So this week, there’s nothing. I decide to post some credits instead.

I listen to some Japanese songs, some of which have rather strange lyrics, so I posted them. I never did translations, I do not understand Japanese. I took lyric translations from fan pages etc. Sometimes, the web fails me and I ended up typing the lyrics out by copying the subtitles from the video clip.

The songs come from different sources, I shan’t talk much about it, lol. Some came from video clips. I use m&g Software’s AVI to WAV extractor 3.5 to extract out the sound from the video. [The software is free by the way.]

For song cropping, normalizing of volumes and fading in and out, I use either Ahead Nero Wave Editor or Sonic Foundry Sound Forge. Both are good programs, I use the latter more though.

Songs are encoded in Windows Media Audio 9 for smaller downloads at a quality loss. I use Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to encode all my music. [This is a free software too.] Windows Media Audio sounds best at lower bit rates as compared to other formats.

Some posts include still image captures, these are captured by Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series. [This is another free software.] Images are later cropped or edited by Macromedia Fireworks. [Photoshop committed suicide, great..]

These are the past postings [Most of the music are removed already, sorry.]

# music//ichi [Ayumi Hamasaki - Real Me]
# music//ni [Yukino Satsuki - Densetsu no Onsen GAME (Legendary Hot-Springs Turtle)]
# music//san [NICEGUYJIN - Hai, Irasshai! (Hello, Welcome!)]
# music//shi [Funta - Wake Up Angel ~ Negaimashite wa Mugen Nari ~ (Wake Up Angel ~ Wishing for this is unlimited ~)]
# music//go [Aoi Tada - Wo Qui Non Coin]
# music//roku [Yuuichirou Sakuraba - Hitoribocchi no Haburashi (Lonely Toothbrush)]
# music//shichi [Gackt - To build a fire (To feel a fire)]
# music//hachi [Judy and Mary - Kujira 12 gou (Whale #12)]
# music//ku [Maki Goto - Genshoku GAL Hadeni Ikube! (An Authentic GAL Should Be Bold)]
# music//ju [MiniMoni - Okashi Tsukutte Okassui (Making Sweets: Strange)]

I enjoyed posting these. I’ll do these weekly posting thingy in future too.

Yesterday, I posted a quote that has been posted a day before. I forgotten to change it to a new one in my template. Opps.

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I listen to her album PAINT IT GOLD some time back and really like this track -Genshoku GAL Hadeni Ikube!. Without knowing the meaning of this song, I went on to listen. It’s a good walking song ya’know, it’s fast so it kinda sets a pace for me to walk fast too.

I tried to find the translation of Genshoku GAL Hadeni Ikube! for some time. It was until a couple of days ago that I chance upon it on the very site I’m viewing. Even so, I have difficulty understanding which English translation belongs to which lines. If the translations are incorrect, it’s likely that I have pasted the lines wrongly.

The translations seems generally accurate but some phrases are rather strange..

I have encoded 1min 06sec sample in WMA file proprietary (Windows Media Audio 9; 40 kbps, 32 kHz, stereo 2-pass CBR) for you people. This is the best quality I have encoded, at the expense of file sizes.

Download the sample from here (343 KB). [In Internet Explorer, right click on the link and choose the option "Save Target As...". Download it quick, as I'll remove it on February 16.]

Genshoku GAL Hadeni Ikube!
[An Authentic GAL Should Be Bold)]
Lyrics & Music : Tsunku
Arrangement : Takahashi Yuichi

Hitori no shuumatsu tte shinnjirannai hodo; Maji yabaissu!
[A weekend alone is so bad that you won't believe it!]
Kedo kono toki to bakari onna wo sora migaki makutte (Maji yabaissu!)
[But in this time I polish the woman in me]
“Kareshi ga dekita toki” Sonna yume ga
["When I get a boyfriend" That's the dream I have]
Dome no gobaibun
[It's five times the size of the Tokyo Dome]
Kitto mawari ga hiichau kurai LOVE LOVE ni nacchau mon!
[We'll be in love so much that the people around will take a step away!]

Tomodachi ttara
[All my friends,]
Nuke kakeshite ikachii koi
[they all stole away to have romantic relationships]
“Watashi ga saigo no kareshi nashi!” kka
["I'm the last one without a boyfriend!"]
Iinda mon Naite nai!
[I don't care! I'm not crying!]
“Eeeeeen”
["Eeeeeen" *cries*]

Genshoku gyaru wa hade ni ikube!
[An authentic gal should be bold!]
Shumi wa ryouri de ika ga?
[Is it okay if my hobby is cooking?]
Genshoku gyaru wa hade ni ikube!
[An authentic gal should be bold!]
Otsuke mono mo hade yo!
[My pickles are also bold!]
Supootsu taipu mo hade ni ikube!
[The sporty type should go bold!]
Michibata taipu mo hade ni ikube!
[The side-of-the-road type should go bold too!]

It’s a rather kawaii [Japanese for "cute"] song, isn’t it? Goto singing about her not having a boyfriend. I guess I just have to sacrifice myself to be hers. I’m very noble.

I first saw Maki Goto is Morning Musume when they are performing Mr. Moonlight. She really stood out that time, partly because of her wardrobe. There is no wardrobe malfunction during her performance though, lol. [Tribute made to Janet Jackson's left breast. Justin wants to "get you naked by the end of the song".]

Some phrases are rather strange as I said (before the lyrics). I wonder what’s “my pickles are also bold”. In fact when “Genshoku GAL” is translated to be “Authentic GAL”, I don’t feel it’s right. Maybe it should be “Real GAL” or something. I can’t decide, I can’t read Japanese.

I captured from screens from the promotional video too:
Goto on stage view from afar
Goto gets the crowd ready
Goto smiles showing teeth
Goto looks pissed
Goto “Eeeeeen” [crying sounds]
Goto slight smile
Goto jumps with guitar
Goto looks scary [too scary that I removed, lol]

[removed after March 12]

She looks pretty, doesn’t she? This song reminds me of Ayaya [same record company]. My favorite picture? I like the pissed look, she looks best when she’s pissed, hahaa. Having said that, I wonder ifGoto will be pissed when she reads this.

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Some of my visitors come from people in my Tomodachi section, but most of them came by accidental Google searches. I am really sorry that you can’t find your things
There are searches for:

* +george +washington +success +powerpoint
* +goto +maki +nude [Don't be an idiot! Maki is not a porn star!]
* +informatics +ngee +ann +blog [That's the name of another polytechnic is Singapore.]
* +lowry +reagent
* +ayaka +hawaii
* +msn +display +picture +anime [I only have one.]

But most people come by searching “+Barbra +McClintock”. _Barbra McClintock_ is the incorrect spelling. The correct spelling should be “Barbara McClintock”.

Apparently I misspelt in my October 07, 2003 posting – scary//teacher. The interesting thing is that Google listed my site as the sixth on the list. Many people spelt wrong too!

Okay, I’ll tell you how’s Barbra McClintock, I mean Barbara McClintock.

McClintock is one of the most respected female scientist. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A, June 16, 1902. She reported results of maize experiment indicating movable genes, now called transposable elements in 1950. It is also called “jumping genes” I think.

However, it is only in the year 1983 that her work is being recognized by the Noble committee. She is awarded with The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1983) for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.

McClintock died in 1992.

Visit The Nobel Foundation’s Barbara McClintock site. Other resources can be found here or do a search at Google for “Barbara McClintock”.
If you’re one of those who stumbled to my site through Barbra McClintock, do tag me and tell me about it. Thanks for visiting though.

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Shawn and company went for their dose of Magic: The Gathering. Even Pei Shan went! Feng Li, Xinni, Zhi Yuan and I went to play badminton instead.

I played badminton with Zhi Yuan a lot. But it tires me when I play with him. We’ll try to make life difficult for each other. I end up picking the shuttle cocks. He ends up picking the shuttle cocks too. This is quite boring, isn’t it?

And then, I got my chance to play with Xinni. She has improved by quite a bit compared to the last time I played with her. I found myself actually enjoying it. Reminds me of the time I play with Jonathan (my cousin). There is no stress. I hit the shuttlecock to you, you hit it back. You do not attempt to sabotage me and vice versa. I miss those times. Playing with Xinni is slow-paced. It’s been a long time since I last felt no stress playing badminton.

Have to play with her more often. If not for Zhi Yuan walking towards my side of the court hinting me that he want to play as well, I could’ve played longer.

After badminton, we had computer practicals [Did you know that there is no such word "practicals" according to Microsoft Word 2002?] for Web Publishing dealing with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). I do not know who gave my friends the idea. But everyone seems to think I am, as what they said, “very pro” in HTML. I only know a little bit here and there. I still can’t code tables without the help of a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editor.

I need some inspiration for October’s major theme. Major theme is a set of themes I release monthly to keep my blog looking fresh. I’ve got some really nice D.N.Angel high resolution images. I might be featuring that anime. Another idea I have in mind is to feature waterfalls. It’s hard to find high resolution images for me to play around with. My ideas are pretty limited due to that reason. I have tons of Goto Maki images though. You can look for Goto Maki at my themes section in the grey bar on the right. I have Fujimoto Miki too!

And hell no! They are NOT porn stars. They are singers. Very pretty ones in my opinion.

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At the bottom of the top 5 list is Zone Lab’s web site, attracting 638,000 users, that is a 73% increase compared to the previous week. Norton Anti-Virus maker, Symantec, sees their viewer ship increase over 302% with over 4 million users.

The Windows Update web site which was targeted by the MSBlaster worm sees over 11 million users; that is an increase of 76% week on week. MSN Tech and Gadgets, which provided information and articles about the worm, attracted over a million people, seeing a 304% jump on that week.

Well, the winner is Microsoft’s TechNet site which recorded 3.9 million unique surfers as compared to 317,000 of the preceding week. That is a surge of 1131% week on week!
Don’t you just love statistics?

The worm attack launched on Microsoft’s Windows Update web site fail too. The worm is preprogrammed to attack http://www.windowsupdate.com/ which is just a redirecting web site. Microsoft removed Windows Update’s redirecting site and the attack failed. Somehow this DoS attack attempt reminds me of Code-Red which attacks http://www.whitehouse.gov/. I guess the worm’s author fail in his attempt.

That’s the default color for the Q&A for your info. I added a new theme – Goto Maki! She went solo last year I think. She used to be in Morning Musume. Check her out, she looks really pretty. [I kinda cheated and smoothen her skin just A BIT, hehee.. But she's still pretty without my editing.] At first, I only include her picture to her shoulder, not revealing her bikini. After a couple of look, I find it extremely distasteful, so much so that I recreated from a scratch – this time including her bikini. She looks more stylish in this way. Some minor updates only. I am gearing it up for a change coming September 01, so be sure to get your mouse (the computer one) ready. Oh, my Stellvia of the Universe download is complete. So happy about it. Shin-pon~! lol

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