Siiickk... Must Fight.. Drowsiness...

Stayed home today due to my rhinosinusitis and fever.

Didn't even realised I have fever until the doc took my temperature.

Yay, stayed at home and can watch Gundam 00 you say? No.

Doc gave me a med for the nose... its the drowsy type. Took it and went to bed till lunch.

Some time in the middle I think I heard Dad came in and ask me if I was asleep.... or something else. I wonder what the hell was that about. Guess it wasn't important since he didn't mention about it again.

So, I tried a bit of experiment on the drowsy meds. I took it after lunch, and drank a cup of coffee.

Results? Still drowsy.

I took a second cup, less thick (I'm actually cutting down coffee). Results? Still drowsy.

The point of this? Ahahah I dunno.

Anyway, since I get it alot, I thought I read up on a more direct non-drug remedy.

Yeah, there's drink more water, get enough sleep, humidifier... then there's the scary nasal cleansing with water/salt water/saline/etc.

Wonder how well that works.

New Song/Music of the Moment: Butter-Fly by Kouji Wada

Have you seen a butter fly?

Lame jokes aside, yeap... it's the opening song to the anime Digimon Adventures. I'm sure you have heard of it.

Great song and lyrics for an opening song of a kiddy show.

"After an endless dream, in this miserable world
That's right, maybe not using common sense isn't so bad after all
Even with these awkward wings, dyed with images that seem to stay
I'm sure we can fly, on my love!"

Yes! Tonight! Gundam 00 Season 2! Ep 1 to 3!

Maybe I will review it like what I did with Casshern Sins.

Casshern Sins Episode 4

I wonder how many people lost the bet...



After the flashback and opening, scene starts with the introduction of Sophita also known as the Angel of Ruin.



Sophita is at some robot settlement. Picking fights with robots. Robots runs from Sophita like headless chickens.



BBER and his goons arrived to stop Sophita. We learned that this BBER is one of Braiking Boss' personal guards.

Sophita says he won't be a match for her as one of his arm is ruined. BBER leaves with his goons.

Casshern wanders around wondering who is he and why the world have turned like this because of him. Sophita shows up. Sophita impress with how Casshern looks... pretty and strong. Casshern asks her to buzz off. Sophita follows anyway.



Sophita says she must fight him no matter what, since he looks strong. Casshern says he's not necessarily strong, just that he can't die. Oops, he shouldn't have said... that.



See?

Some robots arrived as Casshern is trespassing. Sophita asks Casshern to run as she holds them off. Casshern and Sophita made short work of the robots. Sophita is impressed. Casshern leaves, ignoring Sophita.

Sophita stalks Casshern.



Sophita tells Casshern the reason why she loves fighting so much.



Whenever she fights, she gets excited... it makes her feel alive. Casshern tells her to leave him alone. He doesn't want to fight. He doesn't even like fighting. If he can, he rather die. Casshern leaves. Sophita follows.

Sophita intercepted by BBER and his goons. Goons were no match and BBER and Sophita fights.





Sophita was not able to cut up BBER as easily as the others as his body armour is tougher.



Sophita was about to get cut up but was saved by Casshern in the nick of time. Knowing himself is no match for Casshern, BBER leaves.



After seeing Casshern's self healing ability, Sophita wants to fight even more. Sophita attacks Casshern in his sleep. "I will fulfill your wish!". They fight. Sophita declares that she loves Casshern, and fighting is the only way she can share her feelings.



Casshern beats down Sophita a few times but Sophita refuses to stop. Casshern lets her stab himself.



Tears start flowing down from Sophita eyes. Sophita wonders why. Casshern says he's glad... he's glad he didn't go berserk and kill Sophita as her intention of killing him isn't really there. Oh that's why she's crying. Remember kids, trying to kill your lover is not a healthy way of expressing your love.

Sophita asks for Casshern's name. She never asks her opponents name as she would beat them anyway. Sophita says she no longer wants to fight him. "Don't be sad that you can't die,..."



Moooeee!!!... What a classic line. Don't you agree?

Sophita leaves. Leaving Casshern babbles to himself. Episode 4 ends.


Fighting filled episode all thanks to Sophita. Oh, yeah... no one dies at all in this episode. Unless you count some goons. But then again, some of them were only got cut at the limbs and the worst, the waist, into half. Sophita claims she fights without aiming to kill, but the robots are still afraid.

So maybe they would only "die" when their head is destroyed? Seeing as the surviving goons would drag the robots who got cut down and runs. Or maybe they just drag them back for spare parts.

Beginning to wonder whether is there a plot to this series. As usual, animation is superb.

Oh, I think I have never credited the fansubbers before... Yeah, so, subs are done by Shinsen group. Only group who's subbing Casshern Sins. A bit of grammar error from time to time but nothing too bad.

Next episode? Claw Blade Girl returns.

Weeaboo Food: Koala's March

I actually had these a feeewww months ago.

Took pics, was gonna blog it, but totally forgotten about it and the pics were rotting in the hard disk.

I usually don't buy much Japanese food, but after reading some weeaboo comments on various junk food; this, according to them, is very good.

So since an opportunity arrises when the Guardian Pharmacy shop near where I work had it on discount, I got it to try em out.

Here is the packaging:


Yeah. I forgot to rotate the pic up.

After opening the box, here's the foil package:


Just tilt your head to the side or something.

The cookies:


They look like... Koalas?

Close up:


Yeap. Each is of different design. Soo cute!

The insides:


So, Koalas are made of chocolate paste. It's just a thin cookie wrap around chocolate paste. Or, thin cookie filled with chocolate paste.

I gotta admit. It's quite delicious. Especially the chocolate.

But the price point even after discount doesn't make me wanna run out and buy a whole bunch.

Still, once in a while is ok.

Medleys

This is pretty cool.


A mix of most anime opening songs that I've never heard or seen before.

/m/ of 4chan is planning to make one that is comprise of some mecha related anime songs.

And then I've found Nagato Yuki's Character Song - Yuki, Muon, Madobe Night in the related video section.



Definitely fits in the "WTFAWESOME" category.

If you have heard the original version, there's lots of space for you to fill in your own rap crap like the whole "MGS CQC MGS CQC" that was done by the Japanese Solid Snake sound alike.

I'm actually more hooked on this fan made version than the original version XD

Casshern Sins Episode 3

Anata.... da re?

Seems like each episdoe, before the opening starts, the past of what happened is shown and revealed more. Pretty clever.

Episode 3 starts off where 2 left off.



After a bit of angst, Casshern told Friender that he's going off, "What will you do?". Friender stayed beside Lovey Dovey Dead Android Girl's rusting body.



Some dude who looked like Roy Fokker got chased by a whole lot o BBERs and managed to hide from them. They sure didn't waste anytime telling us that he's sick. He bumps into Casshern.



Human dude talks to Casshern. Casshern asks him to buzz off, if he gets involved with him, Human Dude will die. Humand Dude didn't care but followed Casshern anyway.

Human Dude told Casshern he's been looking for a community of dying robots. Casshern told him they are not there anymore. Human dude gets the hint.

Some "male bonding" scenes.. Human Dude introduced himself as Akoes. Casshern told him his own name, but it seems like Akoes doesn't even know the name...

Casshern only realised Akoes' a human when Akoes have to rest and drink. Looks like Akoes is the first human he met, after his awakening.

More male bonding scenes, Akoes says he's been commiting crimes since he's little and he's been running ever since. Blah blah blah and all that, Casshern probably has found his kindred spirit.

"What am I running from? Do I run to live? or live to run?!"



Friender arrived. Friender left Lovey Dovey Android Girl's body when it crumbled to dust. "Let's settle this!", says Casshern. After a few bites, Casshern told Friender that he's sorry for what he has done, and he is willing to let Friender ends his life.



Friender just bit his collar off (probably thinks it looked stupid) and became buddies with Casshern.

It's daylight. Casshern readies to leave, but Akoes says this is it for him, he's going to find that community anyway... Oh, HEY CASSHAAN! I HUNG OUT WITH YOU AND I AM STILL ALIVE!...



Yay! A happy ending!... :3



ffff....

Akoes drops dead. Probably been too sick. Deathly monologue from Akoes says he was probably looking for a place to die. He probably thought it seems like a good idea to die with the dying androids. But he died here, in the middle of nowhere anyway.

"Take it easy, Casshern...."

A none fighting episode. Unless you count that encounter with Friender as a fight, there's no super smooth animated fight scenes at all in this episode.

Still, a pretty good episode where they show you what the humans have become.... Numbers dwindling, and sickly. And also one important thing, not everyone dies because of Casshern. Though they're still dropping like flies.


People are already taking bets on the chances of survival by the end of episode 4 of this girl.

Names

Logged in to my Friendster and saw one of my friends added a friend who named himself Squall Yao (surname close to the real one)........


AHAHAHAHHAHA WTF!!

You can name your self after some popular character like, maybe Bruce, Logan, Anthony, and it might still be fine, but SQUALL??!!

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU MIGHT AS WELL NAME YOURSELF WOLVERINE TAN

Gentlemen, Leah Dizon is pregnant and married.

Could this be the end of her career?

Casshern Sins Episode 2

Ore wa... Casshaan

Saw episode 2 last night.

Let's have a super brief recap for episode 1, since I didn't say much about it.

Casshern fights big bad robots. From what he learns from them, he's the main reason the Earth is now a post apocalyptic ruins. Humans are almost extinct. Big Bad Evil Robots (BBERs) didn't fair well either as they start to rot and rust away. Rumour has it if the big bad robots kill and devour him, they would live forever and everything will be normal again. Casshern kill them all.

Casshern meet loli who might or might not be a robot. Loli robot sawans at the sight of Casshern as he's "so pretty". Big Bad Evil Robot almost kills loli robot. Casshern kills BBER. Loli robot afraid of the brutality displayed by Casshern. Loli robot taken away by Oyaji Robot. Enter Claw Blade Girl to taunt Casshern.



So, now episode 2 opens with Claw Blade Girl reveals wanting to kill Casshern. But since Casshern can't remember shit, she flees.



Enter Lovey Dovey Androids. Lovey Dovey Androids sprouts "I love you love me" shits gets attacked by a couple of BBERs.



HECK YEAH, FRIENDER!

Friender defends Lovey Dovey Androids but are no match for BBERs. Enters Casshern at the nick of time and tears BBERs appart.



Casshern learns that Lovey Dovey Androids are a part of a large group full of androids that has decided to gather together to rust and die away... so that they won't be afraid.



Group of dying androids gets attacked by another BBER who's in search of Casshern. Attacking all the andorids as he thinks they are Casshern.



Casshern reveals himself to BBER. Casshern judo chops it to death. Business as usual.



Oops, did I mention Casshern reveals himself? Yeah, apparently all of them starts to believe in the kill and devour Casshern to stay alive... their last hope.



Attacking Zombie Androids?!?!

Being the faster, stronger, tougher cyborg... what does Casshern do? Run?



Run?! LOL WUT?!



He kills them all, of course. Except for Friender and female Lovey Dovey Android. She died anyway by rustting away....

End of Episode 2.

Looks like Casshern at times goes into auto berserk and can't control himself, as demonstrated when the androids decided to "Kill Casshern... Devour Casshern". That was quite a creepy scene... you can even hear some blood curdling scream, "Kill Casshern... Devour Casshern".

Episode 2 is waay more better than episode one, in my opinion. Still dominated by cool smooth action scenes. Episode 1 didn't got me hook. Episode 2 definitely does it now.

AF Hub's Interview with Hot Toys' Sculptor Yulli

The sculptor for Hot Toys' The Dark Knight, Prison Break, Iron Man and etc. 12" figs is a girl. Quite the looker too.

Awesome!

Check out the interview here.


She did a damn good job with Bank Robber Joker's fig. And also Robert Downey Jr's face for the Iron Man Mark III. Can't wait for it's release.

Casshern Sins Episode 1

Ore wa.... Casshaan.



Just saw this yesterday morning. I'm not going to talk about the plot. You can read it at the wiki page.

Beautifully animated. Art style reminded me of Saint Seiya OVAs Hades Chapter. Heck, withouth his helmet, he even looked like Seiya.

He's even voiced by Tohru Furuya.



First episodes nothing much. Whole episode were dominated by action scenes.

I have a feeling that the anime is going to be filled with gloom doomed themes since it's set in a post apocalyptic world where humans are almost extinct, and Casshern is the main reason. Or, that's what they want us to think.

I wouldn't recommend it to people yet, but I would recommend it if you like mecha and beautifully smooth animated fight scenes

Vidya Gamen

Haven't played video games till dawn in a very long time.

Was supposely trying out some new games I bought for the PS2:

Sengoku Basara Cross
2D fighter like Street Fighter. Some characters have assist characters, where by the push of a button, he pops out to deliver a blow and runs away.

Animated opening uses Crosswise by TM Revolution. Awesome.

Lego Indiana Jones
Very cute. The cut scenes are pretty funny too.

Lego Batman
Another very cute game. Quite possibly one of the best Batman games. Has all the Dark Knight Detective's stuff, all done in cutesy manner.

Star Wars: Force Unleashed
Errr, haven't tried yet.

Speed Racer: The Video Game
This one got me hooked most of the time.

Based one year later after the movie. Only based on the T180 races, so no Mach 5 or Shooting Star. Can you believe it? A Speed Racer game without March 5!!!!

Read from gamefaqs.com message board, one of the makers said they have a very short time in making the game. So they picked the T180 racers only.

Controls are actually very simple. I usually sucked at racing games, unless they are arcadish, but I manage to go through a bunch of championships using Speed and his March 6. Should try Racer X tonight.

All the car-fu you see in the movie is here. Coolest thing ever in the game is when you consecutively use the nitros in about 5 times in a row, it gets psychedelic.

Oh yeah, you get to play as Trixie too.

By the time I knew it, it's already 6am, Sunday. Went to bed at about 7am and woke up at 4pm.

What a way to waste a day away.

Casshern Sins Fan Art

Have some awesome Casshern Sins Fan Art. Dunno who did it.

Gundam 00 Season 2

So, it's called Gundam 00: 4 Years After?

Think I will download it this time. Can't wait.

Should be available any time this coming week.

Wedding Invitation

Wahahah. Not me lah.

Anyway, there's this friend who's in my Friendster list who just invited me to his wedding next year. Thru Friendster............ Yeah.

I actually knew him back in high school. I wasn't even in the same class with him. Just knew him through another friend.

We all played basketball together. Of course, him being one of those that got into basketball because of the manga SlamDunk. Back then, SlamDunk has the influential powers of God or something. Even the class idiot wanted to play basketball. It's like suddenly God just came out and said, "Thou shalt play baskettball, bitches!", then everyone starts to dribble.

A bunch of us would always come back after school to play basketball until the sun sets. I will be totally honest. Besides having that manga and basketball, oh yeah, and video games in common, I think I hardly even knew the guy.

He never confided with me in anything. His studies were better than me. Only thing I can recall is that, I taught him how to do the Sky Hook. Or, as we all call it: Kai Hook. Kai as in Cantonese for chicken. When you "kai" something, you did it successfully by pure luck.

Maybe he impressed his soon to be wife with that move. And thought, inviting me to his joyous occasion would be thanking me for it. Ahahahah, nah, I don't think so.

Another thing. It just boggles my mind someone would want to invite you to something that is few months down the future. Hey, Man, wanna come to my farewell party? Say, next year, June? Dood, I don't even know whether I am going to be alive till then.

Probably I don't get it cause I've never planned anything far ahead. I guess I am one of those, living in the moment kind of people. Or just plain scared of the future. *smokes imaginary cig*

So, am I going?

I dunno LOL.

Still. It's nice for him to invite me.

New Shoes!

Sports shoes ones.

The last one I got for the Team Building thingy was terrible. I can't even feel if they have any soles to them.

Saw some discounted shoes from Al-Ikhsan advert in the newspaper last night. Noticed they hava a branch at the local shopping mall. So thought I just go there and check em out after my hair cut.

Well, the one I was interested seem kinda like the shoe that would crack after awhile with its material.

The nicer looking (and cheaper somemore) from Umbro is only for indoor. Courts only. So, not such a good idea if I am going to wear it around or occasionally for some jogging or some shit.

So this one from Nike, called Downshifter for running seems kinda ideal.


This is like my third pair of Nike shoes in a very long loooong time.

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