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is because i've been playing world of warcraft every spare minute i get. it hasn't been a week and i've already gotten a human mage up to lv20. that's including wasting 2 days on getting a (now abandoned) druid to 13.

the reason i'm posting now?

the servers are down, yet again.

it's unbelievalbe how much downtime these servers encounter.

less than 24 hours
i will back in azeroth

the pain
the suffering
the longing
will all come to a fantastic end

During the last few I have not slept well, eaten well, or even lived well. My mind is 10% here and 90% in the memories of Kalimdor. On mild reflection I find it absolutely stupendous that a game has affected me in such a profound psychological manner. U cannot deny that Blizzard has done something that nobody has done b4 - yes, we have seen various MMORPG's b4, but NONE as good as World of Warcraft. This game even beats the previously reigning champion Street Fighter II as a critical influencer on my psychological state.

I now have a faint idea of what it's like to stop cold turkey on drugs. It probably feels like what I'm feeling right now. I'd pay $500US just to play now. Seriously. I can't get my priorities straight anymore.

For the first time in the longest time, I have been filled with a magnificent clairvoyance of what my purpose in life is: to obtain a cd-key for WoW and play the shit out of it. I'm actually gonna order two copies, one for me and my gf, and buy two half year packages. I think it's worth it. I was gonna buy an iPod for my gf but I realized for the price of that relatively useless gadget, I can buy the electronic equivlalent of crack for half a year. And unlike crack, it won't kill me - I hope. If I end up in the newspaper as one of those "died by his computer thru over-exhuastion" stories, maybe this entry will give some sense as to why.

In the meantime, I spend virtually every painful second alive scouring the WoW forums for info on the various classes.

Tuesday. Only two more days. I can make it. I have to make it.

Today at dinner, I took my gf out to a nice japanese buffet for her birthday. While we just sitting there finishing our drinks and dessert, I wanted to draw something but neither of us brought a pen.

So I took a chopstick, dipped it in soysauce, and started to draw a crude map of Durator on the paper napkin. I looked at it and it had such a powerful emotional impact. Seeing the Den, Razor Hill, Ogrimmar, Sen'jin village.... it was more moving than looking at an old picture of my ex.

Help me.

Sup all. Well, I'm currently suffering from a rather serious case of WoW withdrawal. The temporary solution? Spend endless amounts of time scouring the web for WoW information and daydreaming about by next char.

Speaking of my next character, our little UoT Taiwanese clan has decided we will all play Alliance when retail comes around. Although we haven't confirmed this yet, the party will most likely look like this:

Me: NE Druid
Charlie: NE Druid
Calvin: Human/Dwarf Paladin
Danny: NE anything, as long as she looks sexy and he can fantasize about her
Juan: Gnome anything, as long as it looks weird.

Yah, that's gonna be our 5 man team. I think it would be nice to have a mage for some raw AoE DPS, but nobody wants to be constantly collecting their corpse when soloing (heheh Bubula). My gf is also gonna play on my buddy's account but only occasionaly, she'll be an NE druid too. Funny how we have so many druids even though it's the least popular class statiscally, due to the fact that it's apparently woefully underpowered at later levels.

Still, shapeshifting into a CAT is just too cool to pass up on. I spent the entire hour at the coffee shop today with a full Druid skillz listing planning my control scheme now that I can control my character using a PS2 controller with Joy2Key (damn, I am 2l33t4u). I know u guys dont' give a rat's ass about this, but I'm putting this info down cuz I love my setup, even though I haven't even tried it yet.

(warning, if u have never played WoW or don't know the PS2 control layout by heart, don't even bother reading below, it will be complete gibberish 2 u)

Terry's super l33t PS2 control scheme for WoW NightElf Druids

All the magic starts with L2 and R2 bound to SHIFT and CTRL, so that they can be used as modifiers to expand the # of possible actions with a controller. The other buttons can be bound to anything, as long as the key config matches properly in WoW.

Left analog = up/down/left/right movement
Right analog = mouse cursor
L3 = left click
R3 = right click

R1 = select enemy
L1 = select myself

digital up = select party member 1
digital left = select party member 2
digital right = select party member 3
digital down = select party member 4

R2 + down = cat shapeshift
R2 + right = switch to feral abilties action page
R2 + left = switch to balance/restoration action page

[I hope you see the brilliance in that. I hold R2, do a hadoken motion, and I shapeshift AND switch my action page to the cat abilities in one swift motion. To return, I hold R2, do a tatsu-maki-senpuu-kyaku (hurricane kick for u non geeks) and I'm back to regular druid form + druid abilities. Yah, that is f*cking brililance.]

in Druid form

square = attack
cross = moonfire/starfire
triangle = entangling roots
circle = wrath

L2 (healing/defensive) +
square = soothe animal / tranqulity (swap out depending on party/solo)
cross = healing touch
circle = regrowth
triangle = hibernate

R2 (buffs) +
square = rejuvenation
cross = nature's grasp
triangle = thorns
circle = mark of the wild

in Cat form

square = claw
cross = rake
triangle = rip
circle = shred (this is going to be fun hehe)

L2 (stealth) +
square = prowl mode
cross= dash
triangle =
circle = ravage (even more fun heheheheh)

R2 (buffs)
square = tiger's fury
cross = track humanoid
circle = faerie fire
triangle = cower

L2+R2+up = autorun
L2+R2+down = flip camera

start = open inventory and all bags
R2 + start = character screen

select = map
R2 + select = map


There ya go. Brilliance. Now I can't wait...

So some of you may be wondering why I seem to have disappeared for the last.... i don't know. The truth is, I haven't had a single minute of spare time in the last week. That's right. Not a single minute of spare time. Becuase I spent every last living, breathing moment perpetually glued to my computer playing....

WORLD OF WARCRAFT

It was not pretty folks. On one particular day, I was so obsessed with getting up to lv20 with my Troll Shaman that I literally played myself to exhuastation. I started I think around 4 or pm in the afternoon and I played until maybe 5:30 in the morning. I didn't even stop to to eat. My gf got takeout for me and she actually FED me while I was still playing, like an infant. You know what happens when you play a game for 12 hours in a row? Well, it's not exactly good for you. Your body starts to ache. You mind turns into mush - you actually have difficulty reading simple English sentences and you can't even type properly. And then, when you take a piss, something inside your body starts to really hurt. Well, at least that's what happened to me.

But now of course, the Open Beta is over, all the characters were wiped in prepration of the retail release on the 23rd. In a way, I'm glad. These 5 or 6 days (depending on how long it takes for my friend to buy the game in the US), I will have to recontemplate the meaning of life and mentally and physically prepare myself for..

THE CRAZY-ASS BINGE THAT'S GONNA HIT ME DOWN WHEN THE RETAIL GAME HITS THE STORES.

I once thought naively that if Blizzard wiped all the OB characters, I wouldn't really be interested in playing again, cuz u know, it suxx to lose a lv 22 character that you spent so much of your time and effort. In reality, it doesn't matter all that much, cuz what I'm really addicted to is the world..... of World of Warcraft (hah). It is a fantasy world come true in every sense of the word. I don't think any other MMORPG can compare to this one. I've traveled from the desert wastelands of Durator, to the Orc capital city of Ogrimmar, to the Crosswords at the savannah lands of the Barrens, to the plagued lands of Tirsfal Glades, to the Undead capital Undercity, to Tarren Mill and the human/undead border fortress of Stromgarde, to the grasslands of Mulgore, to the Tauren capital Thunder Bluffs, even to the cursed Night Elf lands of Ashenvale. And I want to see more! More more more! Felwood. Thousand Needles, Azshara, Stranglehorn Vale, the entire human dwarf and human lands. I want to see everything. I played so much Warcraft 3 that all these locales, races, and creatures mean something to me. Seeing a herd of real Kodo Beats thundering through the Barrens is just so enchanting. The one thing I'm a little worried about is that the Orc territories seem to be done so much better than the Alliance ones, EXCEPT for the Dwarf/Gnome snowlands. But as I've only seen the starting aras of the Humans and Night Elves, I can't really say for certain.

I'm gonna make a little picture diary of my OB char and put it up soon. Hail Blizzard.

BTW, Matt, send me this really interesting link about EA games. I think its' worth a read:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/274.html?thread=10514

I've started playing WOW open beta with my buddies. To be honest, I was a bit underwhelmed at the beginning, after all, expectations were SO high for this game. I'd have to say the high points are the graphics, the overall presentation, and the fact that the "Bullshit Frustration Factor" is really really low. You can't really be a jerk in this game. You can't steal loot, and you can't steal other people's kills. The low points are: the sound and the music. Blizzard really misses Matt Uelmen, the composer and sound producer for the previous games. There's just no bite, no attitude to the sounds and music in WoW. In fact a lot of sounds are rehashed. Bill Roper I think is also gone from Blizzard, he used to do all the orc voices (and more). If you recall the reason he left was closely associated with how their parent company Vivendi Universal was managing Blizzard. Something about whether or not the company would be sold or something. More examples of capitalism messing with great art.

Anywyas, here are some screenies

The human mage is real sexy once you unequip her shirt:


Hilarious. just hilarious


Charlie and I having troll sex



They should put a warning sign on this cliff "JUMP AT YOUR OWN RISK"

Tonight I finished watching the great Japanese series [The Giant White Tower]. I cried a lot. I don't remember how much exactly but I went through half a box of tissues. And then when they had the midnight re-run, I watched it again and cried again.

I told my gf that when she goes back to Okinawa, she must get an physical examination. She asked me why I wasn't interested in getting an examination myself. I thought about that for a moment. I told her that if I had cancer, that would be regrettable, but if she had cancer, that would be unbearable. She thought about that for a second and said "naruhodo." She feels the same way. These are not selfless, sappy, romantic words. In fact they're downright selfish. I just means "I'd much rather leave you to a life of solitude than to give myself the same pleasure."

Sometimes I think of how life has changed so much since coming to Taiwan. I have my own place, I have my own job, but I must admit that everything still begins and ends with my gf. I know by North American standards this is a truly pitiful thing, but I am always honest with my feelings. Life just totally sucks when you don't have someone intimately close to share it with. As a kid this can be your parents or your same sex buddies, but as a (straight) young adult the only person who can fit this role is an member of the opposite sex.

I don't know if you noticed that but everybody needs affirmation on an average of say, every thirty minutes. People only differ on how they acquire said affirmation. Some go the direct route and simply talk to the person that is most conveniently available, either personally or through online chat. Some (like me) like to make things complicated by pretending we don't need affirmation from anybody and staying quiet, yet secretely hoping that somebody will notice us and forcefully pry us out from solitude. Others go out and try to accomplish something great so they can show the world how special they are, but usually the farthest they get is reading the first 20 pages of "How to become a Successful Investor" at Chapters. Whenever I see strange behavior out of people, I always look to Lack of Affirmation as the default cause.

Affirmation is a basic, primal, human need. It also seems to be the one that nobody wants to admit. One of the greatest ironies of single life is that despite truly wanting to be with someone, you can't admit that openly or nobody will want to be with you. I cannot even begin to imagine the smorgasboard of complications that arise from that contradiction. For one thing, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "I need a girlfriend" with the same serious tone as "I need a job". If said, it always has to be said with a sarcastic tone or humorous twist. For that matter, I don't think anyone has gone through life without at one point wanting to call osomeone but ends not up calling because "it makes me look needy". It's a shot in the dark, but I believe that people would much rather be in a relationship where they can do things without always having to second guess their own intuitive needs.

If I ever lost my girlfriend, and somehow make it through the break up period intact, you might catch me saying "I don't need a gf" again , but god wouldn't that be such a lie. A gf/bf is one of strongest and most constant source of affirmation for people our age. Without one, few (if any) can make up for the difference by other means on a constant, satisfying, daily basis. That's just personal opinion.

「白い巨塔」の最終回をやっと見終わった。何回もいっぱい泣いてしまったんだ！財前が死ぬのは思ったより悲しかった。最初に皮肉だと思った、財前は私の嫌いタイプだからけど、でもやっぱり、すごく強くて頑張る人が死んだなら一番切ないんだ。強い時と弱い時の差はとてもはっきりだから。そう言うと、私の母さんと父さんが死んだらってどっちの法が悲しいって言ったら、僕は母さんって思うんだ。実は、私と父さんの関係の法が近いけど、母さんはいつも強くて頑張って、もしもそう言うママが弱くなったら、私の心は受けられないんだ。

ま、このドラマの一番感動させる時は、多分最終回に、財前が里見に診察してくれって言って、結果を知るようになって、財前が里見に「。。不安はありません。。。ただ、無念だ」って言う時だ。私は二回見ても、このシーンに涙また出てしまった。 すごい演技だったな、シーンの気分と感じを１００％信じれたよ！

本当にすばらしいドラマ、「白い巨塔」って。また私の思い通りで、どんな製品でも、日本人の作る物は世界の一番ですね！さすが日本だ！

Everyday I've been watching this J-drama called 「白い巨塔」 or literally translated "The Giant White Tower". It is rare that I get hooked on a show that is not in my native language, but then again this show was immensely popular when it came out. It's based on a fairly old novel and this is already the 2nd rendition into TV form.

The story revolves around two main characters, Zaizen and Satomi. They're both doctors at a national university hospital. The two are almost opposites, Zaizen values real success and ambition, while Satomi values morals and ideals. While they were both friends before becoming doctors, over time they have drifted apart by differences in opinion. Zaizen quickly moves up the ranks and becomes a professor while Satomi is "stuck" doing research.



The story really begins when one day, a patient named Sasaki under the jurisdiction of Zaizen is diagnosed with cancer. A CT Scan shows the cancer being predominantly in one area, however there is a faint "shadow" nearby. Zaizen tells the patient that the only way to cure him is to undergo an operation. However, several of his understudies protest that the faint "shadow" might be a case of the cancer spreading to other parts of the patient's body (in which case, an operation would be of no use) Zaizen, being the cocky, "nobody can ursurp my judgement" type, laughs at this suggestion and proclaims the shadow as being nothing more than what it is: a shadow caused by the patient's regular smoking habits. His forceful personality compel the helpless Sasaki family to sign and agree to the operation.

Predictably, Zaizen's judgement ends up being the wrong one, and Sasaki-san dies a horrible early death, despite undergoing a successful operation and constant reassurance from Zaizen and his medical team that everything went according to plan. Even after Sasaki-san passed away, Zaizen did not apologize to the grieving Sasaki family, insisting that his judgement was still "correct", even though the results were unfortunately surprising. For this reason, the Sasaki family files a lawsuit against Zaizen, and here is where things become interesting. Satomi himself feels Zaizen was too careless when diagnosing the patient as needing an operation, and is one of the few people who has the courage to volunteer to testify against Zaizen. Many of Zaizen's understudies refused to testify or even worse, agreed to falsify key facts in order to protect Zaizen. The reason: testify against us, and you'll be fired tomorrow.

Many questions are raised. If you are a doctor, and you regularly save thousands of lives each year, should you be damned for letting one die? In Zaizen's case, it's not even clear whether he did anything wrong, because in reality, most doctors would not investigate such a faint shadow. And yet at the same time, you can fully understand why the Sasaki family would want to sue Zaizen. It's a really great drama and I encourage anyone who can get their hands on this series to watch it.

This is what I love about music. Sometimes, the smallest changes can produce a drastic effect on the emotion a song can convey. Like the last song I made, the "Goals" theme from ESPN. I added one sweep pad, and now it's like, 30% better than before. You can download the new version (the link is the same http://members.rogers.com/jigen-ongaku/goals.mp3). You probably won't hear anything new compared to last time, but it should feel more moving and full. The delay on the piano is also strengthened a bit.

最近、ＶＳＴを集めることにはまってしまった。たとえ、今はＮＩ・ＢＡＴＴＥＲＹ・２の６ＧＢぐらいのドラム・サンプルをダウンロードしています。完成までに待てないような勃起ですね！ＮＩのサイトでデモを聞いて、今のＳＣ?８８５０より何倍より綺麗な音だ。

ＶＳＴの世界はこんなに進歩したって全然わからなかった。でもやっはり、トップと仏の品質差はとても多き。トップと言えば、一番初めに思い付くのはＳＰＥＣＴＲＡＳＯＮＩＣＳとＮＡＴＩＶＥ・ＩＮＳＴＲＵＭＥＮＴＳだ。得に、ＳＰＥＣＴＲＡＳＯＮＩＣＳの三つＶＳＴ・ＩＮＳＴＲＵＭＥＮＴＳ：ＴＲＩＬＯＧＹ（ｂａｓｓ）、ＳＴＹＬＵＳ（ｌｏｏｐｄｒｕｍｓ）、ＡＴＭＯＳＰＨＥＲＥ（Ｓｙｎｔｈ）。この三つの中でサンプルの品質プロぐらいいいだ。ＮＩのＡＢＳＹＮＴＨはかなり良くて、後はＢＡＴＴＥＲＹだ。

First, of, this is for Alfatrion. Dude, I didn't know you could read that entry... that's pretty damn impressive for someone who just studies japanese in his spare time. And yeah, your translation was pretty much on the money... but the context might be a little differnet than you imagine... I was trying to say (to an imaginary audience who reads those japanese entries) that Japanese is probably the #1 language that everybody seems to want to learn and I used your site as an example. So the question was kinda rhetorical, but thanks for answering :-) By the way, I don't know why, but new entires in your site don't seem to show up unless I force refresh with CTRL-F5 in IE. Normal xanga pages don't seem to have this problem... dunno what's wrong.

Secondly, today was my 2nd day recording at the studio. Being more familiar with the envrionment and the people I record with, it was a LOT more fun than the 1st time. To start off, I was way more relaxed and when you're relaxed, you can enjoy everything a lot more. That studio (AMP Labs) is so goddamn awesome. They have multiple studio "rooms", and one is more of a lounge than a studio. It's equipped with two leather sofas, a TV, an espresso machine, a water cooler, and a fridge stacked with all kinds of beverages. Hell yeah baby. Now that's what I call enjoying the downtime (there's actually quite a lot of downtime because there's like three other composers and when they're recording, you pretty much don't need to do anything). Whoever did the interior decorating has unbelievable taste. It's modern without being tacky, and it's designed so that the whole room, despite being fairly small in actualy square footage, still feels spacious and roomy. The ceilings are extremely high, probably because this is the top floor (10th) of a relatively old building. I love high ceilings.

I met one of the kids on the show, Sebastian, for the first time. He's one of those genuis kids who develops mentally at twice the rate - end result: a 12 year old mind trapped in a 6 year old body. To everyone's surprise, the little dude warmed up to me real quickly. During the afternoon downtime, I was sitting in the lounge trying to get a bit of shuteye, and then this kid just pops in saying he wants to hang out with me. We ended up playing tag and watching Karate Kid together. This kid is hilarious. When he first saw the girl on Karate Kid, he just said out loud "is that girl a lesbian?". This is coming from a 6 year old. I cracked up and asked him whether he even knew what a lesbian was. He didn't. But he knew what gay meant, so I just filled in the blanks for him. This kid also told me he really loved one of the songs I made, and I caught him humming that tune many times during downtime ("ooh ooh ooh, cinderella"). That felt totally great.

His mom, Dory, was there too. She's from Victoria, BC and she's a great person. In fact, one thing I just still can't believe is just how great everybody is. I guess when you're in a positive work envrionment, working on something spiritually satisfying such as music, everyone is just smiles and laughs. It's kinda weird how there's a husband & wife, mother & son, all there who are part of the show. The environment is super friendly and not in the least bit hostile. Everyone's there to have a good time and get work done at the same time.

Other than that, recording went smoothly with the exception that everything was taking too long and I didn't finish until around 7pm. Steve and Rebecca were still there. I'm actually going to go again sometime soon to record a small flute riff live with Rebecca (she is a formally trained flutist). Maybe later, I will also attend the filming of the show, just so I can see how the music is used in coordination with acting and dancing. It will certainly help a lot. Music is certainly not an island affair... just knowing the actors personally and knowing what they're like helps inspire when composing music for them. Before, it was totally blind, but now I"m sure I can make even better music.

Especially now that I'm equipped with VST's. I gotta say, before I was a bit of a hardware snob. I dismissed softsynths as something that only "composers who will never go anywhere" would use. But it turns out, EVERYBODY is using soft synths nowadays. That last techno track (I hope someone actually listened to it, because i think it's awesome) was inspired totally by this crazy aweome VST synth called "ABSynth" by Native Instruments. Default Bank Patch 17 = holy fucking shit! I was totally shocked a softsynth had patches of this quality.Then the "audio engineering" trick to make the song sound big, loud, and in your face (at the expense of dynamics) was also done totally in software. The unbelievable thing is that softsynth music production is WAY easier than using hardware, because you can chain really high quality effects with a couple of mouse clicks, and the mixing down process is simplified so greatly becuase you don't have to deal with line recording.

The things to watch out for when using softsynths is this 1. Realtime editing/recording may become unstable/unreliable due to CPU usage 2. There's a lot more crap softsynths out there than there are gems. I guess hardware really is dead. Even the AMP Labs mixing engineer said so... very few people still rely on 100% hardware synthesziers to produce music nowadays.

今日から、ＶＳＴ・ＳＯＦＴＳＹＮＴＨＳで作曲に行こうとやってみる。前にＣＭＵＳＩＣの仕事でＳＣ?８８５０をずっと使ったけど、もうそろそろ次のステップに行くじゃない？

サンプルＣＤが使いにくいから、今探してるのはＶＳＴ・ＳＯＦＴＳＹＮＴＨＳ．今は「ＳＰＥＣＴＲＡＳＯＮＩＣＳ」のＶＳＴ・ＳＯＦＴＳＹＮＴＨＳに興味があります。ＤＥＭＯを聞いてから、とてもいい品質ですね！

Today was the first day of recording at a studio. I gotta say, I'm pooped. It started at 10am so I had to wake up extremely early: 9 am. This might be normal for like 90% of the population, but my sleep schedule is perpetually shifted 5 hours ahead, so this is like asking a normal person to wake up at 4am.

Fueled regularly by copious amounts of caffeine, I was pretty wide awake and alert during the whole session, if not a little jittery. I met two of the actors on the show, Steve and Rebecca (americans), they were great people: friendly, energetic and intelligent. I also met the recording engineer, Jeff (chinense), he's a little quaint but also seems to be extremely friendly.

Recording the songs for Steve and Rebecca were really easy, cuz they were the composers, vocalists, AND actors for the show, so they pretty much knew exactly how to sing the song without me having to say much. The problem came when True Daley arrived in the afternoon. Being a newcomer to the show, she needed a lot of direction. We recorded Steve's song first and holy shit, this guy can direct. He was flailing his arms, dancing like a madman, and giving very clear instructions as to how he wanted his song sung. True seemed to respond very well to that and she got into the mood and groove of the song.

When it was time to record my song though, it just didn't seem to flow as well. I didn't really know exactly how I wanted it sung other than it to be in tune... I tried to tell her to sing certain parts a certain way but the truth was I wasn't even really clear myself. Like I would say things like "can I have a deeper, huskier, voice", and she'd go "what's husky? can you sing it for me?", and I'd go "umm, not really, it's sorta like... ok never mind, we'll just got with what we have". That just ruins everything, because the director's lack of confidence and desire will rub off on the singer and the singer slowly becomes disinterested in the song and can't get into the groove of it. Mind you, the song I wrote was rather eccentric (it had all those radiohead chords) and I don't think that was her cup of tea. I thought the takes were not bad but it really didn't compare to her takes of Steve's song... there, she was energetic, lively, and had a strong presence. This was likely a result of Steve being extremely strict as to what he wanted - takes that I thought were excellent, he'd go.. "that's good, but I'd like to have it like this" and then sing it/explain it to her.

Probably the most embarassing thing I did the whole day is try to talk the vocalist without holding down the "talk back" button on the console. Without holding the button down, nothing gets through that soundproof window. So many times the mixing engineer would have to second guess when I would start talking and hold down the button for me. I got the hang of this habit of holding down a button whenever I want to say something near the end though.

I guess I just found it tough to be surrounded by a bunch of people I didn't really know, and be in charge of ordering them around to sing in a certain way. When you're not feeling 100% comfortable, it's not easy to tell a live, human vocalist (with damageable feelings) that his 6th take is still not good enough even though to most people it sounds fine. Also, I had to tell the mixing engineer a lot of repetitive stuff, like go back to that part, let's listen to that again, let's punch record that. I felt uncomfrotable doing that because it's like I'm ordering a slave around to do stuff... I'd much rather control that console myself if I could. Being a vocal director is very much a leadership role and that's just not my thing.

Still, nobody complained about anything, it's just that I wish I was able to control a vocalist that way. Steve has more than ten years of experience recording music so his abilities and confdience don't surprise me.

The studio, called AMP labs, was pretty loaded. Not the fanciest studio like they use for Hans Zimmer productions, but good enough. That awesome 29" Apple Studio display (finally, a studio that doesn't do that lame dual 15" LCD monitor setup) a Mixing Console integrated with Pro Tools, a smorgasboard of effect processors for vocals, and one helluva microphone for vocals. It was way better than Profee studio I went to back when I had that short stint with XPEC.

I'll be going back on wednesday. For then, I have to prepare a little more, some vocal harmony lines for a few songs, a few scores for Steve and Rebecca (we may record some flute parts live, that should be really fun). I'm sure as I do this more often, I'll get more and more comfortable and be able to control the vocalist much better

明日はやっとＳＴＵＤＩＯに行って、前四つ作った曲をＲＥＣＯＲＤする。１０：００に始まるので、ちょっと大変だ。楽しいはずだけどまだわからない。

今週私の体がいっぱい怪我された。はじめはＳＣＯＯＴＥＲの暑いＥＸＨＡＵＳＴを不注意触って、左足が火傷してしまった。その後、家の鋭いものを不注意触って、指が深く切られた。また、今晩に不注意で足指をＳＯＦＡに打つ込んで足指を真剣に怪我した。

もういっぱい怪我があるけどそれだけじゃない。最近私の首と肩がすごく痛いんです。仏の動きも大変だ。どう直すかな。

新しいピアノとても好きです。音はやっぱり音器何倍より綺麗です。