It's song time!

Golden Time Lover (FMA Brotherhood OP 3)

By Sukima Switch.

Listen to the full version.

...and I had nothing better to do, so I translated it into Chinese! Of course, there are several problems.

- My Chinese sucks.

- My Japanese isn't better.

- It's translated via an English translation of a slightly inaccurate transcription.

- Some words were just ripped off directly from the kanji.

精神集中不了哪 身体还是不知怎么反应啊

全身一直颤抖啊 CONTROL也做不到啊

太阳与月亮也没完全面对向着我呀

‘没办法, 只可试作’ 这是我对自己说的

状况对我不利啦 但逃走真是没有胆子的啊

前途没希望啊 靠勇气CLEAR只能这样啊

抑制着冲动探出TARGET离它保持远离

重要的就是PRIDE

品尝的是胜利之美酒

还是败北的苦汁？

这一切都属于是两者之一

我好想控制命运的丝线

最好的GOLDEN TIME用这双手紧握着

穿上个POKER FACE使用我全力造成

ILLUSION的世界里把我一起带着

无限之PRESSURE GAME我会从中而逃越

荣光的BORDERLINE为了跨过它HOW MANY?

HOW MANY? 必须付出如何的代价？

舍弃不了的到底是什么？

证据胜过假设啊 实现结果的人才是胜者呀

沉默就是禁止的 时间过了秘密就揭露啦

感觉要清楚、敏锐，谨慎的解读潮流

现状的胜率是几PERCENT

胜利后分别是实际的GAME SENSE

隐藏的影是否是恶魔？

是男人的话

就先做好觉悟才勇敢地迈向前方而挑战

逆境中CLAP YOUR HAND欢呼周围那队人

崭新的FIGHTING STYLE借用此全力攻击

ATTENTION 危险的 突破界限

最棒的FAIRY TALE把它刻进历史书

全胜的那瞬间 为了实现它 准备起

ARE YOU READY? 把迷惑与犹豫抛到路边

登上巴比伦城的楼梯

你的笑容像女神的一般

我被你的魅力引诱迷惑了

一边被诱捕 一边降落

住于在我心底中的欲望

膨大再浮现成浩大之梦

谁也已经都不能阻止我

最好的GOLDEN TIME用这双手紧握着

穿上个POKER FACE使用我全力造成

ILLUSION的世界里把我一起带着

无限之PRESSURE GAME我会从中而逃越

荣光的BORDERLINE为了跨过它HOW MANY?

HOW MANY? 必须付出如何的代价？

逆境中CLAP YOUR HAND欢呼周围那队人

崭新的FIGHTING STYLE借用此全力攻击

ATTENTION 危险的 突破界限

最棒的FAIRY TALE把它刻进历史书

惊天的大逆转 华丽地去应付它呀

DO YOU KNOW? 命运是能夺走的东西

巴比伦的顶峰上

灿烂的阳光中荣耀

Translation: My own. It's supposed to match the original, be able to be sung, and the English words are kept.

Acknowledgments:

Sukima Switch for the song itself.

Csakuras' English translation.

Animelyrics' page for the pronunciations, the Eclipse-subbed video, and the kanji.

Anime vs. Manga vs. COMP GAMES.

A three-way fight between 3 timewasting activities.

Anime. Animated stuff that is great to watch, fun to watch and can be more enjoyable than regular TV programming. Sports anime can own lousy sports TV scheduling (an anime about fishing (yes, I watched one) was infinitely more exciting than an actual fishing competition (yes, there was one.)) Drama anime can own lousy drama (I'm thinking some of those lousy sitcoms. Yes, they may both have excruciatingly slow pacing, but anime is nicer to look at than some wooden actors.) Sci-fi/fantasy anime gives sci-fi/fantasy movies a run for their money (possibly because it is mostly fictional in the first place.)

Downsides? Oh yes, there are a few, but they are painful. Firstly, it's a pain to find, get and then watch the episode, and a huge expenditure of time. Related to this, Windows Media Player (and Classic) can play songs perfectly, but bluescreen perfectly on any kind of video. Unfailingly fail. Next, there's the issue of comprehension. Without subtitles (I reject dubs) it is nearly impossible to catch the plot. Particularly on random anime like Hayate no Gotoku, which watching unsubbed allowed me to completely not get the plot (what little of it) and the jokes (20 minutes of it.)

Manga. Still images, usually black and white. Most of the time, for any given anime, there is a manga (or light novel) for it, either was based upon it or spawned it. Thus, given the same plot, it is usually faster and easier to read manga for it than wait for the anime episode to be released, then go through the hassle of watching it. After all, characters can only speak so fast, but one can speedread/speedlook through manga. Also, images don't require WMP, and do not cause computer meltdown.

Problems with manga? Of course, it is usually released in tortuously small chapters tortuously infrequently, and in Japanese at that. Granted, reading is easier than listening, and I don't mind manga translations as much as anime dubs. In fact, this is a big boon. If there is no English release, find the Japanese raw. If both seem not to exist, look for the Chinese version (both 简体 and 繁体 versions are fine) although Chinese is a last resort - proper nouns usually become quite odd transliterations.

Lastly, and OF COURSE, COMP GAMES. The most interactive of the lot, the most computer-resource-draining of the lot (yet no bluescreens) and in theory, the most addictive of the lot. Open ended gaming, you can change the online world, gain power, level up, become rich, what's not to like?

...Grinding. This form of entertainment requires effort (ironic) and plenty of time, which I'm too lazy to put in. This effectively sums up my attitude towards comp games. Well, I do play a little Freecell, and Crucis F+F, but that's all nowadays.

The winner by a nautical mile, manga. Only because it's the fastest of the three to go through (I AM that lazy.)

New year's plans!

*blinks* It's a new year already? Damn, I'm slow. This calls for a small listing of what I intend to do for the new year, just so I can have a little focus. Of course, no harm will come of not doing these things, since being so serious will be bad for one's psyche, so this is just a rough outline.

1. Get College Physics. Man, I've been wanting one of these since last year, it's so useful. Maybe even University Physics, if it's still written comprehensibly. This would have been incredibly helpful last year so that I could finish learning this year's work and go on autopilot.

2. Get a competition mathematics primer that actually works. Yeesh, that last book, while not a total ripoff, was quite bad. Out of the 8 chapters it had, only 3 were of any use. 37.5% usability isn't a good ratio of for a book as thick as that.

3. Stop being so lazy when it comes to relaxing. Seriously, this is just ridiculous. Who the hell is too lazy to relax? Too lazy to watch anime/play online games/read manga? This is madness. Resolution: Force myself to work... then force myself to relax.

3.5. A few things to catch, related to the above. If even possible, I'd like to watch 涼宮ハルヒの消失 (fat chance), Unlimited Blade Works (again, fat chance), and Omamori Himari (which starts airing in Japan tomorrow at 0030, +9GMT) (I wonder how fast fansubbers are. Failing that, how good is my Japanese.)

4. More stuff to write here. I really suck at writing anything planned out beforehand. And worse at spontaneous posts (the majority are.) This calls for 2 things: a life, online or real, to actually generate decent content; and an improvement in my standard of English, which can be appalling at times.

Why are these posts getting shorter?

Why are these posts always so short?

Why so many short posts?

Why so few short posts?

Why post?

Memory continued.

OK. Train of thought has returned, after my brain took several heavy hits by a mathematics obsession. SMO Senior and Open papers from 2008 & 9... still can't even get 50% right. Yeesh.

Back to the topic. Those maths papers? Funnily enough, I remembered how to do a few of the questions (since I did do them before, the first time round) despite there being one intervening year of maths deterioration (reason shall be unspecified.) Also, I remembered which questions I failed to complete the first time round. Armed with new approaches, I tackled the questions, and found my memory screaming "you couldn't do this, you still can't do this." It didn't lie. It might even have been the reason why, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Such a lousy memory (in every sense of the words.)

Oh, and a small listing's appeared on the sidebar. The first 2 categories are simple enough, but I figure the 3rd one could use explanation. "Forgotten Anime" simply means those that I've watched before, remember watching before, but completely forgotten what it was about, save for the name (in some cases. Had to Google a few times to get the correct names.) Truly a case of amnesia, this would be.

......admittedly, those were watched about 10 years ago.