'Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home. They marry the good guy.'

By Jean Grey. This was what i heard when i switched to channel 5. Whoo~ X men2, not my favourite of the 3 movies but come on, it's X MEN. I felt so sad for Logan when i heard that phrase. Cyclops used to be so cool but he was terrible in Xmen3 which i hope channel 5 will show soon =D

I have been so busy the past week with band. It's time for some manga/anime talk. Visited kino just now with my $100 vouchers and was really excited cos mum gave me the 'go ahead' to buy stuff. I spotted the Tokyo Babylon. But only books 1,2,5 and 6. The most important book 7 was nowhere to be seen. Plus they costed an average of $12 each. X__X looked through the art books carefully with full consideration of the prices. Nothing i must get though i was very tempted by Clamp in wonderland; this super thin book but the price tag read $32++. SIGH

Huang cheng itself was good but it rained so heavily when jiaying, fausty and i tried to make our way there. My shoes were totally drenched. My beautiful new adidas shoes which the shopkeeper told me not to wash but only wipe the external surface T___T

Finally uploaded the photos from my phone to the comp and here are some more interesting ones.

Roosevelt: I sues you for making me spoke strange sentence

This is my pwning handwriting while nodding off during chem. Well it's not that bad, but bad enough. Check it out, i actually wrote 'potentially' twice

Hahaha

My favourite shirt!! Got it in thailand last year ^_^

(Randomness) Xblade manga sounds hilarious: 'A boy meets a sword and history will never be the same.'

One ferrero rocher a day keeps the blues away

but it also gives you an ulcer if you don't drink enough water

Yes.. i'm still thinking about the Tokyo Babylon manga i was so close to getting. The brilliant colours were so tempting.. Subaru... T__T I wonder if i'll find all 7 books in the traditional edition at kino. I spotted the english version published by another company at kino early this year but the cover art was not as nice. And they cost bombs =(

Syf is just 2 weeks away and the 1st rehearsal is this coming friday. I'll need to get court shoes by wednesday howhow!?

Getting pw results was like a break up

A mistake right from the start but we thought that if we put in enough effort, things would work out. In the end, all we could say to each other was 'S___'. A second try? I really considered that but the price to pay was too much and i was afraid of rejection again.

OH WELL i have moved on. Like how i moved on from the disappointment of not getting my TOKYO BABYLON manga yesterday at the mph expo warehouse sale. Omgomgomg they were only $5 each (english version) but i could only dig out books 1 to 3. I NEED the complete 7 before i can bring myself to spend the money. It was heartbreaking. To see the beautiful covers of Subaru smiling at me. I had to make a tough decision and i did. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH was it the right choice? T____T

Went to watch the easter drama with Elaine from band friday night and she introduced me to her cell group. They are such nice people!! I'm very tempted to go back again because of the new friends but quite strange cos i'm not that interested in the religion. Coming from a christian kindergarten, i kinda know abit about christianity but i have never felt the urge to subscribe to it.

Back to watching my long awaited gintama

It has been a brainless week

With so many band pracs i can feel my hw piling up but i cleared 90% of them today! There's still revision though

I never knew it was possible to serenade someone with a base clarinet. Yes, it has happened XD our dear bass clarinettist, Jessie, has re-ignited her passion and love for the instrument after our ex student conductor/ bass clarinettist made a trip back to nj and gave her some tutoring. The effect on Jessie was shocking, she now plays super loudly and practises alot. Well, it helps that he's quite a good looking guy but his playing must have mesmerised her hahaha
Makes me wonder if a tuba can be used to serenade someone too XD or let's say.. a timpani.

Tuesday was the most brainless day of all. I nodded off during chem lesson while taking down notes and suddenly i was jolted awake. Not by my teacher or friend but by something i wrote. It's like when you attempt to write in that half conscious state, the word registers in your brain just long enough for you to write it down and then disappears so i kinda knew what i was writing except that i had not much control over my hands.
So i 'woke' up suddenly because i realised i wrote 'adrian' on my tutorial paper. For no reason at all since i don't know anyone by the name of adrian. HAHAHA.. hmmm, might be some omen eg the name of my future husband. Woots yi min, you're pro.

On the same day, i had a ridiculous 1.5 hour break before my last lesson so i went to the oasis to read chem skill A and *ahem* sleep *cough* yea spent most of the time doing the 2nd activity and by the time i woke up, i was 10 minutes late for the lesson which was math. Worse still, the class was doing some quiz on vectors and complex numbers so i died badly X__X

Read bakuman and nth else. Watched witch hunter robin and felt bored. Loning for some kiddy grade and hunter x manga now.

Ate alot of potato

Wow i actually survived last week. Only history tests can have this effect on me: Insomnia the night before, diarrhoea on the day itself, lack of appetite, hair tearing tendencies blablablaa
I swear all the history students were looking at each other with miserable eyes when they happened to meet in school. Just a simple 3 hour test but yea that's how stressed i feel over it. Even chem doesn't give me such headaches XD

Anyway, went to nie for band prac last sat and bringing the saxophone home and to nie has given me very bad muscle aches. At the mrt station, i was actually stopped by the security lady before i could escape up the escalator (i saw her eyeing me at the gate already) then had to open the case and my bag to show her i wasnt carrying anything explosive or dangerous

Security lady (SL haha) : Sorry, could you step here for a moment?
Me: Err it's a saxophone
A moment of silence where we both did nothing
Me: Eh i still have to open it?
SL : Yes, and your bag too. Sorry ah, it's my duty to check.
So i opened and showed her. She actually thought the black music file was a laptop XD
SL: Ok thanks! Sorry for the trouble
Me: Ahhhh~ (cos i forgot to zip the case and tried to lift it up)

Well, nothing much happened at nie. Oh yes, my syf is on 6 may, same day as yuhsuan!! Nj is the 1st band to perform ahhhhhhhhh gg.

Code breakers is getting exciting whoo~ i think it will be made into an anime soon though there are no news yet. Also read the new chapters for kuroshitsuji and bakuman which made me laugh alot. Detroit metal city has kinda lost it's effect one me.. i used to laugh like a mad man but now i can contain the laughter inside. Same for school rumble =( nooooo...

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What now? Dying because of history

Loveless anime and manga review

Today, i shall reveal what i have been reading this past week: LOVELESS

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*Gasps! I'm anti yaoi! Why am i reading Loveless?!*

This is going to be quite a lengthy post cos i have lots to say. This post might be disjointed cos i'm not that good at organizing my thoughts

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It started out pretty innocently.. i happened to see and clicked on chapter 74 to see what on earth the whole thing was about. Other than the clean scans and big fonts (code breaker strains my eyes T__T), there was nothing shounen ai-ish about that chapter so i wasn't too repelled. I was drawn in by the conversation between the characters which sounded beautiful and meaningful but i couldn't understand fully what they were talking about.. That was when i decided to start reading from chapter 1.

Let's just say i prepared myself to close the window should anything disturbing pop out but it never came. Loveless is definitely shounen ai but not yaoi. We see a kiss here and there and nothing more ahaha. And and and omg Soubi is *heart* XD he doesnt make me go fangirly unlike the past bishies i fall in love with but i'm definitely attracted to Soubi.

Soubi kun XDXD

Plot:

The manga started out quite differently by announcing the death of Seimei-- the older brother of Ritsuka who is our 12 year old protagonist. He transfers school and one day after school, meets a university art student Soubi who is the other protagonist. Ritsuka gets drawn deeper into discovering Seimei's murder and also fighting battles with Soubi as his 'fighter'.

Let me elaborate on this cool fighting system in Loveless. Battles are fought between 2 teams, each consisting of a 'sacrifice' and a 'fighter' unit. Fighter is controlled by the sacrifice who takes all the damage during a battle.

Ritsuka.. you're too emo for a 12 year old kid. But i don't blame you

I can't resist bishies, seriously. So i fell prey to Soubi who would be the perfect bishie (seme) except for his light coloured hair. He's strong, mysterious, charming, protective and faithful but keeps too many secrets and can be too cold towards others at times.

A bit of analysis:
Soubi: Ristuka, I love you *smiles gently*

Ritsuka: *blush angrily* d--dddon't say that!!!

Yea.. this scene repeated itself a few times within the first 30 chapters. And whenever this happens i still cringe inwardly but there's a sweet after taste hehe =X Though i am still affected by the shounen ai parts, i can accept them better than those in X.. maybe because what i see in Loveless is more pure + less motive ridden and angsty.

Now moving on to the roles of seme and uke........ The whole thing is ironic.. 'Sacrifices' are supposed to protected (uke) while the 'fighters' take on the attacking role (seme) but at the same time, 'sacrifices' give commands which 'fighters' must obey so i wonder who the one really in control is. It's obvious that Soubi is the seme and Ritsuka, the uke but Soubi loves to take orders from Ritsuka. Imo, that does not make Soubi any less of a seme cos he's clearly the more aggressive one. There was this once where Soubi behaved like an uke and i was so amazed that i read that chapter twice. Don't ask why, i don't know X__X

I like the art and the mangaka was able to maintain the quality throughout the 75 chapters (thinks of hxh and shudders) The anime is not bad too.. Being so intrigued by the manga, i watched a few episodes of the anime which did not cover even half of the manga.. i think there will be a second season in the future. Decent graphics and very good soundtracks. The ending song especially, sounds extremely sad and touching. One thing i wasn't very satisfied with was Soubi's voice. For goodness sake, he sounds like an ah pek! Wth.. and Ritsuka's voice was rougher and more mature than what i had imagined. Sigh i got used to it after a while but.. Soubi T__T they could have made him sound younger.

I loved the fantastic battle scenes in the anime which the manga did little justice to. It was just soooo cool haha. But i would recommend the manga because it's easier to understand and allows more time to read + digest.

Conclusion:
Throwing aside any disgust i have (note the present tense) for yaoi and shounen ai, i have to admit that Loveless is a good piece of work. I understand that the atmosphere portrayed by the manga cannot be achieved if it was about the relationship between a male and female. Only the strange, fragile yet intense love between Ritsuka and Soubi works this way. I was totally intrigued by the plot (mysteries and bishies) and since the manga is ongoing, i'll be waiting patiently as a good fangirl should for my monthly dose of loveless

Random: Soubi has Midou ban's glasses and he looks like Abel from trinity blood when he smiles with his eyes closed ^_^