The answer...is by this hand.

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This song, Te, is just...beautiful. Everything about it. The melody, the emotion, the singing...I hadn't heard of Moriyama Ryoko before this but I am now gawking with admiration at her because her voice is stunning and her expressions of emotion even more so. Just watch her playing the guitar and singing Nada Sou Sou; it's completely breathtaking.

Also, for Te, I am fascinated by how she sings: kotae wa, ha, ha, ha~ kono te de

でも　いつか　探す　鍵で　開くことができる
きっと　誰もが　愛のために　涙拭える

答えは・・・この手で
ここから・・・この手で
答えは・・・この手で
・・・この手で

Ugh. I don't even know how to begin describing how moved I am by her songs.

And yes, I have been rewatching Nino's Haikei Chichiue-sama lately. I've decided that it's really the heartwarming, slice-of-life jdramas that I like best, even though the crack dramas are fun.

Yesterday, htenywg and I finally visited Kampong Lorong Buangkok (as mentioned here; the last remaining village in Singapore) and it was a very (hot and) pleasant experience :D


A tiny village with the city built all around it.




The houses were all very colourful and surprisingly clean. It was very pretty!


A Chinese woman was singing old Chinese songs in her living room karaoke; I think half the village could hear it. When we walked past her open door, Gwen noticed that she was hosting her neighbour's kids; two of them were Malay. Racial harmony, anyone?


Both of us were unreasonably afraid that this dog would leap at us if we walked past him, so we didn't. But as Gwen remarked, the flies buzzing around him seemed to be bothering him more than we were. He would lie there, eyes closed, and a fly would land on his ear and the ear would twack it away. Flick flick. It was entertaining watching him :D


A little Malay boy ran out of his house and knelt by the pathway picking at something in the grass. I'd never seen a kid do that before in Singapore, in such surroundings, and so I was accordingly charmed. Also, he was incredibly cute and big-eyed and chubby-cheeked and he peeped at us from his porch and ducked down when Gwen tried to take a picture of him. In the end she photographed him popping up to receive an orange from his Chinese neighbour. He was so cuuuuuuuute I feel like cuddling him to sleep.


A makeshift bridge of planks!


Alfresco dining, kampong style.


The flowers were brilliantly coloured.


The prettiest house I saw in the village, half-obscured by flowers.

It was incredibly hot yesterday and I was so exhausted and dehydrated when I got back home, and I don't think I'd go back there again (it was mosquito paradise and I am prime mosquito food D:) but I'm glad I got to go there once before they raze it down and it's gone forever.

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I was better once I got home and chugged down a huge glass of iced water! The sun was really horrible, don't play play :(