Tobira no Mukou e.

There's a funny story to me behind this song. You know, everytime I watch a new anime, I'd go download all its op/ed mp3s asap. Tobira no Mukou e is the 2nd ending song for the anime Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA). I take time to remember the tunes of new songs, of course. One time, in the studio, during lecture, I happened to hear someone's music player playing a familiar song. I figured it was coming from Oniichan's iPod (my then-Calvin-oniichan). So I asked him (whom, if I remember correcly, happened to be sitting next to me in the lecture room) what song it was. He refused to answer (I dunno, most probably 'cos its lecture and I spoke softly, and he couldn't hear), and it took me a few minutes to realise the title and how I'd known this song.

I was so happy that I knew a song from my Oniichan's iPod song collection. So happy we had something in common. That I had that same song at home in my computer too, and I knew FMA too. When I got home that day, I happened to have had to do lots of work on the computer, so I stayed up on MSN and at the same time, played this song on loop. Probably played on for nearly a hundred times. Tobira no Mukou e. At first, I was just enjoying the beat and tune, and meaning of the song. Sub-consciously, after way too many times repeating itself, the song hit me as a sign. I suddenly felt shy to listen to it. Like, Oniichan has this song too, he likes this song too. And now I like it as well. For some reason, it suddenly struck me: I like him. I think I'd known that I kinda liked him before that incident, but that fateful night/early morning while I was busy on my comp doing my work, looping the song over and over again, that's when for the 1st time, I consciously realised I had feelings for my Oniichan.

So goes the story. And at the moment, I happen to (again) be playing Tobira no Mukou e on loop. Now, everytime I repeat this song on my player, I'm reminded of Calvin. Who now I can't really call "oniichan" ("big brother") anymore, but "anata" ("dear").

Haha.

Anyways, last Friday was my mother's birthday, and the following day was my father's. They're now 50 and 52 years old respectively. But these 2 days passed by without much event, though. Its sad. Hari Raya takes precedence over our family heads' birthday celebrations. I didn't even get them any gifts. I don't think my sisters did either. Well, at least I reminded and wished them Happy Birthday. Shows I haven't forgotten, even if we don't celebrate it.

And the last Wednesday, was Jerusha's birthday. Met up with her and Raidah at the airport for a little of a celebration. Same thing, I didn't get a gift. But I sang her a birthday song in public. In that echo-ey Terminal 2 Arrival Hall. Hope you didn't mind the meagre celebration, Jer.

And the day before that; 1st day of Hari Raya. The usual Raya visiting, the only good difference was than Min-chan (my niece) is now coming to 2 years old, and not afraid of strangers anymore. She cute, especially when we take pictures of her. Whenever she hears the snap of the camera, or sees the flash, she'd just start laughing. Photogenic too, that kid. My sister's daughter has started showing signs of being just like her mother in character, haha.