The Egg Has Dropped

A diary of my life, my travels to various places and my many interests.

Friday, July 29, 2005

Anime Mania!

Many of us with broadband connections have an insatiable thirst for more download content. For me, more than 2 years ago when I first got my singnet adsl line, I started out by downloading M.A.N.Y. songs. Of course this is ‘wrong’ but I guess back then nobody really cares… with my roughly $50 monthly bill for the unlimited 256k adsl line, I just have to download about 2 cds worth of songs to sort of justify the spending. Yes… this is a real distorted logic haha!

Anyway the current trend is to download anime. Anime refer to Japanese animation, as in animated films. I think the current hot favorite anime is Naruto, everyone seems to be talking about it nowadays. (I haven’t watched even a single episode by the way)

Of course, I want to talk about those nice anime that I have watched and will recommend to anyone who is a beginner to anime. For a start, I would recommend all of Hayao Miyazaki’s titles. He is a legendary anime director and most of his works are anime movies. The artwork of his movies is usually very good, all hand-drawn and very detailed. I have watched almost all of his anime movies… ‘downloaded’ though heheh… let me list them out:

- Nausicaa Valley of the Wind
- Laputa Castle in the Sky (recommended)


- My Neighbor Totoro (I think this is a must-watch for Hayao’s work)


- Kiki’s Delivery Service (nice and innocent story)
- Princess Mononoke
- Spirited Away (watched in theatre, really good!


- Howl’s Moving Castle (watched in theatre, this is a very moving story) >

I like the fairytale-like story of his movies, the feel-good endings, the innocence of the characters (many times the lead is a child). I became a fan… so my views may be a bit biased… but I hope you like it as much as I do when you see them for yourselves.

As for series… I am quite clueless as to which is good… I am more into Shonen
and Shojo genres. Usually I will go to review sites to have a look at the series before I make the jump to download. I think this is important…. you don’t want to spend days downloading something lousy! So take a look at these sites The Anime Critic and THEM Anime Review

Some series I watched include:
- Flame of Recca (action)
- Video Girl Ai (romance)

- Tenchi Muyo (not so good)
- Ah! My Goddess (romance)
- Fruits Basket (romance?)
- Full Metal Alchemist (action) *recommended!*



All in all, anime series usually give you a super unfinished ending… they never fail to make you ask, “Is that the end???” So you better be prepared if you are going to take the plunge into anime series heheh! I like those downloaded anime because they are free and they are usually translated better than what you buy in those video shops. Fansubs are usually very good because they have the passion and I respect them for that! (and support them by watching those animes!) I like to watch them in Japanese dialogue with English subtitles and I think you can only get poorly translated Chinese subtitles for those cheap vcds if you buy them and sometimes you can’t even get the Japanese dialogue… you get Cantonese dialogue -_- omg so shitty…

So fire up your bit-torrents and grab those animes!!!




Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Tagboard added

Just added a tagboard... please leave a message if you visited and enjoyed this site =)

Music Player added

After much researching and playing around, I finally put in a small music file on the site... I like this song quite a lot... hope visitors to my site will also like this song =) (alternatively you can stop it if you find it irritating =P)

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

New Stuff added

Hoho! After much hard work I've managed to add a simple counter... Haa I guess I wouldn't have much visitors.... yet! Anyway I will slowly decorate this thing up! My plan next is to add a small irritating radio to play a song that I like haha! Of course when everything else is more settled, I may even overhaul the whole template... Just give me some time =) Cheers!

Friday, July 22, 2005

I was at Esplanade!

Well, I am still playing around with my blog... this time i am going to test out the photo hosting! Anyway I've recently graduated from my university (National University of Singapore)... got to wear my graduation gown and take lots of pictures on my convocation day! My convocation date was on the 12th of July and I wasn't very excited. How can you be excited when your future is uncertain, when you only gave average effort and got back average results, when you got to wake up so damn early and endure the long wait for the taxi and the slow traffic to get there? However, as the day went by, I felt better... I guess the happiness of everyone else rubbed off on me. Later in the afternoon that day, we took a cab down to the esplanade to take some photos. I actually thought the photos were quite nice... I will go and develop them into real photos!





We looked kind of small... but still it's quite cute and funny! All thanks to vincent for his camera and tripod! It was really a memorable day after all =) ....

First, my very first

I guess it's about time to start a blog... don't know what to write just yet. Anyway I shall play around with it for a while..... and I'll get more posts up =)

Pls bear with me!