On hold. 4月 30, 2007
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In the end, I didn’t get to meet the unknown guy who’s gonna offer me a job, ’cause he never answered my calls and now he’s abroad, doing business somewhere else. So it will have to wait until he’s back so we can actually talk and I finally get to know what is it that he wants me to do. o.oAnyway… These days have been boring, most of the day. S. has had to do this huge homework to improve one of her bad grades, so she’s spent hours and hours writing in a language called LATEX, doing graphics and stuff… -_- Meanwhile, I’ve tried my best not to become desperate of boredom. I mean… I spend the whole week doing every single fun thing I can do by myself, trying not to miss her and trying to have a good time and to use my free time wisely. But to do that during the weekend as well??? No way. I can’t help it but to have carved in my mind the fact that weekends are to forget about everything and have fun, no matter how. Unfortunately, S. doesn’t think that way and she’s always doing boring stuff for her stupid U.
But oh well… I haven’t done nothing useful during this weekend. I don’t know why but I’ve felt so dishearten lately… Everything seems lame and boring. -_- Not even reading seems to satisfy me and that’s annoying cause it makes me anxious and depressed. ¬¬ Specially, given the huge amount of free time I’ve had to use by myself. Most of the stuff that really give me fun are the stuff I do with S. and if she’s not available…. -_- You can imagine the results.
So… I haven’t posted anything anywhere, barely read some pages of the novel I’m reading, haven’t tried to keep reading that Japanese book, haven’t studied anything… NOTHING. At most, I’ve saved hundreds of images and drooled over A.K., Te.K. and other guys. Oh! And I wrote another ‘letter’, this time for A.K. That somehow makes me feel a bit better… 
And what else? I’ve watched a lot of documentary films. Right now I’m watching one regarding the “lost tombstone of Jesus”. Also, we started re-watching POT, cause we want to better analyze the behaviors and stuff that happen now that we know the characters and their stories better. 
For now, it’s a bit boring cause the first 30+ episodes are the ones we even watched on normal TV, dubbed in Spanish and all… But I know it will get better soon. Even so, sometimes I feel bad cause we have soooo many other anime series to watch that to re-watch a 178+ episodes long series seems kinda silly but… Oh well.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot something really nice and exciting that happened this weekend!!! How could I??? ¬¬
On Saturday, M. came back from the supermarket and told me “I have some good news and some bad news”. I asked her to tell me the bad news and she told me that the parcel with the bunch of stuff I ordered from CDJapan as my birthday present had arrived, but arrived at the post office. That means that, to actually get the parcel, we gotta go and pay some huge amount of duty taxes. ¬¬ That’s a random possibility that, from time to time, turns real when we order something from CDJapan. I reckon it may have something to do with the weight of the parcel cause two parcels that have been pretty heavy have arrived with an extra duty tax notification. And this birthday present is pretty heavy so… Yeah.
Anyway, then I asked her for the good news and… SURPRISE! She handled me in a package. The package was a beautiful present from my dear S.T.!!!!! Can you believe it??? He’s such a nice guy!! He ALWAYS remembers my birthday and he ALWAYS sends me a present!! He’s the only friend who’s ALWAYS, ALWAYS remembered my birthday. :_)
So, I finished watching the documentary film I was watching at the moment and opened the present. And guess what it was….
THE 2 DVD SET OF WEISS CONCERTS!!!!!!!!! ^O^ *faints*
That’s right!!! He sent me the concerts of that great seiyuu unit I love so much!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! So, yeah… I have the GLÜHEN ~ DAS EWIGE DASEIN concerts now!!!!! *.* I’m sooooooooooo happy!!!!!!! Ahhh!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, MY BELOVED S.T.!!!!! ^o^
So… That’s all for now. I’m so happy with that present and with the idea of that order from CDJapan that will come home soon!! My mom won’t give me the package until it’s actually my birthday cause that package will be my only present (that’s why we ordered with a good time frame so it would arrive in time for my bday) and, if I open it right when it arrives, it will be pretty lame not having a single present the day of my birthday itself. But it’s sooo coool! I’ll have several A.K., Te.K singles and albums, as well as the I.S. solo album and the O.R. solo album!!!!! *.* 極楽・極楽！ ^^
Ok. I’ll stop here. Hopefully, this night will be more fun. ;D
See y’all! :S
Job offer… o.o 4月 27, 2007
Posted by Andrea in Dailylife, Family, Feelings, Translations, Work, WrittenInEnglish.2 comments
Today M. told me that one of the people she works with at U.V. told her that he wanted to hire me to do a translation they need. o.o He told her to give me his number so I can call him tomorrow and arrange a meeting, because he’s going abroad in a couple of days and wants to settle this thing before he leaves… O.OScary… After my “great” experience working with my stupid boss during my practice, it scares the hell outta me to think of doing business with U.V. again, but… I guess I have no choice. :S
Anyway, tomorrow I’ll have to do two of the things I hate the most: calling someone I don’t even know and going out to meet that same someone I don’t even know. -_- *sigh*
Wish me luck! D:[
≪この僕が消えた後、未来の誰かが物語り語るだろう？？？≫ 4月 23, 2007
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What does it take for a human being to get a glimpse of what “moral standards” are? What do parents have to do to instil values to their children? What can make such a difference that, in the end, those same children you raised (in spite of the fact that you raised them in the right way or not) forget so blindly the most basic spirit of human dignity and human morals to be willing to leave their own parents to die in anonimity, to be left to rotten along with a whole bunch of other poor old people whose families have abandonded them as well?These tricky questions have been wondering on my mind lately. I’m not allowed to disclosure the reasons why this topic came to my mind in the first place, but I can’t help but to write about it ’cause… I keep thinking in that infanous phrase “If you lie down with dogs, you’ll wake up with fleas” (“Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos”, in Spanish)… And I can’t imagine how is it possible that someone is capable of having such a hard heart to say, bluntly, “What if we pretend we don’t know him and leave him there?”…
I mean, I’ve had family problems, I’ve had huge fights with my parents and I have a complex relationship with one of them. It has taken time, separation and a lot of things to happen for us to start having something worthy of being called an actual “relationship”. Yet, I can’t imagine being in this situation, knowing that one of my parents is dead and someone calls me to let me know what’s happened and, instead of offering whatever I can do to help so he/she gets a decent final resting place, I ask “And what if we leave him/her there just like that and pretend that we’re not his/her relatives?”. -_- I simply can’t picture it. And this is assuming I’ve had a very bad relationship with these parents and not that I’m someone who lived with them for lots of years and shared most of my youth and part of my adulthood with them… If I had done all that and, even so, I dared say that we should leave him/her alone and pretend we don’t know him/her… Jesus, I’d deserve to be left alone and forgotten myself! /:()
And yet, there’re people who has the nerv to do that. And some other people has to go and fix their mistakes and try to solve things in a decent and conscious way, in a way that maybe the deceased didn’t even deserve, but that it’s the right thing to do.
I can’t help it but admire that “someone” who goes and, even against what he/she feels in his/her very own heart, does the right thing and tries to do what every human being with a heart and with a shread of decency left would do. I’m sure that, under his/her influence, I could reach that level of generousity and selflessness, but even so… You never know until you’re there. And I’m no one judge other people’s actions but… There’s something inside me that prevents me from accepting that such a vicious person, such a cold-hearted person can face this situation in the way I already described.
Geez! I’m not the most hard-working, most useful person in the world! I know. But, even so, when something important shows up, I try my best to make myself useful and to try to help those I care about. I know everyone has their own particular circumstances and all, but… I guess there are things that go beyond that. I guess there are certain things in which, in spite of our own gut feelings, we have to go and do whatever it’s right, even if it tears up appart. And it shockes me and surprises me a lot to see that someone like this person I’ve been talking about is capable of such a… I don’t know… Lack of morals, lack of decency, lack of humanity, lack of common sense! -_-
*sigh*
These days have been weird but the weirdest of all has been the reaction of the people involved. Someone died (April 22nd, 2007), someone rejected that dead, someone else is taking care of it and I’m impressed because I never thought I’d see something like this in person. I can’t help to think of how important are our actions, how important is to live well and try to spread what little goodness we have in ourselves, so others (our parents, our children, our friends, other relatives, whoever crosses in our life path) will appreciate it and, at least, be willing to do a couple of procedures, some paperwork or phone calls or maybe a little trip, once our heart has stopped beating and we are no longer in our physical body or present in this dimension of the reality. We must think of the consequences our every action will have and try to do good things and do them with honesty in our heart cause only then destiny will move its flickering fingers and will allow us to, at the very least, get a decent final resting place. We don’t have anything for granted, not even the people we share our blood with (our lineage) are forced to love us or understand us or take care of us or even consider us as human beings forever. And we must do whatever is necessary to ensure that, at least, we’ve conquered one little good heart, one one will that someday will at least be worried enough about us to provide us with a decent place where to spend our last years comfortably or a nice little corner where our bones can go back to Earth once our time in this world has passed.
Requiescat in pace, アヴス~
HAPPY EARTH DAY!! 4月 22, 2007
Posted by Andrea in Dailylife, Ecology, Events, Lyrics, O.R., Prince Of Tennis, Te.K., Translations, WrittenInEnglish.add a comment
“LOVABLE EARTH”
O.R. as Te.K.
In this cloudless day, close your eyes while the wind blows softly in this meadow…
Inside a tender light, let’s forget about time…
Let’s listen carefully. Look! There the little birds sing peacefully…
It’s warm! I could embrace this land forever!The grass, the wind, the land…
In this star everything is dear to me!The light is shining in this warm star…
This lovable star in which we were born…
If you stretch your arms… Look! There’s a white cloud that you could reach!
Naturally those days seem to continue…
The sky, the clouds, the birds are beautiful!
Everything is pretty!We go on, forever and ever, protecting
this undoubtedly beautiful star!
In this way!
Light is shining in this warm star
…
Forever!
This lovable star in which we were born…
In this way!
We go on, forever and ever, protecting
this undoubtedly beautiful star!
Today’s the Earth Day!!! Many people don’t even know what it is, but I guess it’s important that we remember these things. It’s important that we all realize that planet Earth is the only planet we have (in spite of what many of my favorite books say :/) and that we have no choise but to take care of it, protect what it’s left of it and try to keep it for the next generations to come. We have to try and, through little things, help stop the global warming, help protect the non-renewable resources and do everything we can to preserve our planet, its nature and its beautiful resources. 
As a way to celebrate our planet’s day, here are some interesting links you may want to visit:
- International Earth Day Official Website
- Earth Day Network Homepage
- Earth Day information in Wikipedia
- Earth Day reading suggestions
- Household Tips from The Green Guide to Keep Your Health and Your Savings Intact
- Ten Tips for Earth Day: Preserving Biodiversity
- Ten Things You Can Do Today for Your Family’s Health and Earth
- Earth Day Tips: Rx for the Planet and your Health
- Links to Mother Earth
Also, I started this post with the translation of the beautiful song 「愛すべき地球」. It’s a song sung by O.R. that certainly seems suitable for a day like this and that I thought it might inspire some of you to pay more attention to our planet and to ecology.
So… Yeah!! That’s the spirit, people! Let’s do like Te.K. does and let’s love this planet as it is, let’s protect it and let’s try to keep is as save as we can, from ourselves and our compulsive desire of self-destruction. Let’s do our best to love the small things, to respect every living creature and to try to co-exist with everything and everyone in this planet for as long as our time in live and in here lasts. This is our only planet, the only place were we can live, the only place were, so far, we know for sure Mankind can exist. Let’s not waste it and pollute it without any regard for what we and our children and the children of our children would do if the planet actually collapses and all life, as we know it, ends.
It’s our responsability, as inhabitants of this star, to take care of it, learn how to use its resources without depleting them forever and making them extinct, learn how to work with its animals without making them suffer or putting them though things we would never endure ourselves… We need a change in our way of thinking, we need a change in the way we approach our planet, its natural resources, the other living things we co-exist with! We need to start thinking, seriously, how are we going to ensure that this lovable star we’ve got for ourselves, this little special planet (that, so far, is the only one inhabitable by humans that we know of) will continue to be there for us, Mankind, for years to come. And it’s not something impossible, it’s not something that’s
I hope that, from today, every single one of you (the few friends and relatives that read this blog) will change your attitude towards Earth and will pay more attention. Read about it, tell your friends, try to make a difference – no matter how small it may seem.
Have a nice Earth Day and let’s all try together to make a difference!!!! ★
Turn off the lights! 4月 18, 2007
Posted by Andrea in Dailylife, Ecology, Miscelaneous, Thoughts, WrittenInEnglish.add a comment
Today, at 19:53 pm and until 20:00 pm, we were all supposed to turn off all lights and electric appliances. This, as an attempt to see how much energy could be saved if everyone in a city or a country would turn off the lights and stuff. I don’t know if the rest of the world did it but at least I turned everything off, every little thing I could find, including the computers and the lights.I like that kind of ideas. Since I was very young, I always cared for nature and ecology and, nowadays, this subject has become more and more important. I truly believe we all should try hard to make this world a cleaner place and to save what’s left of our planet. We don’t notice but almost everything we do, harms in some way or another this, the only planet we have. And, as much as I like optimism (yeah, right… ¬¬), it’s very likely that, in a near future, our poor planet will be too exhausted to keep sustaining our lives and our children or the children of our children will face a very hard time that, maybe, if we start thinking ahead now, we could prevent.
So… If there are these kind of initiatives in you country or city, GO FOR THEM! Support them and try to help in everyway you can. There may seem like little, silly things… but all efforts may be worth it. Today, I was the only one in my building and in my street (and maybe in my whole city) who turned off the lights and every electric thing I found. But I’m glad I did and I hope, next time, more people will support the idea.
If we all work together, we can all take care of our dear planet Earth.
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Weirdness 4月 17, 2007
Posted by Andrea in Blogs, Books, Dailylife, Family, Feelings, Friends, Literature, M.S., MapleStory, Miscelaneous, O.R., StargateSG1, Thoughts, WrittenInEnglish.add a comment
Again, I’m in that weird mood of mine. I don’t feel like doing anything and, at the same time, I have lots of things in mind. -_- It’s such an annoying feeling… x/These days have been sad and boring. I’ve been torturing myself with some thoughts, arguing with people, thinking about what to do with everything and nothing has ccome out of my intense thinking. As usual, I may add. ¬¬
I’ve gone back to playing Maple. I’ve been playing with my cleric, although most of the time I end up pissed off because, everytime I try to PQ, I end up being flamed by some of the jerks in my party. ¬¬ But I’ve played anyway. And S. thought it wasn’t such a bad idea to train our other charas (warriors, mage and ranger, etc, etc) alternatively so they don’t get stuck until next summer or something like it. The problem is, I don’t know how to play with S.’ ranger, for example, and there’s a pretty good chance I’ll only get killed. ¬¬ But I gotta try. Only I haven’t felt like it lately. It’s easier to train the cleric girl and kill without thinking of anything.
Reading O.R.’s blog has been one of the main responsibles of my going back to the game. Everytime I read about him and his “hunting” sessions (which I finally know what they are about!), I remember the times when D.L., P.Y., S. and I played together and trained like crazy to finally get to lvl70… And I miss that. I miss that feeling of having friends to have fun with in that virtual world that can mean so much fun or anger at the same time. :_( Sadly, it’s all very different now but… I still have hope that we can get what we had back together.
So I’ll probably go and play now. I should practice for my singing lesson tomorrow, but I don’t really feel like it. I’m sleepy and floppy and bored and sick of everything (or almost everything). I spent the morning reading until I fell asleep. The I woke up, ate and came to the computer to reply mails, read the above mentioned blog and do a couple of stuff like that. I’m still waiting for the STARGATE SG-1 episodes to re-download so I can continue watching the 8th season… I had downloaded the TV rips I found on Isohunt, but almost every episode is corrupted so I have to re-download the whole thing… ¬¬
On the bright side, I’ve been more in touch with A.G., E.A. and D.G. The latter asked me to help her with some letters she had to write to the Japanese Inmigration Bureau, concerning her imminent trip to Japan and that day it was fun to talk to her again.
Also, I re-found an old friend. She’s a fan of M.S. as well (in fact, that’s why we first met) and we found each other somehow in LJ. I vaguely remember it had something to do with N-PB but I’m not sure… Anyway, we hadn’t talked in a loooooooong time and today I got an e-mail from her, in response to one I sent her. Now that some stuff have changed and that I’m trying a different approach, somehow things feel better. Hopefully, we’ll re-establish our frequent contact soon.
I had forgotten to tell, but I quit Hitoshi Doi’s SeiyuuML a while ago. I did it regretfully because I liked that place, I thought I had some friends there still… But after the reply one of the members sent to my 1st e-mail in like… years! I got pissed. I’m sick of having to cope with other people’s thoughts and personal issues, cause I have plenty with my own. So I sent one last mail saying the guy was a jerk and I asked to be removed. It’s a pity cause I liked that place and I had always got a friendly reply but… I guess some things have to change and they always change for the worse…
What else? I’ve finished reading “El Mesías ~ El Niño Judío” (“Christ The Lord ~ Out of Egypt” is the original title) by Anne Rice. Then I read “Espía de Dios” (“God’s Spy” could be a translation of the title… It’s a book written by an Spanish writer) and now I’m reading Isabel Allende’s “Paula”. I’d always avoided this author’s books because she has too much to do with a political tendency I don’t support. Or stand, for that matter… But I decided it was stupid, being Chilean and loving books, not knowing the work of one of the most famous authors my country has produced. My dear S.T. likes her books and has always talked to me about them and it was outrageous that I hadn’t read any of them. Of course, I should have started with “La Casa de Los Espíritus” but it’s sold out everywhere. ¬¬ So M. bought “Paula” and liked it a lot and now I’m reading it to improve my knowledge of Chilean literature a bit. I intend to continue on this line of literature in the future cause I need to be consequent with that I’ve always said: “People who know languages must become sorta embassadors of their countries and cultures before the world”. I know 3 languages and I intent to raise that number in the future and, certainly, I can’t be nothing even close to an embassador if I don’t even know my own country first. ¬¬ So, I’m gonna try to change that and get a better grasp of my own Chilean culture in order to be able to show it and teach it to the world, with its good and bad things.
Speaking of books, I’ve thought of creating a blog to write about my comments and thoughts of the books I’m reading. Since now I read a lot, ’cause I have a lot of free time, it may be a good excercise to keep my Spanish going, to keep in mind the books I’ve read and it may even be of use to someone looking for what to read. Of course, I don’t intend to do something ‘professional’ or anything… Just whatever comes to my mind, whenever I feel like it. It will be in Spanish, though, ’cause English tires me a lot and my Japanese isn’t good enough to undertake such an endevour just yet… But I’m playing around with the idea.
I’m also thinking about starting to write that old story I’ve always had in mind, inspired by my own personal experience with my beloved one and the song “In my dreams”, by REO Speedwagon. But, I don’t know… Somehow, I don’t feel capable of writing it. I may start something but I’m pretty sure it’ll end up in the trash can after a short while. But who knows… Talking to this old friend has reminded me of that story. I never felt like I was ready to write it because I didn’t know how to end it. But now, it’s got it’s end, even though it’s a pretty sad and pathetic one. ¬¬ At least is an ending…
And… Well. I guess I’ll go check Mixi before playing Maple today, cause I wanna see if the girls in one of the communities replied to one of my doubts regarding O.R.’s blog. Anyway, I’ll probably have a lot of lonely time today to play and do everyting, cause S. has to study, as usual, and she’ll probably come back late at night and we won’t even be able to talk, cause she has a test in a few days. ¬¬
So… I guess this is all, for now.
See y’all.
