Say hi to my new sneakers!
And the new T-shirt that would probably get me shot in the streets...
Figure 11, own time own target, carry on.
And my new phone I got from renewing my contract!
Sony Ericsson K618i, with a 2 Megapix camera and supports SD memory card.
During cell today Jiansheng had the "honour" to be the first person I captured using the new camphone!
There's this advertisement I really liked... it's the Heaven & Earth Green Tea advertisement where Godzilla stopped destroying the city after downing one whole vending-machine-load of H&E Green Tea (and finding its "inner peace"). I find it to be one of those advertisements today that brought forth its point in a pretty straightforward manner, unlike those other adverts which either have no point at all or might take a bit more brains to decipher (what those snobs call "witty").
Then again the advert had been cut to only one small fraction of the original... and now you only see Godzilla drinking the stuff, period. All about cutting cost, I think.
Eventually I just wish that these small sparks of creativity we see around us won't get forgotten over time.
I just finished watching the episode of "Guess Guess Guess" featuring Taiwanese Otakus (my dream vocation!!!) with mixed feelings.
I've been forewarned (via I-weekly) about this episode involving "Otakus" being ridiculed (well sort of) and that there's been a blog response to the show by one of the participants, which is
http://windranger.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!31FFB0C61D590653!270.entry
I personally felt a bit worried about those guys on stage (especially the one who's really nervous!) and at the same time I see so much of them in me. Under-expressive at times (the girl whom I couldn't take my eyes off you-know-what-I-mean), and over-expressive at times (read: thinking aloud).
And not to mention the figurines! One of them even had a Shana bolster, wow!
From the blogger's point of view it seems that all the "stories" were staged (it's very likely in variety shows, you never know) but somehow I just felt that whatever they said (and whatever was in the blog)... smells of an Otaku.
Mixed feelings because there's really 2 sides of me going-
"Those snobs are telling me what to do. Those self-righteous people are saying that it's wrong to stay home and not socialise, and yet when I do some "live action" stuff in front of them they call me a clown. They say it's not right to lose interest in girls beyond 2D, but real girls are so *&&%&^ and so hard to please, so unpredictable. Drawings stay the same, they don't change. Immutable."
"Those Otakus are snobs living in their own world and think that their form of entertainment is the most sophisticated and high-class (cough-French-cough); stuff from other cultures are just "of that kind of standard" (an overused term in Japanese I think). And 2D girls can't give you children anyway. The Otaku living 10 blocks away will have a different definition of your idea of 'moe', which you identify as a symbol of your culture. "
And talking about Otakus, Hiromi Arakawa's got something to say...
"I think the term 'moe' is being abused nowadays."
OK I've always admired Arakawa and his FullMetal Alchemist series...
Sometimes hearing what Otakus have to say scared me quite a bit. They can ramble on and on about the near-godliness of the manga and novels they read, and most of them, well...
Haruhi, my disdain for the series is known to almost everyone I bother telling. Shana, while not a bad concept at all, simply couldn't make novel material -- it's after all manga storyline and the wishy-washy Japanese way of describing things totally couldn't compare with the likes of Harry Potter (my yardstick fo reader appeal). I guess I'll stop following the novel and just go for the manga adaptation which only just started.
OK in the end my point is, my upbringing and personality would have made me an Otaku but I didn't have the money and the internet connection (jolly blogging with Dial-up) back when I was "ready". And now having seen that the Otaku kind of path isn't exactly as sensible as they say, I might as well forget it.
Random shots again...
Taken during a class gathering with 10/04. We've transited from talking about NS to talking about ORD. Good to be alive.
Ima Ai Ni Yukimasu!
The VCD of the drama hasn't been restocked for quite some time, but now it's in a power-packed package with extra behind-the-scenes footage, but it costs $44. Dear dear dear me I won't be buying.
But I'm still glad it got back on the shelves again. I personally was very much affected by the drama and I wish that more people can get to know of this wonderful story (blah blah-) but don't read the book first. The original story was quite dull actually... got to admire those who added the extra flesh and blood into the movie and drama stories.
P.S. I find "Zai Bie Kang Qiao" (Goodbye Cambridge) by SHE really nice and soothing.
