Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

A little update....

To prove I am not dead?

I always heard "A...where you die to?" and it sounds to me that I am pretty dead to the rest of the passive, waiting for me to look for them World.


Oh well. I had to accept that fate I guess.

Since I am , pretty much, passive and close up myself.

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.

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.



- 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.

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.


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"No Comments."

(Mimicking Mr. Lee in one of the press shots, freshly out and ready to grab a cab)




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"Cut his throat."

(Althought I intended that, it seems to be endorsing a product so alternative)

"How's The Transformers Movie???"




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Camera shy. Just camera shy.

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.