ありがとう。頑張ります。よろしく。

以上です。

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Somewhere unseen along this track
fragrance blooms
close to midnight
And darkness fades
in fond thoughts
the beauty I wish to show you.


Archi, 11.30pm

Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

Contemplating my fandom of these past months, the intensity of which is starting to frighten myself... and somehow reminded of this line.

"Don't come into my world. I can't see any exit from this love."
-- Makino Tsukushi, "Hana Yori Dango" (vol. 28)

Oh, I can see the exit alright, but I am not walking towards it. Let it come when it comes. ;P

That volume number sure looks intimidating to me now. Back in high school with considerably less entertainment sources we did follow these series to their tiresome ends, eh. In later years the variety became so overwhelming that I'd read a lot of popular, long-running manga way after the final volumes were published-- the complete series at once, over three or four consecutive nights, surviving the days on three or four hours of sleep..

Well, I do more or less the same thing for J-dramas and J-varieties these days. So now you see the exit I mentioned before, eh. The king is dead, long live the king.

Feels a bit like coming out of the closet to say this, =D but surely I'm not the only one who get high on these emotion stimulants like music and well-crafted fictions and whatever addictive substance Japanese [or insert your preferred genre] entertainment is made of?

Though yeah, we are also constantly wary of them swallowing our 'real life'. Of us forgetting how to drop it all at once in the face of 'real' priorities. Rapture comes only with an extent of obsession, I guess?

Ah, adrenalin, what a blessing, what a curse.


* About the title

If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

Reliving this song discovered through Charlie Bartlett, with illustrations from Nodame Cantabile the drama. ^__^


Well if you wanna sing out, sing out...



And if you wanna be free, be free



There's a million things to be
You know that there are


And if you wanna live high, live high...



And if you wanna live low, live low



'Cause there's a million ways to go
You know that there are


You can do what you want
The opportunity's on
And if you find a new way
You can do it today

You can make it all true
And you can make it undo
You see, ah ah ah
It is easy, ah ah ah
You only need to know


Well if you wanna say yes, say yes



And if you wanna say no, say no



'Cause there's a million ways to go
You know that there are


And if you wanna be me, be me



And if you wanna be you, be you



'Cause there's a million things to do
You know that there are...


-- Cat Stevens, "If You Want to Sing Out"