New Inuyasha: The Final Act

Exams are within a week, starting on the 3rd I've got chemmat, 5th software, 7th electrical and 9th internation business. I've been trying hard to study but always gets distracted by boringness or a sudden urge to look up something on the web which lead to looking at other things and that lead to more stuff. Basically everything except for studying is fun right now.

So I accidently stumbled upon this amazing find. The anime Inuyasha will be continuing from where it stopped since 2004! 5 years! This news excited many anime fans around the world, many had grew up watching Inuyasha or simply loved it as an anime series (a pretty long one though, 167 episodes). Inuyasha was rated top 20 anime of all time, I think it is in terms of popularity but Im not sure. So far 4 episodes have been aired in Japan, it started on October 3rd.



For me, Im pretty excited too not that Im a huge Inuyasha fan, it's because it will be good to know how it is going to end. My sister was the one who introduced it to me since she already downloaded half of it, I decided to watch it. I could see why a lot of people enjoyed it. There were plenty of action for the boys, romance for the girls, comedy for everyone however I thought the story was a bit plain. The good guys basically always wins. But the bigger picture or story was actually alright, the journey and adventure by different groups lead to revealing the past and making themselves stronger. Then it suddenly stopped, I was like is this it?! It was like another Claymore ending.

Here is the trailer for it:



Now they've continued with Fullmetal Alchemist and Inuyasha, when will they finish up Claymore? Or Slam Dunk? Am I suppose to wait 5 years also?! I WANT CLAYMOREEEEE RAWR!

My 19th and C Part 2

Sorry for the delay, keep forgetting that I still havent finish writing. Anyway here we go. On Sunday, it was me and Jason's birthday, yes we were born on the same day, same year, same time? Maybe, I dunno. (Have you found your twin yet? :D Theres someone bound to have the same birthday as you) I invited him to come but he had church :/ So in the morning, people gathered at my house and brought me presents, yay! Adam gave me a Final Fantasy VII pillow, In Hwan gave me a new mouse and Shuhan & Shawn bought me Aion! Thank you very much guys T_T

So then we all got in my car and I was driver for the day since no one else wanted to be lol. We made it to the ice skating place in like half an hour and coincidently found out that theres an arcade and pool place right beside it, we're like sweet! Since it was lunch time, the guys were keen for KFC so we went. It was the fullest KFC I've ever seen (some sort of KFC day o.O), there were only 2 more free tables, I bought a bucket with 4 large sides and we shared it. After we stepped out, it started pouring like hell, I was the only one without a jacket or a hoodie :(

After I paid for the guys, we went to collect our ice skates. It felt really weird to walk with skates cause you're just balancing on the blade. I've ice skated three times before when I was young and I used to roller blade so I was the one with the most experienced. In Hwan learned cause he went to holiday programmes when he was young but he forgot. The other 3 were newbs lol. So I had to teach basically all of them, the key is to skate not walk.

For the next hour or so, progress had been made for 3 people. In Hwan could basically skate slowly and turn. Same with Shawn. Shuhan could go faster than the other 2, however had trouble turning so he always look for the nearest wall to crash. Adam was still grabbing on the walls and attempting to walk on ice. After another hour of practising, the 3 felt they were up for a race, I had to ref. The entire race was basically whoever didnt get pushed away or had other people in front of them won lol.

After 3 hours, we decided to make a train however this task required everyone's cooperation. It was going pretty smoothly until one guy tripped and it dragged all of us down! It actually hurted quite a bit but was funny as. Our last task was to force Adam to skate with no walls next to him so the challenge was for him to skate across and back the centre of the arena. If he could do that then we leave. It took a while but he did it.

We went to the arcade afterwards. It was a pretty cool arcade, you gotta buy a card and put money in it, you just swipe the gaming machine when you wanna play. We basically tried nearly all the games there, punching bag, basketball hoops, air hockey. The best ones were Tekken 6 and racing. Tekken was only $1.20, cheap as, the graphics was so good and the controls were easy to use. Shawn was saying I dont even know how to play this and then ended up dominating all of us. The racing game cost us the most money since it was a 4 players link game. For the first 3 rounds, one of us will fuk up like choosing the wrong car or wrong mode. Then one of us had to go top up again. When we finally got it right, it was so fun that we kept swiping and kept topping up. I think it was fair to say, I came first most of the time.

When we had barely any money left, we decided to spend it on a few rounds of pool. The pool tables were those small ones which was sht.. we taught In Hwan how to play since it was his first time. Then I had to rush back home since my mum was going to take me to dinner. We went to a chinese BBQ buffet, it was really good. But the thing with self BBQ is you dont know how long you should cook the meat. If you leave it for too long, it gets all crunchy but if not enough time then its not cooked properly.

So my birthday basically ended there but before I slept, I still had to submit my C project. Just an hour before I submitted, I found out I had to print out all these information at the start and check for weird conditions. Thank god Sherman told me to check the project specifications. The very next day we had our other C project due. This one was to create your own program. I wrote a simple weapon enchanting program, Im not sure how to upload it on here but I'll try tomorrow.

Free hugs for Taiwan at Auckland Uni

I know Im suppose to continue with part 2 of my previous article but I just felt this was more important. Few hours ago, I received this video from Shuhan. It is about some Taiwanese students in Auckland uni who got together and copied the 'Free hugs in Taiwan' done in Taiwan.

For those who dont know, in August Taiwan experienced typhoon Morakot which caused floods, landslides, mudslides in several areas, villages with people in them were buried under mud and water. Hundreds of lives were lost in this catastrophic event.
Here is an example of the power of typhoon... an entire hotel fell into the flooded river



So basically the people were showing support by hugging that dude with the Taiwan paper bag over his head and signing their signature to prove that they showed their support. As you can see from the video, this gesture was supported by many! Too bad I didnt run into them. Good job on the crew for doing it and thanks to all that supported!

Here is the original video filmed in Taiwan. The 4 words said by many is basically Go Taiwan!

My 19th and C Part 1

Been a while since my last update and the main reason was two projects for software engineering were due yesterday and today. Anyway I'll recap some events which happened over the past few days.

Friday was pretty busy, we had to do an online electrical test. I thought I could learn it on the day by doing the practise questions online so I didnt pay too much attention on it the night before. But it turned out that I couldnt and to make matters worse, Jerrell and I also had international business online quiz to do also. Luckily the quiz was easy, our combined knowledge always triumphs. Double luckily, my friends taught (basically did) the electrical test for me so thanks all. I got one wrong but that was due to my noobness on the calculator. =.=

That evening, I also went to play basketball at Browns Bay again along with Shawn and Hans. We were like half an hour late and there were already 4 teams there. When we got on, we basically got schooled 6-1, we werent even warmed up and they just kept sinking shots! After one cycle, when it was our turn again, we were more ready and finally won. Our next game took like forever, this one round felt like the length of 3 normal rounds. I had a massive block on this dude which made the crowd go OOOOOHHHHHHH!!! Damn it felt good! However we lost 6-5, was a shame but we had a good night.

Saturday was just C, C and more C. C is the program we're using at the moment for software engineering. One of our project for it was to design a perfect packaging solution where we are given a number of boxes, box capacity and number of parcels. We had to try to put all the parcels into the boxes and once the boxes are filled, we are left with the lightest parcels. I was stuck on this problem for hours, I had to let the program check all the boxes are within the box capacity then execute some command. I finally solved it with Ben's detailed explanation and Jason's idea inspiring words so big thanks to them. And with that problem solved, I basically did the core bit for the project which left me Sunday to celebrate for my birthday.

Random entertainment in the middle XD
Sherman showed this song to me today and I thought it was really good so here it is


(The guy with the hat is the best :P)

Im tired now, I'll finish the rest tomorrow :P

New Haircut

Yesterday quite a few unexpected things happened. First was basketball, I didnt even bring any change of clothes but somehow I ended up going to the courts to play anyway. At first I thought we were just going to shoot around then go grab lunch. We ended up playing 4v4 ins and outs. It was Karthik, Ronnie, Jerrell and me, we always had close games but could never achieve victory. We won only like once i think lol. The other teams had like big ogres in their team, we always had to double or triple team them.

It was so competitive and fun, Jerrell and I completely forgot about lunch and soon it was time for international business. Just before we finished, Jerrell fuked up his leg, unexpected injury right there. So me and the cripple took a while to get to class.

After the class, Jerrell wanted to get a haircut and basically i was peer pressured to get one too. I didnt really ask for a style, just whatever the barber thought was good and yeah, I got a complete new style.

Before



After

Naruto's Parents Revealed

I've been quite busy over the weekend due to chemmat test. Chemmat is my 8th favourite subject (out of the 8th I've studied this year) so yeah, it took me a lot of effort to study for it. Now I will be busy with C programming, got 2 projects due next week, gotta start tomorrow. Been catching up on Bleach and Naruto cause last month I couldnt download due to unexpected download of Aion which made me go over my internet limit. Bleach is still going on with the interesting filler of Zanpakutou rebellion, this is probably the best filler yet, the story is nice and not lame.

Naruto is complete pwnage. The story went back to official I think 2 months ago and its just wow. [WARNING: WILL CONTAIN SPOILER IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH THE NARUTO ANIME. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK]

The story started off again with Orochimaru wanting to consume Sasuke's body It turned out Sasuke had no intention of letting Orochimaru use him and he killed Orochimaru. After Orochimaru died, Sasuke went out and recruit 3 other people to form his own team, "Snake" (what a lol name). Meanwhile Naruto and Konoha received word of Orochimaru's death and assembled like a platoon to find either Sasuke or Akatsuki since it is now a triangle relationship. Sasuke wants to find Itachi, Naruto wants to find Sasuke or Akatsuki cause they might have info on Sasuke and Deidara wants to kill Naruto or Sasuke.

Deidara encountered Sasuke first and the fight began. It was a highly skilled fight, both of them pulling all their tricks out of their sleeves. It was an epic fight compared to those lame ones in the fillers before. In the end Deidara used this ultimate technique which blew himself up and anything within 10km radius. Tobi (Deidara's partner) and Sasuke were thought to have died in the blast. But did they...?



Sasuke merely escaped by summoning Manda (Orochimaru's snake) and hid inside him while using a teleportation technique. However they were still caught in the blast which resulted in Sasuke badly injured and Manda died(lol). It was also revealed that Tobi did not die and he was strong as sht, he was actually another Uchiha, the legendary Uchiha Madara (although I dont know what that name mean but hes definately some sort of tough guy). Meanwhile Naruto encountered Kabuto, who fused himself with what is left of Orochimaru, crazy dude. He also met Itachi however Itachi only wanted to talk, after a few words Itachi disappeared.

The story then shifted to Jiraiya, he discovered the location of Akatsuki's leader and he is going to penetrate the place alone. It then showed us Jiraiya's childhood and how he became the lengendary Sannin along with Orochimaru and Tsunade. Basically they were just ownage ninjas who killed a lot of enemies during the ninja wars. Jiraiya also received a prophecy that one day he will take in an apprentice and that apprentice will change the world. It is all up to Jiraiya on the path that apprentice will choose to take.

So Jiraiya travels the world to search for guidance for his mission and also for the apprentice. He saw many things but still could not come up with an answer nor did he find the apprentice. However, he did teach 3 kids who grew up to be members of Akatsuki. Although he himself does not know it yet, he thought they died. The episode ended with Jiraiya talking to his student, the 4th Hokage about how great his book was. At that moment, the answer to the question that has been wondered by many for longer than 4 years "Who were Naruto's parents?" was revealed. Indeed... the 4th Hokage was Naruto's father.

[POSSIBLE SPOILER FINISH HERE]

So I wrote the summary of Naruto, up to the latest episode I watched. It's not the latest out there, Im 2 episodes behind. But the latest episode I watched, I felt like it was such a memorable episode, life longing question that had been answered, I had to write about it. The next episode looks great, looks like Jiraiya is going to meet Akatsuki. Cant wait!

Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black and electrical lab

Just finished watching the new Bleach movie Fade to Black. The movie was released December last year in Japan but it was only recently uploaded on to the internet. Again, thanks to Jason I was able to obtain it.

13 Division Protection Squad VS Kurosaki Ichigo



This movie is the best out of the 3 by far. [WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS] This movie is like previous 2 movies combined. Like the first movie, the theme of memory was also used here. However the fight scenes were like the the second movie, where nearly all characters showed off however in this one it was better. Because they did not use the common characters who normally shows up in the anime eg. Ikkaku, Yumichika, Soi Fon. Instead we got to see some of the rare characters in action, eg. Urahara, Ukitake, Kyoraku. The best fight scene was between Rukia and Ichigo, damn I've never seen Rukia fight that well, it was so awesome.

Good Bye Rukia



The drawings I thought it was fantastic, much clearer, probably even better than the current anime. Then again it could be that the movie was in better quality than my episodes lol. The story was pretty nice, considering it is a Bleach story, not much variation they can do cause they can not go beyond the manga plot. The story sequence was good, I liked the way they showed it. Overall a good movie and like I said before, best of the Bleach movies.

Just want to mention about today's event. I had to do the second electrical lab today. Quite a few people did it today too, Sam, Jerrell, Ben, Jason, Harrison. I was with Harrison. Our task was to design the circuit for a smart car, like if the car hit a wall it will know which way to turn, by using logic gates. The tricky bit was to manipulate the boolean expression so it only uses a specific gate. Took us a while, the other 2 groups already left, when we tried to get a tutor to sign us off, he refused to do it unless we test it in the maze. At first I was like wtf, wasting time I dont wanna do maze sht, I wanna go but it turned out to be fun as.

We watched the group before us and when their car hit the wall, it always turn left and Im not sure why but their car goes super fast. When we plugged in ours, it worked like a charm. Like if it was out of 100, we would've got fuking 100/100. It was so perfect, the speed was just right and when it hits the wall, it turns perfect 90 degree, no backward movement was needed. The group that was before us watched our's and said "Wow you guys are pro!" That just made my day.

Thanks to the random Chinese tutor who helped us solved the boolean algebra, we would've never got that. Thanks to Sam who helped us with the circuit diagrams. Thanks to Harrison for knowing what to do with the wires, cause i had no fuking clue what goes where lol!

Golden Sun DS (3)

Last night I flipped through my Golden Sun guide and really felt like playing it again. So this morning I went on Google to search for Golden Sun 3, I didnt expect to find anything... but it turned out I was wrong!

GOLDEN SUN 3 WILL BE COMING OUT IN 2010 ON NINTENDO DS!

“Golden Sun™ DS: After going dark six years ago, 2010 will see a new dawn. Golden Sun DS updates the popular portable Golden Sun role-playing series with an impressive graphical style. This installment follows the story of the previous heroes’ descendants and immerses players into the magic of its adventure by pushing the boundaries of intuitive touch-screen controls. Golden Sun DS is playable on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems.”



Here is the trailer for it ><





It is a shame I found this out 4 months later but at least now there is something to look forward to next year! For those people who dont know Golden Sun, it started out as a Gameboy Advance RPG game. (Thanks to Jason for introducing it to me) The gameplay style is similar to Final Fantasy's where you control a guy on a world map and when you encouter monsters, it switches to 4 people taking turn fight scene. The story is unbelievably awesome and the graphics was pretty good for a GBA game. It was so good that one game could not finish it...



Yes there was Golden Sun 2: The Lost Age. This time you play as another party that was introduced as NPC in the first game and you meet up with the characters you played in the first game. Oh yeah forgot to mention, its not just world map movement and fighting mobs. When you enter town or caves, you control the main character and you have to solve puzzles, talk to npcs in order to move on. The puzzles are always a challenge. Are they fun? Hmmm... yeaaaa... =.= Its not fun when you're stuck on it for hours!

If you havent try Golden Sun yet, please do. It is one of those games you play and will not regret spending all those times on it. I strongly recommend this series. Lets hope Golden Sun DS can continue the legacy. Cant wait!

Bullet Proof Baby and TGS bball mates

Ok today in chemmat, our lecturer showed us this video which was related to composites or something. Wasnt paying attention to what she was saying, more like trying to decipher what she was writing so I could copy the notes into my book. She writes so damn small... Anyway heres the video:



After I saw it, my first reaction was like :O Not because the carriage was actually bullet proof but it was that she actually pointed the gun at her baby. This stunt is probably fake but I dont like the idea of pointing the gun at the baby. I would never point a gun at my baby. What if something goes wrong you know?
This video was made to promote the movie Shoot'em Up, where the guy runs around with the baby and shooting bad guys for like a hour. For more information go to http://bulletproofbaby.net

In the afternoon, Jerrell and I had to do the international business quiz. The quiz was about the t-shirt novel we had to read but obviously we didnt lol (well I read 2 chapters). Luckily Braden helped us out and we achieved 5/5. Thanks Braden! Then went to play bball with the guys. At first I only wanted to shoot around but then ended up playing games. To be honest, I didnt really find it fun. Well I had to save energy for night time.

At night, I went with Shawn, Hans and John to Browns Bay to play bball. They were my old TGS bball buddies. There were heaps of people there, we had 5 teams of 4 lol. There were like 5 really good players and the rest were average. The 2 best players were wearing Kobe singlet or t shirt, I guess theres a reputation if you wanna wear anything Kobe lol.

We had pretty good games, didnt win many but was certainly fun. Shawn was like Dwaight Howard, he had like 3 massive blocks, like those ones you see on NBA highlights and one of the them was on the best guy there. I also had a block on that dude, it felt great. John and Hans didnt play as well as they used to due to lack of playing lol. But John was a good point guard who wouldnt lose the ball easily and could occasionally pull off nice shots. Today he was a bit rusty though. Hans on the other hand, loses the ball quite a bit but his shots in his comfort zone is consistent. I also feel he has the potential to grab good rebounds if he trains.

Shawn is an all round player, he can basically do everything, shooting 2s, 3s, driving but most of the time he has to play as the big man since hes the only one who has skills in that area. He posts well but the thing is if he misses once or twice underneath the hoop, he loses motivation and just chucks it up lol. And me? I guess Im the point getter type however an inconsistent one! I dont have a particular style, my only vision is the hoop most of the time which is bad cause that means I dont see my teammates. I would do anything in order to put the ball in the hoop, I dont think I just do lol. I do random bullsht drives or fade aways that makes people think how the fuk did he get that in? However if it doesnt go in then its basically just me chucking the ball near the hoop and hope for the best.

At like 9, the gym lady shooed us out. Went to Burger Fuel since the guys were hungry. I had to buy a $2.50 can of coke cause I was thirsty ffs. Then went to visit Hans new home, it's actually pretty close to my house. He lives in like a forest, it was actually scary to visit at night. Some dude or animal might be in the bush ready to jump you. His new home was nice, paintings everywhere, 2 cats, good atmosphere. We had a glass of juice then just went home.