Funny. It's 2 months since my last post. Yes. Really a database job really can turn people off the computer. Other than doing the neccessary readings (Comic and Movie news, Gamefaqs, and just general reading), I hardly want to touch the computer to do typing. Also facing the computer for almost 9 hours and one doesn't need to be facing the computer for another 8 hours (taking the 7 hours of sleep assumption).
So I became a sofa fixture, at least watching 2 hours of TV watching (I paid almost $60 for Cable, at least let me watch an hour of paid stuff) on weekdays. I do watch the news but I am really turning in early if I am not watching Veronica Mars (a grown man watching a Teen Drama? Why not? I watch Cartoons too).
Oh, I also bought a 2nd hand DS (Fat) 2 weeks ago as I got some spare cash and someone got a spare item going at a reasonable price ($90. Actually I can get a 2nd hand Slim at around at a few $10 more at my neighbourhood store) plus a NDS seems to be better than a PSP on my bus trips and he is throwing in Advance War: Dual Strike which is a pretty awesome game. Some people (including the buyer) might regard me as a sucker since someone boasted she got a DS Lite @ $60 with those SuperCard Stuff. Now whoever sold her that is a sucker (but you never know who do the sucking. Ok. That's rude) . I promptly get another game anyway which is Trace Memory and Luminous Arc (which is another Strategy-Rpg. What? I am a slow gamer. If I want to play Musical Games, I might as well play Beatmania on the PS). Oh and someone already mimic me on how I sms while playing. Good Grief.
My social circle growing smaller with another net friend going off the Country. It's only a year but I bid Aoi 'Mana' farewell on my blog here (Yes. It's a bit lack of sincerity but at least you got a mention.....unlike Miss See....who I am not sure where she went.)
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Realised that I got a lot of backdating to do...
So generally I going to fill up whatever little I can remembered in general in the upcoming posts.
Since I got a proper job, I can well settle my time abit more and do something more than just mopping around.
But first off.......don't buy that whole , mobile blogging, GPRS content shit. It's convinent but it's expensive. $40 for 4mb of data transfering is pure overcharging. I switched that service off and make a hoo-ha with M1 simply because I cannot believe that I was charged on a rate that no one will pay if they knew. So they waived half (I play the angry ignorant bumpkin/miser card) but yes it still leave a bad taste in the mouth.
Other stuffs to follow up. Keep the viewing consistant please, whoever read this. It's countdown to 9000 hits. Haha.
Since I got a proper job, I can well settle my time abit more and do something more than just mopping around.
But first off.......don't buy that whole , mobile blogging, GPRS content shit. It's convinent but it's expensive. $40 for 4mb of data transfering is pure overcharging. I switched that service off and make a hoo-ha with M1 simply because I cannot believe that I was charged on a rate that no one will pay if they knew. So they waived half (I play the angry ignorant bumpkin/miser card) but yes it still leave a bad taste in the mouth.
Other stuffs to follow up. Keep the viewing consistant please, whoever read this. It's countdown to 9000 hits. Haha.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
A vintage photo of me!
Yes, I am not really a friggin vainpot but here's a photo of me....Hair Dyed!!!
Lol. I never thought I got a photo of me in that period of time. Haha.
and below that's me next to a girl who was Top 18 (they told me she was among top 10) in Miss Singapore Universe '07(which was in March). This contest is serious to prove they aren't looking for Good Looking Girls only. Lol. Hey hey I not saying she not pretty ok? According to the website, she goes by a name that I cannot pronounce but I did seen it on a title of a Videogame. I think it was on a Melty Blood Title.
Ok ok before someone pulls my ears ask me how she was related to me, she was a temp (like me during '03) in the other department. I never talked to her, not even once (maybe once I guess)in a period of 6 months. Thanks to her however, I managed to see myself in a state which was supposed to remain in my memories.
4 years. It always look like a wasted journey to me. Especially when I return to a spot, I was at previously. 4 years ago, I was 3 years after 20. Now I am 3 years to 30. Unbelievable the kind of effects, those old photographs got on people.
Lol. I never thought I got a photo of me in that period of time. Haha.
and below that's me next to a girl who was Top 18 (they told me she was among top 10) in Miss Singapore Universe '07(which was in March). This contest is serious to prove they aren't looking for Good Looking Girls only. Lol. Hey hey I not saying she not pretty ok? According to the website, she goes by a name that I cannot pronounce but I did seen it on a title of a Videogame. I think it was on a Melty Blood Title.
Ok ok before someone pulls my ears ask me how she was related to me, she was a temp (like me during '03) in the other department. I never talked to her, not even once (maybe once I guess)in a period of 6 months. Thanks to her however, I managed to see myself in a state which was supposed to remain in my memories.
4 years. It always look like a wasted journey to me. Especially when I return to a spot, I was at previously. 4 years ago, I was 3 years after 20. Now I am 3 years to 30. Unbelievable the kind of effects, those old photographs got on people.
F.I.R new M.V. 月牙湾 (Yue Ya Wan)
I was mildly disappointed with their previous Album and thinking maybe they lost the touch that put them up high in their debut album. Glad they got it back in this one.
(And for REAL, I didn't even to listen to Real's Solo Album. And yes. I didn't realised that they had a new album until last week.)
and let's put up a personal favorite at the same time... Our Love (我們的愛 Wo Men De Ai)
and yes that Kwai Lun-mei is the Girl in the MV. A sequel of some kind in the new song 需要你的愛 (Need your Love)?
Monday, September 24, 2007
Trailer: Superbad
Superbad Website
Clips, Photo, Games and Pictures of Dicks (LotSA. Just look for the Zipper).
Superbad makes me think why I wasn't a Sex Crazy Teen yesteryears before.
Grindhouse: Planet Terror
Yes, Singapore finally have the Original Double bill Grindhouse (Limited Screens however) but who is going to pay for something that is watered down when you can catch both on it's own (DVD for Deathproof and Planet Terror on the big screen).
I am not too sure I will since Deathproof on it's own is kind of hmmm....but a watered down Deathproof might bring it to speed for those who aren't Boredproof.
Anyway Planet Terror is surprisingly good for it's B grade glory. QT must have liked Planet Terror (they probably drew lots for what to do on their Grindhouse project....guess who won???) so much he had to be in it himself (as a consolation for not directing it himself???).
Storyline was pretty simple. Some blackmarket experimental Biochemical weapon was set upon a small town in Texas changing the affected into aggressive killer psychopaths. Those who remained normal band themselves to fight their way out.
It was very entertaining. Sad to say it's R21 so if you aren't watching it, you wouldn't be watching it (the legal way).
Among the FAKE trailers in Grindhouse, Machete is set to be a real feature film.
Looking forward to that.
I am not too sure I will since Deathproof on it's own is kind of hmmm....but a watered down Deathproof might bring it to speed for those who aren't Boredproof.
Anyway Planet Terror is surprisingly good for it's B grade glory. QT must have liked Planet Terror (they probably drew lots for what to do on their Grindhouse project....guess who won???) so much he had to be in it himself (as a consolation for not directing it himself???).
Storyline was pretty simple. Some blackmarket experimental Biochemical weapon was set upon a small town in Texas changing the affected into aggressive killer psychopaths. Those who remained normal band themselves to fight their way out.
It was very entertaining. Sad to say it's R21 so if you aren't watching it, you wouldn't be watching it (the legal way).
Among the FAKE trailers in Grindhouse, Machete is set to be a real feature film.
Looking forward to that.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Follow Up to Guess! Controvesy
I feel that the Suzumiya joke was still ok althought they ought to have NOT do it.
The risk is too much having that Anime fans are all IT saavy and very vocal.
The statement by 祐祐 of 黑澀會美眉
"他不該活在這個世界上吧"
MIGHT COST HER in her placing in 黑澀會美眉, a group that eliminates members seasonally in their Variety Show.
To say that another human being shouldn't Exist in the World just based on their looks. That's abit over the top for that guy.
Guess!!! 台灣御宅男special
One of Guess!!! 's staple program is "Ren bu Ke Mau Xiang". Claim to fame bevy of pretty non-celebs coming in for a voting challenge of the day's topic. There are occasional breaks, one of them is the 台灣御宅男 (Taiwanese Hikikomori or Hermit). This is not their first time having such a topic with a previous version and a female edition in '06.
The VCR portion to introduce the topic is correct in content.
The rest of what Jacky had introduced are questionable and not necessary correct.
(Always take what Jacky Wu said in his show with a pinch of salt).
However I do stress that they didn't put a bottom of the barrel type and likely those guys that auditioned probably exaggerated themselves (so to make their makeover looked extreme).
The first contestant was your usual Otaku who gamingly partake in "play acting". How do you know who is a fan or understood what happen???When the guy look away. Observe Wu Zun when Jacky (who claims to Gashbell....does he even know what that is???) challenge Contestant 1 who respond with Ninjitsu (WTH!LOL).
Contestant 1 is a fervent Naruto fan. Who sang Naruto songs. Lol. A japanese student remarked he sang pretty good. I wouldn't really say he is a total recluse, just a regular fan. Ok getting a bolster is quite Mid-Level.
No.2 isn't crazy. He just like to ACT. He is spontenous enough.
Could be Mid-level in anime enough althought he has normal interest (Wu Shu).
He writes (articles and novel) and sought for Literature/Art material.
No.3 is suppose to represent a Higher Hierachy fan.
He try to explain MOE and preference of 2D girls.
A previous discussion of why he dislike Adult Materials probably inspired them to say that Light Novel adverted his sexual desires from Adult stuffs as they had "adult/hentai situations". Despite having a proper defination on the screen, fans complaint about it when Jacky Wu improvise on the Suzumiya Haruhi line of Light novel's expense. Kadokawa Taiwan isn't too happy with the treatment of their product on National TV and made a statement. an official statement on their website
No. 4 is actually a regular guy. A collector and game player.
Sure he travel to meet people for tips and tricks but it's actually more of being a social gamer. Oh well, they do need a slightly special one from the line up.
No. 5 is well....we can't tell if he is austic or just anti-social.
He do get nervious. Very nervious but he do dare to declare his love for a person he saw on the bus everyday on National TV.
LOL to the stylists when given the task to make over them. Personally I feel that no.4 need minimum makeover.
Makeover session and voting.
I took offense to what a particular member of the girl group that is judging them had to say on their pre-makeover look. It's abit too much to say that someone ought to exist because of how they look. Didn't she know she might have alot of fans that look worse than that???
Actually, portrayal of people are always abit off on the media, especially on variety show, where everything is meant to entertain, take it with a pinch of salt.
The VCR portion to introduce the topic is correct in content.
The rest of what Jacky had introduced are questionable and not necessary correct.
(Always take what Jacky Wu said in his show with a pinch of salt).
However I do stress that they didn't put a bottom of the barrel type and likely those guys that auditioned probably exaggerated themselves (so to make their makeover looked extreme).
The first contestant was your usual Otaku who gamingly partake in "play acting". How do you know who is a fan or understood what happen???When the guy look away. Observe Wu Zun when Jacky (who claims to Gashbell....does he even know what that is???) challenge Contestant 1 who respond with Ninjitsu (WTH!LOL).
Contestant 1 is a fervent Naruto fan. Who sang Naruto songs. Lol. A japanese student remarked he sang pretty good. I wouldn't really say he is a total recluse, just a regular fan. Ok getting a bolster is quite Mid-Level.
No.2 isn't crazy. He just like to ACT. He is spontenous enough.
Could be Mid-level in anime enough althought he has normal interest (Wu Shu).
He writes (articles and novel) and sought for Literature/Art material.
No.3 is suppose to represent a Higher Hierachy fan.
He try to explain MOE and preference of 2D girls.
A previous discussion of why he dislike Adult Materials probably inspired them to say that Light Novel adverted his sexual desires from Adult stuffs as they had "adult/hentai situations". Despite having a proper defination on the screen, fans complaint about it when Jacky Wu improvise on the Suzumiya Haruhi line of Light novel's expense. Kadokawa Taiwan isn't too happy with the treatment of their product on National TV and made a statement. an official statement on their website
No. 4 is actually a regular guy. A collector and game player.
Sure he travel to meet people for tips and tricks but it's actually more of being a social gamer. Oh well, they do need a slightly special one from the line up.
No. 5 is well....we can't tell if he is austic or just anti-social.
He do get nervious. Very nervious but he do dare to declare his love for a person he saw on the bus everyday on National TV.
LOL to the stylists when given the task to make over them. Personally I feel that no.4 need minimum makeover.
Makeover session and voting.
I took offense to what a particular member of the girl group that is judging them had to say on their pre-makeover look. It's abit too much to say that someone ought to exist because of how they look. Didn't she know she might have alot of fans that look worse than that???
Actually, portrayal of people are always abit off on the media, especially on variety show, where everything is meant to entertain, take it with a pinch of salt.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
A problem of Mentality?
Let's drop the subject of ODEX aside for the moment.
Let's talk about Anime Downloaders.
A quick glance of feedback reveals that some people fail to acknowledge the fact that they are being targeted for doing something that is equivalent to stealing (Yes people, pinching is a form of stealing).
If you are thinking I am some H.I.P advocate who abide every rules, I am not. Althought I do believe there should be a certain rules of engagement regarding downloading:
1) You are a Thief. You steal with Stealth.
2) You are not a Terrorist. You don't preach a Higher ORDER over with what You are doing. You don't make a big hoo-ha neither should You be PROUD for what You did.
3) Take what you want and leave the rest. There's no point being caught, your hand in the cookie jar for what you cannot finish.
4) If you really like what you saw, pay for the real thing when you see it on the shelf.
5) There is something wrong with you if you pay for a merchandise many times more than the anime itself when you didn't pay for the anime. And you claim you are a fan.
6) If you didn't like what you saw, you didn't want to buy it then don't download the whole series.
There should be more but the main point is that everyone has to play a part in recognising the harm you will be returning back to the loop. I can see the main stayers, people who wishes the well-being of the circuit, refrain from advocating downloading like it's a God Given Right.
Best part, they claim they made the anime famous. Sad to the say, the credit should go to the fansubbers. Not the downloaders. Serious fans should made the series a commercial success.
Whenever an anime is licence in US, the fansubbers will drop the series. The reaction from Singaporean fans are akin to a crybaby who is being force to return a toy they took from someone else. It was pretty amusing to see the States people to be respecting the gesture.
So, while we Singaporeans are very much well versed in the internet, are we ready to take upon some responsibility by honouring intellectual property? That we are ready to be responsible to any action taken for our errors? That recent happenings are a result of what we did boomerang back to us?
Let's talk about Anime Downloaders.
A quick glance of feedback reveals that some people fail to acknowledge the fact that they are being targeted for doing something that is equivalent to stealing (Yes people, pinching is a form of stealing).
If you are thinking I am some H.I.P advocate who abide every rules, I am not. Althought I do believe there should be a certain rules of engagement regarding downloading:
1) You are a Thief. You steal with Stealth.
2) You are not a Terrorist. You don't preach a Higher ORDER over with what You are doing. You don't make a big hoo-ha neither should You be PROUD for what You did.
3) Take what you want and leave the rest. There's no point being caught, your hand in the cookie jar for what you cannot finish.
4) If you really like what you saw, pay for the real thing when you see it on the shelf.
5) There is something wrong with you if you pay for a merchandise many times more than the anime itself when you didn't pay for the anime. And you claim you are a fan.
6) If you didn't like what you saw, you didn't want to buy it then don't download the whole series.
There should be more but the main point is that everyone has to play a part in recognising the harm you will be returning back to the loop. I can see the main stayers, people who wishes the well-being of the circuit, refrain from advocating downloading like it's a God Given Right.
Best part, they claim they made the anime famous. Sad to the say, the credit should go to the fansubbers. Not the downloaders. Serious fans should made the series a commercial success.
Whenever an anime is licence in US, the fansubbers will drop the series. The reaction from Singaporean fans are akin to a crybaby who is being force to return a toy they took from someone else. It was pretty amusing to see the States people to be respecting the gesture.
So, while we Singaporeans are very much well versed in the internet, are we ready to take upon some responsibility by honouring intellectual property? That we are ready to be responsible to any action taken for our errors? That recent happenings are a result of what we did boomerang back to us?
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Sing Sang
Those who have STOPPED downloading after the date of Sep 03 will not get any letters from us.
Oh. Assurance.
But....his idea of a warning shot is bizarre.
He was obviously never been threaten or given a dateline.
The reason why the heat escalated so fast was that their previous warning shot failed to sound.
No one can confirm it. No one spread the news and No one DECLARED IT openly.
Yes. The handling of the warning shot is very important.
You need the people to stop, you got to tell them to stop in a CLEAR and AUDIBLE manner.
You will need to go through all medium possible and give them ample time to react.
Sing made his declaration on 03 Sep 1.07pm.
On the ODEX forum
Singaporeans who persisted has......only 11 hours to react?
11 hours to spread the news to everyone. Wow.
24?
LOL.
p.s. d4thday took 30hrs to even give everyone a heads up. So what do you think? Will it be possible that anyone with determination to stop be hearing the news on time??? LOL.
Oh. Assurance.
But....his idea of a warning shot is bizarre.
He was obviously never been threaten or given a dateline.
The reason why the heat escalated so fast was that their previous warning shot failed to sound.
No one can confirm it. No one spread the news and No one DECLARED IT openly.
Yes. The handling of the warning shot is very important.
You need the people to stop, you got to tell them to stop in a CLEAR and AUDIBLE manner.
You will need to go through all medium possible and give them ample time to react.
Sing made his declaration on 03 Sep 1.07pm.
On the ODEX forum
Singaporeans who persisted has......only 11 hours to react?
11 hours to spread the news to everyone. Wow.
24?
LOL.
p.s. d4thday took 30hrs to even give everyone a heads up. So what do you think? Will it be possible that anyone with determination to stop be hearing the news on time??? LOL.
It's not like BFC don't read newspaper
Odex blamed BFC for "their incorrect translation".
BFC hits back.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/209169.asp
If this doesn't show that Odex path it's way with spin, I don't know what this is.
BFC hits back.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/209169.asp
If this doesn't show that Odex path it's way with spin, I don't know what this is.
Monday, September 03, 2007
A game of lies continues....
Previously on Anime Civil War of Infinite Aggression....
Odex had the door slam on their face with their case thrown for lack of supporting evidence and suspiciously lacking the "rights to act".
Now.....
Odex get their expert witness from BayTSP and
Various Japanese Broadcasters and Anime Studio are coming to lend support....it was expected but I didn't realise the extend of their dedication....oh well, if the Bomber had fail to drop the payload and it's up to the Blazing Guns of Yamato to crack the walls down.
A press conference, of course, surfaced and dear old Stephen, motor his mouth away with more "True but not in entirely" answer to one of their better mishaps.
Errors and mistakes in Subtitles.
When we say Errors and mistakes, what do we think of?
Negligence? Complencent? The other Dirty Dozen?
In aircraft work, we got These Twelve Human Factors that will affect Quality.
You got Twelve possible things to say out and not be ashamed of since To Err is Human (To Forgive Divine....a quotable by Alexander Pope, Great Poet of the 18th Century....althought I can say that Forgiveness is hardly available in some people's heart...especially for ODEX. ESPECIALLY FOR ODEX) but you choose the Number 1 rule in a Press Conference.
Deny. Blame. Distract.
Victim of the Blame Game?
BFC. The Board of Film Censorship.
Way to go.
The BFC involvement only covers the parts which are altered by ODEX to suit BFC standards (in which I deduced is Kiasu, Go for ONE PASS without much supporting documentation). BFC does not check for your spelling, grammar and sentence structure (just like how Blogspot doesn't check my spelling, grammar and sentence structure) nor are they paid to do so.
Before we end, let's hear something from TV Tokyo Coporation's representative, Yukio Kawasaki
".....best to solve the problem, is through our licensees in each country....because licensees can take action very quickly. In this case, Odex is a very important partner to us."
and here is how I take it
"Listen!!!The Great Asian Ambition commitee has decide to employ licensees as our Kempeitai.
Kempeitai are the best there!!!And what they do, aren't nice!!! HEAR!!!"
Odex had the door slam on their face with their case thrown for lack of supporting evidence and suspiciously lacking the "rights to act".
Now.....
Odex get their expert witness from BayTSP and
Various Japanese Broadcasters and Anime Studio are coming to lend support....it was expected but I didn't realise the extend of their dedication....oh well, if the Bomber had fail to drop the payload and it's up to the Blazing Guns of Yamato to crack the walls down.
A press conference, of course, surfaced and dear old Stephen, motor his mouth away with more "True but not in entirely" answer to one of their better mishaps.
Errors and mistakes in Subtitles.
When we say Errors and mistakes, what do we think of?
Negligence? Complencent? The other Dirty Dozen?
In aircraft work, we got These Twelve Human Factors that will affect Quality.
You got Twelve possible things to say out and not be ashamed of since To Err is Human (To Forgive Divine....a quotable by Alexander Pope, Great Poet of the 18th Century....althought I can say that Forgiveness is hardly available in some people's heart...especially for ODEX. ESPECIALLY FOR ODEX) but you choose the Number 1 rule in a Press Conference.
Deny. Blame. Distract.
Victim of the Blame Game?
BFC. The Board of Film Censorship.
Way to go.
The BFC involvement only covers the parts which are altered by ODEX to suit BFC standards (in which I deduced is Kiasu, Go for ONE PASS without much supporting documentation). BFC does not check for your spelling, grammar and sentence structure (just like how Blogspot doesn't check my spelling, grammar and sentence structure) nor are they paid to do so.
Before we end, let's hear something from TV Tokyo Coporation's representative, Yukio Kawasaki
".....best to solve the problem, is through our licensees in each country....because licensees can take action very quickly. In this case, Odex is a very important partner to us."
and here is how I take it
"Listen!!!The Great Asian Ambition commitee has decide to employ licensees as our Kempeitai.
Kempeitai are the best there!!!And what they do, aren't nice!!! HEAR!!!"
Monday, August 27, 2007
The Uncompulsory, unnecessary entry by the fence-sitter
Downloaders are primarily been playing poker with Odex as it appears.
And after so many players folded and pay up did we realised that Odex had always been calling bluff. Odex wasn't holding a winning hand at all.
If you didn't heard it yet, District Judge Earnest Lau threw the case out for Odex for the Pacnet hearing. Of course it wasn't about the same silly thing about compassion or such or that Anime Downloading is LEGAL (it's still NOT.) but rather Odex is not entitled to take the action against the users of PacNet.
It is a matter of insufficient evidence to justify Odex's action and the questionable aspect of Odex's behaviour.
It does not equate to that Legal Action will not be taken against downloaders.
The fandom/downloaders suddenly turned yaya 881 (Papaya!!LOL) all the sudden.
Sure this incident might take Odex out of the play but end of the day we got to realise that people should be responsible for themselves. They got to start accepting responsibility of their own actions. The download links are there but it is YOU who activate the downloading. People who don't buy your stuff is not because they are cheapskates but because you aren't competitive enough. The only reason why things got this far, is because people do not accept their wrong doings and choose to play the blame game.
Sure fansub spread the fandom but when good things are abused, we seldom get any happy endings.
And after so many players folded and pay up did we realised that Odex had always been calling bluff. Odex wasn't holding a winning hand at all.
If you didn't heard it yet, District Judge Earnest Lau threw the case out for Odex for the Pacnet hearing. Of course it wasn't about the same silly thing about compassion or such or that Anime Downloading is LEGAL (it's still NOT.) but rather Odex is not entitled to take the action against the users of PacNet.
It is a matter of insufficient evidence to justify Odex's action and the questionable aspect of Odex's behaviour.
It does not equate to that Legal Action will not be taken against downloaders.
The fandom/downloaders suddenly turned yaya 881 (Papaya!!LOL) all the sudden.
Sure this incident might take Odex out of the play but end of the day we got to realise that people should be responsible for themselves. They got to start accepting responsibility of their own actions. The download links are there but it is YOU who activate the downloading. People who don't buy your stuff is not because they are cheapskates but because you aren't competitive enough. The only reason why things got this far, is because people do not accept their wrong doings and choose to play the blame game.
Sure fansub spread the fandom but when good things are abused, we seldom get any happy endings.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Watched: Bourne Ultimatium
Honestly in a year full of T(h)rees, everyone might get started of swinging from one t(h)ree to another.
Still this t(h)ree is worth the effort.
I didn't start with the first Bourne movie, despite watching a bit of it, here and there on TV and VCD but yes, I am watching Bourne for the first time.
This movie never stays idle, thanks to an intense plot and a shaky camera (LOL. Some idiot complain that he d/l the movie and the pirate seems to be shooting with a shaky hand. He ought to vomit since he ate garbage. LOL). All these without being too incredible and strictly down to earth effects.
This should be the best t(h)ree offered by Hollywood. Sure, this movie deviates from the original novel by alot but people who read the books.......aren't children. LOL.
Still this t(h)ree is worth the effort.
I didn't start with the first Bourne movie, despite watching a bit of it, here and there on TV and VCD but yes, I am watching Bourne for the first time.
This movie never stays idle, thanks to an intense plot and a shaky camera (LOL. Some idiot complain that he d/l the movie and the pirate seems to be shooting with a shaky hand. He ought to vomit since he ate garbage. LOL). All these without being too incredible and strictly down to earth effects.
This should be the best t(h)ree offered by Hollywood. Sure, this movie deviates from the original novel by alot but people who read the books.......aren't children. LOL.
Watched: Brave Story
Young Children should be living in sheltered and blissful life, worrying about nothing around them, except play and school. That's the basic ideal scenario for every children to have and every adult to give.
That is the ideal scenario. Then again, is it always that way?
There's always some magical fantasy about being a child growing into this chaotic world of ours and very often it's not easy to be one so vulnerable to make an impact to change one's destiny.
Brave Story is one of the many that a young one has to venture into Strange Worlds to prepare oneself for adulthood or to change the fate of worlds. The Neverending Story, Chronicles of Nardia, Pan's Labyrinth, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, Mirrormask and to a certain extent, The Harry Potter Series of Books are a few good examples of that in the Western World. For the anime side, we been offered other examples of "a familiar person in a strange world" such as Curious Play (Fushigi Yugi), Inuyasha, Chronicles of Twelve Kingdoms and Strange Dawn.
Gonzo choose this to be their 2nd feature film and it's excellent choice, being a newcomer into the feature film business. It's hard to break into that market with the same approach they did with the TV/DVD market seeing the previous Origin: Spirits of the Past
somehow sink under the radar of every movie go-er and even anime fans.
Brave Story is a story that is shouldn't be strange to everyone.
Wataru (Somebody ought to call the lawyers? Key Wataru in wiki-search and you will see), a 10 year old boy whose family is breaking up with his father moving away and his mother in the hospital (Mother in Torment/Illness?See Mirrormask and Pan's Labyrinth). A previous encounter with a new transfer student (Transfer Student? Lol. As long as you had school you get these. See Suzumiya Haruhi no Yutsuu for a vague explaination) led Wataru to a strange gate that promise "to change destiny". Desperate to hang onto his life before it went South, Wataru took the courage to go beyond the gate and entered the world of Vision.
Vision is a RPG-like world governed by magic and deities. Travelers from another world are to collect five gemstones to get a wish granted by the Goddess of Fortune (see Dragonball). Wataru, being pretty much lacking in all aspect, turns out to be on the last step of a short ladder. Thankfully, Wataru, despite his shortcomings, overcome overwhelming odds to put himself in the right directions with some help from good friends and a hidden ally. Wataru's good virtue finally come to a test when he met up with his friend/the transfer student, Mitsuru, who is driven by his own personal tragedy and do whatever necessary to get the gems (see....Digimon Season 2. In a sense it quite mirrors that way).
Brave Story uses the 2 boys to present the age old argument of "The End will justified the Means". The winner of course is pretty age old predictable as well (See all Shonen anime?).
As a result, Brave Story is pretty much a repackaged deal with having a Light novel (Light novel are pretty easy to read and to a certain extend, write and formulate) but a unique presentation irregardless. It will be irresponsible to say that the plot of the movie is LOUSY. It's a simple story that is meant to be pleasant without being candy-flossed. Something that is actually difficult to juggle with. Good things need not be complex or shoot at the balls Original.
An amusing fact is that it went under the radar that Takako Matsu is the voice of Wataru. An even more amusing fact is that we are getting about the same deal with Taiwan, getting a screening so late despite having the movie being sold on digital formats last year.
Brave Story did brought Gonzo somewhere I guess since their latest movie feature is about Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi which seems pretty rated EA (Ok for Everyone).
Ok, Brave Story is still a bit gritty just like Harry Potter, having a young girl crying over a scene late at the film (which Order Of The Phoneix might have if they didn't tone down on Sirius's Death). So please, dear parents, do go through the movie before you bring your children. Otherwise don't complain if your children are having nightmares.
That is the ideal scenario. Then again, is it always that way?
There's always some magical fantasy about being a child growing into this chaotic world of ours and very often it's not easy to be one so vulnerable to make an impact to change one's destiny.
Brave Story is one of the many that a young one has to venture into Strange Worlds to prepare oneself for adulthood or to change the fate of worlds. The Neverending Story, Chronicles of Nardia, Pan's Labyrinth, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, Mirrormask and to a certain extent, The Harry Potter Series of Books are a few good examples of that in the Western World. For the anime side, we been offered other examples of "a familiar person in a strange world" such as Curious Play (Fushigi Yugi), Inuyasha, Chronicles of Twelve Kingdoms and Strange Dawn.
Gonzo choose this to be their 2nd feature film and it's excellent choice, being a newcomer into the feature film business. It's hard to break into that market with the same approach they did with the TV/DVD market seeing the previous Origin: Spirits of the Past
somehow sink under the radar of every movie go-er and even anime fans.
Brave Story is a story that is shouldn't be strange to everyone.
Wataru (Somebody ought to call the lawyers? Key Wataru in wiki-search and you will see), a 10 year old boy whose family is breaking up with his father moving away and his mother in the hospital (Mother in Torment/Illness?See Mirrormask and Pan's Labyrinth). A previous encounter with a new transfer student (Transfer Student? Lol. As long as you had school you get these. See Suzumiya Haruhi no Yutsuu for a vague explaination) led Wataru to a strange gate that promise "to change destiny". Desperate to hang onto his life before it went South, Wataru took the courage to go beyond the gate and entered the world of Vision.
Vision is a RPG-like world governed by magic and deities. Travelers from another world are to collect five gemstones to get a wish granted by the Goddess of Fortune (see Dragonball). Wataru, being pretty much lacking in all aspect, turns out to be on the last step of a short ladder. Thankfully, Wataru, despite his shortcomings, overcome overwhelming odds to put himself in the right directions with some help from good friends and a hidden ally. Wataru's good virtue finally come to a test when he met up with his friend/the transfer student, Mitsuru, who is driven by his own personal tragedy and do whatever necessary to get the gems (see....Digimon Season 2. In a sense it quite mirrors that way).
Brave Story uses the 2 boys to present the age old argument of "The End will justified the Means". The winner of course is pretty age old predictable as well (See all Shonen anime?).
As a result, Brave Story is pretty much a repackaged deal with having a Light novel (Light novel are pretty easy to read and to a certain extend, write and formulate) but a unique presentation irregardless. It will be irresponsible to say that the plot of the movie is LOUSY. It's a simple story that is meant to be pleasant without being candy-flossed. Something that is actually difficult to juggle with. Good things need not be complex or shoot at the balls Original.
An amusing fact is that it went under the radar that Takako Matsu is the voice of Wataru. An even more amusing fact is that we are getting about the same deal with Taiwan, getting a screening so late despite having the movie being sold on digital formats last year.
Brave Story did brought Gonzo somewhere I guess since their latest movie feature is about Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi which seems pretty rated EA (Ok for Everyone).
Ok, Brave Story is still a bit gritty just like Harry Potter, having a young girl crying over a scene late at the film (which Order Of The Phoneix might have if they didn't tone down on Sirius's Death). So please, dear parents, do go through the movie before you bring your children. Otherwise don't complain if your children are having nightmares.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Shocker henchman
Urgh.....what the hell...I was sleeping....
What???And I need a Job...zzzzz........ah....
What???Stop bothering me!!! You want a promotion??? You see that guy over there??? Get his wallet. Then we talk about promotion.
FIN
Hehehe. I bought him for a $1 only @ That Taka Toyfair. Non-posable but.....$1!!!
Lol. Since pretty much the great bargains are non-posable so....ya....call me cheap.
BTW I notice Taka no longer selling sculpts and Japanese anime figures after that.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Ship of Fools
With Odex awarding letters for (or like Stephen Sing, now INFAMOUSLY put it on the Web..."double-6-ed") every anime downloaders, it's quite true that every anime lover of Singapore on the internet with a blog will eventually make their stand. (Kind of like how in last Great-Marvel-Event, Civil War, taking sides.)
Yes true believers, we are now at Crisis or Countdown to Crisis of Multiple Anime Downloaders.
Surely you don't think it's the END?
No!
It's the Begining of the END of FREE LOADERS!!!
Excelsior!!!
I do wondered if I am getting the straw with the short end. Everyone does. Live in fear for past action done.
Then again I had cut down since last January so.......
Anyway my side of the Crisis/War is Fence Sitter. In the middle. People always tell me, stand in the middle, get knock down by both sides of the traffic. Quite true but this isn't REAL LIFE. Yes. It seems Distant to me.
I mean whats the point of hurling abuses at Forces of Change???
Especially when they have LAW ON THEIR SIDE( Bejesus to the TNP journalist who wrote this line. LOL).
WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU???
Lord have mercy on our souls, we are a small group of consumers (or rather non-consumers) getting a kick of something free. If Odex had earlier went on a propanganda, running a campainge to educate the situation, give enough "weather forecast", I am sure the hostility will be cut down by at least a good 20%-30% because we are not a bunch of brutes. By help, it's detering the concerned from committing the offence and not, collecting settlement fees and say
WE WANT TO HELP YOU???
So is it productive hurling abuses at the fall guy???
Odex is the fall guy.
To show the Americans that Japanese Businessmen means business, Odex will be doing the dirty work and taking fall for them. Business benefits are inevitable, obvious and who knows how much "kopi lui" benefit comes about. At worse, Odex can fold and reemerge with another name (note the "Pte Ltd") just to hawk their wares. At best, Odex will emerge a super power and giving them an edge over competitors (Fat hope???!)
I won't side with the overly "PASSIONATED" fans.
Bunch of ChickenShitZ who post empty threats and BIG WORDS.
Best part???
Stephen Sing (now TNP Headline Story for 15/09/2007. Yes your parents and family and friends will be so proud of you) took the harmless threats as SERIOUS and made police report (over lolz stuff ESP The WANTED POSTER. I think he took offence over the $9000 reward. Too little I guess???).
Singaporean Netizens made fun of MP's daughter, she never cry and call police....
and Stephen Sing thought he was....more Important?
Oh come on. That's Internet Justice served with a pinch of salt.
The media???
A lot of UnTruth (or misquote. Depending on where you standing) is being made and observed by many. Either Odex is lying or providing statistics with poor explaination. I publish any of my "findings" unless there's a demand.
Want to be a good fan???
Stop wasting time blasting Odex.
Spent more time watching existing anime.
Buy the original.
If you need a quick fix on the latest, watch via streaming since they aren't in focus at the moment. Don't pay heed to hearsay. They are catching downloaders and not users of an internet service.
To sum up on this entry, I will to draw attention these article which is 3 parts.
http://comipress.com/article/2006/07/20/489
http://comipress.com/article/2006/07/27/523
http://comipress.com/article/2007/01/16/1334
Yes true believers, we are now at Crisis or Countdown to Crisis of Multiple Anime Downloaders.
Surely you don't think it's the END?
No!
It's the Begining of the END of FREE LOADERS!!!
Excelsior!!!
I do wondered if I am getting the straw with the short end. Everyone does. Live in fear for past action done.
Then again I had cut down since last January so.......
Anyway my side of the Crisis/War is Fence Sitter. In the middle. People always tell me, stand in the middle, get knock down by both sides of the traffic. Quite true but this isn't REAL LIFE. Yes. It seems Distant to me.
I mean whats the point of hurling abuses at Forces of Change???
Especially when they have LAW ON THEIR SIDE( Bejesus to the TNP journalist who wrote this line. LOL).
WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU???
Lord have mercy on our souls, we are a small group of consumers (or rather non-consumers) getting a kick of something free. If Odex had earlier went on a propanganda, running a campainge to educate the situation, give enough "weather forecast", I am sure the hostility will be cut down by at least a good 20%-30% because we are not a bunch of brutes. By help, it's detering the concerned from committing the offence and not, collecting settlement fees and say
WE WANT TO HELP YOU???
So is it productive hurling abuses at the fall guy???
Odex is the fall guy.
To show the Americans that Japanese Businessmen means business, Odex will be doing the dirty work and taking fall for them. Business benefits are inevitable, obvious and who knows how much "kopi lui" benefit comes about. At worse, Odex can fold and reemerge with another name (note the "Pte Ltd") just to hawk their wares. At best, Odex will emerge a super power and giving them an edge over competitors (Fat hope???!)
I won't side with the overly "PASSIONATED" fans.
Bunch of ChickenShitZ who post empty threats and BIG WORDS.
Best part???
Stephen Sing (now TNP Headline Story for 15/09/2007. Yes your parents and family and friends will be so proud of you) took the harmless threats as SERIOUS and made police report (over lolz stuff ESP The WANTED POSTER. I think he took offence over the $9000 reward. Too little I guess???).
Singaporean Netizens made fun of MP's daughter, she never cry and call police....
and Stephen Sing thought he was....more Important?
Oh come on. That's Internet Justice served with a pinch of salt.
The media???
A lot of UnTruth (or misquote. Depending on where you standing) is being made and observed by many. Either Odex is lying or providing statistics with poor explaination. I publish any of my "findings" unless there's a demand.
Want to be a good fan???
Stop wasting time blasting Odex.
Spent more time watching existing anime.
Buy the original.
If you need a quick fix on the latest, watch via streaming since they aren't in focus at the moment. Don't pay heed to hearsay. They are catching downloaders and not users of an internet service.
To sum up on this entry, I will to draw attention these article which is 3 parts.
http://comipress.com/article/2006/07/20/489
http://comipress.com/article/2006/07/27/523
http://comipress.com/article/2007/01/16/1334
Played: GrimGrimoire
Another top notch game from Vanillaware. Sure there's pretty much great RTS on the console but most of them are just port cousins from PC. Instead of the usual isometric view, we have the traditional 2D view that Vanillaware is famous for these days (see Odin Sphere).
Likewise with Odin Sphere, the interaction of the game is through books except it's a bookshelf and individual chapters are books. Upon completion of story mode, you can access to another row of books, bonus stages of added fun to make up for the lack of diversity in appearane and gameplay of the story mode.
Lillet Blan is the latest student to the Tower of Silver Star (think Hogwarts). The Tower of Silver Star is not without woes and danger as Lillet Blan finds out. Eventually something really bad happens and Lillet (like Harry) meet the Main Event Villian, the Archmage Calvaros (think Lord Noseless). When Lillet is about to meet her maker, she was mysteriously returned to five days earlier, the day which she just arrived. Thus began her journey of running in circles, resolving the problems of Silver Star and eventually defeating the Archmage. Kind of like how the game stages of Odin Sphere is set, much to my amusement.
Insteads of playing via races/factions, GrimGrimoire employs a Magic System scheme. You can pick and mix what you learned in your Grimoire to fend of oppositions. Power balance is quite fair, so it's a matter of preference on how to play that game (althought certain things are quite clear....Dragons are bitching....)
Sure, playing without mouse is pretty hectic but luckily the controls are pretty easy to learn and there's a pause when you are making selections in runes so you are chill out abit to make the right decisions (making it a fact that this wouldn't be a multiplayer game).
http://www.nisamerica.com/games/grimgrimoire/
Likewise with Odin Sphere, the interaction of the game is through books except it's a bookshelf and individual chapters are books. Upon completion of story mode, you can access to another row of books, bonus stages of added fun to make up for the lack of diversity in appearane and gameplay of the story mode.
Lillet Blan is the latest student to the Tower of Silver Star (think Hogwarts). The Tower of Silver Star is not without woes and danger as Lillet Blan finds out. Eventually something really bad happens and Lillet (like Harry) meet the Main Event Villian, the Archmage Calvaros (think Lord Noseless). When Lillet is about to meet her maker, she was mysteriously returned to five days earlier, the day which she just arrived. Thus began her journey of running in circles, resolving the problems of Silver Star and eventually defeating the Archmage. Kind of like how the game stages of Odin Sphere is set, much to my amusement.
Insteads of playing via races/factions, GrimGrimoire employs a Magic System scheme. You can pick and mix what you learned in your Grimoire to fend of oppositions. Power balance is quite fair, so it's a matter of preference on how to play that game (althought certain things are quite clear....Dragons are bitching....)
Sure, playing without mouse is pretty hectic but luckily the controls are pretty easy to learn and there's a pause when you are making selections in runes so you are chill out abit to make the right decisions (making it a fact that this wouldn't be a multiplayer game).
http://www.nisamerica.com/games/grimgrimoire/
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Watched: Rush Hour 3
Why does the 3rd movie always taste so Flat???
Is it because they raised the standard so high on the 2nd???
Likewise the other "The 3rd" summer movies of this year, Rush Hour 3 stays faithful to recipe but lack of the spices to "up" the experience. No surprises. No new thrills.
Basically the movie is going through a checklist to be done.
Other than that, if you choose to get a ride out of a movie, Rush Hour 3 is good entertainment, just don't expect so much.
Is it because they raised the standard so high on the 2nd???
Likewise the other "The 3rd" summer movies of this year, Rush Hour 3 stays faithful to recipe but lack of the spices to "up" the experience. No surprises. No new thrills.
Basically the movie is going through a checklist to be done.
Other than that, if you choose to get a ride out of a movie, Rush Hour 3 is good entertainment, just don't expect so much.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Watched: Secret
Jay/Ye Xiang Lun is the new transfer student to the school.
Hearing an unknown and beautiful melody, Jay walked into the old piano room and met Rain/Lu Xiaoyu. Attracted by Rain's strange and mysterious behaviour, Jay went actively in pursue of Rain. Little had, he any knowledge of what he is going into....
Being a veteran of MV making, Jay had little problem of shooting the movie beautifully. Sure he is still the same old Jay, althought he was smart to not open up his own weaknesses of limited emotions so everything is falling on the story and Kwai Lunmei and the other actors to make the experience of watching Secret a better one.
There's enough plot holes in Secret but basically it's easier to understand if you try not to go too deep. Really. I just don't understand why people say they don't understand the ending.
http://www.sonypictures.com.tw/movie/secret/
Hearing an unknown and beautiful melody, Jay walked into the old piano room and met Rain/Lu Xiaoyu. Attracted by Rain's strange and mysterious behaviour, Jay went actively in pursue of Rain. Little had, he any knowledge of what he is going into....
Being a veteran of MV making, Jay had little problem of shooting the movie beautifully. Sure he is still the same old Jay, althought he was smart to not open up his own weaknesses of limited emotions so everything is falling on the story and Kwai Lunmei and the other actors to make the experience of watching Secret a better one.
There's enough plot holes in Secret but basically it's easier to understand if you try not to go too deep. Really. I just don't understand why people say they don't understand the ending.
http://www.sonypictures.com.tw/movie/secret/
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Watched: Knocked Up
Knocked Up might not be a suitable date movie.
Since it's likely to inspire topics that couples to discuss or argue about.
It's a simple, (cautionary?) tale of going through one too many drinks and doing it in the heat of passion.
A one night stand later, Alison woke up, not totally impressed with what she picked up.
Ben Stone isn't exactly a catch.
In fact he is a slacker with absolutely no objective in life.
Where as for Alison, she is moving forward on her career.
Fast forward 8 weeks, Alison realised she's pregnant.
Ben is willing to shoulder his part of the responsibility.
Or is he?
Couple with interesting support cast, Knocked Up is a Comedy about Life. Or dealing with Life in the making.
40 years old Virgin ends with sex
Knocked Up ends with birth
So I probably guess Judd Apatow would be completing the experience???
http://www.knockedupmovie.com/
Since it's likely to inspire topics that couples to discuss or argue about.
It's a simple, (cautionary?) tale of going through one too many drinks and doing it in the heat of passion.
A one night stand later, Alison woke up, not totally impressed with what she picked up.
Ben Stone isn't exactly a catch.
In fact he is a slacker with absolutely no objective in life.
Where as for Alison, she is moving forward on her career.
Fast forward 8 weeks, Alison realised she's pregnant.
Ben is willing to shoulder his part of the responsibility.
Or is he?
Couple with interesting support cast, Knocked Up is a Comedy about Life. Or dealing with Life in the making.
40 years old Virgin ends with sex
Knocked Up ends with birth
So I probably guess Judd Apatow would be completing the experience???
http://www.knockedupmovie.com/
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Watched: Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoneix
Ah Harry Potter. Time of the year, ain't it lad???
Once again back to the magical world and the school of Hogwarts but...... the "magic", apparently isn't there. Yes. You don't feel the awe and wonder when you start out with. The sets are nice but they speak to you. The effects are good but you no longer got a sense of wonder. What's going on?
In terms of Main storyline, this solve as a bridge to all the previous movies to the upcoming 2. This open the doors to the last arc, a begining to what is to be the end. In which they succeed, this movie is both easy to understand, less "emotionally heavy" (compare to the previous movie). Drawback is they fail to script it tight, plot devices that intrigues becomes just a flower in the path and the most important little details slipped out without playing on too well. The introduction of many new characters and their relationship to existing characters wasn't play on so well unlike the previous movies. They did shorten the movie, which is thankful since the movie will be too draggy. Oh yes, it's the only movie that didn't had any quidditch matches which is a pity because a quicker change in pace can jolt the audience before they go solemn again.
Oh. The kiss???
It WOULD HAVE BEEN important had not they chuck Cho aside right after the kiss.
The failure to play on Harry's reaction to Cho's "betrayal" lost the meaning of the kiss.
This made it redundant as I feel the children's reaction to the "kissing" as to seeing their infant sibling vomit on them.
I am not bluffing.
The children behind me were making sounds of disgust.
Watch this if you had watch all the other movies. This is one best enjoyed before (or with) The Half-blood Prince. Not entirely an amazing experience of it's own.
Harry say that they have what Voldemort didn't.
I think he was refering to either the hair or the nose.
Oh and remember,
God is the potter, not Harry
so says the signboard at the church opposite The Cathay. LOL.
Once again back to the magical world and the school of Hogwarts but...... the "magic", apparently isn't there. Yes. You don't feel the awe and wonder when you start out with. The sets are nice but they speak to you. The effects are good but you no longer got a sense of wonder. What's going on?
In terms of Main storyline, this solve as a bridge to all the previous movies to the upcoming 2. This open the doors to the last arc, a begining to what is to be the end. In which they succeed, this movie is both easy to understand, less "emotionally heavy" (compare to the previous movie). Drawback is they fail to script it tight, plot devices that intrigues becomes just a flower in the path and the most important little details slipped out without playing on too well. The introduction of many new characters and their relationship to existing characters wasn't play on so well unlike the previous movies. They did shorten the movie, which is thankful since the movie will be too draggy. Oh yes, it's the only movie that didn't had any quidditch matches which is a pity because a quicker change in pace can jolt the audience before they go solemn again.
Oh. The kiss???
It WOULD HAVE BEEN important had not they chuck Cho aside right after the kiss.
The failure to play on Harry's reaction to Cho's "betrayal" lost the meaning of the kiss.
This made it redundant as I feel the children's reaction to the "kissing" as to seeing their infant sibling vomit on them.
I am not bluffing.
The children behind me were making sounds of disgust.
Watch this if you had watch all the other movies. This is one best enjoyed before (or with) The Half-blood Prince. Not entirely an amazing experience of it's own.
Harry say that they have what Voldemort didn't.
I think he was refering to either the hair or the nose.
Oh and remember,
God is the potter, not Harry
so says the signboard at the church opposite The Cathay. LOL.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Fanboy History....Seduction of the Innocent: Ep.2 Anime
I decided to create an anime subset because it's easier to write and to read.
I do recall watching Gatchaman (before G-Force comes about) and Macross, Mospeda, Southern Cross (before Robotech) during lower primary and King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table in my kindergarten days.
I believe I watched Gold Lighthan entirely because I was P4 (or it could be P6) then and they shown it around 6pm. There's also Gordon the Warrior but I found it to be quite boring despite the rather interesting Robot combination.
There's Godmars too and I found it disappointing because I catch bits and end of it because school. I also watch odds and bits of Captain Harlock, the Force Five Stuff (Gaiking, Getter Robo G, Spaceketeers, Danguard Ace and Grendaizer) and of course Voltron(Lions and Vehicles). The best was, of course in my Primary School days, the Japanese Transformers which I followed almost every episode for Masterforce and latter half of V for Victory.
Subsequently I bought a HK anime magazine A-Club #107 and the interest grew (which led to manga, the first purchase of Dragonball). I am probably in p5 then.
Meanwhile, TV3 is no longer available after we moved (but prior to that, they aren't showing anything new) to Tampines at '93.
TCS8 then start showing anime at midnight/late night. We tried to tape shows on the VCR but the VCR consistantly broke down on and off. It started with a bloody good anime (unlike the pussy stuff they are showing on Arts Central right now), a movie that got spliced and shown over days. It's called the Blade of Kamui. A title/genre that pussy OX will never bring in.
In the morning run, there's Wataru, Borgman and Yoriden Samurai Troopers. Night belt comes with, later on, a rather surprise choice, Record of Lodess which was reknown back in the days as one of the Few Great OVA in Japan. Ch8 is not trying to push any further but at least they commit to show some reasonable stuff like Saber Marionette, Tenchi Muyo TV, Orange Road and Maison Ikkoku.
First Contact: MSG 0083
but I didn't watch any anime proper in japanese dialogue until Gundam 0083 in 1995. It's considered a full contact as we watch it via video tape and it was chinese subbed with Japanese Dialogue.
It's also the first anime which I bought my first OST (and first CD).
The other anime which I watch via videotape are the Dragonball Z movies in Cantonese Dialogue.
First Purchase:
Martian Successor Nadesico
Although considering collective stash, my brother bought MSG: Char's Counterattack before that but this should be the first series ever bought (VCD). It was bought via piece by piece not as a boxset and we watch via PC as we didn't get a vcd player until early '98. That's in '97.
Over time, we slowly build up a collection which apparently we neglected to count....
then we discovered fansub and filesharing. Which is around early '03.
Due to the fact that internet speed was limited, we actually meet up and swop disc to hasten the progress. It's pretty much fun, meeting people and taking something back to enjoy. Oh well.
Now with the progress of internet speed and P2P, we actually hit a new problem.
Raws can be put up almost as fast as the show finished broadcast and go as far as Alaska or anywhere else that has access to the net. With a possibility that, millions of people will be spoiling via their blog posting (with images) and billions of people discussing the episode within a day of broadcast. All done without the broadcaster, the programme producer, the anime house and the sponsors earning a cent or a single rating. While we enjoy our spoils, we could be damning the producers to hell as they struggled to keep the project afloat. A lot of people are thinking, maybe the anime studios are earning alot from licenses. However, how sure are we???
With the Ox in the China Shop (with the likelihood that the OX will break everything), we are not too sure what everything will turn up. There's a strong voice of protest again, after the newspaper reported that a 9 year old was awarded.
I can do without downloading anime. Especially when I saw the OX, great being of inferior products and tasteless actions, smashing their way and trying to bring everyone to Justice.
Justice???
Or Vengance???
Or a road to Business Monopoly???
I don't know but I hope I struck Lottery fast since I know I might come up on that nominal roll.
I do recall watching Gatchaman (before G-Force comes about) and Macross, Mospeda, Southern Cross (before Robotech) during lower primary and King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table in my kindergarten days.
I believe I watched Gold Lighthan entirely because I was P4 (or it could be P6) then and they shown it around 6pm. There's also Gordon the Warrior but I found it to be quite boring despite the rather interesting Robot combination.
There's Godmars too and I found it disappointing because I catch bits and end of it because school. I also watch odds and bits of Captain Harlock, the Force Five Stuff (Gaiking, Getter Robo G, Spaceketeers, Danguard Ace and Grendaizer) and of course Voltron(Lions and Vehicles). The best was, of course in my Primary School days, the Japanese Transformers which I followed almost every episode for Masterforce and latter half of V for Victory.
Subsequently I bought a HK anime magazine A-Club #107 and the interest grew (which led to manga, the first purchase of Dragonball). I am probably in p5 then.
Meanwhile, TV3 is no longer available after we moved (but prior to that, they aren't showing anything new) to Tampines at '93.
TCS8 then start showing anime at midnight/late night. We tried to tape shows on the VCR but the VCR consistantly broke down on and off. It started with a bloody good anime (unlike the pussy stuff they are showing on Arts Central right now), a movie that got spliced and shown over days. It's called the Blade of Kamui. A title/genre that pussy OX will never bring in.
In the morning run, there's Wataru, Borgman and Yoriden Samurai Troopers. Night belt comes with, later on, a rather surprise choice, Record of Lodess which was reknown back in the days as one of the Few Great OVA in Japan. Ch8 is not trying to push any further but at least they commit to show some reasonable stuff like Saber Marionette, Tenchi Muyo TV, Orange Road and Maison Ikkoku.
First Contact: MSG 0083
but I didn't watch any anime proper in japanese dialogue until Gundam 0083 in 1995. It's considered a full contact as we watch it via video tape and it was chinese subbed with Japanese Dialogue.
It's also the first anime which I bought my first OST (and first CD).
The other anime which I watch via videotape are the Dragonball Z movies in Cantonese Dialogue.
First Purchase:
Martian Successor Nadesico
Although considering collective stash, my brother bought MSG: Char's Counterattack before that but this should be the first series ever bought (VCD). It was bought via piece by piece not as a boxset and we watch via PC as we didn't get a vcd player until early '98. That's in '97.
Over time, we slowly build up a collection which apparently we neglected to count....
then we discovered fansub and filesharing. Which is around early '03.
Due to the fact that internet speed was limited, we actually meet up and swop disc to hasten the progress. It's pretty much fun, meeting people and taking something back to enjoy. Oh well.
Now with the progress of internet speed and P2P, we actually hit a new problem.
Raws can be put up almost as fast as the show finished broadcast and go as far as Alaska or anywhere else that has access to the net. With a possibility that, millions of people will be spoiling via their blog posting (with images) and billions of people discussing the episode within a day of broadcast. All done without the broadcaster, the programme producer, the anime house and the sponsors earning a cent or a single rating. While we enjoy our spoils, we could be damning the producers to hell as they struggled to keep the project afloat. A lot of people are thinking, maybe the anime studios are earning alot from licenses. However, how sure are we???
With the Ox in the China Shop (with the likelihood that the OX will break everything), we are not too sure what everything will turn up. There's a strong voice of protest again, after the newspaper reported that a 9 year old was awarded.
I can do without downloading anime. Especially when I saw the OX, great being of inferior products and tasteless actions, smashing their way and trying to bring everyone to Justice.
Justice???
Or Vengance???
Or a road to Business Monopoly???
I don't know but I hope I struck Lottery fast since I know I might come up on that nominal roll.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Hmmm....Fanboy history...Seduction of the innocent???Episode 1: In the Begining
I think relatively everyone got their history of how & how or so & so.
Let's do the First Contact with......
Manga
Doraemon!!!Nuff said. I don't recall buying any of his books. Just via 1st contact. Reading at barbershop, saloon and cousin's place.
I do remembered my mother bought me coloring books of Dr Slump and Doraemon however.
My first manga that I actually came up money with is Dragonball volume 2 back around primary 5 (or even 4) althought I first read it under a pirated name "Xiao hou wang". Of course back those days, everyone is buying pirated "Tong Li" brand so all the other weird named versions just slowly dies off. I don't remember getting Vol. 1 until I got Vol. 5 or Vol. 6.
My other manga purchases, when I am in Primary School that comes later on, is probably in the following sequence:
- City Hunter
I only bought 1 volume (vol.4) . Which was a seriously censored reproduced version by a Singapore/M'sia press. I like the art but the various censorship didn't do a good job in story telling. My brother bought a HK edition of 1 & 2. I think it's pretty gritty and grim and I like it quite a bit but owing to gigantic gap in between, we didn't continue until another bootleg press pick it up until Latter of my secondary school days. It's based on the Taiwan version so it's Ryo rather than Mumble (Mon Bo).
- Kujaku-Oh
This is the first book that I bought that I got no idea how the storyline goes and bought at book 1. I love anthologies stuff and supernatural back then. It's a creepy book and the mood setting is fantastic. However like City Hunter, the interest is killed via the lack of availability and I drop the book at 2 (despite the fact that the Yuan Biao Peacock Prince movies are being shown at that time). I never carry on, only reading via rental read (during NS days) because the art wasn't fantastic (in my opinion).
- Ranma 1/2
It has a unique storyline. Kung fu with comedy. I bought 4 volumes of it but I probably discontinued after PSLE. It's borderline cheesecake for the 1st few volumes but I seen the latter stories on Comic Weekly so it didn't really turn me off. However, in secondary school days, I somehow didn't try to buy much manga except for periodicals thus I dropped the book. I never finish reading it completely but I did read whatever that's on Comic Weekly until the last issue of Ranma 1/2.
Let's do the First Contact with......
Manga
Doraemon!!!Nuff said. I don't recall buying any of his books. Just via 1st contact. Reading at barbershop, saloon and cousin's place.
I do remembered my mother bought me coloring books of Dr Slump and Doraemon however.
My first manga that I actually came up money with is Dragonball volume 2 back around primary 5 (or even 4) althought I first read it under a pirated name "Xiao hou wang". Of course back those days, everyone is buying pirated "Tong Li" brand so all the other weird named versions just slowly dies off. I don't remember getting Vol. 1 until I got Vol. 5 or Vol. 6.
My other manga purchases, when I am in Primary School that comes later on, is probably in the following sequence:
- City Hunter
I only bought 1 volume (vol.4) . Which was a seriously censored reproduced version by a Singapore/M'sia press. I like the art but the various censorship didn't do a good job in story telling. My brother bought a HK edition of 1 & 2. I think it's pretty gritty and grim and I like it quite a bit but owing to gigantic gap in between, we didn't continue until another bootleg press pick it up until Latter of my secondary school days. It's based on the Taiwan version so it's Ryo rather than Mumble (Mon Bo).
- Kujaku-Oh
This is the first book that I bought that I got no idea how the storyline goes and bought at book 1. I love anthologies stuff and supernatural back then. It's a creepy book and the mood setting is fantastic. However like City Hunter, the interest is killed via the lack of availability and I drop the book at 2 (despite the fact that the Yuan Biao Peacock Prince movies are being shown at that time). I never carry on, only reading via rental read (during NS days) because the art wasn't fantastic (in my opinion).
- Ranma 1/2
It has a unique storyline. Kung fu with comedy. I bought 4 volumes of it but I probably discontinued after PSLE. It's borderline cheesecake for the 1st few volumes but I seen the latter stories on Comic Weekly so it didn't really turn me off. However, in secondary school days, I somehow didn't try to buy much manga except for periodicals thus I dropped the book. I never finish reading it completely but I did read whatever that's on Comic Weekly until the last issue of Ranma 1/2.
- Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken
Everyone loves adventure. Plus they marketed it with a subtitle as "Xin Qi Long Zhu" (which means "New Seven Dragonballs"). It's a great adventure story. A good shonen manga with good character designs. Too bad, we opt to drop this manga around vol.8 because of missing volumes. I tried to restart in '97 when someone gave me the final volume but it's too bad because CY stop printing some of the numbers in between.
- Comic Periodicals
My first manga periodical should be the one by Chuang Yi (I think it was City Comics. You can find alot of them at Bras Besah. LOL) back in their bootlegging days. So who say someone with a past, can't turn a good leaf??? Their content is pretty plain. Just comics. Dragonball is of course their strong point.
However after a good 5 or 6 issues, I switched to Comic Weekly (a Malaysian publication which might be pirating or with permission from a HK publication which is obviously breaks some laws but who cares about that those days???) as their Dragonball is faster than CY's by a good 2 to 3 chapters (in the begining). Their format originally was almost Newspaper Size, close to how gossip/showbiz magazines are like. They didn't went down to magazine size until they decide to go weekly (it was fortnightly or once every 3 week) which is around 4 or 5 issues later.
They got a mixture of anime and game news as well as shojo manga occasionally. Owing that they are M'sia published, the censorship was ridiculous and ridiculously done (but nothing beats the S'pore Bootleg Cityhunter). I continue to buy Comic Weekly after they stop their Singapore counterpart (issues/distribution) and but availability is a bitch. I probably stopped during O'levels period because I cannot go to Bedok to them pick up.
I threw all of them out and sold the last of them to Karang Guni last month. It was a mixed feeling but I was relief because I finally gotten some space back.
By the Way, Comic Weekly is still ongoing. Lol. I still wonder if they got license to print.
Oh ya start tune for the Secondary School Days version.....which was kind of hazy to me......
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Fanboy THINKTANK
dkiwi did an inspiring post on his blog (Hey! I wouldn't be posting his link here!!! Haha!!! Go google!!! No I am not scared of the social backlash. Just the post was meek on his blog compared to his post captured on the sgcafe forum. Read it in Original Flavour via other people's quoting before he EDIT).
Anyway, he was going fascist in a way, as to defend his love while expressing that there are people of SUBSTANCE (as pertaining to going to school, Cream of Crop of the University) that are watching.
Of course we usually use examples like that just to get people from smacking a LOSER label on yourself.
But the big winner is from this line
(quoting dkiwi)
Well, this proves the smart, mature ones appreciate anime, and the dumb, narrow-minded ones are stuck to their dramas and movies.
which I find, in especially, amusing. It's fascist. Probably more fascist than when Mr. KKP slapped his Cosfuck label on almost everyone on his Cosfuck Awareness Drive Days.
All the sudden I realised this guy probably is a cross between a Parent who discover that D&D chess pieces that SCREAMS when thrown in Fire and a Pothead.
Here's more his weird rambling. Yes. Maybe the sky is really falling but we had to be GREEN. We rather live with the sky falling than being drowned like rats as envisioned by the Greatest Discover and Inventor of LAST CENTURY, Mr Al Gore. (Buy An Inconvenient Truth today!!!Now on DVD!!!)
actually an industry expert in another forum has already confirmed at least manga readers (which branch into consumers of anime, light novels and visual novels) are smarter than the average consumer. Yes, its the chuangyi manga forum.This stems from how the average consumer things that anime and manga is "just cartoons and comic books" and shuns them, while those with higher IQ are able to appreciate them to a deeper degree and start commenting on them. Would any of your normal friends pick up Potemayo? I don't think so. Yet alot of anime bloggers have commented on it positively. And Potemayo is Seinen as well, which means it targets the 18-30 male crowd.Like I have already stated, its the truth. It isn't like I didn't grow up reading these really thick novels from the likes of Jeffery Archer and Isaac Asimov. I watched more than my far share of dramas and movies. But why do I prefer light novels and manga to normal novels? 'Coz ultimately, they are a superior form of entertainment and not mindless American drivel that our society is consuming, causing their brains to degenerate. The propoganda from the government isn't helping either.Please don't let societal pressure convince you otherwise. Its the truth. Light Novels like Suzumiya Haruhi are definitely much harder to write than a draggy novel, which allows much more room for character development. Unskilled and boring. Light novels need to move quickly, and can be very complex as well such as Suzumiya Haruhi. My take on the religious and scientific expect of Suzumiya Haruhi (I didn't import this over as I felt it was abit offensive):
oh shit. It seems I am attacking on his state of mind delusion more than anything.
But who can buy that without being mistake that someone is Sniffing Glue???
Light Novels are harder to write and allow more room for character development???
I really wonder what kind of garbage he had been reading since he discover how to read, before he made a switch to Japanese Light Novels.
Reading Potemayo proves nothing. Really. In fact I never heard of it, possibly because it's over ecchi, or playing heavily on the MOE card.
It's like, I read Sandman and really, that encounter didn't make me more a Shakespeare fan, nor a Goth (fanbase of Sandman covers a prominent among of Goth). I got zero piercings or tattoos.
Sandman is just a good piece of literature/art that make us goes introspective on ourselves. I can't say I got smarter in anyway BUT I do gain something in the end. I wonder if I threw a bundle of Sandman to this dKiwi.....
anyway back to being the fascist....
You're correct there, but I'm really not an escapist. I'm not so rigid as to shun all movies and dramas. I got my circle of friends and we go out for movies quite often. SG is caught in the movie trap seriously... that's the main social gathering.I don't flame Transformers openly in front of my friends although I think it SUCKS DICK.I'm not escaping reality here, more embracing it. Most movies (and sickening dramas) I watch disappoint me tremendously, and I wonder why everyone thinks they are good. Are they the ones escaping reality or me I wonder, I wonder.In fact the excuse that most people give me for catching local dramas is because they got "nothing better to do". They can sense it sucks, but yet they don't wanna watch better stuff.
Ok. He's hell of deluded. I wonder if it's being in NS or Singaporean or a Haruhist Extremist or what. Or he got a major tendency to disagree with the Mass (God Knows). The Transformers isn't the best movie of the Year (not Yet) but it certain doesn't Sucks Dick (how a movie sucks dick???I only know got movies that got plenty of dick sucking but no movie can actually does that act....I am sure any movie with that function will SELL. Everyone is tired of self helping.)
If anime had made me anything, it made me a pussy.
It made me to think that there's two side of a coin.
That trying to be too hard from being something you dislike might just make you ultimately the worse person you want to be.
Trying to make everyone look your way, only make everyone turn the other way.
That every action begets a reaction.
That fascism, racism is never the right path.
I just wonder how anyone who watch anime can end up being that way. Strange indeed.
Anyway, he was going fascist in a way, as to defend his love while expressing that there are people of SUBSTANCE (as pertaining to going to school, Cream of Crop of the University) that are watching.
Of course we usually use examples like that just to get people from smacking a LOSER label on yourself.
But the big winner is from this line
(quoting dkiwi)
Well, this proves the smart, mature ones appreciate anime, and the dumb, narrow-minded ones are stuck to their dramas and movies.
which I find, in especially, amusing. It's fascist. Probably more fascist than when Mr. KKP slapped his Cosfuck label on almost everyone on his Cosfuck Awareness Drive Days.
All the sudden I realised this guy probably is a cross between a Parent who discover that D&D chess pieces that SCREAMS when thrown in Fire and a Pothead.
Here's more his weird rambling. Yes. Maybe the sky is really falling but we had to be GREEN. We rather live with the sky falling than being drowned like rats as envisioned by the Greatest Discover and Inventor of LAST CENTURY, Mr Al Gore. (Buy An Inconvenient Truth today!!!Now on DVD!!!)
actually an industry expert in another forum has already confirmed at least manga readers (which branch into consumers of anime, light novels and visual novels) are smarter than the average consumer. Yes, its the chuangyi manga forum.This stems from how the average consumer things that anime and manga is "just cartoons and comic books" and shuns them, while those with higher IQ are able to appreciate them to a deeper degree and start commenting on them. Would any of your normal friends pick up Potemayo? I don't think so. Yet alot of anime bloggers have commented on it positively. And Potemayo is Seinen as well, which means it targets the 18-30 male crowd.Like I have already stated, its the truth. It isn't like I didn't grow up reading these really thick novels from the likes of Jeffery Archer and Isaac Asimov. I watched more than my far share of dramas and movies. But why do I prefer light novels and manga to normal novels? 'Coz ultimately, they are a superior form of entertainment and not mindless American drivel that our society is consuming, causing their brains to degenerate. The propoganda from the government isn't helping either.Please don't let societal pressure convince you otherwise. Its the truth. Light Novels like Suzumiya Haruhi are definitely much harder to write than a draggy novel, which allows much more room for character development. Unskilled and boring. Light novels need to move quickly, and can be very complex as well such as Suzumiya Haruhi. My take on the religious and scientific expect of Suzumiya Haruhi (I didn't import this over as I felt it was abit offensive):
oh shit. It seems I am attacking on his state of mind delusion more than anything.
But who can buy that without being mistake that someone is Sniffing Glue???
Light Novels are harder to write and allow more room for character development???
I really wonder what kind of garbage he had been reading since he discover how to read, before he made a switch to Japanese Light Novels.
Reading Potemayo proves nothing. Really. In fact I never heard of it, possibly because it's over ecchi, or playing heavily on the MOE card.
It's like, I read Sandman and really, that encounter didn't make me more a Shakespeare fan, nor a Goth (fanbase of Sandman covers a prominent among of Goth). I got zero piercings or tattoos.
Sandman is just a good piece of literature/art that make us goes introspective on ourselves. I can't say I got smarter in anyway BUT I do gain something in the end. I wonder if I threw a bundle of Sandman to this dKiwi.....
anyway back to being the fascist....
You're correct there, but I'm really not an escapist. I'm not so rigid as to shun all movies and dramas. I got my circle of friends and we go out for movies quite often. SG is caught in the movie trap seriously... that's the main social gathering.I don't flame Transformers openly in front of my friends although I think it SUCKS DICK.I'm not escaping reality here, more embracing it. Most movies (and sickening dramas) I watch disappoint me tremendously, and I wonder why everyone thinks they are good. Are they the ones escaping reality or me I wonder, I wonder.In fact the excuse that most people give me for catching local dramas is because they got "nothing better to do". They can sense it sucks, but yet they don't wanna watch better stuff.
Ok. He's hell of deluded. I wonder if it's being in NS or Singaporean or a Haruhist Extremist or what. Or he got a major tendency to disagree with the Mass (God Knows). The Transformers isn't the best movie of the Year (not Yet) but it certain doesn't Sucks Dick (how a movie sucks dick???I only know got movies that got plenty of dick sucking but no movie can actually does that act....I am sure any movie with that function will SELL. Everyone is tired of self helping.)
If anime had made me anything, it made me a pussy.
It made me to think that there's two side of a coin.
That trying to be too hard from being something you dislike might just make you ultimately the worse person you want to be.
Trying to make everyone look your way, only make everyone turn the other way.
That every action begets a reaction.
That fascism, racism is never the right path.
I just wonder how anyone who watch anime can end up being that way. Strange indeed.
Exclusives!!!
I just pick up my camera and see if I got anything I did out of boredom.
And yes I did.
I think they are taken probably when Christopher was released from prison and I just felt I need to ape him. Yes. I just love to horse around when I am too free and there's batteries left in the camera.
And yes I did.
I think they are taken probably when Christopher was released from prison and I just felt I need to ape him. Yes. I just love to horse around when I am too free and there's batteries left in the camera.
"No Comments."
(Mimicking Mr. Lee in one of the press shots, freshly out and ready to grab a cab)
"Cut his throat."
(Althought I intended that, it seems to be endorsing a product so alternative)
"How's The Transformers Movie???"
Camera shy. Just camera shy.
Read: Anansi Boys
To my surprise, I didn't encounter Neil Gaiman on the graphic novel, Sandman, first.
I actually read a novel called Good Omens (written with Terry Pratchett) back in '95.
It's a humorous and fun novel and I enjoyed it greatly.
I bought Anansi Boys around June of '06 and never start reading it until July of '07.
I think it's one of those bad habits we called, buy in sales period and use later.
Normally certain things will be, like losing value over time, and stocking up is pretty much a good waste of money as as well as space.
This nature however aren't applied to books (unless it's like the overhyped last volume of HariKoptar which the price of anticipation to find out what happen, outweights the value of enjoyment of the book itself).
Anansi Boys tells about a British everyman with an extraordinary father who had an acute sense of humour.
After his father passed away, Charlie Nancy was told Nancy Senior is Anansi.
Anansi, the Spider/God who owns all the stories.
Anansi, a trickster God.
He was also told of a Brother, one of whom he never met or recollected as of having.
A brother who had the gifts of his father's magic.
In a moment of probable folliness, Charlie summoned his brother.
Then his world starts to fall out of place, in more ways he expected.
Anansi Boy is humorous and delightful read. A piece of well woven fiction that took place in the contemporary world. Recommended for anyone who is getting post-Harikoptar blues.
P.S. I probably will be getting American Gods (or Good Omen) tomorrow since Kino is having a 20% off.
I actually read a novel called Good Omens (written with Terry Pratchett) back in '95.
It's a humorous and fun novel and I enjoyed it greatly.
I bought Anansi Boys around June of '06 and never start reading it until July of '07.
I think it's one of those bad habits we called, buy in sales period and use later.
Normally certain things will be, like losing value over time, and stocking up is pretty much a good waste of money as as well as space.
This nature however aren't applied to books (unless it's like the overhyped last volume of HariKoptar which the price of anticipation to find out what happen, outweights the value of enjoyment of the book itself).
Anansi Boys tells about a British everyman with an extraordinary father who had an acute sense of humour.
After his father passed away, Charlie Nancy was told Nancy Senior is Anansi.
Anansi, the Spider/God who owns all the stories.
Anansi, a trickster God.
He was also told of a Brother, one of whom he never met or recollected as of having.
A brother who had the gifts of his father's magic.
In a moment of probable folliness, Charlie summoned his brother.
Then his world starts to fall out of place, in more ways he expected.
Anansi Boy is humorous and delightful read. A piece of well woven fiction that took place in the contemporary world. Recommended for anyone who is getting post-Harikoptar blues.
P.S. I probably will be getting American Gods (or Good Omen) tomorrow since Kino is having a 20% off.
Why this blog is getting 10 hits per day/Not 400 hits per day.
Oh yes. I think primarily because I am not a SMART guy. Lol.
Unlike someone who is getting 400 hits or a top pedigree in his university.
I have never taken enough care in getting myself a Superb education (as getting the scores. My brains are shitloaded with knowledge) when I was 13. I didn't use my brains when I decided to stay on Mechatronics so as I don't waste a year of schooling.
Look at the asshole who I dislike. He got into ITE, he took the same diploma and got better paid than me. Where as I am in complete stand still now, he is probably on the way to get himself further. I mean he is an asshole and a jerk why is he is getting all these???
I thought God is Fair??? Why am I not getting anything???
Because God is Fair. I deserve to get nothing. It doesn't matter whether you are a good person at heart or you never do bad things. You don't deserve, you don't get.
Anyway let's stick back to the Blog now.
Why am I getting 10 hits per day???
I don't know. Maybe people just come in by mistake or via the blogger bar.
I don't think I live an interesting life
but
maybe,
I can tell an interesting lie.
Here's the reasons why I don't deserve more:
- I don't do too much politics
- I don't do news either
- I don't do "save the earth" stuffs.
- I don't openly bitched on people on a regular basis
- Lack of pictures
- Lack of my own pictures
- Lack of me advertising it on any other places
- Lack of "social" postings in other blogs, forums
- Lack of "tension" postings in other blogs, forums
You might suggest me a better layout.
Of course but I like what I am having right now.
Hmmm....so my conclusion???
I think I should save my time on posting at forums to type something less meaningful on my blog. Which I agree. Why should I type things nobody bother to read on a "public" arena when all they cared is some bullish garbage by a kid who probably types like shit but extremely good looking??? I don't hunger for that kind of attention.
Or simply I just no longer hunger.
Besides some people on forums type rotten english while I fought so hard to maintain my own mastering of the language. It can get infectious, laziness and such (by the way, I refuse to use a word processor to spell check my entries. If I made a mistake, I either spot it myself or let other people do it).
Whereas I do entertain the notion of getting more than a 1000 hits per month (I am not trying for 400 per day.), I am merely posting for the sake of reading something I wrote over time and at the same time, continue to practise writing so that perhaps One fine day, maybe I can be an amateur writer and contribute a piece or two to publications I read.
P.S. I wrote because it suddenly happens that Top bloggers are just obsessed people who are just into raking hits just trying to express themselves.
P.S.S. I realised this a complete, utter waste of time. Bad spelling and all that shit. Proof read and amended on 09/08/07. Yes. Happy Birthday Singapore.
Unlike someone who is getting 400 hits or a top pedigree in his university.
I have never taken enough care in getting myself a Superb education (as getting the scores. My brains are shitloaded with knowledge) when I was 13. I didn't use my brains when I decided to stay on Mechatronics so as I don't waste a year of schooling.
Look at the asshole who I dislike. He got into ITE, he took the same diploma and got better paid than me. Where as I am in complete stand still now, he is probably on the way to get himself further. I mean he is an asshole and a jerk why is he is getting all these???
I thought God is Fair??? Why am I not getting anything???
Because God is Fair. I deserve to get nothing. It doesn't matter whether you are a good person at heart or you never do bad things. You don't deserve, you don't get.
Anyway let's stick back to the Blog now.
Why am I getting 10 hits per day???
I don't know. Maybe people just come in by mistake or via the blogger bar.
I don't think I live an interesting life
but
maybe,
I can tell an interesting lie.
Here's the reasons why I don't deserve more:
- I don't do too much politics
- I don't do news either
- I don't do "save the earth" stuffs.
- I don't openly bitched on people on a regular basis
- Lack of pictures
- Lack of my own pictures
- Lack of me advertising it on any other places
- Lack of "social" postings in other blogs, forums
- Lack of "tension" postings in other blogs, forums
You might suggest me a better layout.
Of course but I like what I am having right now.
Hmmm....so my conclusion???
I think I should save my time on posting at forums to type something less meaningful on my blog. Which I agree. Why should I type things nobody bother to read on a "public" arena when all they cared is some bullish garbage by a kid who probably types like shit but extremely good looking??? I don't hunger for that kind of attention.
Or simply I just no longer hunger.
Besides some people on forums type rotten english while I fought so hard to maintain my own mastering of the language. It can get infectious, laziness and such (by the way, I refuse to use a word processor to spell check my entries. If I made a mistake, I either spot it myself or let other people do it).
Whereas I do entertain the notion of getting more than a 1000 hits per month (I am not trying for 400 per day.), I am merely posting for the sake of reading something I wrote over time and at the same time, continue to practise writing so that perhaps One fine day, maybe I can be an amateur writer and contribute a piece or two to publications I read.
P.S. I wrote because it suddenly happens that Top bloggers are just obsessed people who are just into raking hits just trying to express themselves.
P.S.S. I realised this a complete, utter waste of time. Bad spelling and all that shit. Proof read and amended on 09/08/07. Yes. Happy Birthday Singapore.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Watched: Flash Point
The concept is simple.
Kick some butts, Donnie.
Kick some butts without that goddamn wig (which probably left in the Dragon Tiger Gate set).
Don't read the synopsis on the homepage if you haven't watch it.
There's so much more material in that synopsis, you will realised that this movie can be better (but less explosive).
In short, Donnie Yen is Ma Jun.
Hard Boil Policeman. Best policeman there is with a small problem, his "hands-on" approach left him a papertrail of complaints.
Flashpoint is obviously not going the same way as Infernal Affairs or any modern Cop/Crook movie. It takes a simple approach with straight forward (2D) characters and add in Good old fashion fist-talking and point at blank, messy gun shootouts.
While it's not going to as hype as SPL with Donnie taking on a respected Senior like Sammo Hung in a final showdown, we got Collin Chou (last seen in the forgetable D.o.A the Movie), as the vicious and cold Tony.
http://www.flashpointthemovie.com/
Watch it if you are an action fan and not minding too much about depth.
Kick some butts, Donnie.
Kick some butts without that goddamn wig (which probably left in the Dragon Tiger Gate set).
Don't read the synopsis on the homepage if you haven't watch it.
There's so much more material in that synopsis, you will realised that this movie can be better (but less explosive).
In short, Donnie Yen is Ma Jun.
Hard Boil Policeman. Best policeman there is with a small problem, his "hands-on" approach left him a papertrail of complaints.
Flashpoint is obviously not going the same way as Infernal Affairs or any modern Cop/Crook movie. It takes a simple approach with straight forward (2D) characters and add in Good old fashion fist-talking and point at blank, messy gun shootouts.
While it's not going to as hype as SPL with Donnie taking on a respected Senior like Sammo Hung in a final showdown, we got Collin Chou (last seen in the forgetable D.o.A the Movie), as the vicious and cold Tony.
http://www.flashpointthemovie.com/
Watch it if you are an action fan and not minding too much about depth.
Watched: Disturbia
Disturbia.
Surbia life with Disturbing truths.
Better than reality show.
Kale (Shia LaBeouf) was sentence 3 months of House Arrest after assaulting his spanish teacher.
House Arrest is a state of confinement to home with the use of an ankle monitor.
Most people (and me) will agree that it's not such a big deal.
You get to do time at home. How bad can it be???
For Kale, it goes from fine to worse.
His mum cut his subscriptions to Xbox Live, Itunes, "Maid" services and his TV wire wasn't spared either.
With his best friend, Ronnie, going to Hawaii so he is pretty much left on his own...
Until he learn the pleasure of spying on the neighbours. A behaviour that was inspired by Ashley, the freshly move in Girl Next Door.
But soon, he uncovered a suspected serial killer in the neighbourhood...
It's funny how local cinema operators do to make an extra buck.
They know that Shia LaBeouf will be a household name after The Transformers (I mean who will know of Shia as Chaz, Constantine's Sidekick in Constantine???) so they play a delay and yes, you can do a Shia LaBeouf doublebill (since that "other" penguin animated feature was taken down already. Oh ya. I think it's call Surfs Up) now that Disturbia is up and....Transformers still going Prime. LOL.
And I didn't realised that Carrie-Ann Moss was in this movie. Until the credits start running.
Man. Black Leather does do magic!!!
http://www.disturbia.com/
Surbia life with Disturbing truths.
Better than reality show.
Kale (Shia LaBeouf) was sentence 3 months of House Arrest after assaulting his spanish teacher.
House Arrest is a state of confinement to home with the use of an ankle monitor.
Most people (and me) will agree that it's not such a big deal.
You get to do time at home. How bad can it be???
For Kale, it goes from fine to worse.
His mum cut his subscriptions to Xbox Live, Itunes, "Maid" services and his TV wire wasn't spared either.
With his best friend, Ronnie, going to Hawaii so he is pretty much left on his own...
Until he learn the pleasure of spying on the neighbours. A behaviour that was inspired by Ashley, the freshly move in Girl Next Door.
But soon, he uncovered a suspected serial killer in the neighbourhood...
It's funny how local cinema operators do to make an extra buck.
They know that Shia LaBeouf will be a household name after The Transformers (I mean who will know of Shia as Chaz, Constantine's Sidekick in Constantine???) so they play a delay and yes, you can do a Shia LaBeouf doublebill (since that "other" penguin animated feature was taken down already. Oh ya. I think it's call Surfs Up) now that Disturbia is up and....Transformers still going Prime. LOL.
And I didn't realised that Carrie-Ann Moss was in this movie. Until the credits start running.
Man. Black Leather does do magic!!!
http://www.disturbia.com/
Watched: The Simpsons Movie
I admit I ain't hardcore fan of The Simpsons and I didn't watch any more episodes when they moved it about to oddball timing and finally, disappeared from Singapore's public TV.
In fact it should be very long ago since I cannot even recall what the last episode I watch was about.
Nevertheless, you don't need to watch every single episode, just to enjoy it. (Still you need at least abit of knowledge of the other folks in Springfield.)
The movie starts by Breaking the Fourth Wall, with Homer telling us we are stupid to pay for something that's for free indirectly (via complaining in the cinema about watching a movie version of Itchy and Scratchy). The movie also turn it's back later on and laughed at itself as a advert message scrolls belows, reminding us of the movie's origin as a TV series. This gag went on further with a 'mock end' cliffhanger (which happens in extended story arcs, season finale) when the movie is coming to an end.
It didn't fail to live up it's promises to be funny althought it went abit too fast paced in the begining and it feels somewhat penalising when the movie went to a slight slowdown for emotional moments. Also the issue of that town folks of Springfield are under utilised, serving as back drop or sight gag.
I don't see the need to type anything abou the plot. Just go watch it.
The donut in the posters is a key essential to the movie if you need to know.
http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/
In fact it should be very long ago since I cannot even recall what the last episode I watch was about.
Nevertheless, you don't need to watch every single episode, just to enjoy it. (Still you need at least abit of knowledge of the other folks in Springfield.)
The movie starts by Breaking the Fourth Wall, with Homer telling us we are stupid to pay for something that's for free indirectly (via complaining in the cinema about watching a movie version of Itchy and Scratchy). The movie also turn it's back later on and laughed at itself as a advert message scrolls belows, reminding us of the movie's origin as a TV series. This gag went on further with a 'mock end' cliffhanger (which happens in extended story arcs, season finale) when the movie is coming to an end.
It didn't fail to live up it's promises to be funny althought it went abit too fast paced in the begining and it feels somewhat penalising when the movie went to a slight slowdown for emotional moments. Also the issue of that town folks of Springfield are under utilised, serving as back drop or sight gag.
I don't see the need to type anything abou the plot. Just go watch it.
The donut in the posters is a key essential to the movie if you need to know.
http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Watched: Black Sheep
I want my $9 back!!!
Oh wow. Such a reaction from the fellow behind.
And he was the one who laughed the loudest.
Black Sheep is one of those movies that you got to see to put some of the Blockbuster fatigue out (It was a cycle of great blockbusters since Late May).
Does it worth my $9???
Every dollar!!! (Not the same case for the Nachos that yuki bought).
Black Sheep tells of a story of a boy, Henry Oldfield, who grew up on the greens of New Zealand. As a boy, he was a capable sheperd, rounding up the sheeps and keeping them going and his father saw potential.
For every blue eye boy out there, there's envy.
And it comes in the form of his older brother, Angus.
Angus decided to play a prank one day. He slaughtered Henry's pet sheep and led Henry to a storage house and jumped at Henry in the sheep's head and skin. Subsequently news of their father death came in, putting Henry into a trauma, developing a phobia for sheep.
Fast forward 15 years, Henry returned to the Oldfield farm to actually get some psychological closure and at the same time, sell his share of the farm. Meanwhile enviromental activists, Grant and Experience arrived at the Oldfield farm to uncover evidence of Angus's secret experiments.
Grant stole one of the bottles for disposal, accidentally unleashed a mutant lamb, which bit Grant. The mutant lamb then bit a sheep which soon spreads off a virus which made the sheeps carniverous and aggressively so.
Henry and childhood friend, Tucker met Experience and in events to be, discovers the reason behind the Aggressive Sheeps and how they will affect humans. Will they be able to survive and defeat the Sheeps???
I leave that to the guy screaming for his $9 back.
http://www.blacksheep-themovie.com/
Oh wow. Such a reaction from the fellow behind.
And he was the one who laughed the loudest.
Black Sheep is one of those movies that you got to see to put some of the Blockbuster fatigue out (It was a cycle of great blockbusters since Late May).
Does it worth my $9???
Every dollar!!! (Not the same case for the Nachos that yuki bought).
Black Sheep tells of a story of a boy, Henry Oldfield, who grew up on the greens of New Zealand. As a boy, he was a capable sheperd, rounding up the sheeps and keeping them going and his father saw potential.
For every blue eye boy out there, there's envy.
And it comes in the form of his older brother, Angus.
Angus decided to play a prank one day. He slaughtered Henry's pet sheep and led Henry to a storage house and jumped at Henry in the sheep's head and skin. Subsequently news of their father death came in, putting Henry into a trauma, developing a phobia for sheep.
Fast forward 15 years, Henry returned to the Oldfield farm to actually get some psychological closure and at the same time, sell his share of the farm. Meanwhile enviromental activists, Grant and Experience arrived at the Oldfield farm to uncover evidence of Angus's secret experiments.
Grant stole one of the bottles for disposal, accidentally unleashed a mutant lamb, which bit Grant. The mutant lamb then bit a sheep which soon spreads off a virus which made the sheeps carniverous and aggressively so.
Henry and childhood friend, Tucker met Experience and in events to be, discovers the reason behind the Aggressive Sheeps and how they will affect humans. Will they be able to survive and defeat the Sheeps???
I leave that to the guy screaming for his $9 back.
http://www.blacksheep-themovie.com/
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Watched:Paprika
What's Paprika???
It's a name of a spice.
It's also the title of a sci-fi story by Tsutsui Yasutaka (a writer whose work I encountered via various adaption such as anime and drama) and now, title of an anime by visionary director, Kon Satoshi.
So what's Paprika about???
It's about man of the Waking World going into the World of Dreams.
Paprika, a figure that manifest in the Dream World, is a guide that helps the users of the DC mini to prescribe treatment.
The DC mini experimental device that acts as a gateway for the doctors to go and view people's dream and more...
Trouble is that 3 DC mini was stolen from the hospital and suddenly the Waking is abducted into the dreamland, causing havoc in the process.
Atsuko, the supervisor of the project and also the Waking Host of Paprika, must recover the 3 DC mini before it's too late as more people are abducted into a dream of a never ending parade....
Some of Kon Satoshi's work had always been refered by me as "Mindfucks". It's a tough ride for many, especially the lesser anime lovers who been always watching the regular harem and shonen stuff. The shock equates to trying to stuff a walnut up your nostil.
But this time round, it's not going to be that way because this time you got a guide.
Her name?
Paprika.
It's a name of a spice.
It's also the title of a sci-fi story by Tsutsui Yasutaka (a writer whose work I encountered via various adaption such as anime and drama) and now, title of an anime by visionary director, Kon Satoshi.
So what's Paprika about???
It's about man of the Waking World going into the World of Dreams.
Paprika, a figure that manifest in the Dream World, is a guide that helps the users of the DC mini to prescribe treatment.
The DC mini experimental device that acts as a gateway for the doctors to go and view people's dream and more...
Trouble is that 3 DC mini was stolen from the hospital and suddenly the Waking is abducted into the dreamland, causing havoc in the process.
Atsuko, the supervisor of the project and also the Waking Host of Paprika, must recover the 3 DC mini before it's too late as more people are abducted into a dream of a never ending parade....
Some of Kon Satoshi's work had always been refered by me as "Mindfucks". It's a tough ride for many, especially the lesser anime lovers who been always watching the regular harem and shonen stuff. The shock equates to trying to stuff a walnut up your nostil.
But this time round, it's not going to be that way because this time you got a guide.
Her name?
Paprika.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Played: Odin Sphere
My experience with consoles is this, I always buy it after it's reaching the last leg of the race when the manufacturer declared: Your Successor is due.
But that's when the real fun begin. In fact, most of the time, games that are launched during that moment are giving the quality you been waiting for, pushing the hardware to the MAX.
It's strange that during the last leg of PS years back, I played a Norse Mythology based Valkyrie Profile that stars a daughter of Odin.
Once again.....if you are thinking I was going to write about Valkyrie Profile 2, you ought to be looking at the Title.
Odin Sphere is another kind of interactivity. You do not play as a party of 4 with a main protagonist. Rather you unveil events of the Last Days of Erion with 5 different characters.
Gwendolyn
Protagonist of Valkyrie
Daughter of the Demonlord, Odin.
Gwendolyn returned to Ragnanival, after her sister Griselda fell in battle in the wasteland of Valentine. Witnessing her father's indifference to news of Griselda, Gwendolyn concluded that dying in the battle field will probably be the only way to win her father's approval. Little did she knows...
Cornelius
Protagonist of The Pooka Prince
Prince of Titania.
Cornelius is in love with Velvet, a mysterious Princess of a Lost Kingdom.
Their relationship was forbidden by his father and little did he know that the odds will be against him as a dark conspiracy descends upon him.
Changed into a Pooka, a rabbit like creature and left in Endelphia, the Land of the Dead, he will have to find a remedy and stop the conspiracy in time....
Mercedes
Protagonist of Fairyland
Princess of Ringford
Ringford is constantly at war with Ragnanival over the Cauldron. One battle concludes with Odin mortally wounded the Fairy Queen, Elfaria. Mercedes is to be Queen but she's not ready for it.......Someone, however, IS READY to descend upon the throne....
Oswald
Protagonist of The Black Sword
The Shadow Knight of Ringford
Found abandoned as an infant, Oswald was raised by Melvin, newphew of Elfaria.
As the Shadow Knight, Oswald fought valiantly for Melvin. Little did he know the power he is having is actually a result of an arrangement between Melvin and Odette, Queen of the Underworld....
Velvet
Protagonist of Fate
Princess of The Lost Kingdom of Valentine
Velvet and Ingway are twins born to the Princess of Valentine and Odin.
Velvet was set to deactivate the Cauldron, in which was a part of a prophercy of it bringing Armageddon to Erion.
Ingway, meanwhile, had other plans.....
Armageddon
The Last Book that will bind all 5 books together, it allows you to choose your 5 playable characters to pit against 5 bosses which puts up the Armageddon and the End of Erion. It's easier if you played it to Order of True Ending but nevertheless there are certain nice BAD ENDINGs for some characters if you choose to use them against a certain boss. However using the WRONG PERSON has consequence of different magnitude such as a harder fight or a really mundane ending.
It's not a hard game but even on an Easy Setting, things are still hectic to throw any inexperienced player into a frenzy. The game also didn't give an easier way to train your character or gather items as replaying the same book does results in carrying out the character in Armaggedon but you still have to go through the storyline and take whatever that's being offered via the storyline rather than the usual UNLOCK ALL situation which players are being spoilt by these days.
A unique part of the game is that the game starts with you controlling Alice, a girl in an Attic with her cat Socrates. On the floor, you will find a book which you can promptly pick up to start reading (hence starting the game). Alternatively you can pick up Socrates (a bizarre logic to the function) to allow Alice to "recall" (view the cutscenes) what she read. A new book will appear when you finish a story until the Last Book Armaggedon appears. A Good Ending will ultimately give you an idea to how "You" are involved in the game itself.
In short, if you own a PS2 and enjoyed Action RPG, this is one game you cannot afford to miss.
http://www.atlus.com/odinsphere/
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
LoLcat quiz
Your Score: SurpriseAdoption Cat
42 % Affection, 66 % Excitability , 28 % Hunger
Calloused. Heartless. Exuberant. You carry the heavy burden of informing children that they are adopted by jumping out of their birthday cake. A difficult task, but somebody must break the news.
| Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Cosfest Day #3 (15/07)
Of the 3 days, this resembles the usual Cosfest itself.
Same crappy MC who I always missed his own self-introduction.
Saw more "Power PENIS!!!". It's so much fun for them, comparing their appendage during shots. LOL. Cosplay with swords compare swords. Cameraman with "Penis" compare "Penis".
Performance wise, I actually skip a few but I did catch an inspiring piece of comparing Red Heads.....hmmm....
Hei!Gin!
While not related guess but the Hei went up and did the usual-tickle-me ribs performance. Oh great. Carry on Krishnan (or whoever that is), I hope no one paid too much attention to you. While there's a Gin on the floor!!! Haha. Power to the Darkness than Black!!!
AhBehh with his power wig......how come he need to do that character with a wig???He can opt for his own natural hair and do that WhatsHisName's other friend. Oh yes and suddenly all the S.O.S Dan merge and become Dai S.o.S Dan.
There ain't no fun having just one Orgy 13 so they had 2. Laffs at Sagara's "Mickey Gloves". Kingdom Hearts is just getting bigger....hmm so where's the other Square Enix???
Square Enix Spotted are well....the usual Tidus and Yuna from FF X (all 3 day got....different couple...lol)....and Cloud (FF VII)...and Cloud (FF VII AC) and Cloud (FF VII AC). That's why it rains (and hence concluded the fact that it rains on Cosfest usually???)
A DC/JSA team???That's new. Normally the presence of comic costumers are much confined to Marvel characters (this time I spotted Spidey and the Thing). However there are a group of DC/JSA people (althought they look a bit off but better than None I guess).
Usual CON/Costumes are Star Wars and Star Trek. Hey they are everywhere!!!
Retro-fun!!!Spotted Creamy Mami and hmmm..her successor Sister-work Fancy Lala (I hope I got the name right). Hey it's like 20+ year stuff to me!!!Bring out the Pinky Momo!!!
Deka!Deka!Deka!Dekaranger!!!
Justice Time!!!
Dekaranger!!!
Yes!!!!!!!!
It's Justice Served in a Loose Top and TIGHT *ahem* Pants!!!
Finally some Justice done in a Mask on the Lord SK!!! (Hey Hey!!!)
As usual, SK got a slip here and there. Sure he is human but he is a Veteran.
You know, certain good habits should be cultivated. I just didn't see them on display. I am not too sure if anyone told him that he ought to do a trial run to see if his costume is ok. I did told him so however. You can't just stand there and let those Buy-off-rack people laugh at the more budgeted guys. If you can do it, you should fight for it. What gives to the The First Guy??? He ain't so good, he's just loaded.
Same thing lah.
Congrats on Yuanie and Marie for winning the Summit Contest and representing us. Good luck!
Hey it's pretty late to post this and the fact I wrote this on like 5 days after, there's bound to be missing stuff. But hey, what gives. Plus 1!!!
Same crappy MC who I always missed his own self-introduction.
Saw more "Power PENIS!!!". It's so much fun for them, comparing their appendage during shots. LOL. Cosplay with swords compare swords. Cameraman with "Penis" compare "Penis".
Performance wise, I actually skip a few but I did catch an inspiring piece of comparing Red Heads.....hmmm....
Hei!Gin!
While not related guess but the Hei went up and did the usual-tickle-me ribs performance. Oh great. Carry on Krishnan (or whoever that is), I hope no one paid too much attention to you. While there's a Gin on the floor!!! Haha. Power to the Darkness than Black!!!
AhBehh with his power wig......how come he need to do that character with a wig???He can opt for his own natural hair and do that WhatsHisName's other friend. Oh yes and suddenly all the S.O.S Dan merge and become Dai S.o.S Dan.
There ain't no fun having just one Orgy 13 so they had 2. Laffs at Sagara's "Mickey Gloves". Kingdom Hearts is just getting bigger....hmm so where's the other Square Enix???
Square Enix Spotted are well....the usual Tidus and Yuna from FF X (all 3 day got....different couple...lol)....and Cloud (FF VII)...and Cloud (FF VII AC) and Cloud (FF VII AC). That's why it rains (and hence concluded the fact that it rains on Cosfest usually???)
A DC/JSA team???That's new. Normally the presence of comic costumers are much confined to Marvel characters (this time I spotted Spidey and the Thing). However there are a group of DC/JSA people (althought they look a bit off but better than None I guess).
Usual CON/Costumes are Star Wars and Star Trek. Hey they are everywhere!!!
Retro-fun!!!Spotted Creamy Mami and hmmm..her successor Sister-work Fancy Lala (I hope I got the name right). Hey it's like 20+ year stuff to me!!!Bring out the Pinky Momo!!!
Deka!Deka!Deka!Dekaranger!!!
Justice Time!!!
Dekaranger!!!
Yes!!!!!!!!
It's Justice Served in a Loose Top and TIGHT *ahem* Pants!!!
Finally some Justice done in a Mask on the Lord SK!!! (Hey Hey!!!)
As usual, SK got a slip here and there. Sure he is human but he is a Veteran.
You know, certain good habits should be cultivated. I just didn't see them on display. I am not too sure if anyone told him that he ought to do a trial run to see if his costume is ok. I did told him so however. You can't just stand there and let those Buy-off-rack people laugh at the more budgeted guys. If you can do it, you should fight for it. What gives to the The First Guy??? He ain't so good, he's just loaded.
Same thing lah.
Congrats on Yuanie and Marie for winning the Summit Contest and representing us. Good luck!
Hey it's pretty late to post this and the fact I wrote this on like 5 days after, there's bound to be missing stuff. But hey, what gives. Plus 1!!!
Monday, July 16, 2007
Cosfest Day #2 (14/07)
Actually there's not much to it.
Surprising there's less Grossplayers this time now. No Guys eager to make anyone dig their eyeballs out.
Let's see what's the fresh going-ons.
Code Geass Team. That's new. It's quite a complete set just maybe missing The Crowd favourite Orange-kun and my personal favourite Cornelia (or maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough).
Persona 3. I wasn't really amazed by it since it features 1) School Uniform. 2) Good looking characters. Pity no one is doing anything other than the uniformed characters.
Chicken Little. A winner with everyone.
Spotted Inuran.....she's looking for her KAH-lien earlier on....but whenever spotted her, she was with Cheese Kun. Never get to see her Kallen partner.Hmmm....and finally saw her with a Pizza Hut box. That really inspires us......but strangely no one say let's go Pizza Hut.
Spotted Lenne and this Dusty girl (who did Aerith in one of the EOY). I got no idea if they are doing something from Neil Gaiman or simply Lenne was just drawing the Eye of Horus Mark for the fun of it (A prominent feature of Death of the Endless from the Vertigo/Sandman Universe).
Spotted SK. No. No costume. Singing. Althought he talked too loud and drink too little. This will actually affect his performance. His Brave Heart took a slightly different approach from how he did it (perhaps he did that before but I am Friend. Not Fan.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKUmNo7GCM8 (courtesy of Bjorn )
Hmmm....in fact there's a lot of others I don't recognised
Seems that there's a god-dozen Suzumiya Haruhi and related characters. Hey I should be happy. I guess.
Spotted Xrystal in Bunny Suit Edition. She seems to be the First School Uniform Haruhi I actually saw and the first Bunny Suit. Eh. I should not comment any further about that but I really feel that she should be the only one sing [God Knows] being that she was in the right costume. Ok the objective is Karaoke but I don't think she was the most GOD AWFUL one on stage so cut her some slack. Anyway I didn't stay for the rest after Helena sang.
Of course the main event of my groupies is waiting for Mana Sama to arrive.
Aoi make me go weak on the knees and if he asked me to Eat back my Country Mana jokes......
I still wouldn't. Haha.
This time round, we got Chrono Jing which I find it rather amusing. It's like my Doom Patrol got a regular Super-being. Haha. Well it's fresh of course, we don't get a cult status character to drag around with most of the time. I think the most famous we originally got is SK althought Retsu turns out to be very well recognised. LOL. Althought that's beside the point. I can see why most people warm up to her easily.
Turns out Takahan is doing more venture outside Cosplay. Good luck to him.
Surprising there's less Grossplayers this time now. No Guys eager to make anyone dig their eyeballs out.
Let's see what's the fresh going-ons.
Code Geass Team. That's new. It's quite a complete set just maybe missing The Crowd favourite Orange-kun and my personal favourite Cornelia (or maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough).
Persona 3. I wasn't really amazed by it since it features 1) School Uniform. 2) Good looking characters. Pity no one is doing anything other than the uniformed characters.
Chicken Little. A winner with everyone.
Spotted Inuran.....she's looking for her KAH-lien earlier on....but whenever spotted her, she was with Cheese Kun. Never get to see her Kallen partner.Hmmm....and finally saw her with a Pizza Hut box. That really inspires us......but strangely no one say let's go Pizza Hut.
Spotted Lenne and this Dusty girl (who did Aerith in one of the EOY). I got no idea if they are doing something from Neil Gaiman or simply Lenne was just drawing the Eye of Horus Mark for the fun of it (A prominent feature of Death of the Endless from the Vertigo/Sandman Universe).
Spotted SK. No. No costume. Singing. Althought he talked too loud and drink too little. This will actually affect his performance. His Brave Heart took a slightly different approach from how he did it (perhaps he did that before but I am Friend. Not Fan.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKUmNo7GCM8 (courtesy of Bjorn )
Hmmm....in fact there's a lot of others I don't recognised
Seems that there's a god-dozen Suzumiya Haruhi and related characters. Hey I should be happy. I guess.
Spotted Xrystal in Bunny Suit Edition. She seems to be the First School Uniform Haruhi I actually saw and the first Bunny Suit. Eh. I should not comment any further about that but I really feel that she should be the only one sing [God Knows] being that she was in the right costume. Ok the objective is Karaoke but I don't think she was the most GOD AWFUL one on stage so cut her some slack. Anyway I didn't stay for the rest after Helena sang.
Of course the main event of my groupies is waiting for Mana Sama to arrive.
Aoi make me go weak on the knees and if he asked me to Eat back my Country Mana jokes......
I still wouldn't. Haha.
This time round, we got Chrono Jing which I find it rather amusing. It's like my Doom Patrol got a regular Super-being. Haha. Well it's fresh of course, we don't get a cult status character to drag around with most of the time. I think the most famous we originally got is SK althought Retsu turns out to be very well recognised. LOL. Althought that's beside the point. I can see why most people warm up to her easily.
Turns out Takahan is doing more venture outside Cosplay. Good luck to him.
Oh before I forget.....
For every subsequent posts I made, a real dollar will be saved to my comic book fund.
Hopefully this gesture will allow me to keep posting regularly, since a trade paperback will be like $30 dollar tops. Hence hopefully there's a motivation to keep the blog to date and at the same time, curb my spending on comics which is increasing significantly.
Hopefully this gesture will allow me to keep posting regularly, since a trade paperback will be like $30 dollar tops. Hence hopefully there's a motivation to keep the blog to date and at the same time, curb my spending on comics which is increasing significantly.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Cosfest Day 1
No photographs. I swore off taking any since everyone is doing that. Better be free walking around and maybe spot a familiar face then showing off The Other Penis...I mean Camera. Besides my Camera isn't a Penis. It's a Peanut. These days you will seeing my dorky pictures of me or my toys taken with it. Can't be used for anything else.
So what's for the first.
Nothing much.
Prove to be a shocker however, seeing that there's security checks and policemen.
Ok. Justified.
Banner reads the Honorable MM Lee KY.
God Bless that Old Gentleman.
(Yes Dear Sirs of PAP, I am out of job for the last 4 months, I been trying for Government Sector Stuff. I will kiss the Grounds of where the Whites walked if I were to be even granted an interview and someone telling me off why the Government will never employ me. I am banking on a new recent urban legend that the G-men are viewing every garbage that Singaporeans are posting online.)
Before I can catch a glimpse of the MM, I will of course be going around looking at people and letting people catch a glimpse of me and hopefully, not turning to be a backdrop and ruined people's photograph. In which eventually end up being cut off, cut out or digitally switched with a cow,dog or Vader (my choice).
Oh yes it indeed happened. Check this out.
http://sgcafe.com/showpost.php?p=2044193&postcount=2471
I am not going to post the full picture. I think it's bad enough already. Haha.
I am going to be mean now, so if anyone had the decency to swallow the bitter pill, do write me a Thank You note. LOL.
First off. The strange Suzumiya Orochimaru. This guy got height but WTF is he trying to prove.
He is much scarier in photographs people posted (REALLY!!!I think maybe they think they should scare the shit out of anyone.). Wrong hair. Curly fringe??? I don't care if he is a veteran or anything. If you want to be a joke, you are a joke and if people laugh, that's what you are.
Also readily available is a "Lactus Clyne". The extra T stands for Terrific! as in "OH Terrific!!!What's This???". And yes I am "Lactus" intolerant.
Remember how I tell jokes about that Kazuki Ace seems to be trailing me in his Meer (Yes. Sir I am sorry and I really appreciate your Crossplaying presence now that I saw the BEST OF GROSSPLAY) and how I do not want to go to toliet because I DO NOT WANT TO BE PISSING HALFWAY AND GET STALLED BECAUSE I NOTICE HIM NEXT TO ME??? Ok. It wasn't that funny and neither was it as terrifying when a Funny Looking "niang" Thai/Mat make a pass at me when I exit the toliet.
But yes. Lactus was hovering around and it got funnier at every watch. At first I notice the sloppy looking costumes and then, it seems that his wig...is slipping. I got to admit he was brave because it's a wrong wig length. He got the color right alright. Finally his wig was slipping like 10cm away behind his own hairline. It's funny in that ridiculous way. BTW I don't think anyone posted his pictures.
Performances are Excellent Yawnage when corny lines are exchanged. Quite thrilled to see the Sakura Taisen duo however. Great Costumes althought I doubt they were singing but the dance was alright. The rest of the teams are mix bag of Omega Pass Around The Table jokes quality (ok I am just aiming at The Sora from the Org 13 group). Hack G.U. seems cool althought they look bulky due to the layers of Costume.
Overall, the heat was the killer but how many times you got a Cosfest Event with the G-men and RC people and Samba Dancers???
So what's for the first.
Nothing much.
Prove to be a shocker however, seeing that there's security checks and policemen.
Ok. Justified.
Banner reads the Honorable MM Lee KY.
God Bless that Old Gentleman.
(Yes Dear Sirs of PAP, I am out of job for the last 4 months, I been trying for Government Sector Stuff. I will kiss the Grounds of where the Whites walked if I were to be even granted an interview and someone telling me off why the Government will never employ me. I am banking on a new recent urban legend that the G-men are viewing every garbage that Singaporeans are posting online.)
Before I can catch a glimpse of the MM, I will of course be going around looking at people and letting people catch a glimpse of me and hopefully, not turning to be a backdrop and ruined people's photograph. In which eventually end up being cut off, cut out or digitally switched with a cow,dog or Vader (my choice).
Oh yes it indeed happened. Check this out.
http://sgcafe.com/showpost.php?p=2044193&postcount=2471
I am not going to post the full picture. I think it's bad enough already. Haha.
I am going to be mean now, so if anyone had the decency to swallow the bitter pill, do write me a Thank You note. LOL.
First off. The strange Suzumiya Orochimaru. This guy got height but WTF is he trying to prove.
He is much scarier in photographs people posted (REALLY!!!I think maybe they think they should scare the shit out of anyone.). Wrong hair. Curly fringe??? I don't care if he is a veteran or anything. If you want to be a joke, you are a joke and if people laugh, that's what you are.
Also readily available is a "Lactus Clyne". The extra T stands for Terrific! as in "OH Terrific!!!What's This???". And yes I am "Lactus" intolerant.
Remember how I tell jokes about that Kazuki Ace seems to be trailing me in his Meer (Yes. Sir I am sorry and I really appreciate your Crossplaying presence now that I saw the BEST OF GROSSPLAY) and how I do not want to go to toliet because I DO NOT WANT TO BE PISSING HALFWAY AND GET STALLED BECAUSE I NOTICE HIM NEXT TO ME??? Ok. It wasn't that funny and neither was it as terrifying when a Funny Looking "niang" Thai/Mat make a pass at me when I exit the toliet.
But yes. Lactus was hovering around and it got funnier at every watch. At first I notice the sloppy looking costumes and then, it seems that his wig...is slipping. I got to admit he was brave because it's a wrong wig length. He got the color right alright. Finally his wig was slipping like 10cm away behind his own hairline. It's funny in that ridiculous way. BTW I don't think anyone posted his pictures.
Performances are Excellent Yawnage when corny lines are exchanged. Quite thrilled to see the Sakura Taisen duo however. Great Costumes althought I doubt they were singing but the dance was alright. The rest of the teams are mix bag of Omega Pass Around The Table jokes quality (ok I am just aiming at The Sora from the Org 13 group). Hack G.U. seems cool althought they look bulky due to the layers of Costume.
Overall, the heat was the killer but how many times you got a Cosfest Event with the G-men and RC people and Samba Dancers???
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Greek Mythology Personality Test
Your Score: The Oracle
0% Extroversion, 80% Intuition, 44% Emotiveness, 52% Perceptiveness
Heuristic, detached, and analytical to a fualt, you are most like The Oracle. You are able to tackle any subject with a fine toothed comb, and you possess an ability to pinpoint nuances and shades of meaning that other people do not have and cannot understand. Accomplishment and realization of ideas are, for you, secondary to the rigorous exploration of ideas and questions -- you are, first and foremost, a theorist. You hate authority, convention, tradition, and under no circumstances do you accept a leadership role (although, you will gladly advise leadership when they're going astray, whether they want you to or not). Abstraction and generalities are your interests, details and particulars are usually inconsequential and uninteresting. You excel at language, mathematics and philosophy.
You are typically easy-going and non-confrontational until someone violates one of the very few principles that you deem sacred, at which point you can fly into a rage. Although you possess a much greater understanding of process and systems than the people around you, you are always conscious of the possibility that you've missed something or made a mistake. You don't tend to become attached to particular theories, and will immediately discard mistaken notions once they're revealed to be incorrect (but you don't tolerate iconoclasts who try to discredit validated theories through the use of fallacies and bad data). Despite being outwardly humble, you probably think of yourself as being smarter than most other people. That's because you are. In fact, in your dealings with people your understanding of their motives is so expansive that you know what they're going to say before they say it, and in world affairs, you usually know what is going to take place before it actually does. This ability would make you unbeatable in debates if only you were a little less pensive about your own conclusions, and a little more outgoing.
Famous people like you: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John McWhorter, Ramanujan, Marie Curie, Kurt Godel
Stay clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite
Seek out: Atlas, Prometheus, Daedalus
| Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Finger quiz (lifted from Bernie)
You Are a Ring Finger |
 You are romantic, expressive, and hopeful. You see the best in everything. You are very artistic, and you see the world as your canvas. You are also drawn to the written word. Inventive and unique, you are often away in your own inner world. You get along well with: The Pinky Stay away from: The Index Finger |
Hot Fuzz
http://www.hotfuzz.com/
An unusual British comedy/action movie.
Big Time Policeman goes to Small Village.
No big crime in toll for last 20 years.
Will he be able to take it???
A previous example of such commited Suicide.
Will he end up like this???
Of course not.
This movie is worth watching a second time but most of the fun is already taken out from the ride the first time.
In fact there's a plot twist in the middle that will throw you so far off, you will be wondering if you are watching the same movie when the credit goes up.
Glad I made it before the curtain comes down on this one.
An unusual British comedy/action movie.
Big Time Policeman goes to Small Village.
No big crime in toll for last 20 years.
Will he be able to take it???
A previous example of such commited Suicide.
Will he end up like this???
Of course not.
This movie is worth watching a second time but most of the fun is already taken out from the ride the first time.
In fact there's a plot twist in the middle that will throw you so far off, you will be wondering if you are watching the same movie when the credit goes up.
Glad I made it before the curtain comes down on this one.
Transformers
To be honest, when I see the initial teaser, I know it's going to be very different from the cartoon. I refuse to actually go into search for trailers althought I did look at the design sketches, artwork and such.
Then I seen the trailer for it in Blades of Glory.
It promises alot so did it live to expectation???
Yes. There's breathtaking CGI which probably Spiderman 3 will be losing to, big explosions, corny jokes, references, babe (althought no braless in the rain like in Spiderman) and a good old fashion linear storyline. Strong popcorn material. So it's not a wonder if there's a sequel to it.
So what's missing? "The Touch".
A theme song/score to actually relate to the movie.
Otherwise. Perfect.
No. Don't tell me it's that Linkin Park Song. It's not. It's just another Linkin Park Song that has no Nu Metal in it. It's a Linkin Park Song screaming Watch Out, Bono!!!
Yes. It's the only summer movie that's worth all the $9 paid for.
So far.
Then I seen the trailer for it in Blades of Glory.
It promises alot so did it live to expectation???
Yes. There's breathtaking CGI which probably Spiderman 3 will be losing to, big explosions, corny jokes, references, babe (althought no braless in the rain like in Spiderman) and a good old fashion linear storyline. Strong popcorn material. So it's not a wonder if there's a sequel to it.
So what's missing? "The Touch".
A theme song/score to actually relate to the movie.
Otherwise. Perfect.
No. Don't tell me it's that Linkin Park Song. It's not. It's just another Linkin Park Song that has no Nu Metal in it. It's a Linkin Park Song screaming Watch Out, Bono!!!
Yes. It's the only summer movie that's worth all the $9 paid for.
So far.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Watched: Death Proof
The idea of Grindhouse was a double back to back feature. International audiences think the cinema people are exploiting the situation to roll in big bucks when the 2 features are split and sold as individual. I think the cinema people are just trying to maximise the profits to just try to break even. LOL.
Death Proof might had been a bizarre experience for those of Modern Cinema. People who are new to QT's style will find it a really bad film with nothing but Bitches yakking away. Those who knows QT is paying homage to Grindhouse Films which translate to BAD CINEMA. I don't think I watch any of these but think cheap Taiwanese movies they shown in Midnight or any Cleaned Up Cat III HK movies. Add in the scratched, aged film look with disjoint reel and such. There you have it.
Plot is linear. In fact Death Proof is like 2 movies on it's own.
First Act is about a psycho,stalker Stuntman Mike who had been stalking 3 girls around in Texas and made contact with them in a bar before bumping them off with his "Death Proof" Chevy Nova with a head on collision of their vehicle. You got to love Kurt Russell for being such an Asshole as Stuntman Mike.
Because they got eyes on Mike for the stunt he pulled in Texas (he was free to go after all that shit), he appeared in Tenassee 14 months later.
Hence comes the closing act which he tries to terrorise another group of girls. He ends up getting more than he bargained for naturally. You got to love Kurt Russell for being such a wimp as Stuntman Mike.
Guess what's the part with the most laughs are at???
When THE END pops up.
So how much is the movie worth??? All of your $9???
I don't know. I rather pay $30 more to get the DVD hearing QT and Kurt yakking away. LOL.
Death Proof might had been a bizarre experience for those of Modern Cinema. People who are new to QT's style will find it a really bad film with nothing but Bitches yakking away. Those who knows QT is paying homage to Grindhouse Films which translate to BAD CINEMA. I don't think I watch any of these but think cheap Taiwanese movies they shown in Midnight or any Cleaned Up Cat III HK movies. Add in the scratched, aged film look with disjoint reel and such. There you have it.
Plot is linear. In fact Death Proof is like 2 movies on it's own.
First Act is about a psycho,stalker Stuntman Mike who had been stalking 3 girls around in Texas and made contact with them in a bar before bumping them off with his "Death Proof" Chevy Nova with a head on collision of their vehicle. You got to love Kurt Russell for being such an Asshole as Stuntman Mike.
Because they got eyes on Mike for the stunt he pulled in Texas (he was free to go after all that shit), he appeared in Tenassee 14 months later.
Hence comes the closing act which he tries to terrorise another group of girls. He ends up getting more than he bargained for naturally. You got to love Kurt Russell for being such a wimp as Stuntman Mike.
Guess what's the part with the most laughs are at???
When THE END pops up.
So how much is the movie worth??? All of your $9???
I don't know. I rather pay $30 more to get the DVD hearing QT and Kurt yakking away. LOL.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Invincible
To be honest, I never read anything from Image. I did bought an issue of Spawn but it stops there. No absolute desire to be playing an active reader of their books until recently. All the while it was Marvel. And then DC. So I decided to check what Invincible is about since I read great things about it on and off.
Invincible's art, at best, should be called Bare Minimal. There's a god 300 titles out that can easily impressed the readers out there in terms of Splash pages, effects, character design, fantastic artwork, amazing details. Invincible doesn't. It's very simple stuff with simple colouring, light on the eye stuff. However don't be fooled. What's in there is very clever scripting and design. Invincible is engaging without trying to fuck your eyeballs off.
Mark Greyson is a simple teenager flipping burgers and eyeing the fry machines. Then puberty came. All the sudden, he will be able to do what his father, Omni-man been doing.
Superhero stuff.
Wow. That's a rather plain origin. He wasn't bitten by a Spider, exposed to Galactic Radiation or made a pact with a demon. Nothing exciting. Except his father lied.
He lied about who he was and what he is going to do.
I am not going to give the game away but if you got intentions you can pick up Invincible with 3 options: Standard trades (I choose this) or Hardcover Ultimate Collection (Hamster Killer) or Hardcover Complete Collection (The Puppy Killer). I can say that most FAMOUS titles didn't had a Puppy Killer within 4 years of publication so it does say how good (or how Image strongly pushed this title).
Oh and they are going to make a movie
Althought some of the twists, plotline wouldn't much of a shocker if you read quite a bit of manga titles.
If you are interested, here's issue #01 (on the Top right.)
Invincible's art, at best, should be called Bare Minimal. There's a god 300 titles out that can easily impressed the readers out there in terms of Splash pages, effects, character design, fantastic artwork, amazing details. Invincible doesn't. It's very simple stuff with simple colouring, light on the eye stuff. However don't be fooled. What's in there is very clever scripting and design. Invincible is engaging without trying to fuck your eyeballs off.
Mark Greyson is a simple teenager flipping burgers and eyeing the fry machines. Then puberty came. All the sudden, he will be able to do what his father, Omni-man been doing.
Superhero stuff.
Wow. That's a rather plain origin. He wasn't bitten by a Spider, exposed to Galactic Radiation or made a pact with a demon. Nothing exciting. Except his father lied.
He lied about who he was and what he is going to do.
I am not going to give the game away but if you got intentions you can pick up Invincible with 3 options: Standard trades (I choose this) or Hardcover Ultimate Collection (Hamster Killer) or Hardcover Complete Collection (The Puppy Killer). I can say that most FAMOUS titles didn't had a Puppy Killer within 4 years of publication so it does say how good (or how Image strongly pushed this title).
Oh and they are going to make a movie
Althought some of the twists, plotline wouldn't much of a shocker if you read quite a bit of manga titles.
If you are interested, here's issue #01 (on the Top right.)
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Three X Three
It's the season of ThreeS and therefore 3 reviews of 3 'THE THIRD' movies.
Spiderman 3
Acumulated tension of 2 movies wasted on the 3rd.
The potential is not harvested properly, the expectation was let down.
Sure it's a pretty good movie, compared to [Revenge of the Sith] which in my opinion left the audiences pretty much unsatisfied.
The direction of this movie is pretty simple, make Spidey busy. Tons of Special Effects and lots of 'oh.ah' plot twist. A very busy movie compare to Spiderman 2
After going introspective for the last 2 movie, they tried it again in Spiderman 3 with mixed results.
Every Great Aspects of Spiderman is in Spiderman 3.
Good Guy fighting inner demons? Check.
Villian isn't a really bad person? Check.
Fanciful Special Effects? Check.
Makes you want to be Spiderman? Check.
The Quotable Aunt May? Check.
A song/dance routine? Check.
Bruce Campbell? Check.
Jonah? Check.
Wet Shirt and outlining of nipples? NO!!!Why???
Ok the last one doesn't really counts. Even if it's probably a fan favourite.
Leave your expectations behind, you probably be a happier cinema viewer.
Pirates of The Carribean : At World's End
This is the better of the 3rd movie I watched so far, althought cinema viewers who skipped both Pirate movies before will end up confused and mildly entertained.
In terms of plot, it delivers and answers most of the loyal viewer's question. However it will really help to throw logic off board since mythologies and magic is in place.
Action set pieces wise, it loses out to part 2, it doesn't provide anything new except Flying Dutchman vs Black Pearl in a whirlpool. It doesn't create a spec fest only water logged pirates.
Highly suggest a viewing of both Pirates movie before watching part 3 to fully enjoy this.
Shrek the Third
Shrek the 3rd wise is a fairly simple story. The only drawback is probably that it's too short to showcase everyone but making it too long will bored the kids. New elements are introduced althought hardly substantial to make an impact.
And therefore in overall conclusion, these 3 titles fairly dipped and barely satisfying the long time supporters (or probably just me) yet will throw any new viewers into confusion easily. However in all fairness, these 3 the Third movies are certainly good films, entertaining without forgeting storyline and eye candies.
Spiderman 3
Acumulated tension of 2 movies wasted on the 3rd.
The potential is not harvested properly, the expectation was let down.
Sure it's a pretty good movie, compared to [Revenge of the Sith] which in my opinion left the audiences pretty much unsatisfied.
The direction of this movie is pretty simple, make Spidey busy. Tons of Special Effects and lots of 'oh.ah' plot twist. A very busy movie compare to Spiderman 2
After going introspective for the last 2 movie, they tried it again in Spiderman 3 with mixed results.
Every Great Aspects of Spiderman is in Spiderman 3.
Good Guy fighting inner demons? Check.
Villian isn't a really bad person? Check.
Fanciful Special Effects? Check.
Makes you want to be Spiderman? Check.
The Quotable Aunt May? Check.
A song/dance routine? Check.
Bruce Campbell? Check.
Jonah? Check.
Wet Shirt and outlining of nipples? NO!!!Why???
Ok the last one doesn't really counts. Even if it's probably a fan favourite.
Leave your expectations behind, you probably be a happier cinema viewer.
Pirates of The Carribean : At World's End
This is the better of the 3rd movie I watched so far, althought cinema viewers who skipped both Pirate movies before will end up confused and mildly entertained.
In terms of plot, it delivers and answers most of the loyal viewer's question. However it will really help to throw logic off board since mythologies and magic is in place.
Action set pieces wise, it loses out to part 2, it doesn't provide anything new except Flying Dutchman vs Black Pearl in a whirlpool. It doesn't create a spec fest only water logged pirates.
Highly suggest a viewing of both Pirates movie before watching part 3 to fully enjoy this.
Shrek the Third
Shrek the 3rd wise is a fairly simple story. The only drawback is probably that it's too short to showcase everyone but making it too long will bored the kids. New elements are introduced althought hardly substantial to make an impact.
And therefore in overall conclusion, these 3 titles fairly dipped and barely satisfying the long time supporters (or probably just me) yet will throw any new viewers into confusion easily. However in all fairness, these 3 the Third movies are certainly good films, entertaining without forgeting storyline and eye candies.
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