaceful, frightening, strong, vivid
All I do is take it in
After I silently witnessed the end of this special timeI said good-bye and gently touched you
amidst the atsmophere that spoke of how I had loved you
Sakamoto: ‘Kotomichi’ means ‘koto naru michi’ (’different paths’). Up till now these two people have walked the same path side by side. ‘We have to go our separate ways now,’ they say; ‘a quiet parting that comes so that we can each move onward,’ it’s a song that expresses such a parting. To express that world, I thought, ‘Old-fashioned words would be good,’ so I named the song ‘Kotomichi’.
May 24th, 2008 by Vik
Wahaha it’s been a long time.
OK, now for the photo manipulation. I haven’t touched my photoshop for a long time (old PC problem) until a few days ago and that’s when i did this. I spent around two nights on this (longest in my personal record lol). It’s something I did to familiarize myself to CS3. Continue Reading »
