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THE FINAL
Dir en grey - THE FINALhere is the song as promised.
it's a song by one of my favorite band, Dir en grey. this song is quite balanced, not too hard, not soft either. um... maybe i lied, heheh.. it's quite hard actually. pay attention to the vocal range too. from whispering to melodic to shouting to idon'tknowwhatwordtodescribeit.
by the lyric, this song is quite depressing. but just enjoy the song :) it's great, i tell you.
the next upload will be a song by this band too, but a real hard one, really good for head banging.
then after that? how about a soft melodic ballad song? this band does all! there is only one thing they don't do, writing a happy ending lyric.
here is the lyric translation for THE FINAL:
The intention is clear, I stare... with this left hand, unable to be worded
Every time I bleed, there lies the reason to live... And I discover words being so vivid and bright
Even loved ones scatter like petals from flowers in my hand
So even if I engraved the meaning that I lived in my hand, it will only be known as flowers of vanity
The final
One by one it multiplies... why be a sad bait?
Deep within the hell of my heart... I can't go back
A self-torture loser, not being able to see tomorrow
Suicide is the proof of life
Even loved ones scatter like petals from flowers in my hand
So even if I engraved the meaning that I lived in my hand, the petals will only scatter as flowers of vanity
So I can't live
What's lost can't be born again
A song that's not even seeking the proof of living
Let's put an end... The Final
Let's bloom flowers of attempted suicide.Labels: music
under the garbage
The Jakarta Post - Indonesia landslide toll hits 96, dozens missing
Indonesia landslide toll hits 96, dozens missing
JAKARTA (Reuters): The death toll from a landslide that swept through two Indonesian villages near a garbage dump last week rose to 96 on Sunday as recovery crews pulled more bodies out of mounds of dirt and waste.
Almost no hope is held for 47 people still believed missing after a wall of black mud and garbage up to seven meters high swept through homes in the West Java villages before dawn on Feb. 21.
'There are a total of 96 bodies found as of 1 p.m. today. Today we found six, and 47 people are still missing,' Irbar, a military officer in Cireundeu village, told Reuters.
Police said heavy rains appeared to have brought down piles of waste that in turn triggered the landslide, leaving a swathe of broken rooftops and shattered walls.
Residents had long complained about the dump near their homes and held many protests since it was set up in 1980 to serve neighboring Bandung municipality, a city of two million people 140 km southeast of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
Landslides are common in other areas of Indonesia, with many blamed on widespread deforestation. (***)
that's tragic. buried by garbage. one official has become a suspect for this case. yet another irresponsible conduct. disaster will indeed strike when the nature is abandoned. now, let's wait for the disaster caused by irresponsible deforestation aka illegal logging.Labels: news
thunderstorm today
it's been raining since afternoon. now the thunderstorm is joining the act too. no wonder the last few days have been hot. now it's cool again.
but in the morning, a few people were singing & drumming loudly. some malay cultural art show, maybe?
talk about that, i remember a few days ago a man who i thought was a building service worker was singing some malay songs loudly, annoyingly & BADLY. even worse, he never stopped until he left. so that's equal to all day singing. and he did it in a residential building. now, that's a damn bastard. i wonder how he can survive singing while working like that. maybe no one bother to complain.
JAKARTA CITY OF ASSHOLES Episode II - City of Corruption
Jakarta, Kota Paling Korup - 16/02/2005, 16:45 WIB - KOMPAS Cyber Media - MetropolitanJakarta, Kota Paling KorupLaporan : Heru Margianto
Jakarta, KCM
Oleh para pebisnis, Jakarta dianggap sebagai kota yang paling
korup. Indeks Persepsi Korupsi (IPK) Ibu Kota RI ini adalah 3,87.
Selain Jakarta, kota paling korup berikutnya adalah Surabaya (3,93) dan
Medan (4,09).
Demikian hasil survey yang dilakukan Transparency International
Indonesia (TII) terhadap 1305 responden dari kalangan bisnis lokal,
nasional, dan internasional. Survei dilaksanakan oleh Marketing
Research Indonesia di 21 kabupaten/kota pada Oktober hingga Desember
2004.
Rentang indeks penilaian adalah 0 sampai dengan 10. Angka 0
menunjukkan sangat korup. Sementara, 10 menunjukkan bersih dari korupsi.
Hasil survei ini disampaikan Ketua TII Todung Mulya Lubis. Ia
didampingi Sekretaris Jenderal Emmy Hafild. Acara itu diselenggarakan
di Hotel Mandarin, Rabu (16/2).
Menurut survei tersebut, kabupaten/kota yang dianggap paling kurang
korup adalah Kabupaten Wonosobo (5,63), Kota Banjarmasin (5,39), dan
Kota Makassar (5,31).
Bea Cukai
Survei juga mendapatkan, ungkap Todung, interaksi korupsi yang
paling banyak dilakukan pebisnis adalah dengan Bea Cukai (62 persen
dari seluruh transaksi). Berikutnya adalah interaksi dengan kepolisian
(56 persen), militer (49 persen), dan lembaga peradilan (48 persen).
Untuk jumlah suap, total yang dibayarkan oleh responden selama
setahun kepada pemerintah pusat adalah Rp52 miliar. Paling banyak
dibayarkan ke Bea Cukai (Rp23 miliar) dan pihak Pajak (Rp12,7 miliar).
Sementara, di tingkat daerah, total yang dibayarkan responden kepada
pemerintah daerah adalah Rp3,7 miliar per tahun. Lalu, yang dibayarkan
kepada DPRD dan partai politik sebesar Rp2,4 miliar.
"Namun, yang mengejutkan, jumlah suap terbesar per interaksi korupsi
dibayar pebisnis yang menangani proyek bantuan dunia dan lembaga asing
lainnya. Jumlahnya masing-masing sebesar Rp23,6 juta dan Rp22,7 juta
per interaksi. Walaupun, insiden korupsinya terendah yaitu 18 persen
untuk Bank Dunia dan 28 persen untuk lembaga donor asing," kata Todung.
Lebih lanjut, Todung mengingatkan, angka yang ditunjukkan dalam
survei ini hanya mencerminkan keadaan rata-rata 1305 orang pebisnis.
Menurut dia, ini hanya mencerminkan puncak gunung es. Jumlah ini jauh
lebih kecil dari keadaan sebenarnya.
Kemudian, total nilai yang dibayarkan pebisnis diduga jauh lebih
besar. "Tentunya, jumlah yang dibayarkan jauh lebih besar dari kondisi
sebenarnya. Sebab, jumlah sampel perusahaan Indonesia amat kecil
dibanding total keseluruhan perusahaan Indonesia," kata Todung.
Selain itu, lanjut Todung, survei tidak mencerminkan keadaan
sesungguhnya. Karena, banyak orang yang tidak mengakui melakukan suap
dan korupsi. "Kalau pun mengakui, cenderung mengecilkan jumlah yang
dibayarkan atau jumlah interaksi agar tidak kelihatan sangat buruk di
mata pewawancara," demikian Todung Mulya Lubis. (Prim)
All I know is that I know nothing
"All I know is that I know nothing""Wisdom is knowing how little we know"~Socrates (470 B.C. - 399 B.C.)
The Buddha had said similar meaning phrase before Socrates did.
"Those who know themselves to be stupid are really the wise ones. The stupid are those who think they are wise."~Buddha (c.563 - c.483 BC)
I've just realised that their life time almost interlapsed.
Labels: spiritual
Valentine & the theory of implicit egotism
Valentine's Day is about self-love, actually (The New Zealand Herald) 14.02.05 5.00pm
By Raj Persaud
Even on days other than Valentine's Day, our culture is pretty preoccupied with "romance" - huge industries have grown up encouraging it, including cosmetics, fashion, literature, art, films, TV etc.
At the heart of all this commercially encouraged amorous sentiment is the dreamy idea that romance is somehow mysterious - indeed the allure of love is enhanced by its inscrutability. Yet psychologists beg to differ.
The latest theory about love from psychological research is that basically the strongly positive associations people have about themselves "spill over" to enhance their attraction to nearly anything associated with the self.
This new psychological theory is called "implicit egotism" and promises to revise radically the way we think about love.
The new theory explains why, a few years ago, psychologists discovered that the faces to which we were most attracted were those that resembled our own. So passionate love for another is actually all about us - it's basically a narcissistic enterprise.
The romantics, of course, refuse to accept this cynical scientific view, but the key point about the research is that our preferences operate below conscious awareness and therefore appear mysterious at first glance, although their underlying "egotism" is revealed by experiments.
For example, a new study finds, rather unromantically, that exactly the same process which leads to us being drawn to our lovers seems to explain how we choose our dogs.
Christina Payne and Klaus Jaffe of Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela separated photos of dogs and their owners and found that volunteers could match the pictures more often than chance, using similarity in appearance.
We choose dogs that resemble us because we are driven by a basic desire to feel good about ourselves, and this means we evaluate similarity to the self as strongly positive.
Alarmingly in its power and irrationality, this occurs even when the similarity is obscure.
Psychologists have demonstrated that, although not consciously aware of it, we express strong preferences for numbers linked to our birth date, and words that have more letters from our own names in them.
Maurice Carvallo and colleagues at the State University of New York in Buffalo even found that the likelihood people would marry someone with the same first letter in their surname was 15 per cent to 25 per cent greater than chance.
The theory of implicit egotism - that we are so obsessed with ourselves that it drives our choices at a level below conscious awareness - began with an ingenious experiment conducted back in 1989 by psychologists John Finch and Robert Cialdini of the Arizona State University, who had participants read a biographical sketch of Rasputin, the notorious "Mad Monk of Russia".
In this sketch, Rasputin was described in decidedly negative terms. Half of the participants were led to believe that Rasputin shared their own birthday, whereas the other half was given no information about Rasputin's birth date. In the matching-birthday condition, participants made much more favourable judgments of Rasputin's character.
Then, in 2002, a team of psychologists lead by Brett Pelham of the State University of New York made a series of astonishing discoveries - they found, among other things, that people named Denise or Dennis are more likely than usual to make their living as dentists, and that people whose first or last name is Louis are disproportionately likely to move to live in Saint Louis, Missouri. The same applied to Jack and Jacksonville and George and Georgia.
Similarly, they found that birthday number preferences also appear to influence residential choices. People born on 2 February (02/02) are over-represented among the inhabitants of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, whereas people born on 3 March (03/03) are over-represented among the inhabitants of Three Forks, Montana.
These findings held for every possible day-month combination for which US cities existed as potential matches (eg, people born on 6 June were over-represented in Six Mile, North Carolina).
So major life decisions such as who we marry, what career we pick, and where we move to are influenced by a tendency to prefer ourselves, and therefore any similarity to ourselves that we find in the world around us.
The findings raise the question of whether all this Valentine's Day pandering to passion is really all about encouraging yet more self-focus.
After all, is not the key question this morning how many Valentine's cards did we get, and how many in comparison did you get?
The psychiatrist's advice is to take a break from the pressure to be perfectly romantic, and instead focus on some neglected but possibly more important values - like friendship and concern for others beyond immediate self-interest.
Take a break from the self-obsession that marketing encourages and spend today genuinely concerned for others, and by the end of it you might be a kinder human being, which is a lot more valuable than being a more attractive one.
* The writer is Gresham Professor for Public Understanding of Psychiatry and author of 'The Motivated Mind', published by Bantam Press
- THE INDEPENDENT
Labels: news
Budget Airlines Keep Getting Accident
Masalah Teknis Sebabkan Lion Air Tergelincir di Mataram - 12/02/2005, 10:24 WIB - KOMPAS Cyber Media - NASIONALMataram, Sabtu
Pesawat Lion Air tergelincir di Bandar Udara Selaparang, Mataram, Jumat (11/2) malam sekitar pukul 19.58 WITA, akibat masalah teknis dan tidak terlalu membahayakan.
General Manager Lion Air Mataram, Selamet Raharjo di Mataram, Sabtu (12/2), mengatakan, insiden tersebut hanya karena masalah teknis sewaktu pesawat hendak memutar ke kanan di landasan pacu Bandara Selaparang Mataram.
"Insiden tersebut hanya karena masalah teknis saat pesawat akan berbelok ke kanan ternyata roda depan keluar dari landasan pacu. Jadi bukan karena kerusakan mesin pesawat atau kesalahan pilot dan tidak sampai menimbulkan korban jiwa termasuk pesawat juga tidak mengalami kerusakan," katanya.
Dikatakannya, tergelincirnya pesawat Lion Air di Bandara Selaparang Mataram itu juga bukan karena human error, karena pilot sudah bekerja sesuai prosedur dan mengikuti petunjuk yang ada. Karena itu, katanya, masyarakat tidak perlu khawatir dan takut menggunakan pesawat tersebut, sebab insiden tersebut bukan disebabkan persoalan pesawat maupun pilot. "Ini terbukti setelah dilakukan pemeriksaan teknis di Bandara Selaparang, pada Sabtu (12/2) pagi Lion Air kembali terbang mengangkut penumpang menuju Surabaya," katanya.
Pesawat jenis MD 82 milik maskapai penerbangan Lion Air dengan kode PK-LMY itu tergelincir keluar landasan pacu Bandara Selaparang saat akan ’take off’ dan terbang menuju Surabaya. Ketika akan berbelok ke kanan menuju runway 27 di arah timur dari taxi B untuk take off, pesawat yang diawaki pilot Fadillah dan co pilot Andrew itu, roda depannya keluar landasan. Sekitar 0,5 meter sebelah utara dari pinggir landasan. Penerbangan ekstra JT 1641 Lion Air dari Mataram tujuan Surabaya ini membawa 122 penumpang terdiri atas 115 orang dewasa, seorang anak dan enam bayi. (Ant/Nik)
So what is the cause? TECHNICAL PROBLEM.
What TECHNICAL PROBLEM? Not engine damage, not pilot's mistake, not human error, not airplane problem.
WTF??? SO, WHAT THE HELL IS THE CAUSE, DUDE? WHAT KIND OF TECHNICAL PROBLEM??????? STUPID PUBLIC RELATION!!!
Why not say your airplane is too old and the safety is compromised? Or the airport people gave the wrong signal? Or your pilot is blind? PR these days are getting more stupid than ever.
The budget airlines keep getting accident. Last year, Lion Air at Solo (30 Nov). Last week, Lion Air at Makassar (3 Feb). Yesterday was Lion Air at Mataram and Mandala Airlines at Semarang.
It's risky indeed. Airplane is the safest vehicle in the world. But look at what these Indonesian budget airlines and government officials do.Labels: news
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JAKARTA CITY OF ASSHOLES
JAKARTA CITY OF ASSHOLES
funny, heheh
However...
i've just watched GLAY sang HOWEVER (LIVE @ GLAY EXPO 2004) and what a song it is. i've listened to the song several times but i realized that it is actually a sad dong when the girls started to cry... oh how cute :)
TERU (the vocalist) also cried while singing. wow, this song is great. i'm moved...
one thing, a middle aged lady was in the concert too, singing along with the song looking sad. wow wow wow... so unusual, because this is supposedly a rock concert? such is the power of music, in this case, GLAY.
Labels: music
Clash of special days
what actually happened in these 2 days?
9 Feb: Chinese New Year, Ash Wednesday
10 Feb: Islamic New Year, still Chinese New Year (in Singapore)
Which Chinese Lunar year is which?
this is what i found.
in indonesia, this is year 2556. even the president said so.
proof:
"As president of Indonesia, I wish a happy Lunar new year 2556 to our brothers and sisters who celebrate it. I hope the celebration of this Lunar new year will bring more peace and happinness that in the previous years," Yudhoyono said.
others said this is year 4072. look at the difference!
now.. let's see what Associated Press said:
Businesses and government offices from Beijing to Singapore were closed to mark the passing of the Year of the Monkey and the beginning of year 4072 in the traditional Chinese calendar.
some other said it is year 4073.
Two local entrepreneurs have joined forces for a grand celebration to bring in, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the year 4073 - a year of activity and prosperity.
so... who's right??
anyway, only one thing is certain. according to the animal zodiac sign, this is the year of the chocobo. yes.
by the way, there has been an intense drumming since morning. when i went out, it sounded as it came from the top of a building. i wonder if it's just a sound reflection. maybe the real drumming was at the temple nearby. some people were also drumming at the back of a pick up car driving around the neighborhood.
Happy Chinese New Year
I hereby delcare this year as the year of Chocobo! This is the year of hard work! We have to work hard to achieve success! Look, even the chocobo is working! :)
The day before CNY
wake up at around 10, sleep again. get up at almost twelve, maybe...
took a shower, went to eat.
i paid 5 dollars, but the lady gave me more than 6 dollars as change. she must have thought that i had given her 10 dollars. i told her i only paid 5 dollars. she said sorry and then said something i didn't understand.
i went back, web browsing and song listening for a while. then i boiled some water, swept and mopped the house, washed my bed sheet and my clothes.
then i felt pain in my hand. it's because of the sweeping and mopping. it felt just like my first time sword training.
around 5 pm, i went to supermarket to buy some food and detergent. but it had been closed. i went to another one, it was also closed. crap! 1 hour of walking and no result at all.
went back home. web browsing again. chat with mike. took a shower. went out for food. it's great kfc was open. bought some home. ate while watching andy lau movie about mahjong. then i watched shaolin soccer.
locked the front door. went to my room. blogging while eating mandarin orange and chatting with bedjo.
after that i'm going to listen to some music while surfing the web again.
then brush my teeth, drink some water, and eventually, go to sleep. ooops, before that, i need to put on the bed sheet first.
gong xi fa cai, everyone!
Jakarta smoking ban
Businesses brace for smoking ban
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Hotels, malls and restaurants in Jakarta said on Sunday they were ready to comply with a bylaw banning smoking in all enclosed public places.
The City Council endorsed last Friday a bylaw on air pollution that bans smoking in public places and requires managements of public places to designate specific areas for smokers.
Hotels and restaurants interviewed by The Jakarta Post said on Sunday they had long separated smoking and non-smoking areas, while mall operators said they already prohibited smoking inside malls.
Putu Ayu Aristya Dewi, marketing manager for the Accor Group, which owns several four and five-star hotels in the capital, said the bylaw would bolster the group's policy of designating smoking and non-smoking areas in all of its hotels.
"We already distinguish between smoking areas and non-smoking areas. For example, we have a certain number of non-smoking floors or rooms. So we can follow the new regulation with a slight adjustment," she told the Post.
She said enforcing the regulation would not be difficult because most of the guests at the group's hotels were educated people and would understand the bylaw.
Yudith Nurwulan, public relations director for an international hotel chain, said her office would study the bylaw before deciding what policy changes it would make.
Fransiska Kansil, the public relations manager for a five-star hotel in the capital, said special smoking areas were already provided for guests at the hotel.
The newly endorsed bylaw criminalizes smoking inside public places, including schools, office buildings, buses, trains, airplanes, malls, restaurants and hotels. Violations can be punished with up to six months in jail and/or a fine of Rp 50 million (US$5,555).
The bylaw will not be enforced for a year to allow the authorities to educate the public about the ruling.
Riezka Novia Bewinda, media relations officer for Plaza Semanggi in Central Jakarta, said on Sunday the shopping center had been designated a smoke-free area.
"The management will discuss what impact, if any, the bylaw will have on Plaza Semanggi," she told the Post.
Handaka Santosa of Sogo said significant changes would have to be made at cafes and restaurants inside malls, because most of these establishments allowed guests to smoke.
"We must make some adjustments for restaurants and cafes. We are now studying what steps we will make in compliance with the bylaw," he said.
Danny Leo Lukito, owner of the Suite Seven cafe located in Kemang, South Jakarta, said he was unsure what the impact of the bylaw would be on his business.
"To be honest we still haven't prepared. If it is a private party, I don't think we can ban smoking. Right now we try to have separate places for smokers and non-smokers, but sometimes they get mixed together," he said.
He said he was not aware of any non-smokers complaining about the current setup at the cafe.
Is the new law going to work? It all depends on the law enforcers, really. But with current law enforcers behaving like this, I doubt this law will work out. What will happen is the new law is going to be a new source of money for them. "Oops, someone is smoking. Hey! You either pay the 50 million fine or you make peace with me and pay me 1 million." Doh!!
But at least some smokers will be more careful. But no police, the smoking will go on! And the heart attack + lung cancer will go on.... and the hospital and tobacco company will make money, yeahh...Labels: news
Depp's the Best, Spears the Worst
Depp's the Best, Spears the Worst Autographer
Tue, Feb 01, 2005, 02:02 PM PT
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Next time you want a celebrity autograph, step up to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star Johnny Depp, but steer clear of Britney Spears.
Depp, 41, tops the list of the best celebrity signers of 2004, according to Autograph Collector magazine.
'Johnny Depp has decided to be the undisputed most-accommodating autograph signer in Hollywood today,' says Steve Cyrkin, the magazine's publisher and Editor-in-Chief. 'One collector told us, 'He'll sign for everyone, and it doesn't matter how many things you ask him to sign.''
Depp's fellow stars happy to take up a sharpie for their fans include 'Bourne Supremacy' star Matt Damon in second place, followed by Tom Cruise, Mike Myers, Angelina Jolie, 'Lord of the Rings' hobbit Elijah Wood, 'Mean Girls' star Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff and 'Monster' Oscar winner Charlize Theron.
On the flip side of fame are the luminaries who'd rather not acknowledge their fans with a signature. Leading the list of the 10 worst celebrity signers is pop star Britney Spears because 'no one is better at showing their fans how little they mean to them.'
'While we're the first to defend any celebrity's right not to sign, how do you defend rude, crude and downright unattractive behavior?' says Cyrkin. 'As one collector told us, 'Britney has done all she can to earn her nickname, 'Bitchney Sneers.''
Keeping Mrs. Federline company is 'Charlie's Angels' star Cameron Diaz, webslinger Tobey Maguire, Diaz's beau Justin Timberlake, the Olsen twins, 'Aviator' star Leonardo DiCaprio, rapper Eminem, the now split Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry and hotel heiress Paris Hilton.
The March issue of Autograph Collector is currently on newsstands."
that's another reason i like johnny depp. very talented, yet humble man.Labels: news
Dejavu... again?
when listening to the song I'll by Dir en grey, i felt that i've heard the song before, just like the LUNA SEA song before... but i still can't figure when, where, or what song was it. weird.
Labels: music
Sleep...
yeah, after all the talks of no energy left, i end up listening to Dir en grey anyway. this time it's tha GAUZE album. but i've heard the album before, so i guess it's not too "energy draining".
let's have some cute faces here :P
time to sleep now...
Dir en grey full album
at last i get all of Dir en grey albums last night. but i haven't listened to them coz i'm busy today and now i'm tired. Dir en grey songs are evil and crazy, heheheh... i'll need extra energy to listen to them. especially since i've never heard most of the songs. but i don't think i have the needed energy now.
so i'm listening to LUNA SEA - SHINE album at the moment. now at song no. 8, MILLENIUM. i've got a feeling that i've heard this song before somewhere but it was a bit different. i've been trying to figure out what is the other version of this song. maybe it was sung by ryuichi kawamura in his singin career? anybody can help? btw, the song BREATHE in this album is great too. and there is the Mulan OST version too... sweet...
Labels: music
My Firefox Extensions
Here's a list of my firefox extensions and some comments on them:
- FlashGot 0.5.5 >>> to use my flashget in firefox. with this plugin, my IE went into retired state.
- FoxyTunes 1.1 >>> listening to winamp and controlling it from firefox. my favorite ext. and yes, i wish i could add a folder to winamp's playlist using foxytunes!
- All-in-One Gestures 0.12.4 >>> this is for mouse gesture. sometimes it open two tabs or close two tabs when what i want is only 1! i tried other ext like mouse gestures but i'm not comfortable with it. this is the one i'm used to the most.
- Dict 0.6.1 >>> highlight a text, right click, select define. great when stumbling upon new words on the web.
- Copy Plain Text 0.2.1 >>> useful when copy pasting text from firefox to dreamweaver.
- BlogThis 0.2.1 >>> BlogThis context menu for easy blogging when the inspiration come.
- Linkification 0.9.19 >>> linkify (what??) a text link, email, etc, into html clickable link
- googlebar 0.9.0.30 >>> googlebar, what else? but i seldom use it because i treasure my browser space. most of the time i use it to translate a page using the context menu.
- Disable Targets For Downloads 0.8 >>> pretty neat name for an ext eh? this ext kills the blank page that sometimes pop open when downloading files from certain websites.
- ForecastFox 0.5.8 >>> weather forecast on your toolbar. how's that sound? thanks to this i know that tomorrow's weather might be scattered thunderstorms. i got to prepare an umbrella for my interview tomorrow.
- Sage 1.3 >>> news reader inside firefox. pretty neat. they should improve on the interface though. but overall, it's good enough.
firefox still rules. get it now!
Get Firefox!
Labels: firefox
Music music and music
look what i got these weeks. tons of music, woohooo....
let me list them..
- LUNA SEA - MOTHER (Album)
- LUNA SEA - SHINE (Album)
- Janne Da Arc - Arcadia (Album)
- Janne Da Arc - Kiss Me(Single)
- Janne Da Arc - Maria no tsumeato(Single)
- Janne Da Arc - Rainy ai no shirabe(Single)
- Rentrer en Soi - Sphire Croid (Album) [I'm currently listening to this]
- T.M.Revolution - Vertical Infinity (Album)
- Matsu Takako (All albums)
- Mr.Children - It's a Wonderful World (Album)
- Ayaka Hirahara - ODYSSEY (Album)
- Gackt - Arittake no ai de (Single)
- L'Arc~en~Ciel - Killing Me (Single)
- L'Arc~en~Ciel demo songs [now.. this one is funny, hyde is singing "lalalala..." in some songs. maybe because the lyrics had not been written yet at that time.]
so many of them, I'm listening one by one. i'm quite in love with Genesis of Mind from LUNA SEA. All LUNA SEA songs are great. Rentrer en Soi is good too.
Matsu Takako is sweet.
T.M.Revolution has different music style in the album, but overall nice.
L'Arc~en~Ciel, oh, I wish they make their old style songs... not that the current one is bad though, but I miss the old style.
and now let's talk Dir en grey. currently I'm in the progress of getting all their albums. I especially like THE FINAL, embryo, Machiavellism, Kasumi, and almost all songs in Gauze album (which happens to be the only album I have). News: Next Dir en grey album, Withering to death. Release:20050309. I'm waiting....
Let's learn English, hehehe...
Machiavellism or Machiavellianism
definition: The political doctrine of Machiavelli, which denies the relevance of morality in political affairs and holds that craft and deceit are justified in pursuing and maintaining political power.
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)Labels: music
