| |
|
|
Confessions on the Office Floor
BGM: [ Lonely in Gorgeous ] by Tommy February6
===== =====
Ahh... the smell of corporate coffee.
Top 5 for the week:
1. CAUSE DISARRAY by Galneryus
2. Torpedo by Eraserheads
3. Uchuu ni Saku by Lisa Komine
4. Kasumi by Viored
5. Forbidden by Moi dix Mois
===== =====
Most Americans now are throwing their support behind Barack Obama's bandwagon. And why not? He's blacker than Michael Jackson, he's more charismatic than Bush, and probably more smarter than your average black rap artist. And I'm far from being rude at this point. As a foreign observer, I think Senator McCain's in a whole lot of trouble. Actually, if Hillary had clinched the Democrat nomination, McCain's in luck because it will be an even playing field. But Barack brings something else; Sexists are as dead as... dead. And soon, if Barack eventually wins the White House lottery, racists will be dead.
The White House has literally been the House of the Whites. From Washington to Bush, all of the are undeniably as white as Michael Jackson. The black Americans, though not the original inhabitants of the US, slowly creeped out of seclusion and eventually integrated themselves into almost every (emphasize "every") aspect of the American culture usually dominated by whites; black businessmen, black basketball players, black golfers, black politicians, black actors, black teachers, almost everything except "black president". Barack fits the bill, but he reminds me of coffee with cream. He could be the Golden Gate that bridges the past and the future of America, and most Americans are sick of war and wants a whole lotta damn change. McCain needs to soak up lots and lots of charisma now. Barack has loads, and the truth hurts for McCain: he has nothing to offer to Americans. Obama will have 99 problems (and McCain ain't one).
Now America, can you smell what Ba-Rack is cookin?
The only question that remains to be answered is: Who will be Barack's vice presidential running mate? But I have a gut feeling that there's a 20% chance it will be the HillRod, and 70% it will be a lady politician. I wouldn't be surprised if Condoleeza Rice will step up to the plate.
===== =====
From the NBA Finals Game 2 and 4 standpoint, the biggest difference makers would be the bench players.
Take for example, Leon Powe. Nobody from the Lakers coaching staff had any inkling that Leon Powe would score more points than Kevin Garnett. PJ Brown played solid minutes in lieu of Kendrick Perkins' foul troubles. Sasha Vujacic and Vladimir Radmanovic engineered a late-game comeback anchored on booming three-point shots.
Sure, Kobe Bryant will always score big, given the pageantry and stakes that the Finals offer. After all, the Shaq is gone. Pau Gasol will always be that Spanish pain-in-the-butt for Doc Rivers' defensive players. Boston's Big Three will score more than 40 points combined given the opportunity to wear championship bling.
The starters will always negate each other in this tightly-wound contest (except Rajon Rondo who's matchup with Derek Fisher is a big mismatch). And, when they do, the bench comes into play.
Currently, Phil Jackson's gamble of breaking up his "Mob Squad" of role players (Walton, Vujacic, et al) in different defensive assignments have failed. Doc River's gamble of playing a grizzled veteran and a sophomore (Leon Powe and PJ Brown) together has worked wonders.
Now Boston is up by 3-1. Lakers fans are now in trouble because it will be hard to stop Boston's depraved (of rings) Big Three.
===== =====
Last Tuesday's the first day of school for many Filipino primary and secondary students. And goddamn, what traffic it caused.
I had to wake up at 430AM just to beat the traffic. And right now I'm taking sips of Zero Cal just to keep me preppy for any programming douchebag that come my way.
But I still remember vividly my high school and college days of the so-called "first day of the school year". New faces, new teachers, new sublects. The only thing that's not new is the atmosphere, the "getting-to-know-you" smell in the air, more akin to the fatal attraction of a pheromone wiff.
But in college, I stopped going to the "first day of school" since first year. After all, "first day" is for freshman suckers who want a fast educational f**k.
===== =====
Major announcement for all concerned Filipinos who love their country:
The ZTE scandal is now practically a dead subject.
Thank God. *hallelujah* Now Senate, go back to f**king work.
===== =====
The Filipino public transportation buses nowadays feature TVs, and some actually had the cash to install LCD Flat TVs in their bus! Thank God too for technology and the generosity of these transportation sectors.
By the way, public jeepneys only have stereos. At the blasting volumes only appreciated by Africans.
Most of the buses also have DVD players installed with their unit. Cool. For the next 1 1/2 hours of sitting my butt out at the bus, there's something that I can watch for a bit of amusement.
So far these DVD titles are the ones I saw already:
Snakes on a Plane (the one with Samuel L. Jackson)
Scary Movie 2 and 3
Epic Movie
Mulan
Shaolin Soccer
For the Love of a King
The Man in the Iron Mask (the one with DiCaprio's godawful hairdo)
28 Weeks Later
8 Mile
(one certain Dolf Lundgren movie... dunno title)
Pulp Fiction (yeah baby! Tarantino flicks rule)
Erin Brockovich
Cruel Intentions
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Romeo Must Die
Bodyguard from Beijing
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Pankake Festival (the Linkin Park DVD)
Padre Kalibre (translated: Pistol Priest)
Baby Ama II
The only one I actually really want to be shown in the bus is "Speed II"... you know, the one with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock inside a speeding bus.
===== =====
I'm now rediscovering old "Dead End" and "Psycho le Cemu" songs.
They're old Japanese rock bands, BTW.
===== =====
Now I'm riveting and rolling my eyes around this office I'm in and try to find some unusual things (it's evident I'm quite bored except that jolt of activity involving ASP.NET and AJAX)...
- Green Cross Rubbing Alcohol (way too sanitary... avoiding viruses maybe? is mcafee weak?)
- C2 Lemon-flavored chilled green tea drink (softdrinks are on the way to the dumps)
- Tumblers
Way too many office workers now favor the use of a personal tumbler. After all, avoiding an indirect kiss is one reason. Sanitation is another. I actually don't have a tumbler. I prefer buying a Zero Cal PET bottle at the nearest 7-11 and reuse it as a water bottle for the day.
- Balloons (party time?)
- Jackets
I know, I know. I'm in an airconditioned office. Jackets should be fine here. But I'm an extinct species; I'm not comfortable with polyester-based insulators. See, at UST we had some really badass aircondition machines. They're not that new (I checked one last Feb and they're circa 2002... whoa!) but the way they blow is another. Some even spit ice chips on us during class! Too cold. And if you're accustomed to that for four damn years, I grew skin that's impervious to 18-degree aircon temperatures. Heck, even if I wore loosefits like a sando or a XXL t-shirt I would still be comfortable.
The only drawback is that I'm unaccustomed to 30-degree temperatures outside the office. Way hot.
- Headphones (the really big ones)
One guy here have a wireless Bluetooth-based set of kickass blue headphones.
- Nutrasweet No-Cal Sugar
Oh dear. Diet?
Actually, for me, diet is a sadistic bitch. No, not the Japanese Diet. The diet where you're laden with sets of rules like don't-eat-this-and-that sort of thing.
I don't believe in diets. One British chef (I think his name's Nigel) convinced me that diets are just tools of people who earn cash by seeing others grunge on garbage. Atkins diet, South Beach diet, no-sugar diet, they all plain suck.
Nigel explained that watching your intake and taking the stairs (meaning light exercise) works a lot. Let me explain.
Sometimes people eat for no reason at all. This means that the body sometimes trigger brain signals for being a bit peckish on the side, or just being plain dehydrated. So one should watch his body signals if he is that hungry, or he just needs a glass of water (fruit juice and/or tea is fine). Sometimes we are actually thirsty due to daily perspiration, but that doesn't translate to being hungry. So the old adage of 8 glasses of water a day is met, and that's good.
Light exercise doesn't involve the usual gym shit. I don't discourage gym buffs, I just want to explain that having a six-pack abdomen is never a NEED for a human being. It's a simple want.
The "exercise" can involve plain walking, jogging and avoiding the stairs (for 10 floors and below only). Swimming is also good, and morning calisthenics is also great.
I follow what I say; I seldom take stairs, I drink a lot of H2O. The only drawback (and all diets have drawbacks) of this regimen is the constant trips to the urinals.
- Calendars
- Lots more of rubbing alcohol
- Hair Gel
Is a man's hair so unstable that one has to bring hair gel to work? Heh.
===== =====
U-hurm. This is a new layout, for Hyrokkin's Anthology XVI.
I named it "Cause Disarray" after my current favorite J-Music song.
The 5 things at the top is "the GazettE" minus one member. I can't find the other page on one of my Shoxx magazines, so I was forced to duplicate Ruki (see above more closely).
If you watched the anime "Rental Magica" this layout is definitely familiar to you, because this layout is inspired by that one.
I dunno if I should have gone the full nine and did a goth layout complete with Mana symbolisms and Moi dix Mois with black cherry on top, but scrapped it. Probably I'll upload that one by XXIII.
I'll still edit this one by this week, so by Sunday next week, this site should be a-OK. But for now, this would be just fine.
http://www.freewebs.com/albert_22/pages/aboutme.html
http://www.freewebs.com/albert_22/pages/links.html
Ciao for now, and holla holla holla!
BGM: [ Without Me ] by Eminem
===== =====
I'm currently designing a new blog layout. I'll try to upload it by Monday.
I hope I can resume my blogging life by the upcoming weeks. Since being on the thesis maelstrom and the jobhunting trail, I had less time for myself.
Top 5 picks for the week:
1. Baby Romantica by Script
2. Still Doll by Kanon Wakeshima
3. King of Kings by Môtorhead
4. Finale by L'Arc~en~Ciel
5. Datenshi Blue by Aucifer
===== =====
I'm headed towards my second month of work in PLD*. The pay's not bad too: roughly more or less 15,000 PhP and for the past month I did nothing but test cases and debugging.
But I feel like 3 years is just okay for me. Well, I am under contract for 3 years and I don't want to be a plain office worker who burns ass-sized holes in office chairs.
I'm thinking of spicing up my resume for the duration of 3 years: attending computer/IT seminars, freelancing as a programmer, doing major projects with my employer, and hopefully I can land a much better position somewhere else. PLD* is a very good company; I mean, I'm less paid here but the prestige of working with the country's telecom giant is a huge spice to my resume.
It's all about experience. I don't mind being paid less. I don't take shortcuts to success.
===== =====
Currently, I'm hooked on these anime titles:
Wagaya no Oinari-sama
Blassreiter
Vampire Knight
Da Capo 2nd Season
to-LOVE-ru
Naruto Shippuuden
Kamen no Maid-guy
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
Otoboku
Persona
Nabari no Ou
Naisho no Tsubomi
Crystal Blaze
Monochrome Factor
Junjou Romantica <--- yep, you read that right
xxxHOLiC Kei
Itazura na Kiss
Mnemosyne
Special A
Kurenai
Code Geass II
Soul Eater
Kanokon
I download them via BitTorrent, and I watch them on my PSP in between work breaktimes and in the two-hour lulls of travelling to and from work.
===== =====
I'm also riveted on the current Boston Celtics-LA Lakers matchup in the NBA 2008 Finals. And as far as I'm betting on some team, my money's on Boston.
Boston has managed to have a great offseason, acquiring Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett by trading away their youthful players. They gained unmatched veteran expertise from it. And including Paul Pierce, they created a legit NBA miracle turnaround.
Kobe's the been-there-done-that player of the Lakers. He's the unanimous and deserving MVP in my opinion. But you have 3 guys with the same purpose, same goal and the same scoring and defensive prowess, and also without NBA rings in their hands, I think it will be hard for the Lakers to push Boston aside.
Suddenly, basketball in the NBA is basketball again. After 21 years, gentlemen, we have a ball game.
===== =====
The Welcoat Dragons in the PBA needs serious retooling, in my opinion.
I think if Welcoat finishes dead last again, I think the franchise bosses will create a huge makeover with the team.
I'm a big Ginebra fan, but I don't like seeing another team in the PBA look like asses waiting to be whooped.
I'm predicting one or more of these players will make their way into the Welcoat roster this season or the next Philippine Cup season:
Eric Menk
Chris Calaguio
Ken Bono
Yousif Aljamal
Migs Noble
Eddie Laure
John Ferriols
Rodney Santos
Ronjay Enrile
Danny Ildefonso
Brandon Cablay
Mark Andaya
Christian Coronel
===== =====
WWE should feature its Divas more on the wrestling side and less fanservice. I think WWE discarded the Chyna-esque womens' image back in 2002 and started making their female wrestlers more like walking eyecandies. And then Trish and Lita left; the last of the true wrestling women of WWE. Where else can you see a woman do a moonsault? Or a hurricanrana?
WWE needs some serious Diva repackaging. Really.
===== =====
I also would like to express condolences to the family of Rudy Fernandez, one of the last remaining true actors in the Philippine showbiz industry. He died early this morning.
===== =====
Obama wins the Democrats' rat race for candidacy.
I think the upcoming US elections would be a lopsided victory for Obama akin to how Bush handily defeated Al Gore years ago.
Actually, I think that if Hillary would win, it would be a fair contest between Senator McCain and Ex-FirstLady Hillary Clinton.
Now Senator McCain would have to soak up gallons of charisma to match up against Obama.
===== =====
Gail-neechan recently went to HK for a Laruku concert. And to think of it, I haven't been to any concerts (even locally) since I attended a Rivermaya event/concert when Rico Blanco was still in.
I had been in some concerts in the past, namely one of the Eraseheads' last concerts with Ely in it.
Probably by August I'll be in for another one.
===== =====
So... I'll be back on Monday. Ciao!
BGM: [ Kimi=Hana ] by PIGSTAR
===== =====
Oh, the joys of summer with a thorn in my butt. Douchebags of work.
Top 5 songs for the week:
1. Kimi=Hana by PIGSTAR
2. Why by AYAKA
3. Shissou by Last Alliance
4. Torpedo by Eraserheads
5. Paradise by Creature Creature
===== =====
I'm now very very hungry for some "the GazettE" material. Ruki is way too damn cool.
===== =====
*NOTE: The job contract censorship still applies*
After loads of work, sweat and tears (but mostly work) I'm now to PLD*.
My only source of strengt* in my w*rk is that at least I KNOW what am i d*ing. Unlike most of my cla**mates who took Oracle-related jobs but doesn't know anything about it, they're potentailly headed to the so-called "Work S**tpile", which consists of laid-off workers.
I know VB.NET now. I know what I am doing. I'm not second-guessing at wor*.
And I'm comfortable being contrac***l.
===== =====
Truth be told, TNA, or "Totally Nonstop Asskissing" is going way overboard.
Their storylines suck. Their promotional pitches do never click. Their wrestlers are underpaid and underused. And worst of all, they occupy 2 hours of SpikeTV, which is the proverbial last straw.
I love SpikeTV. But when it comes to them airing TNA, I do promptly switch off the TV or flip to another channel.
Some people (allegedly hooked by an alternative to WWE like TNA) asked me why I say this. Why do I dislike TNA? Let me count the ways.
1. They keep hiring ex-WWE employees, keep re-using WWE storylines (or plagiarizing off it), using old WWE gimmicks, and using WWE as like a comparison to them.
First off, TNA never had branding. Paul Heyman is right on the money. See Kurt Angle? 90% of wrestling fans know him better as the heel, the Olympic Medal shove-it-up-your-ass WWE's Kurt Angle than the wife-asskissing TNA's Kurt Angle. See Booker T? Try King-Booo-kahhh chants. He's the five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, WCW Champion and once a King of the Ring winner, not the flaccid weiner he is now in TNA. Sting is more famed in WCW. The Dudley Boys? Most TNA fans actually refer to them as the Dudleys still, the ECW table-hugging fatasses.
If you list the tenured ex-WWE people in TNA... lemme list.
Kurt Angle
Christian Cage (ex-Christian)
Scott Steiner
Black Reign (ex-Goldust)
Booker T (ex-King Booker)
Brother Ray & Devon (ex-Bubba Ray Dudley and ex-D-Von Dudley)
Matt Morgan
B.G. James (ex-Road Dogg)
Kip James (ex-Billy Gunn -the gay one with Chuck Palumbo-)
Kevin Nash (the original Big Sexy)
Jeff Jarrett (the one with the IC championship Vince once forgot to strip of)
Rellik (was Johnny Stamboli in WWE from 2001-2004)
Rhino (ex-Rhyno)
Christy Hemme
Jacqueline (from 1998-2004, once WWE Cruiserweight Champion)
Gail Kim (ex-WWE Women's Champion)
Salinas (the ex-valet of Kevin Thorn, "Ariel")
Tomko (ex-Tyson Tomko, the Christian resident bedfellow)
And the ones with minimal WWE exposure...
Johnny Devine (had a one-day jobber job as JP Parsons at August 18 2005 Smackdown)
Hernandez (was a jobber in WWF in 2000-2001 Jakked)
Kaz (once was on WWE Smackdown as a cruiserweight in 2005)
Robert Roode (dark matches in WWE from 2001-2004)
Samoa Joe (was on WWE Jakked once against Essa Rios)
AJ Styles (also a WWE Jakked talent, more known for his matches with Helms)
Eric Young (a jobber in WWE Velocity and Heat)
Elix Skipper (WWE in 2001 in The Alliance)
Raisha Saeed (a WWE Heat jobber)
Rhaka Khan (a WWE jobber in 2006)
Angelina Love (an OVW/DSW talent)
ODB (a WWE Tough Enough contestant)
Velvet Sky (2005-2007 in WWE, minimal extra)
Jim Cornette (old-time loudmouth in WWF-WWE)
Hector Guerrero (more famed as Eddie's bro and as a chickensuit man)
Sharmell (the heelish wife of King Booker)
SoCal Val (once appeared on WWE vignettes featuring Luther Reigns and a Cena shirt model)
Heck, even Earl Hebner. Remember the Montreal Screwjob?
Wow. That's way a lot of wrestlers. See?
2. They have NO original talent now in the roster. WWE develops most of its own talents, and they have their own developmental farms. Which is really good.
TNA has none. Basically, it's a dumphouse of rejects, has-beens and jobbers.
3. Where are their original talents now? Monty Brown's gone. Chris Harris is now in WWE. AJ Styles is an undercard wrestler. Samoa Joe just got a taste of gold, but he's promoted on a very dismal proportion than how WWE promotes their champions.
4. TNA is content with dismal storylines, cheap promotional gimmicks (see Wrestlemania 24? TNA was there like a bunch of penises trying to leech off WWE's heavy promotion of their PPV) and MMA-imitation styles.
5. TNA wrestlers criticize WWE mostly for its heavy road schedule. But it pays very good dividends. Randy Orton is now MORE famous than Kurt Angle. See? WWE is a promotional and wrestling company. TNA... dunno, maybe it needs a makeover.
6. Booking really sucks. Where is Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles? Most people will pay good money to see Booker T in a Ladder Match against Sting. The problem is, TNA doesn't satisfy its viewers. TNA only satisfy themselves. Fans... well, are they more happy with an Eric Young autograph or a signed shirt by Mr. Kennedy?
7. TNA is disrespectful. Derek Graham-Couch once showed up in TNA as a paying customer (and he's a WWE employee too) and TNA had the balls to show him on-screen as a "WWE Superstar". How cheap. TNA is more content with promotion than others' welfare.
8. TNA is a leech. See Shark Boy lately? See Roode's robe?
And that's it. No talent, no balls, no good gimmicks, no originality. Why the hell would anybody watch this crap?
Now let me watch UFC.
===== =====
BGM: [ CAUSE DISARRAY ] by Galneryus
===== =====
So much for working, heh?
Top 5 for the week:
1. Hanamaru Sensation by Little Non (Kodomo no Jikan ED)
2. Sweetest Coma Again by Luna Sea
3. ALSATIA by Galneryus
4. Aerith's Theme (FFVII Crisis Core version)
5. Hella Good by No Doubt
===== =====
I just finished playing Crisis Core on PSP. it was almost as dramatic and touching as FFVII.
Well, now I'm gonna play again FFVII. On the PSP this time.
===== =====
(Forgive some of the cens*red w*rds. My c*ntract will be vi*lated if i t*ll the tr*th)
I'm now employed by S******. Basically I'll be a V***E* Programming Trainee for 4 m*nths (supposedly) and I'll be depl*yed at P**T by Ju**.
Currently while I'm typing this bl*g I'm making pr*grams, lots and l*ts of progr*ms. Hopefully by M**** 6 I'm done with training. And the r*quir*ments.
I'll be m*king at least a d*cent am*unt of m*ney. I'm not after the c*sh; I'm after the bigtime *xp*sure that c*mes with this j*b.
By 3 years (in the c*ntrac*) I should be about 23, still in d*mand.
I really l*ve pr*grammin*. I just h*pe I don't *cquire an* eye *ilm*nts.
===== =====
Most of my classmates are either also in training or are directly employed. I'm not in a hurry to rake in cash.
===== =====
Some headline news (again) from FARK.com... (I just screened the best ones, credits to FARK please) (If you want the news links, go to www.fark.com and have a good time)
The "bold" ones are the best ones, I think, so far.
- Azerbaijanis upset after finding out the double meaning behind the name of the new English-style pub in their capital of Baku: "The Camel's Toe". With pub sign pic goodness
- Surgeons can now remove your appendix through your mouth. In related story, dentists announce that they can perform root canals through your ass
- Man celebrates his discharge from hospital by stealing an ambulance and leading police officers on a 100 mph car chase
- If you must rob a home, make sure it's not one owned by a world-ranked kickboxer first
- Tips on driving in Beijing during Olympics. Tip #1: Don't
- Just when you thought banks in Florida have been robbed every imaginable way, here comes a woman cloaked in white with a Mountain Dew bottle, smelling of gasoline
- Jackie Chan has a special message for any protestors planning to try and grab the Olympic torch from him
- China resents being called a bunch of goons, threatens to ship more poison dog food and toxic toys if CNN doesn't apologize
- If you are going to rob a post office, make sure it's not one owned by members of your own family. They might be able to identify you
===== =====
So, me will be somehow preoccupied these coming months. Ciao.
===== =====
Hyrokkin, BS Computer Science, Batch 2008
I have now graduated from the University of Santo Tomas today, earning a degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Thanks be to God, for everything is impossible without His grace.
Thank you to all of my classmates from first year to fourth year. Memories which were treasured with you all will always remain within my memories, etched in stone.
To all my professors, thank you for sharing your knowledge to me, and helping me to acquire skills which I will need in the outside world.
To my alma mater, thank you for the four wonderful years I have spent within your unending grace and imbued me with the true Thomasian virtues.
To all who I have shared my life as a college student, I deeply thank you, for moments with you are my truest, happiest memories.
Now it's time to find a job.
BGM: [ DRINK IT DOWN ] by L'Arc~en~Ciel
===== =====
Top 5 for the week again.
1. Sweetest Coma Again by abingdon boys school
2. DIRTY by Nightmare
3. Take a Bow by Madonna
4. Ash like Snow by the brilliant green
5. Trip to Jerusalem by Eraserheads
===== =====
Ok, so I'm now cleared with CS105. That's the subject code for "Theory of Automata", a subject of f***-***t.
I passed the second removal exam, so I'm supposed to get a raw score of 55, which is a passing grade of 3.00 in UST's gradebook.
But truth be told, I'm not partying over this fact. See, I have little faith in myself as a student. As soon as I see 3.00 on my e-Grades on eLeap, THEN I will have a bash at my room. I'm pessimistic with grade results.
===== =====
TNA still sucks worse than a vacuum cleaner. And by the fact they rehired Johnny Fairplay and hitched with The Truck, everybody's in for a lousy f**k.
I'll reconsider TNA if they manage to establish themselves as a brand much different than WWE. TNA has no brand currently. And people would still see Kurt as the "You Suck" guy probably until 2015.
===== =====
Top 10 things why the Philippine government has failed the Filipino people:
1. The government is corrupt, and the ones prosecuting them are also corrupt.
2. The communists keep shouting "<name of president> RESIGN" at rallies. They never change their mantra, do they? The worst is that the government failed to see that MOST party-list groups are in fact communists - wolves dressed up as sheep.
3. The government has failed to define "democracy" and its limitations.
4. Poverty has evolved from a nuisance to a disease.
5. The educational system has been loosened up by DepEd, resulting in a lower education standard.
6. 11 million Filipinos elected an asshole in the penitentiary, and the worse thing is that it's LEGAL according to the government.
7. The Senate is fast becoming more like the political version of Siegfried and Roy's circus show. Let's say Ping Lacson is Roy. You know what happened to Roy back then?
8. The politicians are more concerned with 2010 than passing important laws.
9. In the world of Philippine politics, "former" and "retired" doesn't mean a damn thing. Retired generals and former presidents still want the Filipino people to kiss their asses.
10. The law courts are TOO slow. Justice delayed is justice denied.
===== =====
Some headline news (again) from FARK.com... (I just screened the best ones, credits to FARK please) (If you want the news links, go to www.fark.com and have a good time)
The "bold" ones are the best ones, I think, so far.
- Judge's order restricts an eight-year-old boy from carrying tools when his fan worship of "Bob the Builder" gets carried away. Hopefully, judge will next set his sights on anime cosplayers
- Muslim inmates in Britain served ham sandwiches during Ramadan. Hilarity did not ensue
- Native Americans can be traced to six "founding mothers." Sluts
- Prison guards eat cake baked by prisoners. What could possibly go wrong?
- Student sues teacher for waking him up
- ((5 + 5) x 10) x 8 dogs seized from home
- Vandals break into Alabama movie theatre, slash five screens. Yeah, "10,000 B.C." was that bad
- Many teens spend more than 30 hours a week in front of the TV or playing video games. Amateurs
- Weird: Vegas man paints his car to match a police cruiser, including insignia and lights. Fark: It's perfectly legal
- Trilogy nerds debate the location of The Shire
- Rolling Stone puts Barack Obama on the cover, giving him the same loving care the magazine gave former cover-messiah Jar-Jar Binks
- 50 weird science tidbits, including: why astronauts cannot belch and the Biggest Beer in the Universe
- 20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time
- National child obesity program to start in West Virginia…home of the Deep-Fried Cherry Pie
===== =====
OK, so for now, ciao. Hopefully I can post another next week.
Between Scylla and Charybdis
BGM: [ Kuusou Rumba ] - Ootsuki Kenji and the Zetsubou Girls
===== =====
Top 5 picks~ne
1. Sweetest Coma Again by abingdon boys school
2. DIRTY by Nightmare
3. King of Kings by Motorhead
4. Arakajime Bou Sesshou by ISOLATION+
5. Reila by the GazettE
===== =====
Oh, Mark Jayson Villareal. *sees tagboard*
Yep, I was at the iConvergence Seminar last feb 21 at SM Megamall. I was absent the second day due to thesis constraints.
Your face... awww shucks, no more LKS babyface for now. I got used to you and Ron looking like a couple of good-looking peeps, now you look older than me.
Hehe.
===== =====
My thesis went well, but I was nearly on the verge of vomiting along the way of doing it.
We managed to make the defense by last week, around february 27. The panelists only suggested very minor revisions, which I was truly glad about.
But the bookbinding hell. Dammit. If I am to be told, the bookbinders of Gast*mbid*, Manil* really were a bunch of Asian porch monkeys who are after only the money. Hope they choke on it. They even managed to misspell our thesis title. The part "An Algorithm-based...", they removed a space so that it looked like "Analgorithm-based", which sounded gross. It made me so mad I didn't even want to come back there.
The pedicab drivers of Manil* were also a bunch of greedy wieners who were asking too much out of the students. I hope they know what they are doing. They are feeding their kids food bought with swindled money. Those pedicab drivers probably do not have any more conscience.
We were forced to shell out more money to re-bookbind our thesis documentation. The Lovelite bookbinders really were heavenly beings sent to us, willingly agreed to rush-bookbind the book for 2 hours.
When we passed it, I was relieved that the thesis ordeal was over. Really f**kin' over.
Only two groups in 4CSA managed to pass the thesis requirements on time.
My thesis is an chat/sms lingo to english translator. If you want a copy (it's in Java, BTW and it is open-source) email me at al_62287@yahoo.com with the subject "Thesis Request". I'll send you a copy then.
===== =====
WWE recently created a part of their website which, to me, is surprising and intriguing at the same time.
The "Industry News" part enables wresling news sites to post content in WWE.com, resulting in having TNA updates, ROH bookings and CHIKARA news all posted and viewable for all WWE fans. It's really weird to see Kurt Angle's name in WWE after so long being gone.
Probably TNA and ROH wouldn't mind the free advertising. It's free anyway.
===== =====
Nic Belasco got traded again, this time to Coke. Welcoat probably still had some aftertaste of the preseason tryst with Nic.
===== =====
Some headline news (again) from FARK.com... (I just screened the best ones, credits to FARK please) (If you want the news links, go to www.fark.com and have a good time)
The "bold" ones are the best ones, I think, so far.
- 10 most bizarre sights in Google Street View
- Police arrest 10 at video porn store. People still go out for porn? What about the internets?
- America Online gives us a list of 20th century brands that will fizzle out soon
- General says Al Qaeda may be plotting to attack US. Also says sun may be plotting a rise, rain may be plotting a fall, and dog may be plotting getting a steak
- Study groups are now considered cheating
- Thieves are stealing beehives in California. To the Beemobile!
- 8-year-old Brazilian boy passes law school entrance exam, will sue the crap out of anyone who makes that brazilion joke
- Pets in Wisconsin can now get restraining orders. Your dog would like you to stay 1,000 feet away unless you've got steak
- Krispy Kreme offers to pay customers' mortgages for six months. That's a lot of doughnuts
- British-owned websites for a Spanish travel agency that are hosted in the Bahamas get shut down by the US Treasury Department
- Student sues school for letting him graduate. You're doing it wrong
- Yesterday's lack of Britney Spears trainwreck stories left some celebrity reporter with waaaay too much time on his hands. Behold: celebrity baldings
- Wolverine spotted in Northern California Sierra Mountains, rest of X-Men pissed he blew their cover
- Best (and longest) newspaper correction in human history. This one has everything
- Short and stout Malaysian woman jailed for worshipping giant two-story-high sacred teapot. Then it gets weird
===== =====
Ciao for now. Hope I make it to April 5.
BGM: [ Sweetest Coma Again ] by abingdon boys school
===== =====
Top 5 for the week:
1. Sweetest Coma Again by abingdon boys school
2. Guren by the GazettE
3. DIRTY by Nightmare
4. Ash Like Snow by the billiant green
5. Bulakbol by the Mongols
===== =====
Truth be told, thesis really kinda watered me down. Really.
My thesis is a SMS/Chat lingo language converter. It translates them to its English equivalent.
So I'm using some algorithmic principles to make my makeshift translator a bit more palatable for the ICS panelists for my thesis.
I skipped blogging for some days just to finalize some things and debugging. Oh hellish lawrd, I'm losing sleep.
Next week, we're (me and my co-proponents) planning to finally defend it ourselves. Time to put my final game face on, because it's going to be my final month at UST and we're going at it full blast. And thesis isn't the only subject begging for our attention.
===== =====
I'm currently hooked on these anime titles:
Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle
Clannad
H2O
True Tears
Persona
Rosario+Vampire
Kimikiss
Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro
Seirei no Moribito
Shigofumi
Rental Magica
Naruto: Shippuuden
BLEACH
Binbou Shimai Monogatari
Wolf's Rain
Spice and Wolf
Ghost Hound
Gundam00
Shakugan no Shana II
... and a lot more.
I'm reading these manga/manga-zines right now:
Alive
Otoboku
Negima
The Wallflower
Furuba
Yuri Hime S
BLEACH
... and some other more.
===== =====
Some headline news from FARK.com... (I just screened the best ones, credits to FARK please)
(If you want the links, go to www.fark.com
The "bold" ones are the best ones, I think, so far.
- The Guinness World Records brand now belongs to Ripley's... believe it or not
- Not news: Judge arrested for DUI. News: While dressed like a call girl. Fark: It's a man, baby
- Woman cracks open egg to find second egg inside it.
- Chances are, if you made a list of your dream jobs, "pet food taste-tester" wouldn't be on it. Unlike this guy
- Teens in upstate New York compete to wear shorts every day in the winter because it's "cool." Remember when teens understood irony?
- "You kids have it so easy today. Back in my day, we actually had to yell down the hall at our parents when we were mad, instead of text messaging them from our bedrooms"
- Brits spend more on cosmetic surgery than all other countries in Europe. Figure falls to average when adjusted for Victoria Beckham, however
- One man's terrorist is another man's presidential candidate: Reuters prints "Osama" instead of "Obama." Three times. In one article
- Nothing says "I Love You" better than a shovel to your husband's head
- Quebec's "language police" orders Irish pub to take down decorative English signs, stop serving in English, and then tells him that the English on his bilingual menu is "not respectful." Welcome to the Fourth Reich
- CNN opens up iReport.com, where users submit news stories without vetting or verification of authenticity or accuracy. What could possibly go wrong?
- The pope puts Sister Lucia, a woman who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917, on the fast track to sainthood. Next up: That guy in the Midwest who saw Christ on a potato chip a few years back
- That spy satellite falling out of orbit? The Pentagon has decided it will shoot it down instead of letting it crash back to Earth. This should end well
- Animal rights idiots enraged that zoo let nine-year-old elephant get pregnant. "It is completely irresponsible," they whine
- The end of days is upon us. Behold: Hello Kitty, the MMORPG
- China bans ghosts from the Internet. Who ya gonna' call?
- Today's obligatory "Police shoot naked guy with samurai sword" story
- Having solved the mysteries of cancer, AIDS, and limitless energy sources, scientists have now proven some fairy tales could actually be true
- White stag spotted in Scottish Highlands. Told you Harry Potter was real. Suck it haters
- Beer is now cheaper than water in Scotland
===== =====
And speaking of politics, here we go again.
There are a lot of f**king Filipinos out there, in the militant and left-wing groups, church groups, sexist clubs, social clubs, business clubs and people-who-have-nothing-but-clubs who are calling for the current Philippines' president G. M. Arroyo to resign. And I have a big question for these militantes who have their lips on somebody else's ass:
Where did your sense of justice gone to?
The basic principle of justice is that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. There are accusations, all right, against GMA's administration. But we have laws, ladies and gentlemen. We can't let the asylum be run by the inmates. For the thousand idiots who attended the Feb 15 poltical rally, you are all misled by blind rage, and the picture is this: Mr. Jun Lozada, you have more than twenty thousand people sucking your dick right now.
What the Senate is doing is just an INVESTIGATION, not a trial. They are investigating the anomalous ZTE broadband deal that the government signed so many months ago. Jun Lozada is a part of that, and I respect his testimony. But when hundreds of idiots march on the streets having these stupid placards and stupid slogans with stupid looks plasted on their faces, it makes me sick to my stomach and switch my TV channel to C/S, which is a better alternative than watching TV Patrol and 24 Oras.
It's not that I'm complacent about this; I just believe in the equality and fairness of the basic tenets of law. It's unfair to the accused people to be subjected to the so-called "trial by publicity". Let the courts decide on this; let the evidence speak for themselves; let the truth be known at the most lawful way possible.
I'm just going to follow the investigation. If the courts decide that there was indeed a government tryst on this part, so be it. If the courts decide that the accused are innocent, so be it. Anarchy is not a solution for the moment, and calls for resignations are just plain stupid.
I'm getting sick of the local news lately. Better watch CNN and FoxNews instead.
===== =====
Somebody asked me a few minutes ago what I thinked of TNA Wrestling. You know, the one that Jeff Jarret launched after WWE bought WCW a few years back.
I think that TNA, in my opinion, is slowly going way overboard.
First, they should stop copying WWE. As much as TNA hates to admit it, they actually operate like the WWE. They have... "Stone Cold" Sharkboy, which is plain stupid at that rate. They copy WWE ideas, copy WWE storylines, copy WWE attitude... they are slowly morphing themselves like the ones they are up running against.
second, they should stop, i mean STOP hiring ex-WWE wrestlers. TNA is losing its identity. Paul Heyman was right with his last interview. When people see Kurt Angle, they remember him and Brock at Wrestlemania. The 4-time WWE Champion Kurt Angle, not the 2-time TNA Champion Kurt Angle. When they see Booker Huffman, they see the five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time WCW Champion Booker T and World Heavy Champ King Booker. They see Team 3D, they think they're still the ECW Dudley Boys, not the stupid "brother Ray and Devon" thing. Christian Cage is 100% more popularly known as Edge's gold partner at WWE and being the Captain Charisma than being the Instant Classic. I rather call him the "Instant Cl-ASS-ic". See Jim Cornette there? He's more famously remebered for slapping a wrestler in OVW than being a TNA personality. And James Mitchell is more known as The Sinister Minister than being just James Mitchell. Chirs Jericho was also right. TNA is a cheap brand for a global wrestler such as him. Sting is even more famed for being WCW's Sting than TNA's Sting.
TNA initially developed greats such as AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Chris Harris, Ron Killings, and Monty Brown to be their cornerstones. Where are they now? Samoa Joe's just another fat ass on Spike TV every two hours on Thursday nights. AJ, who worked for more than 3 years in TNA, is kissing the ass of a man who has worked for TNA in a duration less than him, Monty Brown's gone, and Chris Harris and Ron Killings are headed to WWE.
TNA is a product who has outlived its purpose. Six-sided ring, yes. Great schedule, yes. Two-hour time slot at Spike TV, yes. Talented roster, yes. But promoting wrestlers to other countries, paying big and having successful pay-per-views, NO. TNA as an independent brand, NO. TNA is not at the same level at WWE for now. TNA should establish their identity more.
*BG: The WWE audience reception for a heel Kurt Angle*
===== =====
Ciao for now. Going back to class.
Jean-Paul Sartre and a dice
BGM: [ Last Dance ] by Distraught Overlord (aka DiO)
===== =====
One of the rare times I can blog peacefully. Oh well...
Top 5 tunes for the week:
1. Forbidden Lover by L'arc~en~Ciel
2. Kaizoku no Uta by Danger Gang
3. Desert Rose by abingdon boys school
4. Boys Be Suspicious by Nightmare
5. Fure Fureppon Pon by Mai Kadowaki
===== =====
Oh well. For the next paragraphs or so, I'll be randomly discussing things.
My dad and I was discussing the plight of the PBA team Welcoat Dragons while eating dinner. If you have been watching the PBA, you can see the 9 other teams faring well while Welcoat is still kissing the proverbial basketball doormat for the third straight conference. I know Leo Austria [the coach] and his wards, especially the team managment and the senior brass are now scratching their balls and dreaming of trophies while hunting for prospective imports for the next conference or so.
I'm not a fan of Welcoat Dragons, but I really hate seeing the competition, well, not being competitive enough. It's like seeing Hornswoggle against Big Show, Khali, Kevin Nash, Big Daddy V, Mark Henry, Andre the Giant, Kane, Brock Lesnar and Goldberg in a 1-on-9 handicap match. Damn.
My dad was questioning how Welcoat, once the winningest franchise in PBL history, has fallen so far in the pro ranks although they have gotten great reinforcements and top draft picks. They got Nic Belasco in a trade while they drafted Joe Devance and Ryan Arana in the recent draft. They have Jay-R Reyes and Denver Lopez and Froilan Baguion in the lineup. So what's wrong [asks my dad]?
I answered three possibilities. One obvious Welcoat mistake was their failure to get the best out of the dispersal draft a year ago. I mean, they tried to draft the players the other teams obviously protected in their lineup. Adducul was protected by Ginebra and Ranidel/Yancy was protected as well. If they only did their homework, they could have gotten better players. I'd bet Mike Hrabak was not protected by Red Bull in that list. So is Egay Echavez, Allan Salangsang, Roger Yee, Jimwell Torion, and a whole lot of crack role players who can help their cause, but shucks.
Another Welcoat mistake is complacency. I mean, they traded JunJun Cabatu (a sure-fire good project of Tim Cone aside from Bono and Quinahan) for Nic Belasco, why didn't they go the full nine and made a revamp? They got a whole slew of peeps who they can use to get better players, so WTH. And they should check with the other teams on a semi-regular basis for trade possibilities. Look at Air21, they got Gabby Espinas for a draft pick. I actually had my eye for Gabby Espinas for quite some time now because he's expendable in Magnolia from the moment they got Eman from the draft, so I thought many other teams would eye this black pearl. I hoped Welcoat could get him, but oh well. The same situation too with Adducul in Ginebra. Welcoat didn't push hard enough. They offered peanuts to Ginebra in exchange for Adducul. If I were them, I could have offered JunJun Cabatu back then plus a firstround draft pick plus Denver Lopez back then for Adducul and a secondround draft pick. Losing two big players is no big deal. Adducul can get back his career on the right track with Welcoat. Now Adducul's a journeyman, a trade veteran, a benchwarmer and a career wreck after 3 trades. I suppose Welcoat can bite the bullet now and take Adducul from Purefoods, he's expendable there. Just like Asi and TalkNText. Welcoat obviously didn't hear about Asi's availability as well. Coca-cola is now enjoying a team Renaissance while Welcoat is left in the Dark Ages.
The trifecta for the Welcoat mistake is the bench depth. In PBL they had a whole slew of bench players who can play big minutes for them. In the PBA they actually don't have the same bench depth. I mean, they can raid the free agent pool for quality players, why are they sticking up with dried figs? Nic, Joe and the starting 5 can deal with the teams, but without a solid cast of players they can't play good basketball. Jordan can't play well without good bench players, ne? I mean, it's a team game; It's not a one-man show or two or three. It's a 12-man show. It's a team show. And Welcoat can't play good basketball with the bench unwilling to pick up the slacks and play like men on fire.
I suggest some things for Welcoat to do in the offseason for a competitive next season:
1. REVAMP - Do a Buddy Encarnado, Leo. Dump the unnecessary, and get the best players that your money and spare players can buy. There are loads of players in the other teams getting less minutes than they should like Chris Calaguio and Yousif Aljamal and Jojo Duncil. Sacrifice a few second-round draft picks. Trades work with the right offers, and don't offer peanuts again. Gold can only be acquired with something as valuable as gold.
2. RAID THE FREE AGENT POOL - This one worked wonders for Purefoods with Chico Lanete and PJ Simon. Also did wonders for Ginebra with Aris Dimaunahan (previously) and Mark Macapagal.
3. BALANCE THE TEAM - 3 centers, 2 power forwards, 3 SFs, 4 SGs and 3 PGs should work fine for a 15-man lineup. Your team is overloaded at certain positions and some positions (like C) lack the bomb.
4. TEAM EFFORT - Nic can't save Welcoat's ass all the time. Joe's not always healthy all the time. Get the best role players and play like men with pistols on your temples every single night.
5. GET A TEAM-ORIENTED IMPORT - I suggest getting imports with the caliber of Jerald Honeycutt or Torraye Braggs. Never mistake ballhogs for black Messiahs.
And there you have it. But oh well, if only a Welcoat fan can agree with me on this. I'm a Ginebra fan.
===== =====
Some movie lines:
RANDAL: There was a guy who said the store was closed for two hours yesterday. I tore up his memebership.
DANTE: Shocking abuse of authority.
RANDAL: Hey, I believe in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially since I rule.
(while talking about bed domination)
DANTE: No, I'm just making a broad generalization.
VERONICA: You're making a generaization about broads.
(after hearing Veronica's mind-"blowing" confession)
DANTE: I feel sick.
VERONICA: Please don't feel sick.
DANTE: Every time I kiss you, I'm gonna taste 36 other guys.
[these were from the semi-indie movie "CLERKS"]
===== =====
There are some people who are wary of David Blaine. One of my friends actually believe David is a demon's pet.
Oh come on. He's a freaking magician, for God's sake. And what he does is magic. For some reason we can't know how he does it, or how he makes things go his way, but anyway we can't call it magic if we knew how he does his thingy, isn't it?
I hate magicians with curtains and with rabbits under the hats. It's obviously a sham any way ou look at it, even if you can't do magic yourself. David's satge is the streets; his audience are anybody he meets. His magic repertoire is endless. And he doesn't do magic to entertain himself and earn bucks.
Most people find it horrifying that he can make beggars win lotteries with a random ticket, make cents float on a paper coffee cup, stay submerged on water for hours, encase himself in a cage of ice for more than 15 hours, make card tricks, make mental predictions of names and numbers, twist his arm for more than 360 degrees and even float for at least 2 inches from the ground.
I like his so-called "art" form, quite entertaining as well. But he's quite an enigmatic person. Hope he comes to the Philippines sometime.
===== =====
The band mania in the Philippines is now starting to slowly fade away again.
For the last three years, the local RP music culture faced an unprecedented boom. With the masses getting tired of pop idols, rapping wannabes and singing divas, most of the youth formed bands in the hopes of replicating the Eraserheads mania. There came Hale, with smash hits. Same with Cueshe. Soon after their big successes, hundreds of youths started to make waves. They formed bands with outrageous names such as "Taken by Cars", "SinoSiKat", "Up Dharma Down", "Kamikazee" and the like. Even the old-timers such as Parokya ni Edgar, Rivermaya, Sandwich and Ely Buendia (forming "Pupil") shared in this musical rebirth, enjoying more sales than Salbakuta and the rest of the fat rappers combined.
PULP enjoyed higher revenue, MTVAsia nd MYX made a killing in the music video business, television networks channeled some of this phenomenon to their telenovelas and guest appearances, nightclubs became trendy again, rock concerts enjoyed much more thicker mosh pits, and bands kept being signed by major record labels like hotcakes.
But these, like elephant denim trunks, high-heeled clogs and game shows, starts to transform from a red giant to a white dwarf.
I think it started when one band was accused of stealing riffs from the New Wave's "Chandelier", their tune in the late 80's. Then it started to implode.
I call it the WW2BAM-Marimar Syndrome. IBC-13 once enjoyed phenomenal ratings overkill when they signed up Boyet De Leon to host "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" and Edu Manzano in "The Weakest Link" back about 5-6 years ago. They enjoyed a huge advantage over GMA and ABS-CBN, and the two huge networks saw their nightly shows were becoming stale eggs. Soon they joined hands in toppling the IBC-13 juggernaut. They launched game shows themselves, from the insane to the thought-provoking, and they were the ones responsible for bringing down IBC-13 back to earth. The same with RPN9 with "Marimar", a Mexicanovela starring Thalia, which made similar huge waves across the television airwaves in the 90's. GMA and ABS-CBN soon found themselves in a huge ratings crash against Thalia. They united again with killing the competition, signing up too many Mexicanovelas until the people got sick of them, RPN soon found themselves relegated to the dumps again.
Bottom line: GMA and ABS-CBN are two huge great white sharks in a water body the size of a normal resort swimpool. They never like competition other than themselves. They're like the Mafia and Triad combined. And they only air very minimal good shows.
The bands soon found out that there were TOO MANY youths joining the proverbial bandwagon. The ones who ruled the nightclubs before were forced to share their time and take paycuts because the managers signed up too many bands for the night. Solo singers started to sign up with major TV and record deals and make an aggressive PR drive to rake in what they lost to the band acts. The market soon found themselves having way too many band albums with dwindling sales. People soon started to listen to other bands and switch loyalties then and there, losing fan bases and the so-called "overcompetition" now threatening to spoil the musical paradise. Adding to that the departure of Rico Blanco, the staleness and repetitiveness of the band genres, and people are starting to lose interest in them in favor of Koreanovelas, new game show surges (the Deal or No Deal thingy) and other preoccupations, the bands are now feeling the kick. And to think most of the bands stick to rock when most people are getting sick of rock.
I think they have to reinvent themselves and branch out like what Parokya ni Edgar did to stay this long in the industry: make themselves fresher in every album. Nobody gets tired of hearing Parokya ni Edgar. Everybody's now tired of Hale and Cueshe and Spongecola. Get it?
And the record companies should reconsider their band signings. To reduce competition and make greater sales, they have to realize that in some aspects of their businesses, LESS IS MORE.
The concert organizers should not tolerate higantic band lineups and consider making a three-band slecial there and then. Look at Japan. There are tens of hundreds of bands and singers there but they enjoy modest sales, and they don't fade away. Another secret that they should consider is that rock isn't the only genre out there. Almost all bands out there figure in f**king rock, it f**king makes me sick. Show some diversity!
For me, I actually stopped listening to OPM when Eraserheads disbanded, Wolfgang went AWOL and Rivermaya lost Rico Blanco. The end. Unless some messiah makes my ears perk up and re-listen again to OPM, well, I stay put on my current music fodder. So far, no regrets.
===== =====
Now we go to a discussion on... MOE.
Moe basically is a word in Japan, literally means "sprout" or "bud" (accdg to Del-Ray). But if you are a hardcore otaku, the other meaning is a world apart from its dictionary definition. For otaku, it's the referral to anime/manga/eroge/game character attribute, characteristic, appearance or/and mannerism that arouse them or makes them fixated upon the latter.
Me? My moe preferences are tsundere, meganekko, ahoge, loli, shy types and passive yuri characters. Lemme discuss each subs. By the way, all my moe preferences only applies to women, no yaoi moe here.
Tsundere characters are those types of characters with the tendency for aggressiveness, mean streaks and/or obvious jealousy marks, but near the end or climax parts they turn out to be as sweet and caring as the girl next door. Although their kind comes in almost all genres (quite noticeable in some cases) and even some Comiket events are tsundere-themed, they figure more prominently in romance titles. In romance titles tsundere leads always pick on or be mean to the lead guy. That's because they only want to be beside the guy they like but can't act as normally as guy-hunting girls do. They do sweet things to the guy they like but usually deny they did it out of love although it is very obvious they care for the guy very much. Even if they got the guy as their boyfriend, their jealousy range from a pfft to a volcanic eruption. Examples are Shana from Shakugan no Shana (especially the cute small version in Shana-tan) and Louise from Zero no Tsukaima. Other tsundere float their stuff in slice of life stuff (Kagami in Lucky Star), otaku-based stuff (Ogiue from Genshiken), school stuff (Eri in School Rumble), other stuff (Kagura in Furuba), and many many many many other more. Oh, in eroge, a tip from one of my forum mates figured. Most tsundere characters in eroge and visual novel games sometimes figure in a more complex path than the usual leading broads. And the scene accesses sometimes get awry.
Meganekko are simple cute girls in glasses. As long as they're cute, beautiful, and wears glasses, OK. Example is Miyuki from Lucky Star. Sometimes the meganekko wears glasses at the start, then removes it after a few manga volumes or anime episodes or eroge trigger scenes.
Ahoge... this one is a complex one for Westerners. Ahoge is a strand, or a clump of standing hair on top of a character's head. Basically it's a "Fool's Hair". Sometimes it looks like an antenna, a transmitting rod, or even jut an accessory on top of their head. And some ahoge characters are either otakus or simply morons. A prominent ahoge example is Himeko from Pani Poni Dash!. Though not an idiot, another ahoge type is Konata fro Lucky Star.
Loli is a type of character that looks (or have been deliberately drawn and depicted as) too young for their age. Or inversely, kids that act (and have extensive knowledge of ) an adult. But I prefer more the latter, as in like the Kodomo no Jikan series. Aside from the censorship and obvious H references, it was cool.
Shy types are those characters that have tendencies to blush too deeply when they are near the person they love. They stammer, they sometimes hide behind walls, they have difficulty conversing with their person of attraction. But they usually end up as sweet as sugar, and sometimes shows a very serious side when the situation requires it. Instant identifiable would be Hinata from the Naruto series.
Passive yuri characters, basically the "bottom" of the couple. You know the seme-uke principle, the aggressor is the seme and the passive is the uke (bottom). That usually applies to yaoi, but in yuri I prefer to use passive. These character types usually are the ones who get attracted to the other female character (usually the aggressive/pushy one), and tries to get closer to them. They possess more feminine characteristics than the top one. The aggressive type either is nearly close to a male by looks/hair/mannerisms, or a silent-type bishounen-lookalike girl. These types of characters come aplenty in most yuri series, more prominently in Marimite.
There we go. Wait a minute... I only discussed the moe I like. Try wiki the rest if you want ^_^
===== =====
Ciao for now!
|
|
http://1csb.blogdrive.com :: Layout by
Hyrokkin |
|
|
