Y Wednesday, December 05, 2007
12:38 am
Weekly updates kinda suck.Yeah but I really haven't been doing much, unless you want me to turn this into a WoW blog, which I'm pretty sure wouldn't be ideal.
Anyway, this week, I've been busy with mostly three things.
1) SHAKUGAN NO SHANA!
2) HK Drama with mum.
3) WoW.
Third one's not so important. Nothing interesting to talk about. Same old time-sinking monstrosity it was a year ago. Move along now folks, nothing we don't already know what WoW did to me.
Now, HK Drama!
On my previous post, I admitted to watching these. The series is coming to an end soon, and I must admit, this one's pretty good. Lotsa food for thought. A marriage is phailing because the woman keeps in contact with her SOAB ex, and the family doesn't like it.
Add in the usual lolbackstabberz and you get yes, a phailed marriage. Girl is a bit too open, guy has a quick temper.
I point and go LOL you're asking for it, flaring up so easily. LOL you're asking for it, what a insensitive crud.
"I THINK SHOUTING CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM!"
"OH YEAH? WELL I CAN SHOUT LOUDER, PLUS I HAVE A FOULER TEMPER!"
"FINE I'M MOVING OUT. I HATE YOU."
After a bit, I took one step back. Wait a sec, I've got a pretty shytty temper too.
It's funny ain't it? You can point and laugh at the shortcomings of others and remain, just for that moment (doesn't apply to all, unfortunately) be completely and totally oblivious to your own. Amazing eh?
Fancy a cold-blooded murderer calling a child-rapist a horrible person that deserves to be punished. The irony. Exactly how I felt.
To back it all up, earlier today, when I was WoWing (Sorry, it's what I do. There's a chinese saying that people don't go 3 sentences without referring to what they do most.) with Shawn, I blew it.
Shawn was asking me to focus, because heals were getting a bit slow and sloppy, while I was filling up the chat log talking to the rest.
Well I got kinda pissy. Dude, you're a tank. What do YOU know of healing? It's boring and it requires my concentration 120% of the time. One lapse and you're telling me to concentrate? I'm human. Get real.
So I complained and swore in the channel about how crappy my role was, and I'd gladly switch etc. (Though I did get deathcoiled and silenced, so there, I couldn't heal for a bit. But the heals did come sloppily, I admit.)
Shawn must've went MANWTF WHY NO HEALS? Aw shit Ian's chatting again.. why ain't he focusing? All I did was tell him to focus, why so pissy? What an arse.
I blew up. Yup. Kinda crappy of me and nope, no excuses.
In fact a few months ago, the same thing happened. MC and I fell out for a bit because of that. I took the initiative to call after I calmed down and apologized, but the point here is, yes, my temper's way too quick. Must. Work. On. That.
And for #1 on the list, Shakugan no Shana. As the name might have already clued people in, it's an anime. Haters can die in a fire and get hit by a bus.
Yes yes, I know, I swore off anime a bit ago, after realizing that HEY, you know, it's pretty weird when people use your PC and see anime wallpapers and pictures. Like you're some kind of a freak, if they do not share your like for it, since anime's one of those not so mainstream stuff in Singapore.
But everyone watches Bleach/Naruto!
No, no. If you see soccer stuff adorning a person's PC, no surprise. But ANIME?! Man that guy must be a freak! You get the idea. Haters are like that.
But no, I'm not a rabid addict to anime. I'm usually selective about the titles I watch. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi was WAY awesome. Recommended it to a few people and they got hooked, and are fans till now. See, my taste is decent.
Genre of Shakugan no Shana (SnS) is probably Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Slice of Life. That's a lot to fit into a show! Neither aspects are done outstandingly well, but when you put 'em all together, it fits snugly and you get a pretty enjoyable series.
What's this about? Ah, now when I watched the first few episodes, I must admit, it was EXTREMELY thought provoking. In a way, like the HK drama I watched, it made me think and reflect.
Even if you find the following absurd, read on, I think it's worth it.
Basically, humans co-exist with monster thingies that can 'stop time' in a given area and eat their 'existences' to survive. Oh dear, poor chappies! So what happens? Simple.
Said poor sods who get their existences eaten fail to exist.
If a child is eaten, he just fades away. Parents will think that they never had a child. All pictures, videos etc. will just mysteriously have a complete absence of said child. What of the toys in the home? And the small bed? Humans will try to rationalize and reason with themselves, eventually coming up 'plausible' explanations to these bizarre, out of place items.
Enter Flame Hazes. Sort of like America, they love to be Big Brother to the world and keep it in check. These Flame Hazes are bound by the very same monstas who eat humans, except these monsters are a tad bit smarter and realize keeping the world in balance is for the best. So they contract humans (Usually unhappy ones who lost loved ones to those hungry monsters) to exterminate said monsters and keep balance.
Wait! You can't just.. disappear. It'd be awkard! What if err... like 150 people get eaten?!
That's where some magick involving lots of sparkly blue fires and sound effects is done by the Flame Haze. Remnants of monster chow get made into 'Torches'. Torches are temporary replacements for monster chow. Technically, the human's already dead. The torch is there to minimize awkwardness caused by people suddenly disappearing. They are exact same copies of the people they replace, thinking and behaving in an identical manner.
Picture this. You're standing. A big hole in the ground appears. You fall.
You're standing on ice. The ice slowly melts away. You gradually sink lower and lower. You still fall, though.
Which one gives a bigger shock? There you go.
Main point here is: What if, such nonsense actually existed, and you found out you were dead? That you're a torch, with not much time left in the world. When you go, no one will ever remember you. You never existed. How'd you feel?
Of your remaining days, how'd you spend it? The people around you, how'd you treat them? Think about it. You are going to -disappear-. Cease to exist. What bearing would it have on you as a person?
More tough calls await, as you see the protaganist (A torch himself) presented with various choices. Would you have done the same? It's extremely thought-provoking and actually made me feel guilty for not even considering an option that remotely coincides with the main character. Interesting to say the least.
Oh one more thing about this series. Female lead doesn't have obscenely big breasts. Thank god. No, seriously. I appreciate that. (Well in actual fact, she's a Loli. Some 11 or 13 year old lol. But admit it, the Japanese folks are always insecure about what they don't have. Now you know why anime/manga people have such huge eyes, knockers, and are unrealistically tall. They themselves don't have it. ROFL.)
That's not to say there aren't women sporting D cups, they're there, because it's an anime staple, and it's always some Caucasian-looking character who seems not to have two brain cells to rub together with. Just so long as it isn't the female lead with huge saline/silicon bags in their chests, I'm fine.
That was a long post. I think, I should update more frequently instead of sudden huge arse updates like these. Walls of text tend to be annoying to read. Actually, I hardly read my own posts sometimes. Too long.