[Lyrics] [Alexandros] – moon song

Lyrics taken from the video [with much difficulty], romaji by me

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Until the morning we were side by side
夜を纏いながら引き裂きながら
It seems like there’d be no end
永遠に終わらないと笑っていた

Until the morning we were side by side
yoru wo matoi nagara hikisaki nagara
It seems like there’d be no end
eien ni owaranai to waratteita

長月の下　冷えだして
互い以外何も触れなく
湿気った花火百 円ライターに近づけ、
火をつけた

nagatsuki no shita hiedashite
tagai igai nanimo furenakute
shikketta hanabi hyakuen raitaa ni chikazuke
hi wo tsuketa

It was so bright, high

一分足らずで花火は消え去って
辺りは暗くなり　見えなくなり
街灯を頼って　家路に着く頃には
シラケ切っていた

ippun tarazu de hanabi ha kiesatte
atari wa kuraku nari mienakunari
gaitou wo tanotte ieji ni tsuku koroni wa
shirake kitteita

眩しかったあの時代を
昨夜不意に思い出した
胸の奥底痛むよ
断片的でしかないくせして

mabushikatta ano jidai wo
sakuya fui ni omoidashita
mune no okusoko itamu yo
danpenteki de shika naikuseshite

And all the things we’ve done
Are slowly fading away from the memory
大粒の涙が頬を伝った跡は消え去り
Now we’re dropped into the new phase
Gotta throw away all the history
通り過ぎ去って叢雲に隠れていく

And all the things we’ve done
Are slowly fading away from the memory
ootsubu no namida ga hoho wo tsutatta ato wa kiesari
Now we’re dropped into the new phase
Gotta throw away all the history
toorisugisatte murakumo ni kakureteiku

We were so bright, high

君がいなくなった世界で
僕はどれくらい残るの？
月の浮かぶ水面を叩く
波紋が不安を象る

kimi ga inakunatta sekai de
boku wa dore kurai nokoru no?
tsuki no ukabu minamo wo tataku
hamon ga fuan wo katadoru

Now that it’s over and we can’t go back
二度と戻れない　戻れない
Until the end I was so young and fool
小便臭い履歴叩き割って

Now that it’s over and we can’t go back
nido to modorenai modorenai
Until the end I was so young and fool
shoubenkusai rireki tatakiwatte

傷つかないように
話題の外から見守った
当事者になるのを恐れで
波紋を両手で馴染ませた

kizutsukanai you ni
wadai no soto kara mimamotta
toujisha ni naru no wo osorede
hamon wo ryoute de najimaseta

And all the things I’ve done
Are slowly changing the way from the theory
大粒の雨が記憶を巡って後は閉じ去り
Now we’re dropped into the new phase
Gotta throw away all the history
通り過ぎ去った雨雲から舌を出して

And all the things I’ve done
Are slowly changing the way from the theory
ootsubu no ame ga kioku wo megutte ato wa tojisari
Now we’re dropped into the new phase
Gotta throw away all the history
toorisugisatta amagumo kara shita wo dashite

I feel so high, high

光のないこの世界で
僕はどれくらい見えるの？
月が浮かんだその場所へ
月を頼らずに向かおう

hikari no nai kono sekai de
boku wa dore kurai mieru no?
tsuki ga ukanda sono basho he
tsuki wo tayorazu ni mukaou

君がいなくなった世界で
僕はどれくらい残るの？
君がいないならいないで
自ら月に成り上がろう

kimi ga inakunatta sekai de
boku wa dorekurai nokoru no?
kimi ga inai nara inai de
mizukara tsuki ni nari agarou

La la la…

[Lyrics] [Alexandros] – FEEL LIKE

Smooth song, love it!

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I feel like singing, without a word, without a word, oh yeah
I feel like dancing, without a step, without a step, oh yeah
I know what’s waiting, outside the door, oh yeah
I feel it’s beating, without a sound, without a sound, oh yeah

I know you’re waiting, but you got to be moving
I feel it’s beating, without a sound, without a sound, oh

I feel like dancing up all night
I’m gonna take you with me
It’d be alright

I feel like flying up in the sky
Just like a red, blue, green, yellow, silver kite

I feel like dancing up all night
I’m gonna take you with me
It’d be alright

I feel like flying up in the sky
Just like a red, blue, green, yellow, silver kite

I feel like singing, without a word, without a word, oh yeah
I feel like dancing, without a step, without a step, oh yeah
I know you’re waiting, but you got to be moving
I feel it’s beating, without a sound, without a sound, oh

I feel like dancing up all night
I’m gonna take you with me
It’d be alright

I feel like flying up in the sky
Just like a red, blue, green, yellow, silver kite

I feel like dancing up all night
I’m gonna take you with me
It’d be alright

I feel like flying up in the sky
Just like a red, blue, green, yellow, silver kite

I feel like flying, high above, high above the sky
I feel like dancing, without moving to the beat

I feel like flying, high above, high above the sky
I feel like singing, without a word the world is free to fly

-Behind the Scenes-

[Lyrics] [Alexandros] I want u to love me

This isn’t a love song ;D

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ika ni mo daru sou na LOVE SONG wo
kedobashite hagaijime ni shiyou
tanin no DARLING no
tawagoto nado kusokurae da
kawaranai kawaranai
sekai ni idonde ikou
daikirai na otonatachi ni
tatetsukuite ikou ze
taitei wa sou kanau mae ni kowasareru kara
atarimae no you ni
oodondengaeshi neratte yarou

I want u to love me
(All the things you say)

‘Cause I’m done
One Two Three Four

sou tookunai shourai
kimi wa nakiyandeiru kai?
tanoshiku mabushii
hibi ga sugisattemo
taitei wa sou
moeagatte sameteiku kara
atarimae no you ni
daidanen no otozure wo nando mo

I want u to love me
(All the things you say)

kozaiku no nai sekai ni itte
kanjou wo kakagetai
itai no itai no tondeikeba ii
mozaiku no nai sekai ni itte
taion sawatteitai
itai no itai no tondeikeba ii

Yeah, I know

itai no itaino tondeike

[Lyrics] [Alexandros] – Thunder

This song is amazing live, just saying ;D

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atari sawarinai boku no mainichi ga mata
getsu ka sui moku kin de somatteku
hitomazu nokotta moushiwake teido no do nichi de
motodoori nitte nurikaeru

‘atarimae no seikatsu’ wa dare ni totte no
atarimae na no ka toka ni yoru keredo
boku no mainichi wa sou da
aru imi e ni kaita yo na ‘atarimae no seikatsu’ da

aseranai de ima no ima made
yatte kita kekka
korobazu ni yamazu ni
iki nokotta
itami mo shirazu
shigeki mo shirazu
shi ni taku wa nai no sa

ame ga futte
tobikondatta
ano sekai ni

aitaitte
omotte
tadotte
meguri meguri kita no desu

akegata ni natte
ware ni kaette
‘mou ii’ tte

honno sukoshi
kimi no sekai ni itakatta no desu

atari sawarinai boku no ichinen ga
haru to natsu to aki to fuyu de umatteku
nani mo nokoranai kara ‘semete san ga nichi no aida dake demo’
tte torimodosu

‘atarimae no sekatsu’ wa dare ni totte no
atarimae na no ka toka ni yoru keredo
boku no mainichi wa sou da
aru imi e ni kaita yo na ‘atarimae no seikatsu’ da

aseranai de ima no ima made
yatte kita kekka
korobazu ni yamazu ni
iki nokotta
nigami mo shirazu
shigeki mo shirazu
shi ni taku wa nai no sa

kaminari ga natte
tobikondetta
ano sekai ni

kietaitte
omotte mo
nemutte mo
asa mezameru no desu

yonaka ni natte mo
nemuku nakute
samayotte

honno sukoshi no aida
kono sekai ni itakatta no desu

I wanna go
I’m on the road
I wanna know
I want it more
I want it slow

kaminari ga natte
tobikondetta
ano sekai wa

aitaitte
modotte mo
mou boku ni wa ikutoko wa nai

ame ga futte
tobikondetta
ano sekai ni

aitaitte
omotte
tadotta kedo
dare mo inai no desu

akegata ni natte
ware ni kaette
modotta

honno sukoshi no aida
kimi no sekai ni itakatta no desu

tooriame datta
tooku de hikatta
tooriame datta yeah yeah

tooriame datta
chikaku de hikatta
tooriame datta yeah yeah

[Lyrics] EXILE – jounetsu no hana

konya wa kaeru
sou aseru no wa
itsumo no kimi rashiku nai yo
damari konda mama utsumuki kimi
tada dakishimeru koto shika dekinai

deatta koro ni wa souzou mo tsukanai
fukaku atsui futari no omoi

hajimete deatta ano yoru kara
wakatteita hazu na no ni
suki ni narazu ni irareta no nara
sou tsubuyaite mo toki wa modoranai
kono mama

henji wo shite yo
sou sekasu no wa
hoka ni dareka kokoro ni iru kara
nomihosu gurasu wa sou itsumo yori
kanashiku mieru owari no yokan
konya no futari jounetsu wo hana you ni
maiochiru sadame
Don’t wanna beat it, hey

donna ni omotte aishiatte mo
keshite mukuwarenai to
tomadou kodou kono rizumu wa
sotto saku AMORU ni mi wo yudanete shimau
kono mama

mitsumeau sono shunkan
ANDARUSHIA no you na junpaku no omoi mo
jounetsu ni somete shimau

hajimete deatta ano yoru kara
wakatteita hazu na no ni
suki ni narazu ni irareta no nara
sou tsubuyaite mo toki wa modoranai
kono mama

[Lyrics] Sandaime J Soul Brothers – Link

♥ Tosaka Hiroomi

hageshiku moeru futatsu no honoo
eien ni kieru koto naku
uh~
sono subete wo dakishimeteitai

kodokusa wo gomakasu you ni
nando mo fureatte ita ne
owaru koto no nai toki wo kanjiteta

kono mama futari de
daremo shiranai basho e…
sore ga yurusareru koto no nai
kono ai no katachi sa…

hageshiku moeru futatsu no honoo
eien ni kieru koto naku
hitotsu ni natte toki wo tomerareru nara
mou subete ushinatte mo ii

donna ni kurushikute mo hanarerarenai
itsumade mo mamotte yuku kono ai

kokoro no yowasa wo kakusu tame ni
anata wa tsuyogatte ita ne
furerarete shimau to kowarete yuku kara

yasashii egao wa
zutto ano toki no mama de
furikaeru to setsunaku naru yo
jibun wo semeteita

hageshiku moeru kokoro no honoo
kanashii ame ni utarete mo
kasanariatte yoru wo koerareru nara
mou nani mo nozomu koto wa nai
donna ni tooku tatte tsunagatte ita

zutto soba ni itai
tatoe kono omoi ga hakanakute mo
shinjite ireba kanau ka na

hageshiku moeru futatsu no honoo
eien ni kieru koto naku
hitotsu ni natte toki wo tomerareru nara
mou subete ushinatte mo ii

hageshiku moeru kokoro no honoo
kanashii ame ni utarete mo
kasanariatte yoru wo koerareru nara
mou nani mi nozomu koto wa nai

donna ni tooku tatte tsunagatte ita
yorisotta omoide wa sou ano mama

Losing touch.

Recently I find myself losing touch with the world, a little more each day. I feel as though our society, friends and family seem to become foreign to me, and what I do for them isn’t enough. I feel bad for that, and think about what I can do to make our relationships better. But at the same time, I don’t see why I need to change myself. I’m like this because society, friends and family made me this way.

Let’s start with society.

Apparently your value, your successes, your worth, everything comes down to what you do every day to earn a living. Banks look at you by your earnings, employers look at you based on what you did in the past for money, and everyone else around you going about their day will compare their materialistic life with you. Personally I try not to do that. What I see as ‘success’ is people going about their day doing something they love, and I respect that many times more than slaving away at a job they hate so much. It’s like people have forgotten what life is really about. I’ve worked at a place where it changed me – from absolutely loving it, to wanting to leave because I hated almost everyone there. Leaving that place was one of the best things I’ve done for myself, and I couldn’t be any happier with my life right now. But when I meet new people, I’m still afraid of the questions they ask me…

• “What do you do for a living?”
• “Are you still studying?”
• “Is there anything out there you want to do?”

I can’t answer all those questions without sounding like a recluse, I really can’t, so I rather not. The truth is I’m happily sitting at home, planning my future line of products, playing games, hanging with my cat, waking up and going to sleep whenever I feel like. I wake up every day for myself, and not for anyone else. I’m not bound by anything, and I guess that’s my success right there.

Friends

I’ll admit that I am not very good at keeping in touch with people. I’m not active in that manner, but should anyone need me, I’ll be there whenever they want to call me to talk to me. I’ll drop whatever I’m doing and go to see them (benefit of my ‘success’ of not being bound by routine). And when they’re happy again and no longer need my assistance, we’ll go back to NOT talking to each other for the rest of the year. That was okay with me for a while, but…

I hate it. I don’t want to be treated like a substitute friend any more.

If being the benchwarmer is what I have to do to keep being friends with someone, then I don’t wanna be friends with anyone. I’ve had friends who I only hear from when they have bad news and their own best friends are being terrible listeners. Otherwise I never hear of any good news, any updates, I am just left in the dark. Until I am needed again that is. I guess this is all just part of the (for lack of a better word) natural selection of friends. I’ll ignore messages. I’ll ignore any attempts they have at catching up with me (by catching up I mean them talking about what’s wrong with their life all day). I don’t want any part of it. I’m done being unappreciated.

Family

I feel as though I’m the oddball of the family. My interests don’t really line up with anyone else’s, but regardless I did my best to make them happy. But I look at my relationship with them now, and to be honest I see nothing there. I can’t confide in any of them, and I don’t trust them with my problems. Why is that? Because apparently, to them…

• I am spoilt and selfish even though I never threw tantrums, wanting them to get me this and get me that.
• I am apparently not good at saving money so they get me to give them money for them to hold onto, but then they spend it on drugs.
• The worst I can do is stay up past 12 doing my assignments, making them take away my laptop from me until I can prove to them I won’t do it again. (Fuck you by the way, I could’ve failed it). Yup, that’s the worse I can do. Staying up late is gonna ruin my life. Not substance abuse. Not sleeping around. Not going to jail. Not running red lights.
• They think I’ll get pregnant because I have a boyfriend, and tried to limit the time I he gets to see me. Wow do I really seem that promiscuous?
• They are AFRAID of what outside people will think whey they find out my boyfriend stays over with us a lot, when it’s their own fault I feel safer with him around. FUCK WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK, WHAT ABOUT HOW I FEEL?
• I mean when a parent is doubting you, what does it say about the way they raised you?

I’m just really disappointed in them because throughout my whole life, I’ve been trying to play my cards right. I wanted them to trust me, so I followed everything they told me. But they still don’t trust me. Maybe if I went down the path of being a crack whore, then me staying up past 12 to do my assignments wouldn’t sound so bad after all. So don’t blame me for being so distant or cold. I’m done with trying to live by your inconsistent standards.

I need to remember the only person I should worry about is myself. In the end everyone does everything for their own happiness anyway. I need to be more selfish.

So I Quit My Job…

I was officially there for 1 year and 2 days.

And I was expecting this wave of relief to overcome me.

But it didn’t happen! Instead I dived straight into research and planning what’s going to happen next in my life.

I didn’t quit out of the blue – quitting has actually been on my mind for a long time. A few of the factors that lead to myself acting upon my decision were:

1. The retail world is full of dumbasses.

I’m serious. I worked under someone who does not how to do simple maths, lacked common sense, inefficient – everything you DON’T look for in a job posting. They claimed to have had 20 years of retail experience – doing what exactly? I was told that I work heaps better and I’ve only been in retail for one year. Fun fact: while I had to work my ass off for a secure place in the roster amongst nearly 40 people [team got cut down to 5 people from 40], they secured a salary through bullshitting an interview. I had to get out of there before I turned into a total idiot.

2. My boyfriend’s manager was worried about my design career.

Quite sad that it took someone else’s manager to tell me that I need to put more time and effort into sorting myself out and finding out what I really wanted to do. He could tell from a glance that I hated retail when I told him what I was doing. A lot of his advice stuck with me from that single encounter. He said, and I paraphrase, “If you’re not stressing over something when you get home and have the time to play games, watch movies, something’s not right.” I guess it really hit home… but I still do love my gaming time.

3. When my area manager said I was “just mucking around”.

I had a lovely chat with my area manager and he asked me if I was studying. I said no, I graduated a while back. He asked if I was working elsewhere. I said no. He said “So you’re just mucking around then?”. I wanted to throw whatever was in my hand at him. But it really hit me how true it was. How long was I gonna float around for? FYI, he resigned two months before I did.

4. When I designed a logo for a friend’s online baby clothing store.

Whilst I was still employed, I whipped up a character for a friend to use as his logo. It was the most fun I had in a while doing something design related. I didn’t even want them to pay me for it, I just had lots of fun with it. And it got me thinking… this is something I’m willing to do for free… whilst my job requires the idea of a weekly payslip to drag me out of bed for work. Hmm…

5. The amount of time I spent complaining about work.

Well this relates to point #1 up there but yeah, I did find most of my free time was dreading and complaining about work with my colleagues and my boyfriend. My work-life balance was whacked up because there was that much to be stressed out about. Although being able to vent it out was good and relieved a lot of pressure, it started to become an recurring cycle.

6. Stocktake in fast moving consumer goods retail sucks. BALLS.

Period. Never going through that again.

7. Potential business opportunity.

I had a random chat with my brother and he had a business idea which coincided with mine. It was something I wanted to do but had little confidence to achieve it on my own. Maybe it’ll work out this time, with his support. AND no, it’s not anything dodgy like pyramid schemes. It’s still design related :).

That’s it for the massive spontaneous update on where I’m headed in life. I’m glad I was able to leave on relatively good terms with management so I’m left with no regrets.

Thanks for reading!

Catherine.

Silent Screams

Prior to writing this entry I was curled up under two blankets trying to escape reality. It’s been a year since I have been working as a retail assistant and I think I’ve just about had enough of it. 

Staying at this job goes against everything I stand for – I never wanted a job to feel like a job. I wanted a job that I would enjoy doing even if I didn’t get paid to do it. When I first started out, it was like a dream come true. I worked with an awesome group of people and made friends – friends who understood me within 2 months unlike others who still can’t connect with me after years. I used to come into work 1-2 hours early, just to hang out. I stayed back at work for 2-4 hours, just to help out. I didn’t mind that I didn’t get paid for those extra hours. I worked 40 hour weeks without anything to bitch and whine about. Instead of being tired, I was always full of energy, and I loved my life.

But that happiness was short lived. Everyone I cared about here began to leave one by one for greener pastures. I had to report to a person who I didn’t believe in nor inspire me one bit. I could not work under a person who could not work in a team, dictates rather than leads, does not follow up on their own work, steals credit, and is an emotional wreck. 

12 months later

I’m questioning my values. Why am I making myself stay here. My workplace relationships are damaged beyond repair, I don’t intend to move up into higher positions here, am I just gonna be one of those people who work for money and disregard their morals?

I feel myself sinking lower and lower into the ground each passing day. I sit in my car dreading the final minutes before each shift, preparing myself for the worst. This is a sign that I should quit, right? I think of quitting all the time but what is holding me back?

I love what I do here. I loved the beginning where everything was so perfect, with the perfect team and all. Maybe there’s a part of me that clings on to the thought that one day, if I wait it out, things will be all right again… even though I know they won’t be. 

I’ve tried changing, I’ve tried fixing things, but everything just repeats itself. It’s a vicious, endless cycle. 

What if…

I’m left thinking about what could have been. What if I wasn’t accepted in the first place? Would I have done that internship in Canberra? Would I have started my own online store? Whatever it was I would have been doing… would I be happier than now?

All I know for sure is that anything is better than this.

Rain

I found a collection of creative writing that I did in year 10 (8 years ago). A lot of writing I did back then was generally about going through the teenage stages of life, but amongst them were… what I consider now to be the masterpieces of my younger years. My writing has come back to re-inspire me and show me the way back to being self confident about my work, when there were no wrong answers. Enjoy :).

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Wednesday 6th September 2006

Rain

I am the rain that falls onto the trees
To give them life
Just sun will not suffice

I am the rain that falls into the rivers
For the fish to swim
Or for people to use as a bin

I am the rain collected in tanks
So people can drink
Or to rinse in the sink

I am the rain that falls in the reservoir
Taken to houses when plenty
No use to anyone if empty

I am the rain that runs through taps
With a purposeful use
Or just for waste and abuse

I am the rain that falls on the ground
In puddles is where I can be found
Before I make my way back to the clouds

I am the rain that connects the earth to the sky
Eternally separated as the years drift by
With lingering hope, I wish for this:
To bring the people’s hearts together
That peace and calm will remain forever

Catherine Nguyen
10 Catherine