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Because I haven't posted for SO long, I thought it'd be best I wrap everything that's happened for the last few weeks nicely first before I move on with life ._.
=ONE=
O's has ended. Yup. Feels like eons ago too.
Not much to talk about it... hmm... just waiting for results right now =\
I seriously have no idea how I will fare DX
=TWO=
Graduation night was the night right after the last paper.
I went in my black and red lolita, while carrying this bunch of artificial roses around. Got ready in Phaik's house. She went in her purple and black lolita.
I looked sommeeething like this.
I drew that btw.
Had an 8 course dinner with little games and performances and presentations in between.
It was okay. Except one thing that kept bothering me was that we're in the school hall.
Moving on~
=THREE= **image-heavy!!!**
Went to Penang some time back.
Stayed in a suite room in a... I dunno, 4 star? Or was it 5...
It was quite big...
The hotel's name is.. g hotel. Not even a capital G >.>
I have no idea why anyone would name a hotel "g".
The entrance. Overlooking the sea.
The lobby. It was wastefully spacious yet gorgeous.
The executive lounge. I'm staying on executive floor heheh.
Now onto the suite room...
I sleep at the sofa here. Got a tv and a drawing desk all to myself /o/ ~
Next room...
...is where my parents sleep. They got a tv all to themselves too.
The bed's really huge and reeaaaally soft but I just refused to sleep with them lol. cause I want a tv all to myself and no one nagging me to sleep.
I had a wtf moment at this. The wall between the bedroom and the bathroom is TRANSPARENT. Look, you can even see my reflection in the bathroom mirror. I guess it's so that people can still watch tv even when in the bathtub. No wonder the room is only meant for two people...
Me in the bathroom.
The other section of the bathroom. Hell, they even got TWO toilets. No more fighting. They even wrapped the towels in a pretty orange ribbon.
Teh shower! No transparent walls no worries.
Another photo of my reflection cause i'm narcisstic like that.
Okay enough of bathroom photos.
Time for more proper and worthy shots...
The view from up here. I forgot which floor I was at... umm... 17?
The sea from up here. It's always low tide except during night and dawn.
(I could see a delta!)
City area from up here...
K enough of the room.
Christmas tree at the next door shopping mall.
The plaza.
Alright the rest of the photos are dedicated to the Butterfly Park. It's probably the only fun thing I experienced while I was there.
A display of live butterfly cocoons!
This one's just on its way out. Aww. Welcome to the world.
Those little black marks are butterflies. The whole place's chock full of them it gets kinda scary to walk.
You'll find lots of these in the entire park.
Time for close-ups~
I have a lot more but I guess that's enough =\
Moving on...
...it's a hoard of scorpions oh my god. They're that pile of black stuff huddling together to escape light. AHH.
Close up. Pardon the blur. My phone camera's only 3.5 megapixels.
*shudder* ...
Oooo turtle~
Zomg it's a really huge turtle @A@ its head is even wider than my hand omg.
I think those are called snap turtles. The ones who keep still while gaping their mouths waiting for their prey to swim right in.
It's a huge green iguana.
It took me a while to notice it...
This one too. They sure lived their purpose well.
A poisonous snake.
Another one perched up in that little tree.
A monitor lizard up close!
A tree lizard, I think. It was facing me but turned away and climbed onto the tree like that while I was about to take its picture. Vain beast =.= but somehow I like how this photo turned out.
So cute...
A chinese duck. I seriously thought it was a toy.
A bunch of turtles. With a hippo statue.
Horseshoe crabs! This is the first time I've seen them irl. Why're they called crabs anyway? I thought they looked more like stingrays...
Ah, koi fish... What's a park without them.
More insects~
...Gah. My phone ran out of memory. I wanted to take a picture of the fluorescent scorpions :( at least I got Phaik and dad to take a picture of them. I'll post them up when I get them. They just look too awesome to not post it up here X3
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Okay next, we went to the Blue Mansion. No pictures sorry :( they didn't allow us to take any.
It's an important heritage site. A huge mansion with mainly chinese architecture and as the name implies, its walls are usually a dark blue colour. The mansion is GORGEOUS. Every single thing outside and inside are crafted and decorated so intricately. I felt so guilty when I sat on a chair that was decorated with mother of pearls. It's like sitting on a Picasso painting. Well I don't really like Picasso's works but... you get my point.
It's built by some rich chinese man who played a significant role in many countries' economies long ago. The last of his mansions. The rest were destroyed.
The mansion's totally fengshui-ed. Basically almost every aspect like T-junctions, symmetry, heart of the building, sea infront, mountains at the back, sloping ground, angled to the road, etc are looked into. I can't believe someone so devoted to wealth and health like that actually existed.
We toured the mansion for about 1.5 hours.
Anyway, moving on...
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I had a bubblebath. It's been years since I had one and couldn't resist DX
My parents were out for dinner at the nearby night hawker. I stayed behind to watch Ratatouille while having my dip. THAT is life.
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A shop at some shopping centre. It was so orange I just had to take a picture of it. I did plan to have an orange christmas tree some time D:
And that teddybear was so big it's probably almost my height if it stood straight. Suzuki-san~! :D
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Anyway, I think that's about all the pictures I can post now.
Back to Singapore I go...
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=FOUR=
I returned to Singapore in the afternoon of the 2nd day of Anime Festival Asia (AFA), so I managed to go for the event highlights.
I didn't turn up in cosplay. Was too tired and unprepared =\
Most of my friends were cosplaying. We walked around, fooled around, met lots of people, browsed lots of booths...
There was an IFS booth! Oh my god! I didn't buy anything from them cause I have very limited budget :( I bought several Vocaloid pins though - Rin, Len and Gakupo, and a little KH2 poster. knightcat was there at a booth too! With several other DA artists like mandachan DX
There was an Odex booth too. They showcased lots of anime (Shakugan no Shana, Toradora!, Code Geass, etc.) I must admit the quality of their subs are improving, but the quality of their vids aren't.
There was a domo-kun booth XD Elle bought a domo-kun shirt, which costs like 30 bucks @_@
There was a performance by May'n~! (seiyuu of Ranka from Macross Frontier) It was lipsynching, but it was rather nice too. Her voice is really powerful ._.
I heard there was a performance by Aniki the day before, and that his performance was much better, but I didn't get to catch it :(
After the event was over me and Sawa went over to the IFS booth to stalk visit them. We met artgerm, kunkka, and the other fella D8
Sawa took their price list (with Pepper on it) just for the heck of it. I took a rejected IFS artbook cover just for the heck of it too. We got their autographs on them DDDD8 we took a picture with artgerm too. And shook hands with him. I'M NEVER GONNA WASH THIS HAND NO MORE.
Oh wait I already did. Darn.
If you don't know who the IFS people are, you should be ashamed!!
Go research on them gogo. The Imaginary Friends Studio :D
For your info, Artgerm was the one who drew this. And Kunkka was the one who drew this and this.
Kunkka (the name of the DotA hero) was named after Kunkka!!! DX
I'M SO HONOURED TO MEET THEM AND TALK TO THEM OMIGOSH.
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Moving on.
We went for dinner at the Suntec food court after that. And then go home, internet, and sleep. Usual stuff.
=FIVE=
Many things have happened since then.
Went to Wild Wild Wet with Sawa, Broken, Rein, Karei, Setsuru, Xeths, Lockie, Tohru, and many more. It was Cutepetz's birthday. Of course Claude was there too ;) Had plenty of fun and epic moments. Came back with abrasions all over my feet. I had limb cramps the next day.
Been rushing EOY stuff too =\ Right now I'm left with her boxes, painting all the props, sewing her cloak and ripping up her shirt. Lal sure is troublesome...
I HAVE TWO DAYS LEFT. WHY AM I NOT PANICKING ENOUGH.
=SIX=
Latest manga: Switch
It's about some kid investigator named Kai Eto in the Greater Kanto Narcotics Control Division with a violent alter ego and lost memories. He and his partner Hal Kurabayashi are supposed to track down and stop the distribution of a dangerous new drug called Dragon Speed.
Lots of twists and turns and tragic and confused endings. Up to vol 5 now.
Still waiting for KHR, AG, Kuroshitsuji, DW, Mirai Nikki, Junjou, Soul Eater, Rustblaster and many more updates on OneManga and MangaFox.
Still waiting for more World Embryo, Mushishi, Saiyuki Reload, Vampire Knight, A Thousand Years of Snow and Switch to publish. Oh and Cosmode Japan and Cosmode USA too.
Anime? Still waiting for new eps to KHR, Kuroshitsuji, Yozakura Quartet, Junjou 2, Soul Eater, VK Guilty.
Latest movie? Vexille. It's a tragic story about androids and Japan in isolation. I recommend it =o
Mangas to complete: Black Cat, MAR, Alice 19th.
Mangas to catch up: Eyeshield 21, The World God Only Knows.
Games to complete: KH2, Atelier Iris 2.
Animes to catch up: Soul Eater, VK Guilty, Gintama.
Target mangas: Blue Dragon Ral Grad, B ichi.
Target animes: Law of Ueki
Target games: KH FM, KH2 FM+, Atelier Iris 1, Mana Khemia, Persona 3, Disgaea (DS)
Games to be released: RO (DS), Gyakuten Saiban 5, Gyakuten Kenji, KH Birth by Sleep, KH 358/2 Days, Atelier Iris 3
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Oh god must I continue the list? =A= ...
I always have something I must do or am looking forward to. Never a moment of break for me =A= ~
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Anyway, I guess that's all of it right now. I'll post again when I get the mood to do so =A=
Signing out,
Dion
Whew. It's been a long while since I posted anything. So here goes.
Right now it's still in the middle of O Levels. 13/12 more days till FREEHDOM.
Well for me, it's more like just 3 days away from freedom XD cause my last obstacle would be SS paper this coming monday. The last 3 papers are just science MCQs so... *wipe wipe*
Oh have I posted my results for prelims yet? I don't remember ._.
Anyway I'll just type them.
EL - B3 (unmodded), A2 (modded)
E.Math - A1
A.Math - B3
Bio - A2
Chem - C5 (unmodded), B3 (modded)
Phy - A2
SS - C5 (unmodded), A2 (modded)
L1R5 = 16 (unmodded), 12 (modded)
Nothing to comment about these results ._.
Target: 10 > L1R5
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Moving on~ it's time for some feline talk.
I've been into Lamento and Togainu no Chi so much nowadays. They're just... entertaining? @w@;;
It's difficult to find people interested in them cause these games only cater to a small target audience :(
Ah heck, I love them XD
Yeah I guess you wouldn't know what they are so...
They're BL games. Released by Nitro+ChiraL. Platform is PC, though Togainu no Chi has made it to PS2 as well. Nitro+ChiraL is currently working on their 3rd game, Sweet Pool.
Lamento OP movie
Togainu no Chi OP movie
(movies are work-safe)
BL = Boys Love. Yaoi. You name it.
In short, the target audience are ladies of 18+ and maybe some gentlemen.
I'm still a minor, but whatever.
For more information, please refer to Wikipedia.
There's no page for Lamento there though, so I'm thinking of making the page myself.
Why is it that Togainu no Chi gets more publicity and attention and love compared to Lamento which was released earlier??!?!! TAT
Is it because people prefer "dogs" to "cats"??!!?!?
Rarr.
Anyway, since I'm doing Lamento with my good friend for SOY 09, I've been researching Lamento a lot more :3
We're gonna bring lots of related props, make some crazy photostories, and have an awesome photoshoot some time after that. Probably at Mount Faber for forest scenes and Botanical Gardens for flower field scenes.
Right now I'm trying to find a location that has old wooden houses, rocks, trees... basically like a village ;o If you have any clues as to where I can get the location, do tell me!
Preferably a place with few people/very few people/no people at all lol XD And free access :3
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I've always wanted a pet cat and never had. So maybe if my family decides to move out of this flat and move in to Modena or Tropical Springs, I'll make sure I get myself a pet cat @-@
Oh and since I was so bored, I decided to look up my old cat catalogue and match the main casts of Lamento to their respective species XD like whatthehell.
Konoe - Cream Point Siamese (?)
Rai - White Norwegian Forest
Asato - Black Korat
Bardo - Bengal
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(Note: that's a Turkish Van kitten)Konoe's species was really difficult to match ._.
He's white and gold-tipped. I could only think of the colourpoint types. The only ones I could pick were Malayan and Cream Point Siamese.
Malayan is basically a Burmese except it's colour is different from the traditional ones.
Cream Point Siamese has more distinct coloured ears, paws and tail, but it looked kinda too elegant and fierce for someone like Konoe =\
I even thought of Turkish Van, since its white with auburn tail and patches of auburn, but it's a semi-longhair and Konoe's definitely a shorthair.
After all that fuss, I decided that a Cream Point Siamese KITTEN would suit Konoe >.>
...or just a decent-looking shorthair, with the coincidence of having colourpoint fur like that through selective breeding or variation/mutation whatever >.>
This makes Konoe a very rare cat. Is that why so many characters are after him in the first place? =\
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Rai's... was pretty obvious XD from the fact that he has really fluffy hair and tail, and is pure white. So I figured he'd be in the semi-longhair category.
I thought of Maine Coon and Ragdoll at first, but there isn't a pure white one. I also thought of White Angora, but it lacked fur round its neck =\
White Norwegian Forest, on the other hand, is just purrrrfect X3
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Asato's a black cat. That would be really really simple to match, if not for the fact that most black cats are mean-looking, while Asato looks like an innocent dork most of the time =x (no offence to Asato fans! I love Asato =w=)
It was pretty obvious that he's in the shorthair category.
I thought of British Black and British Smoke, but they looked kinda chubby and ugly to me =\ Definitely not fitting for a cool (and moronic) ninja like Asato!
I also thought of Oriental Black, but it's way too elegant for someone like Asato =w=;;
My best picks were Bombay and Korat, and I decided to settle for Korat. Korats mostly have grey fur, compared to Bombays which are ALWAYS black, but Korats do come in black too, and black Korats just clicked me more than Bombays do =\ So yeah.
Too bad Korats have green eyes and not blue :(
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Bardo's was very obvious. Not many species have the same patterns and colour as that of Bengal :3
Though sometimes, an American Brown Tortoiseshell may have patterns and colour just like a Bengal's too.
He's a shorthair.
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...OMG I wants them~! @w@
Then I can make them cosplay with me XD gahahah~
I mean, I've seen animals cosplay before, like
so why not Lamento? 8D
AAAHAHAHAHAHAH~~~
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By the way, the title of this entry is derived from how the main casts of Lamento actually 'nyaa's. XD.
Konoe - "Nyah..." (sigh)
Rai - "Nyaaarrr....." (growl)
Asato - "Nyaa! Nya nya~!" (forceful tone)
Bardo - "Nyanyanyanya? Nyanyanyanyanya~" (basically a lot of nyas in a melodious tone)
Here for the actual thing.
にゃにゃにゃーにゃ ~~ \<(=' w ' =)>/
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Anyway, I seriously better get to sleep. It's almost 5am oh my god.
Looks like I won't be able to go for breakfast at Simpang with Xeths and gang anymore XD
Till next time~~
Oh, one more picture before I go.
8D
I visited my cousin yesterday. She was just discharged from the hospital and staying at a hotel in Orchard now. I took the opportunity to visit her and at the same time drop by Kino to get Pandora Hearts 8D
...to find that they only have the chinese ones.
OTLLLLL
I don't think they'll release the english ones anytime soon. Just like Kuroshitsuji. WHIIINNEEEEEE.
Nevermind. I got myself 3 vols of World Embryo instead. I wanted to get Yozakura Quartet as well but I can't find vol 1. I'm gonna be broke anyway >.> My brother got Mushishi 3, Getbackers ?, Ar Tonelico 2 (Japanese).
I spent like... 4, 5 hours in the hotel room reading? @_@
Watched Ben 10: Race Against Time on the tv for a while too.
Anyways, time for another review of the latest manga I read~~
-Pandora Hearts
-World Embryo
-Mirai Nikki
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+Pandora Hearts+
The first time I saw the cover, the character resembled Loki from Matantei Loki Ragnarok so much that I thought the author was also Sakura Kinoshita. Apparently it's not. The art style of this manga is better and with much less simplification, compared to Matantei Loki Ragnarok. ITS THE ART STYLE THAT I'VE BEEN AIMING FOR SINCE FOREVER. Nghhh. I'm gonna stalk this author.
Oz Bezarius, 15, next heir to the royal Bezarius clan, encountered events during his coming-of-age ceremony that would change his life forever. Ambushed by his hypnotized servant Gilbert, he was captured by the Baskervilles and thrown into the Abyss, a prison that seems like something from another dimension. The Abyss reminds me of the N-field in Rozen Maiden. Random things just appear and float around there. And there's darkness everywhere. There, Oz met Alice, a powerful Chain taking the form of a girl. Her true form is a monstrous black rabbit. Chains are monster-like creatures that pop out here and there in the Abyss, eating souls. Just like those beings in Shakugan no Shana. Alice was a totally different Chain, with emotions and actions akin to that of a normal human being. She had awoken in the Abyss with no recollection, and after searching the Abyss for her memories in vain, she decided to escape the Abyss in search of her missing memories. She made a contract with Oz, and both escaped the Abyss with her power.
The rest would be spoilers so I'll stop here.
What was the great sin that Oz committed for the Baskervilles to want to lock him up in the Abyss so much? Will Alice ever recover all her memories? Why did she lose them in the first place? What was the true connection between her and Oz?
Thankfully, the series is still ongoing.
+World Embryo+
I started reading this because it's from the same author as Chrno Crusade. And I *love* Chrno Crusade. The design of the main character also caught my attention.
The Kanshu are creatures that travel by electromagnetic waves. When cellphones start ringing together at the same time in an area, chances are that area is in the range of a Kanshu. People who pick up their cellphones and listen to the sound of the Kanshu will be infected by it, and turn into Kanshu themselves. They'll be like zombies attacking other people.
Riku Amami, 16, student and orphan, went to his old abandoned orphanage in search for his elder sister Amane who was missing for 2 years. Apparently he received a photo of her on his cellphone with the orphanage indoor garden in the background 2 days ago, hence he went to look. He encountered a bunch of hooligans instead and was rescued by Rena Arisugawa and Yohei Takebe. Not long after, one of the hooligans was infected by Kanshu and went on a rampage. Several other Kanshu began to arrive at the building. Riku, separated from Rena and Yohei, escaped into the indoor garden and was almost killed by a Kanshu when there was a sudden flash of light. The Kanshu crumbled into dust and Riku found a giant cocoon which he believed was his savior. He took it back home.
Some time later, the cocoon hatched and out came a baby girl with red and white hair and strange ears that looked a lot like his sister Amane when she was young. She was named Nene cause that's the only thing she could say back then. So Riku and his mom decided to take care of her and raise her.
What followed was another Kanshu attack which released Nene's powers. Riku was turned into a Kanshu - except he still retained his human form. He just had white and red hair and incredible strength. With that, he managed to protect Nene and himself from the Kanshu attack. He was captured by NEFT after that, an organization that researches Kanshu to find the source of infection and eliminate it. People infected by the Kanshu have up to 72 hours before they lose their sanity and turn into wrecking monsters.
Read the rest yourself :)
I'm so in love with Riku's Kanshu-Jinki appearance~~ *swoon*
Who or what is Nene exactly? What does the future hold for Riku?
The series is still ongoing.
+Mirai Nikki+
I was discussing with my brother about the recent trend of psychopath teens butchering their friends in anime/manga and he suggested that I read this before I read Highschool of the Dead or Battle Royale. I'm just very into psychological thrillers and things like that :) Why do you think I love Deadman Wonderland and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni lol. I even watched all 4 Saw movies even when I'm not supposed to ^^
Yukiteru Amano, antisocial student, declines every offer to mix around with his classmates. Every day, every time, he writes in his cellphone diary of events taking place around him, claiming that writing in his cellphone diary and his imagination is all that he needs. He's also very into darts. He has a friend called Deus Ex Machina, Lord of Time & Space, whom he thinks is imaginary.
One day, Deus turns his cellphone diary into a Future Diary. It records down events taking place in a day, even when the events haven't taken place yet. At first Yuki took it as a joke, but found out it was true. He was horrified to discover that Deus wasn't just his imagination afterall. He was real, and a God, therefore able to live in people's imaginations.
Deus had picked 12 people as Future Diary Holders to compete and take each other out. The last survivor will he his successor and will be the next Lord of Time & Space. The identities of the 12 will not be revealed and they're supposed to use the powers of their diaries to help them. Since the diary is the Holder's future, destroying the diary will destroy his or her future, meaning he or she will die. Yuki, unaware that he was a participant at first, managed to change his future and averted his Dead End by killing the 3rd Holder before he himself was killed, with the help of the 2nd Holder, Yuno Gasai. Yuno is his classmate and his stalker. Her diary is called the Yukiteru Diary, which reveals Yuki's actions every 10 mins for the whole day. That's what I call an ultimate, psycho stalker. And yes, she's a psychopath. She'd KILL anyone who harms Yuki. And she's very skilled. Yuki's diary is called the No Difference Diary, which shows the events taking place around him.
The Diary Holders are able to change their futures depending on the actions they take. For example, if their diary shows that they'll encounter an accident, they have a choice whether to evade it or to go along with it. If they evade it, the future will change accordingly in the diary, and if they don't, the future will be as how the diary predicted earlier. If a Holder is going to die on that day, the diary will reveal how he or she dies and ends with a "Dead End" entry. A Dead End means that any other alternative paths that the Holder tries to make to evade death is shut. It will then take a miracle to turn the tables and escape the Dead End.
In short, it's a whole mess and jumble of predicting moves and changing your fates in a battle to trap and kill each other. This is gonna be fun @w@;;
Please don't read if you can't stand psychological thrillers with psychopath teens and kids butchering people. It's something like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, just more... modern and confusing? I can tell this is gonna be more tensed and exciting compared to Higu 8D
The series is still ongoing.
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Well that's it for now :3
I'm gonna continue reading Mirai Nikki for a while and then go sleep. I didn't study today oh no :( I have Emaths mock exam tomorrow and I'm not sure if I have Physics as well. Ngh.
Oh gawd now I have a new manga fandom. I fell in love with Mushishi after like, half of vol 1. It talks about little things in life that people tend to overlook and ignore... with mythical explanations. It's totally my type of entertainment. *love~*
I also started watching Majintantei Nougami Neuro. I was just a little overwhelmed by the manga art so I decided to watch instead. But I heard the manga's better and it's still ongoing even though the anime's ended so I think I'll still read the manga in the end.
Now I'm also starting to read Pandora Hearts.
So why is it that I suddenly expanded my otaku habits when O levels is just 4 weeks away, I wonder.
Anyway.
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Mushishi... tells about these "creatures" or "beings" that are not human nor animals nor plants. They're unlike anything people have seen before.
If you look at the artery system of your arm, there are thin arterioles at your fingers. The four fingers represent the animals, and the thumb represents the plants. Humans are at the the very tip of the middle finger, the farthest away from the heart. If you trace back along the arterioles, they'll join back into one artery, eventually the branches of arteries join back together, and soon, it's difficult to differentiate between plants and animals. As you move along the arm, that's where the microorganisms like algae and amoeba are. It gets closer and closer to the heart, the source of life, the beginning of living beings. Finally, close to the heart, there lies the "mushi".
Some of them are invisible, some can pass through walls, some float, some crawl, some imitate the looks of others, some people refer to them as 'ghosts', some as 'spirits' or 'gods' or simply the unexplainable. All in all, most of them are dangerous.
Ginko, a wandering mushishi or mushi master, roams the land curing strange plaques involving the mushi.
The first chapter tells about a boy with "God's hand", the ability to bring anything he draws to life.
The second chapter tells about the mushi "Un" which eats sounds. It mostly gathers in snowcapped mountain tops as snow absorbs sounds. It resides in the snail-like, spiral structure in the internal human ear. Hence, you get the painful feeling in your ears in total silence as the "Un" eats all the sound in high mountain tops. It also tells about "A", the mushi which eats silence. It causes people to hear things they don't usually hear, like the falling of the snow on soft ground, or the hundreds and thousands of whispers that mushi make. Every sound seems amplified as silence is eaten, it'll drive you nuts.
The third chapter tells about the mushi "Imenonoawai" which resides in dreams. It sometimes makes dreams come true. Not daydreams, but dreams you have in your sleep, so it may not necessarily be a good thing. What's more, you can never get rid of this mushi. The man who was infected with this parasite mushi led a really depressing life.
The fourth chapter tells about the mushi "Manakonoyamimushi" which resides in darkness. Closing your eyes isn't true darkness, nor is switching off the light and drawing the curtains and locking yourself up in the room at night. True darkness can only be attained if you close your second eyelid. This mushi breeds in the true darkness and appears in the form of a stream of beautiful light. The person who is able to close his or her second eyelid and sees that stream of light too much will find it painful to see daylight, and eventually, will not be able to open his or her eyes anymore.
The fifth chapter tells about the mushi "Suiko" which makes up a swamp. The swamp keeps migrating from place to place in search of the sea, and when it finally gets to the sea after thousands of years, the "Suiko" is disintegrated and dispersed towards the sea. The "Suiko" is always trying to end its own life that way. This mushi is translucent and live in old water veins, ponds and wells. When accidentally drunk, the person will no longer be able to breathe above water, and his or her body will slowly turn translucent. If not treated, he or she will melt and flow away like water.
There's 5 chapters in every volume. I read volume 2 as well but I think it's better if you go read it yourself cause it's GODAMN INTERESTING. I just don't know how to make good summaries :(
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Majintantei Nougami Neuro is about this bird-like demon from hell named Neuro who consumes mysteries. He consumed all the mysteries of the underworld but wasn't satisfied, and so went up to earth in search for more delicious mysteries. He made acquaintance with a girl named Yako whose dad was murdered in some mysterious way. He made Yako pose as an expert schoolgirl detective even though he's the one doing the analyzing cause he doesn't want his life to be intruded or something. So basically all Yako does is get controlled by Neuro to point a finger at the culprit.
"Hannin wa.... anata!" *dramatic music here*
Oh god this is so Tantei Gakuen Q/Detective Conan/Detective Kindaichi/*insert whatever detective show here*. Who gave these detective shows this idea?
After all the explaining Neuro would take a chance to eat the cloud of mystery surrounding the culprit's heart (by stuffing the culprit's head into his demon bird beak) and then the culprit would become weak and powerless and go confess everything.
Happy end.
Sounds kinda cheesy, but I heard it gets really good in the later parts so I'm gonna continue this series slowly.
Neuro, huge craving for mysteries.
Yako, huge craving for food.
What gluttons for a demon and a schoolgirl v.v
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Ah well. There's school tomorrow and I haven't done any work this weekend. I only played Atelier Iris 2 on friday night too. It'll probably take me another weekend or two before I finish it. After that I'll take a break from games until after O levels.
I'm gonna go read Pandora Hearts now so... till next time :D
My cousin came to SG on friday for an operation. Apparently she had a bad spine and needed the metal thing to be inserted to make her back straight. She checked in the moment she arrived and had her operation the following morning.
I arrived at the waiting room shortly before the surgeon came out of the operating theatre and told us the operation was a great success. It didn't have much impact on me back then, cause I had just arrived not long ago. Imagine my aunt though. She's been there from the time when my cousin was put to sleep - that was about 5 hours of waiting. I can feel that anxiousness of a worried mother.
We went down to the canteen for some shaved ice and by the time we got back they've transferred my cousin to the ICU. I could only see her for a few seconds before the nurses drew the curtains and attached those tubes to her. That few seconds was.... quite a large impact on me though. Seeing her lying there on the bed, with a tube into her mouth and a pump to help her breathe, as well as all the other hospital equipment which I thought I could only see in movies... it felt kinda overwhelming, that few seconds. I never thought I could ever see someone I know in the hospital like that. That few seconds of image burned into my mind like a re-enactment of ER. I must say though, hospital equipment do look kinda cool. I breathed a really huge sigh of relief and subsequently almost teared from the sight. That cousin of mine was... I should say, the closest relative I have next to my brother and parents. I finally understood what it feels like to lose someone precious... except I didn't really lose anyone, but you get my point. It feels sort of... empty. Like a sudden hole appearing in the path you're walking and you don't notice it till you fall down. It didn't feel real...
Anyway, I'll just come back tomorrow.
We went to Taka after that. I rushed to Kino with my bro. I grabbed issue 23 of Cosmode japan and issue 1 of Cosmode USA. My bro got Saiyuki Reload 7, Mushishi 1 and 2. I wanted to get Brave Story 4 and 5 but I guess I'm gonna be flat broke pretty soon. The two mags cost me more than 50 even with discount. *dies*
Mum got us omelet yakisoba and takoyaki for dinner. I still want to try the cone pizza.
Anyway, I went to visit her again today. She's awake now, but still very weak and could only talk in whispers. Aww man. I brought a hell lot of books for her to read too. She was still in the ICU.
After I went down with my aunt for some shaved ice and to buy a little cushion we followed the nurses pushing my cousin's bed to her room at ward 66. Single room. This rocks. She even got a personal TV. It's not as great as the suite room next door but... it's cool, either way. We spent about another hour or so in there while my aunt and uncle and dad and bro talked and went down for a snack. I spent my entire time there reading Mushishi and my Cosmode mags.
When it was time to go I put the little bear I brought for her on her bed and left with dad and bro and uncle and my other little cousin. My aunt's staying the night with her. We went to suntec for dinner at the ramen shop Beppu... something, and went home after that.
I'll go visit her again on Friday after school probably. By then she'd be able to walk about and talk normally already, so we can go watch a movie on my bro's laptop or something.
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PS If you're wondering what DRIPS is, it's something the nurses have to check when they're tending to a newly arrived patient at the ICU. I forgot what are those 5 things ._.
