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yup! Noni AF5 sang this song last nite, and.. i love it! hahahah! i was hooked-up to this song ever since i heard it few years ago.. i think, based on the way she sing it, she already hafal this song before, or heard it somewhere else before she entered AF.. (i think la..)
anyway, here's a clip for the song, made by some anime fans, based on the CG from FF9.. enjoy!

want some more?!
here's the guitar tab for this song. :)
Lyrics and Translation after the jump..

p/s: people keep asking whether this song is an OST for FF9, my answer is NO! why? coz i have OST FF9 (4 Disc), and ive been listening to it for a few years... never heard Mirai e in there.. for FF9, the popular song is Melodies Of Life (English and Japanese version). download FF9 OST here! for FFX, Suteki Da Ne.. for FF8, (Rinoa and Leonheart) popular soundtrack is Eyes On Me.. so, i hope it's clear..
i know this song teramatlah sesuai utk clip FF9 tu.. but doesnt mean it belongs to FF9.. why? coz another fan of this song, has made another version of this clip using Kingdom Hearts CG! take a look.. untuk clip ni pun lagu tu sesuai.. :)

So... back to the subject.. who is Kiroro anyway?
Vocals: Chiharu Tamashiro
Piano and Keyboard: Ayano Kinjoh
Official Website: http://www.jvc-entertainment.jp/kiroro/

Profile
Kiroro, the female Okinawan duo that consists of Chiharu Tamashiro (vocals) and Ayano Kinjoh (piano/keyboard) debuted in 1996 as an indie band. Even though they sold over 10,000 albums, Okinawa only had a limited amount of copies. It wasn’t until two years later that they made their debut with "Nagai Aida". Later, they planned on having another release aimed at Okinawa and had a 2005 concert tour to help the release. But in January 2005, Chiharu married and later revealed that she was pregnant. The band took a break and is now planning on releasing more songs in 2006.

Kiroro is another legend in JPOP music that you must be exposed too. The duo has produced some beautiful songs full of emotion. Chiharu has a very pleasant, comforting voice and Ayano is awesome on the keyboard! Their songs are usually slow, but quite pleasing.

more about Kiroro on Wiki..

Enjoy!

Mirai e by Kiroro
Hora ashimoto wo mitegoran
Kore ga anata no ayumu michi
Hora mae wo mitegoran
Are ga anata no mirai

Haha ga kureta takusan no yasashisa
Ai wo idaite ayume to kurikaeshita
Ano toki wa mada osanakute imi nado shiranai
Sonna watashi no te wo nigiri
Issho ni ayundekita

Yume wa itsumo sora takaku aru kara
Todokanakute kowai ne dakedo oitsuzukeru no
Jibun no SUTOORII dakara koso akirametakunai
Fuan ni naru to te wo nigiri
Issho ni ayundekita

sono yasashisha wo toki ni wa iyagari
Hanareta haha e sunao ni narezu

Hora ashimoto wo mitegoran
Kore ga anata no ayumu michi
Hora mae wo mitegoran
Are ga anata no mirai

Mirai e mukatte yukkuri to aruite yukou

To The Future
Look! Look underfoot
This is your path to walk
Look! Look at what’s before you
That over there is your future

My mother gave me much kindness
While embracing love, I returned to my dreams
I was still a child then, and didn’t understand the significance when
She held my hand and we walked together
Dreams are always sky high and
though fearful, we still continue to reach for them
I should know this story because I never gave up
Although I was uneasy, we walked together

At times, I hated that kindness,
yet I would become weak when separated from her

Look! Look underfoot
This is your path to walk
Look! Look at what’s before you
That over there is your future

At times, I hated that kindness,
yet I would become weak when separated from her

Look! Look underfoot
This is your path to walk
Look! Look at what’s before you
That over there is your future
Look! Look underfoot
This is your path to walk
Look! Look at what’s before you
That over there is your future

Face your future,
and slowly approach it..

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fyi, no spelling error there.. what? i cant type that word in my blog? nevermind..
i know, it's enjoying and bring so much fun to you.. it's cute too!

Puki 3D : Fun Online Flash Game!

gosh! what the hell you were thinking? im not h*rny enough to post something about p*ki in my blog ok... hahahhahahha!

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Pi Fans Around the World Have Their Day

This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.

It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known - so far - to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.

And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.

That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously.

The question is why, of course. And if you ask the fans of pi why, a startling number of them will come back with the same question: "Why climb Mount Everest?" Because it's there.

But then they start talking about some very simple ideas. Like the beauty of a number that seems to go on forever and yet has no discernible pattern to it. Or about the valor of the memorization gymnastics, challenging oneself always to know more.

This is how Akira Haraguchi, a 60-year-old mental health counselor in Japan, puts it: "What I am aiming at is not just memorizing figures. I am thrilled by seeking a story in pi."

He said this one day last fall after accurately reciting pi to 100,000 decimal places. It took him 16 hours. He does not hold the Guinness world record, only because he has not submitted the required documentation to Guinness. But he has his story.

(Incidentally, the world record belongs to Chao Lu, a Chinese chemistry student, who rattled off 67,890 digits over 24 hours in 2005. It took 26 video tapes to submit to Guinness.)

A brief math refresher: Pi a simple concept, the relationship between a circle's circumference and diameter: Multiply the diameter by pi - 3.14159, to use a crude approximation that would make many of the people in this story blanch - and you get the circumference.

Supercomputers have computed pi to more than a trillion decimal places, looking always for a pattern to unlock its mystery. And for centuries the number has fascinated mathematicians.

And then there are people like Marc Umile. Twelve years ago, while working as an usher at a Philadelphia opera house, he picked up a book on curiosities of math and read about pi's seemingly infinite, random string.

He wondered about applying the way we absorb music to the mystical number. An obsession was born. In 2004 Umile read the digits of pi into a tape recorder. He did it a thousand at a time and gave it a rhythm - some numbers high-toned, some low.

He listened to the tape constantly. This went on for two years. A two-year trance.

"To and from work, in my quiet time, on my lunch break - and when I didn't have the tape I would recite in the shower," he says. "Probably 40 percent of the time there was an earphone in my ear. I said, `Oh my God, what have I created?'"

What he created was what is believed to be U.S. record for pi memorization - 12,887 digits. He typed them into a spreadsheet at a Philadelphia law office - three-and-a-half hours, 1,000 numbers at a time, with two smoke breaks.

Umile, who is 40 and now works as a Medicare biller, believes the fascination with pi has something to do with our desire to learn the ultimate truth of something. Each decimal place, in theory, takes you 10 times closer to the answer.

He says he made a mistake in his training: He told too many people what he was up to. His wife, his family - they were rooting for him. Most of the rest dismissed him as a weirdo.

"I have a delicate confidence level in a way," he says. "Maybe I don't believe in myself too much. If you do something of this magnitude, keep it a secret. Don't tell anybody what you're doing."

Others are less shy about their fixation.

A software engineer in Virginia named Mike Keith wrote a poem to pi, a "piem." A love letter, in a way. To say that it is a something to behold is an understatement: It is nearly 4,000 words long - and the length in letters of each word corresponds to pi's digits.

In other words, if you can remember the poem - which riffs on T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Act V of "Hamlet" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," among other texts - you too can recite pi.

"One: A Poem: A Raven," it begins (3-1-4-1-5). "Midnights so dreary, tired and weary, silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore. During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap! An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor."

And so on.

Keith says he thinks of himself only as "an average pi nut." He figures he knows maybe 100 pi digits off the top of his head. "My daughter knows about 50," he adds. "She's 15."

There are logical gathering places for people like this, and one of them is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where, on March 14, students have been known to wish each other - out loud - a happy Pi Day.

The school plays a role in encouraging this: In the past it has tried to mail its acceptance letters on March 14. (It didn't work out this year. And last year, when an MIT official wrote on an admissions blog that it probably wouldn't work out then either, he was greeted with disappointment. "Pi Day seems so romantic," one prospective student wrote.)

There's a popular chant, an MIT rallying cry, that includes "3.14159." (It rhymes with "Cosine, secant, tangent, sine!" And Bryan Owens, an MIT senior, says the ability to recite pi is a sort of bragging right, a coin of the realm.

"It's like how much money you have," he says. "But you never win. You always find somebody who knows it to more digits than you do. I think the basic idea is we like to celebrate things, kind of celebrate who we are."

And that is why, like the Irish on St. Patrick's Day or Italians on Columbus Day, this Wednesday, 3-14, in many cases at 1:59 p.m., pi enthusiasts will have their moment in the sun.

At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, there will be pies to eat, people wearing pi jewelry, more beads - color-coded by digit - added to the pi string. And the celebrants will gather at a sort of pi shrine, a brass plaque engraved with pi's first 100 digits.

It may be a stretch to say that pi has achieved a kind of cultural cachet, but it is true that, as an obsession, it's not just for math geeks anymore. Givenchy makes a Pi perfume. Kate Bush sings out its digits in a song. And - of course - YouTube stocks videos of people reading pi into the camera.

Umile, the pi-chanting Medicare biller who struggled with self-confidence, is already booked to appear on a local TV show on Wednesday. The other night he rattled off 10,000 pi digits, just to keep the gears oiled.

Funny thing, though: For the life of him, he can't remember the phone number he calls every month to make his mortgage payment. And the other day he got his own bank account number wrong.

"It starts with 6-1-4," he says. "And I wrote 3-1-4."

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"They saw the future... They saved the cheerleader.. It's time to save the world.. (this is usually the part when people start screaming..)"

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The moment Britney Spears would have been dreading has finally arrived – the very first Britney Rehab Doll. Manufacturers softened the blow for the struggling singer by slimming down her figure to Barbie size proportions. Paparazzi can breathe a sigh of relief, as Spears' arms are firmly tied down in a white straight jacket, so she can't make any frenzied umbrella attacks.

The new shaved head figurine, complete with straight jacket, is currently fetching bids on eBay for $82 (approximately RM287.61). So.. still got some AngPow left? hehehhe! go Britney!

Source: Metro UK

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