Victoria is Everything

"He's like a bird that I would like to own, but can't bear to keep in a cage."

"Surely no one likes to be owned?"

"No, no. There are people like dogs, they like being owned, and they'd feel lost without an owner. Or there are people like cats, they like to pretend to be owned."

"So then, what about you?"

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Here's another Japanese recipe for cheats. I have sort of made up the recipe myself. You can serve it as a salad / appetiser, but I usually just eat it on its own. » Read more

The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel. Eg, when you edit a post, your Twitter gets updated with:  » Read more

Ok.. so here is my new song. There's quite abit of white noise in the recording, and also the bad guitar playing and singing.. don't expect much. I don't claim to have talent. And yea, I was having too much fun with the layering too.. Oh well, but it was such great fun! » Read more

During a chord-tasting session (like wine-tasting, but you taste chords instead of wine), I stumbled upon the Gmaj7 chord, and fell in love with it.

I love its airy expansiveness. When you play it together with the Cmaj7 chord, you can easily turn them into a 2 chords song with a nice floaty suspense.

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If you walk with your eyes on the ground, you'll see where the shit and puddles are and can avoid stepping on them. However, you'll miss out on the beautiful scenery.

If you walk enjoying the scenery around, you risk stepping on shit and puddles.

What is one to do?

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Here is another one from タチコマな日々 (Tachikoma na Hibi) Episode 22. I had a really good laugh from this too. Again, please correct me if you spot my mistakes! Thank you!

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I'm learning Japanese! And I have spent some painful hours transcribing the above video (Tachikoma na Hibi Episode 21) into Japanese text. If you are proficient in Japanese, could you please take a quick look and let me know of my mistakes?

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Here's a list of my favourite FREE music. Yes, fellow cheapo-music-lovers, they're free for download. How wonderful, the internet is a wonderful place. And these are all legal too, I wouldn't want to rip these poor indie musicians off. I think this giving way free music works really well for them. I have often ended up buying the entire album anyway.

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I have bought a tin whistle just last week. I highly recommend anyone to get one.

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