Aimless

Hehehe after breaking for about a month already, it's really time for me to get started on a job soon… but rlly, it isn't easy trying to find a job that pays well enough and that it's something I might enjoy. But anyway, to pass my time, I had been watching a few erm shows, and let me now conclude on these shows, which I have yet to finish.

Dai ichi ( can tell from my sudden change in language that it's something japanese right)

ONE PIECE

This includes the whole Mugiwara gang and a few more allies :D

Yes, ONE PIECE, my newfound favourite anime! It tells of the adventures of a gang of pirates in a world during the age of pirates as they sailed in the seas to find the ultimate treasure, ONE PIECE. This gang of pirates, which the whole world calls them the Mugiwaras (Straw Hats) consists of

- a very likable, overly hyperactive, hungry and cute, but at the same time full of justice and luck captain, Monkey D. Luffy (OMG SOOOOO KAWAII). He is a gomu ningen (rubber man) as he ate the gomu gomu devil's fruit, and had since gained extreme strength and out-of-the-world rubber abilities, which he used to fight off his enemies.

- The oh-so-cool vice-captain, Roronoa Zoro who (YES HE IS DAMN HANDSOME ESP WHEN HE TIES HIS BANDANA AROUND HIS HEAD) specializes in the santoryuu technique (three sword fighting style). His strength is extraordinary for a non devil fruit user and is always protecting his nakama as he is the strongest after Luffy.

-The money minded Nami, who is the crew's navigator (and supposedly the world's best). Her navigator instincts has helped her to save her nakama from the deadly sea on many occasions.

- Usopp, the best liar in the world, but better known as the best sharp shooter. He almost never misses a target and has created an alter ego name for himself, Sogeking. He is always having fun eating and joking around with Luffy.

- Black Leg Sanji, known for using the black leg style of fighting, is the crew's cook- and also the best cook in the world. His long term dream is to find All Blue, but all he dreams everyday is to court girls. He is the cutest and the most hilarious when his eyes suddenly turn into heart shapes and calling out Nami- swaaaan or Robin-chwaaaan in a lovey dovey way :D heeheehee

-Tony Tony Chopper, a reindeer who ate a hito hito devil fruit and had human abilities. OMG HE IS DAMN CUTE and he openly- secretly loves it when he receives praises, although he always says it would not make him happy while blushing at the same time. He is the crew's doctor- and yet again, a very good one as well.

- Nico Robin, another devil fruit user who ate the Hana hana devil fruit, allowing her to grow body parts anywhere she can see. She had a dark past and knew that it would endanger her nakamas, but her nakamas proved her wrong and made her want to live on.

- Cyborg Franky, originally called Cutty Flam, is the crew's shipwright. He built the marvelous Thousand Sunny in which the crew was riding in until they were parted just before entering the new world. He'd probably become the world's best shipwright as well :D

- Dead Bones Brook, a musician who died but ate the yomi yomi devil fruit which allowed him to be revived, only to find that his body had become all bones. He can play any instruments, but major in violin and piano. Also, he specializes in using music to affect enemies as well as being a swordsman, ittoryuu of course, unlike Zoro.

There, a little introduction to the crew of the Mugiwaras. And needless to say, my favourite is luffy :D followed by Zoro :D but the best is still the adventures that they encountered while sailing from east blue to the grand line.

Though many ppl say it's a guys book, I thoroughly enjoyed the story, and it had brought me days of laughters to no ending :D

ONE PIECE FTW

Dai ni

Detective Conan

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haha… lazy go find. But really, I heard of Conan since i was really young, and I already wanted to watch it since then, but i always had no time and by the time i knew how to watch it online, I totally forgot about it and had no interest anymore… until the holidays came of course.

Edogawa Conan, or rather, Kudo Shinichi, is a 17-year-old high school detective who, due to his carelessness, was forced to eat a poison that shrank his body into a 7-year-old little boy. He then derived his name from two authors, Edogawa Rampo and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which the second arthur wrote his favourite fictional character, Sherlock Holmes (which happens to be one of my favourite fictional detectives too :D ). While trying to find and eventually demolish the organization who caused his shrinking, he solves many cases, and also tried to maintain his relationship with his childhood friend (and eventually girlfriend in recent episodes when he confessed to her) Mouri Ran.

Between Conan and Shinichi, I see them as one, but i like conan more :D SOOOOO KAWAII!!!!!!!!! * squeezes his imaginary cheek* of course, when shinichi appears, I am delighted too! But seriously, i think the cartoonist should have done him more justice by drawing him more er… handsomely as compared to Hattori Heji, Shinichi's best friend who knows his secret as well, and is also a high school detective.

There… these two animes are enough to occupy me for half of december until now :D

until the next time then :D

There again

maybe i really am not good enough i guess…

always like that… thinking i'd be able to, but obviously i wish too much.

Goodness knows what i'm doing with my life.

TO SJ

Hello! didn't think you'd come see my blog!

Anyway, we'll surely go drink drink ˆˆ one day :D And i'm okay now.. anyway, some things are already set in stone and we can't do anything about them already, can we?

So all I can do is look forward and focus on those things not set in stone yet and make the most out of it. Ganbarimashou! hahaha

JYJY for the next few weeks!

OOOHHH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMURA TAKUYA~<3 <3 <3

Yes, it's 1.09 am in the morning and I am still studying chem… or not. Anyway, to kimura-san, please stay happy and bring smiles to all your fans and may your family be happy always.

A little gift from me

There you go. Just a few of my favourite pictures. Anyway, time for me to sleep before I fall sick. Nights.

Formal introductions

It all started with an advertisment.

Yes, Gatsby. Well the first time i saw the ad, I was like, 'what a retarded commercial.' Then I saw his hot bod and his to die for face. Well, I can't say that I wasn't awed for a while, but back then, I was really not into Japanese culture and pop media. And so plus that weird gatsby ad, I didn't really give him another look. I think I almost didn't like him then.

Then it was Howl's Moving Castle. Of course, as anyone can see from my previous posts, I am so in love with this movie by Miyazaki, esp Howl. He is no doubt the most charismatic male lead ever drawn by Miyazaki. And of course, the most perfect character must be voiced by the most perfect man ever in Japan of course. Not that he is like entirely perfect. He is a human and surely make mistakes too, but the fact that he helped japan's economy to grow by injecting an additional 152 billion yen in one year into the GDP (like crazy trends n such) just only proves that he is THE man.

So of course, curious about the man who voiced my favourite anime character, I looked up on him and the first thing i did was to smack myself on the head. Can't believe I actually missed how many years by ignoring him the first time i saw him. Then after watching some of his shows, I come to a conclusion that he is the best actor (asia of course) that I've ever seen. Really. Kudos to him.

And yes, that is him last year when he was 38. Seems so timeless right...

Kimura Takuya FTW.

So near already

Yea, it's coming. I smell it. But anyway, just to introduce another marvelous person I'd get to know a little in this week... ... ... Takuya Kimura!

Isn't he just hot any nice in every angle? :D <3<3<3 And the best part is that he is a damn good actor! Though he is a little old already, and it's not that I only just knew his existence- i mean like who doesn't know the Gatsby ad guy right... BUT he is probably the best actor I have ever seen in asia!

Anyway, since i should be concentrating on other things, i shall end off now. Kimutaku FTW!!

AWWW

HEHEHE i'm finally of age :D And now, since i'm really bored and i don't feel like doing work yet, i shall now try to remember how I celebrated all my birthday... or at least those that I can remember... ... ...

SO obviously my memory only started when I was like 3? That was the first birthday I ever celebrated in school and my mum made sure everyone knows it. On that very day, she just appeared at my kindergarten with a big 1 kg cake and many little presents to share around with the class! Of course, and then every one else wanted the same, SO we all get to eat cakes along the year ever so often :D

I remember when I was 7, new school new environment and all, my mum still brought a big 1 kg cake to school and of course, small door gifts kinda thing, but i was like the only one who did that and really, i was so proud of it. Then after 8 years old, it kinda stopped since i was getting older and my friends are starting to have parties at home on their birthdays.

Let us zoom forward then, to when I was 13, and on my birthday, my bestest friend ever (and still is˜) together with another friend bought me a ginormous strawberry slipper (yea one side) soft toy! and made me wear that on my head walking around class... XD

Fast forwarding again, it was in october, i think it was 3 years back, and we were celebrating one of my 10 brother's birthday... I was the organizer and the gang was supposed to be headed for esplanade to watch stomp (Yea, i helped them get the tickets but i couldn't go cos of exams), SO we went for dinner tgt first. SO we went in to the restaurant and ate and got ready the cake, AND THEN! hahahahaha there were TWO cakes! I was so shocked! Like wasn't I the organizer of this surprise birthday? hahahahaha yea, my 4th brother decided to celebrate my birthday too XD how sweet :D That was really funny cos my 7th brother thought we were celebrating my birthday AND I thought we were celebrating HIS birthday :O So we were both shocked :O Awwww :D love them to bits.

Well, two years back, my birthday fell on the first day of our exams, so yea, nothing much, but in december, I had a performance and after that, all my friends surprised me with like cakes and presents. There was this present made by my other bestest friend, a book rather, of peoples messages and whatnots, and i realised she made it before school holidays started! AWWWW But anyway, it was so sweet cos i was one of the organizer for that performance too (like in charge of programme and food for the little children performing + performing myself too- a fully yq concert) and i was soo tired already, having to run here and there in my black dress and heels etc etc.. then they surprised me like that :D

HM.. can't really remember what happened last year.... i think it was exams again, but my class celebrated my birthday in october along with the other september and october babies! (like first time since after primary school since it's always exams by then) Nothing much, but of course, cass treated me to an outing just like i did for hers :D

This year, was rather funny cos on my birthday, my group of friends wanted to bring me to this restaurant in Arab St that supposedly has really good pasta, but when we reached there, it was closed. So we turned around and decided to just eat anywhere when we spotted an egyptian restaurant having buffet :D SO we decided to go there, and what a surprise! They had good stuff :O Of course, this time, my class celebrated with me, and sang a birthday song so loud the entire wing joined in and sang along.. how embarrassing, but ah wells :P Then two days later, cass treated me to an outing of movies, just like I did for hers, once again, AND then she gave me a surprise by inviting the whole bunch of friends to surprise me after the movie ended. OF course, it didn't work out as planned as many couldn't make it and the exit wasn't at where we'd thought it would be ;D hahahahaha but still, i was shocked cos i really didn't know that part coming along :O

So far so good, but i highly doubt it'd be the same from next year on, seeing that those who are flying will be gone by my birthday and those who are starting school will be too busy too. AH wells, happy birthday to me!

Love is in the air

I officially pronounce my love for Japanese anime characters. Seriously, they are like the best looking guys every in the whole world.

Kudos to Hayao Miyazaki for creating a few wonderful characters. Recently i've been rewatching Miyazaki's films, namely Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. AND the best thing is that they have all revived my love for Ashitaka, Howl and Haku. <3<3<3 Let me now in brief detail describe which parts in the shows are the best.

Of course with the guys around :D

Princess Mononoke:

I. AM. SO. IN. AWE. PERIOD. Really, the part where Ashitaka got shot but he still continued to carry Mononoke to the safety of her wolf mummy… But the sweetest part is when he was just lying there, hurt and unconscious on a small plot of land waiting for the deer god to heal and revive him. He was so cute there! Like lying around, just resting… gagagaga

Howl's Moving Castle:

There is nothing much I can say. I practically love every single moment Howl was around. No wait. I LOVE THE WHOLE MOVIE! HOWL…. HOWL!!! *howls* HOWL!!! *screams* haha okay… Yup, I remember the very first time i watched this film, I fell in love with him immediately cos he really is sooo cute! Had like this major crush on him since then. Never stopped liking him.

But if there really is a need for a favourite part, then I guess it's the last scene where he wears pink with white pants standing beside Sophie who was wearing a very pretty yellow dress at the starboard of their flying castle, KISSING EACH OTHER (: SOOO cute, and that charisma radiating out from him… Really… but I really love every single scene with him. It's SO hard to choose!!

Spirited Away:

Yet again, I practically love every single moment Haku (Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi aka God of the swift amber river) appeared. Liked him since the first time I watched this show. He's the cute dragon boy that helps Chihiro save her and her parents from being devoured by the spirits and gods. My favourite part was when Chihiro, riding on Haku in dragon form, remembers that Haku saved her from drowning when she was younger. She then told Haku his real name, and then he remembers it all, then his dragon form dissipated, showing his human form, and both of them fell (like free fall) and they held each others' hand, and they embrace… and they embrace.. and they embrace… and- anyway, and Chihiro starts crying, saying how grateful she is, and they embrace…… :D HAKU! such a dear!

Miyazaki is A GENIUS! Seriously, if it isn't for him, I'd never have known this three fabulous characters, and Joe Hisaishi would never have composed such beautiful music. AND YES, i officially announce too, that Hisaishi is now my most favourite composer. Below are some of his pieces that makes me cry easier than Brahms:

- Legend of Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke

- Merry go round of life from Howl's Moving Castle

- Laputa: Castle in the Sky from the same title as the piece

From spirited away,

- Dragon boy

- One Summer's Day

- Waltz of Chihiro

- Always with me

YUP. kudos to hisaishi too, for his works are just simply marvelous. Can't believe the first time i watched these films, i never took notice of the pieces!! Still, at least now I know, better than not knowing.

If only they could make mini series out of Howl's little family aka Howl, Sophie, Calcifer, Markl, Witch of the Waste and Heen, like the little things that happen every day, little arguments and such, like the tantrums of Howl or the days when Calcifer gets sick or even a date for sophie and howl… etc etc AND, of course, Haku and Chihiro… like how will they meet? In the human world or spirit world? What little things happen during their daily life? Can human and spirit be together? SOOO CUTE!! just thinking about them… but i really want haku and chihiro to be together… … … just like howl and sophie, where they live happily ever after :D

SIGH, now on to my dreams of howl and haku

HMmm

Been slacking away much lately with prelims only in the corner. Yes, I can see it coming. No wait. It is already here.

But anyway, this is a post specially for something else (:

I've been watching some shows recently and here's a post on what I really recommend!

1) Schemes of a Beauty (美人心计)- Of course, other than the fact that my dear 苗苗 is the emperor (and he was good in it too!), it tells of a very grandeur story in China's history. The characters are real AND the settings are good, of course, not to mention good acting and good scenery.

2) Glittering days (东方之珠)- This show is set in the old shanghai days… maybe a little later. The 50s and 60s when broadways and nightclubs are the soul of olden day China. The plot revolves around the lives of two singers who had to go through many obstacles… (read synopsis somewhere else online) Anyway, synopsis aside, I think Roger really pulled off his role well as a popular singer of that period, with his specially made hair (real hair! It was never a wig!) and the typical actions of singers then. Well, what can I say, he is a real comedy actor through and through. Of course there are better, but he is a very versatile and talented (not to mention cute) actor. Plus his ever so comedic actions AND his to-die-for smile………. <3

3) Reflection something misty rain… (烟雨斜阳)- There isn't really an English title to it. Anyway, the most important thing in this show is sammul's EYES. For 苗, it's really his to-die-for eyes… forever portraying a feeling, telling a story. There is no other actor that I have seen whose eyes can talk. This show is set in the old shanghai days. Like really the THAT period. The whole plot is rather gloomy, but it reflects very well the conditions of those days. Best of all is the acting of all the cast. It doesn't look as though they were acting the characters. It was as though they WERE the characters. Good plot, good acting. Of course, my sam (:

4) Chinese Paladin 3 (仙剑奇侠传3)- Well, it originates from a RPG game, what more can I say? The show itself attracted just too many audience and fans. Besides, with the star studded cast, and magnificent but complicated plot, it is a must watch. Speaking of the plot itself, everything is planned nicely. Seamless. Everything connects, unlike those of T_B whose shows always have abrupt change for the better so that the show can end.

5) Life made simple (阿旺新传)- Cast: Roger and Jessica. Needless to say, this couple's such good friends, they are virtually an unbreakable on-screen couple. Of course, partly due to this show where dear roger has to act as a simplistic guy (as his character says, "I am not stupid, just simple!"). Once again, I must praise Roger for being a superb actor. In this show, I was moved by Roger's character and his simple yet touching pure mind. Usually when I watch a show, I'll fast forward to where my idol appears just to watch him act, and read the story plot somewhere. Usually, I just want to see the actor. But in this show, Roger made me want to see his character. His character is forever thinking of others and forever doing things for others. He really moved me with everything that he (the character) did. Makes me wonder why we are all so greedy and selfish. Won't it be nice if I could be like him and live in my own bubble, free of all worries? sigh. Roger FTW

Yayness. the top five highly recommended shows to watch! Not in any order, but sorry if I sound biased my idols are in most of them. But in the first place, it is because of my idols that I watch these shows. Even so, some of these shows are really received with well reviews. Then of course, there are other shows that i'd recommend too, in brief:

- The Gentle Crackdown 秀才遇着兵- If you're bored, Moses will ensure you have a good laugh!

- D.I.E. & D.I.E. again 古灵精探& 古灵精探B- One of my favourite character, 于子郎. The cases are quite okay too, though definitely not as good as ICAC or Forensic Heroes etc.

- A bride for a ride 王老虎抢亲- SAM!!! (:

- Beyond the Realm of Conscience 宫心计- It was because of this that I started liking Moses. But the plot was quite good, definitely much better than many other T_B shows.

- Demi-gods Semi-devils 天龙八部 ( 林志颖 version)- Jimmy! his every so cute and bubbly face. But most importantly, it was a very grand production with great actors although the graphics couldn't really make it.

- Not Just a Pretty Face 美丽在望- De-stressing agent. I like the idea of this story although the plot is still quite predictable once we know what is happening. But the actors are good and again, brings joy into my life.

- The World's Finest 天下第一- Another one that makes you laugh. Mainly because of Roger. In this show, he has to fight most and at the same time think of ways to portray his witty and super comedic character well. And he did it!

- Season of Fate 五味人生- Quite a funny show again. Don't know why it didn't get the popularity it should have gotten, but it is a good show yet again with good actors.

- A pillow case of mystery 2 施公奇案 2- Like the story very much! Especially Johnson's character as the pillow god.

- The handsome siblings 绝世双交- I know there are many versions of this show, but really, the jimmy one is the one that rocked the world, not to mention light hearted and witty! Two at that. First the dads then the sons. But of course, the nicholas is good too!

Future shows (in production) that looks promising and I'll surely watch:

- 搜神记

-欢乐元帅

-东西宫略

that's it for now! Hope there'll be better shows to watch!

And hope by doing this i'll go back to studying

there it goes again

… and how am I supposed to tell her about my future plans?

Every time she's like that, i'll feel hurt too. Sigh, we all know they mean the best for us and stuff like that, but it never does works. While I don't have the naggy feeling of guilt, I still have some concern for her mental well-being.

I guess nothing can be done until this torturous 10 years have passed.