Wah kana arrowed by THX liao
for Richie's gift u guys seen the website he gave for suggestions on gifts to get him and Katherine?

http://www.richardkathy.com/


let me know which one u guys want to buy. or maybe i shld facebook message richard on what he wants from that site and then we can pool resources.

saves the headache of delivery etc.

I was watching an anime called gate keepers then it's sequl Gate keepers 21

and it's such a freaking difference i tell u

GK is a jap anime that's like say..a comedy action anime, a bit of laughs etc

GK 21 is 30 years after it and it's just so bleak and dark. It paints humanity as totally without hope. The hero of GK is dead before he even hits 40 and the action is carried out by his daughter who's so totally anti social and dark brooding.

In GK u see the characters laughing and smiling, colours used are bright blue skies, in fact almost the whole anime is cheerful, there's always a solution to the problems faced.

GK21, colouring is totally bleak black. most of the action takes place at night, in dim gloomy areas. Here the heroine and her mentor acknowledge that the fight against "evil" is hopless since there will always be humans with negative feelings which become the bad guys. Best part? The powers they use when overused destroys them bit by bit or curses them to be unhappy or death etc. There's an immediate feeling of hoplessness. U dun use ur powers, the bad guys win. U use ur powers, ur guranteed to have your happiness taken away and if overused, eventually your life too. It's a lose lose situation.

It's like swimming in a nice warm swimming pool and being teleported to the antarctica all of a sudden

Apparently there's a novel GK 1985 that explains the gap btw GK and GK 21 and even though i seriously want to read it, it's like utterly not in circulation and nothing on the internet on it.

Just watching GK 21 gave me such a feeling of poignant despair and hoplessness. it's way beyond emo. *brr...cold*

GK series can be watched on animeshuupidden.com and GK21 can be watched on youtube.

Just remember GK21 is totally different from GK. You've been warned

Gothic Movements

For those that remember, i've mentioned that i've an elder cousin that's into the Gothic movement right? The hip and funky cousin. Well below is a video and the link to it for an interview with some show.

http://razor.tv/site/servlet/segment/main/lifestyle 39002.html;jsessionid=202CD61C119218E718B9D02829898CB6.00

The head goth (Singapore Goth pt 5) 05:23

If Singapore goth dudes are the hottest, Saito Nagasaki could be the Brad Pitt of goths.
We talk to the head of The Singapore Dark Alternative Movement in his house to get to know the man behind the make-up and the movement.

Edited: Forgot to mention earlier on that the person being interviewed is my cousin. such a cool and hip cousin huh?

I was reading a newspaper article about the older generation in Somalia lamenting abt modern techology (esp handphones) which causes a lot of young pple to elope with just a text message etc.

Quote from the old man in the article: " in the past, all we could do was to give a dowy of 11 camels and an AK47 Rifle and wait politely for a response"

Man..sure beats other countries' way of courting females. Just imagine, there's no need to bring the girl out on dates and spend alot of money on like buying a diamond ring, expensive restaurents etc.

for the potential bride's side, u get a free rifle!

Just found it amusing i guess


and on to another topic

i just love reading XL's blog at times

on her latest entry when her family will be away for holidays
"ahahaha.... Ivan tang... got time come my house and help ah! U wash toilet i mop floor k???"

isn't it so romantic?? i'm so envious!! everytime i ask ivan to help me with such things and even offering to pay him he refuses...imagine them dancing with a mop and a broom and doing tango. reminds me of a paragraph in the book army daze i have but sadly i can't find it now. pity

*ivan remember..toilet cleaning must scrub very throughly! GOOD LUCK!! JIA YOU!!*

and another one from the past entry : "(Note: Never count on Ivan to wake me up!!)"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! when i read this i laughed aloud. Well ok to be honest ivan did give me a successful wake up call on the day we were playing bb...ONCE!!! (other billion times when we were suppose to meet at 10am) 9.30am...i call him and *huh? what time is it now? *imagine very sleepy voice)

of course he still gets there at ard 1030 or so not THAT bad. Edward...on the other hand....nothing to say. 10am appointment can come at 1130am.

of course now ivan's mostly differnt. Very Punctual for his appoints. Edward..sadly still the same lol.

always wondered what would become of ivan if singapore's temperature suddenly changes to an everyday temp of 24 Deg Cel with a nice wind blowing. (something like NZ)

will he be permenantly in hibernation mode? somemore he's staying on the 17th floor? nice cooling breeze everyday....maybe he will eat alot for like a month to store fats then hibernate for 3 months...oh wait...that will fail with his straight intestine. hmm..this could be interesting.

Ivan...pls go stay in NZ for like a year pls? think of it like a scientific experiment. BC members will be very interested in the results