Manga Spotlight: Fairy Tail

Today's manga spotlight will be on...da da da dum *drum rolls*

FAIRY TAIL~~

Yup,Fairy Tail. For those who have yet to burn the divine pages of Fairy Tail into your eyes, please visit some of those online manga reader sites.

So, what's so nice about Fairy Tail? For one, its the unique drawing style of Hiro Mashima-sensei, whose work includes the popular Groove Adventure Rave. And the genre's pretty similar to Rave too - fantasy, comedy, friendship (nakama). Heck, even some of the characters look similar and have the same name (Sieghart from Rave and Sieglert from FT). And there's one famous recurring character - Plue from Rave makes some special appearances in FT as a stellar spirit...and it's still considered as a dog. Nice innit?

Not only that, like Rave - which started out as a boy who goes adventuring to destroy some evil stones while looking for his father but ended up with one of the most entertaining and compelling stories I've ever read in recent times - FT started as a fun-going, happy, and boy-meets-gal-become-friends-travel-together. However, as of recently, there are a couple of nicely written stories to accompany the main story ( main character Natsu searching for his...um..."father" ) Plus, we're just shown a speck of the main storyline! Other than Natsu "father" went missing and knowing the identity of his father, we still don't know why he left, and what's with Zeref?

And then there's the gals. Mira-san is so dam cute/pretty, Lucy too, and there's the ever-so-cool Erza Scarlet. All hail Erza!!!!

Since I'm posting this at TARC's CITC (think of it as a computer lab) , uploading the images are a drag. I might edit this is the future when I have internet access, provided I remember to edit it.

That's all for today I guess.....

Its happening...and it will stay for a few years...

Remember 1997? The year the economic boom hits yet again(If memory serves me well, the 1st one happened around the year 1980s')? And now the year 2008? Where experts and analysts everywhere has been forecasting the impeding crisis and has warned almost everyone to prepare for it? I mean, if the spiraling oil prices aren't any indication of something big yet to come, I don't know what is.

According to some people, this economic crisis that will soon come to your doorsteps and mine is all due to the fact that banks loans money to some people who can't afford to pay. And why do the banks do such a stupid thing? I don't know. Heck, this piece of information might even be wrong. But you don't give loans to people who can't pay you back. Its just common sense. So why did those people need loans? To buy and grab lands when you can, obviously. Prices are spiraling out of control, and the mindset out there is, "If you don't buy now, when are you gonna buy a house? When an apartment unit costs you $1 m? (prices over-exaggerated)" Because of this, the bank lacks the money, and businesses revolves around money. No money no talk. But hey, who am I to talk? I'm just a student, and a non-economy student by the way.

With the world growing darker(literally- I mean, rain rain rain, its been so long since I gazed upon a clear blue sky,not that rain-till-you-drown-or-hot-till-you-drown-in-sweat-type-of-weather ), our government is still talking to the press saying everything is fine. There is no recession, no economy crisis, no whatsoever impending doomsday. Malaysia- truly Asia is a paradise. Yup, a real paradise. There no starvation, no poverty, no nothing bad. Read the mainstream newspapers, Utusan in particular, and you'll be hit with barrage of news reporting that our dear ministers telling us that "Malaysia will not go into recession".

Nice huh? Well, at least the weather is fine today at my area.

One Life Revolution

Recently there was an event called 'One Life Revolution ' held in ECM......

Well, since it was so widely promoted, my friends and i went there to have a look what was it all about~

Though i try to be smart by going there during dinner time...hurm..but look at the queue....= =

Well , to summarize da long journey , its actually a walkthrough about 3 person's life as an HIV +ve victim. We are given an earphone each, with selective languange ( BM, BI or Chinese) . Then from there, they will tell a short story about each kid's life . We are guided to step in alternate rooms depending which kid we get . And we experience the whole walkthrough as a 1st person ( as the kid's POV) .

Each time we go , we can get 1 kid's life walkthrough. well , i got a kid frm cambodia . She somehow got cheated into prostitution ..well, there's the main 'activity' how HIV spread huh. Though its typical , i felt mine is da most fun compare to others, coz i got to go in 1 room that full with bra's n shirt..n not to mention the choking perfume smell.. they make a real situation out of it. Well, for those whole plan to go when this NGO go to KL, i recomend you to choose the cambodian kid. There's another 2 kid, 1 from malaysia( from pahang itself!!) , another 1 from india. From what my friend had explain , it's pretty ordinary where 1 have to survive on garbage , another 1 where he n his mum struggling to combat this. We are not allowed to take pics, so i take some pics from upview( some ny, coz other place all are covered up~)

rubbish walkway

in the clinic waiting room , where the you( victim) are waiting to be proven +ve or -ve in HIV
this is the place where we are called upon by a nurse, then she will stamp our hand . ...i keep put my hand towards the -ve stamp pad ... but I was stamp +ve ( i was shock at 1st....i though we all should get -ve but later ny i understand that the kid frm cambodia is proven +ve in HIV)

after all those , we are leaded to wall of reflaction where photos of HIV +ve victim are hung there( sad song was played, even tissues are prepared on the chair LOL)

then...to the wall of hope( the only thing i sneak and snap inside) , where we write those encouragin words to keep on encouragin them~

Well, we did feel sorry for them , learn to appreciate our life more, but then its not as exaggerating until come out crying like they show in the tv while we are waiting in our lines..XD

Well, if there's a chance, try it . But i expect kl queue will be far worse than kuantan .....XD

Connection....Lost.....

My KL home's internet is down, and I lost my handphone.

Losing all contact with the outside world.....
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Latest: I'm back in Kuantan, but just for the weekend. And since the SPMers' and STPMers' are most likely busting their brains out yesterday...Their big "event" is coming soon, and here's a timely reminder for them :

STOP READING THIS CR*P AND START STUDYING

But I'm in no position to lecture them. I mean, look at the time this blog is made and you'll understand...

Anyway, I have two things to announce...sort of. Firstly, my results are out, but since it's a far cry from this girl's result, I shall keep mums about mine. Congrats tingy~. Belanja makan-lah sometimes =D

Secondly, Happy Birthday MIKA (jie jie). This might be too early, but God Knows if I would have Internet access by then.

That's all for today. Cheerio.

3 cheeky monkeys sitting on a tree,teasing the crocodile....or something of that sort.

I'm back in Kuantan for the weekend. There's no particular reason for me to come back, just that I wanted to see my family and to enjoy the tranquil Ktn-lifestyle. I'm currently using my aunty's comp to blog, so short and simple this will be.
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By the way, did I mention to you guys and gals that I've always wanted to be a mangaka? Yup, a mangaka! No idea what it is? Simply put, a mangaka is someone who draws manga. Anyhow, I've always wanted to be a mangaka...until now that is. Now, I wanna be BOTH a mangaka and a frigging director, scriptwriter, crew casting advisor and all those lovable, affable jobs =D.

Why? There's no why. Nope. No why. And definitely no Jinhan asking us to watch "Black Water" in Midvalley. I seldom went to shopping complexes lately to enjoy myself. Everyday was tough for me. I mean, you won't feel enthusiatic about life when you know you have to wake up in the mornings to go to college. Worse still, my roomie boss is still sleeping like a log. I dread the day I shift to MU, where I most likely will be sleeping while Jinhan shouting noob while playing dota....

But back to the point. Black Water is an interesting watch. I mean, I'm normally be doing my experiments at the lab, so I don't have time...I mean, I don't have the opportunity the be looking at a real life sample of a tree. But not anymore! Not since National Geographics have I gone through an hour looking at a tree. I'm grateful, really! Not only has that masterpiece of artwork of the highest order enabled me to stare at a tree and marvel at its bark, it sparked the burning passion inside me to direct a movie. And don't even get me started on the amount of actors and actresses in that show.

And Dota has a new map. New items, new heros, new map terrain layout,several tweaked skills and new ways for me to be caught totally offguard,ganked and look at the monitor while I count down the seconds.

Also, this's the new season for anime. Several animes from the past months have ended(Code Geass,Kyouran,Wagaya just to name a few), and several more popped out. There are shows like Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka, Toradora, To aru majutsu no index, Tales of the abyss, Clannad~after story~, ef - a tale of melodies, Vampire Knight Guilty, Kuroshijitsu, Rosario Vampire CAPU2 and more.

More on those animes later, when I have some internet access. Peace out.