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Saturday, September 18, 2004 @ 03:35 p.m.
I had been stalking Chinese scanlators for the new FMA chapter and it turned out that there is a English one already. ^^;; I am still in the process of updating the ones I had in Chinese into English. This one isn’t perfect since there are some typos and well, some stuff, the way it was translated seemed a bit hard to understand. So far, how I understood stuff is pretty much good. *proud* ^_^
Downloading it then going to sleep afterwards made me dreamt of it and well, it is the horror type so that’s not good. =( And well, I did realize that my three favorite colors are the three colors [red, black and blue] for the three groups in FMA. Hehehe ^_^ Even though, Ed isn’t wearing his red coat lately. On to the summary, President Bradley had arrived at the site. While reading this, I was pretty tense, uh-oh, I hope they do survive even though I had already glimpsed at the summary. He went there alone as the other guards are waiting for Roy’s supposed reinforcements. Back inside, Lust left Roy and Havoc to die after ripping Roy’s gloves. She went out to find the other two – Al and Hawkeye.
Barry had caught up with his body as Al and Hawkeye had caught up with him. They are standing in front of a huge gate with a symbol on it, I think that is that they call the Kabbalah tree. Anyway, Barry mentioned about the possible rejection if the soul is not compatible with the body it was inserted into as what is happening to his body.
Back at the slums, Lan Fan is still fighting against Envy and Ling against gluttony. Ling told them to stop regenerating so that they can catch them already. Envy then told Gluttony that he can ‘drink’ the on-lookers, as he was about to change himself, I guess, into his real form. They were stopped by Pride who was shouting at them to retreat for they were careless and even let intruders into their lair. It wasn’t shown who Pride was so I guess he is not ‘father’ as I hypothesized before. It seemed that he is ‘older’ than Envy so Envy and Gluttony retreated. Ling was relieved for they turned out to be more powerful and regret that immortality is near their grasp.
At the underground laboratory, Lust had found the others. Lust told them that she regret having to kill another candidate for the sacrifice and well, she meant Al aside from Roy. Barry charged at her but he was swiftly cut into pieces by Lust. Lust then hinted that Hawkeye would be joining her superior soon. Hawkeye snapped and started gunning down Lust who kept on regenerating. It ended when Hawkeye used up all her bullets and she fell on her knees, devastated. Lust was going to her when Al went between them.
Lust learned that Al had also opened the gate and well, she still had to kill him. Al defended with whatever Lust throws at him and at Hawkeye. Al told Hawkeye to leave when Hawkeye said, he should be the one to leave. Al refuses for he won’t let his powerlessness again cause someone to die and he will protect her for he doesn’t want her to die in front of him. Roy then said that it was well said. Al quickly made a barrier as Roy blasted Lust’s legs.
Roy looked quite rugged as he hold on Havoc’s lighter and using it to create huge blasts and using his own blood to draw the sigil on his hand. He had closed his wounds by cauterization [sealing it by burning it] Ouch, that got to hurt bad. Then, he kept on blasting for Lust did told him that she had to die a certain number of times before really be killed. In the end, Lust had lost and just as she disintegrates, she is quite happy to had lost to him for having such determined eyes and hope that those eyes will suffer soon – well, something like that, I don’t quite get it – even if it is in English. ^^;
Roy promptly collapses as Hawkeye and Al rushes to him. Roy thanked Al for protecting Hawkeye and asked him to get a doctor for Havoc. Mm..I wonder if he also cauterized Havoc’s wounds. Outside the room, Bradley was listening and silently left. As he went out, he told the guards to get a doctor and two ambulances. I’m a bit confused sine he was actually helping them. Could there be a different agenda or something? Anyway, it is a good thing. Poor Barry, his body tampered with his blood seal and both immediately died.
Outside the hotel, Winry is waiting for Al and he arrived – missing his jaw some an accessory at the arm. Winry was mad and relieved that Al was able to come back alive. Then, his right arm came off. Al fret for he doesn’t know how to restore it – Ed is the only one who knew. That’s it. I guess the next chapter could be on Ed and maybe he will meet May and her cute panda. ^_^ Or maybe the lizard guy of Greed. Well, another month wait then.
I learned that Shaman King had already ended in the manga but still no update as to what had happened but from the forum, it isn’t good. The new Yugioh had become like pokemon. ^^; It is said to be serialized in a different magazine.
I was checking at the wrong Chinese manga store site to see the updates. It turned out that vol. 7 of Skip Beat! is already out since last month. Chinese translators are translating fast these days when I estimated it to be this month. Then, before I know it, there is also another new GB manga vol. 26. It is in Chinese already. The blogs I’m stalking didn’t mention of the new volume or was I thinking it was 25. ^^; The cover is a younger Ban and Ginji.
 Friday, September 17, 2004 @ 01:49 p.m.
Naruto will be up to next Thursday, I think, to be replaced by some shoujo ‘magic’ anime. I don’t know the title in English but in Chinese it is like Magic ‘---‘ something. ^^; It is on two young teens founding one or was it two small elf like blond mascots which have magic. Naruto is currently in the fight between Orochimaru against the third Hokage who is now doing his ‘special’ attack which will ultimately sacrifice himself. Shino had finished his fight with Kankuro, which was a draw for both of them are down. I was thinking what will be Shino’s real eyes look like. Hehehe...hopefully, not just two black dots. The next episode will be on Gaara + sand demon vs Sasuke.
There is some talk about the new season of anime in Japan regarding Yakitate! Japan. Basically, it is like CMB but instead of Chinese cooking, it is to make the best bread in Japan. There is also Bleach but I somewhat doubt it will be a long series since up to now, Bleach is still at saving Rukia from being executed and well, a lot of shingami are being killed. I’m waiting for the next arc to catch up with this, well, if there is still a next arc. ^^;;
Currently, I’m at the last part of Xenogears. I’ll do a brief plot of it after I finished it. I was thinking of playing ZOE 2 next but then, I think I should play something of a different setting so maybe DMC before the pre-sequel comes out and I haven’t played it yet. I would have to research some of the stuff in the menu. The characters may speak in English but the entire menu is in Japanese. ^^; I didn’t get the part 2 since the reviews say it wasn’t good.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 @ 11:07 a.m.
I think its time to update on what’s happening on Four Sisters. Well, after much sacrifices and hurts, it was learned by Vincent that the one responsible for his mother’s condition was his future father-in-law. He corrected what must be done since the father-in-law was unrepentant. It was a good thing that he wasn’t stupid at all. Anyway, he had decided to be responsible for his fiancé who after all did saved him and left with her, leaving the one he loves. The episodes lately are trying to close off the other sister’s love problems.
The oldest sister was dating a rich somewhat older guy who is helping them pay off their debts. The ex-suitor of the second sister had developed feelings for her. I think she is sacrificing herself for she has to somewhat ‘repay’ the older guy’s kindness. The third sister had also sacrificed her love for a director/producer by going with her oppressive egoistic husband in the hope that the husband would stop harassing the director. The fourth sister kept on chasing after her PE teacher who is a bit indecisive and not willing to fight for their love. As of now, the PE teacher had already left and hoped that she would find a better man to marry/be with.
I still wasn’t able to watch MARS and only catches the after show treat which focuses on Abe Norick. I think he is the stuntman who does the motorcycle racing in the show. Well, he is actually a professional racer. Based on what I had seen, he doesn’t seem to act married though. ^^; The last one is about how to prepare for a race, they were trying to meditate/concentrate but the crew kept on laughing at their stupid stance that Norick and other guy host kept on laughing. The girl host managed to not laugh and get to hit the two with a plastic hammer. ^^; The ad I saw on MARS was some loony kid threatening the girl lead. Maybe it would help if I just read some summaries of this story.
The local channel had started advertising on Ragnarok anime and the lead [if it was the kid] looked awfully like Lulu in Suikoden 3. ^^;; He also seemed to be impulsive, too. Well, Lulu got killed by being impulsive but then, it was a bit hinted already at the start – if they kept on saying for a certain character to be careful and come back home safely, something is bound to happen. Well, the art seemed good but from a forum, based on gamers of the RPG, it wasn’t that good – the plot or was it the ending. ^^;
I took a peek at HxH on Taiwanese channel which was a bit behind on the one shown on the local channel when I was surprised that they are already at the ova – Greed Island. ^^; I wondered if they skipped. I think the colors are a bit off maybe a bit too bright than the past episodes. Well, I have seen this before and it was a bit boring. I wonder if they would show the Greed Island part 2. I don’t quite know where the manga is now [I think the bug arc is finish] but the two kid leads are ‘fighting’ with some sort of cat-girl.
I have seen in the Chinese scanlations site that Kindaichi is being ‘revived’ and I thought it was the last chapter. ^^; It was a new chapter of a ‘new series’ or a revival. Whatever. I’m still thinking if I’ll download it or not since it isn’t fun to read detective cases in a language which I’m not good at.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 @ 06:46 p.m.
I had just downloaded OP. Well, Frankie and Luffy fight it out and it was discovered that Frankie is a cyborg. Meanwhile, it was learned that Robin was with the Straw Hat Pirates so now, they are all wanted for the attempted murder of Iceberg. A new character – shipwright, came to tell the others about Luffy-Frankie fight in their dock and they are wrecking everything. Iceberg wondered if they are after the ‘ship’. Back at the dock, both Luffy and Frankie had their own cheerleaders until their fight was interrupted by the shipwrights. Thus, the fight had become three-way. Is this what royal rumble in wrestling like? Hehehe
I somewhat regret buying OP vcds because the Taiwanese channel had been rerunning this for about 5 times already. It just started from first season again now.
In the FMA forum, I had seen a summary of the new chapter and well, I couldn’t resists so I took a short peek and well, Roy haven’t died yet but Havoc’s fate is still unknown. ^^; SB! sum is a bit delayed today and I wanted to know what happened there already.
Mom did found some vcrs at Raon. We are going to compare and analyze before deciding which one to buy. ^_^
Monday, September 13, 2004 @ 11:04 a.m.
I went out with Asher yesterday. We did the usual eat for lunch, chat, look at some manga and ‘show-off’ artwork. I gave/let her borrow some goodies. I was wondering if the ramen or the tamago sushi I ate had lots of msg or what since after eating it, a few hours later, I was very thirsty and felt dehydrated. I had even bought two bottles of water aside from the one I have. It feels odd that I’m this thirsty. ^^;
When I got home to check if I had recorded KnGB, it turned out that my vcr did conk out. My brother’s friend is selling but it is a bit expensive so we are going to find the lead of buying it somewhere in Raon where a few people said that they have bought brand new ones there. In major appliances stores, the vcr is already phased out. I need it to record from the television and dvd players don’t do that.
In Xenogears, based on the walkthrough, I am in the last two parts of the game. There was a lot of revelation and puzzles already but then, I doubt that they would be solved by the end of this game. Hopefully, the ending won’t be that hanging. It was irritating the other time when I went down a building to press a switch then went up, forgetting to get the circle up again so I have to go all the way down again and up. Then, only last night, I realized that there is an elevator switch from the floor below. ^^;;
Thursday, September 9, 2004 @ 02:22 p.m.
I noticed that I forgot to mention about Naruto. Well, the sound and sand clans had attacked the leaf. The chase is about to start and that is chasing after Sasuke part one who is going after Gaara. In Chinese Gaara’s name is ‘I love’ I don’t know the last word so I guess it is ironic that he doesn’t know what ‘love’ is. I somewhat felt that this anime is going on in slow motion as if nothing much happened. It caught up with the manga when the latter is also going into slow motion. ^^;;
It is so hot today..I don’t do well with hot temperature. The wind isn’t helping a bit. *melts...*
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 @ 11:02 a.m.
In FB, it discusses more on Akito. It was her mother who had decided to make her into a ‘him’ and they are always at odds with each other. There was talk about a certain ‘bond’ and it turned out that the dream which made the three older threesome cried that day was knowing that Akito was a girl. It is still a mystery why they have to keep the gender a secret. It was only the older ones knew of Akito’s real gender. Does that why she is somewhat obsessed with the guys and hated girls. ^^;; Anyway, this revelation had made Tohru crying. It turned Rin has heard it. At the end, Hana and her brother had started to move. Mm..how does they fit in this story. I guess it is from their special ‘powers’.
While in OP, there will be a Aqua Laguna [high tide] coming by midnight and the town will sink. I guess they have a time limit to find a ship or maybe there is some sort of evacuation center. Luffy and Nami arrived at Dock 1 to check on Iceberg but it was very crowded then Franky arrived. He turned out to be like a surf type guy with Popeye type arms. ^^; He also had two woman at both sides as he sings his introduction. Hehehe When Luffy knew who he was, he quickly shouted that he was Luffy, the one he was looking for. Meanwhile, Iceberg had regained consciousness. His men quickly went to see him and they learned that there are two people who went to visit him that night. Just as I guessed, it was Robin and that other masked guy.
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 @ 11:58 a.m.
I am at sis house today. I had stayed here since last Sunday since sis went with me to Nii. We managed to get there on time and I thought the EDSA [street] intersection is going to be clogged for such a long time with traffic. We were finished by 10am, which is a record for me since Nii is early and a lot of the other patients haven’t arrived yet. I’m number 10 and it was my turn about 2-3 patients.
We went to bro’s store to help out in some of his stuff there to organize. Well, basically, sis is doing that and I’m just the assistant. Later at noon, my nephew was there and I have to keep him entertained so as he would not disturb sis. Mm…we noticed that he tends to be a bit sadist ^^; He laughs when I get hurt. Well, it was very late already so I have to stay at sis house again.
If I have high hopes for a certain episode of an anime, it never fails to not to be as good as what I had hoped. KnGB episode turned out to be rather silly. ^^; Folgore is a famous idol from France and tend to be a pervert. The Taiwanese channel didn’t even bother to subtitle his song but they did kept it in its original form. Well, they were very easily defeated by the Takamine and Gash. ^^;; Takamine was somewhat relieved by that since they aren’t that ‘evil’ as the ones they have encountered before.
Last Saturday, while surfing, I stumbled upon a new color spread of Skip Beat! in HtY or was it HnY ^^;; Anyway, it was Ren. Ah, he looked so pretty. I still wonder what made me like this guy so much. Hehehe I can’t wait for the next summary. ^_^ This is already his second color spread. ^_^ It is nice if the author also likes a character that I like – fan service. Hehehe As for FMA, argh, I’m still hoping that Havoc would make it but then, Hughes didn’t. I find myself liking Edward more these days. I love it when he gloats hehehe Well, I’m fond of most of the characters in this series. About 10 more days to go to know what happened. ^_^
Saturday, September 4, 2004 @ 08:35 p.m.
I have spent the afternoon downloading scanlations. ^^; Naruto seemed to be somewhat stuck at the moment at a certain part. It was as if the author still doesn’t know how to end this Naruto vs Sasuke part. Before it was Sasuke having the upper hand and then it is Naruto and then it is Sasuke plus insert some flashbacks. That has been what is happening for the last few chapters or so and I’m fast getting bored with it. And it doesn’t help that twice I have downloaded from the site I used to download it from kept on coming up with the zip file being corrupted. Grr...
Then, there is a new DN scanlation just when I am tempted to get pass all of it and just read the translations up to the present. But then, I gave in, I did read up to the present. ^^;; Somehow the plot is moving in a different direction. I do wonder if Raito does have something in mind when he gave up the DN and I don’t think he would forever not use it anymore since he does seem to have a lot of pride to admit he had lost to L. The new colorspread looks nice...okay, Raito looked really cool hehehe. Now they are into handcuffs. I guess it wasn’t a wonder if a lot of fans would want to slash those two. Well, for now, there is a new Kira, the third one. I wonder what he/she would look like but he seemed to have a high position.
I’m still downloading the new FMA scans. Mm..the size seemed to be increasing lately. ^^;; I hope they would also do the omake/s just like what TW did. I noticed that I’m getting fond of Edward lately hehehe I’m still amused that I found this title after seeing a preview of the PS2 game. They are currently making a new one.
About XXXholic, after re-reading it I somewhat realized what it is like. It is like Petshop of Horrors in some sort of way. They have a mysterious shop, mysterious owner of the shop, giving/selling some items to people who had some ‘problems’ and a new person who stumbled upon the shop who tends to go there for some reason. Well, that is the impression I have upon reading six chapters.
I’m a bit irritated that my net connection kept on going ‘numb’ after downloading something big as if it is stuck and it kept on ticking on eating my money on it. Sigh.
Thursday, September 2, 2004 @ 04:07 p.m.
My current blood tests are okay and better than before. I thought it was worse when mom said it is all in borderline but comparing the results before, it is a bit better. The Chinese medicine for increasing the blood has worked since my blood count is at its highest without the injections from before. My chest x-ray came out okay, too. X-rays tend to be taken yearly to make sure I don’t have pneumonia and that could ‘kill’ me or maybe cause the rejection of the kidney. I just hope the radiation doesn’t do something to my body either.
I might go to Nii next Monday and also get that special blood test to check if the meds are at the right level. You see if it is too low, the kidney might reject and if it were too high, it would be toxic and would destroy the liver and kidney. I had also gained some weight which haven’t increased this high after the surgery before and that was 8 years ago. Well, that’s the good news. ^_^
Too bad that I have nothing to download lately when some people are asking stuff to search in the net. It must be a coincidence that computers are breaking down lately. ^^; Asher’s videocard crashed and made all the other parts useless so she had to buy a new one. I helped checked her email. Sis’ husband’s laptop’s motherboard is broken and luckily, it is under warranty. I have to search some stuff for him and also answering some email. Just today, his aunt called me to research some diseases for her daughter’s homework in the internet since her computer is also broken.
The one I did download while surfing yesterday was XXXholic. I checked it out since it is would be animated soon. After browsing through a few chapters, it wasn’t my type of manga. Mm..and I thought I could somewhat revive my fond of Clamp works but I guess not.
In Naruto anime, Naruto had defeated Neji who was over confident that he would win. Naruto’s words had somehow changed Neji and had changed his outlook in life. The next battle is between Shikamaru and Temari. The summaries are shorter now since I have gone way past this story courtesy of the manga. Guess I got lazy. ^^;
Oh ya, news in the country is the either the flood which devastated some areas in the provinces and in the city or how to get the money to get the country out of debt and to prevent becoming like what happened to Argentina – couldn’t pay the debts. So far, it is all talk but no action. The ex-mayor senator suggested that they use owner-type jeeps and the answer of this rich lady senator [new] is that if everyone is in austerity, who would buy the luxury items? ^^;; Okay, I guess she is saying she is exempted. And that is the way it goes, someone suggest something drastic and everyone has an alibi or excuse why they won’t do it. The latest is thing is for rich taipans donating money to the government to help. It is an idea from South Korea and Thailand before.
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 @ 04:45 p.m.
In Naruto anime, it is now at the finals of the chunnin exam. Neji is fighting against Naruto and Naruto is at the losing yet as of now but it was interrupted by Neji’s past story. Somehow knowing that Inu Yasha will not be animating the ending of the manga somewhat damper the reason of wanting to watch it. I think it had ended up like RK anime, too many fillers that the viewers were bored that it doesn’t have high ratings anymore that it will just cease. Maybe make an OVA of the manga ending. I just recently read on the latest chapter. Mm...Kagura got killed off. Too bad that Sesshomaru couldn’t use his sword to save her but at least, she is free from Naraku.
In OP manga, the crew are now living in an inn when they learned of the recent news of Iceberg’s attempted assassination. The only clue was a mask. I somewhat think that Robin might be involved though not necessarily being the cause of the attempted murder. The only suspicious person with a mask was the one Robin went with before. Anyway, that is my theory. Meanwhile, boss Frankie arrived back at his house, which was completely demolished. He thought that it was ‘they’ who did it. I hope he doesn’t go find Usopp all by his lonesome at the ship if that was he meant.
Monday, August 30, 2004 @ 11:49 a.m.
KnGB is back after being pre-empted last week because of the Olympics. A big nice guy helped out Gash when he was being bullied by the mean girl in the playground. Takamine was a bit relieved that they wouldn’t have to fight him with his blond kid monster. That was until they realized that he was just delaying the attack. The kid had tricked him into destroying his school wherein the students there used to bullied him a lot and said that it was his deceased mom’s will. Takamine and Gash managed to stop them and almost defeated them as the big guy was confused and admire the strength of Takamine and Gash.
It was then his blond kid started hurling insults to the big guy calling him stupid and other mean words that reminded him of his childhood days. Takamine was furious that he punched the kid. Big guy then realized that his mother meant for him to be strong while still being nice. He got a new chant magic and used it to defeat Takamine and Gash but instead of finishing them off, he returned Takamine’s book and gave him his book. He doesn’t need it anymore for he had prove that he has the strength he needed to move on. The episode ended with them visiting the big guy’s mother’s grave.
Next episode is the introduction of another character which is a mainstay in the series as in he is in the opening, Folgore. I think he is a pervert or something based on what I got hinted around and even had a weird song.
My sis said that the place Sino Center in HK where there used to be a lot of anime/manga stuff had whittled down to the lower floors while the upper floors are filled with video stuff. I’m wondering if the anime/manga industry in HK is in decline or they just moved to another place. That explain when I asked sis to buy me some cute/cool merchandises there weren’t much cute/cool stuff to buy at all.
Sunday, August 29, 2004 @ 05:57 p.m.
I’m feeling better now as in there is no more fever. I’m now feeling as if I’m anemic. Anyway, it was a good thing that it didn’t worsen. Thank God. ^_^ While not doing much, I spend most of my time playing PS2. hehehe Xenosaga is already tossing in some religious terms already. I think most of the secrets will be revealed in the next installment.
There are small electric interruptions, the irritating ones which happen for just a second. Sis’ hubby was playing Kingdom Hearts and it happened. Now, I have to play it over again since he doesn’t like the Halloween place. Then, just now, I made a mistake in Xenosaga and saved over the other one, which would enable me to go back to the ones, I have not done before. Baka me. I repeated it and just when I’m buying some stuff near a save point. It happened again. Argh, it is frustrating.
Sometime soon, a local channel will show the anime Ragnarok. Of all places to see it advertise, it is a showbiz show. ^^; I just happen to glance on it while they are showing short news. The art looked okay and seemed to be the same as the ones I have seen in artwork. Anyway, I don’t have high hopes for any anime based on a game lately from the ones I have seen.
A high school classmate texted me an sms to say hi and I replied I’m fine. Later on, she called me and after some greetings, she started selling me those perfumed lamps and her boyfriend’s sideline savings insurance business. My mom told me that she always tends to call me only to sell stuff to me. ^^;; Now that I think of it, it is always like that. She begins to be like a cousin who tends to communicate with us only if she has something to sell to us and ya, she got my parents to buy those perfumed lamps. The type of oil they bought was to ward of insects. I’m not quite sure if it is effective since I’m always still being bitten by unidentified insects. The unfortunate thing is that I'm the usual target. ^^;
Friday, August 27, 2004 @ 10:33 a.m.
I’m feeling like Ren today – “How did I get sick, I didn’t do anything wrong?” ^^; Well, I have a slight fever and a bit of sore throat since last night. The only thing that I could think of was when I tried to close the windows when there was a strong rain. Does this prove that rain does make one sick? Well, I hope it won’t get worse and I’ll get better soon.
There was a brownout again yesterday from 4pm to 10pm. We were bored so we slept through it. Geez, I slept early and I get sick. ^^; Anyway, at about 11pm, I watched Inu Yasha. The filler? episode on about Souten wanting revenge on Shippu was interesting. I found the red dragon which reminded me of the one in Mulan cute for this version is very cute and chubby. I wonder if there is a stuff toy of that. Unfortunately, my watching was interrupted by signal problems of that channel. ^^; I hope I can watch the rerun later on. Oh ya, I don’t know if Kagura was being build up as a love interest for Sesshomaru.
I managed to watch group synchronize swimming with Russia winning but then, I like a certain stunt that the Japanese group did. It was quite unique. Then, learned that the country lost another bid in Taekwondo for the Taiwanese group won in both male and female categories. I don’t know if there is a different category based on different weight.
Thursday, August 26, 2004 @ 02:00 p.m.
It is already a bit sunny today even if it was raining hard last night plus brownout. I wasn’t able to watch the Jap dub of Inu Yasha. I wanted to see how he would do the girl-flea possessed Inu Yasha trying to seduce Shippou. Hehehe That was amusing.
I just saw a picture in the newspaper on the floods. A guy was using his jet ski to show off in the flood. That is something you don’t see everyday.
I’m proving once again that I’m like ‘Zoro’ in playing RPG games. I couldn’t believe that I had spend two hours roaming around because I’m lost and I couldn’t find where should I go next. ^^;;; Oh well, by that time, I have already powered up my characters though the AGWS [mecha] are all out of commission since I have used up its ‘fuel’. ^^;; I still a bit lost regarding the different names/terms they are using. It is like watching Evangelion/Rahxephon – different lifeforms, different groups with different agendas, etc. Jr. somewhat reminded me of Billy from Xenogears. The somewhat bsho here is a lunatic and seem to have a Lolita complex. ^^;; I forgot how many volumes this one have. Nevertheless, it is entertaining and hopefully, by the end, I won’t be entirely clueless as to what happened/the story is about. ^^;
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 @ 10:55 a.m.
It is raining heavy today since last night. I almost couldn’t sleep. ^^; I thought it was just going to be in Taiwan for a channel was already announcing the offices and schools that will be closed today. I wasn’t able to watch the news about this raining though if it is a typhoon or what.
I thought it was already the closing ceremonies for the Olympics but it turned out to be closing ceremonies for the gymnastics. I guess it is quite embarrassing for a gold medalist overall to make a mistake while she is in exhibition. I like the performance of the Romanian girl who won gold for floor exercises. She can twirl in the air very fast as if she is very light and her body seemed very flexible. I remembered the US girl who made flips forward closing with a backward flip. I began to wonder if people can really do it on normal floors or their flooring is different – cushion/springs. It reminded me of OP author’s theory the evolution of walking wherein the end, people would do somersaults. I find gymnastics fun especially if it is applied to action films/anime. Hehehe
So far, the country haven’t won any medals. I’m not sure if the last group – the taekwondo group – would get any yesterday. The country did win the gold medal in a world competition in ice-skating. Amazing that we don’t have snow here and they basically trained in the mall’s ice skating rink. Of course, with proper financing by the mall head, they managed to do it. The group had the mall’s name attach to their group’s name.
There was no Naruto yesterday. I am somewhat forced to watch Four Sisters for my mother who wants to know what is happening. It is currently in a cycle of being martyr. ^^;; It is becoming very depressing as if there is no hope and a problem wasn’t solve yet, another comes again. I’m guessing that this will end by September.
Oh ya, there is a new anime in channel 2 called Duel Masters. It is basically a rip-off of Yugioh. They are playing cards and the cards become cg monsters. Mm..I guess Dear Boys had finished its run. While surfing yesterday, I found a summary of Furuba/Fruit Basket. I’m not quite surprised over the revelation there but I guess it is more on I don’t care because I don’t like that character – Akito. It is about his gender and it feels weird to have someone whom you thought as a boy to have a ‘chest’. ^^;; Also, Kureno, the chicken, is free from the curse but he doesn’t know how he did. The question is would it had been better for Akito to be ‘free’ from Kureno who decided to stand by him thus spoiling him? – as suggested by Shigure.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 @ 02:31 p.m.
In Naruto, Shikamaru and Naruto managed to stop Gaara from killing Lee and Naruto realized that he had a lot of things in common with Gaara. Gai came to stop him from attacking the youngsters. Inu Yasha had a new ending – Every Heart by BoA. It is okay to the fact that I tend not to like her songs. ^^;; I have calculated to where the series would abruptly end. Too bad it won’t reach to the point when the others knew of Rin’s existence. Hehehe, that would be fun. Oh well.
In OP manga, Luffy and Usopp continued their fight. I have downloaded the scanlation but it was corrupted. Based on the translations and the last pic I got in the Chinese scanlation, Usopp was defeated but Luffy told him that if he wants Going Merry that badly, he would give it to them. Luffy, Chopper and Usopp were crying as Zoro told the others that this is what a captain should do. They have to keep on moving forward with the captain and they would get their things from Going Merry. I had a sudden thought if CP9, which was mentioned before, was actually a ship. The government thinks that Iceberg had it so maybe it is a ship.
Cousin had delivered for us to watch three more Japanese drama cds. A couple of the titles, I have heard already and actually seen in Taiwanese channel hence, they are old titles. One is Hero, which stars Takuya Kimura. Argh, the one where he looked skinny. ^^;; I don’t think this is a love story. The other one is Shotgun Marriage. I forgot the premise but the guy was forced to marry the girl by the strict father. I think Hitomi sang the song here, the song that I couldn’t find in the end. ^^;; Now, I forgot the title. The last one was Narita Rikon that is new to me from the kanji/Chinese, I can read two words – Divorce.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 @ 02:31 p.m.
In Naruto, Shikamaru and Naruto managed to stop Gaara from killing Lee and Naruto realized that he had a lot of things in common with Gaara. Gai came to stop him from attacking the youngsters. Inu Yasha had a new ending – Every Heart by BoA. It is okay to the fact that I tend not to like her songs. ^^;; I have calculated to where the series would abruptly end. Too bad it won’t reach to the point when the others knew of Rin’s existence. Hehehe, that would be fun. Oh well.
In OP manga, Luffy and Usopp continued their fight. I have downloaded the scanlation but it was corrupted. Based on the translations and the last pic I got in the Chinese scanlation, Usopp was defeated but Luffy told him that if he wants Going Merry that badly, he would give it to them. Luffy, Chopper and Usopp were crying as Zoro told the others that this is what a captain should do. They have to keep on moving forward with the captain and they would get their things from Going Merry. I had a sudden thought if CP9, which was mentioned before, was actually a ship. The government thinks that Iceberg had it so maybe it is a ship.
Cousin had delivered three more Japanese drama cds. A couple of the titles, I have heard already and actually seen in Taiwanese channel hence, they are old titles. One is Hero, which stars Takuya Kimura. Argh, the one where he looked skinny. ^^;; I don’t think this is a love story. The other one is Shotgun Marriage. I forgot the premise but the guy was forced to marry the girl by the strict father. I think Hitomi sang the song here, the song that I couldn’t find in the end. ^^;; Now, I forgot the title. The last one was Narita Rikon that is new to me from the kanji/Chinese, I can read two words – Divorce.
Sunday, August 22, 2004 @ 11:58 a.m.
Gseed has ended as usual there are a lot more fighting and quite a long repetitive monologue of Raww that I wanted to say, shut up already. Yzak prove to be a good pilot since he manage to ah, I think, wreck two of the loonies. The last one was wiped out courtesy of Miguel’s ms gun. Fflay got saved temporarily by Kira but then, they were all busy making eye contact that there is one ‘satellite’ beam that hit the ship. Then, there is this after-death communication – I want to say I’m sorry for everything – monologue by Fflay. ^^;
So, Kira goes after loony Raww who kept on yapping about the bad side of human nature. Meanwhile, Anthrun went to the Coordinator ship with Cagalli. Only to find that his father got shot by an ‘assistant’ who tried to stop Zala from using the genesis on Earth for technically, they had won, I think. Anthrun was very disappointed that his father is still obsessed over wiping out all of the Naturals. I’m not sure if it was the father who turned on the self-destruct mechanism, which will then fire genesis on Earth. While there is still time, Anthrun took this opportunity to self-destruct his ms at the core of genesis. Cagalli convinced him not to blow himself up to.
Kira couldn’t take Raww’s monologue anymore [hehe, I think] and his ms is pretty much wrecked already so he decided to go for it by charging at Raww and stabbing it. There was a huge explosion then, before I know it, Cagalli fetches Anthrun then they fetch floating Kira. They cried for the war is finally over. The end.
Asher asked me what did Lacus was doing all this time. It made me think, that she doesn’t seem to have done anything all these time on space even if she had dialogues with Ramius and the one in Cagalli’s ship. She just had one monologue over why people are fighting. Okay, maybe a bit of cheering for Kira. I don’t know who that woman was but they capture Yzak’s mother calling for their surrender so I got confused as to who won the war. In the last part, a woman was calling for a new ceasefire and talks between the Naturals and Coordinators. That’s it.
Last night, I was watching top 10 movies and on number 4 was Yugioh the movie. I was confused as to why they are talking in English when this is a Japanese channel. Then, finally, I realized that it was the top 10 in the US so I guess Yugioh is doing good in the US.
In the blog pic, the quotation may seem a bit weird that will be because I put together two quotes. ^^; I have no idea what to write about the picture so this is the best that I could think of for now. ^^;; In the original picture, Luna’s [I think she is from a certain game] hair is on her face and there are a lot of sparkling dots. I had edited that out since it looked pretty messy. Hopefully, it doesn’t look too obvious. Picserver might shut down next month if there are not enough funds so I might have to find some other site wherein pictures can be uploaded and direct linked.
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