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Are you ready? Vocaloid concert is next month and I bet most of the seats are taken up. I won’t unfortunately and since its my “O” level year I don’t think I’ll be going for Timeshift. Well, I have to find and download the torrents then. However, here are my hopes for the next Vocaloid concert.

1. A Co-operation between SEGA and 5pb?

This is the thing that everyone wants. SEGA produces more realistic-looking projections and a much better band but lacks in lighting displays as well as concert models. 5pb produces visually stunning lighting displays and quite a few good models but the bass during the Singapore concert was a a bit too much for me and sometimes the light drowns out the projection. One improvement I do note is that they now feature “full-length” songs, something I really enjoyed when Melancholic played. However, if they worked together, maybe we have the best of both worlds?

2.Servant of Evil (by mothy)

I love this song and it looked quite good in Sapparo. However, I would like to see it again but also in full length. Its such a good song that does not deserve to be cut.

3. Melancholic (by Junky)

My personal favourite song, please screen this song!

4. Songs I wold also like to see

Those two songs I believe deserve their own post but here are a few other songs I would like to hear, Tell me Your World (kz livetune), from y to y (jimmy-thumb-p), Just be Friends (Dixie Flatline), Yellow (kz livetune), levaan Polka (louitma cover), Fire Flower (halyosy), Double Lariat (Ago-aniki-p), Migikata no Chou (Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder, Nori-p) Melt (ryo supercell) and most of all especially since they never included it in the Singapore concert World is Mine (ryo supercell)

5.Misc.

I would love to see Len doing a solo for Migikata No Chou again but I also want to see a Rin/Len duet. If I had to choose between either one of them, I would rather have the duet. Also, it would be nice if other Vocaloids could join (Gumi would be nice for me, Kaito and Meiko as well).

6.Technical Aspects

They better not do anything funny like the last few concerts organized by 5pb. NO pillars behind the screen, the screen better be the transparent one and please be much higher. The bass better not be as low as it was at Singapore. The lights, while visually stunning s they are, should not go across the screen, don’t wash out Miku please!

Yeah, thats my hopes and dreams for the concert.

Ok, so I’ve been quite inactive these past few months so here’s a quick update on what I’ve been up to. First was the end of year exam that I managed to do “okay” for. I fulfilled my long lost promise and beat my competitor although it was a year late. I’m now first in class, third in standard. Then it was AFA and the Miku Hatsune Live concert. I’ll post my concert critique after this post or alternatively check my Facebook if you know me. The concert was awesome, simply awesome. Although in the middle I became bored since i didn’t know what songs Miku was singing. It wasn’t until Rin and Len showed up that my interest was reignited. But I do question why there’s no Rin/Len duet and there’s no Servant/Daughter of Evil nor Miku’s “World is Mine”. Still, I get to hear my favourite song “Melancholic” sung by Rin (made by Junky). Then the AFA was okay, I didn’t have the money to buy anything so I just awed at the manga and the anime products. Then the rest was quite boring, just stay at home and facebook and become “melancholic”. I hope things improve. Got to study now, school’s going to re-open soon.

I’m surprised that this blog is still here. Well, I hope that it will continue to stay here for as long as I’m here. Anyways, onto the topic.

Singapore’s meritocracy has created a constant competition for students to strive to the top, a battle to be “best of the best”. Right now, I seem to be somewhere near the top of that ladder but there are so many people just below me. I only managed to become first in class by the narrow margin of 1.0%. Exams are also around the corner so I might as well study soon. I got a “holiday” thats full of remedial after remedial so I hope its going to help me out. The battle will never end as long as there is competition. Although I kind of disapprove of this competitive system, I don’t want others I feel don’t deserve the title to have it. Thus I should safeguard that title from potential enemies and another constant battle.

Then there is myself. I already endured a dragging down feeling ever since July/Aug. after my Mount.K and Bintan trips. Then several other things dragged me down such as the invasion of old memories and friends coming and going. Its been taking quite a toll on me these days. So much that I kind of went into a “melancholy” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLgJD1KmGXY (Junky-Melancholic Using Vocaloid Rin Kagamine, one of my favourite songs). Somehow I need a return to the “high” that I felt in the summer or get used to a quieter life. Anyhow, I’ll be going to Bintan tomorrow to relax and study really hard. I hope I can find something there or after the trip.

This examination was truly an improvement from the previous ones but there is a mixed feeling to it. Despite being first in class (Finally  although my promise was half a year late), my improved results (except my only C5 in English, still an improvement from last year). I will post those at the end later. The thing that got me thinking is that I have lost my motivation to work. I overworked myself during the examination and I didn’t get myself out that rut yet. Although now I’m slowly recovering, I got a mountan of work to do after this, better get it done. The second is whether or not I should go to John Fraiser Secondary. The standard I think is lower than here (except for the “exam smart” mentality for subjects other than math), well for math I think. I already covered the range between pre-algebra to pre-calculus. I’m already at logarithms and simple trigonometry. The rest is linear and quadratic equations, cubic equations and the remainder/factor theorems as well as matrices. From what I heard from my friend, they are still at linear equations and they don’t take math year-round (which my sound weird but I don’t like the sound of that idea since if you don’t practice, you will lose math skills). Finally is the many distractions that prevented me from studying harder. I need to focus on my work instead of the computer and updates. Better get that done now. I’ll update my results later when I’m done my Math.

This is not my song, I found it on Youtube. It is made by something called Vocaloid by Yamaha by users in Japan. It is NOT a human. I’ll link up 4 songs. You should listen to them in the order I put them in. You might need to read the english translation to understand.

Paper Plane
Prisoner

Proof of Life+Soundless Voice

This is from my research of looking through some resources. I would like to publish my interpretations but due to time constraints and exams, I have to do it after exams. So the three vital freedoms, they are the freedom of expression, to allow ideas, debates and criticisms to go around without government intervention, freedom of assembly which is the right to gather at public places for a demonstration and the freedom of association, to join a group of common interests of the individual. Without these, democracy is just a puppet. Although there can be certain moral restrictions, I deny any other restriction to liberties unless subject to moral or emergency conditions.

Next section I would talk about is Capitalism and Democracy, Capitalism itself and compare with communism. That will be another day though.

Canadian Parliament has been dissolved after the first time in Westminster Parliament history, parliament passed the no-confidence vote. Canadians will head to the polling booths on May 2nd. I support the Green Party but most of my ideals are inclined towards the Liberals. For Singapore, also to the polls. I won’t say much due to the law but I doubt the opposition will ever hold at least 30% of the seats since many are content with the PAP already (there are other reasons but you’ll have to figure them out, I won’t post due to the strict laws here, so much for escaping Communist China).