A Message

Message for 2008 from sei aka mn.

2009 is just a day away.
what's the different between 2008 and 2009.
it's just a figure to me, a figure to mark your past and memories.
the sun still shines,
the clouds still rain,
the moon still reflects light,
the four seasons still continues,
the time still move on.

time waits for no one.

every seconds passes without warning.
don't take time for granted,
you never know how much time you have.
don't waste your time on things and people that are not worth for.
i have wasted my time, a year.
should i say, it's more than that.
it's about regrets and time.
i had walked the wrong path.
but i have to continue.
learnt a lesson,
never put your efforts and time that are not worth for.
don't be naive that it will go your way,
you will never get whaat you wanted,
but always what you needed.

life is never too fair to you.

if you have the time to complain,
it's time for you to use it wisely.

promises are nonsense to me.
people promise and break it.
so what's the meaning of having a promise.
don't waste your time to believe it.
all it does was to diminish your light of hope.
darkness will overwhelmed your vision.

promises are meant to be fulfilled.

don't make promises when you aren't not sure.
if not the end result is hurting others.

during 2008,
friends and family,
i truely treasured and loved all of you.

and please don't assumed yourself
as my friend when i might not consider you one.
you may be just a classmate, schoolmate.
i might be rude and offending,
but i meant it.

Good day and wishes a new year to all readers.

Yaoi, Yuri and Magic

Loveless
Yaoi and Yuri aren't the main elements of this series, more of magic and spells. About this elder brother, Seimei aka Beloved in their 'world', who was burnt to death on the seat of his younger brother, Ritsuka aka Loveless, at his elementary school. Seimei's fighter, Soubi, is the servant of Seimei and fights for him. Now Seimei's dead, under the orders of his, Soubi needs to love, protect and fight for Ritsuka. Ritsuka not understanding a single thing but all he want was an answer of his brother's death. Encountering battles, this is the part where i find it interesting. Spells are used to fight each other. After finishing this series recently, i felt there's might be a second season since there's room for more.

Completed 12 Episodes
Available at http://www.animefuel.com/

Rated 4.2 POPcorns. :)
Remarks:
Kissing scenes, watch it if you're a yaoi or yuri fan.
Don't be a spoiler, the fans will wack you :)

Suicidal

Will you kill youself when you feel like?
How will you finish off yourself?
Why will you choose to end it yourself?

I had my times when i wanted to end this life.
But still i'm alive right now.
There's always this sentence kept in my mind,
which was said by my mum.
"If my child dies and the others asked how he/she was passed away."
She told me this, how ashame it will be to tell others my child commited suicide.

Just this sentence had stopped myself from choosing such a crook path.
Right now, i know there are friends and family who loves and cares for me.
If i'm gone, i supposed i had ended my fears, suffers, sorrows and every single thing.
However, my friends and family who loves and cares for me,
will be the one who will bear my sorrows for me
for their rest of their life, i supposed.
It's just unfair to the others to see you go when you're not supposed to.

Right now, i believed there's nothing that will truely drives you to commit suicide.
Problems and troubles might not be able to be solved.
Time might to heal your wounds and scars.
But what i will choose is, to prevent any more wounds and scars
and create more joyful memories.
Life is short, i might not devote myself to christ but
i wanna do what i can, what i suppose to do,
at least be a good daughter and person.

People, it's not too late to love yourself, your family and friends.
They might be gone in the next minute, we will never know it.
Tell them and let them know, you care for them and love them.

It's never too late for anything.
Do what you want but not suicide.
It's okay to die if you feel like,
but you're a sinner who hurt yourself and hurt even more to your beloved ones.

Think twice before you act.
Be mercyful to yourself and others.

Nosh

Tiramisu

The name Tiramisu is Italian and means "pull-me-up".

Once again, another cake from Bakerzin and this is my first trial for here.

A heavy coffee cake, espresso might be what their chef have chosen.

There are four layers in total.

Firstly, 0.5 cm thick of cake.

Secondly, a cm thick of custard and bits of cheese taste.

It is repeated again, and finally sprinkled with cocca.

Rated 3.5 sumptuous.

Remarks:

Too expensive for such a taste, S$6.20.

The cake is kinda damp to me, i supposed it should be damp from my experience.

And i don't taste any alcohol in this cake too.

Personally i didn't like it a lot, a Tiramisu i won't ask for seconds.

HULK

The GREEN man of Mighty Muggs.
Many thanks for the xmas gift to the giver. :)

How i wish i could make some smashed up buildings for the background.

And a bright lamp for the shooting! :)

Do remark on the last 5 shots. :)

Thanks. :)

Nosh

Ambrosia
From Bakerzin.
A cake tastes coffee, milk chocolate, crunchy walnuts and sweet caramel.
A cm thick of milk chocolate mousse on the top layer,
followed by thin layers of coffee flavoured cake and chocolate.
And another cm thick of chocolate filled with lots of crunchy walnuts plus
a thin layer of caramel and cake.
Finally garnish,
a thin layer of checkered chocolate which was
powdered with cocca and a tiny piece of golden leaf* in the centre.

Rated 4.0 sumptuous!
Remarks:
S$6.50 for this slice. For chocolate lovers who like bits of coffee taste.
But be ready for a dry throat!

* 23Kt. Edible Gold Petals/Flakes (Petali)

Locations: Jurong Point, Millenia Walk, Vivo City, Suntec City, Northpoint, Paragon, United Square, UE Square, Takashiamaya food hall.

Banner of Xmas 08'

HULK and myself wishing all friends & readers
a Merry Christmas!

Yaoi and Comedy

Junjou Romantica = Pure Romance

A change of taste for me from yuri to yaoi. Surprisingly, i'm chasing after this series. This series had made me laughed off my head. It about this novelist, Usami, and his best friend, Takahiro's brother, Misaki. How Usami fall for Misaki and Misaki ending up staying at his house due to Takahiro's work at Osaka. Misaki tried this best to reject Usami in many ways which made me laugh so hard! It's just so funny to see how Misaki was been bullied and take on. LOL is what you will react. Then parts of other characters blends in very well with the story of Usami and Misaki and their's own stories. Yaoi fans should love this series!

Completed 24 Episodes 2 seasons in total.
Available at http://youtube.com/ and http://veoh.com/

4.2 popcorns for Yaoi.
4.5 popcorns for story plot.
4.5 popcorns for comedy.
Overall is 4.4 POPCORNS!
Remarks: Mature genre, NC16.

ps, can't upload pics again. And a Merry Christmas to all readers :)

Action and History

Ip Man [eep mun]

I love it! :) A more worth watch compared to twilight. Wing Chun, a martial art which has presented very well from the movie. How Donnie Yen acted out was really good, Wing Chun from him was a different thing from his usual action movies. Using Wing Chun to kick the ass of the Japanese, if i'm not wrong the japanese uses Judo or Jujutsu to fight against Ip Man. I'm serious, the art of Wing Chun is displayed well from this movie. Watch it! :)

Rated 4.5 popcorns! Awesome!

Ps don't understand why can't i upload the pics.

Romance and Action

Twilight

Romance of a vampire, Edward, and a human, Bella. How they were met in college? Trying to understand each other, but there's a misunderstanding between them at the very first day of school for Bella. Kinda cool when they start to understand each other through 'fights'. Soon there's another vampire who had put his target on Bella, trying to hunt her down while Edward and his family wants to save her and treat her as their family member. I prefer the second half of the movie, which is more appealling to my taste. First half was how they were met and every small little things. Action comes in during the second half, bits of kissing scenes and jokes. Not too bad for an ending.

Rated 4.0 popcorns.

Remarks: A story plot which i dont think it is a rewatchable movie. I won't go for a second time for it. Not bad for a romance, a worth to watch if you don't read the books. Good starring from it, appreciate how the Edward was been acted out. :)

Supernatural and Action

Ga-rei Zero

Evil spirits rated from Level A to D. C and D leave it to the noobs while A and B to the pros. These troops need aid to identify these spirits while the pros have the ability to see them with their naked eyes. Special weapons were used, one of them is guns are equipped with Mantra bullets to attack these spirits. The Japanese Ministry of Defense has this special department called Supernatural Diseaster Prevention Headquarters, consists of noobs to prevent and protect the soil of their country. The pros under Ministry of Environment, called the Special Tactical Squad [STS]. Continuous of missions, however, a sudden attack from a Level A wiped out part of the troops and Section 4 of STS. Thus, the secret agency for the Ministry of Environment had decided to obtain all informations of all cases and remove all spirits. However, the Ministry of Defense doesn't seem want to cooperate even though their militry strength has been eliminated. But still, they have no choice. While looking through their datas, the head of the agency found out that their missing member had become Level A.

Will they kill their fellow friend or allow her to eliminate their elites? How will they counter this mission? Stay tuned for their action and story!

Ongoing: 11 Episodes [from my source, this series only has 13 episodes]

Available at http://crunchyroll.com/ subbed in EL till episode 9

Available at http://so.tudou.com/ subbed in CL till episode 11

Remarks: I love how it was filmed, the story plot attracts me to ask more of it. However, it will be a bit confusing, due the the flash back after episode 2 and you will understand and everything will make sense untill episode 8 or 9. :) Enjoy it just like me :)

Overall rated 4.5 popcorns! Eat & eat!

Action rated 4.5 poppop~

Story plot rated 4.8 corncorn!

Shoujo-ai rated 4.0 hearts~

Yuri and School Life

Maria-sama ga Miteru OVA [season 3]

Still asking for more after Haru series?? OVAs for you then :) 5 short stories, length approximately 40mins. Every stories are not link, but very interesting OVAs. More of Yumi and Sachiko's scenes compared to others. Graduates are rare to be seen in the OVAs, which is kinda sad and disppointing for me. Haha, it's kinda difficult to review on this OVAs. But after watching them all, i'm asking for more is what i will request! :D More excitments and laughter from Yumi. Until now, i still can't bring myself to like Yumi, this character isn't my type. Haha, but she's funny through the all series. Interesting stories awaits you.

After watching, you will have seconds! 2009 Jan is when season 4 is coming!!

Completed: 5 OVAs

Available in chinese subs at http://so.tudou.com/

Avaible in english subs at http://www.megavideo.com/

Rated 4.9 popcorns! it's just awesome lah! :)

Yuri and School Life

Maris-sama ga Miteru ~Haru [Spring] [season 2]

A follow up from season one. This season explains more about the past of the Rosa and their Rosa en buoton. More background of Rosa Gigantea, Sei, and her younger sister, Shimako. And after Sei graduates, Shimako had problems about having a younger sister. And Yumi having troubles and couldn't seek for help from Sei, made her more helpless. Lots of things happening around Yumi, Shimiko and Sachiko. The bonds with each other will they lasts? You will be interested to know the past Shimako~ :)

Completed: 13 Episodes

Available in english subtitles http://www.eliteyurilovers.com/
Available in chinese subtitles http://so.tudou.com/

Rated 4.7 popcorns :P
Mature genre, if don't fancy yuri please don't watch.
No M18 scenes but there's a kiss scene :)

Yuri and School Life

Maria-sama ga Miteru

Lillian Catholic girls school, stories of a group of girls who are the student council also known as Yamayuri council. There's a tradition in this school, upper grade girls are able to have one lower grade girl or none. In this Yamayuri council, there are three roses, know as Rosa Foetida [Red rose], Rosa Chinensis [Yellow rose] and Rosa Gigantea [White rose]. They are the so called head of the council, in this series all Rosa are year 3. They have younger sisters know as Rosa en boutons, who will have the right to inherit the place of their elder sister after they are graduated. Story begins when the three Rosa wanted Rosa Foetida en buoton, Sachiko Ogasawara to have a younger sister before she can voice about her situation which were decided by the Rosa when she was away. Just when she decided to find out, she opens the door and bumped into a year 1 student, Yumi Fukuzawa, who admires Sachiko-sama. Sachiko held her to the other sisters and announced that she's her sister. Yumi was in confusion and doesn't know what to do, will she accept her rosary, a symbol of their soeur [sister] relationship?

Completed 13 Episodes

Available in chinese subtitles http://so.tudou.com/
Available in english subtiles http://www.eliteyurilovers.com/

Rated 4.5 popcorns :P

Mature genre, if don't fancy yuri please don't watch.

It's more of shoujo-ai, but not obvious. No M18 scenes, don't worry :)

Horror

Quarantine

All right, how it was filmed was uncommon. If you have watch Cloverfield before, it is just like how it was film. Good thing is this time round, the filming will be more stable and steady. :) Not so dizzy.

About this reporter, interviewing a fire department and they were in luck to film the fire fighters to be on action. And they are seriously IN LUCK to be caught in serious troubles! Story begins when the flesh of a young cop were bitten away by an old lady, she seriously don't look FINE. Soon a fire fighter had so called take control of this lady, in minutes he was thrown down from a few stories above. Everyone starts to get panic and the situation is becoming chaotic. The building has been taken measures to a situation of BNC and everyone were isolated in that building. Everyone knows something is wrong and tried to escape from the building! However it doesn't seems optimistic for the fellow risidents, fire fighters, cops and the reporter and cameraman. Love it or not, they are in deep sh*t. What will you do if you are in that situation?

NO weapons

NO escape

NO help

NO details

NO tomorrow

Rated 3.5 popcorns, i had spent 6 bucks to scare myself twice. LOL

If you're a noob for horror movies, i dare you to watch it and never had a second time for horror moives :P

Action and Detective

Ryoko's Case File

Love cops? Detective games? Try this series, this lady is going to kick the ass of the bad guys! Treat her colleagues like servants, though she's their superior. She's a 'well known' cop in tokyo and have a big shot family background. Not only she's good at kicking other's ass, she hot and sexy and worse come to worse she's reckless at times too! hahaha Everyone wants to hunt her down. Accompanied by a series of trails awaits her and colleagues while one of them will betray her! How she's going to find out? And how she will deal with that traitor and kick his ass! wahahahah Quite a appealing anime, hope you people will fancy it, just like myself! :P

Completed: 13 episodes

Avaiable at http://crunchyroll.com/

4.5 POPCORNS! eat more!

Japan Media Art Festival 2008

Fancy about arts? Head down to 8Q located Queen Street right now! Queen Street is near by Bras Basah Road and Waterloo Street.
Japan Media Art Festival 2008
till 14 Dec 08. Here are some shots i managed to catch them today, do enjoy~