Of the Dragon, of the Stars!

Location: my laptop at home
Mood: sweaty (is that a mood) and in need of a toilet!
Just did: typed a bit of abovementioned story

EPIC THING! We are currently on page 216. Feels like it can only get better from here! :D

I know there's Physics and Chinese tomorrow. And I have done absolutely ZERO revision for Chinese. At least I did some Physics studying. Hope I can remember what I learnt tomorrow...

Just felt like doing this update. Need to find that toilet now. Bye!

LA PROCESION DEL ROCIO!!!

Must say it again must say it again must say it again

LA PROCESION DEL ROCIO is a masterwork by a pure genius, and no talent like him will ever walk the world again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It brings me closer to heaven every time I hear it. Can't explain; really can't! It's too amazing for words ><

It rose!!!!!!

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One of the best days in the world

Location: My laptop :D
Mood: Happy of course~
Just did: Proofread "Symphony, Synchrony" AGAIN

Yes, I changed the title of Sands of Time. Now it's called "Symphony, Synchrony: The Sands of Time". And I feel like putting my summary here, for fun :D

//Symphony: sound in harmony. Synchrony: in the same rhythm.// Because even an eternally forsaken love can be recaptured, a lost heartbeat returned to time. Another Alishar legend, for CrapPishh’s FF challenge.

Yesss...I hope this can get second at most. HOPE. But I'm not too sure other people will like it. But that's fine--I like it, and I think that's good enough, in this case.

And back to topic.
I GOT FULL MARKS FOR THE SS SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!
I GOT 28/30 FOR ENGLISH ESSAY *FOAMS*

Oh MAN, I wasn't expecting that! On the downside, I failed my Physics practical--but who cares man. I'm utterly happy about these scores :D:D:D

And today was MEP practicals. Went well! Our duet was less screwed than last time--and last time was pretty good already :D Predictions: 1st piece 45, 2nd piece 43

Man, actually, those predictions are...high. Hope I actually manage it...

Yay, I have a story to edit now. Can't wait for YME tomorrow! :D

EPIC

Location: Old laptop (IT'S OFFICIALLY MINE)

Mood: Hurried!!!

Just did: Read my blog

YESS this laptop is now mine, with my password and my wallpaper and all!! :D

Back to topic. Of the Dragon, of the Stars chapter 6 complete. Yesterday. I think I just wrote my best chapter so far! I don't know, really--I just have a good feeling about it.

And 172 pages. YES. YES! I feel awesome :D Chapter 6 is the longest chapter so far. And the longest there will ever be, hopefully. I'm so happy about how far my story has come, since I began on that car trip in Penang! It's probably my most prided work so far, among all the creations of my entire lifetime :D

Okay, must get off now! Parents coming back and I must be off by then!!!

My favourite words, second installment

Location: Chinese classroom computer, at block J2
Mood: Happy
Just did: Went to deviantArt

Second installment, as I said!

Timeless
Archaic
Spiritless
Dimension
Entangle
Glass (verb)
Bells
Borders
Birthright
Passageway
Mirage
Equinox

Oh, and by the way, OF THE DRAGON, OF THE STARS CHAPTER 6 IS DONE!!! *pats self on back* And it's probably my best chapter yet :D:D:D

This week

Location: Desktop at home
Mood: Sleepy
Just did: typed in Of the Dragon, of the Stars

Yepps, that story again. It's just arrived at 85,000 words!! :D Chapter 6 is almost done. I will probably post it in the next two weeks :D:D:D

And yesss. This week. Probably the most revolutionary, beautiful, amazing week of my life. Why? Don't ask me to explain it. Everything just came together, this week. Every day was like a leaf crossing on a breeze. Just flew by into heaven, and somehow set me free from a prison I didn't even know existed.

Really good mood now--albeit sleepy. I have to break my horrible cycle of sleeping and waking up late :D

So will probably go for now. That's all, folks!

My favourite words

Location: Desktop
Mood: Nervous!!!
Just did: sent a story for beta

Before I start,
1 PIANO EXAM (foams) OH CRAP OH CRAP I'M STILL SCREWING THE ARPEGGIOSSSSS
AURAL AURAL AURAL HELP I AM DROWNING IN RHYTHM MELODY TEXTURE DYNAMICS FORM HARMONY TONALITY TEMPO ARGHHHHHHH ARGHHHHHHHH

2 I'm starting to type all my "ion" endings wrong!!! Locatino, determinatino, catino, Shirino.....no.......... Not good...

Okay, now.

Favourite words!!!
Don't expect big ones.

Forsake
Perpetual
Infinity
Endless
Temporal
Nightfall
Veil
Whisper
Espy
Absolute
Molten

Might add on someday :D

La Procesion del Rocio

Location: New laptop at home
Mood: Whew! Finished a badly-done Chinese speech!
Just did: Facebooked

Yes, have I ever told anyone at all about the greatness of this piece of music?

La Procesion del Rocio--the true meaning of joy. I don't know if words can actually bring out everything I felt while listening, right from the initial opening chord. Ahhhh! Well, the 25 cents I spent on it was totally worth it. I should have paid ten dollars for it.

Okay, I just felt the urge to do this--talk about the awesomeness of the best orchestral piece I have ever heard. I mean it! It's good enough to warrant a random post at the weirdest, most unrelated time :D

Hi, you are reading!

Location: New laptop
Mood: Lalala nothing
Just did: changed the desktop background :D

Hm, you know what? Only weird people read my blog. Yes, if you are reading this, it means that you are weird.

Chances are, you are the kind who obsesses over TV shows, games or book series, probably dozens. You probably tend to appreciate weird things that no one else even gets. Could be puns, melodic motifs in movie background music, elegance of formulae. Your MP3 player is stuffed up with a weirdly varied selection, and somehow you can remember exactly how you came across each and every of the three hundred songs there. You do weird things when you are bored, like write mathematical calculations or draw eyes on your arms. You also take pride in knowing and thinking certain things--"I tend to appreciate apocalyptic stories." "I think Beethoven got that chord there wrong." "Why is November not Nonember?"

Yes, that's you, isn't it? Come on, admit it. You are a weird person. That's why you just wasted a minute of your time reading that.

AWESOME

I finally found it OH YESSS

This is like the (second) most awesome orchestral piece in the universe. It's wild, vivid, beautiful, and best of all, NEVER boring. NEVER!! And it's relatively short!

Enjoy, for those who bothered to listen and watch :D

I'm like SO in love with this piece! But you've gotta hear the really high-quality recordings to really appreciate how GREAT this is...

I wish I had music, but all I have are words

My entry to RGS's Inkspiration. I hope they like it...

How I long to paint the world as they do!
Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Rachmaninov
How can it be that entire worlds unravel in my eyes
At the single brush of the flute’s soliloquy on my ear
Or the glorious fanfare of the orchestra’s tutti
Or the crystal ringing echo on the cold dark keys?
How can shifting regular wavelengths of varying amplitude
Recreate the shimmering reflections in Monet’s Water Lilies
Or the rattling rifles of the Russian Revolution
Or the delicate lace dance of the swans in Swan Lake
Or the whisper of pure liquid moonlight streaming through the windows?

It will never be within my grasp, this magic they work
Twelve notes divided by frequency spaces the twelfth root of two
In measures of three, four, seven, eight simple, compound, irregular
Rearranged into a one-page etude or a thirty-minute symphony
A soli, a diminished seventh in the upper registers
Passionate, fantastical, sparkling, blazing
Breaking the bounds of imagination—
How I wish I could shape sound into beauty, as they did!

I wish I had music,
But all I have are words.
And words limit me to only that much
A paradigm on paper made in ink
A million-strong divine vocabulary
Only showing, telling, implying by nuances—

Nothing, next to the mind-blowing dimensions
That the greatest composers wove
Upon the strings and reeds and keys
And burnt into the hearts of the world
With
Chains of beamed black circles
On five evenly-spaced lines

An in-between

Location: Old laptop
Mood: Um
Just did: proofread Sands of Time

Yup, that's my next story. And I think it has potential to be my best yet. Just wait for it, those of you who actually read.

Of the Dragon, of the Stars is on to its 140th page!!! I don't know how far it has gone since I last posted about it, but all I know is that it has grown a great deal. 140 pages! I never thought that it'd get that far. YAY

Alright, I was only posting for the sake of posting. Felt like it.

SIGH my sisters are now listening to this piece of BLAH called Poker Face. I must say that the video is cool (freakily cool), but the song is...ah. Like all pop songs. Catchy and weird and too techno for my liking.

Impressionist and early twentieth century is still my cup of tea. And the really good J-pop songs that make good use of the orchestra.

Okay, like I said. I was posting because this blog looks dead. So there. Wait for the next one. BYE!

Quote of the week: "P-p-p-f*** her face"~Poker Face lyrics, with a terrible mishear on the maker's part

GAH I'm ALIVE

Location: New laptop AT HOME :D
Mood: Hungry
Just did: Proofread "Song of the Sea"

I have returned!

Same place as always--Tanjung Bunga, Penang. Let's see...it's humid, computer-less, and has a garden full of dead bamboos. And when I say full, I really mean FULL. As in, covered in dried bamboos from end to end.

But come on, who can hate having two dogs around? Except that one had TICKS, and I actually picked one up. I was completely not scared of it--then it bit my finger and latched on. THAT freaked me out.

(Well, in case you want to know what happened, I plucked it off and flushed it down the toilet wrapped in toilet paper.)

Hm. Every night was Movie Night. We watched about seven movies there, including Twilight (which I love now) and Slumdog Millionaire (which I positively ADORE). We also watched Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D at the cinema, and I must say that I hate wearing glasses AND 3D glasses at the same time.

Okay. Now for the things that have been delayed for more than a week. MEP CAMP WAS AWESOME!! Tiring, ache-inducing, with slightly disgusting food--but it was awesome. I mean it! Now I can't stop singing Oklahoma!! I even dreamt of us performing last night.

And last thing: ABSOLFANATIC IS LEVEL 41

WHOOOOOOOOOO OVER LVL 40!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, never mind that. Very happy, that's all.

And yup, as my last two words said: that's all. BYE!

this millennium

I see the pale stars blinking from between the leaves
Those brushing hands cradling the eyes of the deep-ocean sky
Blinking
Blinking
-
The trees are whispering like the showering droplets from the sky
Combing the air like gentle soft brushes, supplicant
Gazing on my dark self as they seek my assurance
My protection
-
The moonlight is caught in my eyes
Glimmering on the points of my fur like drops of ice
Midnight. The silence is to perfection around me
Save the silent singing of the arched branches
Upon the monumental mesas of ancient stone
-
I gaze to the sky, upon the highest point
And the stars seem to point towards the place I stand
I feel their gladness and sorrow, every emotion, for they feel
Indeed
-
My world’s beauty was sustained by one of them
A fallen being from the celestial spheres
One who used to sing in harmony with their perfect music
And then sank through the depths of the ocean above
To land among the broken fragments of heaven,
And the devastation of shaken wastelands
-
And breathed life into it all.
But once its partner-star had vanished from our sky
It fell into a sleep from which I thought it would never wake
It did, a millennium later.
And millennium after millennium
The smiling face never vanished, held in its safeguard of violet prisms
-
And each time, I would stand guard and wait
It is the instinct of our kind to guard the living
And for this was a star, it lived as well, and I took on the job
It was my father’s, his father’s, my every predecessor’s
It was now mine.
-
Its next rebirth was due again. And that year
I was careless. I allowed it to be stolen from me.
At the most important point in time, of all times
Among every of the years that had spun by, I had failed!
-
The sky is a gleaming dish of deep water
There is no end to what I see, no matter how far I have searched
They watch me, eyes that blink so irregularly, so scarcely
-
It fills my eyes, and I feel as if I might drown in it
Beneath the swishing treetops of the highest point
Passed on both sides, by the wind that rings the leaves like bells
-
Then the skies, the trees, the roots at my paws
They are crying out, calling in beseeching to their founder
Their saviour and their strength
As they do each time it awakens
-
It has come! In the distance, I can see it shining
Even beyond a thousand walls, across a million blades of grass
My beautiful star has risen from its sleep of crystal
-
And I must find it.
Leave this vast nest of old stone and wind-stirred leaves
Of endless starlight and washing waves of imagination.
Turn my path
To the world of artificial light, upon the most jagged horizon.
-
Wait yet, I shall arrive for you.