In HK

so for those who don't know.. I'm basically now in HK, after travelling to Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Huangshan, and Hangzhou...

for those who don't know i've blurb about it in facebook.. because well China has the blog sites all banned and censored up, while facebook wasn't affected LOL

anyways its gonna be a little less then a month till i get back.. I hope i don't miss too much...

BLARGH its exams... oh and some storm we had today

So err yeah nasty exams... blah i'm so screwed.. sigh... and omg this means that most of my friends from HS (that actually graduated when they should have) will be now graduating soon too.. omg sigh how time flies... so evil.. hope i'll be able to still somehow keep in touch with them all (even though i've lost touch with a lot of them already :'( )

anyways so yeah asides for the exams, we had a nasty windy storm blow in today, and my mother got this as a nice little present (luckily all the car got was just a dent on the side... nothing serious) but my mother needed "man power" so i had to drive my father to richmond hill to help get the this off the car so my mom could drive home..

sigh traffic was TERRIBLE... doesn't help either that all the traffic lights in the richmond hill area (well the parts i drove through anyways) we're all dead... (Bayview was terrible... barely moved a kilometer in over 30-40 min... i could walk faster then that, and at a slow pace too)

anyways enough of that... good luck to you all in exams.. well actually this really applies to those who have exams on their last days... and to all those in UoT we just started today LOL

Oo lookee its April Fools day... but this ramble ain't no joke :D

Ok.. just to state this now.. nothing is joke here, I prefer rambling over joking, you all should know that... right? right?? LOL

so what has been happening with me for the past month?? well tried running for my club's VP'ship... but sadly lost (i have a person or two i'll like to blame... but well actually 1 LOL..) so much for my attempts at actually doing something that could "probaly" wow someone (and definitly look nice on my so far non-existent resume... guess with the exception of my years in Air Cadets i'm pretty much destined to be a little follower of whoever else comes by me...

hmm what else... I've been slacking off this past final month, and now that we're in the final month... lets just say i have basically screwed myself royally... (stupid me)


anyways what else... oh right

its April Fools... what a way to start the day... btw this wasn't a joke...

anyways for those who don't know, I'm planning on going with my family to China, and then me spending a month after that in HK (for UoT summer abroad program)... so the 2nd part of my summer is pretty much settled, just that we have absolutly no clue how we're gonna do the 1st part (mainland China part)... and its now gotten to the point where i have to finish up and submit my forms for the Summer Abroad... so that gaved a little push on the 1st part (afterall how am I to get to HK if we can't figure out whats happening the days leading up to it...)

anyways so its basically a daily argument occuring everyday in our house.. whether it is between my mother and sister, or me and my mother... or me and my sister talking online with the sister currently in China... etc... and sad to say well no point spilling too much about family afiars online for everyone to see... but when a decision is thought to be made.. it ends being changed again less then a day later...

anyways so in all the stress floating around the house... its easy to see when an argument is about to begin... I tried to separate the people before it begins.. that failed.. and it ends up becoming an hour long argument... which so conviently lasts past midnight.. thus starting april fools day with a really bad argument (once again no need to divulge in too much detail)

it only just ended some short time ago...

so much stress.. sigh... oh crud... I still have my essay/scenario to work on... OMG

anyways.. enjoy the day... to all you pranksters out there... i'll have to proceed through the day and be wary about what i see or hear... especially from an outside source...

Can you hear those dang pesky bugs??

well basically i saw a sign.. and i followed that sign LOL... i'll explain... basically this past Sat... I went out with my sister to Chapters.. (in reality she wanted a slave to lug all the groceries that she wanted to buy), anyways at Chapters i killed some time by flipping through an anime Mag, and they listed 3 shows to watch that were aired recently (ie last year).. i was happy to see one of the shows i'm currently following to be listed there.. but another show caught my eyes.. however because it was an all japanese named show.. all i caught was the first letter which was "H".

When i got home, a club member from my anime club posted how she recently finished watching an game turned to manga/anime and was WOWed by it... this show was Higurashi (hey it starts with an H.. and it was released last year)

finally (since i tend to use Animenewsnetwork to find trivia/info on anime.. ie when they were released as exampled above...) i also decided to look at the contest that they were running at that time... (Geneon was in the process of annoucing their latest acquisition... and decided to make a contest out of it), and low and behold (glanicng at the forums...) it became extremely obvious that the license to be announced was none other then Higurashi (and upon actually watching the show.. those clues were ridicoulously easy (assumign you've seen it of course.. or some of it...)

So yeah 3 different places pointing to the same anime.. That definitly perked my interest.. realising that it was to be licensed soon... and that some of the groups may decide to drop or cease finishing subbing it, i freaked out and dl'ed the whole series in one night... (so started watching it on Sun), and finished watching it last night (that would Mar 6th)...

basically for those who don't know.. this is basically a murder/psycho mystery, that technically isn't solved yet, because there is a 2nd season.. there's 4 question arcs and 4 answer arcs (and other optional/lesser arcs).. the anime covers the question and 1st 2 answer arcs... (thats where season 2 needs to come in, to finish the rest). anyways that's all i'll say.. i personally find that its best to watch without knowing the circumstances relating to the whole mystery (it makes it so much more thrilling/scary and mysterious etc...)

btw for those who don't know the full name of this anime is "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, but in english it is called "When Cicada's Cry" or any variation that follows this... and basically everytime omething bad tends to happen, the Cicada's are conviently "crying/calling" making their noises at the time...

but for those who wants a teaser/hint ... i say the following does it nicely.. do note i watched it without knowing the following... btw i don't know if there evn is "spoiler" censoring option in blooger/blogspot... so view at your own risk.. especially if i can't get it to work (assumign there is such a fuction)





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It is the 58th year of Showa.The summer started earlier than usual. In June, people enjoy the sound of cicadas at noon and buzz of higurashi(*) in the evening.
Here, located on the border of the XX prefecture, is the Hanamizawa Village, whose popularion is less than 2,000. However, "it" repeats every year.
Hinamizawa Village Consecutive Unnatural Murders (1979 ~ 1983).
Every year, on the same day of June, one person dies and one person disappears. It is a chain of death that can be tracked back to a conflict related to a big dam construction plan. The incident that took place in the middle of Showa returns.
Is it a plot? An accident? ...Or a curse?

The person who's supposed to be there doesn't exist.
The person who shouldn't be there does exit.
The person whom you met last night doesn't exit.
The person who is there is not alive.

Is the tragedy inevitable? Can you do nothing but succumb to it? However, do not submit yourself to the tragedy. Because only you can face it.

(*)The higurashi is a kind of cicada. It's called Higurashi because it begins to buzz when it gets dark. It appears earlier than other cicada, and begins to buzz in June.

rarara, "what do we want? Free tutition!!!" (wait shouldn't that be freeze??)

So obviously i've been neglecting my blogging as its been clear from the amounts of posts...

anyways today is Student Action Day, and I wasn't even planning on doing anything LOL.. but here I was wandering past Con hall at Lunch and i decide to stick around and take in the "rarara" of everyone screaming.. and then what do you know i arrived just in time for them to start the march on Queen's Park... So i figured HEY, Queen's Park is like right next to us, so this shouldn't take long.. so i ran up to the crowd found myself one os those placard signs, and joined in the march...

Well i was SO wrong about how long it was LOL... they ended up marching us all around Kings College circle, and then led us to St. George, then up to Bloor, to Bay, down to College, and then to Queen's Park.. this whole march lasted like 2 hours... and it doesn't help that they paused in front of some building for a BLOODY long time.. come on at least while we were walking i could try and keep warm a bit (btw as i said i was planning on doing this, so my clothing was not the warmest it could be LOL)...

once they got to Queen's park, i stuck around for a few minutes, and then go tbored and then went home (but i kept sign thingy as a momento of the occasion LOL)

but man i'm freezing still evn now that i'm home... i hope i'm gonna get sick or anything LOL

btw yah i didn't join in the chants and all that ...

but the chant in my title.. i swear the "freeze tuition" became "FREE tuition" LOL...

New Year ... Fight On!!!

well its been a while.. hope you all did well on the exams and all that, and had a good holiday

For me my holidays revolved around being called out daily by friends, and family (people love doing things at a moments notice LOL)

and whenever i wasn't going out, I was either at home taking care of my sister who was sick throughout the holidays, or blizting through some anime's and drama's

So lets see what did i watch.. ah at the beginning i watched the drama's Anego, and Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, which pretty much both dealth with charcters in their early-mid 30's who are basically so involved in work that they can't get a relationship or don't even bother with one.

Then blizted the anime's Shakugan no Shana, and Blood+

and finally to end the holidays blizted Dragon Zakura, and so far seen half of Gokusen 2 (hence the fight on in my title)... now interestingly enough both deal with school. The former dealing with "stupid" students trying to aim to get into the prestigious (and obviously out of their league) Tokyo U, and the other is the trust between teacher and students...

anyways that pretty sums up my holiday, either going out, caring for my sister, or bltizing through anime/drama's... so sadly i barely got any room cleaning done (i'm a failure... obviously one of the idea's from Dragon Zakura isn't sticking since i'm calling myself a loser right now LOL and i probaly won't be doing anything about it anytime soon)


so anyways my new year begins with well asides for worrying over well what else school... I'm already preparing for my summer (though technically the plans so far only covers half of my summer...) Well anyways its a trip to China, and Hong Kong for the late Spring/Early-Mid Summer period.

Anyways lets all persevere, hope for new beginnings, new adventures, new joys etc etc,

Fight On!!! we could all suceed if we try (LOL.. btw i still don't even know the marks yet for most of my half credit courses from last year.. man i'm worried... well only about one of them LOL)

Exams... and i'm just ruining my life.. (as usual)

Well the school term is now technically coming to close, so to everyone GOOD LUCK on your exams...

and on the lines of studying for exams, that is something that i'm neglecting and have sigh.. put off and instead become really preoccupied with anime... boo

Lets see I ended up blitzing all of Tenchi Muyo GXP, only because i discovered that there was actually an episode 20 to the Tenchi OVA (whew i thought they were gonna end that season (14-19 was S3) without answering any questions which they just raised plenty of throughout it LOL.. and right after watching that episode i went on an all out search for FAQ sites and such to get a much more better understanding on whats happened and anything else to clarify the whole series/timeline relations etc... and that got me into the spinoff sequel GXP...

hmm have I mentioned anything about Welcome to the NHK?? don't think so... thats touches me alot.. the main charcter is basically a Hikimori or something like that, basically a person who isolates themselves in home/room because he/she fears the world and of being made fun of. Anyways what becomes apperent is that everyone that is in this show all have some sort of life problem... (Otaku, money issue/scammer, trauma etc)... man makes me worried that i might end up becoming like these characters... guess i can't relate that much to the Hikimori (as i'm not terrified of the public), but i do stay home ALOT, have no job, purpose, dare i say GF, etc etc, which is pretty much a combination of the main character and hmm everyone else that he meets throughout it...

oh there's Black Lagoon too... for those that have absolutly no clue what that is, it is my current msn pic/avatar. But man.. I never really paid attention to the lyrics, and hmm what was it last week? i finally foudn the lyrics and read it along with the song and OMG its really really depressing/violent, LOL, but then of course if you consider the situation that the anime actually deals with it makes complete sense... and after the most recent ep i just watched, which dealt heavily with the main characters ability/purpose/avoidance of reality. (oh look i'm watching anime, immersing myself in "fantasies" when i should be studying)

Oh now that i mention it.. I watched Avenue Q afew weeks back(sadly a pirated vid cam version), and listened to the whole soundtrack multiple times in the past few weeks... Oh for those who don't know Avenue Q is a broadway musical (using hand puppets like in Sesame Street, but you get to see the actor/actress), with the main character fresh out of college and looking for a purpose in life, and ends up in a dirt cheap neighbourhood, with many different and peculiar charcters that have different issues in life such as lack of money, career, sex, bf/gf, even gay etc. Anyways the songs are good and even more hilarious when you see puppets acting out (ie 2 puppets having sex on stage LOL)... but yeah first got introduced to it, because i've been noticing a lot of anime music video's using their songs, and finally curiosity got the better of me, after seeing it as a clue on Jeoprody, and i went on a mad search for it LOL...


anyways basically all i've been achieving, for i guess the past month is putting myself in a lot of awe (man i'm loving these things that i watch, well Tenchi Muyo GXP was an exception... I would never have watched it, as 1) it involves a new cast different from the original Tenchi group, 2) stupid perverted robot, 3) WAY too much fanservice... only reason why i watched that is because of its direct relationship to the original series and the few minor revelations made in it that affects the main group...

But yeah where was I... Ah right putting myself in awe, and making myself depressed by it LOL... in enjoying "slice of life" anime's/stuff i only make myself depressed as there are sometimes parallels to what i'm lacking, suffering,desiring and that only makes me depressed (well actualyl thats nothing new.. I'm always gloomy imo) seeing it played out before my eyes in my "escape from reality" (anime, whatever)

anyways sorry for bothering you all, as i know you guys also have exams to study for... but now that i've ranted hopefully i could get myself around to studying too... got the animes that i'm most into right now, out of the way, so that shouldn't "bother" me for a while...


Anyways Good luck all