Friday, July 13, 2007

My post starts on the next line. Hahaha.
Really. It hasn’t been THAT long since I last blogged. Siti, you’re exaggerating. There’s absolutely no need for you to yell across the computer room in Lit class to tell me to update my blog. Like seriously.
Anyway, after the initial Bleach craze/insanity/randomness, I’ve decided to stop again for now. I’ve stopped at episode 109. I don’t feel like continuing because it’s the beginning of another arc which hasn’t been completed yet and I only have watched arcs that are completed. Well. Mostly completed. Thing is, I’ve stopped again and I know a lot of Bleach fans are going to kick me really hard.
‘Nellyn! You’ve been watching Bleach for like what, 3 years?! Why are you still slower than people who started like, last year?!’
Ah well. Anyway…
That’s just one thing. Bleah.
My results came back and they aren’t really that pretty la. At least I failed like only Math, which is a constant. Literature is like, not enough time to write and wasn’t really very organised so the teacher sub-passed me. Bah.
According to Aggie however, apparently something I wrote in my GP paper was like broadcasted to the entire school today during lectures. I laugh in delight.
It’s the ‘I don’t know. Maybe they’re being modest?’ thing. Maybe the teachers were really amused.
Also! Siti showed us a friend’s friend’s blog. That person had also taken the CTs and had come up with very amusing answers for questions that he/she didn’t know the answers for in the Chemistry paper.
There was this question where they had to calculate the concentration of Clˉ ions from this bunch of reactions. So the answer was worth 3 marks.
‘Take a ninja turtle and drop it into the solution and hope that the powerpuff girls will rescue him after he has finished counting the Clˉ ions in the solution. Then we torture the powerpuff girls for the answer.’
That’s the gist of what my friend’s friend’s friend wrote. Also in his paper, he had to calculate something to do with anodes and didn’t know how to do it, so he just wrote the word ‘SPONGEBOB!’ in the space provided and left it as that. The teacher wrote the word ‘crazy!’ in red beside it.
So yes, this is what desperate students or students with too much time in their hands do during their papers. Apparently someone in our level did really badly for Math so that he could get the ‘Good Progress Award’ at the end of the year. Like… excuse me.
I think exams bring out the best and the worst in people.
This week we have been terribly random. Because of someone being terribly random in class, we’ve been going around with food names. I am now apparently, a really big Chocolate Pocky stick. Ummm.
This week, I also watched one episode of the documentary, Life at the Undergrowth. It’s really quite a good documentary, especially after you get over the gross and disgusting bits. It’s a series about bugs in general. This week they had done the bugs taking to the air, which is pretty cool and nice to watch. Sir David Attenborough narrated the series, with this week’s episode covering mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, flies, butterflies, moths, beetles, bumble bees, hover flies and finally, cicadas.
I shall forever remember this line which he had said:
‘Flies are excellent fliers.’
But really, watching the episode has been an enlightening and vastly amusing experience. He had this segment on the Titan beetle, which is the largest beetle in the world, where they were filming the beetle crawling on the ground before he just walked over, talking and describing and grabbed the beetle with his bare hand. It was like larger than his palm.
And he was just grasping it and talking at the same time.
I feel in awe of that guy.
But you’ve got to admit, their filming is good. They did a bit on mayflies in the beginning and I was all appreciating how the flies would float like above the surface of the water when a fish just jumped up and ate one.
And damselflies are really very pretty creatures, with their beautiful wings that really dazzle.
And his segment on the bumblebee was priceless, he was saying how difficult it was for them to take to the air as they were so big and all and had shown some scenes where the bumblebee was just taking off and it was just too funny how they did it in slow motion and we could actually feel the bee’s grunts of effort in lifting itself up into the air.
He also tricked a male cicada into believing that he was a female cicada by mimicking the sounds female cicadas make. The male was really fooled by his finger snapping and flew onto him.
But truly, aside from the sheer humour and fun of the show, it’s really very informative. Next week they’re doing spiders! It’s really very nice. One should go and watch it.
And today I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, because our school organised it with some random cinema. The film is okay; one would probably go and see it if one has the time but it’s not really a must to catch the film. It’s okay if you miss it though.
And I saw the Simpsons Movie advertisement. Now I know where ‘Spider pig’ comes from.
Hence I still feel that the 3rd movie is the best, filmed by the Alphonse person – the Mexican guy.
Daniel Radcliffe’s hair looked the best there and the director really went all out with the film and the effects. I had liked how he had focused on using the Whomping Willow to depict the passing of the seasons and his little transition bits like how Hedwig’s flight brought along winter with it.
In this one Daniel Radcliffe’s hair just looks sad. It looks like some sad crew cut. At least Tom Felton looks better now. Directing was alright, there was no serious loss in plot or whatever, though there was absolutely no mention of Quidditch in this film. It was still quite alright, though a bit jerky here and there. Tonks was quite good, I liked how they did her.
Though there were some priceless lines in the film, like ‘Sorry Professor. But I must not tell lies.’ One has to see it to understand the context of the film though.
Gary Oldman is a wonderful Sirius. He looked better here. It was really nice to hear him speak; he’s got a nice voice to hear. Especially when he drawled to Malfoy: ‘Get your hands off my godson.’
And Dolores Umbridge was a steal. Her kittens were priceless kittens with their annoying meowing and gambolling around in her office. Her smile was so sinister and creepy – her voice was excellent, with the high clear girlish voice, and the pinkness of her character totally brought out. She is one creepy woman.
It’s not really that bad la. Go and watch it if you want to. I’m cool with watching it again, I want to see some parts better and remember more things.

And this is really random. Khoped from Gerard's blog who khoped it from his friend's blog. It's like a check on which MRT stations you've been to before. Quite interesting. Hahaha. Crosses based on you actually taking the MRT there or back.

East-West
[X] Changi Airport - Going overseas, sending people off, eating food.
[X] Expo - a random exhibition.
[X] Pasir Ris - mudmeet outing. i get lost here.
[X] Tampines - mall =D
[ ] Simei -
[X] Tanah Merah - i got lost here before too for class outing.
[ ] Bedok -
[X] Kembangan - jocelyn's house :D
[X] Eunos - i oversleep on the bus and end up here.
[X] Paya Lebar - i live here. period.
[X] Aljunied - Joee's house
[X] Kallang - odac kayaking
[X] Lavender - IC, passport, ASEAN scholar orientation/army shop
[X] Bugis - bugis junction, yoga
[X] City Hall - esplanade, suntec, marina square
[X] Raffles Place - once to avoid the crowd. found a different crowd.
[X] Tanjong Pagar - oversleep on 70 and you end up here.
[X] Outram Park - ASEAN scholar orientation, getting home from NEL
[ ] Tiong Bahru -
[ ] Redhill -
[ ] Queenstown -
[ ] Commonwealth -
[ ] Buona Vista -
[ ] Dover -
[X] Clementi - nus, nus, nus, desmond's house.
[X] Jurong East - ice skating.
[ ] Chinese Garden -
[ ] Lakeside -
[X] Boon Lay - Pre u seminar.

North-South
[ ] Bukit Batok -
[X] Bukit Gombak - aggie's house
[X] Choa Chu Kang - uncle's house
[ ] Yew Tee -
[ ] Kranji -
[ ] Marsiling -
[ ] Woodlands -
[ ] Admiralty -
[ ] Sembawang -
[ ] Yishun -
[X] Khatib - math tuition
[X] Yio Chu Kang - school D=
[X] Ang Mo Kio - hub!
[X] Bishan - J8. hahaha movies
[ ] Braddell - (was always fascinated by the door switch though)
[X] Toa Payoh - gerard's house
[X] Novena - aunt's house, tts hospital, skin care centre
[ ] Newton -
[X] Orchard - taka, lucky plaza, wisma, scott's, paragon... umm.
[X] Somerset - more shopping places. usually for walking around.
[X] Dhoby Ghaut - mud meets, plaza sing
[X] Marina Bay - class outing(s)

North-East
[X] Harbourfront - class outing (twice)
[X] Chinatown - ASEAN scholar orientation
[ ] Clarke Quay -
[X] Little India - ASEAN scholar orientation (nearly died. dead tired)
[ ] Farrer Park -
[ ] Boon Keng-
[ ] Potong Pasir -
[X] Serangoon - church, yihui's house, winnie's house
[X] Kovan - heartland mall
[ ] Hougang -
[ ] Buangkok -
[X] Sengkang - library. chuntsen's house
[X] Punggol - punggol sea sports thing. volunteer work

Conclusion: more of an eastern, central person, rather than a northern western person. huh.

Posted by norbert at 7/13/2007 10:14:00 PM

Sunday, July 01, 2007

This is about Bleach, the anime. I am being completely random here. If you don’t know Bleach, you probably will have no idea what I am talking about. I shall blog random posts soon!
Ah I am currently running through the Bount Arc of Bleach as I know that it is a filler arc but I’m just watching it for the uber cool fight scenes and randomness of Bleach animators. I’ve skipped filler episodes and other random things like the openings and endings but I still watch the Omake. They are HILARIOUS.
I’m really running through it, I’m quite happy, I’ve jumped from episode 70 to 93 within like two days. Am really quite happy.
I shall tell you of one Omake that I remember very well.
In the lieutenant’s meeting where 8th division vice-captain Ise Nanao is chairing the meeting,
Nanao: Now we let 11th division Vice captain Kusajishi Yachiru begin the agenda.
(Yachiru is a small girl, who likes candy and plays with Hollows and thinks that Zaraki Kenpachi, most feared Death God in the entire Soul Society, known for his blood thirstiness and living for the fight, is only her Ken-chan. She is also the president of the Female Death God Society, a powerful and influential group in Soul Society)
Yachiru: Hey, hey, are we going to add bananas in for the food that we’re bringing to the expeditions to earth?
(Every other vice captain sweatdrops)
Byakuya (6th division captain sitting in for his vice captain who went to earth and a really high class, cold, no-nonsense and one of the most powerful Death Gods around): Bananas should be brought as a separate food item. They’re just good for nutrition.
(Everyone sweatdrops somemore)
Byakuya (in a very serious voice): Now what’s next on the agenda?
That really made me laugh but here it doesn’t count if you have no idea what I am talking about.
However, I’ve noticed something in the entire Bount arc thing.
First thing I noticed:
Yoshi – the mad woman with green hair and the funny laugh – has a similar way of sealing her doll as Madarame Ikakku, 3rd seat in the 11th division, releases his Zanpaktou, she connects both of them together to seal them. Her weapon, sword connected to the fan, is also similar to Hitsugaya Toushirou (10th division captain) Hyourinmaru’s shinkai – sword and the scythe-like thing.
Mabashi – orange hair guy with the irritating small doll thing that goes around squeaking like a flowery mouse – fought against Inoue in one of the most irritating episodes of all. It was a complete repeat of some other previous episode very early on in the series where Inoue first discovered her powers. I mean, come on, Inoue didn’t seem to have matured in the period of time, when she first got her powers until this stage. The attack was in exactly the same style, there was this weird hairy Hollow ghost thing, which spat its seeds out to control people and controlled Tatsuki who attacked Inoue who hesitated for like forever before her desperate little pins came to her rescue.
And the old man, Sawatari, who had the fish-like doll who could like pass through things. I was thinking, like when his doll was under the rock and all, how could he breathe? He’s human after all.
Ichinose has a cool Zanpaktou. Unfortunately, his tactic of blinding the opponent with his randomness has been done before - please see Tousen's Bankai form. Ichinose always reminds me of some other random character from Bleach. I always thought he belonged in the 9th division, instead of the 11th division. Kenpachi may be brutal, bloodthirsty and mean but he's a good captain.
And really, I don’t get why the Bount need dolls in the first place. They’re already better than humans. And ahhh – I KNOW IT’S A FILLER ARC!
Okay, I shall stop obsessing about it. (Nellyn, you're only rushing through this arc and you've already noticed this sort of thing...) I shall continue to watch Bleach quickly and effectively and squeal about the random Byakuya and Rukia moments. (YES I AM MAD.)

Posted by norbert at 7/01/2007 10:59:00 PM