High School

It was half-past six in the morning and I was walking in the school corridor sometime in March. The air was full of fragrance of freshly bloomed flowers. I stopped for a while and smelled the familiar fragrance of someone quite akin to those flowers.

He caught up with me, and greeted me with a casual good morning. A passing glance – but still I couldn’t find the right words to say straight to his face. I never thought talking to someone like him could be this complicated. I felt desperate to say something in the crucial moment. I saw him clutching his guitar. “You have brought your guitar.” I casually said. He just nodded and

The Duke

marc nelson, rovilson fernandez, eunice olsen

One of the coolest TV shows that I’m currently enjoying is entitled The Duke, hosted by Marc Nelson, Rovilson Fernandez and Eunice Olsen. Of course, the boys (Marc and Rovilson) are quite familiar to me, because they represented the team Philippines in the AXN’s Amazing Race Asia Season 2. It’s a men’s magazine show – and most of the topics concerns men, but girls are welcome to eavesdrop, hahahha. Seriously, the topics that they featured in the show are interesting and entertaining – metrosexuals, battle of the sexes and fashion features. Last week, the topic was all about metrosexual and I like the discussion, hahaha. And they also feature a famous figure in their duke-of-the-hour segment.

It’s a funny mix of lifestyle, fashion and an exploration of what makes a man “a duke”. Cool. It’s the latest AXN original production.

Konna ni Chikaku De

“This Close”

Crystal Kay

Nodame Cantabile 1^st Ending Theme

Oh right! I am really going gaga over the new hip and romantic anime on Animax entitled Nodame Cantabile. I had just posted the first opening theme of the anime entitled Allegro Cantabile yesterday (check it out!) and here is the 1^st ending theme of the same animation.

I love the song and thanks to the English translation, I love it even more! Well, the song is about someone who thinks that love is a very sad feeling, especially if that kind of feeling is unrequited. Sigh. Sometimes, we wish our expectations would be the same as that of the other, but life is really not at all romantic all the time.

This song captures that kind of feeling. A girl is totally in love with the guy, but they could go as far as friends.

If you have an mp3 copy of the song, please share it to me. I really love this song more than anything. Here’s my email address : kyrillevin@gmail.com

Happy Valentines day and cheers!

Romaji/Original lyrics

Koi ga setsunai to

Sugu soba de kizuita ano yoru

Datte hoka no dare yori

Anata no koto wa shitteru kara

Itsumo no sarigenai

Yasashisa sae kono mune wo shimetsuketeku

Konna ni, konna ni chikaku de mitsumete mo

Doushite doushite tada no tomodachi na no?

Donna ni donna ni tsuyoku omotte itemo

Tsutaerarenai you don’t understand

I’m so in love with you

“Genki nai yo ne?” to

anata kara iwareta shunkan

Namida kakusu AKUBI de

“Nebusoku ka na? tte ii wake shita

Ichiban taisetsu na

Hito ni uso wo kasaneteku… ima no watashi

Mainichi mainichi mune ga kurushii kara

Ikutsumu ikutsumu nemurenu yoru wo koe

Hajimete hajimete deatta ano hi ni mata

Modoreru no nara ii no ni…

I’m so in love with you

“Aishiteru” to tsugetara kitto

Mou nidoto egao ni wa modorenai kamo shirenai

Keredo mo tomodachi no mama tsukuriwarai wa

Kore ijyou, watashi dekinai kara

HONTO wa HONTO wa zutto suki data no

itsudemo itsudemo aishi tsuzuketa no

Anata ni anata ni dodoketai kimocho wo

Aoi sora he to sasayaita

I’m so in love with you

Konna ni, konna ni chikaku de mitsumete mo

Doushite doushite tada no tomodachi na no?

Donna ni donna ni tsuyoku omotte itemo

Tsutaerarenai you don’t understand

I’m so in love with you

Chiaki and Nodame

English Translation

Love is so sad

I realized it that night you were next to me

Cause better than anyone else,

I know you so well

Even your casual kindness

Makes my chest tighten

This, this close I’m watching you

Why, why are we only friends?

No matter how, no matter how strong my feelings are

They don’t reach you. You don’t understand

I’m so in love with you

“You’re not feeling too good?”

you said, and in that moment

I yawned to hide my tears

“Lack of sleep, maybe?” was my excuse

The lies to my most important person

Keep piling up that’s the current me

Every day every day, my heart is in pain

Countless, countless sleepless nights overcome

that first, that first day we met

I’m so in love with you

If I confess that “I Love You”

I probably won’t be able to smile again

But to continue as friends, with fake smiles

I can’t take it anymore

The truth is, the truth is I always loved you

Always, always, I kept loving you

To you, to you I want to send these feelings

I whisper them to the blue sky

I’m so in love with you

This, this close I’m watching you

Why, why are we only friends?

No matter how, no matter how strong my feelings are

They don’t reach you. You don’t understand

I’m so in love with you

That Oh! book

For the month of February, I bought another book. It’s entitled Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1985 – a collection of short stories that were published in the period from the summer of 1983 to the summer of 1984. This book is the 65^th volume in the O. Henry Memorial Awards series. The stories here are more contemporary versions of the Maupassant tradition (well, I think!).

I like this book – it’s kinda old, and I was totally pleased to have bought it for 77 php (less than 2$)at the city mall here. It’s a collection of 21 contemporary American short stories. Some of the writers of these stories include my personal favorites: Tobias Wolff, Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike.

Last month, I bought a spoof version of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. That book, is entitled The Profit which was written by Kehlog what’s-his-complete-name-i-forgot.

Cut Off

One morning I woke up to find the stem of my plant dangling.

It was accidentally cut off, probably. I placed all my potted plants back at the veranda. I looked at the stem hanging loosely. Who could’ve done such thing? I imagine my mother’s voice in

Allegro Cantabile

Description: Opening Theme
Arrangement: Atsushi Suemitsu
Artist: SUEMITSU&THE SUEMITH
Compositon: Atsushi Suemitsu
Lyrics: Atsushi Suemitsu
Nodame Cantabile

hachijuuhachi bamen no naka ni chirabatta oto kaki atsumeta te
kotoba ni naranai omoi narabeta gosenfu no ue oikoshita hibi

kousashiteiku sandouwo kasane koko hibikasete

utau you ni massugu ni
uta no ue wo nobiteiku
hoka ni wa nanimo dekinai
toki no subete azukenagara

jiyuu ni tokihanatareta
sunao ni kakemeguru yubi
owarinaki CRESCENDO wa fukaku
dareka no moto e mukau

me no mae ni hikareta sekai
kurikaesu atarashii PRELUDE

hachijuuhachi yume monogatari ochitoshita kyuufu, kawaru HARMONY
shizuka ni sotto totonoeta iki � arubeki katachi torimodosu made

kaki kesareru sando wo kasane koko ni hibikasete

utau tabi ni shinjiteita
uta no soba wo hazureteiku
IN TEMPO de tsumazuite
motsureteiku sokkyou no naka e

hikikaesu michi ga kieru
ugokasareru nami ga chikaku
ushinatta koe no MELODY
dareka no moto e mukau

me no mae wo tozashiteiku tobira
kanashimi wa tsumiagerareta ETUDE

ishiki mo naku togarasete
tsukande kata furikitta
itsumademo wasurenai de
utau gotoku kokoro no mama

utau you ni massugu ni
uta no ue wo nobiteiku
owari naki CRESCENDO wa fukaku
dareka no moto e mukaukyrillevin.

STAGE no hashi no PIANIST e
ikiru koto 

konna uta no subete

ima kono me no mae ni hikareta sekai
kurikaesu atarashii PRELUDE

“Unstables”

Pre Valentine Post

I still don’t understand how love works.

Or whether it works, or just stay stagnant for quite a moment.

What happened between us is something that might happen to all the people in the planet. It’s just that we’re the ones chosen to undergo this kind of painful experience. We both knew it doesn’t work out, we felt love can be an abstraction, it’s a false idea uphold by many. They think love can thrill them to the core – yes, it can – but it doesn’t happen to everybody at least. But there is a certain kind of interconnection that we share with each other, a silent understanding, a touch of hand, a passing glance.

In the riverbank, I’ve decided (along with the rows of acacia trees and santan shrubs) that things between us should be over soon. It was never easy to come to grips with each other, especially if at the first place, we didn’t understand where should we place ourselves in line with the others. We don’t know. We both fear emotional confrontations. We just love being with each other, and dangerously, it breeds the kind of connection that is unstable. Our faults. We were much too young. And that is why I agree with Kahlil Gibran when he said, “Much of our pain is self-chosen.

I don’t know what to do about this. I love him so much. But I think the kind of love that I have for him isn’t enough to save our relationship.

Sweeping Love

I felt that this ride was the longest ride I have ever taken with him. He was pedaling the bicycle very smoothly across the rough unsteady road. Probably because of his firm grips. Too much basketball really helps. Birds flew over us. Plums flew everywhere. Trees swayed. All in one ride.

We passed through the field without even talking. I was seating behind him, clutching his shirt. It reeks off sweat and smell of his bathing soap. The smell is really unique to him. I knew it for such a long time.

And I wish the road was endless. We may find sometime to talk while passing by. The wave of feelings swept across us, making us mute. Hopefully, the same breeze would brush over our tomorrows, should we forget.

Top Fives! (Part 1)

I felt bored over the weekend so here I am doing list again. Of course, it gives me a kind of entertainment, something to do in idle times when I should have read the required readings or do the required essays. This is some kind of leisure to me.

I’m listing whatever category that I have in my mind here, and they were not really organized. I kinda remember the word arbitrary all of the sudden. Must be the randomness. Gah! I’m really a scatter-brain.

Whatever it is, here it goes (and this is just part 1!) The number one spot is the highest, of course.

Top Five Anime Shows

Blood+

1. Blood+

2. Bokura Ga Ita

3. Death Note

4. Honey and Clover

5. Samurai X/Inuyasha

Top Five Favorite Anime Characters

Yagami Raito

1. Yagami Raito of Death Note

2. Sesshoumaru of Inuyasha

3. Seiji Sawamura of Midori Days

4. Kenshin Himura of Rurouni Kenshin

5. Harima Kenji of School Rumble

Top Five Favorite Hollywood Movies

The Count of Monte Cristo

1. The Count of Monte Cristo

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

3. Atonement

4. The Man in the Iron Mask

5. Titanic

Top Five Favorite Hollywood Actors

Leonardo diCaprio

1. Leonardo de Caprio

2. Joseph Fiennes

3. Brad Pitt

4. Antonio Banderas

5. Jude Law

Top Five Must-Haves in the Future

1. Hard disk drive

True Light

DNAngel

Opening Theme of D.N.Angel
lyrics : Sakai Mikio
music : Yamasaki Masumi
arrangement : Nagai Rui
vocal : Miyamoto Shunichi

kanashii hodo hikari dashita
shiroi yami kirisaku tsubasa ni nare

tsumetai taiyou ni terasare teta
kainara sareta jiyuu ga atta
kagami ni utsutta kiseki no yoru
MASUKU o hazushi hajime ta My Soul

kuzure te yuku abe no mukou wa
zetsubou mo kibou mo onaji kao suru
mita sare nai kokoro aru nara
tobi tateru shuumatsu no PUROROOGU e

yaiba no you na kaze fuku sekai
mamoru beki mono wa nan nano ka?
hitotsu hitotsu itami o shiru tabi
hontou no jibun e to chikazuku

kie yuku Fake Light
umare yuku True Light
kono te ni…

shiroku somaru yami tsuki nukete
atarashii jidai o kizami tsuzukero
toki wa nashita kokoro no mama ni
hateshi naku tsuzui teku byaku ya o tobe

English Translation :

a sad light shone
turning into wings that cuts the white darkness

shone upon by