Updates Of My Life

I never get tired of Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai! Was watching a couple of episodes last night and I still cannot help but laugh at the characters' expressions and actions! Why must it end? Hope for a season 2!

Long time since I've blogged. I mean, normal blogging about my life. The past few has been about anime and stuff, which I'm pretty sure bores some of my readers. So I'll talk about normal stuff.

Trying desperately to book at least one driving lesson during the last week of April, since my driving test is on the 3rd of May. If not, I will not be driving for a week before my test, and I fear I'll be rusty. Shall check the booking every day, more than once, to find some slot. Any slot! Even if it's the one late at night.

Past few days were rather normal. And I actually dread school. I've two more weeks of freedom before the special term starts. And I have not gotten my laptop. Kinda lazy to get it, in a way XD

I've been doing quite a few videos! Now trying to make one on the song "Butterfly", which is proving to be a difficult task. But I shall not falter!

Finally, the set is complete. A whooping total of $457! When I can take the shortcut for only $60. But I have my reasons, and I'm happy the way it is now!

If they weren't siblings, they'd be a sweet couple.
I'm praying one of them's actually adopted.
LOL.

Anime Guys

Now that I settle the females, now for the guys. Because I'm a guy, I do not exactly look very closely. But I thought I'd mention the coolest ones to me, but unlike the other post, there's no ranking for this one.

Name: Takashi Komuro
Anime Series: Highschool of the Dead

Being the main(and only) guy in the anime, he's cool, can beat the crap out of zombies, and born leader.

Name: Yami Yugi

Anime Series: Yu-Gi-Oh!

Because I love Yu-Gi-Oh! Simple.

Name: Seto Kaiba

Anime Series: Yu-Gi-Oh!

Because I love Yu-Gi-Oh! and he's a badass, unlike Yugi.

Name: Moritaka Mashiro

Anime Series: Bakuman

He proposes to the girl he likes at her doorstep. Gotta admire his guts. And his passion and drive to become a manga artist.

Name: Casshern

Anime Series: Casshern Sins

Cool suit, cool powers, cool action. He's just plain cool.

Name: Kenpachi Zaraki

Anime Series: Bleach

A badass who uses pure brute force. Doesn't even "bankai". Now that's a shinigami.

Name: Kyosuke Kosaka

Anime Series: Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

He's just really hilarious, the way he tries to help his sister, despite her treating him like a nuisance.

Kawaii Girls!

Okay, this is not really to rate only the cute anime characters, but basically the best anime girls I've seen in all the anime I've watched so far. Call me whatever; I am not bothered by it anymore. I'll be doing something like that for other stuff too, but let's leave that to another time.

#10

Name: Emma Frost
Anime Series: X-men(2011 anime)

I like Emma Frost from the comics, and am glad that she's in the new anime. However, I've barely caught a glimpse of her in the first two episodes and during the OP, so I cannot exactly put her very high in the list. But she just have to be in it.

#9

Name: Hime Onizuka
Anime Series: Sket Dance

Okay, technically I saw her for only 1 episode, because the anime has only just started airing. Emphasis on "just". But within that 20-odd minutes I like the character already! Maybe it's that choker on her neck, which reminds me of Yukari from Persona 3.

#8

Name: Megumi Noda

Anime Series: Nodame Cantabile

Ah, yes. Nodame. Sure, she isn't the prettiest anime gal you've seen, but it's her funny behavior and way of thinking that makes you attracted to the character. With her weird ideas and the way she's crazy over Chiaki, you just cannot seem to get tired of seeing her.

#7

Name: Isara Gunther

Anime Series: Valkyria Chronicles

Like Nodame, there's not really much in appearance in Isara that makes me find her cute or pretty. She's just a very simple, good character in the anime. She's ranked here more of as a tribute to her. The fact that she got killed in the anime is really, really sad. Even watching the scene again still feels painful and sad to see. Isara did not deserve to die. She really didn't.

#6

Name: Yuzuki Fujimura

Anime Series: Myself; Yourself

She's just really good looking. I was hoping to see her more in the anime, but turned out she was just a secondary character.

#5

Name: Lunamaria Hawke

Anime Series: Gundam SEED Destiny

Well, looking at her, I think it's quite self explanatory.

#4

Name: Rangiku Matsumoto

Anime Series: Bleach

I know majority of the guys would think "boobs" when they first see her. Well, I see "face". She's drawn out to have a very attractive face, from my opinion. Boobs are, to me, just a bonus or something. I kind of wish they were of a more...realistic size though.

#3

Name: Charlotte Dunois

Anime Series: IS:Infinite Stratos

A lot of people like her most out of all the girls in Infinite Stratos, and I can see why. She's cute in almost every aspect, and she would be the one with the guy if not for the fact that Houki is the main female character.

#2

Name: Kirino Kosaka

Anime Series: Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai

For those who know me will expect her to be #1, because I'm a big fan of this anime. In fact, it's my favorite anime of all time so far. Yes, she would have been number one, and I'm sorry that there's someone better.

#1

Name: Azusa Nakano

Anime Series: K-On!

Azusa, or "Azu-nyan" as Yui calls her, is one deserving to be called "kawaii". She is the only anime character so far that truly is cute, even more so that Charlotte of Infinite Stratos(#3). She is a clear-cut winner in this.

More Animation

Just for fun.

The last one is artwork by Shunya Yamashita, who draws really awesome female characters.

Trying to find an application that allows animation with sound. That would make things more interesting...

MixPod Problem

What the hell is wrong with my MixPod? It seems the code gets edited when I visit my blog somehow, hence I have to put in the code again. Damn irritating.

Since I'm going off to my driving soon, thought I'd blog a teeny bit.

Met Roshan for lunch yesterday! Talked a lot and I realized that his job is quite nice. No fixed working hours, and high pay. Meaning he can choose to not go to office if he wants! We were at Eunos MRT station when I saw Rosh looking at this fellow passer-by, and I thought,"this is the first time I see Rosh staring at a girl!" But turns out it's his cousin's friend. Damn. Thought I saw those kind of "rare" moments.HAHA

Appetite seems to be growing these days. Shit.

Kind of dislike driving at night. Especially when I've only 6 lessons left. My test won't be at night! I should be practising in the daytime! But I guess maybe driving at night will sharpen my senses. Oh well, just need to look forward to Friday. Hmm. When I typed that Rebecca Black's song somehow entered my mine. Poor girl. She should have done techno or something.



All I want is to mess around, 
and I don't really care about 
If you love me, if you hate me, 
you can't save me


~Avril Lavigne - What The Hell

Formula

200+132+80+30+15= Complete.

New And Upcoming

Mine, baby.

And soon, all the other pieces shall come.

Just watched Bakuman last episode! Love how the season ended! Happy ending, Azuki and Mashiro's final sweet moment, and how the episode ends by rolling out the red carpet for season 2. This anime deserves a pat in the back!

One of the new anime I watched is Tiger & Bunny. I'm not too sure how the title is relevant to the anime, but I liked the first episode all the same. This anime is about superheroes... kind of. There's action, of course, but the storyline itself and it's characters make this worth watching. Notice the red superhero? He's actually gay. And there's MVP, depending on how many hero points each hero earns while fighting crime. Really cannot wait to see episode 2!

I decided to give Hanasaku Iroha a shot mostly because I was browsing through the previews for spring 2011 and this anime caught my attention. No action, no plot twists, just a simple story... sounds appealing. The episode shows Matsumae Ohana being sent to stay with her grandmother after her mother decides to run away with some guy. You see her life goes down, as her grandmother was not the "candy-giving grandma" she thought to be. No, I'm not talking about torture. She just has to do chores and earn her keep. It's nothing fancy, but interesting enough to keep me wanting more.

Guess who got serialized?

B for Bankai!

I just finished this one, even though I planning to continue this particular animation and show the whole body transform...haha The eyes are poorly done in this one. His eyes for opened and closed are not at same position. Damn...

Animation 2!

Ok... I tried to do the shadows thing but I'm not too sure about it... hope it makes the picture look nicer.

Animation!

Now with the animation program, I'm keen on making small animated pictures! Want to do a small one on Bleach! So far I've drawn the starting picture, but I'm trying to make it look more realistic... not sure what I'm missing...damn! How to manga artists draw so well?!

K-On!

This post is all about K-On! So if you think it's a waste of time skip this post!

I'm currently halfway in season 2 of K-On!, which is called K-On!! (extra exclamation mark). I'm not sure how I suddenly took interest in this particular anime. I think because I've heard of it before, and when I go to Comics Connection stores I see the merchandise for it. I went to check out the anime, and it is about music, so I decided to give it a shot.

What I like about it is that it's a comedy, slice of life kind of anime. There's no depressing scenes, no plot twist, no blood, no darkness... just a very funny, entertaining show. It's nice to watch something relaxing from the usual stuff like Infinite Stratos, Myself; Yourself, Bleach... I guess I like more "realistic" anime like Nodame Cantabile and Bakuman.

You tend to realize that K-On! episodes are rather random and just plain. There's no main storyline to connect the episodes together. Today I went to check out the manga for K-On!, and realized that the manga is actually like the anime. In fact, the manga is done in small strips. The anime simply put the strips of one chapter in the manga into one episode. Which is totally fine with me.

K-On! has a nice feel to it. It's an anime where I can truly relax and enjoy without worrying about potential plots or villains, or worry about death of any characters nor love triangles. The characters are fun to watch in their own way, and their chemistry only makes it better.

One thing that really, really appeals to me is the songs. Until today, K-On! is the only anime which I listen to the entire soundtrack. Their songs, including those in the openings and endings, are rather spectacular. The songs are the kind that, even put on replay, you won't get tired of them. And the OP and ED videos are rather cool themselves. Despite being schoolgirls, their ED make them look more mature, along with the song itself. Especially "NO, Thank You!" ED. That one is by far the most impressive among all  of them.

There's even a PSP game for this anime, which I have in my PSP for quite some time, just that I've been busy with Persona 3 Portable :D At least I get to play the songs from the anime. Plus, that game can play up to 5 players(since there are 5 instruments in the HTT band).

My favourite character is Azusa Nakano, who is one year younger than all the other members in the band. Somehow she has this "cute" factor. She's the only anime character so far in all the anime series I've watched that can be so cute! But to expect the gentle Azu-nyan to be Kirino is quite... dumbfounding...

"What? No season 3?!"

Trying Out

Don't mind this post, people! I'm trying to see if my animated GIFs can work here.

Hope it works! If so then I can put up my animations here!:D

New Layout!

Hello all! I've decided to change my blog background and layout. Sort of to give the blog a fresh new look! Hope you guys like it! I was thinking whether to change the picture on the top of the blog, but I quite like the picture and title the way it is, so I won't change it anytime soon. Also, the album pictures on the side... I'm wondering if I should remove them...

Watching Power Rangers movie now! Classic movie!

Yesterday I was watching the series Every Singaporean Son, and I must say it's quite amusing to see the recruits training, considering I've ORD-ed. They do show how BMT training is done, although I find it fake because the commanders are too kind. From what I know, vulgarities are bombarded on you if you do something wrong. Like for one episode, a recruit Kenneth(who I think is from TPJC) lost a rifle magazine during the training, and the commander's scolding was just some lecture. No profanities in that "scolding". Got balls to scold, then must have balls to show lah(pardon my Singlish)! And Kenneth's reply of "Sir, can I say something? I'm willing to accept any punishment you give to me." Why does it feels like he's doing it for the camera?

There was one episode where the guys were doing their IPPT. At the re-test for pull-ups, I notice the camera only showed the upper half of the recruits' bodies. And judging by how hard pull-ups are for these guys, when I see them somehow able to do from 0 to 6 I'm quite doubtful. Even their body motion seems to say that they are kicking their legs(which is not allowed during pull-ups).

There's one guy in the series that keeps smiling, which I find damn irritating. He looks like the kind of guy who will surely be poked fun of by everyone if not for the television crew. His skills are not very good, everything also smile, very the buay ta han(pardon my Singlish again). If I were his sergeant I'll definitely give him a one-time-good-one.

Certain things are nostalgic of course. I saw the episode on the field camp, where the guys are given letters from their loved ones. Oh, and the digging of shell scraps. Grenade throwing, SOC...

I cannot believe they have paintball fights in BMT! So unfair! Why didn't they think of that during my time?

One episode showed the recruits booking out for the weekend and hanging out or meeting their girlfriends. Quite stupid of guys to talk about their army life to their girlfriends. You can tell from the video that the gal is not interested in such things, and I don't blame her. Another guy is even better. He brings his girlfriend along and hang out with his army pals. She looks bored to hell.

Honestly, after yesterday, I don't feel like even touching my bass for some time.

Anime In, Anime Out

Finally! Gosick and IS: Infinite Stratos new episodes are out! So is Oreimo! Woots! Still watching K-ON!! when I have the time, and shall check out Sket Dance, Hidan no Aria and Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai II.

Unfortunately, IS was at last episode. Definitely showed a lot of fighting this last episode, which is rather nice way to end the series. Hopefully, the producers will plan a next season. The ending was kind of open-ended, which leaves room for possible future episodes. And I'm quite glad those two finally (almost!) shared their first kiss. About time, if you ask me.

Oreimo never ceases to entertain me! The entire episode is just so hilarious, it's too bad I do not stay in Japan. Can get to enjoy all the anime first-hand, you know?

There seems to be a new X-men anime, too! Now, I've not watched the Iron Man nor Wolverine ones, though I heard the latter was pretty well received. I cannot watch it yet due to no english subtitles, which I'm eagerly waiting for. I've seen the OP and some of the screenshots and I quite like what I see. For one thing, Cyclops is leading. I'm sick of seeing Wolverine being the front man every time in movies and in cartoons(think Wolverine and the X-men). Plus, the team in the anime is close to the Astonishing X-men, which is to me the best X-men comics I've ever read. And there's Emma Frost! Hope she and Cyclops get together like in the comics! So once the subs are out I'm gonna check this anime out!

K-ON! will have a movie released at the end of the year? Cool! And I just realized that Ayana Taketatsu, who does the voice of Azusa in K-ON!, is the voice actress for Kirino in Oreimo! If you watched K-ON! you'd know that Azusa is a very gentle cute gal who you would not expect to sound like Kirino in any way. My jaw dropped when I found out. But I have to admit, the VA is really good. She's does the voice for many main characters in anime, plus the theme songs too.

If a person enjoys anime, he's labelled an otaku. But since young, I enjoy cartoons and anime is like another form of cartoon to me. What does that make me? Wait, I don't want anyone to answer that. Please.

Just finished Persona 3 Portable, and it was a great ending! Not exactly the happy ending, but a good one. I expected the final battle to be super hard, so I stocked up my Homunculus and even trained till my allies and I are level 97-98. Didn't need to. Shall play the game again with my saved data and try the female route! Probably the best game on PSP. Feel like buying a PS2 just to play P3FES...

Yesterday's jamming was, not how I planned it to be. That's why I felt so down I just ask CR whether he wanted to meet up and eat. Oh well...

Fidelity

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds


I hear in my mind all of these voices
I hear in my mind all of these words
I hear in my mind all of this music


And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
When it breaks my heart


And suppose I never ever met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you
Kiss me so sweet and so soft


Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs
Just to break my own fall


Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall
Break my fall


All my friends say that of course
It's gonna get better
Gonna get better
Better better better better
Better better better!


I never love nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds


I hear in my mind all of these voices
I hear in my mind all of these words
I hear in my mind all of this music


And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart


I hear in my mind all of these voices
I hear in my mind all of these words
I hear in my mind all of this music


And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart


When it breaks my heart
When it breaks my heart
When it breaks my heart
Breaks my heart


When it breaks my heart
When it breaks my heart
When it breaks my heart
When it breaks my heart

~ Regina Spektor - Fidelity

PS. From Love And Other Drugs. Nice movie.