What Would You Do?

When there is evil in this world that justice cannot defeat. Would you taint your hands with evil to defeat evil? Or would you remain steadfast & righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?

- Zero to Guilford

Yesterday and Today

This time, I choose a song title for the post's title because I would like to write something about it.

I have been planning but kept on forgetting to dedicate this song to my friends, namely Ravina and Alien. They are studying abroad, chasing their dreams. I thought that this song would really fit. This is special for you two hihihi...

Dear friends, so long Wasurenai Kurikaesu deai no naka Chiisana kizuato o Ryoute ni kakaeteru bokura Samayou bakari Kono hateshinai sekai o mitsumeru Tabibito yo It's so precious when you have good wishes Open eyes & see inside of your heart It's so precious when you have good wishes Open eyes & see inside of your heart Kodoku to yuu kane no ne ga Inori no kotoba o sasou Sugisaru genjitsu to Yasashiku ikizuku asu wa Anata no subete Yurusu deshou mayou koto wa nai Arukidasou It's so precious when you have good wishes Open eyes & see inside of your heart It's so precious when you have good wishes Open eyes & see inside of your heart Samayou bakari Hikari mezashi arukitsuzukeru Tabibito yo Itoshii tomo yo chikara nakushitemo Kakenukeyou konna jidai o Aisuru hito yo yagate tagai ni Kono machi ni towa o sakasou Soshite watashi wa itsu no hi ka mata Utau darou tabidatsu no darou La la la...

Dear friends, so long -- I won't forget you. As we meet one person after another, We carry little scars In our hands... Travellers Just wandering around, gazing at this Unending world. It's so precious when you have good wishes -- Open your eyes and see inside of your heart. It's so precious when you have good wishes -- Open your eyes and see inside of your heart. The sound of the bells called "suffering" Invites words of a prayer -- The passing reality, And the gently sighing tomorrow to come Will forgive everything, So don't hesitate: Start walking. It's so precious when you have good wishes -- Open your eyes and see inside of your heart. It's so precious when you have good wishes -- Open your eyes and see inside of your heart. Travellers Just wandering around, gazing at this Unending world... My beloved friends, even if we run out of strength, Let's run through these times. My love, let's eventually Nurture eternity in this town. And then, someday, I'll sing again, go on another journey... La la la...

I think this live version does not have the same 'feel' as the original version, but it will do since I could not find and embed the original version to this blog.

note:
Van Tomiko's voice is really unique, you people should also listen her other songs both solo and along with Do As Infinity.
Lyrics taken from http://www.globemoon.net/waftf/dai/lyrics/yesterday-and-today_trans.html

Revitalized

The blog is on its way to be fully revitalized. For the very least, first step on doing that is to constantly writing and posting it here. Such commitment requires great effort, especially when it's coming from me. At least I intend to stick to it. But let's not get our hopes high. It's only entering day two since the revitalization of this blog (which is yesterday).

After doing my last post last night, all I have done was simply redesigning the layout of the blog. I wanted it to be, at least, awesome enough and eye catchy (especially to me) so I wouldn't get bored looking at it. And of course, with the purpose to arouse my writing intention everytime I look at it.

So there was the general layout. I did not want to waste too much time picking on the general idea of layout for the blog. So I basically chose from any available basic template provided by blogger and my choice fell to this Awesome Inc template with generally dark-but-neat settings.

Second is editing the blog title. This one consumed most of the times. I needed to think of a new title for the blog since I was going to start all over again yet not quite from scratch. I needed something that represent the spirit. After a long consideration, and of course, trial and error with several different titles, my pick goes to the phrase "This is NOT Star-Crossed Melodies. Why that? Well...

Some of your probably know (although, you most probably wouldn't know) that I had this old blog titled Star-Crossed Melodies. It was domained under the flag of Friendster. I had that blog for quite a long time. As long as this one, if I'm not mistaken. But I posted mostly there in the past, and the posts there were, mostly, well, let's just say that if you want to dig the dirtiest dirt out of me then that blog might have been the right place to look.

But, alas, that blog is no more. As of several months ago, I decided to delete my abandoned Friendster account without fully realizing that the blog was contained within the account itself. So there it was, when I tried to revisited that blog, it was no more. And I realized at that moment, "Ooh riiight, I deleted my Friendster account. So it's only natural that the blog went away as well."

There you go. Since that old blog of mine is officially no more, this blog shall carry on its legacies. Thus the name, "This is NOT Star-Crossed Melodies" in memoriam of the old Friendster's "Star-Crossed Melodies".

Next was the blog description. I basically wanted to put random quotes for the blog's description. So as I browsed the internet and stumbled upon this wicked quote by Emperor Charles di Britannia, I copy-pasted it to be my newest blog's description. My plan is to make the blog's description section updated every once in a while so that I will not get bored with the quote :D

After that came the banner image. My first thought was to put something medieval or group of characters as its background. I had quite a difficult times finding good picture of medieval-ish banner. At that moment, my thought caught the idea of Skyrim, the incoming RPG game due this November. So I started looking some image based on it. Most images I found were that of some warrior (namely Dragonborn) which was quite unsuitable for a header banner image. But then I found this image of dragon with some landscape and I tried to make it to fit the header of the blog. And so there it goes, the theme of the header image background is actually from Skyrim which is the dragon of the north. I put such header image since Skyrim is going to be released sometime around 11-11-11. So until then, Skyrim's theme would probably be dominating my blog.

That's it. I should probably edit some more layout and design for the blog as well as thinking of what to write next.

Le Fuc!

My oh my,

I have just revisited this old blog of mine. Yes, I haven't been here for quite some time now. For ages to be exact. My last post was March 2010, and my post before that was in 2008! Can you believe that? :))

Anyway, I have abandoned writing for quite so long and now I would really like to start it again. Because, as I read it in some article, one way to keep yourself smart(er) is by writing every day at least 750 words per day. I tried it starting several months ago. Wrote just about anything that came to mind, with disregard of topic or main idea. Just write, anything.

It was quite fun. But it only lasted for 5 days. Didn't even get into a week. Turned out, doing 750 words per day for the first three days was easy enough. The fourth day I was beginning to lost ideas and didn't know where to start. So I abandoned it once again.

Of course, in order to keep "being smart" and becomes smarter every day. Like it or not, I must write. So, I decided to try and continue this previously-abandoned blog and revitalize it. I was thinking about making a new one with new names but I guess it's going to be too troublesome. I don't really need fancy features and gimmick anyway. As long as it publishes my writings, so be it.

My first several posts might or might not be meaningless and unimportant. Bear with me. Since I'm just starting over after quite a long time. I, of course, will try to improve it progressively. I hope this will shall never wane. Welcome, the rest of 2011. Onwards!