Surprise, Surprise!

A lot of things occurred today, most which I do not expect once more.

First, I downloaded the song I longed to have since I was in Elementary. That is the song "Freedom!" by Han Gwan-Hee. This song is the Ending song for Restol: Special Rescue Squad, a Korean anime way back in 1999. It was aired around 2000 at ABC-5 (now TV 5) and I loved this song from the first time I heard it. When I had the chance, I'll occasionally search for its lyrics or the mp3 itself. Tough luck. For 4 years of searching, I only ended up with an instrumental--something that I got from a fansite as a temporary file. I thought it was the end back then-- I was 3rd year high school that time.

And finally, this time I used all I can with different parameters and unyeilding hope to finally have that song. So I found a ClubBox link, and then I hesitated at first. I failed signing-up for ClubBox 5 years ago. But through the help of a certain website, I followed the instruction and got my own account. And so, I downloaded not only "Freedom!" but also "Restol"-- the opening song. I'm so glad it happened!

And to celebrate it, I gladly post the mp3 of "Freedom" in my blog: (just the imeem link, I can't incorporate media here... I wonder why uploads in Fs are slow... bandwidth? no. of users?!)

Freedom!- Han Gwan-Hee

Oh yeah!

Another Song of the Month...

Aka no Seijaku
Crimson Silence

Description: 2nd Ending Song

Lyrics by Youko Ishida
Music by Masayoshi Murakami
Performed by Youko Ishida

me wo tojitekanjiru kodou

mogaiteru kiri no nakajibun no bashosagashite iru

yamikumo ni kyou mo zutto

itami no nai sekai nante nai yo

tada furetaimamoritai dake

akaku somaru yuugure womitsumeru

Just look how beautiful is world

itsuka mitetayume wa tookumabushisugite

chotto hazukashii kedo

guuzen ja nai kono deai dechigau jibun mitsuketa kara

atarashii ashita wo mukaeyou

nanigenaikotoba hitotsusore ga sadame ni naru

mune ni sotto himeta mono wasore wo shinjiru tsuyosa

ichibanboshinegai wo sottoinoru

honoo no you ni akaku akakuirozuku sora

subete tsutsumuyasashiku

Don't shut the light out of your life

yoru ga kitarayami no naka ni nomikomaresou

dakarakao wo agete

nagareteru kumotsukiakari ni mieru

soshite sono yokogaonukumori kanjite

asa ga kuru

yoake no oto ga kikoete kurunagai fuyu wa mou owatta

akaku shizuka natoki

guuzen ja nai kono deai detsuyoi kizunamitsuketa kara

atarashii ashita wo mukaeyou

- Just continuing from my SnS addiction. Haha. Can't let go of this song!

Is this the color Crimson?! Hehe I have no clue...

Shakugan no... SHANA-TAN!

It was a BLAST! Last night, rather, earlier this morning (1am to be exact) I watched the specials and the "movie" (let's wrap it into one: Omake) of Shakugan no Shana. The Omake is super funny! OMG! There's this Off-campus trip that made me go nuts!! Everyone's cranky side were present, even the villains. Hecate became a chibi too and she's so cute when saying "Uruchai" in a cold manner. And Shana-tan? Well, she's simply the cutest!

Anime of the Month (December): Shakugan no Shana

Cute tale between two protagonists who undoubtedly love each other. Oh well, to put it as simple as that is wrong. Shakugan no Shana involves too much of unknown fictitious terms and is quite hard to handle. Like for instance, you'll encounter words like "Mystes", "Flame Haze", "Interpreter of Condolence", "Corpse Collector" and others (the translations may vary too). You'll also see a lot of peculiar and idiosyncratic characters, each one hard to memorize because of the names they have. And the classification of characters end up to four categories (or more). In short, it is a complicated piece of work.

However, I don't care much about the complications since I enjoyed the part where it shows their high school lives. You know, stuff like "Suki" and that. That makes a slice of life kind of anime appear more realistic. In fact, even though it seems unrealistic, the fact that love is in the air of every anime makes it more "human". Here in Shakugan no Shana, elements of falling in love and defining what a kiss is are present. Looks like it's more like a teenage fluff show in that manner. But the fighting scenes and casting spells make it so like every other sort of magical anime.

Though I fail to introduce this anime in a better perspective (which is supposed to be clearer than this), I could say that this is somewhat good. 8/10 grade. Not bad. Just confusing.

Screen cap: (only of Shana)

What's Left Unsaid

*****

"...Love you," he muttered, and I thought it was redundant. How many times has he said this today?

I know, all I wanted to say was that. But I hesitated. I pretty much knew that he'll sort of demand for an answer, and if I joke, it would kinda hurt him. To simply put it to an end, I murmured softly:

"Love you too..."

*****

When I read Destiny at Work, I cannot forget the scene where Kaho and Touya talked about their lovers Eriol and Tomoyo-- and what Kaho's realization about her relationship with Eriol had become after three years:

She gasped quietly, her eyes fluttering closed in pain as the tears escaped. “Why can’t I remember the last time he said ‘I love you’ first?”

How come I don’t remember? Came the nagging thought in Touya’s head. His jaw clenched. Sure, Tomoyo said those three words many of times. On many occasions she said those eight letters before he did… Right?

These words from Kaho struck me. Yeah, it got me questioning myself as well. But in the manner that how many times I said it. The truth is, I'm not that honest about my feelings. I usually have this deadpan face or some sort of a wide and obviously stupid grin on my face whenever passion appears before me. Or someone I am with. I tend to take everything as a joke, for I believe that it is temporary as well. It all shall pass. Everything's just a phase.

Believe me, someone advised me to say the L word first, even just for once.

But it still remained as one of the words left unsaid. Which of course, added to the turbulent confusion within everyone I hold close.

Aw. This is so much disturbing.

I feel the same way too. Just read between the lines.

必然- Hitsuzen

"There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. There is only hitsuzen."

Yuuko's famous quote, seen in Tsubasa RC and in xxxHolic is quite a mystery to me. Well, the word hitsuzen was defined or rather translated literally as "inevitability".

I still can't grasp the meaning of the word. According to a blog also quoting from xxxHolic, "Hitsuzen means fate, something that is bound to happen. There are many meetings and events in this book that appear to happen for an unknown, mysterious purpose.".

Unknown, yet wonderful. I wonder what's yet to come...

Card Captor Sakura Addiction

It hasn't left me at all. Just last night, I scanned the whole fanfiction.net searching for worthwhile SS and ET pairing fluffs. And there I saw the wonderful story entitled "Destiny At Work", involving so much plot that could be so entangled you'll barely understand it. Anyway, the concept was one of the best so far that I've read (other than syaoran no hime's Shaman King fanfiction and some Slam Dunk fanfic I've read from before).

I can't wait for the next chapter as the scenes in the last one flooded my mind... it's as if I could see the exact scene that happened, how Syaoran returns home to Hong Kong and was being interrogated by his child-like sisters, how everything goes with Emeraude, how Kaho bade goodbye to Eriol, how the flashbacks were... but I am still confused at some parts (the break-up of Syaoran and Meiling, for instance).

Here's the link:

Destiny At Work

For SS fans, this one's kinda SM so you better watch out for some desperate Syaoran for Meiling scenes! :D