Elfira Yolanda S

halcyon [hal-see-uhn]
– adj : calm, peaceful, rich, wealthy, happy, joyful, carefree

So, that’s what it means.. It seems that the word halcyon contains everything good and wonderful in it. The title is taken from Bleach volume 27. In one of its chapter, the heroine Inoue Orihime, was “forced” to come to the villain’s site. Other words, she was kidnapped by the bad guys. However, Orihime was granted a last chance to say goodbye to only one person. To make things more unhalcyonic (no need to check dictionary, unhalcyonic is not a legal word :p), she had to say goodbye without the person noticing her. The bad guy gave her something to make her a ghost-alike (can’t be seen or something).

Faithful reader of Bleach will know by heart that “the person” should be Kurosaki Ichigo, hero of the story. You know when we watch movies or read books, there are parts that affect you in many ways. Keep it short: I favor Orihime’s farewell speech. Mind you, I’m not saying goodbye or anything related to it, wkwkkw.. I just like the farewell lines.  So, here we go:

Kurosaki-kun, you know, I… had a lot of things I wanted to do..

I want to be a teacher..
I also want to be an astronaut..
and also make my own cake shop..

Well, I have things I want to do as well. Bakery’s owner is a good one but the previous two.. mm… nah… I’d rather be a writer or someone who works at Advertising area. There are so many choices of jobs. Luckily I end up being my  most favorite, a Software Engineer. Anyway, most characters in Bleach are in high school, so those lines are quite understandable.

I want to go to Mister Doughnut’s and say “I’ll have them all!”…
and I want to go to Baskin Robins and say “I’ll have them all!”

Agree!! Huhuhu.. Imagine you can have your favorite foods served in various way: potato, dairy products, noodles, eggs, chocolate, flour-based foods except Kastengel and cheese stick. You can have it for free and without gaining more weight. Ahahahaha.. that’s heaven!

OHHHH… I wish I could live life 5 times over!
Then I’d be born in 5 different cities
I’d stuff myself full with different delicious things 5 times each
I’d have 5 different jobs

Life is full of excitement. Though rains come or even storms, but surely it’s something to be grateful of. To repeat and to do it differently, that could be wonderful… and….

and then for those 5 times…
I’d fall in love with the same person

negau no wa amazuppai orenji

The color is orange. In my mind, it’s always his. :p

Thank you, Kurosagi-kun!

.. being singular. Why?

At first, I was not happy that ‘everyone’ is happy being singular. Why does not it say: everyone are happy?

I asked him the question. I thought I had strong reason, great argument to defeat grammar that had existed for centuries.

There is a sense of lots in ‘everyone’. I always thought that when we said ‘everyone’, we were talking about people.

“No, it doesn’t work that way”, he said. “Everyone refers to each individual, it’s not like we add each individual to a collection so that it becomes a plural noun.”

I actually got it when he explained it that way. I should have said thank you, but I didn’t.

I needed object to hit. I just needed to cry so bad that I picked up a fight, a ridiculous fight… over English grammar. I threw all arguments that I could think of and persisted that everyone should be a plural.

He was very patient. He kept explaining and giving his own arguments. He didn’t let me to hold on the wrong answer. He tried his best to guide me. That was the way he responded to my English question. That was the way he raised me.

I did cry. :p

Now, I am very happy that ‘everyone’ is happy being singular. I’ve got myself a memory of him. It is priceless.

Should he be right here, right now, what would I do?

.. ask him what tenses to use if I want to tell, in narrator mode, a fact that still happens to the day when the story is told? Like the italic lines above.. I can pick up another fight over that.

Or better.. I can simply say,

Happy birthday, Pa!

November 28

Elfira Yolanda Sinaga
09/11/1985

You are Blue Tiger, who is cheerful and straight forward person,
but you also possess pure and clean atmosphere.

You are very active, and don’t flirt with men and are not cautious towards them.
You are open-minded person with big warm heart.
You can make decent decisions and have observing eyes.
You are also intelligent and self confident.

Nevertheless you are not very good at quick decision makings,
and tend not to act before you are convinced thoroughly.
But once convinced, you will go the whole way.

You are very popular, because of the way in which you don’t show favoritism
and you can make decisions on reason.
Unlike your cheerfulness, you tend to be very sensitive and tend to worry needlessly.
You seem like a romantic type, but you are very realistic and don’t go following your dreams forever.
You are actually thinking a lot about your future.

Although you seem like a big-sister type, you can be conservative towards men.
You have good sense, but your interests are rather old fashioned.
When you are in a difficulty, there will always be someone to help you. [wow.. lucky me!]
Those who received lots of help from the others tend to become warm hearted,
and take care of the other people well.

You tend to link love and marriage.
And you wish for the two to become one.
Even if you get married, you tend to find activity outside home,
so it will be good for you to keep a distance.

Taken from here.

I cast all my cares upon You,
I lay all of my burdens down at Your feet.
And any time I don’t know just what to do,
I will cast all my cares upon You. [Cares Chorus]

wow, is short writing my new style? hh…

Best picture from my junk mails so far! Woof!

.. my Toushirou!

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