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I WNAT MY RMA!
2002-01-14 00:51:41
NOoooooooooooooooooooooo! Aaaaaaaargh!
The price of RAM has gone up! Aaaargh! Why, why, why didn't I buy when a 256 MB chip cost S$60? Now it costs almost double! *Ami bangs head on keyboard*
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I want the 700+ MB RAM I used to have before my new motherboard (with it's dinky 3 slots) forced me to take out 128 MB worth of RAM!
*deep breath*
I will stop this tantrum. I will stop because it does not matter in the long run. I will stop because I'm being spoilt. I will stop because I don't want to bust a vein and get blood all over my keyboard. -
Villainousssssssss
2002-01-13 12:56:26
I just watched Osmosis Jones. It must be the most utterly disgusting animation I've EVER seen. Eww. There's slime, there's bile, there's... really gross stuff I don't think I should mention.
It's basically about a white blood cell who's a cop in the city of Frank that's trying to catch a virus intent on killing the host. The cartoon is entertaining, but not all that amazing. But the villain's character design was fantastic. He had this voice that crawled and slithered... utterly villainous. And the body language was pretty cool too... very black, if cells and bateria could walk, talk and gesture.
But nobody could beat anime villains. They are so much more believable and 3-dimensional. They are not bad just because they're evil - they have valid ideologies and even a certain depth that I find lacking in protagonists. I don't know if it's just me, but many times I find the villain stealing the show. Like Vincent did in Cowboy Bebop's Stairway to Heaven. He certainly wasn't half-hearted in the way he was bad, but you could understand him even though he was supposed to be an emotionless, cold-blooded killer.
Some anime villains have a better reason for being bad than the the heroes do in being good, and you get the feeling it really isn't about who is good or bad, but whose side of the fence you're sitting on. I really think it's got to do with the amorality of the Japanese, which is so different from the Christian morality that Western cultures are based on.
Gah. Deep stuff. Maybe I shouldn't go into that now. It's almost 2 am on this side of the world.
But it's interesting stuff... I may put up a website on stuff like this. You know, the inner workings of anime, if that's what you can call it. I remember reading a couple of books on Japanese social psychology and finding it so different from what I'm used to... but it really did explain a lot of the recurring themes in anime.
Anyway, if I remember rightly, the name of the book I read was "A Japanese Mirror". I found it again in my Uni library in Melbourne but didn't have time to read it because I was supposed to be researching on my Zen paper. I can't find it on Amazon, but you may have luck in your local library. I highly recommend you look it up and read it if you've got the time. -
nnngggaaarrr!
2002-01-12 23:05:56
I... can't... stand... it!
I just watched some of the Gladiator DVD extras, one of which is a music video done to Now We Are Free from the Gladiator OST... but all I could see was Nausicaa footage! I kept thinking things like: "Ooh, when the vocals soar at this part, it would be just perfect if Nausicaa soared away out of the screen... and at this agressive bit, I'd have the ohmu rampaging... oh yeaahhhh..."
And then I came back down with a crash because I remembered that my computer is still down! Aargh! And now I'm in this highly creatively charged and itchy-fingered state, but I can't do a thing. *nnnngggggg*
*twitch* -
nitty
2002-01-12 12:53:57
I've just read ZeWrestler and Iserlohn's guide to opinions. I am so ashamed... I have to admit that I have, on occasion, left some of the comment spaces empty. *collective gasp of shock and outrage* Yes, I know. I suck. Please don't lynch me.
Funniest thing is, I left the spaces blank for the reviews of my two recent favourite videos: Big Big Truck's Failed Experiments & Kusoyaro's Iron Lung. Hm, there seems to be a pattern here... I guess I'm kinda intimidated at leaving an opinion on a video I think is fantastic. I don't fill up the good comments space because I'm sure I have nothing fresh to say, and I'm terrified of leaving bad comments because sometimes I CAN FIND NOTHING BAD ABOUT THE VIDEO. And for some reason, that seems bad in itself! Is it because I am not observant/skilled/savvy enough? Or maybe it's because I'm being too much of a silly, gushy fan-person. "Your video is perfect! I love you so much! I love ALL your videos! You could do nothing wrong!"
And if I do have something to critique, I have to think twice whether it's something miniscule which is not worth mentioning; at which the creator will just roll his/her eyes at. I can be quite the nitpicker, and I know that not everybody likes to have their, um... nits picked.
But I'm currently working at setting things right regarding my empty comment boxes. (Thank God for the edit function.) I finally went and filled up the comments boxes for the Failed Experiments video. I still have several more to do.
I wonder how long Xanthrax (king of the most useful commentors list) spends on his reviewing a video... apparently his latest review has gone past 4,000 words. I don't know how he does it. It would probably take me two weeks to find that many things to say about a video, no matter how much I like/hate it. I don't know if it's just me, but I do spend quite a bit of time on my comments, even if they usually aren't over 300 words.
Alright... I've decided that I'm going to go on a reviewing spree... see if I can't get on the most opinionated list. I don't think I should even consider beating Xanthrax's average of 2,018.0 words per opinion to get on the most useful commentor list. That's just scary, man. -
Mad about Mexico
2002-01-10 21:09:52
Wahahahah... I'm in the paper! But only because of my heritage (Chinese Mexican). I let my journo friend interview me for a story she wanted to do on different cultures in Singapore, and I happen to be the only Mexican-Singaporean she knows. My awful, dorky picture takes up a half page on the cover of the weekend section. A few people called up this morning after reading the paper, one of them a cousin I haven't talked to for months. And my mother's friend called to 'congratulate' me. Eh? Whatever for?
Still, I can't say I'm jaded and don't care. It IS exciting to see yourself in the paper... I'm a media whore! Hahaha! Nah, actually, like I told a friend, I'd rather WRITE in the paper than appear in it. (I'm a media student who majored in journalism, so that's not too farfetched, is it?)
By the way, the title of this journal entry is the same title my friend used for her article.
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