Our ideas have no equal

Their brilliance dazzles all

They see the brightness they cannot comprehend

And liken it to the last burst of a dying star

Cold, dark, devoid, empty

Yet when we bestow upon them the knowledge to see

They plead ignorance still, they fear, they don’t see

We treated them with the respect we gave to equals

For once perhaps… But not much more

Alas, the loneliness of the eternal spark!

Felt solely in its own amidst the dark

‘This genius demands an audience!’ We speak

An audience? Wishes of a deluded mind in grandeur

For it still lacks its rightful men!

But this loneliness needs a witness at least

Please could we have a witness at least?

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Tags: agony, audience, brilliance, burst, deep midnight, dying star, eternity, friedrich nietzsche, genius, grandeur, heart, loneliness, r j hollingdale, sleep, translation, witness, woe, zarathustra

You see, I have got both Anne-Sophie Mutter’s and Sarah Chang’s interpretations of the Red Priest’s Four Seasons set of concertos in my hard disk. Currently, they are both my favourite classical violinists I have heard – nope, Vanessa-Mae and Eos Chater not included; I have grown out of the classical crossover genre into real music now. Ah well, actually I haven’t really. Just that now bass drum beats and pop conventions kinda sicken me and distract me from the talent hidden behind the violin.

It ought to be a musical blasphemy to actually compare two virtuosos and their talents. Yup, music ain’t a science. Hence I’m not exactly going to say who’s better… Just some observations… (NOTE:) From the musically untrained ear, I should qualify.

Hmm. Anyway, how come coincidentally, all the four names I mentioned are all chicks?

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Tags: air on the g string, anne sophie, bass drum, berlin philharmoniker, blasphemy, classical crossover, classical violinists, drum beats, eos chater, good first impression, live classical music, modern electronics, red priest, sarah chang, timeless piece, untrained ear, vanessa mae, vibrato, virtuosos, vivaldi

For the uninitiated, web syndication in this context refers to the retrieval of my posts via the RSS feeds you see. If you don’t exactly know what is it still (you should have a rough idea at least), you ought to go and learn more about modern web technologies. In brief, web feeds allow you to download news articles; blog posts; site updates etc. into a feed reader, like Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, Google Feed Reader or the like. And it just gives you the pure content, nothing else. No distractions from flashy ads and screwed-up page layouts (usually). Thus in one solution you get your articles stored and sorted out according to their origin site (instead of newsletters which you must manually sort into mail folders); email privacy and ease of management and distraction-free reading.

To all who understood that, or the rest who already know what I’m talking about, or use it even (on my blog or not), this lamentation’s dedicated to you.

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Tags: background images, css files, distraction, distractions, free reading, google, grand scheme of things, industrialist, lamentation, loading image, mail folders, mozilla firefox, page layouts, rough idea, scheme of things, slur, thunderbird, van gogh, web syndication, web technologies

Perhaps, two days of solitude in camp doing duties has given me the quiet and rain to inspire this melancholy which makes for a revisionism of my feelings and thoughts about Evanescence. Or rather, Amy Lee and the band, if you fancy. The continuous listening of their songs once more… Perhaps I need to start from the very beginning. Man, I’m getting philosophical over a band. This is going to be a very, very long personal post chronicling the change of my musical tastes over the past few years.

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Tags: amy lee, anne rice, bear in mind, creative direction, escapism, evanescence, exhilaration, guitar riffs, humanist, inexperience, initial recovery, marius, musical tastes, necessary means, personal maturity, personal post, replays, revisionism, songbird, time college, youthful idealism

Some changes, mostly technical, but one key change.

For purposes of consistency, I have migrated The Staccato Slur from ajanimgo.com to staccatoslur.com. The old domain name will still continue to exist, but henceforth redirect visitors to the new domain while people get used to the change.  All other related web presences e.g. email address, have been adapted to the new domain as well.

In short, reach The Staccato Slur at http://staccatoslur.com from now on. Shouldn’t mispell it if you can pronounce it.

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Tags: 3ix, backend, consistency, consistent features, domain name, fluency, geeks, key change, method changes, migration, optimization, responsiveness, sidebars, site images, slur, snap shots, staccato, staff job, web host, web presences

I haven’t written here for ages. I blame my job now as a conscript soldier for the lack of time. It is the lack of enough time to stare at the screen and type, like seriously.

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Tags: abstract numbers, arts and humanities, bad faith, existentialism, existentialist, free time, hah, inertia, insistence, lack of time, military life, military lifestyle, multidisciplinary, paper education, philosophical writing, physical theories, reflections, sentences, slur, vocabulary

For the lack of a good title, I am going to name this post “Hypercorrection”, after what I am going to write about.

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Tags: close friends, deep thought, fear, grammar, haha, hurry, hypercorrection, linguists, literature, paranoia, perfectionism, phenomena, phrasing, staccato, style in language, tendency, thinker, world aside from

Okay, Wordpress 2.7 has just been released recently and The Staccato Slur’s just updated to it. The most immediate observable change seems to be the admin panel; the bluish-white “playful” colour scheme has made way to a more refined, classy greyish one, with the fonts used changed as well to contribute to a final user experience which feels quite… Elegant.

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Tags: admin panel, candy, colour scheme, dashboard, elements, fonts, inclusion, interface, internet applications, observable change, open source, party plugins, staccato, third party, user experience, wordpress blog

Well, I have been down with a cough for about a week now, and Strepsils and VapoDrops has been an essential part of my arsenal against it. I don’t wish to be a rat, but when shopping for Strepsils at a convenience store, I always find expired lots of it on shelf. Not just with one branch of the chain but so far all the ones I have been to stock expired Strepsils.

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Tags: ajani, arsenal, blog, convenience store, conventional western medicine, cough, freegan, freeganism, guarantees, heck, lifestyle, medicine, minty, placebo, risk, shopping, stock, strepsils

In the words of Prof. Robert Solomon (September 14, 1942 ? January 2, 2007) from the movie “Waking Life”:

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Tags: robert solomon, waking life