A friend of mine, Usagiflower, has made an English singable translation of my first submission of the year, Terre des Hommes Libres. And this came after I had TRIED to translate this thing to English several times since 2011 and failed!

Seriously check it out! The mixing may not be the best but I absolutely love that singing style.... and those backing vocals.

Wow.

Record submissions for the day, folks! Zero flash and zero movies!
No seriously, how did it come to THIS?

...I've resolved to take the 40-day fast from Newgrounds activity like I did last year. So I'll be inactive from midnight 13 February to midnight 31 March.

Now I imagine people would ask, why NG and not something else? For starters, a lot of my personal work is on NG, and I've been spending time -- a lot of time -- checking how well my stuff's been doing. I would like to take time off from this, get some space, learn to not worry about stats and figures, and concentrate on the main reason behind the songs I make -- I would like them to be heartfelt acts of love and praise, whatever the genre.

I also want to take this time to learn to worry less about myself and think more about looking out for others. In addition to the people who turn to me for help every now and then, I also have the CCM band, Kingdom of Herts, and we've resolved to get our debut album out by the end of the academic year. And K of H is not intended to be an "I" thing, but a "we" thing.

NG is likely not the only thing I'll be abstaining from... I need less YouTube activity as well (certainly less Chuggaaconroy, considering how seemingly addicted I've become!). But I digress......

For the next few days, you'll still see me around, no worries! But if you suddenly see TroisNyxEtienne blipping out and disappearing for a long while, well, that's what's going on. Just thought I'd let you know!

I've safely returned from the Newgrounds London Meet, and I had a great time at the Namco Station. Thanks, Luis, for organising this!

I will admit though: it took me one and a half hours to navigate to the area. Initially I had come close to the London Eye, but then I had asked for the wrong directions. Instead of Belvedere Road (where the Namco Station was close to) I had asked for Victoria Embankment, and I was directed to the Embankment station, and then I came back to Waterloo station and spent another half an hour going round the County Hall looking for the darned entrance to the arcade!

At any rate, it was a lovely afternoon/evening. It was great to see all of you who were present.

Here are the photos I have managed to take from the NG London Meet.

Videos to come at another time...

I AM COMING.
And I am taking photos/videos of the meet.

Looking forward to seeing all of you. :D

The NG London Meet schedule is out, and it's from 18-19 January.

Considering I'm on a student budget and need to live, I won't be able to attend two straight days. I can, however, make provisions for one. Friday's a no-no for me because of uni work, by and large. So I will try and make it on Saturday 19 January.

I'll ask Merlyne if he'd like to come too -- we both live in Hatfield, an area which isn't particularly far from London but transport can be quite....... costly. And by transport, I mean day pass.

Just wondering, are any of you going to make the London meet?

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In addition to this, I am going to participate in the Dreams of Splendour contest, Bosa's contest. I wasn't able to make it for Quest for the Crown because of the inadequacy of my work and my other commitments, but I certainly want to write for this, because I have a real-life situation that I can tie this with. Inspiration has been indeed given from above.

The full title of the song is confirmed: Letters from the Journey to Stonyhurst, but because of NG's character limits, I'll probably have to shorten the title. To give you a brief hint about the subject matter of this song, it is a musical setting for the personal journey that I had, in a visit Stonyhurst College in Lancashire just a week ago.

Have a blessed 2013, and I certainly hope this year will be a blast!

I have returned, and I am truly grateful to announce:

MY MIC QUALITY IS UPPED.

It started as this....

...and now it is THIS!

From English to Hymmnos and back to English. Retranslations have never been more rewarding. Considering I have weaned myself off Hymmnos for good, the English lyrics are the final lyrics for Misericorde.

The new Misericorde is a gift from us at Kingdom of Herts to all our listeners, past, present and prospective.

And with that, I will see you in 2013!

With today being Christmas Eve, I wish everyone a blessed Christmas and a wonderful year ahead. I'm looking forward to tonight and the days that follow!

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I will be back in January with things from the heart... A number of reasons for my inactivity:

- I don't have a working headset yet, and there is one coming in the mail.
- I followed TheZaaL's suggestion on a mic and now that one is coming in the mail too! That's going to be a late Christmas present, but still one nonetheless, from one of my parish friends.
- Apart from something Kingdom of Herts promised to release on Christmas Day, I don't want to work on anything else during the day. It is a time of joy and soulful celebration, I will do just that.
- I will be away starting 27 December and I'll be back in early January. Not particularly sure what date, but it'll be before the 9th, because term resumes on the 9th and I need to be back in Hatfield!

So there you go. I hope to see all of you soon!

LISTEN.
LISTEN.

The song which carried me through Round 2 of the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch 2012 is going to be a single in Kingdom of Herts' debut album, A Story Told in Songs of Faith. The addition of Richard White's voice has made it closer to what I had imagined when I first wrote this song.

Whilst I'm aware it's a rehash of a song that once defined me, I am truly happy to share this with you.