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.

With Departure and Resolution just finished, I am now concentrating on Kingdom of Herts stuff. We're planning to get a song out by Christmas! I won't spill any beans as to what the song is, but it's one of our most heartfelt yet. So now I'm hard at work behind the sequencer trying to finish that song before Monday, which is our next recording day.

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I've got a bodhrán improv I'm thinking of doing on Sunday evening..... in front of an audience of (predominantly) young people like you and me, and I'm nervous. Any advice, people?

Hey everyone, Troisnyx here. Or formally, Annette 'Troisnyx' Singh, LLB (Hons). We can skip the formalities after this, okay.... I want to be the Troisnyx everyone has known and has become familiar with.

I finished my law degree in May and the graduation ceremony was only two days ago (22 November). I know that I'm far from a lot of you, but come celebrate with me!

Videos.

And you already have a picture of me in academic dress on the left. The full series of pictures from graduation day can be found here.

It was a pretty bittersweet day, what with my only witness being Merlyne (none of my family could make it), but I'm glad nonetheless that I went.

....First, I want to congratulate everyone who took part, and everyone who won -- especially Deadlyfishes, Samulis, Demolecule and Step. Awesome job.

I still want to finish the submission that I never got to finish on time: Bosa especially understood that ministry > competition, even if I had to give up my chances of getting $150. The heartbreak that I go through now will be very much worth it in the end. The submission I had intended to put in was a short musical setting to the prayer Libera Me, considering November is the month for All Saints, All Souls and Remembrance Day (or Veterans' Day in the US). But with November halfway through, I suppose the submission will have to wait till next year.

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So what have I been doing during that period, you ask?

A few things.

1) Assignments for Wills, Legal Writing and Interviewing/Advising. I have also begun some form of revision for my Business Law and Practice exam, which is in two weeks.

2) The more important to my heart, and the very reason why I dropped out of Quest for the Crown in the first place: the CCM band I'm in -- Kingdom of Herts -- released a single, titled "Declaration". The song had been lying about in my drives for a year. Christo (Merlyne) originally wrote a full set of lyrics, but scrapped them. Then he and I sat down writing the current set of lyrics for the song.

If you'd like to hear it, you may check the single out over on YouTube, Soundcloud or Bandcamp. The lyrics are provided in all three. Christo sang Verse I, Richard handled Verse II and I handled Verse III. Finally after all that time, it's finally done and CD-ready!

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That's it from me for now. If I don't update over the next two or three weeks, it's because of law school. But I'll try get something up within that period, somehow.

P.S. I'm considering getting a bodhrán... and actually playing it. Thoughts?