This just in..

SIGH. i just found out the hard truth... SHIINA RINGO IS ALREADY MARRIED AND HAS A KID ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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wtf. this is so fucking sad. what an end to my one sided love affair... SIGH

oh well, doesn't mean i won't stop loving her, her band and their music. seriously they're like so cool. went jamming just now and it was Salad who introduced me to them. and he let me listen to more of their songs. they really sound like something out the 50s man.. argh.

oh and in my blindness i actually forgot to summarize and update whatever that's been going on apparently. tsk tsk... lol =x

well sent manda off at the airport last sat. wasn't supposed to coz of her family members, and that none of her other guys frens were coming, so she was afraid her family members might get suspicious and etc. but i figured that, if i'm not gonna be seeing her for at LEAST the next 5yrs, i don't think such minute matters should matter? so i crashed it. drag a gd fren of mine, aron, along to stake out and crash the sending off, haha. she was surprised i came. turns out her family members didn't come, coz her newphew fell sick and decided to stay home and take care of him instead. mum knew i was sending a fren off at the airport, and she knew that i told her my fren won't be back in sg anytime soon. since my mum is like into a little side line business of hers, something to do with custom jewellery, she figured giving her a matching set of earrings + bracelet would be nice. i hope you like it manda ^^

hm, what else happened. can't seem to remember much, prolly just a normal boring day at work, working on the new video on recruits at the new BRTC. on thurs i went back there to film the recruits taking their 10km route march, soc and their POP, Passing Out Parade. since it's a new camp and stuff, the route march has also changed. the new BRTC is just beside CDA. oh and BRTC stands for Basic Rescue Training Camp and CDA is Civil Defense Academy, for the uninitiated. and these 2 camps are side by side, and they're just beside the CCK cemetry... HAHAHAHAH. so the route march takes place INSIDE the cemetry. fucking power. since i had to take footage of the recruits doing the route march, i went along with them lol =D. of coz since it's been eons since i did anything of that sort, halfway thru, i took the lorry back, which was carrying water for when the recruits rest at the water point. that was the onli highlight of the day. the passing out parade seemed normal enough, lol.

then came Salad's intro of Tokyo Jihen, which i'm so mad about now.. sigh. i asked my brother if their songs were easy to play. but he said it wasn't. i was thinking maybe it was the beat/tempo, but he said no. it was more of the scaling and jazz chords one would have to learn. even Salad, my drummer, isn't up to their drumming.. yet. well they're now my inspiration to play better... oh and finally we've managed to complete another song today. Every me, Every You by Placebo. i'm so happy, coz the last few songs we've chosen have been like, half way thru and all. sad really. it's been a gd day so far.. ^^

oh and before jamming, i actually met up with an old fren of mine. twins seperated at birth, brothers in arms, Alex aka Wraith. an old starwars buddy of mine, he's just like me, well almost. everything is in the same frequency. we're clique so well that sometimes we can just predict what each other's gonna say, lol. sigh. nice to have seen u again bro. we have to meet up again, and this time we must drag that other brother of ours, valentino.. hahhaa

sigh, i better sleep early, coz i've got another event to cover tmr @ cck, Lot1. some carnival thingy outside lot1. usually such events start around noon, and i volunteered for this assignment since it's held in the west as well. but thing was, after i volunteered, was i given the schedule, and it starts at 9am. WTF!? sigh. looks like i won't have any late waking ups this weekend.. (early wake up on sat morning due to weekly RT back at HQ) i guess i'll be sleeping after i go iron my uniform and prepare for tmr morning.. sigh

oh and still nothing new concerning girls. sad really. sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh. bleh

I think i'm in love..

i've vowed not to fall for an older lady years back... but i just can't help it.. she's so cool.. she's so pretty... SHE FUCKING PLAYS THE GUITAR MUCH BETTER THAN I DO!!! sigh. unfortunately i'm sure they're a lot of other guys out there who's very much in love with her too...

enter Shiina Ringo, 28. Vocalist and guitarist from the jrock(is it even considered rock?) band, Tokyo Jihen. you might think me shallow, but if you knew me, i was never into the celebrity idolization shit before. the closest i can think of is probably kylie minogue. now she's hot too, but i think shiina's hotter. omg, she's like so hot when she's singing and playing that guitar of hers... T_T

their music is a mix of jazz and indie rock, and i've never heard anyone this gd for a long time. infact i've placed the band like, no.2 on my list of fav band. of coz kamelot still takes first place, no one can upsurp them from their throne/pedestal, etc. but these folks rock. and the way they dress in their videos.. gives u a feel of 50s, where mambo and the mafia were a common thing.. like straight out of a scene in The Mask. dammit.

ARGH SHE'S SO PRETTY OMG.

this sucks. infact i've never like, really liked any other jrock band like theirs.. anyway since i have yet to find their mp3s(hope to get their album soon, when i'm out of my... debts) i have no choice but to post their mtv out from youtube.com. i will post the lyrics in jap first, followed by the translated one. enjoy!

Sounan by Tokyo Jihen

kono hana ga saite kareru made kitto
futari ni ha noru mono mo miataranai
sekisai no gendo wo ayamaranai you ni
nozomu mama hanasu kyori
kobamu no wo yuruse yo
tsui ni kowashite chakujiten ninshikikonnan
'ochiteiku.'
kou yatte ima koko de
kaika suru kizutsukeai no kaiwa ga
yokunai tane wo fuyashite mata sodatteiku
aa mou dou ni demo narisou na jitai
kotae ni kizuite mo mada otagai
itoshii to kanjiteiru hijyousen
enjyo shite.

fuyu ga kirai to iu hieta te ha
tou ni erabarete todoku kyori
tsukamu no wo yuruse yo
issou kowashite minamo ga haruka zujyou he
'oboreru.'
kou yatte ima furimuki mo sezu
itsukushimiau koto jitai
abunai to ha wakatteite mo damatteiru
aa mou dou ni ka naru kamoshirenai
kotae ni kizuite mo mada otagai hohoemiau mahiru
akai neiru!
datte shinjitsu nado ni kyoumi ha nai...
gehin na shibai de teikoku
hakanai omoi wo masshiro ni kakushite oite
aa mou dou ni ka naru tochuu no jibun ga utomashii
sayounara
otagai nita kotae no hazu
'deatteshimattan da.'


Translated Lyrics

this flower blooms,
no doubt, we won't find a ride
until it wilts
forgive me for refusing to stay as far apart as you ask
so we don't go over the weight limit
at last destroy, a landing point, difficulty recognizing *1 'We're falling. ' like this, here and now the mutally damaging conversation opens
makes more bad seeds, and brings them up
ah, the matter is getting out of control
even if you realize the answer, still
we both are feeling attatched to the police cordon.
'help me.'

already chosen
freezing hands that hate the winter
within my reach
pardon me for grabbing them.
destroy one layer, the water's surface far above my head *2
'I'll drown.'
like this, unable to look back
even though I know
the act of loving each other
is in and of itself dangerous, I stay quiet
ah, maybe we can do something about that
even if you realize the answer,
we're still smiling at each other in the afternoon
red nails!
I mean, c'mon, I'm not interested in reality...
our vulgar play is flawless *3
I hid my fleeting feelings in snow white
ah, I hate the way I am,
when I'm in the midst of working something out
farewell
our answers should have looked the same
'we found each other.'

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

Translator's Notes: Sounan means Distress as in "The ship's distress signal" or "Mayday! Mayday!".

* 1 - Here Ringo is using some word play. The image she creates is of a plane going down, after it crashes the passengers are ishiki konnan. Here she uses ninshiki konnan.

* 2 - I think this line implies she fell through the ice and is at the bottom looking up.

* 3 - No idea. Takko cam eup with this theory that their vulgar act (their relationship) is so perfectly timed that it's like clockwork.