so I'm considering to post some pictures I took on this blog.
call me fickle, I don't care.
need to rename the blog.
hm.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
read more books
I've been trying to read some books again lately, but it's just so hard. with all those never ending words and no pictures..I'll just end up with more manga haha
moreover, books, to me, tend to be a one-timer. once you read it, you're done with it. it's so rare that I feel the need to read a book for the second time (except for Tuesdays with Morrie). it's such a waste for all those money..I know..so cheap of me!
moreover, books, to me, tend to be a one-timer. once you read it, you're done with it. it's so rare that I feel the need to read a book for the second time (except for Tuesdays with Morrie). it's such a waste for all those money..I know..so cheap of me!
just watch the dorama
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (HanaKimi)
known as For You in Full Blossom in english, this manga is basically a story about Mizuki Ashiya, who moved all the way from the U.S. to an all-boys-school in Japan to encourage Sano Izumi, a popular high jump athlete who quitted, to start high-jumping again.. Oh did I mention that Mizuki Ashiya is actually a girl?
known as For You in Full Blossom in english, this manga is basically a story about Mizuki Ashiya, who moved all the way from the U.S. to an all-boys-school in Japan to encourage Sano Izumi, a popular high jump athlete who quitted, to start high-jumping again.. Oh did I mention that Mizuki Ashiya is actually a girl?
There are a total of 23 volume of this shoujo-comedy-manga. The first 10 volumes are still interesting, the whole Mizuki pretending to be a guy student and oh oh-will-she-be-caught-moments and all..but then it started to get reaally nagging and loong...and endless. Here it's still going on volume 14 and I'm already bored.
Friday, January 25, 2008
treasure finding
yesterday i found a small public library near where i live. most importantly, this place has quite a collection of manga to rent. yaay!!!
i love buying things (hey who doesn't?), and i love collecting manga. i don't borrow by the way. i don't rent. it's just ... such a joy when i find a good manga and collect them. i'm such a nerd.
the problem is, every month, almost twenty something manga titles are being published. and it's only from one publisher! so it's pretty hard to keep up...thus the concept of renting suddenly sounds so beautiful to my ears.
behold my first rent :
*image taken from angelzon.com
basically, it's crap. sorry.
i don't wanna say much about the story. just imagine that movie Entrapment, the junior high version.
i was first attracted to the drawing, it looks cute with plenty of chibi and weird faces around. but that stops there. the characters are average, the pace is too quick in building the drama. the conversations don't intrigue me and somehow the exaggeration about three junior high students being high class thieves doesn't fit in well.
volume 5 is on the way, but i just can't relate.
i love buying things (hey who doesn't?), and i love collecting manga. i don't borrow by the way. i don't rent. it's just ... such a joy when i find a good manga and collect them. i'm such a nerd.
the problem is, every month, almost twenty something manga titles are being published. and it's only from one publisher! so it's pretty hard to keep up...thus the concept of renting suddenly sounds so beautiful to my ears.
behold my first rent :
*image taken from angelzon.com
basically, it's crap. sorry.
i don't wanna say much about the story. just imagine that movie Entrapment, the junior high version.
i was first attracted to the drawing, it looks cute with plenty of chibi and weird faces around. but that stops there. the characters are average, the pace is too quick in building the drama. the conversations don't intrigue me and somehow the exaggeration about three junior high students being high class thieves doesn't fit in well.
volume 5 is on the way, but i just can't relate.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Manga
for those who don't know yet, manga is Japanese, meaning comic (more or less).
i'm soo into manga these days. there's a bookstore in the building next to my office and i would go there like, every day.
i'd go crazy for there are so many manga to buy and so little money to spend :D
nowadays there are like hundreds of manga yet so little with good quality in term of story and drawing. picking the ones worth reading isn't as easy as it used to be.
So, here are my recent manga picks:
Yotsubato! (Yotsuba&!) by Kiyohiko Azuma
my successful trial buy. a comedy, simple heartwarming stories about things that happen around a ultracurious-supercute-little girl named Yotsuba. She is curious about almost everything, you'd think she's been living at world's end.
What best describe the stories is "enjoy everything". You can't help but smiling when Yotsuba is "exploring".
There aren't many dialogues, but the face expression and body gestures are very descriptive despite the fact that like most manga, Yotsubato! depicts simple drawings.
Emma by Kaoru Mori
some people would call this a chick manga (shoujo), a classic-rich boy fell in love with a beautiful maid girl-love story. like Yotsubato!, Emma doesn't rely on heavy text and conversations to tell a story, but more on the face expression and body gestures of the characters. romance with tragedy.
i'm soo into manga these days. there's a bookstore in the building next to my office and i would go there like, every day.
i'd go crazy for there are so many manga to buy and so little money to spend :D
nowadays there are like hundreds of manga yet so little with good quality in term of story and drawing. picking the ones worth reading isn't as easy as it used to be.
So, here are my recent manga picks:
Yotsubato! (Yotsuba&!) by Kiyohiko Azuma
my successful trial buy. a comedy, simple heartwarming stories about things that happen around a ultracurious-supercute-little girl named Yotsuba. She is curious about almost everything, you'd think she's been living at world's end.
What best describe the stories is "enjoy everything". You can't help but smiling when Yotsuba is "exploring".
There aren't many dialogues, but the face expression and body gestures are very descriptive despite the fact that like most manga, Yotsubato! depicts simple drawings.
Emma by Kaoru Mori
some people would call this a chick manga (shoujo), a classic-rich boy fell in love with a beautiful maid girl-love story. like Yotsubato!, Emma doesn't rely on heavy text and conversations to tell a story, but more on the face expression and body gestures of the characters. romance with tragedy.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Muhammad
i'm currently sinking my nose into this book, Muhammad by Martin Lings. i've been a moslem all my life yet not a single book about The Prophet i have finished reading. there's a saying in my country which goes like "if you don't know, then you don't love". so better late than never i guess.
This book, which was written based on original sources, was named the best biography of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in english at the 1983 National Sirat Conference in Islamabad.
i'm excited about the book, the review said that Muhammad was beautifully written and easily understood. it's probably just like reading a novel, a very good one. which is a good thing, because many of the religious books in the market are too stiff or too smart for me :D
This book, which was written based on original sources, was named the best biography of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in english at the 1983 National Sirat Conference in Islamabad.
i'm excited about the book, the review said that Muhammad was beautifully written and easily understood. it's probably just like reading a novel, a very good one. which is a good thing, because many of the religious books in the market are too stiff or too smart for me :D
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
good gone bad
this is one of those good movies that probably only 1 out of 100 people know about (hehe is the exaggeration too much?).
Equilibrium is a sci fi movie about a new reign that emerges in the future earth after world war 3 happened. one of its high-rank-officer (played by Christian Bale) disagree with the system, so he triggers a revolution.
the casts are overall good. i'm a huge Christian Bale fan, and he doesn't let me down in this movie (well he doesn't disappoint when it comes to acting). his acting was intense, plus he looks soo good in those uniforms..yum. plus again, he's quite proficient in the fighting scenes. the other actors are Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Angus McFadyen and Taye Diggs.
the fighting scenes are superb, i would't say the best fighting scene on screen, but it certainly has originality. plus they invent this new martial art style, the gun-kata, which is a flowing technique of gun fighting in close range for more efficient and effective effect. kinda the mix of gun fighting and asian martial art.
i read somewhere the movie took US$ 20 mills to produce, but only made US$ 1.19 mills in US grosses. it spent only about a week in the theatres. lack of publication? lack of screens? it's such a great movie. what the hell went wrong?
shame.
the casts are overall good. i'm a huge Christian Bale fan, and he doesn't let me down in this movie (well he doesn't disappoint when it comes to acting). his acting was intense, plus he looks soo good in those uniforms..yum. plus again, he's quite proficient in the fighting scenes. the other actors are Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Angus McFadyen and Taye Diggs.
the fighting scenes are superb, i would't say the best fighting scene on screen, but it certainly has originality. plus they invent this new martial art style, the gun-kata, which is a flowing technique of gun fighting in close range for more efficient and effective effect. kinda the mix of gun fighting and asian martial art.
i read somewhere the movie took US$ 20 mills to produce, but only made US$ 1.19 mills in US grosses. it spent only about a week in the theatres. lack of publication? lack of screens? it's such a great movie. what the hell went wrong?
shame.
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