Thoughts of the first anniversary...

The love story series on animania has finally ended, and i bet most of you should have heard enough of me ranting about the final episode being friday and all.

But, this love stories have given me something to write about, considering that we are down to the last 7 days to the first anniversary of my blog (yes, when i started the blog i choose the date specifically so that it falls on the 31/12) and i would not be able to celebrate it as my parents suddenly decided that we should go overseas, i guess this would have to do as the last post of the year 2005 (hopefully, i would be able to get some sleep on the plane back and thus have energy to write one final post for 2005 on the 31/12)...

I was watching art central as usual and the advertisment for the last episode of "The Sopranos" caught my eye. the advertisment was going around the theme of "Why do we usually hurt the people we love the most?"

This theme seems to also recur in the love stories that were being featured on animania, especially Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! and Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (which art central still wrongly names it as Rumbling Hearts)... They both center around the fact that somehow, you always hurt the person whom you love the most. Take Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien as an example, Mitsuki was hurt the most by Takayuki, with whom she was actually really in love in. Unfortunately, Takayuki had already started a relationship with another person known as Haruka and yet Takayuki still love Mitsuki. Even Takayuki himself said it in one of the episode :" My relationship to Haruka is my responsibility, but my feelings are true for Mitsuki"...

So, somehow, as the series progresses, you see that Mitsuki gets hurt the most emotionally as she sees herself as Haruka's replacement for Takayuki, while Takayuki tries to get Mitsuki back. Even Mitsuki herself was hurt emotionally to the point that she wished that all of this never happened....

It just seems weird that the people whom we love the most, the people whom we protect the most, are the ones whom are hurt the most, most of the time. It just seems weird that humans are created like that, such that we hurt the people whom we love the most.

And i guess this is a lasting thought for the year which have gone by. The blog which i started is finally going to be one year old, and one year of criticism are also on it as well. Lets take this period of time, to relive the post that were written here, and than treat it as a final thought for this year, and than let it go, for grudges should not be kept, the new year starts a new ray of hope...

And here is discmon, wishing you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, with hope, i shall be back here on the 31/12 to write one final post for this year...

Discmon

A huge sick cosmic joke...

hey you all, thought i would post a food for thought...

I've just become part of a huge, sick cosmic joke. JIC you are wondering, the SC is once again working on the sec 1 orientation. For the benefit of people who do not know what is going on, we need to prepare stuff for the things that are going to happen on that day, when we welcome the sec 1s into our school...

So, how is this thing a big sick cosmic joke...?

Well, I am in Logistics committe. You know, the bunch of people running around making sure that everyone has everything that is needed for the activity that they are going to be hosting. Ya, essentially, they are the people in charge of the store room.

We, for your general information, has the biggest committe, with an overall strength of 13.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that it is holidays, people are abroad, overseas, uncontactable, at camp, at chalet, and every other possible scenario...
So what does that means?
It means that logistics has just magically shrunked to about 2 people...
and we're supposed to do a dry run in two days time...

And its seriously becoming a really sick joke...

Discmon

Animania, its good, and its bad, and things to improve on...

Hey, people, great to be back...
Actually, i wanted to talk about the whole beijing trip and everything that happened there the minute i got back, but was a bit reluctant as i did not want to recall the terror of counting 26 people everyday during the trip, mutiple times in one day in fact...

But anyway,

Thanks to the fact that i'm back, i am able to once again indulge in my favourite form of entertainment, at least for the time being, Animania...

If you all had been paying attention, you all would have noticed that i have at least two post talking about this Animania thing on Art Central...
I think i am starting to see a connection...

The craze, for me, started when I realised that Shaman king was being aired. At that point in time, the 11pm show was inuyasha, and 11:30pm show was Shaman King. At that point in time, the two anime series was talking about shamans and spirits and the sort of thing although technically they were talking about different things.

After the two anime series ended, we had 11pm Peacemaker Kurogane (art central conveniently forgets the Kurogane and whatever parts in Jap all the time) and 11:30pm we had Scrapped Princess. Peacemaker Kurogane was rated NC-16 so it was a bit of problem for me to watch although it eventually was turned into PG for Art central. The two Anime series now focused on Peacemakers. Peacemaker Kurogane should be clear enough, while for Scrapped Princess it took some inferring. Scrapped Princess had peacemakers because of the presence of the Peacemakers, and the companions with the Scrapped Princess, and eventually in the last episode, Taurus herself...

So you could see the connection between the two anime series...

After this two anime series ended, we had 11pm Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!!(Art central forgot Shinkon Gattai as usual, and the exclamation marks) and 11:30pm Kita-He~diamond dust drops(Art Central forgot, you guessed it, Kita-He, which mean, to the North) and after Kita-He ended (around 12 episodes), 11:30pm became Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien (Can't blame Art Central for this one, which they named Rumbling Hearts. The fake title for the series is placed prominently in the opening screen, which is Rumbling Hearts...)(Anyway, Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien means, Kiminozo, the eternity you desire). The three anime series now focused on love story...

So i guess we all expect the next two anime series to be once again related in some way...

But that is not the main gist of the post. I am hoping that Art Central would finally get the titles of their Anime series right. Lets take a look at what had happened so far:
Peacemaker = Peacemaker Kurogane
Godannar = Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!!
Diamond Dust Drops = Kita-He~Diamond Dust Drops
Rumbling Hearts = Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien

I mean, they are giving me a bit of a trouble when i go searching the web for information on them. Rumbling hearts made me spend about a week trying to get heads and tails of what i am getting though google until i finally discovered that its title is actually Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien.

Art Central has done a wonderful job by changing the things that had happened over the film art vs Animania program shifting ceremony, and i guess we all are quite happy with that. I suggest that they can do a even better job by making sure that they stop forgetting to add the Japanese titles into the subtitles...

Oh ya, another irritating aspect of Art Central is that for Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien, the story characters leave notes for the other character. For people like us who can't read Jap, it get irritating when we can't find out what it means. The subtitle refuses to tell us what it means anyway, so we just have to guess...
For some episodes, the subtitles work and tell us what is on the notes...
So i guess it needs some standardization?

Art Central can do it, i am sure it can...

Discmon