Hanayome to Papa OST (君の帰る場所) Guitar Chord

君の帰る場所 guitar chords.

As mentioned in the previous post, this is the guitar chord for the song. The original chord is in Eb.

Playing in Eb is always difficult. You can use Ka-Po on the 1st fret and play the whole song in D. I will give both chords with the one in bracket and red is in D.

**Credit to Wee Lern.

Intro:
Eb (D) Cm7 (Bm7) Fm7 (Em7) Bb7 (A7) Ebsus4 (Dsus4) Eb (D)

Verse:
Eb (D) Cm7 (Bm7) Ab (G) Fm7 (Em7) Bb7 (A7)

Eb (D) Cm7 (Bm7) F#dim7 (Fdim7)

Ab (G) Bb7 (A7) Ebsus4 (Dsus4) Eb (D)

Pre-Chorus:
Bbm/Db (Am/C) C7 (B7) Fm (Em) Abm7 (Gm7)

Cm (Bm) Cm7 (Bm7) Fm (Em) Bb7 (A7)

Ab (G) Bb7 (A7) Eb (D) Cm (Bm)

F7 (E7) Bb (A7) Bbsus4 (Asus4) Bb7 (A7)

Chorus:
Eb (D) Gm7 (F#m7) Ab (G) Bb7 (A7) Eb (D)

Ab (G) Bb7 (A7) Eb (D) Cm (Bm)

Ab (G) Bb7 (A7) Eb (D)

(repeat chorus)

Ending:
Eb (D) Db (C) Ab/C (G/B) B (Bb) Db (C) Eb (D)

 

Another Honda-Brawn Deja Vu?

Remember when Honda pulled out from Formula 1 in 2008, its successor, Brawn GP became the most competitive car in 2009. Honda must have like feeling the pain….”Ouch!”

After Honda, BMW and Toyota decided to pull out from Formula 1 as well.

BMW was re-sold back to Sauber and during the recent test in Valencia, they are very competitive.

Now that Stefan GP has bought over Toyota and are getting ready to race (despite not given official entry) in case US F1 or Campos couldn’t make it to Sakhir, I am curious to see how competitive Stefan GP would be. If they are going to competitive, are we going to see another deja vu of Honda-Brawn in BMW-Sauber and Toyota-Stefan GP?

If that’s so, what are these manufacturers doing when they are in Formula 1?

 

Shorter Post

Nothing interesting happened throughout the week.

1) rushing two conference papers

2) attended a birthday party. the birthday girl is the daughter of our cell group member.

3) getting ready to go home for Chinese new year, after 2 years 2 months!

 

Caught red handed

It was around 130am in the morning. It was windy…cold…and it was going to rain.

I heard sound of something stroking the window and I thought it was the tree branches due to the strong wind. However, this time the stroking sound sounded so different. It was coupled with some screeching and and scratching sound.

I woke up to check the window. It was quite dark and I couldn’t see well. As I approached the window, suddenly there was a shadow silhouette of something odd!!!! I woke Flora up and said, “What the heck is that?” Being a bit concerned, I quickly wore my glasses… and on the light… and lifted up the window blind and…………….this was what we saw!!!

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Two possums seeking shelter between the window and the netting. The possums on the left especially, was in that position and locked eyes with me for a good 10 minutes that Flora had time to take the camera and capture this very cute and yet funny moment.

It was like the left possum was thinking to himself….”Gosh, I was caught red-handed. What should I do now? What should I do now?” and the possum on the right was saying, “Don’t make eye contact. Don’t make eye contact. “

What a night. We left these two fellas alone but after the wind started to die down, they left our window. LOL

 

Surprise gift

Yesterday, while I was meeting with my supervisor, I received a very surprising gift from him. I’m lost for word when he presented me with this…..

Liverpool FC table calendar. We often talk about English Premier League (EPL) during our meeting just to talk about how the teams that we are supporting are doing. I’m a Liverpool fan and he is a Chelsea fan. But we have a common thing….. non-Man Utd fan. Liverpool has not be doing well in this season and the reason my supervisor gave was, this is a comforting gift for me.

 

All I want is a stable connection

YAY… We got our internet connection. But there is a problem. The connection is not stable. Keep on dropping and it is really really frustrating.

Called the ISP and they have been testing my connection over the week. Now they say, they will send technician to have a look.

All I want is a stable internet connection…..

I hope this will be solved soon.

 

Hanayome to Papa OST

Recently Flora and I watched a japanese  drama series called, Hanayome to Papa, 花嫁とパパ (Father and the Bride).

This series is about a father who loves his daughter so much that he still treat his 20 years old daughter with the same house rules as she was 4 years old. So, imagine the ‘conflict’ that can happen as the daughter ’seek’ independent from the father. I thought the storyline is very good and the moral behind the story is really good. The only downside (for me) is some of the acting is a bit too exaggerating. For more details, you can read it here.

Anyway, the main thing for this post is about the Hanayome to Papa’s OST. It was sung by the father who is played by Tokito Saburo, 時任三朗 called Kimi no kaeru basho,  君の帰る場所 (A place you can return to).

The song is about there is always a place (family/ home) where you can return to, regardless where you have gone and wandered.

Enjoy the youtube link.

I’ll post the guitar chords for this song with the lyric in the next post.

 

Learning about Cricket

Cricket is one of the popular sports in Australia, normally played during summer. Back in Malaysia, I do see some MMU students particularly from subcontinental Asia playing cricket and I couldn’t comprehend the game at all.

Now that I am starting to understand the game, I can see why the crowds can go crazy when watching the game.

Here’s my 2cents about the game.

The game is interesting and requires lots of strategy and patience, particularly towards the end of the game and one team is doing the catchup.

To me the only thing I didn’t enjoy is that, the game can be too long. But I do enjoy the Twenty20 version where it’s shorter and more exciting.

I thought it would be more exciting if the gap between hitting ‘home run’ and hitting the boundary can be increased. Say hitting ‘home run’ gives 10 runs and hitting boundary 6 runs. That way, it gives more reward to the effort of the batsmen hitting such hit.

I’m still in the learning process. Maybe one day, I’ll try to attend one Twenty20 match and watch it live.

 

Boxing Day in Chadstone

What most Melbournians associate Boxing Day with is BOXING DAY SALE. By the way, Boxing Day is the day after Christmas i.e. 26 Dec. This is when most retailers will have massive discounts up to 70%.

I am NOT a person who shops. And after this experience, I AM STILL NOT that person. Nonetheless, it was an experience for me and I told myself, unless is really necessary, I will not go through this experience again.

This is my third Christmas in Melbourne, so I had heard stories of massive crowd, people queuing up extremely early just to get what they want etc. Flora had already made plans with her friend to do shopping in Chadstone. They even did a first round survey two days before Christmas. I thought she deserved some “pampering”, so I agreed to tag along.

For those staying in Melbourne, there is a free shuttle bus to Chadstone departing from Federation Square everyday at 10am with extra bus at 11am during the weekends. Since it’s free, and we don’t have a car to get us there, that would be our choice of transport. The bus driver is funny. He tells jokes and explain some history of Melbourne. Somehow, his hiSTORY always looped around 1956. Hhhmmmm….. By the way, if you take this bus, the bus driver will hand you discount vouchers, which can be only used on the day itself. The voucher has his signature and date stamped on it. So, if you are interested, just use the bus service.

Upon reaching, I can already see heavy traffic towards the entrance of Chadstone. I can even see people park their car 1-2km away and start their walk to Chadstone. Because of the Chadstone free shuttle, the bus sort of get the perk of going to the tourist bus area, which in a way enabled us escaping all those traffics.

In the inside……(MANDARIN DIRECT TRANSLATION – People Mountain People See 人山人海)

(Picture courtesy of avlxyz)

How big is Chadstone? See this map taken from Google Map

(Picture taken from Google Map)

Imagine every corner of Chadstone is filled with crowd. Man o man….

What caught my attention is SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL. In fact this caught the attention of this blogger too. I didn’t bring my camera and when I googled for images, this was what I saw too! People queuing up to enter the shop!!!!!

(Picture courtesy of avlxyz)

On the positive note, Flora did get herself something. I didn’t because I don’t have the intention to buy anything in the first place. We left after lunch. Lunch is also an issue. You hardly have place that you can really sit down and eat.

Approaching the city, the girls decided to go to DFO for second round. I passed the idea and went straight home to sleep. When Flora came back, she told me that they did a third round in Myers in the city! Salute! Salute! Well, part of me felt happy because Flora got what she wanted. At least she is happy and that makes me happy.

Next Boxing Day? Home sweet home zzzzzz. That’s the best place to be.

 

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.

Cheers