Archive | January, 2009

Gundam 00 S2 episode 16 screencaps

29 Jan
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Finally got around to watching the subs for Gundam 00 this week. I’ve been busy and not around a computer this whole week since school’s already up and running. I did manage to snag a copy of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea so hopefully I’ll be watching that this weekend. Has anybody ever watched Ponyo or is planning to watch it?

Regarding this week’s episode: serious episode is serious :|

Oh, and I finally got around to adding a subscribe feature to comments. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, but just got around to doing that now :x haha.

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Martian Successor Nadesico

26 Jan
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Image from Anime Galleries.

I’ve been wanting to watch this series for years! I first heard about this series years ago when I saw it featured in an issue of Animerica. My interest was piqued when I saw that there was an anime within the series itself called Gekiganger III.

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Definitely a homage to earlier robot series of its age, specifically Getter Robo. In the series, this was a show that was aired a hundred odd years earlier and was considered a classic, especially to two characters: Jiro Yamada (who referred to himself mostly as Daigoji Gai) and Akito Tenkawa. As the series progressed, even though Akito was often made fun of for swearing by the show, the whole crew eventually came to love and embrace the show. Hell, even the alien race, the Jovian Lizards, sweared by the show! Lain suggested that I watch the Gekiganger OVA sometime soon. I’ll get around to it.

Anyway, getting back to the actual plot of the series, it is 2196 and Earth is waging war with the Jovian Lizards. The privately-owned company Nergal builds a ship called the ND-001 Nadesico. The crew of the Nadesico has the best people in their respective fields. The only catch: they’re quirky.

Spoilers run abundant in this post, so be wary! Also, slight tangent: I have a little ShoutMix Chat Widget on the sidebar. :P

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Good times with good company

24 Jan
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As winter break drew to a close, what better way to spend it than with your good friends? Within the past couple of days, we’ve had a picnic at a park, dinner, saw one another again on campus, and celebrated the Lunar New Year. And you know what? I’m not tired of them at all.

Here are a couple of pictures from the past couple of days. Enjoy! If you want to see more, you can always check out my Flickr. Also, if you have an account on Flickr, you can always add me too :)

On a slight tangent, if you want to trade links or want to be added to my blogroll, I’m more than happy to :D Just say the word and I’m totally down for it.

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Photo dump #2

22 Jan
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As I still write up my review on Nadesico, have another camera phone photo dump! I can’t sleep quite yet even though school starts up tomorrow, so I present to you: more random photos. I saw this particular image over at a Costco. Who knew that a hot dog and mustard would fall in love?

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Gundam 00 S2 episode 15 screencaps

20 Jan
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Patrick, the rabu-sensei knows how to get the womens! All you have to do is listen to him and you, too, can get the woman of your dreams!

Didn’t really think much of this week’s episode until the very end. It does concern our very own Hamu-sensei, er, Mr. Bushido. Ugh, I hate calling him Mr. Bushido.

Before delving into the screencaps, here’s something of relevance:

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Fallout 3: First Impressions

20 Jan
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In an attempt to start to play more FPS games, Lester bought me Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition for the PS3. I remember when he got this for the PC and couldn’t put it down. I was curious as to why he enjoyed it so much, but I could never get myself to play FPS games since I always end up panicking. Fun fact: I’ve always wanted to try out more FPS games since I enjoyed playing Doom on the 32X and Goldeneye 64 for the N64, but ceased after panicking in a round of CS. That was the time when I solely devoted myself to MMORPG’s and went the way of Ragnarok Online.

After expressing a lot of interest in F3, Lester actually went out and bought it for me! I haven’t gotten that far yet since I just reached Galaxy News Radio, but so far, the ride’s been exhilirating.

F3′s more of an action RPG but it still has FPS elements in it. It’s still taking me a good while to get used to the controls since I have a bad habit of looking down, but I’m loving their targeting system: V.A.T.S. A bad habit of mine is shooting aimlessly out of sheer panic and wasting ammo, forcing me to either run away or do something stupid. At least with V.A.T.S., I can strategically target certain body parts and watch their demise (most of the time) in slow-motion.

Also, there’s something soothing about their radio stations that makes me less scared when I’m wandering around a radiated wasteland plagued with Raiders, Radroaches, Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, and the like. It makes the game enjoyable! There’s nothing like listening to American 1940′s music while shooting off heads and legs. I still panic when I play, but the music has definitely eased me thus far.

I’ll write more about my experience once I get further into the game. But for now, I’m definitely liking it.

Gundam 00 S2 episode 14 screencaps

16 Jan
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I’ve had screencaps for a while for this episode, but never got around to posting them until now. I was mostly focused on doing the recap for CES that I forgot about this :P Oh, and it didn’t help that I went on a Kannagi marathon prior to as well.

To make up for this, have a screaming Ali.

Before I go on, I’d like to welcome the following hostees: Lester & Rowena. Lester will be reporting about his Stormtrooper events and the like. Rowena will be having a blog of her own, most likely to be fashion or video game-based (or maybe even both, haha).

Head to the jump for screencaps!

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CES 2009

14 Jan
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My friends and I headed out to Las Vegas for the weekend to attend the 2009 International CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center. CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show and is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. It is hosted by the CEA, which is the Consumer Electronics Association. In order to get in, you have to be affiliated with the consumer electronics industry. It is not open to the general public.

Oh, and yes, that is me posing with a free can of Coke Zero :P

I’ve been waiting for this to come around since I registered back in October. The tradeshow is so massive that it spans all of the convention center and trickles over to the Sands Expo and the Venetian. I don’t even know if it’s possible to go through every single portion of the tradeshow since it took my friends and I two days to get through the Central and South Halls of the convention center. Even though we didn’t get to go to everything, it was an amazing experience.

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Windstruck

6 Jan
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After having it on my computer for a while, I finally sat down and watched Windstruck/내 여자친구를 소개합니다, only to find out that the copy I had was hardsubbed in Japanese :( I was highly interested in this movie especially since it had the same director (Kwak Jae-yong) and same lead actress (Jun Ji-hyun) from My Sassy Girl.

I really wanted to watch the movie, so I tracked it down on My Soju and went through all 13 uploaded parts on Youtube. It was a pain to watch in parts since it’d get at a good part and it’d go to the replay screen. Nevertheless, this particular movie tugged on my heartstrings so much! I forgot how much of a sap I am for romance movies.

Have there any been any movies that have touched you emotionally, regardless of genre? Also, any romance movie suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)

Devil Hunter Yohko

4 Jan
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I picked up Devil Hunter Yohko as part of my DVD haul at the local Suncoast that was going out of business. DHY was actually one of the first anime I was exposed to when starting to get into anime, having read a couple of articles on it when I used to pick up Animerica.

The only reason why I didn’t get into DHY back then was because I was only in 4th grade at the time and if my parents caught me wanting to get an anime VHS with a mature rating, it’d be questionable. Plus, I don’t think I would’ve been able to appreciate the series seeing at it was intended for a more mature audience and being in the 4th grade, my mind wasn’t cut out for it just yet.

After rummaging through Suncoast, I found a copy of the complete 6-episode collection and went ahead and bought it. I was only able to appreciate DHY through Animerica reviews, seeing the volumes available at Suncoast, and scans on the Internet. Now that I finally had it in my hands, I sat down and blazed through all 6 episodes. Spoilers, summaries, and reactions are abundant, so you’ve been warned! (more…)

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