Over the Moon

Telescope
Music and Lyrics: Noelle Pico
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draw me up a chart
with stardust chalk
as we lie beneath this ceiling

my fingers, moving on your cheek
focusing your eyes towards tomorrow
where can we map out our dreams

clear as you can view
the nearest stars through the lens
where mars makes me think of beadwork
hung around there on your neck

let's play pinball with the bears
watch it bounce right over the moon
i'm tired of dancing
but i'd like a few more stolen hours with you
turn the stand and swivel left towards the clouds
can you see it?
i can see it

kiss me quiet on my palm
where the lines form a constellation
and your breath takes me backwards in time

everyone likes to think of meanings
for the sky, for the world
for the fact that things are being

clear as you can view
the nearest stars through the lens
where mars makes me think of beadwork
hung around there on your neck

let's play pinball with the bears
watch it bounce right over the moon
i'm tired of dancing
but i'd like a few more stolen hours with you
turn the stand and swivel left towards the clouds
can you see it?
i can see it

wrap orion's belt around my little finger
no promises that won't make it through the night
sometimes i can't believe our secrets
where you and me
are just you and me

let's play pinball with the bears
watch it bounce right over the moon
i'm tired of dancing
but i'd like a few more stolen hours with you
turn the stand and swivel left towards the clouds
can you see it?
i can see it


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Finally, Noey gave her consent for me to post her song. Her lyrics are just my cup of tea, accompanied by just the right melody to complement the song. I had an inkling that this girl is special - and she is. I don't really have to say much. Her lyrics alone sing a lovely melody.

*She just opened a myspace account... hope everything goes well <3*

~not reformatting still~

"You are too concerned
with what was and what will be.
There's a saying:
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
but today is a gift.
That is why it is called the present."

--Master Oogway, Kung Fu panda

Have watched Kung Fu Panda the other night - watched it twice actually. My cousin came in my room right when I had just finished the movie and forced me to see the movie again with her. Well, now that I think about it, I fell asleep halfway through the second time. Don’t misinterpret. The movie is good. But it was almost midnight then when we repeated the whole thing, and I get up real early for work the next morning.

Because of my effing HD’s predicament, I’m abstaining from Japanese shows for now. I am forced to because my primary drive doesn’t have much space right now. And I can’t afford that one to crash. Every now and then I get agitated at the thought of the files I have in my second HD. I need other shows or movies to watch - my withdrawal symptoms, maybe. Suggestions anyone? I need something equally funny and interesting as Boston Legal, hehe ... *sigh* Where does one download ‘inner peace’? I must have left it inside my wretched HD … (kidding :P)

Over the Limit

I’ve had it with the IT at PC Express. The solution they gave is to reformat my 2nd HD, and my primary drive even. Based on their test, the 2nd drive is healthy though. But they cannot pinpoint why it's unreadable. Somehow I’m not surprised. My Dad said they advised that there might be something corrupted with my primary’s program so it’s best to reformat that too. Just that. Why couldn’t they use their spare PC and hook my second drive there, see if it opens, so we can definitely know it’s my c:? Anyway, I bought every bit of my PC there, so why can’t they at least test both HDs to be sure. But, again, my Dad forbids that I come to the store – afraid that I’d make a scene. And he keeps telling me that what the technicians did was already the SOP and there’s nothing we could do if they weren’t helpful enough. I find it completely absurd that I can find at least one way to determine which drive causes the problem and yet those techs could not? And I find it extremely frustrating that my Dad could not see my logic? If my HD is still healthy, surely there’s another way to opening it. Certainly there’s a way to determine the real cause why it wouldn’t? Maybe I should have those techs solve some puzzles in Fantastic Contraption to improve their analytical skills. Yes, I have very little knowledge about IT and I’m not familiar with a lot of things about the pc. But still, I’m not totally clueless. And, I don't trust those techs.

I was able to ask the IT analyst here in the office, and he offered to help. Plus, he said that the problem with my HD could not possibly be caused by the power supply. Now, that fact makes me even more cross. I hate being ignorant on something especially when the people who you must rely on make you buy something that is a total waste of money. So what was that power supply I bought for when the old one might have been just fine? I could have wasted the money on things more valuable and gratifying, for instance another issue of Monthly VAMPS **suppresses a laugh because this is definitely not the time for it**. Well, it may have been unintentional on those techs' part. But I find it appalling that they don't seem to know any better (probably just a wee bit more than what my Dad knows... and I just know a wee bit less than what my Dad know - well, probably) and their incompetence had caused me money!

But, again, for now, I must be patient and be stubborn. I will not give in just yet and let my HD be formatted. I’m stepping my foot down.

**and look what they've done. they made me write 2 consecutive posts to rant over their incompetence. Fie! they've made me waste my blog space as well**

where is the threshold of my patience?

Work is as usual. When I feel agitated, the 'fantastic contraptions' calms me down a bit. I'm down to 'Tube' now. At least my efforts were not in vain. Yesterday, my second hard drive failed me again. And just when I had placed substantial files in it too. To think that my Dad had brought it to PC Express several times already, I even bought a new power supply because they said that was the problem, and the odds of having the hard drive reformatted again, just stokes up my anger. My Dad would have to bring it back to them AGAIN to check. I don’t know how far his diplomacy would go. As far as I’m concerned, we have every right to be angry and diplomacy is out of the question. When they first reformatted my HD, it was out of complete stupidity. And lucky them, it was my Dad who was there. The second time it was brought back, they told us the settings was the one not right. But, of course, my files were already lost. They should have given us a replacement then. Just after barely four months of buying the brand new HD, it failed already? My Dad keeps telling me that repair is ‘trial and error’. He says he knows because he’s an electronic engineer. But shouldn’t the technicians diagnose the HD for every possible cause why it has malfunctioned. If those technicians have been doctors - and thank goodness they’re not, but, to make a point, suppose they are – and they’re doing a very sloppy job, which they call ‘trial and error’. The patient may very well be dead by now. But since they’re not, my HD – hoping against all hope – may still have a chance. Anyway, I’m not techy, but I checked the computer management and it reads my 2nd drive as healthy – though when I try and open it, I get an error message that says ‘corrupted and unreadable’. I simply refuse to believe that. I would’ve, if only the technicians who diagnosed my HD were not utter dolts.

But for now, all I can do is wait - wait and I think I need to play some more of ‘Fantastic Contraptions’.

pora is still pora

My natal day elapsed like any other normal day. My friends came over and we ate and watched a movie – but we always do those on sleepovers. Nothing out of the extraordinary really, except that I’m exactly a year older. And, quite frankly, I don't feel any older – for one, I'm already used to the fact that I’m getting old ever since I got to twenty-two. And I have a lot of other things to think about, so I don’t want to be bothered with trivial things like 'age' **hahaha**. But being ‘mature’ is of an utterly different matter and which I am quite averse delving into right now.

To everyone who greeted me, I give my warmest gratitude to you all. For someone who frequently forgets people’s birthdays, a simple greeting she receives for her own natal day is more than enough to warm the cockles of her heart.

I do have a lot of things to be thankful for. My family to begin with **and I have to give special credit to my dad because he kept greeting me the day before, repeatedly reminded me that he’s greeting me a day ahead so in case he forgets on the day itself he at least had greeted me in advance already. Whew! That was one mouthful**.

Kristell’s present is one of the loveliest things I have ever received. There are two cards attached to it – one is written in Hangul and the other in Kanji. That alone made me ecstatic. Just think of the effort she gave to compose them, especially the one in Kanji. That girl is studying Korean after all, not Japanese. Which reminds me, I have yet to decipher her message, hehe.

And I got an overflow of gifts from Rachel. She came over, bought me a cake and some food, and gave me two beautiful hairpins, and, most of all, blessed me with the warmest of hugs. Now tell me, how could I resist showering this lady with love <3

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My Monthly VAMPS arrived last Friday (Yeah!). Even though I’ve already seen scans prior that, I was still overjoyed when I got my own copy **when I opened the package, I almost squealed like a fangirl – oh wait, I am one – but I contented myself with showing it off to my mom and friends**. If you’ve seen me then, I may have looked happy and still perfectly calm. But really, my heart was flailing as any sensible fangirl’s should. I know the scans from Matsuchan are way better **oh bless her for sharing them ^^**, but I had to take some pictures of my own and brag. And if you could just pardon me and let me be silly, it was my birthday after all *hahaha*.

VAMPS very 1st tour has finally ended, if I'm not mistaken. Omedetou to Haido, K.A.Z. and the rest of the band (^_^). They had 46 'lives'! Not including the 2 nights for the Halloween Live 2008. What's left now, and what everyone is hoping for, is the dvd! haha... And of course, Hyde said they'd release an album - and a single is a must before that. But they're probably saving those for early next year.

**I bought my Monthly VAMPS from Ai. And she's got more magazines to offer, the list is in her site. You might want to check her multiply: >>here<< or >>here<<**

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game

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*I'm addicted already! . . . Shucks, another one added to my ever-growing addictions*

Nightmare of Halloween

I finally found Sally-Hyde! XD


**pic from aarineel >>here<<

The Bride

Guess who dressed up as a bloody bride for Halloween O_O

And look, Gackt attended as well - in a military uniform no less ^^

**I would've been more than happy to dress up as the groom (zenzen daijoubu!). A girl can be a gentleman too you know - especially when the occasion calls for it :p (heh heh heh)**

Plus, on the night before, Hyde was Sally from Nightmare before Christmas (from la pluie >>here<<). I hope they include the pictures in the next Monthly VAMPS. Which reminds me, my Monthly VAMPS vol. 3 is coming very very soon. Wuhoooooo!

source: >>Oricon news<<