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Friday, September 26, 2008

OMG!! OF ALL THE HORRORS!! THIS?!

Recently, I just found out that my friend, Timothy had created a new blog. I was afraid it was going to be another boring and un-understandable blog but it was far more worse than I thought.

It was http://www.bronzetim.blogspot .com (do not enter unless you want to suffer from outrageous head blowing experience) and it's in my Links To Another Dimension section labeled as "Timothy A.N.'s second horrible blog".

I had known Timothy for 3 years now and I still can't get a word out of him. He speaks so randomly weird and strange that you only can catch about 1 or 2 sentences only. We also cannot understand him in our scout forum, it's so weird, I think no one can understand it!

Here's an example,

The tread topic is My favorite Camping activity.
In the previous post, Maverick said that we should do dancing during camps because during our Tenderfoot Camp, they only sang songs in the middle of the night with no one listening to them. Timothy replies,

Re: My favourite Camping activity
« Reply #54 on Jul 4, 2008, 8:24pm »
"Well if you say so but im not joining in the dancing part but i will do the part of the crappy storyteller"

Re: My favourite Camping activity
« Reply #55 on Jul 5, 2008, 6:58pm »
"Well I mean i will be the old man who gets kicked left and right by the bad guys but in the end wins the fight or dies telling a story or the "truth""


How on Earth does the second reply relate to the what ever he said previously?! It does not make any sense! There are more than a hundred more of those kind of posts in our troop forum and they can be so random, from, "the chalky rainbow is some how going to help us in this" in a news thread, and "u can use the Long Johns happy feet to fly over the moon" in a fire-making thread. And when we ask, he replies, "I trying to master the ways of speach the old people speak." (At least we understood that!) What kind of rubbish is that?! I can understand what the people talked about in those old black & white TV shows and movies, but I don't understand him! He is making up his own language, not old man talk!

So, when Timothy had one blog only, it was enough of a nightmare, but now, a second one appears, and it's a story! A boring long random story! I read just one sentence, I feel sick! It's exactly the same as listening to him talk about what ever he is talking about! I totaly don't understand what he is trying to express in that story, it's about war, and just like his nicknames, like Scarred Barred, Deadly Pork, Akasia, Little Puddles, Starusta and many more, he has weird names like Captain Tin Ton!

That's all I have to say, Timothy is a person who no one can completely understand. If he was not so errogent and stubborn, he could speak normal english and prevent us from getting headaches!

THE END!!!

NOGAHK POALABLU HEEHEE BLAH!!! (Timothy version)

Monday, September 8, 2008

How did I get into the Japanese world or rather how did Anime get into my life and a little about my computer life

How did it start? How and when did I start watching anime? How did I get addicted?

Haha, it's pretty short at the beginning, but then it becomes long in the middle.

I don't remember when did I start watching anime but what I do know is that I was not so into it because the anime my local television aired on TV was dubbed into Malay. I watched Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan, the old type of anime, basically. Then there was also Pokemon in English and Digimon in Malay. I was just like, "Oh, it's just a common TV show." I often see new animes back then coming out on TV like Cardcaptor Sakura, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.. But then, when I turned 14, the world of anime came to me, and I ran into it's light.

It all started last year when a friend of mine, who I call, Vegi, transferred out of my school asked if I want to watch this new anime, one day when I went to visit him at his house. The anime was the now famous, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. I actually did not want it but I took it anyway because I did not want to upset a friend who I won't see for a long time. I had no homework, so when I got home, after my shower, I watched the DVD Vegi lend to me. For the first episode, I was not entertained, but when I got to the next, I was getting interested. I watched the show the whole afternoon till evening that I forgot to cook dinner. My mom scolded me but she did the cooking, so went back to watching the show. I finished the whole season in 2 days and returned the DVD a few days later because Vegi was not home that few times. When I returned the DVD, Vegi lend me the second season of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. But my DVD player wont play it because the second season's disks was meant for computers and my computer was totally busted. I disappointingly returned the disks.

After a few weeks later, my cousin who's studying in Australia phoned me and told me that he bought me a new computer for use because before he left, he helped to fix and upgrade my old computer. I was high in cloud nine! I was like flying over the rainbow and jumping into a pit of gold. I was excited and could not wait for the computer to arrive.

After a month, the computer reached my doorstep (my dad actually picked it up from some place where large mail is received). I set up the computer and got it starting. After all the intro things and the registration confirmations, I got in. Yippy!

I went back to Vegi's house to borrow the disks and I brought it home to watch, and in that whole afternoon, I finished half the season. I started feeling excitement in the show and notice how it is similar to CSI and the cartoons I watched back then. After finishing the whole season the next day, I downloaded the episodes into the computer and returned the disks, this way, I can watch the anime over and over again. Unfortunately, I can't download the first season because of some protection programme. Through Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle I started learning the Japanese language and started singing Japanese songs. I did not have the Internet connection back then so I was still watching Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle season 2 over and over again. I also bought the soundtracks to listen to the songs.

A few months later, my parents got me the Internet connection. I was a bloody shit noob so I only got Internet help from my friend Joshua. He told me about Wikipedia, some Bionicle sites, YouTube and how to use MSN. I slowly learned my way through and found more animes from Wikipedia. I wanted to find more animes and watch them in Japanese but YouTube mostly had them in English dubs, so I searched and searched until I found, Crunchyroll and later on, Megavideo.

Usually I hang out in Wikipedia and look at Pokemon, the new ones that appears in Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl were the ones that amazed me the most because it was not announced in Malaysia yet. Then I went into looking for anime in Crunchyroll, the second anime I watched was Bamboo Blade. I saw an article in the papers about it being released just recently (at that time) and I watched it with joy and I was interested in kendo. I learned a few basic moves but of course, without a proper trainer and gear, I suck. Then, Eyeshield 21 caught my eye. I became interested in American football (I started playing this year because my friend had a ball). Through the "What Others Liked" section next to the playing screen in Crunchyroll, I watched another famous favorite, Yakitate!! Japan. I was glad I found this anime because I liked bread and did not know about all the different types of bread other than the normal dinner bread, wholemeal bread, French bread, sausage buns, pita, and coffee bread or what we call Mexican bun.

Soon, I watched more and more animes, I have a whole list of animes I finished and animes in my "To Watch" list. A few of those I have finished are, Hand Maid May, Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru, Tonagura, Chobits, Nagasarete Airantou, Lucky Star, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, Amaenaideyo!!, Bokusastu Tenshi Dokuro-chan, Futakoi, Happy Seven, and more. Currently I'm watching a new anime that just got released, Strike Witches, and also Bleach, Eyeshield 21 and Animal Yokocho.
There are a few animes I "abandon" because,
1) Boring (Ginban Kaleidoscope)
2) Too long, a scene lasts a few episodes (Naruto, Naruto Shippuden)
3) Pointless-like (Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z)
4) Too many episodes, so I finish the short ones first (One Piece, Digimon, Pokemon)
5) Watch this some other time... (Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl)
6) Lost the link to the anime because Crunchyroll does not have it (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge)

I found Gendou this year and downloaded a bunch of songs I heard from the animes I've watched (goodbye to buying soundtracks~) and heard (my sister also picked up the anime fever and she watches some animes I don't watch). I have also got into the world of JDrama, I've watched Nodame Cantabile and Proposal Daisakusen.

So, now that Japanese had invaded my life, I started learning more and more about the Japanese language. Now I'm even included mangas and now working on a doujinshi or fanga or fan art of Bleach, finding that Tite Kubo had an excellent idea and I like it.

With a few friends who also love animes and mangas, I belive I am one step closer to going to Japan.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

The Horrible Chore

It was horrible, to do that job.
The sour, smelly smoke, filled my lungs.
I felt like ailing, I felt like barfing.
I ran out of the room.

The horrible chore, no one wants to do.
The horrible chore, no one hopes to do.
The horrible chore, no one willing to do.
The horrible chore, washing the toilet.