new layout

So, new layout now, although lj just changed the way one can edit the userinfo, so I couldn't change the journal's title and subtitle yet.

Text from header was adapted from a lovely, lovely fanfic by the original coda.

Also, I finally figured out why the computer wouldn't let me open Photoshop earlier -- it turns out that there was only ONE MEGABYTE of space left in the C:\ drive. I had to uninstall several softwares and move my father's and my sister's folders to another harddrive before the computer decides to spontaneously combust from lack of space.

*yawn* Am now tired. Will go to sleep now.

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I just found out that there's an xxxHOLiC movie. O_o

How come I didn't know this earlier?! I want to watch it...

nyar.

My dad's currently trying to remember how to play Bach's Minuet in G, which is very amusing. XD

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I fiddled with this page's css code again. I must stop being compulsive!

Hopefully, there's nothing wrong with the looks this time...I completely forgot to check the other pages when I wrote the first draft of the code, so I guess I wouldn't change anything anymore... (But, knowing me, I'd edit the code again for no reason at all...)

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As I write this, I'm also listening to the second movement of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony. And now I can't help but wonder what imagery comes into their heads when people in those days were listening to the orchestra.

Gyah. I should stop wondering now, and just appreciate the music.

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I tried playing Moonlight Sonata earlier, and the first thing that came into mind while I was stretching my fingers to their limits was, Beethoven, you bastard!

While I have fairly large hands - for someone as small as I am, anyway; my hands are as large as my uncle's, who's more than half a foot taller than me - my fingers were stretched cruelly as I was playing the farking first movement. What would happen if I went on and played the next two movements, I wonder?

Or maybe the reason why my fingers can't reach the keys is because I haven't done finger-stretching piano scales since I was eight years old. O_o Argh...if only my piano teacher wasn't so superstitious - she didn't want dates printed on the underside of the currency numbers when we pay her, she doesn't want P500 bills because Ninoy was frowning, etc. - I'd be better at playing the piano now. Rarr.

FCUK YOU, MTRCB

WARNING: INCOHERENTNESS AND ALL-AROUND DISORGANIZED ESSAY-WRITING ABOUNDS.

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THE MTRCB IS SO FCUKED UP: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=38904

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The Da Vinci Code's first incarnation was a novel. A novel. Which means it's fictitious. Its primary objective is to entertain. What I don't understand is why people can't get that fact through their thick heads.

Anyone, anyone who read the novel thoroughly would realize that it says nothing inflammatory against the Church. Nothing. Nil. Zilch. Nada.

If you're as good a Catholic as they come, you shouldn't be bothered by things like these. If your faith in the Church is so fragile that your belief was shaken after reading this novel, then you might as well stop being Catholic.

If Jesus did happen to have a child by Mary Magdalene, well, so what? Would it change the fact that He's one of the most influential figures in history? Would it change the fact that His primary message was "Love your neighbor as you love yourself"?

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The Church likens itself to a shepherd tending to sheep. It is an imperfect shepherd, an institution filled with fallible men, but a shepherd nonetheless. However, we shouldn't just follow our shepherd blindly, because that's just stupid. Blind faith would lead to controversies, like the ones regarding The Da Vinci Code - Ohmigod the Church was put in a bad light, therefore the author is evil! vs. Ohmigod the Church is put in a bad light, therefore the Church must be evil! - which is just ridiculous.

We should be the kind of sheep that knows what it's getting into, who knows the kind of shepherd it follows, who knows what dangers it might come across, and still follows the imperfect shepherd anyway. Because that's the way faith should be: believing in something that you know couldn't be proven.