Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sometimes you feel like you've been through a bad day. Lady Luck, being usually fickle decides to focus her wrath unto you for no apparent reason.
I know its ridiculous but aren't there some days where you just seem to be down on your luck?
Well, I seem to be down with the flu. Lady Flu decided to unleash her angst and frustrations unto poor me, deciding to strike me during my 3 off days.
Well, no thank you very much missus, I've been devastated the past 3 days. I have alternated between runny and blocked nostrils as well as endured fleeting headaches and constant trips to the gents due to high water intake.
To be inflicted with the flu is woe, especially at the start of your intended holiday. You get ill and delirious on the first day and try to recover on the second but like a fragmentation grenade, its damage is spread and over the next few days you'll suffer slight sniffles.
You won't be able to eat foods that aggravate your cough or stay awake very much at all.
Plus, when having a conversation with somebody, you have to disguise your thunderous coughing fit as a polite gesture of clearing your throat due to social etiquette in public.
ITHS SHOO ANNOYINHHG!
I had been illness free for the past year and now seemingly healthy me has been struck down by a flu bug.
Excuse me while I clear my nostrils.
(an off-tune trumpet is heard blowing in the background.)
I have no idea how I've got it. Maybe someone spread a mutant evolved form to me, one that my body has never encountered before. Or the flu manage to infiltrate when my body's immune system was low, like a rapier piercing a chink in the armor. Or maybe Lady Flu.
I don't know, but all I want to do right now is recover from it.
It'll take a week or so to be completely rid of this flu. I feel that I took being healthy for granted.
My 3 off days ruined, sigh. (sad off-tune trumpet)
signing off
Call Of The Wild at 10:13 AM
Saturday, January 11, 2014
I really like some japanese songs. Even if I only barely understand the lyrics, I will still enjoy the tune.
I will take the effort to find the lyrics online and through the english translation, understand its true meaning. Listening to these songs are like eating a really good cake, learning their meaning is like cake icing or finding out that the cake has a really good filing!
Here are a few i'm listening to: One of my favourite bands!
Aruite ikou aruite ikou
Boku wa “ima” wo ikite iku yo
Kimi ga kureta kotoba wa koko ni aru yo
Sou da yo aruite ikou
Hodoukyou no mukou ni fuyu no machi ga mieta yo
Hito kakera no kodoku wo te ni boku wa asu wo tsunaide iru
“Kokoro de waraeru kana” itsuka no koe ni kikoeta
Shiroi iki ga sora ni kieru
Sabishiku wa nai eki e isogu yo
“Kaeranai to kimetan da”
Hajimari wo tsugeru you ni yuki ga furihajimeta
Aruite ikou aruite ikou
Boku wa “ima” wo ikite iku yo
Kizu tsuitemo nandomo shinjitai yo
Kono te wo kono hibi wo
Kimi to naite kimi to waratte
Boku wa tsuyoku naretan darou
Kimi ga kureta kotoba wa koko ni aru yo
Sou da yo aruite ikou
Taguriyoseta kibou ga nukumori wo daiteru
Ai wo yuruseru tsuyosa wa kimi ga boku ni tsutaeta koto
“Aenakutemo wakatteru yo”
Ima no boku wa ano hi no kimi ni mune wo hareru no kana
Ureshii koto kanashii koto
Sono subete wo wasurenai yo
Hitotsu hitotsu kokoro wo terashite iru
Sou da yo “hitori” ja nai
Sayonara sae arigatou sae
Mou kimi ni wa ienai kedo
"Kisetsu" wa ima tashika ni kawatte iku
Sou da yo hajimeru yo
Aruite ikou aruite ikou
Boku wa “ima” wo ikite iku yo
Kimi ga kureta kotoba wa koko ni aru yo
Sou da yo aruite ikou
I’ll walk, I’ll walk
I’ll live in the present
I have the words you gave me
Yes, I’ll walk
Beyond the pedestrian bridge, I see the winter city
I’m crossing to tomorrow with a piece of loneliness in my hand
“Can you smile in your heart?” I hear a voice from one day
My white breath disappears into the sky
I’m not alone; I hurry to the station
“I’ve decided I won’t go home”
Like the sign of a new beginning, the snow has begun to fall
I’ll walk, I’ll walk
I’ll live in the present
Even if I get hurt, I want to believe again and again
In this hand, in these days
Crying with you, laughing with you
Has made me stronger
I have the words you gave me
Yes, I’ll walk
The hope I pulled close is giving me warmth
You gave me the strength to open myself to love
“Even if I can’t see you, I’ll know”
Can I look back to you on that day and be proud?
The happy things, the sad things
I won’t forget any of them
Each and every one is lighting up my heart
Yes, I’m not “alone”
I can’t even say goodbye or thank you
To you now
But the season is definitely changing now
Yes, I’ll start now
I’ll walk, I’ll walk
I’ll live in the present
I have the words you gave me
Yes, I’ll walk
Kokoro no ana wo umetai kara
Yasashii furi shite waratta
Deai to wakare ga sewashiku
Boku no kata wo kakete iku yo
Dame na jibun ga kuyashii hodo
Wakatte shimau kara son da
Tsuyoku wa narikirenai kara
Tada me wo tsubutte taeteta
Hora miete kuru yo
Kaeritaku natta yo
Kimi ga matsu machi e
Ookiku te wo futte kuretara
Nando demo furikaesu kara
Kaeritaku natta yo
Kimi ga matsu ie ni
Kiite hoshii hanashi ga aru yo
Waratte kuretara ureshii na
Taisetsu na koto wa kazoeru hodo
Aru wake ja nain da kitto
Kujikete shimau hi mo aru kedo
Nakidasu koto nante mou nai
Hora miete kuru yo
Tsutaetaku natta yo
Boku ga miru asu wo
Daijoubu da yo tte sou iu kara
Nando demo kurikaesu kara
Tsutaetaku natta yo
Kawaranai yume wo
Kiite hoshii hanashi ga aru yo
Unazuite kuretara ureshii na
Kaeritaku natta yo
Kimi ga matsu machi e
Kakegae no nai sono te ni ima
Mou ichido tsutaetai kara
Kaeritaku natta yo
Kimi ga matsu ie ni
Kiite hoshii hanashi ga aru yo
Waratte kuretara ureshii na
I wanted to fill the hole in my heart
So I smiled and pretended to be kind
The hellos and goodbyes
Race busily past me
It sucks but I know
Just how useless I am
I couldn't be strong enough
So I just closed my eyes and bore it
Look, I can see it now
I want to go home
To the town where you wait
You waved goodbye
So I keep looking back
I want to go home
To the house where you wait
There's something I want to tell you
I hope you'll laugh
I don't think the important things
Can ever be counted
There are days I feel down
But I don't cry anymore
Look, I can see it now
I want to tell you
About the future I see
You say it's okay
So I keep repeating it again and again
I want to tell you
About my unchanging dreams
There's something I want to tell you
I hope you'll understand
I want to go home
To the town where you wait
Your hand is so precious to me
So I want to tell you now one more time
I want to go home
To the house where you wait
There's something I want to tell you
I hope you'll laugh
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And when you truly understand the lyrics, your experience becomes heightened when you hear the song once more, which strengthens your love for the song.
Makes me feel like taking a foreign language course!
enjoy!
signing off.
Call Of The Wild at 7:15 PM
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
A happy 2014 to one and all.
I anticipate this year to be yet another big life changing experience so I'm really hyped.
There's much to write about, much experience for my very being to absorb.
Remember how I described my life as a book last year?
Well, I just finished year 2013 and flipped the page to find a blank page.
The pages after it are all blank too...
Its time for me to leave some ink on!
signing off.
Call Of The Wild at 8:13 PM