I’ve been playing the open beta of Rising Force Online – Philippines a.k.a. RF Online – Philippines or RFO-Ph. Whenever you launch the game there are 3 music that play randomly when you open the login interface and one of them includes lovely lyrics in english. The other 2 music are instrumental renditions — a piano solo and a symphonic version. I was intrigued so I searched for the title of the song. I transcribed the lyrics that I could understand and I googled it. Alas, I found it! The name of the song is “One”. In fact the title is already in the filename of the MP3 background music that comes with the game under C:\Program Files\RF Online\Snd\Bgm\1_RF_Online_ONE.mp3. (Maybe it’s not there anymore. It could have changed.) It was sung by So Jung Lee and it was originally used in Japanese drama series “Friends”.
Anyway here’s the lyrics for the song. 
Title: One
Artist: So Jung Lee
When I saw you for the first time
I knew you were the one
You didn’t say a word to me
But love was in the air
Then, you held my hand
And pulled me into your world
From then on, my life has changed for good
Now I’ll never feel lonely again ’cause you are in my life.
Love, how can I explain to you
The way I feel inside when I think of you.
I thank you for everything that you’ve showed me.
Don’t you ever forget that
I love you
Love, I know that someday real soon
You’ll be right next to me
Holding me so tight, so I will always be yours
Although we can’t be together now
Remember I am here for you
And I know you’re there for me.
Whenever I long to be with you,
I just close my eyes and pretend you’re here
I see you, I touch you, I feel you, like real
Nothing can ever change
When I feel inside.
How long must I be far away from you
I don’t know dear, but I know
We are one.
UPDATE:
Many years had passed since I posted this in my blog and I still get quite a lot of questions about this song. I don’t know how to play this in the piano but I can play this in flute and bass using the music sheet I found somewhere. Let me know if there is a better source. Anyway, just grab this music sheet below before it’s gone. Good luck.
The One Music sheet
Related Links:
Rising Force Online – Philippines
Have you recently visited Macromedia’s website? The dark gray website of Macromedia now sports a whitish website complementing Adobe.
Adobe had completed its acquisition of Macromedia on December 5, 2005. You can read the press release here.
Soon after the completion of the acquisition, Adobe released Adobe Design bundle which combines Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software with Flash 8 software, worth $1599. Adobe also combined Creative Suite 2 Premium software with Studio 8 softwares in Adobe Web bundle, worth $1899.
If you purchase CS2 ($1,199) and Studio 8 ($999) separately it would cost you $2,198 while buying CS2 and Flash Professional 8 ($699) would cost you $1899. Therefore you save $299 when you buy these new bundles.
Links:
Press release: Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia
http://www.adobe.com
http://www.macromedia.com
Yahoo Widget Engine 3.0 was released , a.k.a. Konfabulator 3.0.
I was quite disappointed when Yahoo! renamed Konfabulator to “Widget Engine”. I prefer the old name because it’s very original. When Yahoo bought Konfabulator I didn’t see this coming. I really thought they would preserve the name.
Seven (7) out of the 20 widgets that ship with YWE 3.0 are new Yahoo! Widgets namely Yahoo! Mail Checker, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Notepad, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Stock Ticker, and Yahoo! Weather widgets. Basically, all new default widgets have Yahoo! branding in it and it irritates me quite a bit that the good old Konfabulator days are over. I just don’t like too much Yahoo! in my desktop. I don’t like too much branding until the very widget I run.
When you run widgets made by other users, you’ll get this prompt: You are about to run <name of the widget> for the first time. This widget was not created by Yahoo! Inc, or a trusted partner, so we want to make sure you’re okay running it. That could mean two things: Yahoo! is concerned about your privacy and security or Yahoo! only recommends their Yahoo widgets. Previous versions of Konfabulator does not have this kind of bias against independent widget developers.
I also don’t understand why the default installer is a web installer — which means you have to download something in order to get it installed. The old Konfabulator does not require any download to install it anyway. YWE 3.0 also includes optional installation of Yahoo! Central. If you don’t pay attention when installing YWE you might accidentally install it. Some users reported that it installed automatically Yahoo! Messenger in their machine although I have not confirmed this yet. Beware that most old Konfabulator users were outraged when YWE 3.0 installer from Yahoo! wiped out all old widgets and configurations they have made. So if you are currently using Konfabulator 2.x, you need to backup your widgets if you don’t want to download them all once again. Too bad Yahoo! didn’t warn Konfabulator users about this.
In my opinion, Yahoo Widget Engine 3.0 is a lame upgrade. It messes a lot of things in your old preferences. There’s nothing new to look forward except better integration to Yahoo ID accounts… and that’s about it. Too bad if you’re not using any Yahoo! service. If you’re currently using Konfabulator 2.x and you don’t want to mess anything on your current setup, don’t install this yet. Wait until Yahoo makes a better upgrader from Konfabulator 2.x to YWE 3.0 or don’t install this at all.
Links: www.konfabulator.com (redirects to http://widgets.yahoo.com)
Konfabulator, widget, Yahoo
I made a mistake in blogging recently and it’s quite obvious — I didn’t update my blog for more than a week, and I know some readers, no matter how few, would visit my blog without new articles or news to read. My ultimate goal for my blog is to get more readership in my own niche but how would I do that if I post irregularly? Yeah right… so I guess I have to post regularly no matter how busy I am.
See what happens when you don’t update your blog:
My visitor hits are decreasing! 
I want to share the stories about last week but I don’t want to recollect anything concerning hell weak already. April’s blog is a concrete evidence of our calvary last week. I’m sure you’ll find it very interesting… Just read entries from December 6 onwards. 
Overall, this term is the lousiest preparation I have done in my entire academic life so far. As a matter of fact, it is my personal record — beating 2 major subject projects within 1 week with zero preparation, and keeping myself awake between 48 to 72 hours with the help of caffeinated drinks and lots of water. And best of all, programming a Java machine problem (MP) in one night. I don’t know what’s in your mind right now but I guarantee you, cramming is an art that I have perfected more than 5 years ago when I entered high school.
