Here's a story of a boy,
 Called a mugger for no reason
 No special talent, no high IQ
 Just extraordinary skill to leech

Well, I'm standing in the class,
 And when I hear something related to exam
 I try to remember it
 It's not my fault, this is natural

And I want you too know,
 If your msg is high
 It's time to mix around with the class

If I play more
 If I study less
 Will I not be called a mugger again?

If I bite my lip,
 And I say goodbye
 How long will I be remembered?


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Friday, March 26, 2010
8:06 PM

Kimi no Iru Machi ( Chapter 80-83)

It seems that Haruto is trying hard to meet Eba even though she continues to avoid him. In his first day in Tokyo, he met a fellow female countryside classmate and a playboy. The two of them resemble two of his friends back in Hiroshima and they got along quickly. However in school, his classmates tried to throw a welcome party for Haruto, but his was too focused on trying to meet Eba so rejected all his classmates invitation.

Though he was not anti-social, he was viewed as one because he went to find Eba everyday after school. In chapter 83, the female countryside classmate went to his house for dinner because she spent too much money, but actually was to tell him the situation in class and his image in his classmates' eyes. Though this dinner, their relationship improved and something interesting might happen afterwards.

This mange is still one of my favourite romance type manga. I am looking forward to the future chapters and I tried to predict what will happen. First, the reason why Eba is ignoring Haruto is
1. Due to her parents. Her parents might not be allowing her to date a countryside male because of the long distance, or they despise country pumpkins.
2. Something that has happened in school. Since her sister did not act strangely so this might be kept a secret from her family

Will you ever notice me...

Thursday, March 25, 2010
5:31 AM

There's something that I do not like about some romance animes. The author tries to make the anime interesting by introducing a lot of male or female characters falling in love with the same person, which is called harem, but the ending of the anime is quite disappointing. A typical type of story like this would be the main character being average in looks, background and others, but he or she has a attractive side. Examples would be like when the female main character lets down her hair and takes down her glasses, she becomes cute; or a male character a normal looking male character being very kind and helpful and girls are attracted by his personality.

As the story progresses on, the main characters will meet more and more people and making people fall for him/her. Towards the story, there will be one major event to decided who will become the main character's lover, or something like that. This is the climax of the anime and the results will often be at the end of the last episode.

However, the ending will, most of the times, not nice at all, or rather is comparable to our daily slip-short work. The ending appears be be happy, because all of the main character eventually didn't choose one of them to be his/her lover but instead continue as the way it was and live everyday happily.

I hate this kind of ending as it is like telling us that being indecisive in okay, it is alright. Even though indecisiveness may hurt some people, but in the end everyone will be happy. This is like the olden times, when 1 man can have multiple wives, then the man will always flirting with the women that he love while those who love him will have to endure their jealousy and feeling of unfairness.

Will you ever notice me...

Friday, March 5, 2010
5:26 PM

Naruto

This is a pretty long Manga, talking basically about 2 friends, Naruto and Sasuke. This Manga is set in a ninja village in the ancient Japan, when there is no technology and the people depended heavily on ninjas and their ninjitsu. Naruto is the child of the hokage( Most powerful ninja and leader) of the hidden village of leaf( Konoha). He sealed a nine tails beast inside Naruto's body when he was still a baby and died because of the sealing ninjutsu. Sasuke is the only survival from an elite clan, Uchiha, that was eliminated by his brother in a night. Due to these reasons, Naruto was discriminated by the whole village and Sasuke was filled with the thoughts of revenge. As the story goes on, Naruto grew more and more attached to the village, while on the other hand, Sasuke severed ties with the village and wanted to destroy it because of revenge.

This manga, due to its length, has got a lot of values and things that we can learn from. The most obvious thing here is friendship. This manga is basically talking about friendship throughout the whole manga. Friendship and teamwork appeared in the biggest and smallest detail of the manga. Friendship is observed through the ninjas of Konoha when they trusted one another by leaving them to fight the enemies because their teammates requested for it. Friends have complete trust over one another and in this case, it is not abandoning the teammate to make he fight with the opponents and buying time for the rest of the team to escape, but rather, completely trusting the teammate to defeat the opponent and catching up with the team afterwards. Team work can also be seen when the ninjas fight each other. In many instances, Naruto encountered enemies much stronger than himself, but because he has got teammates, he worked together with them and eventually defeated the enemies. There are also many lessons learnt but I do not have the time to list them down one by one so you can analysis the manga yourself.

Will you ever notice me...

Monday, March 1, 2010
6:52 PM

Interpersonal


a. Conduct an interview with a friend (not from HCI) or family member. Find out from their point of view on prejudice and discrimination. Either record the interview or write out the interview transcript.

I interviewed a primary school friend via facebook.

The questions I asked are:

What do you think about prejudice and discrimination?

Why do you think there is discrimination and prejudice?

He said that prejudice and discrimination are immoral acts of people that are self centered and inhuman. They, as humans, have no rights to treat others badly and despise other humans, even if they have done something wrong and harmed you in a way or another. However, this also does not give anyone the right to discriminate somebody, only the law can do that.

Prejudice occurs because people do not understand one another very well. Sometimes the leader of a certain group of people says that another group of people are bad and evil, then the people believe the leader and starts discriminating the other group of people. Sometimes, a person of a certain group demostrate a certain behaviour which made others hate that person, then others will also have prejudice for the people in the same race and religion.

Will you ever notice me...

6:36 PM

Poem of the trial ( Jem's POV)

Today is the day the trial begins

Walk to the court with my head held high

The results is clear and my dad will win

Tom is nice and so is Atticus

God will bless them for they are right

Ewells are scammers and I hate them

Once it ends I will shout

" Good Job Dad!!!"

Will you ever notice me...

6:14 PM

Multiple Intelligence test



This multiple intelligence test is quite accurate in a way. I am not really word smart since I hate word quite a lot and maybe I music smart because I listen to music regularly. However, just by judging people from this 8 areas is not really enough since for example, body smart can running jogging and other sports. I also think that the questions are practically not enough to conclude our intelligence. For people like me who are not Intrapersonal will 100% have inaccurate results because we do not know ourselves thus we answer the questions wrongly since they are all about ourselves. These questions are way too general and most of the times we do not know what do put for the options as we change as time goes by and depending on what kind of situation.

Will you ever notice me...

6:53 AM

Kimi no Iru Machi

Today, another boring day, I went and search for manga to read again. I came across this manga, Kimi no Iru Machi. This manga is currently in first few places of my list of manga. This manga is very normal, not supernatural, doesn't contain weird stuff like the anime i posted before, but still is very nice to read for me since its romance. I like the illustrations of this manga a lot, female characters drawn very cutely, no emphasis on certain parts of the body, a very pure manga. The illustrations are also very simple, easy to understand, and the characters can be easily differentiated, unlike some other kind of manga when the author drew the characters so alike until they look like twins.

About the manga, Yuzuki Eba, a Tokyo girl, moved to Hiroshima, the countryside and living in her father's friend's house. Haruto, the son of the friend, was quite reluctant to live with some stranger that he had never met before. Since there is only one high school and one class for their level, he did not want others to misunderstand their relationship since they had to ride on a bicycle to school everyday. However, Eba seemed to have a crush on Haruto, and even knowing that he has a crush on someone else, she is very optimistic in having him fall in love with her.

Eba is a girl that is always smiling, but sometimes quite shy. She is actually timid in a way and always worry about things on her own. Adding on to her willfulness and clumsiness, Haruto had to take care of her almost all the time. As time goes by, Haruto began to develop feelings for her but just when he realised he loved her, Eba decided to return back to Tokyo. Then their long distance relationship begins. However Eba seemed to have some troubles in Tokyo and dumped Haruto in a letter and cut off all contact with Haruto. Knowing something was wrong, Haruto also went to Tokyo to seek the truth.

The manga is until here. Sad to say, I also do not know what happens next.

There is also another manga which is also an anime, Suzuka, that I like very much. There are drawn by the same person so the story is basically very much alike and the characters too. There are a few slight differences in this manga. First, the story is set in Tokyo, city area. Second, the 2 main female characters, switched place from Suzuka(The short hair one gets together with the male character) t0 Kimi no Iru Machi ( the long hair girl gets together with the male character). I like this part the most since it gives me images of a same person being together with two different people. This manga is also unique in a way, but towards the end the story gets exaggerated a bit, but the ending is still happy.

1 Value demostrated in Kimi no Iru Machi: Trust

Even though Haruto was rejected by his girlfriend so suddenly, without reason, and worse still through a letter, he was not really angry at Eba but was rather considerate and tried to understand her reason for breaking up with him. Normally, people will be angry at the other party if something like this happened, but this kind of reaction, in my point of view, is just trying to push the blame to the other party. In love, there is no right and wrong. If a couple breaks up, it could only be because they are not meant to be together. By suspecting that there is something wrong with Eba, he showed trust towards her because he knew Eba wasn't such an irresponsible girl. He truly loved her and wanted to save her from her troubles if she had any however, he was still prepared to accept the fact that she was dumped if that was the true feelings of Eba.

A Lesson learnt from Suzuka: Being Indecisive is a bad thing

Although I have not really told you guys the story of Suzuka, and I wish you guys to go watch the anime( since the manga is too long) and try to share the same passion towards romance types of animes. Indecisiveness is a trait of the male main character. He could not decided which girl he liked and caused both of the girls to suffer, and also troubles to his friends. Indecisiveness is a kind of irresponsibility as we will take a very long time or not even try to make a choice, resulting in the people around us. This will also make us lose opportunities in life as we take too long to decide on certain things and fails to notice opportunities floating past us

Will you ever notice me...