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happy birthday, mom. i called home but you weren't home, i called your cellphone but you didn't pick up, i textmessaged you but you didn't reply, so this time it's not my fault that you don't get a direct happy birthday shoutout from your beloved son.

i feel obliged to blog, partly because i would like to go on blogging streaks again, but mainly because i am currently doing thermodynamics homework. seven problems were posed, three were answered, and four are waiting to be dealt with. i wish doing homework is as easy as beating up a paralyzed old man with an umbrella. the analogy sound horrible and morally incorrect, but it's suitable since doing homework is just about as horrible and morally incorrect as what the analogy makes you think.

ending 16 for one piece premiered in episode 246. download from saiyaman and listen. all thanks go to ru for making a quick romanization and translation:

ano hi yume mita bokura wa
machigai ja nai to shinji te
araku uneru unabara o watatte yukeru
dare yori mo yuukan de omoiyari mo arukeredo
moshimo kimi ga kono fune o oite
chigau sekai ni ita to shite mo
saigo ni wa kitto waraeru yo

we, who had dreams on that day,
believed they weren't just delusions,
so we set sail through the harsh, stormy ocean.
you are more courageous and compassionate than anybody else
so even after you leave this ship
and stay in a different world,
i'm sure we can still smile in the end.

and no matter how you look at it, this is one song dedicated to meri's klabautermann. a shot of the back part of merii sailing with the silhouettes of the crewmembers dancing, eating together, fishing using carue as bait, making friendship pose to vivi before leaving alabasta, then the part skimming through the main deck with the crewmembers in 50% opacity doing whatever they're usually doing, plus the part where the klabautermann's shadow appears on the door, basically tell you all about the death of merii and the memories it shares with the crew, and that this ending is definitely a tribute to going merii.

my favorite part is at the very end when "saigo ni wa kitto waraeru yo~" is playing on the speaker while winamp video shows the smiling headfigure of merii.

i still can't believe merii is gone. i missed her already.