音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

That wasn't the first time I change my template with CSS, but this was the most difficult time.

I didn't have any CSS knowledge when I just registered on MYO; then when I tried to get a custom template, I became faint since I didn't know what's CSS at all. Anyways, I found some blogs teach people on MYO CSS, I learned some basic issues; in November 2007, I costumed my first template: with a different top image only!

Later, since I knew where MYO original CSS file were put, changing CSS became easier. I just needed to find the codes I wanted to fix, and then replace with my own codes. Though some stuff I couldn't find out directly, I still learned much after many times of trying.

The most epic template (so far I think) I made was in yesterday. Recently I just finished a transparent template for my fiction, then I suddenly wanted to change the template for my own blog too. Since it was so difficult to choose ONLY ONE background, I got suggested from some friends using *.php files.

Firstly I thought the random background was the most difficult part, but it didn't because others helped me writing the php file. I soon finished almost all parts and just when I satisfied with it, I found some default backgrounds didn't match with my style. I've got to turn on fix them: album backgrounds, visitor backgrounds, etc... yet that's the real most difficult part...

After another 3~4 hours of fighting, at about 4:00 AM, I ended up all changing, and got complete satisfied eventually. I talked to some online friends during the fixing, and also got stalked...

However, the fighting ended.

Here I thank: Shin (for your CSS/php support), tsubasa (for your php/domain upload), Heiko (for your transparent background image and some CSS codes), and Hiroyuki (for your post border line/album related stuff code)!!

By the way, I bought a string of obsidian beads yesterday night, before I started to fix the album CSS.

I don't know how I survived in these PC-less days. That wasn't a real long time, only 4 days. But, that was very boring. I felt my fingers have been duller and duller when I came back to the keyboard...

It was lucky that I still have music with me: a music player. I have copied all my music into it. But it does everything in a slow pace (I can't complain for that, since that stupid machine isn't mine, but my mother's). I've got to wait for 2 seconds to skip one track or other actions else; this fullish brick even can't display the artist info! Yet it's large enough to load my stuff, I have no choice but that.

Problems showed up afterwards. I miss my e-dictionary, I mean, Lingoes. I don't know how longer I've to take to look up one word with regular paper-made dictionaries than the case of e-dictionaries. Also, new words emerge fast, there are so many words I can't find in my granny's old yellow dictionaries (especially some bio-terms; I was so happy that I could still guess them from their word stems *faint)! Another problem was writing. I can write on a piece of paper, but I can't photograph this paper and upload it as my blog, can I?

I read up the book “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte. The reading was interesting and very fast (-er than my common reading speed). I found that I've fall in love this book. After the reading, I listened to the song whose name is “Arashi ga oka (Wuthering Heights)” by ALI PROJECT for several times. I was on top exciting then!

In other leisure times, I did some drawing, and read a German learning book I just bought (this book is far more better than the previous one, at least it didn't get me lost in the self-study -__-; ). I also found that the (current) best way to remember some new words is to read it for so many times. That's rather more efficient than just repeat writing the word. But, I don't know if my music helped me on the remembering. That song was “Kazoe Uta (かぞえうた～地獄鞠歌～)” by Noriko Mitose, a silent yet kinda horrible song, you see.

Anyways, I came back to my keyboard. Ah, life goes on, and it's so cherished!

Spring, March, winter has gone away. Flowers have bloomed all around here. A few days ago, the sun started to have a rest, and passed the weather to the cloud and the rain. It has been three days of rain. Under the gray sky, it’s a nice scenery of blooming flowers.
But, why I fell there’s something uncomfortable faintly?
To think on it, what’s that on earth…?
Yeah, some days ago, just taking fewer clothes, and my throat and bones became having aches vainly, later, the fever… in all, seemed I just seriously had a cold.
That was rather a terrible experience…
Well, try to remember, anyhow, such period exists in each year.
The period of “chilly spring weather.”
Chilly spring weather…
In fact, on yesterday’s way back, I remembered this word suddenly when a cold wind blew toward me.
Chilly spring weather (hanabie in Japanese): during the days of cherry blossom’s blooming, before the real warmness comes, the weather may turn very cold; also, the coldness. (from goo.ne.jp)
That’s a nice word, really.

GENES IX, is not only just a textbook that every molecular biological student must read, you may also have fun from the tome-sized reading.

Just now, I was reading Chapter Phage Strategies. there are two ways for some kinds of phage to survive: lysis or integration. In case of lysis, the host cell is broken and new phages are released out, and in case of integration, the phage DNA/RNA becomes one part of its host bacteria – thus, such host bacteria will not “die”; they may continue to live as before.

Then, the small accident happened. A lots of easy-to-get illustrations are one feature of the book; naturally, there is one picture about the two ways of phage life.

However, the most funny thing was the sentence whose background was marked with green.

“bacteria live happily ever after.” (on page 351, GENES IX, Benjamin Lewin)

How can such a funny sentence be here? Maybe it just a common expression in English, I'm not sure about it. Yet the sentence itself isn't wrong or problematic, here I can only say, I'm so happy that I could encounter such funny thing during my scientific reading!

AHHHHHHHH-excitinnnnng-surginnnnnng-lanlanlan♪♪～
This was Yuki Kajiura-sama’s, as well as my one-sentence impression of “Seventh Heaven.”
A kind of like “Kara no Kyoukai / Garden of Sinner,” yet with some exotic elements, ahh, I know, that’s tropical style. Among palm trees, the wind is sweet and soft, the swaying sea is singing, the red setting sun is moving down, memories are emerging… ahh, everything is covered with dark gold…
Seventh Heaven.
I’m in felicity, no? Since I can listen to such music…
Raise my soul upward the seventh heaven! Gloria…

I appreciate for your high-quality album, thank you for your working!
—to Kajiura-sama, singers from Kalafina, and all staff, who have even yelled “come here and collect our ashes!”

あああああうきうきわくわくらんらんらん♪♪～
以上、梶浦由記様、およびこの私の「Seventh Heaven」への一言感想でございました。
「空の境界」っぽくて、またちょっぴり違っている異世界風があって、ああ、そうだ、実は熱帯風だ、あれが。椰子林の中で、柔らかく吹く甘い風、ゆらりと歌う海、少しずつ沈んでゆく真っ赤な夕日、浮かび上がる想い出…ああ、すべてが暗く金色に染まられている…
Seventh Heaven。
やっば、幸せだなぁ、こんな音楽を聴くことができる私が…
この身を、第七天に昇らせたまえ。グロリア…

こんなに高完成度なアルバムありがとう、ご苦労様でした！
――「骨を拾ってくれ」と叫ぶほどになる梶浦様、Kalafinaの歌姫ズ、およびスタッフ全員へ。

01.overture
The familiar main melody from “Kara no Kyoukai / Garden of Sinner.”
Silently, softly, here one new phrase of Kajiura’s epic begins.

02.oblivious
Loving the repeated soaring background chorus! Loving the melody and rhythm! Loving the sound effects! My Kara-theme-song top 1!!
The first song by Kalafina, the first song of “Kara no Kyoukai.”
Loving WAKANA’s goddess-like tone, loving KEIKO’s harmonization.

03.love come down
KEIKO shows up! KEIKO will not only be a chorus singer! This is a fast tempo song, a bit loud, with a lot of exotic elements, make me exciting!
KEIKO’s tone is like a glossing black pearl, and HIKARU’s is like an opal, and WAKANA’s is like amber; such tones mix out a shining melody!
But, the last phrase is too short to satisfy me!

04.夏の林檎 / apple in summer
Exotic, exotic, still exotic! I love the flute, the drums, the guitar, the tempo, the arrangement, the melody, everything!
The melody sounds pleasant, a bit sad and nostalgic. Umm, that’s typical Kajiura’s style! And, it's my non-Kara-theme-song No. 2.
Maybe this song is the origin of the previous imagination of palm trees, etc…

05.fairytale
This is really a sad song, no matter from the melody or the lyrics; just like that in the PV: the silent forest, the obsolete building, the past memory, and the heart-tearing “sayonara (farewell)…” all make me can’t stop becoming depressing.
This is my Kara-theme-song No. 2! I’ve ever listened to this song repeatedly for not less than 40 times!

06.ARIA
The best part for me in the song may be the chorus. Slowly, HIKARU sings out the first tone. Emotions are like airy stars, you can see them, but your hands can’t reach for them. A piece of sorrowful ARIA.

07.また風が強くなった / again the wind turn to stronger
The cello makes out ominous phrases, the drums are strong all the time, the whole song is heavy, dark, strong, heart-beating, etc. I can’t find other word but that like them to describe this song. Here, we can catch KEIKO’s melody, which we can’t do in case of other songs clear; thus it may be one reason of why I love it, yet it’s a little noisy.

08.傷跡 / scar
After fairytale’s release, this song became my Kara-theme-song No. 3. The first impression of the song is the catchy melody. I also love the lyrics. Here, by the way, I have to mention that all KnK’s lyrics are very fit the original work! WAKANA × KEIKO! Loving the original two-member Kalafina!

09.serenato
I’m afraid I’ve been poisoned by this song. Here I declare: this is my non-Kara-theme-song top 1! I really love everything of the song, especially the exotic elements, the “unknown” plucking instrument, and the drum tempo. (However, firstly I saw the title “serenato,” I thought it should be an Italian opera-like song [laugh])

10.音楽 / music
Ha! Another fast tempo but worth-to-be-cherished song! Finally I thought, maybe KEIKO’s low tone is very good for such fast tempo songs, no? the chorus reminded me Kajiura’s chorus in “synchronicity” (laugh). For this song, the title, “music,” is not bad. Many different elements of music have been merged into the song, and the beating rhythm, I’ll never mind the even-a-bit-loud arrangement!

11.明日の景色 / tomorrow’s scenery
I confess, the very first impression when I heard the first phrase of the song was… ALI PROJECT?! OMG! How came? …… ok, in fact, this song is my non-Kara-theme-song No. 2 (yeah, I have double No. 2 songs). Still, WAKANA is the heroine here. And the later drums reminded me another track by Kajiura-sama, “M18” from KnK OST 5. The imagined scenery of it is “in the land of sea, under the moon.” And, when the flute slides out, it’s just like I see the rising sun. (Here I can hear Yuriko’s chorus very clear!)
……
Another addictive song……

12.sprinter
The first a few times when I listened to it, I didn’t pay more attentions on it. But later, I came to love it. The four singers’ quartet is very wonderful! One phrase falls, another rises; one melody ends, follows another. Drums here are even faster; loving the sprinting feeling in the song. I also love the singers’ performance in the PV!

13.君が光に変えて行く / you turn it to light
The melody is slow and kind of vast. I have no idea why I can’t very like this song (maybe because it’s too slow and peaceful), but some phrases are rather emotional and beautiful.

14.seventh heaven
The final song of “Kara no Kyoukai,” also the final song of the album. Introduced by the main melody, many previous fragments of lyrics and melody recapitulate here. The song is peaceful and gentle, sad yet pleasant. After the dark, here comes another bright dawn.
Its arrangement is in another typical Kajiura’s performance: with soft drums, strings and chorus overlap and stretch every phrase. I very love the last perfect and beautiful chord!

And then, the new music epic ends.

For following reasons, I’m dead…

Mozart’s opera “DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (The Magic Flute),” with conductor Karajan and Berliner Philharmonic, released in 1980. Not a bad version. Though I don’t know much on the art of conducting, I do love Karajan.
I’m learning German. There’re too many words need to be remembered. At the same time, I’ve got to fight on my poor English vocabulary. I’ve ever heard about a man forced his son to remember the novel “Faust,” even by rote. When the boy finished the rote, he had been fluent in German. Maybe it may help. So I found the libretto of “DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE,” and spent some hours to edit the text to be parallel the English translation. But, is it really helpful? I don’t like to learn by rote……

My glasses start to slide down……!!! It’s larger than my face!!! But it didn’t when I just bought it…! And now, I don’t want to get a new pair… since I only use it during watching to the computer screen, or waiting for the bus, I think I may still be lazy longer on getting a new pair.

GENES IX. OMG, my poor reading speed. If I spend 3 hours each day to read 15-20 pages, the time when I finish the book will be 2 months later…

I’m doing some translating of my goddess, Yuki Kajiura’s blog. I know to translate is a good way to improve the language skill. Fortunately, others understand my translation, though sometimes, I may miss some prepositions.
However, bigger mistakes occasionally happen:
How could I use wrong between these words “painter” and “painting”?

I failed to identify an online friend’s gender, until she showed her real name……
Also on that online forum, I’ve told one of my top secrets (that’s about my platonic love affair) to a guy who is 4 years younger than me, at the chat-room, on Valentine day…

The latest episode of my fiction has been worked for almost 2 months! It’s the episode that cost me the longest time… yet I’m still working on it, (I just don’t want to work on it…). What’s wrong? Maybe I’d better to re-write the fiction from the very beginning… then, I’ll decrease the proportion of yuri-like content… but I’m afraid I’ll never decrease them… since I’d glad to see so much yuri-like events in my fiction…… -___-|||

I bathed with a male tonight……! No, I didn’t invite him!! He came in on his own!!! I’m wondering why each time when I bathe, he comes. He should be in his intermittent hibernation! Oh, yeah, spring is coming… er, I’d better explain: he’s Namako, my pet turtle.

Recently, I listened to Vivaldi’s work “Concerto No 5 RV358 movement 3 – Allegro” for not less than 8 times each morning. And I just got the excellent CD: Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: The Ultimate Canon. The music is so beautiful, peaceful, holy, and unforgettable… so, after Vivaldi and Pachelbel, I’m dead.

I’m dead……

Although I love Mozart’s music very much, I don’t hear enough his music yet, which including his famous Requiem in d Minor. So I thought a bit shameful about it, I got the CD yesterday. ♪♪～

This work is one of the few-not-so-happy works from all Mozart’s works. But, but, he’s a wonderful musician! Even only a little, I found his sweet-element from this requiem…

Then, track No. 8 is titled “III - Sequenz - 6 - Lacrimosa.” At first, I didn’t listen to it while reading the titles; but here when it turned to this track, something like “what? A deja-vu?” burst into my mind. Hence, I started to repeat this track. Later, about 3 times of listening to it, I went into the status full with strong emotion toward the famous musician, as well as Kenji Kawai.

What? Why Kenji Kawai? As we know, he is the musician who composed for the animation “Fate/Stay Night.” Talk regardless of his music style, I especially love his way of arrangement. One example is “Fate,” and another is the series of “Higurashi.” The first time when I listened to “Fate,” I paid more attention on these two tracks: “Eirei Chinkon (requiem for the great)” and “La Sola.” I’ve ever listened to only the two for many and many times, with murmuring “how these are marvelous.”

However, I think I’ve felt a little sorry after I listened to Mozart’s Requiem: “Eirei Chinkon” can be seen as a rearrangement of “III - Sequenz - 6 – Lacrimosa!” Why didn’t I know it before? Also, why isn’t there anything about Mozart’s Requiem on the booklet of “Fate”? Ok, I see, at least it was Kenji Kawai did the rearrangement work, so… or, is this only one tiny secret for us listeners from “Fate”?

Ok, ok, no matter what it is. At least, I dug it out yesterday! ♪♪～

モーツァルトの音楽が好きでいるくせに、そちらの著名な鎮魂曲を一度でも始めから終わりまで聴いたことはなくて、恥ずかしくてついに、昨日そのCDを手に取った。♪♪～

この作品はモーツァルトのあらゆる作品の中に、少数の「楽しそうではない」一曲である。でもね、やっぱ、やっぱすごい音楽家だね。微かにだけど、私はこの鎮魂曲から彼の「甘い旋律」を発見した…

そして、トラック8のは、「III - Sequenz - 6 - Lacrimosa」というタイトルがある。一番最初私はタイトルなんかぜんぜん気づいてないまま聞いてたが、この曲になると、「あら、デジャヴュ？」と自分に聞きながら、CDプレイヤーをこの曲に留めた。その後、およぞ三度かな、「ああ、こなんじゃすごーい。モーツァルト、または川井憲次さん！」と言わんばかりに、私はずいぶん感慨無量だった。

え？なんで川井憲次？その方、テレビアニメ「Fate/Stay Night」の音楽担当である。彼の曲風はさておき、私はとっくに彼のアレンジが好きである。「Fate」はひとつ、また「ひぐらし」シリーズも。始めて「Fate」のOSTを聞いたとき、「英霊鎮魂」と「La Sola」二曲を大変気になった。なんて素敵な曲だねと連呼ながらその二曲を繰り返し聞いたこともいつもある。

でも、今度モーツァルトの鎮魂曲を聴いた後、なんか、少し恥ずかしくなったような気がした。だって、「英霊鎮魂」は実に、「III - Sequenz - 6 - Lacrimosa」の再編集と言ってもいいから。なんでその前は知らなかったの？そして、なんで「Fate」のブックレットにて、原作曲者をちっとも付いたことない？もちろん川井憲次はこの曲を再編曲した。あるいは、これがもっとも「Fate」が私たち聞き手のほうに残した小さな秘密の一つ？

まあ、どうでもいいの。せめて昨日から、私がこの秘密を見つけた。♪♪～