Monthly Archive for August, 2006

God is a Girl

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And damn - she’s hot. But then again, would anyone even expect otherwise from an anime character?

S.O.S ftw~

Here she is - Suzumiya Haruhi, from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. She’s this slightly psycho girl who’s obsessed with aliens, time travellers and espers. But she has the power to destroy and create the world as she sees fit - the power of God, if you may. Apparent blaspheme aside - there’s Asahina Mikuru on the left in the bunny suit, and Nagato Yuki on the right. All three, along with two guys, are members of the S.O.S Brigade - Saving the world by Overwhelming it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi Brigade. Or something along that line.

While the series seems like a typical highschool comedy anime on the surface - the whole anime is much much deeper than that. It utilises a rather unique way of storytelling - one that does not make sense at first, but will suddenly fall into place only somewhere near the end of the series - or if you look it up on the internet - whichever comes first. Either that, or I’m a dense retard and couldn’t really grasp the storyline until so much later. I prefer the former theory.

Get the anime, now. And to ease your inevitable search for more info when you finish watching the series, here’s a nice site to go to. And also this site. By the way, this anime has probably the catchiest ending I’ve ever seen in an anime series. I’m pretty sure I watched the ending song for every single episode even though it’s the same thing over and over again. It’s the dance, I’m sure. It just looks so… Cool.

Okay. Streamyx is being gay now. I really dislike breaking off a post like this - especially a post as wonderful as this one. I really really love this series. But for some reason Streamyx refuses to load anything useful from overseas servers. Not quickly anyway. As usual.

Haih. Karang I ninja their asses baru they know. And yeah, if God is a girl that hot - I believe in God. Otherwise, NO U.

All hail sexism.

Living Dolls, Valkyries and Melancholy

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on August 28, 2006
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After watching a short kid win over a hot girl from Seiren in my latest harem anime fix, I was consumed by boredom yet again. Apparently I was the kind of person who could not tolerate being without something to do. Valkyrie Profile suddenly grasped my interest - at least for now. I think it has something to do with its sequel coming out some time next month. (As I read in a forum somewhere) Surprisingly - it is a rather good game. The combat system is unique, to say the least - letting you create crazy combos if you’re good enough. Of course, randomly mashing buttons works just as well - so whatever.

I also tried Shinobido: Imashime - this really retarded but fun ninja game (as the name implies). It’s sorta like Metal Gear Solid with ninjas instead of modern day spies. Really fun - and the physics system allows you to die in really retarded ways. (falling down the well remains a fan favourite)

Rozen Maiden~

And now yay for the picture that will make me look gay. Yes, for the past two days, besides doing all those masculine activities above - I’ve also been watching Rozen Maiden. An anime about living dolls. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but there’s just something appealing about watching living dolls fighting with one another. Plus I seriously cannot put Hina Ichigo’s cuteness past me. (The one in the pink dress - on the left)

I finished the first season only to discover that there was a second season that I hadn’t downloaded - and we know what happens after that. The gods of peer-to-peer powerdownloading says 2 days (damn my crap internet connection - otherwise it would’ve been less than 12 hours in best case >.<) I'll just watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. So far I’m up to episode 6, and thoroughly confused - this anime has a storyline more confusing than Dr. House’s rambling. But you no complain - Dr. House is god tier.

Anyway - went out today. Tried to bowl with my left hand and found the secret of getting 100% gutter balls. Walked around some more and discovered what people meant by Nightmare nightmare in Soul Calibur 2. Played a round of Virtua Cop 2 and found that bowling made my hand too tired to hold the gun properly. Made a discovery that the yellow car is now my favourite car in Daytona - as opposed to the red one (and the pink one before that).

Yay for me not being interesting enough to have a five-page post everyday. Or maybe I have a life interesting enough for me not to spend six hours a day blogging. ^_^

Anyway, I conclude this post with a picture I took during Malaysian Studies lecture last Friday (with the purple panda up front - you lack context, human :P)

Group photo~

From left: Me, Scott, Kynan, Eww and Chin

Shattered Prophecy

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on August 23, 2006
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It is said that on the second sem of the sixth year past the milennium - after the anomaly and imbalance in the Media in the first sem, balance shall be restored by a massive flood of hot girls. Innocent high school girls who will fall madly in love with their sem 2 seniors. And stuff like that.
- The Prophecy (sorta)

When reality hits, it hits - hard. No, wait - reality doesn’t hit. It flashes you with a false opening, and when you step in to attack, it grabs your hand, snaps your wrist, twists your arm, steps on your foot, elbows you between the eyes, knees you in the balls, dashes in for a sidekick to your stomach and then stabs you in the throat - all before tossing you in the air, grabbing you, and slamming you head-first into the hard concrete ground of realisation.

The prophecy is shattered. The hopes and dreams of all the young energetic males in Media Sem 2 have been shredded to pieces and stomped on.
Somewhere along the line something went wrong, apparently. Either someone ate a kitten, or raped some infant monkeys or something bad and evil like that. Or maybe they didn’t finish their food. Whatever happened, the results are now catastrophic. More guys have flowed into our stream, mixed with a girl here and there - as opposed to the all-girl flood that will bring balance to the cosmos. (sem 1 peeps don’t cry - I still think y’all are cool)

And there goes my dreams as an innocent young male student. I’ll let the illustration do the talking.

Love Hina - Yay!

There were many choices - Shuffle!, Ichigo 100%, almost every H-game ever made, and more recently Girls Bravo, but I give the honours to the harem anime/manga: Love Hina. Guy gets into a strange foreign place. Guy somehow ends up living with/surrounded by lots of girls without any guys. Girls dislike guy at first, but then find him attractive later on. Girls fall in love with guy. Guy gets to know girls better and gets into various comedic/sexual situations. Guy eventually picks a girl. Guy dies happy.

Okay. So the last part doesn’t need to come, but still - I spent another 15 minutes reading through Wikiwiki just because I was researching about harem anime. o.O

So what happened to my harem dream?

This ninja feels sad… Continue reading ‘Shattered Prophecy’

Heihachi is God Tier

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on August 20, 2006
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God Tier Character~

Just look at the picture man. Heihachi is damn God Tier in Soul Calibur 2. Yes, he’s a bonus character, but don’t whine. This beyond godlike apek has got no weapons. And he beat Cervantes with little trouble, and owns everyone else as well. Besides Yun Sung. But Yun Sung is garbage tier. The tier system works in rock-paper-scissors way. Therefore it is expected that God tier is defeated by garbage tier. Kesian Heng Soon for me bashing his favourite character. ^_^

I watched this demonstration the other day - Japanese martial arts and stuff at the Indoor Stadium (there’s only one indoor stadium at Brunei apparently). Anyway, they’ve got Kendo and Judo and Karate and whatnot. Oh, and a Japanese girl~ Yayness.

The whole demo was interesting, but I kinda expected to see godlike samurai skills and stuff like that. Think Kenshin. I guess I’m kinda disappointed seeing Kendo 3-hit combos after seeing crazy-ass stuff like Kuzu Ryusen. See pic below for explaination.

Kuzu Ryusen!

Damn. After spending like an hour searching for a picture of this kickass technique, I could only come up with a half-kickass picture of Hiko Seijuro (Kenshin’s sifu) doing it. Ah well. It’s basically a simultaneous 9-hit attack that hits all 9 vital points of the body or something like that. Whatever it actually is, it’s God Tier.

Oh wait, no. The ougi’s God Tier. But whatever.

I wanna end this post now because I’m bored. Lastly, bananas rock.

Ninja. (Ha. Bet you thought I forgot, eh?)

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Miri-Brunei

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Okay, I haven’t posted in quite a while - I’m at Brunei, lack of internets, busy as hell, insert other usual excuses. Right now I’m typing this up on my sister’s computer. Hopefully this post doesn’t stretch too long.

I hitchhiked to Brunei from my house last Saturday. Seriously I did. Certain ‘people’ would call it crazy - people who want to protect what they think is their ‘face’. As if they even have any left.

After this little experience, I have made the following conclusions:

  1. Rich people with shiny cars are assholes
  2. People with worn-out cars are nice
  3. Miri people, despite being rude drivers, rock
  4. Brunei people, despite being ‘good’ drivers, suck
  5. People passing Seria can all go to hell

Throughout my hitchhiking trip from Senadin to Seria, three cars have picked me up. Two other cars and a motorcycle have offered. Yes, a motorcycle. Fuck the drivers of big shiny SUVs and whatnot.

The first car was full of people going to work. This authentic Chinese dude picked me up. Original China Chinese dude - you can tell by their accents. He was nice and friendly. Brought me out to the main road. His Kijang was rather crappy, but who cares. I nominate him to heaven.

Second car was driven by this shady looking Chinese dude who was going to Seria. He brought me past the customs - vodka and all. He wasn’t all that civilised in talking - rather barbaric and scary in a sense, and loud. But he gave me a ride. He goes to heaven.

Jumped off the car after the Brunei bridge toll because I wanted to take a piss. With my ninja skills, I turned and invisible and took a piss by the roadside - in broad daylight. After that I continued attempting to stop cars hoping that I could hitch a ride to Bandar. Fucking useless Brunei drivers wouldn’t even look at me. They will all go to hell. Even if they pray five times a day.

So whatever, a nice guy stopped later on with another worn-out Kijang and offered a ride to Seria. By then I was going ‘oh whatever’ already. So I rode to Seria, tried to stop a few more cars - cursed them all to hell, and finally took the bus. Six Brunei dollars.

Yay for my budget trip. Saved a hell lot of money for the arcades (which suck anyway) at the Mall. Stupid mortals no understand Daytona is god of racing games. God tier. Cosmo drift tier. And if anyone is going to complain about how biased/hasty/unproven my comments about hitchhiking to Brunei is - I suggest that you pull your head out of your ass, and slit your wrists. This isn’t fucking Critical Reading class - it’s a blog entry. And while you’re bleeding to death, maybe you could try to understand the concept of sarcasm.

Moving on, let’s talk about the sucky arcades at the Mall. Damn expensive too. 2 Brunei dollars for a ride on the Initial D machine. And 2 dollars for Time Crisis 3 too. Stupid ripoffs. In the end, we ended up playing Soul Calibur 2 against noobs. And little kids. More or less.

Okay, I’m now insanely bored and tired. So I shall withhold my story about bananas until the next time I write something up.

Full Moon~

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Look~ Full moon!

Yayness~ It’s a full moon during Hollow Festival (refer to previous post), and I took the liberty to run outside and take a few quick snapshots. Okay, actually my dad told me to do that, but you didn’t have to know that. Anyway, I didn’t bump into any Hollows. Lucky Hollows. Else I bankai their asses then they know. And don’t forget my ninja skills. (almost forgot to add this part. Phew~)

Speaking of moons, I felt the obligation to talk about the Priestess of the Moon. Maybe because I was playing DotA just now, so I felt this urge to talk about something Warcraft-ey. Well, that and getting myself hopelessly addicted to O2Mania (O2Jam doesn’t run for me T-T). Things seem to scroll downwards now after grinding O2Mania. o.o

Anyway, here’s a picture of the Priestess of the Moon.

Priestess of the Moon~ Warcraft Version.

Stolen from DeviantArt. No idea who drew this. If you’re interested, you look it up. Anyway, our dear moonlight lady was the cheapest hero in Warcraft III back in the day when huntress rushes ruled the land. Or something like that. Never did get into Warcraft that much anyway.

Anyway, here’s the Priestess of the Moon - fix’d edition. Lawl~

Suzuna ftw~

I lawl’d at this picture. And you should too. Else you should just get out. Now.

Suzuna-chan ftw~

…

Okay. Moving on to more serious matters. I came across this really distasteful article about this place called Tranquility Bay. Welcome to the Nazi concentration camps of the 21st century. For kids. Kids that are that way because the parents couldn’t teach their kids right. And being ‘responsible’ parents, they send their kids to this place. Stupidity. Just read the article and see what I mean. What happens in there is literally brainwashing.

That place totally dispels the belief I had that all Jamaicans are cool. Damn~

I’m just glad that I’m Chinese. Be glad, all you Chinese and Indian kids out there, because your parents would be too damn cheap to send you to that kind of place. They’d probably beat you to death first. Props to Russell Peters.

Well. Enjoy your moonlight and stuff. I’m gonna go back to O2Mania. Or DotA. Whichever catches my mood first.

Hollow Festival!

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It’s Hungry Ghost Festival tonight for all you Chinese out there! Yayness! I can’t believe it’s that month of the year again. And to think I woke up at 2pm this afternoon. The rain was really heavy and the weather was so nice and cool. Couldn’t resist. Anyway, to everyone, please watch out for Hollows and Shinigami fighting in the streets or even in your living room tonight. Don’t open your doors or windows unless you want to get involved.

zomg Hollow!

Yeah. Like this dude right here. Should that happen, do make sure that you try to get in the way and have the shinigami injure/wound him/herself and transfer their powers to you. Then proceed to inflict pwnage onto the said hollow. Of course, I’m a ninja already, so I automatically acquire shinigami powers. That, and them cool vizzado powers. Bankai and all that too. Duh.

Me in hollow form~

Okay. I’ll admit it. Today’s post is merely to whore this crappy photoshopped picture that took me less than 30 minutes to cut/paste/whatever. Still, the idea came from the Hungry Ghost Festival thread from Velocity Forums - credits to them. I actually had to dress up a little so that I don’t look that crap. I was wearing a crappy grey T-shirt when I realised that bankai cannot look that bad. :P

She’s the Man~

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on August 5, 2006
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I’ve seen this movie so many times when I was eating at McD near Speedy. I remember it catching my eye the first time when I was about to leave for KL, when I was sitting there having my last meal in Miri before flying off. I thought this movie was rather interesting - a girl dressing up as a boy so that she could play soccer and all that. Sort of reminds me of Mulan.

She's the Man~

The time I watched this movie seriously was when I was walking around bored, and then sat down at McD again. This time I seriously had nothing to do, so I sat around and watched a big portion of the movie which was on show yet again at Speedy. I then noticed the names being used was all too familiar. It reminded me of Literature class I had when I was in high school - the character names from Twelfth Night, to be exact.

I shrugged it off being coincidence - even when there were so many similarities - a girl named Viola dressing up as a guy and falls in love with Orsino, who in turn sends Viola (called Cesario in Twelfth Night but Sebastian in this movie) to hit on Olivia. Sebastian is the twin brother of Viola, and they look alike. All that.

Check out the wikiwiki of this movie to learn more. And in case you haven’t gotten my message yet, watch this movie. It rocks. Plus it has the hawtness which is Amanda Bynes in it. I bought this movie immediately after having my McD because I seriously thought it rocked. And for a DVD movie, RM12.90 is a damn steal. Watched the movie from beginning to end last night, and I loved it.

Y’know, this blog is turning more into a movie review site than anything. =\

Results are Out!

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Curtin has finally released the results for Foundation Sem 1 today! And here’s mine:

Me results~

Did pretty well, if you ask me. Probably thanks to my intense gaming studying and uber ninja skills. It would’ve been cooler if I had pulled a Naruto on them, but it’s fine anyway.

Gods of Sunway

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on August 3, 2006
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Yes, there’s this rumour that, according to Roey, the Gods of DotA in Malaysia come from Sunway College in KL. And while it may be hasty generalisation, from what I’ve seen - the rumour is true. Jinx, and old friend of mine currently studies in Sunway, and not only is he a DotA god, he excels in every game I’ve played him so far. This includes Quake 4, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Counter-Strike: Source, and also Daytona (arcade racing game - popular for drifting).

Just so you know, this post is actually closely tied to the previous post, since I got bored in the previous one. The previous post was called KL Drifters because I was going to talk about me, Roey, PH and also Jinx in some occasions playing Daytona in arcades throughout KL. Jinx owns us all in Daytona - we’re talking DK level here. ^_^

I’m glad we played a lot of DotA with Jinx - I learned a lot more just by playing him and asking him what I should do than playing a lot normally on Battle.net. With that new knowledge, I’m sure I could preform better in my normal DotA matches over Battle.net. And playing on Battle.net is what I would be doing right this moment as well - if it wasn’t for some ’strange reason’ that my connection is being raped towards no end. Tried one match - lagged like some sick fuck with both legs broken, got yelled at (and quite rightfully) by random people, and after lots of apologies - I got sick of it and logged off.

I put the blame on the obvious. Streamyx takes first place in the list of suspects due to its infamous reputation of raping connections, but I ruled it out since my bitching has probably made them ‘upgrade’ my connection. The next most possible reason was that the reason was client-side, and I am downloading something without proper configurations. Only that I wasn’t downloading without proper configurations. You do the deduction. Fish, Cammy - I feel your pain.

Okay, let us move away from depressing issues. Seriously, when I created this blog, I wanted it to be a ‘happy’ blog - one with lots of optimistic things in here, but life (or at least the pathetic beings that exist within it) seems to like to screw things up for me.

See la - all this internet connection metrosexualness gayness is making me lose mood to blog again. Plus the fact that Malaysian police seems to be surfing the internet and arresting random people who blog nowadays, I think I should really watch what I type about in case I accidentally stab someone who is kopi-o’ing them.

Bleargh, to close this post - I link you to a nice website about Malaysia.