tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56690992011-10-11T16:28:39.103+01:00mouldmunnoreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-88524381382968862502007-08-06T16:08:00.000+01:002007-08-06T17:49:16.043+01:00REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Extra PagesAvada Kedavra! Expelliarmus! (Reflect: effect x 1.5)Harry Potter is the rage these days, so I'm hopping on the bandwagon. I'll just admit now that I had some pretty disparaging things to say about this series in general in the past, but I take all of it back now. I'd always admired Rowling as a storyteller and the series as a story; my criticism was that itmunnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-68320790176269432632007-06-05T16:26:00.000+01:002007-06-05T16:57:49.725+01:00SPECIAL: Shounen cliche 1: Battousai complexThis may be the first or only of a series of cliches to be found in shounen action anime (so not the harem type!). It came about as a result of having read Samurai Deeper Kyo and realising how much of the (initial part, anyway) plot was predictable. But I thought about it and can only come up with two other anime which employ this plot device heavily - munnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-71018922790027617892007-05-31T01:39:00.000+01:002007-05-31T02:17:13.990+01:00SPECIAL REVIEW???: Pirates of the Caribbean 3There was a time when a pirate was free to make his own way in the world. But our time is coming to an end. (Barbossa)No, the world's the same. There's just less in it. (Sparrow)Welcome to Singapore! (Sao Feng)Ok I think the first two aren't exactly accurate (I swiped off wikiquote, will tighten once I find out what they are...help is appreciated). So munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-50221384648170381432007-05-15T01:16:00.000+01:002007-05-15T01:19:20.817+01:00Joke of the Day: MeOk apart from me, here's a very short post...I just thought of it and I absolutely had to put it up (very proud of it!):Which clan in Naruto is most generous and kind?Uchiha, because they have the Sharing-anHAHAHAHA! What a great joke!munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-42488231265600263392007-04-15T08:44:00.000+01:002007-04-18T09:47:58.460+01:00SPECIAL: Best Anime/Manga Moments 2Mada mada daneSeriously, with a choice between global imbalances (which to be honest is actually quite interesting) and blogging about my fav moments from the set of manga/anime I started in the post JC period, it's no wonder I left my notes by the side of my laptop. Just a short word about dramatic moments in stories in general - sometimes when I write I begin munnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-20761877288421440012007-04-05T02:30:00.000+01:002007-04-05T09:54:46.051+01:00IntegrationKomm, susser todA while back I talked about how political equality is instrumental – that hierarchy can be a valid form of political and social organisation. Wait did I? Whatever, I’ll just recap as quickly as I can. The basic premise is that hierarchy is an inescapable part of human relations. In whatever sphere there will be those who are better and those who are worse. Some spheres munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-84716060846313526252007-02-22T18:57:00.000Z2007-02-22T19:18:08.455ZI digged this up recently - something I wanted to post but never got around to completing. There'll probably be a part 2 - this is the "1st generation" part, which involves anime from before I entered the army. Or rather, anime that didn't require the use of to-to-to-torrents. Your captain torrents. Whoever knows where that joke came from is SAD SAD SAD. SPECIAL: Best Anime MomentsThis is it: themunnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-52845016413445437142007-01-06T01:59:00.000Z2007-01-06T02:57:12.214ZREVIEW: WickedWho can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you...I have been changed for good...This is my first musical review. However I know very well the dangers involved in this: musicals are not like anime or RPGs - they're high-class shit so you can't just go around spouting rubbish and expect people not to laugh. Anyway if you want good, proper reviews there are munnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1166048174888481052006-12-13T19:37:00.000Z2006-12-13T22:16:14.956ZREVIEW: Air Gear + Tenjho TengeSproing sproing sproing.I think this may be premature, because neither of these series are complete yet, and also because my MASTERS APPLICATIONS ARE NOT DONE YET but there's nothing I can do about the latter since I'm waiting for recommendations to come in. As for the former, I did a review of Naruto and Bleach anyway, so there's no reason I can't do the same munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1165011431904776292006-12-01T21:31:00.000Z2006-12-01T22:17:11.980ZREVIEW: The Melancholy of Suzumiya HaruhiDeep in my heart I wished that aliens, time travelers, ghosts, demons, espers or evil organisations might pop up in front of me. However reality is cruel!Thinking about it, the first time I heard about this was from Xela, some time earlier this year. If I'm not wrong he said something about it being very me. Apart from that Xela usually has good 介绍 so whenmunnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1162567495610581962006-11-03T14:35:00.000Z2006-11-24T20:51:09.106ZREVIEW: 无间道对不起，我是警察。拭目以待的无间道review终于来临了！但如果大家认为我真的会以我的华文程度来写这个（量词用得对不对？）的话，那就乃大错特错也。Oh...please say wanna go non-English speaking country to study. The timing for this review can be explained by the release of The Departed, the Hollywood remix of Infernal Affairs. The Western version has Matt Damon as Andy Lau, Leo Dicaprio as Tony Leung, Jack Nicholson as Eric Tseng, and a combi of Martin Sheen munnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1162262455144721102006-10-31T02:16:00.000Z2006-10-31T02:40:55.166ZTHEORY: SystemsNo quote, ok?Judging from how tired I am this will probably be a quick spiel. I'm not quite sure when I become obsessed with the idea of systems, which we'll just define as a body of interacting parts. I suspect it had something to do with either my general philosophy class, when we learnt about mind-body dualism and the concept of supervenience, Book 3 of The Baroque Cycle (which munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1161639922803152762006-10-23T22:44:00.000+01:002006-10-23T22:45:22.820+01:00THEORY: Potential Entrant into the Market of Ideas - Enter or not?When I first began this blog, Rachel said that she saw in it the germ of some sort of magnum opus. I often indulge myself in fantasies, and while I’d be the last person to say that I could produce anything of use at all, much less something that one might affix that bombastic title to, I have thought quite frequently about what I munnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1160354038605490622006-10-09T00:23:00.000+01:002006-10-14T12:31:29.750+01:00SPECIAL: Elite Organisations"At the end of four years as a Management Associate, you would have been groomed in a leadership and management programme which rivals the best offered by top MNCs. You should also emerge with a sharper sense of the interest of the nation, and can look forward to a challenging and fulfilling career with the public service..." (PM Lee at 2002 Awards Ceremony)Yes, when Imunnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1159653499395543862006-09-30T22:21:00.000+01:002006-10-09T00:23:28.103+01:00REVIEW: Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil SagaYour ass is mine! - Heat at the start of each battleOkay maybe I should just give up the stupid quote thing now. Actually this quote is probably better: Rend! Slaughter! Devour your enemies! There is no other way to survive. You cannot escape your hunger, Warriors of Purgatory. But thinking about it, the quote I used in the end sums it up anyway.I munnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1156790472691404862006-08-28T18:46:00.000+01:002006-08-28T19:41:12.726+01:00REVIEW: Kingdom Hearts 2 (SPOILER)You're lucky. Looks like my summer vacation is...over. (Roxas, to sleeping Sora)One of the best lines I've encountered so far, I think, especially given (or because of) the context. KH2 starts off with you playing this quite cool guy called Roxas. Memories from the first game are constantly thrown in, suggesting a link between Sora and Roxas. Then at the end of munnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1156156510747303552006-08-21T10:26:00.000+01:002006-08-21T11:37:34.943+01:00REVIEW: Suikoden VPrince!The obvious thing to think is obviously that this blog, like many others, has been relegated to the nether realm of blogs, forgotten by writer and reader, badly in need of an update, delinked and so on. Not so! The only reason I haven't updated is that there have been few stories inspiring enough to get me to blog, up till now. Well I read some Murakami, I think I read munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1141314092402979632006-03-02T15:38:00.000Z2006-03-02T15:41:32.416ZREVIEW: The CrucibleA wild thing may say wild things. But not so wild, I think.Recently went to watch The Crucible at some theatre in Stratford-on-Avon. Brought back all the memories of secondary school lit and secondary school. For me, Crucible and TKAM will always hold a special place in my heart, cos it was these two that stoked my interest in lit as a subject, and fooled me for a few happy munnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1139882596599774962006-02-14T02:02:00.000Z2006-02-15T16:39:43.716ZTHEORY (small): Causation/CorrelationWhat are the arguments for or against true causation as opposed to strong correlation? I suppose I should know this, but my excuse is that I didn’t do induction for general philosophy last year. In the humanities of course you never know which way causation runs, so at most you can use strong correlation for predictions. However if you can come up with a munnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1139169599114633902006-02-05T18:42:00.000Z2006-02-05T19:59:59.176ZREVIEW: Full Metal PanicThere are two types of girls in this world. Those who look good in the rain, and those who don't. (Leonard Testarossa)This will cover all 3 - FMP, FMP Fumoffu and TSR. I guess a better quote might have been "fumoffu!" in that act-cute voice, but I think it's too act-cute, so no. I'm not exactly crazy about this the way I am about Eva or Bebop or some others. The story is munnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1138936220279799132006-02-03T03:06:00.000Z2006-02-03T03:10:20.300ZTHEORY: Supermodels"It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and munnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1136671870875326192006-01-07T22:09:00.000Z2006-01-22T20:21:47.296ZREVIEW: 大长今 (Jewel in the Palace)오나라 오나라 아주오나 (Onara onara aju ona; come come forever come)Attempting to write about this has made me realise one thing: if art is meant to depict, to represent, then art centred around love must be the most unsuccessful type of art. Love poetry seems the most failed type of poetry. Or maybe it’s just me. Actually I think it’s just me. Attempting to write about munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1136417451363673192006-01-04T23:30:00.000Z2006-01-04T23:30:51.380ZTHEORY: Humanity (rejected)For the longest time it has been my belief that there is meaning in pain and suffering, most significantly that it is when we suffer and feel pain that we are conscious. Furthermore, this idea of consciousness is the sole defining trait of what it means to be human, or what it means to be a person. Consciousness can perhaps be better defined as an awareness of self, in munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1134682425958130432005-12-15T20:47:00.000Z2005-12-15T21:33:46.003ZREVIEW: The Baroque Cycle by Neal StephensonIt remains that, from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. (Newton, Principia Mathematica)If Houki Boshi is my most-listened song for the term of Michaelmas 2005, then the phrase 'System of the World' must surely be the phrase that I thought about or gave voice to in my mind most often. It's so damn bloody munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1132706758599991862005-11-23T00:31:00.000Z2005-11-23T00:45:58.660ZSPECIAL: Bleach v NarutoWas too lazy to think of a quote but will put one up as soon as I think of it. Suggestions are welcome. On a side note this blog doesn't seem to be very interactive does it. Whatever.Just for fun, some similarities between characters in Bleach and Naruto...something I thought about during my lectures.1) The Noble House syndrome: Byakuya and Neji2) Mightier-than-thou: munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1130889810515609382005-11-02T00:02:00.000Z2005-11-02T00:03:30.526ZTHEORY: Interest and MotivationYou may take our lives...but you'll never take...our FREEEEEDOM!!!!Having defined what humans may do, we can then move on to why humans do what they do. I think there’re basically two types of interests, objective and subjective ones. Objective interests are closely-related to or in fact are natural, biological instincts – basically the desire to survive and munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1130802775563452862005-10-31T23:02:00.000Z2005-11-03T15:59:48.023ZWant to first say that someone has made me aware of the fact that this guy called Steiner (Hillel I think) came up with the idea of accessible physical space as a measure of liberty, so my idea isn't so special after all. And there I was, thinking I'd come up with a revolutionary approach to viewing choice. Well. Anyway, there're many more exciting things in life than silly things like munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1129984266378845922005-10-22T13:10:00.000+01:002005-10-22T13:31:07.726+01:00THEORY: Liberty“In the absence of a choice, the freedom to choose is meaningless” Amartya SenHave been thinking a little about freedom/liberty/choice and I came to some conclusions that I'm ready to have challenged, anyone willing (you know where you can find me). Basically I feel that EVERYONE, or at least, all people (that is, humans capable of making meaningful choices, I guess? -this part's amunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1119512039124656432005-06-23T16:35:00.000+01:002005-06-23T15:04:45.126+01:00REVIEW: Batman BeginsA guy who dresses up as a bat clearly has issues (Bruce Wayne)There were two options for the quote of the movie and this is the shorter, more compact and funnier one. The other one is said by Liam Neeson or Henri Ducard when Bruce Wayne is about to begin his training in some action Tibetan mountain fortress: If you make yourself more than a man...if you devote yourself to an munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1118483350958211912005-06-11T18:50:00.000+01:002005-06-11T10:49:12.076+01:00REVIEW: Cowboy BebopThe three things I hate most are kids, animals, and women with attitude. So tell me why we have all three of these things gathered neatly here?Not the best of quotes maybe, but the other good ones feel too angsty or too abstract. Like the typical one would be "See You Space Cowboy" or stuff about life being a dream or whatnot. But this one is said by Spike when the crew is munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1117195764620854482005-05-27T21:10:00.000+01:002005-05-27T13:09:24.643+01:00REVIEW: Naruto Episode 136 - Infiltration Investigation!? The Super-S Class Mission Which Has Finally Come!I tried to put up a post on my best anime moments but it was too long and I got interrupted and I never got around to finishing it afterwards, so too bad (for me, at least). Anyway the Cmountie says that he doesn't read my blog because it's too boring and I took offense at that but I guess munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1113325049883416742005-04-13T01:53:00.000+01:002005-04-12T21:54:35.240+01:00After an extremely long hiatus, here's another post.REVIEW: Quicksilver (Book 1 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson)Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations...may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. (Roger Cotes, Preface to Newton's Principia Mathematica 2nd ed.)This quote kinda sums up the whole book. Its roots are in actual munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1108416334342230482005-02-15T05:27:00.000Z2005-02-14T21:34:57.306ZSPECIAL: NarutoWe Are Fighting Dreamers!!!Today's Valentine's Day, so what better way to celebrate it than with the love of my life - Naruto! As in, not in a yaoi kinda way, but the anime/manga as a whole. So I'll be doing some character reviews and seeing how things turn out. Maybe I can do all the characters I wanna do maybe I can't, but what will be will be. You can't love to order (I remembermunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1107351480084635742005-02-02T21:37:00.000Z2005-02-02T13:38:00.083ZREVIEW: A Wizard Of Earthsea
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky
I actually intended to do a post coinciding with the release of #245 of the Naruto manga. However that would have been too much, so having finished Ursula LeGuin's novel, I've decided to review it instead. It's a pretty short novel, less than 200 pages, andmunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1106664417767902232005-01-25T22:46:00.000Z2005-01-28T21:38:35.456ZREVIEW: Rurouni Kenhsin
飛天御剣流！奥義：天翔る壟の閃き！
In English, Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu! Ultimate Technique: Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki! I chose this quote firstly because it's one of the easier ones to remember and because when it appears on a page you know there's gonna be some action.
Set in the beginnings of the Japanese Meiji era, Rurouni Kenshin tells the story of a swordsman called Himura Kenshin. It's munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1103266863339356472004-12-17T07:00:00.000Z2004-12-17T07:01:03.340ZREVIEW: Hikaru no Go (Manga)
右上角！小目！
Well, first off I’d like to say thanks to YW Liang for giving me the opportunity to read this wonderful series. Btw, I don’t have 8 and 16 so I went out to buy them. Did I lose them or did you not pass them to me? Hopefully the latter, but if the former you can have my copy.
Having finished it yesterday, I wanted immediately to put my feelings about it into munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1101857114917230262004-12-01T07:23:00.000Z2005-02-02T13:37:03.100ZSPECIAL: Magi
*Zap*
Alright, I'm on a roll again. Now the magician's list. I've read quite a bit of fantasy, but definitely not even a tenth of what there is, including some of the classic/best ones, so it's definitely not comprehensive. If you've got any suggestions, tell me too, though seeing as there isn't a tagboard I don't know how you're gonna do that.
The basic requirement for these munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1101816387537910312004-11-30T20:05:00.000Z2005-04-12T21:57:28.093+01:00SPECIAL: Hero EquipmentYou haven't got a clue, have you? This is a game! You should always carry a special weapon!Now's the pits. I'm gonna talk about the equipment, especially the weapons of various main characters from RPGs, anime, fantasy etc that I've known, that've made an impression on me.SwordsTerra and Celes and Atma and RagnarokCloud Strife and the Buster Sword (there's Ultima Weapon etcmunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1100255888703984292004-11-12T18:37:00.000Z2004-11-12T10:38:08.703ZREVIEW: Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
Master of the martial art world, the precious sabre Dragon
Commands all under heaven, none dare defy
Without the Heaven sword, who can fight its edge?
As can be seen from the well-done translation above, it's going to be difficult translating some of the terms so that they retain the original intent, which is certainly much cooler than the translated form. munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1099620445651121452004-11-05T10:05:00.000Z2004-11-05T02:07:25.653ZToday it was raining. The rain fell, and the droplets trickled down the window. Like my life, dripping away...
Haha, fooled you there didn't I? Well, onto the real stuff.
I often see complaints on other blogs (specifically the malaysian's) about how blogger ate up a blog or something. Well, it happened to me, but it was basically my fault because I clicked on create instead of publish and the munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1098741507215518972004-10-26T07:00:00.000+01:002004-10-26T19:42:43.196+01:00REVIEW: Transformers
More Than Meets The Eye
My mood is rather good today, seeing as how I've gone on to publish two entries. This one's about my childhood craze, which has been restored by my finding another Transformers fan (possibly more hardcore than me) here.
Anyway Transformers was the thing for me. The Americans really succeeded with this particular adaptation of Japanese anime. The munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1098726747429750982004-10-26T05:20:00.000+01:002004-10-25T21:20:08.433+01:00REVIEW: Naruto
This is my ninja way!
I guess the safest way to come back to blogging is by sticking to what I know and am comfortable with talking about. Naruto is about a ninja called Uzumaki Naruto and his quest to become the Hokage (leader of his village, the Leaf Village or Konoha). The Hokage is the strongest ninja in the village and only exceptionally talented ninjas have a shot at it. munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1090422445456599312004-07-21T15:50:00.000+01:002004-07-21T16:07:25.456+01:00REVIEW: Spider Solitaire
Deal
Don't really know why I've started blogging again (yes, like it or not, posting on a blog is called blogging, and I have to admit that to myself), but I wanted to do one on Spider Solitaire before anyway.
Basically this is a card game for one-player. It can be found on WindowsXP, though 98 might have it as well. You're supposed to complete 6 decks of cards, eithermunnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1073463446034248702004-01-07T04:26:00.000Z2004-01-10T03:28:10.263ZREVIEW: Mahjong
Hu.
Well, it's been said that I'm not a very good player, just a very lucky one, and I guess that's the truth. But then again, if you're lucky in life, you don't need to be really good at anything. The question, then, is what happens when your luck runs out. In a recent game, my luck was down and out...I'd won 1 game in the first East Wind, and till the South Wind of the 2nd munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1073147884227699352004-01-03T16:12:00.000Z2004-01-03T16:43:34.606ZREVIEW: Jeux d'Enfants
Got ji or not?
Today I watched this French movie, which somehow translates into 'Love me if you dare'. Frankly speaking, if I were the guy, I wouldn't dare. But then again maybe that's why my life doesn't follow the general plot of a twisted French romance. Watching the end, as they bury themselves in concrete, I have to confess that I'm glad it doesn't. Love isn't worth munnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5669099.post-1073073369875179292004-01-02T18:43:00.000Z2004-01-02T19:59:35.233ZREVIEW: Final Fantasy X-2
Mission Time!
I finished playing Final Fantasy X-2 a couple of days ago. As with all Final Fantasies (even 8), I thought it was a great game, and one that I enjoyed rather much. My first advice to PSX2 gamers (as in, who would get a PSX2 and not play any Final Fantasy?) is not to take this game, or yourselves, too seriously. People looking for some deep religious munnoreply@blogger.com0