Dear – Hatsune Miku

This was the song that had obtained first place in the #91 Weekly Vocaloid Rankings. Listen to it. Well, amazing, isn’t it? I wouldn’t be able to tell you how amazing I felt when I listened to the song. I immediately felt refreshed after I had finished, and this is no exaggeration.

Just now when I first listened to the song, I had had the thought that I may have listened to the song somewhere before. Perhaps it could be some anime’s OP theme? Or was it some J-pop song sung by a famous J-pop singer like Ayumi Hamazaki? It was pretty familiar, after all.

I did a Google search and found that I was mistaken. No, it wasn’t any anime song, nor it was sung by any J-pop singer. In fact, accordingly, it’s an original Vocaloid song composed by 19’s Sound Factory. The song’s downloadable at their website: http://19soundfactory.web.fc2.com/, Since they provided the song for free over at the website, I downloaded the song right away, no question asked.

Okay, so, the fact is, I had listened to the song before, probably over at Youtube, sung by some male voice. I just never expected that it would leave such a strong impression on me that I thought that it might not be an original vocaloid song. The male voice might have been Kaito or some male vocaloids, but I don’t really care anymore now that I have known the source.

Obama Kills a Fly

“That’s the most persistent fly I’ve ever seen,” – CNBC Interviewer John Harwood.

“U.S. President proves he can do anything, and make it look cool. ” – electrikkoolaid

“President Obama swats a fly and kills it during an interview. Obama has good reflexes and accuracy, don’t mess with him. ” – utubepopular

“Obama Kills Fly Like a Ninja!” – barelypolitical

“YES, HE CAN! He got the sucker!” – animexxkoblenz

“Wow, his face is so straight. I pity the fly.” – ylwong

“That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got the sucker,” – Barack Obama

Shiroi Hana – ZONE

Shiroi Hana, a song sung by ZONE, could probably be one of the earliest songs that I have listened to online when I had started having internet connection at around 2004. I was then, you could say, a noob at that time. The thing is, this song was featured in a Japanese advertisement. An advertisement that I had had been watching over and over again.

I had a GameBoyAdvance and had been playing with it since 2003 I think. Even during my UPSR examination period I had been playing with the GBA. It was funny how I ended up with 7As when the result came out. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was probably my favourite game on the GBA. It was either Pokémon Sapphire or that game.

Here it all comes together: The advertisement that I was talking about was Final Fantasy Tactics Advance’s advertisement in Japan. As I was a keen fanatic of FFTA at that time, I had searched the internet for materials, hoping to find some. I found the 15-second advertisement and subsequently downloaded it onto my computer (the original video is now long gone due to countless formats). I had even watched it over and over again countless times.

I never cared about what song were used in the ad as it was so short that it didn’t gave me any impression at all. 5 years later or so today that I looked back at the ad over at Youtube only then I realised that the song used in that advertisement was in fact “Shiroi Hana”.

Wow, I thought to myself. This song could have been an invaluable information that I could have added onto “Clan Rayburn”, another of my website that now no longer exists.

ZONE was a bandol (band + idol) that I was introduced to as the original for ENOZ, the band Suzumiya Haruhi played in during North High’s School Festival. I couldn’t be bothered to look into ZONE at that time as… I didn’t even thought of it. Now that it is too late and that ZONE has split up, I’ll be only able to listen to their old songs.

A Dose of MapleStory (14): MapleStory Promotes Scamming & Reports Won’t Go Through?

Right just now Tsusaka was trying to sell a Maple Doom Singer and a scammer requested a trade. Well, he was trying to scam Tsusaka.

Being a good MapleStory player, Tsusaka decided to report the incident to the authorities (in this case, the GM) to avoid the person from scamming other people. However, he failed. Here’s proof: unmodified, uncut, untouched screenshots of the incident taking place (click the images to enlarge them):

“Aha, a scammer. I’ll report him by clicking the alarm sign at the right to the textbox where I can type things into.”

Wow, looking so formal, just like making a police report. *clicks thｅ ＣＯＮＶＥＲＳＡＴＩＯＮ CLAIM* button.

I can see the “do not report trade scams” note down there. Does this mean that MapleStory is actually recommending players to scam others?

Well anyways, I’d still decided to make a report. I am not reporting a scam case, but instead, I am reporting a person who wanted to scam me, not once, but twice, to avoid others from becoming victims.

*Choses the appropriate forms and filled up my report (which had a very limited space).* 1000 meso just to make a report? Well, okay. *Clicks CLAIM*

“Please try again later” was the reply.

WTF?!

Why won’t it go through?!

“Please try again later” wah, if it is in the real world and 999 were to have such a reply, walao how many houses would have been robbed into and how many lives would have been lost!

This also reminds me of the Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. hotline I called when there was a power outage – they did not even pick up the phone!

Perhaps they (the MapleStory GMs) were too lazy to deal with these sort of matter, huh?

Anyway, I do sincerely hope that MapleStory, more specifically MapleSEA and Asiasoft, to buck up and give their player more protection by enabling the report system!

A Dose of MapleStory… (13) – Top Of The Highest Tree In Ellinia

Tsusaka’s  at the top of the “tallest tree in Ellinia”.

It claims to be 300km from the ground. If that’s so, then Tsusaka should be at the top of the world, since even the highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, is only 8km high!

And what if you were to jump from there?

You’ll end up in Sleepywood.

Hahahaha……

…

Oh and, Tsusaka was in Ellinia to collect some Lupin’s Banana for Estelle to make some Sweet Syrup, and 100 cursed dolls for Arwen the Fairy.

He then met Faust, the Boss of the region.

Faust was quite easy, truthfully speaking, said Tsusaka. He could defeat it even though he wasn’t prepared at all.

Happy 4th Anniversary, MapleSEA

Tsusaka wishes MapleSEA a Happy 4th Anniversary!

Oh and, thanks for the MapleTree chair, too, MapleSEA. I got it during my first try with the Golden Maple Leaf. XD

Burung Kakak Tua – Kasane Teto

Here’s Burung Kakak Tua, a Malaysian children song, sung by Kasene Teto, a UTAU-loid.

UTAUs is a free software, as opposed to Vocaloids. I was on one hand surprised, on the other hand impressed with the person, apparently a Japanese, who had managed to input the song into the software. Looks like even Bahasa Malaysia songs can be made with such software, and we can expect more in the future!

Barisan Nasional Not Contesting in Penanti!

What the title said. Here’s a video of Najib confirming it.

Hum. Incidentally, the following quote is what I was thinking:

Tetapi inilah realiti sebuah sistem pemerintahan yang berteraskan demokrasi, suara rakyat berkuasa menentukan siapa pemimpin yang mereka mahu. Umno dan BN cuba mematikan api demokrasi yang hidup dalam sanubari rakyat dengan memperlecehkan pilihan raya bila mana peluang kemenangan tidak memihak kepada mereka.

That was a quote from a TVAntara article.

BN has also stated that they will not be supporting any independent. I wonder….

Zee Avi, Malaysian Youtube Singer

This post is for Zee Avi, a Malaysian singer based in the US. She’ll be releasing her debut CD, named after herself, on May 19.

Here’s how Youtube described Zee Avi:

In 2007, Zee Avi began uploading her music to YouTube from her hometown in Malaysia. A year later, she was flown to L.A. to record her debut CD. Enjoy an exclusive acoustic mini-concert from this songstress, along with special video blog greeting to fans.

Here’s a video of her introducing herself to the world:

Sibu MP – The “Jamban” King!

I refer to the article at theStar entitled “Toilet king of Malaysia calls it a day“.

This fella, Lau Hoi Chew, has been the Member of Parliament for Sibu (my parent’s hometown) for I dunno how many terms, and yet the only nickname he has earned for himself is, “The Toilet King”. I cry for the people of Sibu, oh me gosh.

Blame the government for giving him the cabinet post of “Deputy Housing & Local Government Minister”. Due to his ministerial duties, he had founded the first Toilet Association in Malaysia, namely the “Quality Restroom Assocation Malaysia (QRAM)” to promote clean public toilet in the country, and even became its first president since it was founded in 2005.

Now as he was moved to another ministry leaving the Housing & Local Government Ministry, he had decided to let go his position as the President of the QRAM.

I sure he had wanted to leave the position as soon as possible. It is a terrible embarrassment for him and his constituents who voted for him if he were to continue to be the “Jamban King”.

And now I wonder, will the person, whoever he or she is, who would take over as the “Deputy Housing & Local Government Minister”, be willing to take over as the President of the QRAM? And perhaps subsequently, the next “Jamban King”? XD