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[In the early morning...VERY early morning of Sept. 29. 1998]... This page was created on Sept. 29, 1998. The majority of the subsequent links are not up yet. Actually, about 99% of the links are still broken because I have not uploaded them yet. I hope to finish this preliminary draft in a day or two. After it is finished, I shall make revision and proof-reading upon availability.

[In the evening of Sept. 29, 1998]... Yesssss! I've finished the draft. I can finally have some sleep now. Working on these pages 20-something hours a day for 3 days is not my idea of fun.

My collection of compact disks is catalogued in this archives.  Most of the disks are classical music.  After I was introduced to the original Japanese anime a few years ago, I began to collect the anime compact disks as well.  That explains the pictures and background I use in my web pages.  The name of the character is Sizer.  She is one of the main characters in the anime "Violinist of Hameln".  As you can see in the background picture, her scythe is also a flute of some sort.  The anime "Violinist of Hameln" itself is not about music.  But most of the names of its characters are music instruments, e.g., flute, horn, guitar, oboe, drum, etc.  Some characters use music instruments as their weapons, too.  It is an interesting sight to see Hamel play Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and a swan come out of the music (i.e., nowhere) to attack.  The animation of this anime is not particularly impressive.  There are too many frozen frames actually.  However, in my opinion, its heavey usage of classical music is its strong point.