ひとりの夜もそばにいようぜ　君と僕の歌を歌う

I'm so glad Akio liked the shirt i got him!!!


So... I've always wanted to get Akio something... u know like random gift to keep in touch with him... but i have not.... I've always wanted to get him those Abercrombie t-shirts he liked to buy when we went shopping in Northridge mall...

SOOO... about two weeks ago i went shopping for those T-shirts and I COULD NOT FIND IT!!!!!! So i went to this American Eagle store cause i couldn't find Abercrombie and AE design sucks... SUCKS betul!!!

Neways, so on Newbury St where i was there was an FCUK store right opposite AE... So i went there and U KNOW WHAT??? FCUK's T-Shirt designs are wayyyyyy nicer than AE...

NEWAYS! So I was gonan get him a T-Shirt but then i thought "he's gonna graduate soon... he won't be wearing T-Shirts anymore would he?".... SO I thought, "hmm.. he'll be working soon... so maybe I'll get him a work Shirt instead... and hopefully he can wear it to work in future... that'd be nice...."

SOOO That's what i got him... It's a blue long sleeved shirt.. with colar of course.. He likes blue color (I remembered)... uRm... Actually, the design is abit common... it's not like FCUK styled... It's blue with thin white vertical stripes... So kinda look like normal shirt... Cutting design also looks the normal.. nothing stylish... Budden, that's alright isn't it? And I also thought it might have been abit too.... bright.. It was baby blue colored... And i was thinking "hmmm all these conservative Japanese companies... Who knows! maybe any other color besides dark colors are banned!" So i suppose it was good this shirt didn't have any weird designs on it.... There was another cool working sytle shirt i saw that i really liked... but the pocket part, the cutting was abit weird to make this cool design... But I thought maybe he wouldn't be able to wear it to work at those conservative companies. WHO KNOWS.

But neways i got the blue one for Akio anyway... Nice, deshoo? I hope so...

NEWAYS... then after wrapping it up (to send it) and writing my card... I thought "waittttttttttttttttttt a second...... It might NOT be APPROPRIATE for me to actually buy him a shirt 'to wear when you start work'...." isn't it?
Well i mean... the thing is that, a) dis guy although we're close but he's still a Japanese guy, u know... He has even told me before not to touch him in public (it's inappropriate) b) i mean isn't stuff like buying clothings reserved for MOTHERSSSSS and girlfriends? so... hmmm...

I thought so too..

So I asked Maya to make sure.......... at least she doesn't have problems with cultural differences with Akio... PLUS, she knew Akio too :)

Neways... So our conclusion was that i should email Akio to explain why i got him the gift... So i did just that: Congradulations on graduating and the new job.

Actually, i suppose i was worried about the whole thing was because... well, i came damn close to having Akio hate me before (YOU KNOW ME LA!!!!!)... So i was really scared of offending him again, you know? Though of course, I know he has a kind heart and he doesn't just hate anyone for no valid reason... But then again, i DO NOT understand guys! So i DO NOT wanna take a chance!!!! haha.


ANYWAYSSSS SO TODAYYYYY... Akio got the gift... AND HE LIKES IT! ^^ So i am happy... He says it fits him and he likes it! ^^ hehe... I am happy... So all that worry was for nothing.... :)

So why did i get the gift again? I HAVE NO IDEA... but i think very long time ago when i was 14, my brother taught me how to just do stuff for others without the need for occasion or reason to show that they are in our thoughts and we care about them... I guess, ever since i learnt that from my brother... I have always been like that...

ALTHOUGH, i admit... I always fail to show my care towards the people I should REALLY be caring for........ But please know in my heart of hearts... I care about all of you lots! :)


Anyway, THE POINT IS THAT... the whole situation would not have escalated into what it did IF DAMN BOSTON HAD AN ABERCROMBIE STORE! haha

nuff said...


n btw... i DO NOTTTTTTTTTT wanna see FCUK having a sudden 70% sale either!!!!!!!!!!!! *stab* *stab*


EDIT: Maya just told me!! Akio actually blogged about it (hehe like i am too :-P) on his Mixi blog... heheheh... WELL IT'S ALL IN JAPANESE and i had not added him on my Mixi buddy list so i don't know what he said... But Maya told me he liked it alot and he's glad cause he had not had time to go for shopping... hehe.... SO THAT'S GOOD NEWS NE!?! *phew*

welll.... "the only thing that matters is just following your heart and eventually you'll finally get it right".... well... Thank u Akio... for not making it WRONG. :) CAUSE I ALWAYS GET IT WRONG.

randomly downloaded a song the other day while i was looking for konoyo no uta and i found this song... I Really liked it. This band Plastic Tree is cool... although i did feel that some, if not most, of their songs were really experimental and weird.... SO... i was REALLY surprised to find out today that they're actually a Visual Kei band. hmmm.... They just didn't sound like a visual kei band, u know? Sounded more like one of those cool rock bands..

Anyway here's the PV of the song...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I HATE THIS!!! THe one thing i hate the most might happen!!! RUMIKO TAKAHASHI MIGHT KILL RIN!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I HOPE NOT!!!!!!!!!!

I really hope not!!!!

I hope though this is what would happen. Since Tensaiga has always been a healing sword and everytime it became more powerful, it always reacted to a change in Sesshoumaru's heart. That everytime Tensaiga became more powerful, it was because Sesshoumaru felt something that is totally opposite of his nature: kindness.

SOOOOOOOOOOO what i am hoping is that, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, i hope maybe in order for Sesshoumaru to master the sword, the sacrifice he has to make is actually to sacrifice his life in order to save Rin and Kohaku.

THAT would make more sense and be more consistent with the nature of Tensaiga. I don't get why Sesshoumaru's dad would want to have something that is precious to Sesshoumaru to be killed in order for the sword to be strengthen? Is it so that through Rin's death Sesshoumaru will come to the realization that and admit to himself that he cares about something order than himself? That is the only reason I feel would make sense if they did kill Rin.

But still, it would be so cruel for his father to actually test Sesshoumaru that way and to take away the one HUMAN girl that actually made Sesshoumaru less cruel and thoughtless towards human beings. It's inconsistent to Sesshoumaru's father's nature if that was his intentions.

Otherwise, i REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hope that they will make Sesshoumaru come to a point where he decides to injure/sacrifice himself to save or protect Rin and Kohaku... Because in that sense he will finally be bestowed the powers of Tensaiga because now he knows how to use the Sword to protect life instead of just destroying it.

THAT is what i hope but...

(click here if u want to read the rest of the chapter, or the current 8 inuyasha chapters)





KEKKAISHI ANIME!!!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYY I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY KEKKASHI WILL BE ANIMATED AND RELEASED THIS OCTOBER!!! I really hope a fan sub group will pick the series up and sub it!! PLEASE!!!!!!

Actually, if you do not know this already, Kekkaishi is my favourite manga at the moment. In fact i made a whole WEBSITE for it, and i will be posting that link soon once i get it all tidied up. THe manga is AWESOME and kick ass!! hehehehe and i am happy they're animating it... BUTTTTTTTTT let's hope they don't screw up the animation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELL... it's done by the same group that did Inuyasha, and they did a pretty good job adapting the manga to the anime, so lets hope it's the same for Kekkaishi!!! I can't hardly wait!!!!

I love Kekkaishi and get this!!! I've been buying all the japanese volumes and EVEN SHOUNEN SUNDAY!!!! just to know what happens in the story!!! i cant understand much but HELL!!! I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!! I feel like i MUST get shounen sunday every week just to know the latest chapter!! I WISH someone would just scan shounen sunday for me (since they're scanning Inuyasha anyway!!!). ARGHHHHHHHH i want to know!!!!!

KEKKAISHI NEW ANIME WEBPAGE!!!!!!!!!! (in japanese)

i decided to delete the post of nigel pic because i realize that he is an utter asshole.

I KNOW what i did to him was wrong. and I KNOW what i did annoyed him alot. But it's not as if what i did was UNFORGIVABLE. I did not fucking kill his family. i did not burn down his house. i did not backstab him or ruin his reputation. I did not sell him out, i did not rat on him, i did not do him any fucking harm. And YET after five fucking months, he cannot CANNOT find the heart to fucking forgive me and not even have the fucking curtesy to reply my message with even one fucking word.

Guys like that are BETTER OFF DEAD.

fuck u nigel. fuck u and the whole lot.

you've been one fucking big dissapointment that only led me to believe that i should not fucking trust anyone because underneath every nice guy is an asshole and underneath every nice girl is a bitch.

fuck you.

So says michelle!!!!

Anyway.... OKKKKKK.... i think i AM abit crazy....

So.... I've found out that the two things that can get me out of bed and off my lazy ass to travel miles and miles to nowhereville, America, is either a BAND or...... MANGA!!!!


So last weekend, I took a 4-hour bus trip down to New York JUST to go check if Kinokuniya had Shounen Sunday for sale.. CAUSE I CANNOT EVEN WAIT FOR THE KEKKAISHI TAKOUBON TO BE RELEASED EVERY FEW MONTHS!!!!

Much to my delight, Kinokuniya New York had 4 copies there!!!!!! Well, unfortunately, they weren't all in series... it was just Vol 24, 26, 27 and 28. But I bought them anyway!!!

I was glad though that i got those issues cause Vol. 24 had the Tokine/Yoshimori reunion chapter that i wanted so much to read!!!!!!!!!!! AND THAT CHAPTER WAS AWESOME!!! SO SWEET!!! >_<

So, there i took a whole day's journey (really it takes like at least 5 1/2 to get from home to new york, then another 5 1/2 hours from new york to him) But i did it anyway!! just to go get manga at Kinokuniya!!!

THAT was the furthest I've ever gone just for 2 hour shopping!!!


Small Town, Anywhere, USA = Shit Town, USA!!!!

OKKKKKK.... so you know that time i went to was it Medford, MA for that TBS show??? Basically it was the first Massachusetts small town i've been to and it was shite there! Public transportation was non-existant, communter rail came ever 1 1/2 hours, and even TAXIS took 45 minutes to get to you after you've called them.

So today AGAIN, i was kinda reluctant to go to this really good selection Japanese bookstore. It was located in Waltham... Waltham, actually, it's not too far from Boston... Probably maybe 20 mins drive or maybe like 10 - 15 miles off boston. It was actually REALLY near (like ok, from Bukit Bintang to maybe Bukit Kiara not even that far).

BUTTTTTTT... it took me TWO hours to even get to the stupid city itself. FIRST today stupid subway on the orange line is disabled for upgrades. So had to take the shuttle bus. After the shuttle bus got us to the station, I had to take the green line to Copley instead because the stupid Orange line again wasn't running from Haymarket to Downtown Crossing, so i couldn't get to back bay.
I hate the green line trans too cause they are DAMN SHORT! and ALWAYS PACKED. hate it.

And get me, i left the house an HOUR ago, and i wasn't even IN TOWN yet! wtf!

Anyway, so took the packed like sardines train to Copley and had to walk from Copley to Back Bay. No biggie.

I actually wanted to turn around at that point, but i said, oh well, lets go anyway!

So took the commuter rail from Back Bay to Newtonville...

Got out of Newtownville and i actually found the intersection where i was suppose to take the bus. I went into dunkin donuts right there to enquire to see if the bus stopped there. It did.

When i got out of the store, DAMN! I saw a bus on the OTHER side of the road passing me by and i was like SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

So i ran across the street but alas! it was too late! the bus had left!!!

So i waited there and i KNEW being a small town, the bus was gonna take forever to come again. But then again, i also noticed the bus was number 553... and I was suppose to take the 554 bus... but i thought i saw the sign on the bus that showed the destination i was going to... So i waited.

And then it started raining again.

Just then, 15 minutes later, I saw a bus coming down on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD (where i had originally waited).. and i was like SHITTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!

and i saw the bus number indicating "554"

and i was DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

so i ran across BACK to the OTHER side of the road but ALAS! I was too late AGAIN!!!

So i thought to myself "hmmmmm... maybe 553 is the number coming back from the destination and 554 is going towards the desination."

So i decided to just stick there by the side of the road i ORIGINALLY waited.

it was now 1:30... I left the house at 11:15 and i was still NOT EVEN HALFWAY through my journey.

THEN JUST THEN! 10 minutes later... LO AND BEHOLD... I saw BUS NUMBER 554 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD!! and i was like WTF?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT AGAIN!!

And SUREEEEEEEEEEE ENOUGH!!!

I MISSED THE DAMN BUS CAUSE THE LIGHTS WERE GREEN AND I COULDN'T CROSS!! SO THE BUS SPED AWAY!

wtffffffffff

so... at that point i just stood there... And i thought i better asked someone for directions... I was also hoping that maybe the person i asked the directions from would be kind enough to actually give me a ride there instead! HA!

So anyway, so i asked a couple of fellas who were passing by, but they had no idea which direction Waltham was at either!! No luck at that!

JUST THEN.... i saw this guy walk pass me... And then i just recognized that he looked so familliar and i try to remember where i've seen him before and then LO AND BEHOLD! it occured to me, I actually saw him on the subway once a couple of weeks ago... It was actually weird, cause that day, I was gonna meet Elaine Teh at Allston TO BUY MY MANGA after work... But I couldn't leave work early cause Dragon was late coming back to the office.... But Shelley came instead but we also got held up cause a friend of hers actually showed up at the office unexpectedly and they ended up talkign till we missed the train... So Shelley offered to drive me to the last station on the greenline instead... and it was there on that train that day that i saw this guy cause he was standing next to me...

So i was like WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW! who'd have thought a random stranger you saw on a train you never take and you actually happen to see the fella again!

So anyway... I waited for the damn bus and i didn't know what to do anymore...

Just then the guy walked pass me again, to get his food, so being Elaine, I asked him if he knew the directions to Waltham.

I was in luck! he actually stays in Watertown and waltham was just the city after that...

So he figured out for me which direction I should be taking the bus (THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD).... THen he actually offered me a ride to Watertown so he could leave me by Watertown square that had lots of busses there!

So yeah, what do you know! So i got the ride after all...

Anyway... in the end he dropped me off at the square which was cool cause i also saw the place where i was suppose to take the bus HOME... At the square, i gave up looking for the stupid bus and took a cab instead coz Watertown was closer too to Waltham, so it wouldn't cost too much for a cab.

So in the end, i DID get to buy the manga that i want hahahahaha.... THOUGH it wasn't the chapter i wanted but still!! at least i got the copies!!!

And then i took a cab back to the square and ended up taking a whole different bus back to Boston cause it seems that there's actually quite a few direct bus from Boston to Watertown!


So anyway, this i conclude that stupid Small Town, USA are Shit Town public transportation, USA... Not just Massachusetts i'm sure.. I bet you the West is even WAYYYYYYYYYY worse, cause all the town are so big and spread out there!! Like that one time i went to Temecula to see Hung but THAT IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT LONGGGGGGG AND MISADVENTURE STORY!!!!

These commercials first lauched soon after Mac unveiled Intel chips Macs. Seems like they still wanna remind people that though Macs and some PCs might run on the same Intel chips, Mac is still vastly superior.... I THINK!

some of these commercials are quite nice though... :) ABIT insulting to PC though haha.

sweetketastrophe: WHEN U COME HERE WE GO TO MILITARY BASE!!! Husbands are available there like water is near the ocean




priceless....

Over the past 3 years here, there were some ads i've seen that were damn hillarious. I really loved them!! Some ads were plain stupid, of course, but here's a few i really liked...

MOST OF THEM are for GEICO car insurance though, but damn! they're good!


I love this one!!!! THE BEST!



I really liked this ad!!! But you have to know like Verizon ads to get some of the jokes in this ad.. The guy who keeps saying "Can you hear me now?" is like the Verizon guy who goes around everywhere with his cellphone going "Can you hear me now? Good!" (to show that Verizon has coverage everywhere). I really liked the spoof of that!


MORE GEICO!








Anyway, there are more but i can't find a place that has them... But these are some.. enjoy :)

ohhhhh the moment of truth arrived........ KIKYOU ACTUALLY DIES!!!!! apa??? NANI?!!! geezzz... just when i was begining to like her!!!!

dangggg but her parting scene with Inuyasha was really sweet!!!! HE REALLY STILL LOVES HER VERY MUCH!!! AND SHE LOVES HIM ALOT TOO!!!!! so sweet!!! so sad while she got to live again, they could never spend time together because of Naraku!!!! shiteeeee!!!!

sigh...

wooo!

sooooo... in one week i finished all of Black Cat anime and manga too! huhuhuhu... Sorry to all the fans who actually waited to patiently each week for them... Kinda unfair that now the anime and manga is done, u can just download the whole thing and finish it off within days.

So here's the lowdown of it... and what i thought about both the anime and manga :)


WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

So it's about this rutheless killer, Train (aka BLACK CAT aka Number XIII):



the best assasin gunman ever who works for this secret organization Chronos, who one day met this girl, Saya:



and was tranformed into this:



carefree stray-cat-like guy, through the power of love..... (NOT!)

So he pairs up with these two:



Sven and Eve (a biomachine) and they travel around as SWEEPERS... basically bounty hunters who capture criminals without killing them.

And of course, there wouldn't be a story if there wasn't a bad guy, CREED



who has this rather, yucky yaoi-ish obsession with Train, and an evil ambition to be god to rule this earth under his cruel reign forever.

WHAT ABOUT IT?

Actually, I was introduced to this Black Cat manga awhile ago... Maybe like 2 years ago cause Mandy said that i would probably like it if i liked Kenshin. I did read some but I didn't really get too far... in fact just the first few chapters.
Then the other day, I decided to check out the Anime instead. Cause well, it's much easier to watch 26 episodes than to read 185 chapters!!!

And i must say, I REALLY enjoyed the Anime!! In fact, this is like one of those rare series I thought the Anime was done REALLY REALLY well!

The animation was superb. The visuals were incredibly stunning.


DAMN! Train was really really well animated!! The scenes where he is in his assasin mode was very well drawn to convey the intensity in his eyes and the heat of the fight.

ANDDDD most of all, one of the biggest points (besides the superb visuals) was the use of associating MUSIC with imageries. Damn well done!

here's a video that captures alot of the essence of the elements that was really superbly done in this anime... please watch!





Through this amazingly well done use of music and imageries, the whole Saya and Train relationship, was very very well presented in the Anime, much better than the manga.


the first time Train meets Saya...

All the scenes with Saya and Train (especially the rooftop scenes) were very well done. An air of misty dream, as if an etheral meeting of a lonely soul who finds a sparkle of freedom in a carefree soul. Very well done.

And the use of Saya singing the song Konoyo no Uta when they first meet and using that song whenever they see each other on the rooftop at night underneath the moonlight as well as the use of BOTH the song and fireworks was incredibly well done (you just have to watch it!!)



So damn well done that it drives a bullet through your heart everytime you hear that song in subsequent episodes after Episode 7.


THE MANGA/THE ANIME - TRAIN AND SAYA

Well i watched the Anime first and I loved it but, truth be told, i read the manga only because I REALLY wanted more of Train's and Saya's relationship!!! There was just tooooooo little too short in the anime! Not to say taht the anime cut out ALOT of stuff haha... But lets jsut say their relationship was abruptly terminated before it could bloom into something even more beautiful.

And i suppose i read the manga because i really wanted to see more scenes of them together.

However, as i said, the parts in the anime that showed Train and Saya's moments together were so well made that it really captured a much more beautiful essense between them than the manga did. Although, the manga did have more scenes of the both of them (sorta), and they actually knew each other for like 3 months in the manga as oppose to a few days in the anime. But i still felt that the scenes with Train and Saya were just so well done in the Anime that captured it so well already...

Train and Saya Scenes.

I was actually gonna think that the Anime was better than the manga, halfway through reading it...

However, i was REALLY VERY satisfied with the way Saya's role in Train's life was made much more significant in the manga (towards the ending chapters), that i felt the anime neglected.

In the anime, basically, Saya changed Train's life by causing him to allow himself to embrace the nature in him for a carefree life than to continue to work as an assasin for the Chronos. They brought her up a couple of times by making her the catalyst also to Train's anger and rage towards Creed.

The manga, in the middle, i suppose was not as strong in delivering this message (Well, taking into account the manga is WAYYY longer than the anime). Since the EVENT of SAYA in the anime was so well done, there was just no way for the manga to have had the same impact for THAT EVENT . In that way, the manga was also weaker. Weaker in showing Train's and Saya's past together.

HOWEVER, the manga totally kicked ass when it came to Saya's role during the final battle with between Train and Creed. Not only was it Saya's strength and guidance that helped Train defeat Creed, but i really loved it when Train says to Creed, "Saya lives on in me."

That was just really really really great to see her role in his life and to know that she will always be a part of Train, even if she's physically there or not...

Awesome!

wuahahaha...

dats my 2 cents :)

DAMN BUT THEY COULD HAVE BEEN SUCH A CUTE COUPLE YOOOO!!!!

THESE ARE SPOILERS. DON'T READ TILL YOU'VE WATCHED THE ANIME/MANGA. OR IF YOU DON'T PLAN TO WATCH IT ANYWAY!

well i put this here cause i have to say it. i was really really sad Saya died. I mean what the hell... The thought that Train will always be alone, you know. I mean, he has Sven and Eve, but they're not what Saya was to him. I'm not sure even if Saya lived if they would have been together or not, probably not soon, cause Saya and him has a wandering spirit and they wouldn't have been tied down to anyone, not even to each other...

Having said that, it was really really sweet that last scene where Saya died for her to confess to Train that she was planning on moving and that she had met alot of people and gone to alot of places in her life, but he was the only one she considered a friend. That was totally sweet and awesome BUT HELLLLLLL she dies right after that!! WTF!!!

So in a sense, i really hate it cause... even if Train has Even and Sven, we all know inside his heart, there will always be a part of him that perhaps, he would only reveal to Saya, and Saya's GONE YOU KNOW GONE!!!!!

It was very comforting to know that Train believes that Saya lives on in him and I think that's the best thought we can hold onto, is that even though they can never be together in this lifetime, all that she has said to him, done for him and done to him, will be part of her legacy in him, and through that, she does live on in him... That as long as he is free, that will always be that part that Saya has imparted to him that would remain in him....

Sigh... still sad though, when he says that "my role is done" in the end....... I hope he doesn't think that Saya has left him!!!!