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The first one was good, but the sequel is even better (although not all episodes are nice). Still, I say this is a must watch anime, even if you’re not into the whole drama / slice of life anime genres.

Give it a try, and you won’t regret it.

I know I haven’t been updating this blog of mine for a very long time, but hopefully, it’ll change. For now, I, on behalf of Kanryu.org, would just like to take this opportunity to wish my faithful readers a very Happy New Year. May you have a smashing and great year ahead

First off, I would just like to inform everyone of you here that I’m still well and truly alive. As you might have noticed, I haven’t been writing much here, but rest assured, I’m going to start writing again from now on. Especially after the magnificent result we had last night. Talk about motivation to write

As the title says, we beat them Manures at the Grove. Oh and what a result it is. I’m still basking in the glory of defeating them, and I’m very sure that all Gooners around the world are feeling the same thing. The game itself was very enjoyable, except for the last 6 minutes of extra time. We don’t want a repeat of Sp*rs now do we?

All in all, it was a great performance from the boys, and I think everyone stood up to be counted for. Gallas in particular had a very good game, so hat’s off to him. The referee however, was a complete wanker. Some of his decisions and calls were really poor, and I can remember clearly 3 incidents which involved Walcott, Diaby and Nasri that would warranted a yellow card for the offenders. But alas, don’t think we’re getting any support from him, that bloody wanker.

Anyways, why spoil the mood when we can celebrate (more) our team’s victory? Here’s to the Gooners around the world, now, watch us go!

On the way to get dinner with my brother earlier, I realized the increase in the number of cars on the road, compared to a few days ago. A sense of dread came over me. People have started coming back from their break, school, colleges, universities are open again, and it’s back to the usual hectic-and-busy-everyday-life that we go through. I know that it has started today, but since I had the day off today, I’m only going to experience it starting tomorrow

The break I had wasn’t much of a break anyways. I was in and out of the hospital, driving here and there for my parents, taking care of my nephew and nieces, I hardly have time on my own. Except for that particular night out with a friend of mine. Sometimes I think it would be better if I was at work, that way I wouldn’t have to be a slave to everyone

Anyways, it’s back to work for me tomorrow. Back to being stuck in traffic, back to my cubicle, back to my daily routine, back to normality really.  Bleh!

I first stumbled upon this comic about 3 years ago while going through the “Preview” edition of comics. After reading the summary of it, I knew I just had to get this comic. So I asked my comic shop to reserve it under my account. Now after 3 years, it’s finally finished.

It starts with Superman saving this group of scientists who were exploring the sun (yes, you read it right). Their exploration was sabotaged by Lex Luthor (who else?), who planned this whole scenario out in his bid to destroy Superman. Anyways, Superman managed to save those scientists, but at a price. Being exposed to the sun at a close distance messed up Superman’s cells which literally triples his strength, but at the same time, giving him one year left to live. So the whole 12 issues of All Star Superman is about that 12 months that he has left, which is a pretty interesting read. You can check out the wiki page of it for a summary of all 12 issues.

Personally, I think the last issue could have been better, but I won’t complain much. With the completion of All Star Superman, I have less comics to collect now. I am still trying to find more comics to collect, but there are not many new ones to collect

Had a rather interesting experience on my way back from work this afternoon. The company allowed the Muslim staff to leave at 1PM today, hence my reason for leaving early today. After finishing up my work and saying my goodbyes to my colleagues, I headed out from the office. The ride down the elevator was the usual one, until I felt it jerked a few seconds before reaching one of the stops it was supposed to make. 2 people entered the lift, and we then waited for it to go down to the ground floor. Once there, the doors won’t open, and we were stuck in the bloody elevator for an hour.

There were 5 people in the elevator including, and 3 of them kinda panicked. I had my iPod on so I didn’t really bother much about being stuck there, except for the fact that I really wanted to piss. I was reminded of this song by The Darkness called ‘Stuck in a Rut‘, and it just kept on playing in my head while we waited for the doors to open. When it did though, we found ourselves on the 48th floor. So we had to take another elevator down and thankfully, there were no problems with the ride down.

I don’t think I would ever want to get caught inside the elevator if it malfunctions again though. Once is more than enough.

This is an old piece of news, but I thought I’d just write about it seeing how I love this damn show so very much. Yes, they are going to make a live adaptation of Cowboy Bebop. When I first heard about it, I thought it was just rumours that people started in the Internet. I only came around when it was made official. There is going to be a god-damned Cowboy Bebop live adaptation movie!

I didn’t take that piece of news well though. In fact, I was skeptical (still am) that it’ll turn out as great as it’s anime counterpart. For starters, where will the movie take place? Will they focus it more on Spike and Vicious? Will they create a totally new story for the movie? Who will act as Spike? etc, etc… One thing for certain though, is that if Faye Valentine does not live up to it’s anime counterpart, I’m going to scream bloody murder!

For now, I’m going to wait and see how this thing develops. I’ll reserve my judgement (although I made some here) until everything is finalised. It better be worth it.

I re-watched the ‘Iron Man’ movie a few nights back, and I noticed this really interesting item in one particular scene. It’s funny how I didn’t notice it the first time round, but then again, that’s always the case. Anyways, the item that I mentioned, is none other than the shield of ‘Captain America’, in all it’s incomplete glory! Yup, you heard it right. There really is Captain America’s yet-to-be-completed shield. Check it out below (click on picture to enlarge):

If you turn your attention to the middle left of the picture, you will be able to see it. Besides Cap’s shield, there is a couple more obvious teasers involving ‘War Machine’ and the much anticipated ‘Avengers’. It is pretty much confirmed that there will be an ‘Avengers’ movie, and I’m pretty sure there will be a ‘Captain America‘ movie as well. Hell, if his shield is in this movie, and talk about the ‘super soldier serum‘ in ‘The Incredible Hulk‘ movie, there’s definitely going to be a ‘Captain America‘ movie!

There are also a few teasers in the ‘Hulk‘ movie. One of them is of course, regarding ‘Captain America’. The next one is also about the ‘Avengers‘ movie, whereby we see ‘Tony Stark‘ make an appearance at the end of the movie. The other one is where it gets interesting. There was a scene in the movie where ‘Hulk‘ ‘ran away’ with his girlfriend to that rocky, mountain place, and it just started raining all of a sudden. Then, there was a lightning strike, and we see ‘Hulk‘ getting agitated and threw a boulder towards the sky. At that time, I wondered why did he do it. Until I realized that it was a teaser for ‘The Mighty Thor‘. And yes, there will be a ‘Thor‘ movie as well.

So with ‘Iron Man‘ already making an appearance, and ‘Captain America‘ and ‘Thor‘ to follow suit, we have 3 members of ‘The Avengers‘ assembled (pun intended) I am so looking forward for these movies in the next few years. And I really hope that they don’t make it into a really cheesy movie like ‘Ghost Rider‘

Stopped over at my grandma’s place today after getting a haircut today, as my uncle tagged along to get a haircut himself. It was still raining (as it always is nowadays) when we reached the house. I already brought my toiletries along because I will be going out to get my comics. I then went to my grandma’s room to see her, and I noticed that her cat was there. As soon as she (the cat) saw me, she immediately came over to me and started ‘complaining’. And if she’s annoyed or agitated, she’d bite me She’ll even chase me if I try to run away hahahaah. I miss that cat, and I didn’t think she’d still be so energetic after all these years. I was once again, proven wrong.

I was at my grandma’s for almost an hour, accompanying her while she had lunch, and spent the time talking to her. After all, it has been a while since I last saw her. After that, I went off to get my comics Before I left, I went inside my grandma’s house to see the cat again, and she was still making a lot of noise when I came in. I think she’s complaining to me that she hasn’t seen me for a long time I used to play with her almost everyday back when she was still a kitten. Ahh, how I miss the days when she was really full of energy.

Wet day today. In fact, it’s been wet for the past few days. It rained so hard today, that part of area near my office was flooded. It caused quite a ruckus amongst my colleagues too as some of them parked their car near the flooded area.

If I’m not mistaken, it started raining at around 3pm? And surprise, surprise, it’s still raining. I’m so going to have a really good sleep later tonight.

I left the office late today. It’s due to a combination of a lot of work, and a lot of traffic From my window, I could see stretches of cars everywhere. So I opted to stay back and finish up whatever pending work I have. I did however, enjoyed the drive home. With my iPod on, I took a slow drive back. Surprisingly, there weren’t many cars on the road leading to my house. Which was good, considering how I’m half blind when it comes to driving in the rain at night