:: Who do you sing for? 为谁而唱.. ::

Can't get this song out of my head today.

Though I like F.I.R., I hadn't actually heard their breakout hit 'Lydia' until a mandarin-speaking friend sang it at karaoke a few weeks ago.. it's a good one to shout as you drive.. :p

Lydia - F.I.R. 飞儿乐团

Por los momentos difficiles,
Because of all these setbacks
ya entendí que la flor más bella
I finally understand, that most beautiful flower
sería siempre para mi.
it's blooming for itself

Lydia 迷离的眼眶
Lydia mi li de yan kuang
Lydia, with your vague gaze
为何流浪 心碎的海洋
wei he liu lang xin sui de hai yang
Why do you wander with an ocean of heartbreak
受了伤 连微笑都彷徨
shou le shang lian wei xiao dou pang huang
You've been hurt; even your smile paces about
Gypsy女郎 为谁而唱
gypsy nu lang wei shei er chang
Gypsy girl, who do you sing for

你会看见雾看见云看见太阳
ni hui kan jian wu kan jian yun kan jian tai yang
You will see fog, see rain, see the sun
龜裂的大地重复着悲伤
jun lie de da di chong fu zhe bei shang
The cracked earth yields heartache again

他走了带不走你的天堂
ta zou le dai bu zou ni de tian tang
He left, but can't take away your heaven
风干后会留下彩虹泪光
feng gan hou hui liu xia cai hong lei guang
After the wind dries, tears of rainbow light will fall
他走了你可以把梦留下
ta zou le ni ke yi ba meng liu xia
He left, so you can leave your dreams behind
总会有个地方等待爱飞翔
zhong hui you ge di fang deng dai ai fei xiang
There must be a place to wait for love to take flight

Lydia 幸福不在远方
Lydia xing fu bu zai yuan fang
Lydia, happiness isn't far away
开一扇窗 许下愿望
kai yi shan chuang xu xia yuan wang
Open your windows, and make a wish

你会感受爱 感受恨 感受原谅
ni hui gan shou ai gan shou hen gan shou yuan liang
You will feel love, feel hate, feel forgiveness
生命总不会只充满悲伤
sheng ming zong bu hui zhi chong man bei shang
Life will not always be filled with heartache

他走了带不走你的天堂
ta zou le dai bu zou ni de tian tang
He left, but can't take away your heaven
风干后会留下彩虹泪光
feng gan hou hui liu xia cai hong lei guang
After the wind dries, tears of rainbow light will fall
他走了你可以把梦留下
ta zou le ni ke yi ba meng liu xia
He left, so you can leave your dreams behind
总会有个地方等待爱飞翔
zhong hui you ge di fang deng dai ai fei xiang
There must be a place to wait for love to take flight

= WoWphotos, vol. 08 =

Pree, freshly turned 70, was learning to fly. Didn't catch the shot too well, but that's him there on the back of the pridewing. Yay 70!

Flying, it seems, is not as easy as some people make it look ^_^

Really Big Kitty Takes A Nap.
Pale Effeminate Goth Man is perplexed, but quickly gives up his bed to the cat, who seems altogether too pleased with himself..

Interactive Art, WoW-style.
or, "What Happens When You Let Bears Jump on New Bubblejet Ink Cartridges".

..Bear gets a faceful of ink blast, that's what.

When on a picnic, some people sit up and watch the shapes the clouds make.

..Clouds being not so plentiful in Outland, Snap and Alf elect to wait for lightening patterns instead, while Snap munches on his aloe vera (what a hippie).

Having come back from the dead, Alf and Snap stop to examine the patterns their skeletons make. Here we note that Alf's skeleton seems to only be the size of Snap's arm.

Suddenly Alf feels rather small.

Then again, all one really needs is a riding chicken to make you feel taller.

Imagining the doublemoon night sky as two giant scoops of ice cream is also good for inducing momentary feel-good happies ^^_^

= WoWphotos, vol. 07 =

Sometimes it gets very pretty in Outland, despite being full of really frightening wild pigs who can kill you without a second thought. And small gnome people who delight in murdering you time and time again, just because you're sooo much younger and cuter than they are.

Arlu and her big swoopy flying thing arrived on the scene to take care of the gnome infestation, and fluttered right up into the full moon above Spinebreaker Post. Was so pretty, Alf had to take a photo.. pretty..

...Alf spaced out for quite awhile, just sitting on the ground and staring dreamily into the night sky...

Being quite fond of the moon and silver and other lunar-associated things, she may have indulged in a quiet, werewolf-like "barooo" or two while staring up into the sky ^_^

The guards at the post didn't seem to mind a small elf in their midst periodically howling at the moon and interrupting their sleep.

Snap arrived for more Adventures in Outland, and so the intrepid pair trotted off to investigate big swirly electric crackles. Alf got stuck in a temporal pocket parallel universe where she thought Snap was frozen in time but really it turned out to be just a time-displacement bubble around her head.

Snap later fell off a cliff and smacked into a ledge, and died on impact. Alf, carefully peering over the cliff edge to see what happened, lost her footing and tumbled down after him.

Unlike Snap, who had landed on his face, Alf landed daintily on her feet. But with no way back up, and just her friend's corpse for company, there was nothing else to do but jump off the ledge and plummet into the void, and hope there'd be a happy ending..

Luckily the local Spirit Healers dragged their sorry asses back to Spinebreaker Post and restored them to life.

Lesson learned: if your friend jumps off a cliff, no matter how good a friend he is, you REALLY shouldn't follow him.


Having had enough of dying for one night, Alf settles comfortably into a hammock and drifts off to sleep..

= WoWphotos, vol. 06 =

A friendly crocolisk rolls over and demands tummy-rubs and tickles. Alf is slightly put out by their puppylike happiness.

Alf attends her very first Cauldron rave, where two mages show her how it's done. Behind Alf is a hardcore party-goer who has passed out in all the excitement.

It's important to have a good snooze after a late night out ^_^ Alf tries out her rented bed at the Hostel d'Emo-Goth.

= WoWphotos, vol. 05 =

Alf and Snap buckle up on the zeppelin for the next Big Adventure..

The spookiness of the Dark Portal awaits. Snap doesn't hesitate to run towards the mystical portal which, frankly, seems to be made of gladwrap coated in amoeba and glitter, and quite possibly looks more like it leads to a giant vat of Vegemite rather than a Grand New World.

Alf stops to sit down and take a photo, in case this is the last thing she ever sees before she drowns in Concentrated Yeast Extract.

Upon discovering that the portal does not, in fact, lead to Death By Sandwich Spread, Alf also discovers a new and dangerous excitement: playing Chicken on the city roads with large beefy drivers who are quite possibly on steroids AND who are riding the equivalent of an Azerothian hummvee - the HORNED ELEPHANT.

Moments before the inevitable collision, Alf realises that challenging said Elephant with her small squawky riding bird is, perhaps, not the best of ideas.

Luckily, it all ends well, and the elephant's driver invites Alf and her bird to his birthday party, where everyone is happily toasting marshmallows on giant bonfires and larking about dancing the Rainbow Ribbon Pole.

See, appearances can be so deceptive ^_^

After a long and tiring adventure, Alf settles herself into a coffin and promptly falls asleep.

= WoWphotos, vol. 04 =

In the midst of recovering a shipment of twinkly bottles of booze which had been lost at sea, it suddenly occurred to Alf that maybe ONE little bottle might not be missed, and it was such a nice evening by the shore..

"Invisible Olympic Rowing". Alf and Snap continue their strange antics in Azeroth by defying gravity and sitting on top of the water rather than sinking.

(Snap chooses to row using a Giant Spanner as his paddle, while Alf stays with the theme of Invisible Rowing by also having a matching Invisible Paddle. Clever, eh?)

Alf goes to sleep on the water. Why? Because she can.

Meanwhile, Snap practices his calisthenic Ribbon Dance for his other Olympic event.

Sometimes you're never quite sure what you're going to see when you turn a corner in Winterspring. Sometimes you'll find snow, sometimes you'll see a treasure chest, and sometimes.. you come face-to-face with a playful yeti pretending he's ambushing you in a spirited game of laser-tag.

Yeti: (leaps out Bruce-Willis-style) "Pewpewpewww!! Ha-HAH!!"
Victim: (blinkblink..WTF..) "...riiiight. Okay, you got me."

And of course, sometimes you turn the corner and find something really cool and exciting, like buildings with PENGUIN THEMED WALLPAPER!!! ^_^

I had such an attack of the Massive Happies when I discovered that the town in Winterspring, despite not having any penguins of which to speak, chose my favourite kind of flightless bird to adorn the walls of their every building...

= WoWphotos, vol. 03 =

.."What Happens When You Fall into a Tar Pit". Actually I'm not sure what happened here, some glitch in the game that lasted a couple of minutes, making Alf feel decidedly.. darker.. than usual.

A true resident of the tar pits - the Un'Goro Tar Lurkers. This one was in a spot of bother, he'd fallen into the grassy ground, up to his neck, away from his native tar pit and found himself quite stuck.

His friend behind him was taking no notice of his dilemma, so as he sat there helplessly trapped and flailing in the ground, Alf watched quietly, and snapped a photo.

Then she left him there, because if she tried to lend a hand, he would undoubtedly have panicked and squashed her to death. -_-"


"Camping with Snap". In the midst of Winter, Alf's tauren friend Shnap has a quick snooze, hogging the tent while Alf passes time by practising her meditative yoga, sitting on top of the campfire.

The little gnome lady whose camp they have temporarily commandeered is, of course, massively perplexed by their antics, as you can see from the big fat question mark over her head.


Sometimes, you happen upon things that perhaps would be better left Unseen.. like two dead furbolgs getting it on. =_=

And then sometimes Exciting Things occur, like firebombing tanks. Here we have Alf, Cala and Cal's giant Kitty indulging in a bit of pyromania.

= WoWphotos, vol. 02 =

So I've got this pile of photos that were sitting around not being published, and figured that since it's been awhile I should throw them out there in case anybody's interested.

This photo happened round about the time we started amassing ridiculous amounts of silk cloth from the bodies of dead people. There was so much, that one bank slot couldn't hold it all, and a silk cloth graffiti war began..

The first graffiti to be spelled with silk was "BOO". After that came "AZZA". I'm sure there were a couple more names I forgot, but one day Alf decided to write her name too, for the sake of being a clever-clogs.

Mind you, "Aeilfe" is a little long, so we had to content ourselves with her nickname, "Alfie".

This random picture was during the days when we had nothing better to do but stand around and dance at each other.

I call this one "Dancing Queen", taken when Kukees wasn't looking.

Alf and her newly acquired turtle pet were enjoying their first zeppelin ride together. Took a photo because it seemed Speedy the Turtle hadn't quite gotten the hang of airborne travel, and was clinging on to the side of the wall like a barnacle.. hanging on for dear life.

..He has since learned that it is far more comfortable and relaxing to be fully horizontal when traveling.


This picture was taken in Stranglethorn, in the lush jungle. Here we have Alf's warlock big-sister Arlu showing off how much animals adore her - all she has to do is whistle her special animal-call, and they come RUNNING.. so eager to get to her that they don't hesitate to STACKS ON, while the rest of us look on in amusement.

If you look carefully, you can see her moon-shaped wand thing poking out from underneath the swarm of ardent raptors. That's the only way you could tell Arlu was actually in there..


a) "Standing Around and Warming our Hands by the Fire"
b) "Paying Homage to the Big Giant Eyeball of Conjunctivitis"
..or c) "Using a Portal to Summon a Friend." (It's easier than walking everywhere.)

This one was fun. Alf was unexpectedly attacked by a screaming Dwarf builder, and in her fright she killed him in midair.

..And then he stayed there.

Suspended. Mouth open, standing on the railing, mid-aaaaaargh.

Alf stopped and took a photo, it was all so interesting and unusual.

He stayed dead and frozen in midair for quite some time, so Alf entertained herself by pretending they were both about to bungee jump onto his unsuspecting coworkers below.