Melbourne: City of Culture.

So yes.
Despite not making any decent blogs, despite buying a nifty new mp3 player which i should've posted, but got too lazy because i was enjoying it too much.

And the ending of Macross, and Special A, and World Destruction, and all those i'm following. I should be making a post of a recap summary of them all too.

Oh well,

So, for a week i'll be going to Melbourne, the capital city of South Australia. I shall be competing there for the Australian University Games, in Fencing, for Foil and Epee.

And like last year, i doubt i'll have net.

But wish me luck ^_^
(especially in epee ^^;; majority of epeeist are tall people >_< ! )
xD

WD 8 and MF 20/21

World Destruction 8.
Well this episode was boring.
Our heroes have been captured along with the WSC (World Salvation Committee) and get submerged in the ocean of sands.
At least we now know that Kyrie is somehow attractive to Lia, she's blushing and what not. Oh well.
Since this was a boring ep, i'll just dwell into what i've find more interesting in episode 7.

Episode 7 involves our heroes walking into town to find out that someone is using their names to create havoc. Eating without paying, and harming and stealing antiques. All in the name of the World Destruction Commitee.
Interestingly enough, the characters that we get introduced to somehow have a personality switch. Kyrie is more manly, with a quiet girl (name forgotten), and an actually massive bear, who apparently is very gentle and kind. In comparison with Toppi. xD

Later on, we figure out that they're going around places, finding a Utopia where Beastmen and Humans can co-exist together in peace.

This just rings a bell back to what Morte wants, to end this world so it'll be peaceful (along the lines of that, more like she wants to destroy the world so that she can save it.)
Now applying this to reality, what'd you classify as a Utopian world our little planet of Earth, with an approx population of 6 billion with a variety of cultures and nationalities? We're not as easily split into humans and beastmen.
(what i DO wonder is where are the ape-men? Humans are ape-like. How come i haven't seen any apemen-beastmen? ~_~? )

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"1 torpedo for 2 sand whales"
Wow... talk about parralel worlds.
"One birds for two stones." Or was it "Killing 2 birds with one stone?" I can't remember the exact quote, but you get the gist of it.
What i'm laughing at, is that in this parallel world is they used torpedoes. Shows that this quote is only made recently with the introduction of technology.
I assume that beastmen in the past never tried spears or super large rocks to take down a sandwhale. And how come there aren't any fishmen-beastmen? :/ Yet they have frogmen-beastmen :(
I don't want to go through the whole animal kingdom, but come on :(

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Macross Frontier ep 20. Spoilers.








DAMMIT THEY KILLED HIM!
They didn't killed Ozma, so they killed another senpai of our main hero Alto, in this case it was Mikhael/Michael/Michel etc...
In contrasting this to Focker from SDFMacross,
both these guys are womanisers, great pilots, blonde hair, actually a senpai of our hero Alto/Hikari. Part of the Skull Squadron.
Compared with Ozma.
Skull Leader. Man. In a relationship with one woman. Pineapples. Bad shot in a dogfight.

Seems to me, they cut 1/3 of Focker and placed it into Mikhael and 2/3 into Ozma.

Oh well, but it is quite saddening to lose Mikhael, though im' interested into seeing what Ranka will do, now that she's going to Vajra territory to return Ai-kun. She's their queen, she can command them to all stop, and if all goes well, assimilate the Vajra into the infantry/search/military/something-or-other divison of the government. They proved their power, and since they don't seem to need to live a good experiance-ful life like humans and zentradi and the meltrandi, they suddenly seem very easy to take care of, especially as shock troops of the universe.

And with the rest of the Macross universe having biotech and implants, who knows? Maybe they could implement Vajra psyiology into their newer class of DomeShips. After all the Vajra can fold while ignoring the faults.

I'm interested to see how this will all play out in the end.

21

The age that defines the end of childhood.
The becoming of an adult.
A shift of worlds.

Such idoicy.

Humans have placed shackles among themselves.
Defined values to suit their needs.
Created wondrous and abhorable subjects.

In selfish desires to survive.
They ignore the beauty of nature.

The colours of autumn.
The cooling of air.
The glow of sunsets.

The quietness of winter.
The puffs of breathe we take.
The crispness of the starry sky.

The blossoming of Spring.
The gentle breeze.
The soft scent of flowers.

The flares of summer.
The lazy afternoons.
The cool nights upon us.

The world man created is complex.
Confusing. Incongruent. Catastrophic.

Despite that be the realm we live in.
You are you.
You are your own.
You decide what you be.

You have the strength to do what you want.
The world of man was created for its own sake.
Yet, the world of nature still continues.
Thus, you can create your own,

The world you desire. The world that you wish for.

With the hurt and love of your past,
with the pain and happiness of your future,
You hold your life in your own hands.
Don't let anyone take it from you.

~Jalin

Fresh Food People

"We're Fresh Food People Because You Are"

Have any of you guys seen/heard of this quote?
It's Woolworth's latest ad campaign.

I find this as a kind of interesting ad.
This type of ad doesn't blatantly make its customers think its own products are such good. What this ad does, is it invokes the feeling that the consumer/customer is good itself, and thus, the store aligns itself to the customer.

Generally, Ads themselves make the customer's align to the store's way of thinking. But this doesn't.
It also plays an important part in australia's growing obesity epidemic. Like most western countries, the average person is getting fatter and fatter.

So what does wooly does? Uses this dilemma, plus its current catch phrase, to create an ad that goes with the time. A lot of parents worry about the weight of their children as well as all the GM Foods. Woolies also promotes the 'healty benefits' of a good life style, eating the right foods, fresh, unprocessed, and hey, who does that? We do, your friendly woolworthes supermarket chain.

I reckon its a nice play on them for the common populace, but this won't affect me, i prefere buying my vegies from asian super markets xD

But best of luck for them. Its a competitive world out there.

But have you seen any ads that perk your interests not because of their product, but how they're selling it?


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P.S.
my good news from my previous post has shattered.

I'm not dead....

Hey~

As you might've noticed, it has been veeerryyy quiet here.
I'm mostly been busy and haven't had much time to blog anything of anime or thought-related matter.

I've even missed out on the potential postings of World Destruction, and MFrontier updates.

However, if all goes well i'll have something to blog about next week.

If they have any in stock..............

Till then, i can only wish i had a plane ticket to London.. *sigh*

Genius Party

So yes, i have been busy. Not to mention, aside from some anime i'll sometimes post, i have nothing absolutely good to post, been to busy to be on a blog rant mode.

However, i have been slowly watching my anime, while neglecting the less interesting ones *ahem*Amatsuki*ahem* However, what i'm blogging today is about "Genius Party"

Genius Party is apparently 7 short independant movies by Studio 4C. Each done by a different but renown director. However, i only have access to ep 1, 2, 4, 6, 7.
1) Genius Party
2) Shanghai Dragon
4) Doorbell
6) Happy Machine
7) Baby Blue

Due to some stupid software error, snap shots have been lost.
1) Genius Party.
This one has no words or lines at all. It wasn't too bad.

2) Shanghai Dragon.
Hey, they speak mandarin o_O or could be shanghai-nese, but since i can recognize mandarin more than i can shanghai-nese, i conclude that it IS mandarin they are speaking and not actually shanghai ironically.
This one is fairly interesting in that humans have developed a device that convert thoughts into reality. A Thought Materialization System. Like the Lambda Drive in Full Metal Panic. Except, this one is severely more compact and seems to be more easily used with no scientific explanation to it at all. At least in FMP they mentioned that for the Lambda Drive to work, it required the pilot to be emitting some sort of alpha wave. In Shanghai Dragon, it just seems to be finally produced from somewhere in the future, where humans have relied heavily on biotechnology and seems to be currently in a war with AIs. Shall i mention that humans have lost the ability to reproduce? And it just so happens that the user of this 'crystal' is a lil 5 year old, nose drooping kid.
I find it amusing and lame at how the kid uses it. But hey, they're kids. I find it possibly unrealistic in that the droopy kid becomes the hero and seems to have matured. But hey, in dire situations, people to grow up in a short amount of time.

Another thought that passes through my mind in this anime is the idea of time travel. Accordingly to the 'humans' from the future, they're from a time that the earth is way way over there where there is no starlight confirmed from current location. Now, if you apply 4th Dimension concept as linear. It partially make sense. The universe is said to be constantly expanding. So naturally where we are now in the universe will not be the same in several thousand years. What i'm finding most curious is how the time travel actually occurred, i mean, they couldn't have just traveled in the direction earth was in the past. Perhaps traveling at light speed is the reason, or actually traveling beyond the 4th dimension, however in doing that, you'd somewhat have achieved an existance beyond the constraints of time and thus immortal. I doubt this is the real case with these guys. Despite having a cyborg body with pretty nifty methods to fight as a cyborg.
Enough about time travel for now, and the nifty fights between human cyborgs and AIs and the new Thought Materialization System controlled by a 5 year old from old shanghai. I dunno if this one is nifty of cheesy. Its got this cool background song when Sai was fighting some AIs with his cigar flying.

4) Doorbell.
my gosh o_o... this one had me a bit creeped at the end. It introduces this possible idea of either some sort of dopple ganger (currently this term is veerry loosily used), or alternate selfs all co-existing together at the same time. The clone concept. However, this apparently seems to be entirely unintentional. I could take 2 stances upon seeing short movie.
One would be that he defeats these persona's of himself that doesn't actually properly exist, or his conscious is floating between the several 'vessels'. This one requires a bit more thinking before i can construct anything proper. The other would be that earth suddenly (or japan) has a phenonem (yes i can't spell) that somehow produces an exact double of you without you knowing. Anyways, this one kinda wierded me out despite being fairly decent.

6) Happy Machine.
I guess this one falls into a similar category to the first one. Genius Party. And not that because there was no dialogue, it probably because of an entirely different world. However, this one was a whole cycle. The previous was just a linear thing.

7) Baby Blue.
Wow, this one seemed normal xD Very normal. Very sweet and nice.

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. 2

So, i decided to follow this.
I needed some new romantic comedy to keep me occupied. Drama based animes are good and all,but you need some sort of breather once and again.

And yes, i definitely place this as a romantic comedy.
i'm actually surprised they already went on a 'date' already. But oh well. Nothing that bad to complain about. They actually go to Akihibara. A good scene for a secretive otaku girl, and despite our male lead being more realistic in that he doesn't actually have nose bleeds, he's at least a guy with the thoughts that run through his head. there isn't much to say on an anime like this. its a romantic comedy afterall.

Instead, i'll rant about coming back to australia.
DAM ITS COLD
DAM MY NET IS SLOW
DAM WHERE'S THE CONVIENT FOOD?
DAM FOOD IS SO EXPENSIVE
DAMMIT!! DRINKS!
DAM MY SKIN IS DRY! (yes, i never would have picked it up before, in HK, i sweated without knowing, and come here its like "woh?!")

though i honestly can't believe how slow my net is >.> upload the screenshots take so long >.>
they're even a larger size than my digicam. oh i feel the pain if i ever take pics -_-


So here's a few snaps i found amusing and wish to comment on.



As with all 'high school idols' in anime. you've tend to get a fan club of sort. Here they are stalking following their dear lil princess and grinding their teeth at the useless Yuuto.



Amusing SD form. they'res more, but i'm too lazy to give them all out, and why spoil all the fun?




And here she goes, making a detailed plan. This also reminds me a scene from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi. Where Miu gives Kenichi a map, with 'squiggly' roads, and his sister says that all girls like to draw roads squiggly.
[This would be a manga reference, i haven't watched the anime]


PDS huh? Finding it amusing i recently bought my NDS. Not to mention, if the PSP and the NDS done a fusion dance i'd reckon the look would come something like that xD

Good question. Though, you can only wonder what kind of anime that'd be -_-....


... wtf...?


EASILY misunderstood when placed out of context ^_^

So, here solves it.

Well i'll leave it at that. That's about 1/2 to about 2/3 of the episode.

Gah! im' surprised that no one has told me that the links to the photos have been wrong -_- So, if you really wsih to see the pictures in their normal glory of my previous posts, im' sorry, but you'l have to either view the whole folder as the password is already given, or know the name of the file, then just put in the right number -_-. My sincere apologies for my stupidity for not knowing this earlier -_-