Darker than Black
I can't believe Sherman refused to watch this because he thought the title was racist.. -.-"""" IT'S SSSOO GOOD!!!! sherman lee, you should watch it!!!
and thanks ahzu for recommending this.. i took so long to find this anime online.. she asked me to watch it like during Cosfest? When both veoh and youtube failed i actually managed to find it at this ulu site.. click
here! it has a surprisingly wide range of anime titles and the NEWEST movies for added bonus!
ok back to the anime..
HEI IS SO FREAKING HWWAAATTT!! especially when he's WET! lol.. i know i sound sick but he just looked so HWWAATTT drenched in episode 6.. and i like guys who cooks though Havoc advised otherwise.. haha! I'm so glad a very good cosplayer is cosing Hei soon..
you would make a VERY HWWAATTT Hei!! *glomps* xD
but my favourite character has to be Mao.. yesh, the spastic cat with a red collar and a golden bell!! it reminds me of zx's xiao bai.. wahahaha.. i love it when it has the pissed expression.. so cute!!! if
you need a Mao for your photoshoot tell me.. i shall cat-nap zx's.. wheee!
Female character wise, i like both Yin and Kirihara.. Yin so cool and mysterious and Kirihara.. i like her hair.. ROFL.. i couldn't tell that Yin's blind from the first few episodes.. it was not till i read Wiki that i knew.. gahhh.. i should resist the temptation to read Wiki.. It spoils my animes..
I guess i like everybody in the team except for Huang.. he's just some old fag demanding this and that.. control freak! and how dare he pull MY Hei by the collar!!!! i guess i wouldn't know more about him till episode 20+ (yesh i read Wiki again..) and i'm only at like episode 6?!? But I doubt he's a Contractor..
"Contractors" here are not referring to those white helmet uncles with blueprints at construction sites but humans with supernatural powers.. Equipped with such powers, they are cold-blooded and exist for one reason-to kill.. However, as the name goes, there is a price to pay to use their powers.. Obiesance, as they call it, comes in various forms such as drinking children's blood, eating flowers, smoking.... (I got a feeling that Hei eats large amount of food for his obiesance..) Just like vampires turning into a blood sucking monster for the price of immortality, isn't it?
What's more Darker than Black has a wonderful ending theme-Tsukaikari.. The song is as beautiful as its title.. Click
here for the PV.. The first time i heard it i was totally enchanted though the images in the ED weren't that captivating.. I love the chorus and the rhythm of the whole song!! And i found out what "Shizuka" means coz it's in the lyrics and i went to search for the translation.. LOL!!! sorry shizu, it took me so long to figure out why your blog title is .:In Silence:.
enough said, Darker than Black is freaking good!! Watch it!! and I can't wait till
she does Hei!!!! whee~~
静かな愛情を信じてた
Natsu Matsuri 2007Yesterday felt like a dream.. i felt as if i have stepped into CCS world.. lol.. in Cardcaptor Sakura, we always see Sakura attending Summer Festivals in Japan in her yukata, playing little games and eating Japanese goodies.. and at Natsu, it's the exact same thing happening!!! like so cool!!!! it's like a dream come true..
I met Feli at her house and changed into my yukata.. thanks to her dad for driving us there and we reached around 5pm.. we looked around for shuai ges but there weren't any.. but there were lotsa uber cute japanese kids!!! Feli was convincing me into kidnapping them.. LOL!
and thanks swiftwing for coming as our personal photog! sorry for being unable to get you a ticket and you had to queue 2 hrs for one.. i couldn't really shoot though i brought my s3.. but i don't really know how to use it.. my 400D is still better.. hehex..
anyway there were food and game stalls.. Feli is a BIG eater despite her size.. we used up all our coupons on food such that we couldn't play the games.. (but the main dish was nice!! my favourite Japanese curry chicken!!) i had to buy a coupon from someone so as to play the water balloon game..
Cute kids at the games stalls-like a scene from ccs!
Scoop Goldfish!
Yo-yo water balloons!
met a lot of other sgcafe memebers and took photos!! whee~
me, feli and lenneth
Feli was exploiting ahbu by making her carry everything and stuff all the fans in her obi.. -.-"
expensive but delicious Korean sausages.. look at Feli's finger! lol! and yesh, i have a big pink flower on my head.. feli bought it and said it would look nice.. i hope it does..
retarded look..
cute japanese kid!!!
feli, me and yiwen.. we were all drenched in sweat.. xD
me and debb
shizu stalkers unite!!! lol.. me and vic
there were mass folk dances and performances..
and yesh we danced..
xmas trees.. lol.. feli kept using her balloon to hit ppl.. -.-""
skye and me
group photo!
whee~ i had so much fun!! the $10 coupon included my dinner, fun and games.. what's expensive about this festival is only my yukata! hahax.. shall wear again and go next year.. next year i shall drag ahzu there! a pity she missed out on this year's.. so fun!!
and lastly,..
my ahbu don't wanna miss out the fun too!
wheeee~
ahbu shot ahzu!when i was closing my window in the afternoon i felt something drop from it.. i look down and saw a
FREAKING BLACK LIZARD on my bed-the favourite side of my bed!!! (and yesh, my bed is just next to the window) the next thing i knew, i screamed.. lucky my bro is deaf and my sis was sleeping so nobody run in hysterically to discover that i was screaming over a freaking lizard.. but i was so afraid that i evacuated my ahbus and bolster from my bed and left them in my study table before i went out..
-^(%^$%@)$#@()*@$)(#*^%(#)@-
i went to feli's house to look at my freaking expensive yukata first before going to school.. but when i arrived, she told me that it haven't arrived yet.. zzz.. so took a bus to school.. i didn't know that 69 is actually so fast.. even from bedok interchange..
Met Cheng Cong at DES canteen so that he can return me my 70-200 and i can have my dinner.. My ahzu was still at KFC having hers.. when she came walking down the lane from Jupiter Cafe to the canteen, i turned and saw her in this black coat and pants.. like WHOA! she wears such things to school?!?! and she said it was for a presentation.. O.O!! red contacts for presentation too? she took out her black coat but was still in some gothic loilta clothes.. LOL! the things DES students wear to school.. she should take a walk in ASc and see what we wear..
anyway had a really short shoot at the amphitheatre.. THIS IS NOT COSPLAY! and purely for her school project.. she started explaining to me the sorta concept she wants which left me in question marks..
probably if i had studied design, my pics would have looked more like Francis Ng's-conceptual! LMAO! LOL! we began to shoot nevertheless..
pardon my lousy editing.. i'm sure shizu would have edited hers to look better..
i like this photo.. coz ahzu had a very good pose that gave a very Yuna feel..
a series of hand/hand shots..
enough to make you melt! xDDD
there's something specific she wanted in this shot but i wonder if i managed to bring it out
Emo shots!
tried a different editing style for this..
i'm not posting these photos on sgcafe, so i didn't bother to add my watermark.. but please.. don't steal my ahzu.. she's MINE!! muhahaha..
don't you agree my ahzu is damn bishie and damn cool?! can't wait for her next photoshoot! probably during our holidays.. and yesh! DES students do have a week break in the middle of our very long (7 weeks) one..
and guess what? a customer called to subscribe Cable TV while we were shooting and he's from my condo.. just a unit above mine.. LOL!! that day i just dumped 4 brochures in random letter boxes and whheee~ i got a customer! but i have to do installation on my own for this.. ZERONG TEACH ME HOW TO INSTALL! i miss zerong.. i haven't seen him since he passed me dounts at the TP bus stop.. good luck for your exams!
after that, shizu and I walked to the bus stop and i headed to feli's house.. YESH AGAIN! coz after the shoot, i received a message that her goods arrived.. so we changed into our yukatas and prance around her house.. LOL!! i still haven't figure out how to fix my hair.. i looked so retarded yesterday with 2 buns.. look like a 4 year old.. OMG! and there'll be NO PHOTOS of me in yukata till after Natsu on Saturday..
whheee~ looking forward to Saturday.. i hope there are cute Japanese guys like feli promised..
i wonder why i'm not studying.. xDDD
ahzu is teh BISHIE! <3
Tell you a Secret..i finally got to watch Secret!!!! with ostaf, ananab and hw.. AND SO DAMN SORRY THAT I WAS LATE!!! we missed the first part.. i stayed too long at feli's house.. zzz.. she psychoed me to get a yukata for Mid-Autumn Festival this year.. The Yukata+lanterns+mooncake+chinese gardens combination is too beautiful to resist.. PLUS SHIZU IS GOING.. whee~~
ok i shall give a movie review..
JAY CHOU IS A GENIUS!!! i super love the plot and the sweet, cute scenes.. and jay, it's totally a different him.. from all his songs i get this very cool and cold image of him.. but in the movie, he's so cheesy when it comes to girls and cute too! i can't believe that there's this side to Jay..
and i super love his father!!! so eccentric.. wahaha!! the playing guitar to cheer his son up part is so cute! the dancing part was O.O!!! i wish i had such a crazy father.. but don't be too crazy.. xD
The last scene where he played the piano while the school crumbles was damn cool!! and so is the entire plot! like ostaf said the plot may be typical, but the jigsaw is completed by those insignificant little clues which made the plot so cool!! The brilliant use of English in the Secret music score showed that both English and music are universal languages that transcends time..
The significance of his father repeating "我只有你这个儿子" throughout the show was so strong when Jay decided to leave him for love and when his father rushed to the school..
Jay certainly knows how to incorporate his passion for music into a movie!!! Secret is a MUST WATCH!!! it left me sooo AWED!!!
after the movie was dinner.. hw was blabbering and complaining about army again.. but something was different this time.. we talked about the future.. usually it's ostaf who thinks that far but now we set a target..
We shall go Mongolia after you guys ORD!! (don't worry it's only 1+years away)
We shall go clubbing!! (my mum only allow me to go if i'm with ostaf and gang.. xD)
Whoever gets married shall invite the rest! (this is like so farrr..)
OSTAF AND HW IS GONNA TREAT US ALL TO A MEAL AFTER THEIR ORD!!! MUST BE RESTAURANT!! READ: CRYSTAL JADE IMPERIAL!!! xDDD
OSTAF SHALL TREAT US ON HIS 21ST BIRTHDAY!!!!
ostaf shall BUY A CAR after he graduates from NUS and drive us around! whee~ so glad we all live in cck.. (except for ananab) =D
it was when hw and ostaf mentioned that we have known each other for 7 years that i realised that we have known each other for that long.. hahax.. on the 10th year I shall do something.. on 1st November.. =)
这是你和我的。。秘密。
Revolutionyeahhh! i finally have my Wednesday off! whee~ That's why i was able to support zq at her singing gig at Ark's Cafe yesterday night!! Congrats for getting into the semi-finals! It ended at around 11pm and the MRT trip home was horrible.. I boarded an almost vacant train at Jurong East towards Yew Tee and sat
a seat away from 2 cheena men.. the one closer to me smells like some rotten fish.. EEWWW.. they were talking in some Chinese dialect I don't understand and they kept looking in MY direction.. DAMNIT! I was trying to play Pokemon on my handphone but there was obviously not enough memory so it couldn't run.. When I looked up from my phone.. HOLY SHIT! the men has moved to the seat NEXT TO ME! OMFG!!! and they were still looking in my direction, judging from the reflection on the opposite window.. I was so scared I stood up and stood near the door for the rest of the journey.. I was in white turtleneck long sleeve top, mini demin skirt, long white socks and boots by the way.. HORRIBLE MEN! >-<
Had a very interesting mass MSN conversation on Monday night.. or to be precise Tuesday morning.. The result is a formation of a new club.. LOL!! and it was rare that ahzhu was online in that convo.. Everyone was so heated up and bitching.. I would be rather sad if i was the one we bitched about.. But thanks girls for telling me the truth.. It hurts to have a knife sticking outta my back..
I am STILL against cruelty to animals..
whee~ I still have more than half of the day to waste.. I know i should study but I just feel like it yet.. I have more questions to rebut the teachers based on what A levels taught me.. Most of the things I learn now contradict! I shall clarify my doubts before I embark into any mugging..
I guess I shall watch my Heart Paws vcd which i bought last month.. Yesh, I shall cry myself dry watching it, with no zx at my side laughing at an ahbu crying at a typical plot.. I agree that the plot for animal stories' are the same but it's still very touching!!! It a fact that humans outlive their animal companions.. T-T
By the way, someone PLEASE watch Secret with me!! I've been wanting to watch it but everyone is watching with everyone else.. :(
Join the Resistance!!!
Sing to Hell
Alucard TV Series
Hellsing Ultimate OVA version
woots~ i just finished the Hellsing TV series and 3 episodes of Hellsing Ultimate OVA! I LOVE ALUCARD!!!! he's one smexy vampire in red!!! love his attitude, love his character, love his twin guns!!!
sidenote: shizu, do cosplay of alucard pleeaassseee.. i will get you slits to stand on.. lol..i know zx is gonna say that this is an old anime again.. ya the TV series ended eons ago but the OVA is still ongoing!! In fact episode 4 is only gonna be aired in Japan this October.. sianz.. another few months of waiting.. but since every OVA episode is a smashing 50mins, it's so worth it.. and Sherman was right, the art in the OVA is a trillion times better than the TV series.. plus, Seras is not that irritating in the OVA since she's always adding humour to it.. what the TV series lack is this kinda humour.. i totally heart the OVA though it's a summary of the main plot and character development is not deep..
it's the next best vampire horror flick that i enjoy other than Blood+.. ya it's the typical vampire killing vampire for humans plot again but i love the way the blood splashes everywhere (though exaggerated), the way the limbs were torn off, eyes gorged out and the sinking of razor sharp teeth into the jugular vein.. and they even in-cooperated vampiric history, Protestant vs Catholic history into the plot! totally awesome.. the reference to Vlad Ţepeş was so strong especially during the last episode in the TV series coz it's no coincidence that his name is Dracula spelt backwards.. those who watched Ghost Hunt should be familiar with Vlad Ţepeş.. and many unanswered questions from the TV series were answered in the OVA.. i'm glad the plot took a fresh turn in the 3rd episode of the OVA if not it's gonna be rather boring following the plot of the TV series..
For vampire-freaks, blood and gore lovers, this is the anime for you! It's not very long too.. 13 episodes (i believe it was purposely made 13..) for the TV series and 3 episodes (thus far) for the OVA..
ok enough about my latest craze.. but thanks TK for introducing me to Alucard..
During my holidays,
I'M GOING JAPAN!!!! whee~~~i registered got selected for this school trip to Kyushu, Japan.. one of the lucky 6 girls and 14 guys.. i believe i got selected because i told the organiser i'm a photographer and i volunteered to cover the trip.. they were actually requesting for first-aiders and videographer.. lol.. i guess it helps to have a certain skill..
7 days (from 9-16 Sept) in Japan and less than $1000! how cool! and i have one day of free and easy! SHOPPING!!! what's best is that we are infiltrating a school! lol.. cultural exchange trip what so i'm staying with a student there in her hostel.. and if it's a Japanese high school it could only mean.. CUTE JAPANESE GUYS!!!!! i'm so gonna capture them.. on my camera that is.. feli even instructed me to ask for their numbers.. lol..
ahzu, feli or yn, one of you:
TEACH ME JAPANESE!!! at least enough for me to survive.. I don't mind bringing back things on your shopping lists for you.. ;D
i just counted how many photoshoots await me after my exams.. a total of 8!!! (excluding events) stretching all the way to Jan next year.. *dies* coz i have been telling cosplayers i have exams till 30th Aug, i have TWO on the weekend of 1/2 Sept.. *pengz* but I love Cosplay shoots! but i hate exams which i have not started studying for.. zzz
after almost 10 years since i first played Pokemon Yellow on my first computer, i can play it on my handphone too!! LOL! i saw someone playing it on hers on the train.. and it was a Sony Ericsson model similar to my bro's.. i was so damn amazed.. when i came home, i exclaimed to him and he nonchalantly sent it to me from his own phone.. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU HAVE IT TOO?! now i can play it on the long MRT trips to school.. hee..
In the name of God, impure souls of the undead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen
Coscon 2007thanks shizu for asking me to accompany her.. i had fun shooting and stalking my ahzu.. muhahaha..
couldn't say that the photos were really nice coz for events i still feel that my streetfest pics were better.. but we sure had fun gossiping over lunch and dinner! xD
met shizu for lunch at BK at around 12++pm.. she couldn't even finish her mushroom swiss when the burger was so small.. she babbled on about school.. and ARGH! i realised fr shizu that design school have NO APEL AND NO FREAKING CSAS!!! arrgghh!! the dumbest subjects on my whole timetable.. those who have no clue, it's a civics and moral kinda lessons.. AND DESIGN STUDENTS DON'T HAVE TO BUY THE BLUE APEL BOOK!! WTH!!! mr jomer is calling in for the books already and i haven't even done a single dumb exercise inside.. arrggghhh! so gonna die doing this National Day holiday.. and i still have CSAS project! stupid 4-page reflections.. arghh!! i wanna be a design student too! T-T
anyway, camwhored.. and yesh, this is my new hair.. the fringe sucks.. i look like a retard! and my shizu is so pretty! <3
and no this is not using my 400D.. using Powershot S3.. i DON'T camwhore with a slr coz like what shizu said, it's like wearing a designer gown to the fish market..
after lunch she changed into her costume and i went around shooting!
and i finally met my shizu fan club members!!!
Tenjin
and DA!
members of SFC and our SMEXY shizu! this picture is actually taken by yn (in case you are wondering why she was here read her blog)! good job!
and what's a cosplay event without lenneth!
initially, she told me she wanted to do a pose but she was caught up with a lot of other cosplayers and photogs so i had to wait for a hour plus before she could actually pose this for me.. glad it turned out well..
more of tenjin!
one of my favourite pic! coz her costume is red and white, she even brought a Singapore flag.. yesh, national day is around the corner! lol
Kyoist! another pro!
Skye!
found that she's quite bubbly despite her doing quite sinister and cool looking characters.. i thought she might be unapproachable but she seemed so friendly and nice once she starts talking.. hahax.. a new friend made.. i love events!
and OMG! sherman just told me he knows skye-personally! so skye was from ACJC! they even went for this CIP bintan trip together and his visual kei songs on his mp3 saved her! like OMG!!! this world is so small!!!!
this enma ai looks so good!! glad enma ai was cosfucked!
oohh sexy!
Mario! a tad yellowish to add a little vintage charm! i actually saw this couple on the train from Jurong East interchange.. the girl was holding a mushroom and so i thought it's a gift from her bf.. till i saw them at coscon then i realised that they are cosplaying Mario and Luigi
think she's from world of warcraft..
Ayane!
eh not my shizu? my shizu is here!
seeing double?! 2 ayanes!
asuka, shizu and lenneth
3+1 queys (my watermark.. lol.. xD)
during lunch, shizu brought out her kai.. lol.. (the chick in the middle..) i was still wondering why.. till i saw kyoist's and tenjin's queys i suddenly know why.. they plotted this to bring all their queys.. lol! i should have brought my ahbu! it would be the cutest of them all.. muhahahaha..
what happened at dinner..went for dinner at sakae at marina square with kyoist, tenjin, DA, ahzu and a few of their friends.. gossip and gossip lol! was much fun!
worrying that shizu couldn't finish anything, i told her if she were to order any rice i would share with her.. and so we shared a katsu don.. but i still couldn't believe shizu can eat so much at dinner as compared to lunch..
tenjin tried to take photos of our cute shizu with her cute pink bandanna (she tied it on coz she said wearing her wig made her hair disgustingly flat!) budden she..
[photos courtesy of tenjin's camera..]
but when i got tenjin passed me her camera, shizu relented.. i think she's too tired hiding from the camera.. tenjin was still complaining why i could catch pics of her..
coz she's MY ahzu! coz i'm a photographer! hahax!
*pokes*
looks so cute puffing up her cheeks!
it's not open because it's closed.. -.-"
