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Dear Diary,

I checked my e-mail today in the afternoon to find 5 new e-mails. Over the next few hours I was online, I received another 4 new e-mails. When I got online in the night, I checked my e-mail again, only to receive 1 new e-mail. All in all, I got 3 subscribed newsletters, 2 subscribed groups, and 5 spam e-mails.

What is this world coming to today?

What happened to the other mailing lists I have subscribed to?

What happened to Friendster? No more new messages or new friend requests?

What happened to my blog? Nobody wanted to say hi?

And most intriguing: What happened to spam which have dilligently coughed out at least 20 of my received e-mails daily?

Hmmm,

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Edit: Oops. I forgot today was Sunday… My ‘day’, by the way, is defined as the day in which I spend most of my time, from the time I wake up and the time when I sleep. It’s not the time at which I post this entry. I never knew that spam takes a rest on Sundays…

Dear Diary,

I’ll be honest. I was in shock today. The reason is not to be known to others as I’ve made a promise. Well, I did joke about what I heard last night, but that didn’t prevent me from not being able to sleep properly last night. I was probably still in shock in some parts of the day that some of what I did didn’t make much sense.

Well, not that I always make sense anyway. But that’s besides the point.

Well, to ST: Thanks. I’m feeling much better now. Doesn’t mean that it’s over already, but I think I can manage now. I hope. Thanks a lot.

Okay,

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Dear Diary,

Pablo sitting to the side of my laptop. A pile of Mentos wrappers to my left. A container full of fresh Mentos just next to and behind Pablo. Headphones attached to laptop. Internet connection almost 80% of the time today. “For The Beauty Of The Earth” MIDI and CD running over and over again. Cloud fogging my brain. I think I’m going crazy. Again? So it wasn’t ‘pretty funny’ after all…

…

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Dear Diary,

I’m totally hooked to the song “For The Beauty Of The Earth”. That song has been the only song playing completely in my Winamp for today. I especially like the MIDI version today as the MIDI synthesizer in the computer can render the song such that it sounds quite melancholic, suitable with my mood for today.

Melancholic,

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Dear Diary,

For those who haven’t noticed, I’ve done some cleaning at my site. All entries prior to 1 January 2004 and Blogger Archive have been deleted. I think it’s much better to just bury everything in the past behind (heh, I was the one who told a friend “the past is the past”) and start again afresh before I start university. I do keep a ZIP-ped copy of everything just in case.

Now, one request for my dear readers. I love comments. So, please leave a comment. Anything. Any comment. Just say hi. Complain about my style. Complain about me bitching about Anyi all the time. Whatever. You don’t need to use your real name or nickname, anonymous entries are fine. Thank you.

Fresh,

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Dear Diary,

Let me share with you this beautiful hymn, which I fell in love with after listening to it in the ‘Divine’ album. The song in the album was performed by the ‘Choir of Uppingham School’, which has definitely transformed the song into one beautiful and heavenly piece. Those who like choir songs should also sample this song as the arrangement is simply too amazing to resist.

I found a MIDI version of the song, which is not bad. The actual song is even better than the MIDI. Due to copyright issues, I don’t dare to upload the actual song. You should be able to find the CD (or the MP3) by some other means which I shall not discuss here. Enjoy!

Click to download the MIDI file for ‘For The Beauty Of The Earth’

Me,

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Dear Diary,

Does anyone know any tool or program to help me convert Chinese characters to Hanyu Pinyin? The reason why I need this is because some programs in my computer cannot view Chinese characters and even if they can, I don’t read Chinese characters.

You see, I have a lot of Chinese songs which I think are quite nice, and I’d really like to call them by name, for example “Luo Mi Ou Yu Zhu Li Ye” by “Wu Yue Tian” (forgive me if I spelt any of those wrongly) instead of “the Chinese song whose name looks like a twig” by “the Chinese singer whose name looks like a stick figure”. Anyone?

Or if you can convert them for me I’d be very happy. It’s just that there are quite a lot of them, something like 18 albums.

Doesn’t read Chinese,

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Dear Diary,

I have heard this song over and over again ever since the advertisement for a skin whitener product from Ponds (a cosmetics brand) first aired on TV. (The song is the theme song for the ad). I thought it was nice. However, it was not until it was featured in Konser AFI that I decided that I just have to get the song. I ended up listening to it more than ten times in a row. So here’s the lyrics to the song. Enjoy!

And here’s the rough translation of the song, helped by two of my friends:

Still,

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Dear Diary,

I’ve been to the countries shown below. It’s just a very small portion of this earth we’re living in, eh? What about you?

create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Seldom Travels,

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Dear Diary,

To all nice guys out there (I believe at least one of my readers are), this is for you…

Me,

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PS: It wasn’t written by me. But it’s quite heartwarming especially if you are one of those…