Remember the Nintendo Entertainment System ? If you do, then you might have also remembered the accessories release by Nintendo to be use for that console. I have here a video of an episode of the “Angry Video Game Nerd” about those peripherals. .This video has been up on youtube for some years now but I think its worth sharing to readers out there. .
This is definitely funny. Trust me
(credits to cinemassacre.com, and “the angry video game nerd”
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(Just for the record, I am a fan of Fukuyama Masaharu)
I search all over youtube to find any sneak preview of Fukuyama Masaharu’s latest single called Hatsukoi ( はつこい <– hmm, I hope that the word I had just written is correct) . Great news. I found it ! Not just the video but the lyrics too!!
From the sound and look of the video, it is not a rock song. It sounds so depressing. And why does he have to sing on his bed !!!
This one is from his radio show. The quality is not good but it is nonetheless the full track. The song will be oficially release this December. Better check it out.
The song, as I have said, is very sad and depressing. A friend of mine has told me that with Masha’s age it seems inappropriate for him to sing about Hatsukoi ( first love). But with the lyrics that we have here below, I guess the message was not something that can be uttered from a teenager’s (or even a 20-30 year old person’s) mouth. This is a mature adult’s message to his first love. In my opinion, a teenager cannot say this things. Or it is just me. People can have a different interpretation for this song. I hope one day Masha will tell us what it really means.
Hatsukoi (English Translation)
This desire
Even though I know it will engulf you in pain,
Even if it should hurt you so, I still want to have you
The new bliss that we have grasped for ourselves
Is now being ripped apart by these hands
There is a place (we have) to return to
There are people (we have) to protect
There cannot be a more stupid mistake, I know
We can no longer be friends
We cannot be lovers again
Although I understand,
But this one true feeling
Please, let me forever call it my first love
Once again,
I am alone reading yet again, the letter you wrote me on your birthday
This meagre dream of yours, has ripped open my heart
The scars you have from our love, cannot be erased
To leave them untouched is a form of kindness, that was once my belief
But no matter how important it is,
If we cannot use our words, or a way to show it out
Then whatever kindness we intend, bears no use at all.
I have searched long for it and if this is Love
Then I have solved the riddle of Love
Although I cannot have my wish,
But this irreplaceable yearning
I will embrace it for the rest of my life, alone
When am I ever going to
Have an answer to my love?
Once again, just like that day,
Will I be able to love someone, can it happen again?
We can no longer be friends
We cannot be lovers again
Although I understand,
But this one true feeling
Please, let me forever call it my first love
At least, let me call it my first love
Forever let me call it my first love
(courtesy to Izumisano of mashaheart. The video that i find in youtube is all thanks to the writer on all-about-masha.blogspot.com )
(do check out my “Galileo” review at http://wonderwall97.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/galileo-movie-review/ )
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Browsing the Play-Asia website, I have come across a relatively new song from Jin Akanishi called “bandage”. I rarely listen to Jin Akanishi or his group KAT TUN so I cannot judge whether the song has a similarity with his previous materials.
The song is actually a tie up to an upcoming Japanese film called “Bandage”, a movie depicting the journey of the members of the fictional band called “Lands”. Nevertheless Akanishi released the single “bandage” under the name ‘Lands’ , possibly to further promote the upcoming film.
The song is actually good though I can hear the band REM screaming in its chords. It is of course about that fictional bands’ journey. And the song successfully described the ins and outs of being in a band; the hope of becoming famous, the times when you are arranging your music, the times you feel down, and most especially, your dream and passion in music. very good song.
Bandage (Romaji Lyrics)
Aoi sora no naka hikoukigumo ga shiroi sen wo hiita
Umerarenai ga tadayoenai ga setsunai mama da ga
Are kore mazete mazetette kure kudasai
Ii toko totte mazete
Kaete yuku dake notteke
Bokura nippon de yottsu uchi de
Hizanda kokoro de iku
Okubyou na me de kimi wo nerau no sa
Kitto nannenmo tattemo sa
Kawarenai mono ga aru
Tamamushi no hata wo kakagete wa
Mune wo hatta BANDAGE
Sora miageta BANDAGE
Mayotteita ga namaketeita ga
Sukoshi yasundeita ga
Atsumatteta ga oto dashiteta ga
Nani dashiteitanda yo
Are kore mazete mazetette kure kudasai
Narabete mazete
Tsunagi kaete yuku dake yattoke
Bokura kyoukutou no katasumi de
Hizanda rifu kizande biito ni shita
Sora kakeru kanashimi wo
Kitto merodi ya kotoba de
Mita koto mo nai katamari wo tsukuru
Kitakute yawarakai kikai no you de
Ai no you de tsumetaku hikaru taiyou da
Atarashii mono sagashite
Katappashi kara sabireru
Dare no sei ni mo dekinai ga
Dareka no sei ni shitaku naru
Mokkai antoki no you ni
Shimatteta hane nobashite
Omae no chikaku ni yuku kara
Omae no chikaku ni yuku kara
Itsumo itsudatte nami ga tatsu
Kaosu no umi no you na ai no naka
Bokura tonde iku
Soshite tanjun na biito janaku
Supairaru no kidou de agatteku
Kimi no te wo totte iku
Kitto nannenmo tattemo sa kawarenai mono ga aru
Tamamushi no hata wo kakagete wa
Mune wo hatta BANDAGE
Sora miageta BANDAGE
Bandage (English Translation)
In the blue sky, the trail of a plane drew a white line
It can’t be covered, and it can’t drift about, and it’s sad and painful
Mix this and that, mix them for me, please
Take away what’s good and mix
You’re just changing it, step aside!
We proceed , in Japan, with a heart that
Has been distorted with four hits
I aim at you with coward eyes
There are things that surely can’t change
However many years would pass
I put up the colors* of the Jewel Beetle
A BANDAGE I stretched around my chest
I looked up at the sky, BANDAGE*
I was losing my way, and I was idling away,
And I rested for a bit
We gathered, and we produced sounds
What did we show?
Mix this and that, mix them for me, please
Line them up and mix them
You’re just changing the joints, do it!
We, in a corner of the Far East,
Inscribed a distorted riff, and we made into a beat
The sorrow soaring in the sky
Surley, with melody and words
We’ll create a cluster no one has ever seen
It’s the sun that shines coldly, hard and soft
Like a machine, like love
Searching for new things,
Absolutely everything has declined
I can’t say whose fault it is but
It makes me want to blame someone
One more time, like back then,
Spreading the wings I have closed
I’ll come near you
I’ll come near you, so…
Inside a love like the sea of Chaos,
Where waves always rise at any time,
We’ll dive into it
And then, we’ll come up
Not by a simple beat, but by a spiral track
I’ll take your hand
However many years would pass
I put up the colors* of the Jewel Beetle
A BANDAGE I stretched around my chest
I looked up at the sky, BANDAGE
credits to : http://makikawaii-jklyrics.blogspot.com/2009/11/akanishi-jin-bandage-lyrics-translation.html , and tokyograph.com
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Fast facts:
Series Title: Galileo (adapted from a novel with the same name)
“A detective series focusing on how murderers applied the laws of physics to do their crime, and an unlikely duo consisting of a detective and a physicist that will unravel the murderers’ means through Physics too. “
Country of Origin: Japan
Language: Japanese
Lead Actors: Fukuyama Masaharu, Kaoru Utsumi. Plus popular celebrities as guests in each episode.
Number of Episodes: 12
Expansion: 1 special episode called “Galileo SP” and a movie “The Devotion of Suspect X)
Fans of the detective genre have been provided with only the best literary or television (and film) series and characters that solve crimes. From Shelock Holmes to Hercule Poirot. From Detective Conan to C.S.I. Each series has its own way of presenting the crime. Holmes and Poirot are doing it through logic and deduction while the anime series and the American drama are doing it with the aid of high tech materials and forensics. However all those that I mentioned always discussed the 3 important aspects of crime with great scrutiny: Motive (why the murderer killed the victim), Opportunity (the, uhh, opportunity for the murderer to kill the person), and Means (how the murderer did it). It has been said that those three aspects are what detective stories should always have and discussed. However, one series from Japan have the guts to focus only one of those aspects: means.
(Kou Shibasaki (left) as the rookie (and highly intuitive) detective Kaoru Utsumi)
Galileo, a Japanese series starring Fukuyama Masaharu (as Physics professor Yukawa Manabu a.k.a Galileo) and Kou Shibasaki (detective Kaouru Utsumi), is about a reluctant brilliant physicist and a rookie detective who partnered to solve crimes. The Detective Utsumi will examine the case and have her suspects but it is up to the eccentric Professor Yukawa Manabu to unravel how the murderer has done his crime. How is he doing it? Physics! After all, how the murderer did his crime is what the professor is interested the most. “Truly amusing”, said he. All other thing ceteris paribus.
Yes. Each murderer in the series has done his crime using elaborate (and sometimes simple) physics so as to lure the police in to not thinking of them as a suspect. So it is up to the professor to unravel their scheme. This is the selling point of the series. And this is what separates it from other detective series. Murder means can sometimes be simple, such as the application of the piezoelectric effect disguised in a stupid murder weapon. But sometimes a killer can use Physics to create elaborate schemes such as firing a fatal laser that is being bounce from mirror to mirror so that it will reach (and kill) the victim in a very far crime scene.
The series can also be applauded for providing the murderers with personality. Each of them has their own motive for killing, one of them just wanted to sell his murder weapon to the military and one just wanted a quiet time in his home and doesn’t want to be bothered by the ruckus created outside his house. But of course, murder is still murder.
Though it is not the focus of the series, at the end of each episode, Detective Utsumi will wrapped up the case, providing the professor with details such as the background of the victim or the murderer, and what happens to persons involved afterwards. But sometimes the professor does not want to hear it anymore; telling the detective that it was her job and not his job so discussing it is pointless. A truly amusing (and unlikely) duo they are.
But evident in the series is the detective’s intuitions (that the professor dismissed as purely illogical) as a convenient way to know who the suspects are. Science has been raise to greater heights in the series as an application but we are presented with instances where science is not a convenient way of answering questions. Why the murderer’s emotions did cause him to kill a person is something that the professor cannot answer with science, but sometimes it can be simple questions such as why a horrible looking food (that was cooked without following the instructions in the cook book) is actually delicious..
(Fukuyama Masaharu and Kou Shibasaki; musicians in their own right, have formed the duo KOH+ specifically for the series. KOH+ music have provided the songs for Galileo and its subsequent film.)
Don’t ask me how the actors delivered their lines because I don’t have any idea on what they are speaking and I’m relying on the subtitles that I am reading. But Kou Shibasaki’s acting is superior to Fukuyama Masaharu in this series. Their personalities, the reluctant but eccentric (and emotionless) professor and the hunch- driven (and emotional) detective have provided contrast in their way of thinking and towards the end of the series, we can see the resolution of both characters as they have to rely (and trust) on each others attitude in dealing with things in order for them to solve their way out of their race with time.
It is an interesting series (whose popularity in Japan has enabled it to have a movie). There may be no continuous and underlying plotline (something that every detective series has), but nevertheless it is amusing to watch. It has provided fans of detective stories a breather in the serious genre where Holmes and now Shinichi Kudo have enjoyed popularity. I recommend it to everyone, not just to the fans of the genre, because it is simple to understand (since physics was discussed in a way that even a high school can understand) and, as professor Yukawa Manabu said it: “Truly amusing”.
Story: 4.0
Music: 5
Acting: 4
Visuals: 4.5
Overall : 4.38 / 5
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For those who still do not know. A certain picture was circulating around the net. It was a photo of Mikey Arroyo buying liquor in a certain store at the height of the Ondoy scourge. It really attracted attention because, apart from being a representative who should be helping his district at the time, he IS a member of the first family, who should be the one setting an example by being one of the first to help.
Mr. Arroyo claims that he is not that person and that he was actually helping during that time. .
Okay. Fine.
Then why is he so defensive about this issue? Why does he want us bloggers and the internet community to be regulated now?
Maybe because majority of us have already express our views about that certain house in the States that he claims is not his but is owned by a certain corporation, which in turn, is owned by him by 40%, and to a certain extent, his son. I am business grad. One legal way of decreasing your tax is to put your assets in the name of the corporation. Its legal. In his case, the fact that he put it under the corporation’s name means that that property will not be in his Statement of Assets but in the Statement of Assets of that company. Its perfect. It’s legal. But people like me and a majority of people out there cannot be fooled by these things.
And how can he actually propose to regulate Facebook? I am not familiar with internet technicalities but I have read news that some other countries’ governments can actually block sites such as YouTube from being viewed in their country. So that means, there really is a way to do it.
And if there’s one person in this country who should be shouting to regulate the internet community. It should be his mother. Lord knows how many times the president have been bashed by various people in the internet. The bashing that Rep. Arroyo is experiencing is nothing compared to what his mother have had in the past up until now. Just be a man. He clearly wants to divert the issue by pointing out that bloggers have all the freedom in the wold which in turn defamate their image. I say. He should not point fingers at people who are merely expressing their views.
Still, him proposing a law that seeks to regulate the internet community is an attack on our so-called freedom of speech. And the internet is a neutral place. Everyone can come in and say his opinion and post it on facebook or in his blog.
Wherever it doesnt matter. Instead of him bashing the internet community and the internet sites, why can he just go to the internet too, write his defense and post it somewhere where we can read it?
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photo is from the Hay!Men Blog.
No matter how you put it, the former Typhoon Pepeng ( named “Parma” internationally) , has no way of getting out of the country. Various causes, paticularly the incoming Typhoon Melor (I do not know the local name) is pulling Pepeng back and other caused are pulling it another direction. Weather Forecasters outside the Philippines have different predictions on how likely Pepeng’s fate is going to end but one thing is for sure : His name sucks for a storm! (Who thought up that name?)
Many people have been dislocated by the 2 storms that have crossed this country. Manila suffered a tremendous flood in the first storm and was luckily spared by Pepeng as he crossed Northern Philippines. But still, the damage to Luzon is big.
Perhaps, the only thing good the storm had done is the outpour of help among fellow Filipinos. Quite ironic that alot of people needed help even before those storm had come. But still, we are lucky that the storm had touched our hearts and everyone is in the mood for giving. I have done my part. You should too.
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Forgive my lack of any single post last month. Lack of enthusiasm happens sometimes, perhaps even to other writers out there. (As if Iconsider myself as one).
Anyway. I’m back. Hopefully I can write two articles a week and goes on until I get tired again.
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(The title of this post was somehow quoted to a certain magazine I browsed at the bookstore. I forgot what is it, Don’t punish me.)
This is at wikipedia which obviously was at the Diablo III website
I’ve been waiting for Diablo’s third installment since that time that I have finished the 2nd game for the 2nd time with the Sorceress. Forgive me. I am not a gamer. I have played a few games. Very few. Diablo was one of those. You could say that I was not able to play the game in its highest potential since I was not able to play it using all the characters. As I have said, I have played it twice. The first one was using the Paladin. I hate the Necromancer. I hate the Druid. I started playing Barbarian but I was not able to finish it.
Plus the numerous patches or modifications ( I actually do not know how it’s called. Sorry) which lets you have these charms that would give an enormous boost on your power. Plus this version where you could get a lot of green items (So that means, I have played this a lot of times too, but it was only twice that I was able to finish it- all the way to Hell. But that is not a feat because I assume a lot of people out there, including you perhaps were able to do it 10 x better).
I hate the charms. There was once when I was already at a certain level and via multiplayer a friend challenged me with his character. I was like “yeah sure”. As if he’ll win against me because our level gap is about 10 or so.
And in 2 hits, I lost an ear to him! I was like “How cruel!” “How did that happened?” “You *$%^#&^ng %^&t!” That’s the time that I found out about the magic of charms.
Anyway, Back to Diablo III.
From a friend’s multiply account, I have found out that there will be a new Diablo III. It took me a year before I opened the Diablo III website. And there it was. In the same universe where unnamed heroes had defeated Diablo and his brothers, a new story will unfold. There will be new characters, new skills, and of course, better graphics !<– but yes it will still depend on your computer, I don’t know, I also am not knowledgable at those.). I was watching the sneak peak, but after realizing it will take about half an hour or so, I pressed “stop”. But for a while I saw how it will look like. I saw the familiar jumping move of the barbarian and some spider-like monsters which might really be spiders after all. From how it looks I think the in-game graphics will be a feast to our eyes. Plus Deckard Cain will still be there, and, as my friend had put it, “What is Diablo without Deckard Cain?”. Indeed.
But the released date up to now is to….be…..announced….
So the question still remains.
How long Blizzard? How long?
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Forgive my blogging about this just now. It took me a while before I can complete this post. As you all know it always takes me a lot of time composing and finishing an entry. You might add there the title which took me quite a while before I could think of one.
Let me first say that I was not yet alive when that historic moment happened in ‘86 because I was born some years before the end of her presidency. The earliest memory that I can remember right now has happened during the term of the president after her. Indeed I only knew her in my subject Sibika at Kultura; in my HEKASI, in my Social Studies. I was a history geek back then. the highest grade in exams and in my report card where all history subjects. So I guess, that is where I came to know her more.
Her death made it in the frontpage of the New York Times; homepage of Time Magazine , and of the British newspaper The Times. Indeed she was a known political figure in Asia. Moreover, as everyone keep saying, she was an icon. A symbol of democracy. That woman who in her yelow dress captured the global media’s attention, and the attention of every conscious person in those times. She (and her husband) were the inspirations of the people of East Timor in their struggle for independence. But before that country achieved that just in this decade., the peaceful revolution that she had lead had already inspired other revolutions, such as the one that brought down the Soviet Union. Indeed her being a symbol was so powerful that her image was burned in the memory of every individual on Earth that time. She made it possible; a successful and peaceful non-violent revolution that previously just existed in Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy. Never did the world saw something like it. And she was at the centerstage.
It is interesting to note that there is an article on Inquirer.net written by an overseas Filipino in New York that mentions Aquino’s death on the New York Time’s frontpage and that some Americans right now thought that Aquino was still our president. It is clear that Philippine presidents after her did not made an impact more crushing than what had she had led in ‘86.
But she struggled during her term. 6 or 7 coup attempts. And as Time.com had put it “as if miracle after miracle, as if God was on her side, she was able to overcome.” It was not a perfect presidency. Indeed nothing could top the ‘86 revolution. But maybe her greatest achievement post- ‘86 was that she was able to finish her term, and elections followed. She was able to hold the country. I don’t know how she did it. She said she didnt have any idea about the presidency. Maybe it was just her image, her charisma, her persona that was able to hold our country firm.
It was in that mass last Monday, when her body first arrive at the Manila Cathedral, when the priest who presided mentioned that the late Archbishop of Manila had told him that Pres. Aquino was God’s gift to the Filipino people according to Sister Lucia (She was one of the 3 children who saw Christ’ Mother at Fatima), and that she will also suffer. Indeed she had..
Just think about it.
What and where is our country now if she had not stood up for us in those days? Indeed, the freedom that we have right now, even the freedom to blog, is all thanks to her; the hope when everyone were afraid. She stood up for what was right even if she knew it might cause her her life. She should go on history as a hero. Now that she’s gone, her “hero” status should be solidified by her being declared by our legislature as being one. But more than that hero status, right now, I personally believe that she is more than her husband. I do not want to elaborate on that.
She was a Filipino beloved by everyone. She was proud of being a Filipino, even thanking God for making her as one. Indeed, In a nation so divided and in a time when it is hard to be proud, the Philippines is proud of her. And every Filipino is proud being her countrymen, for she was one of the last reasons why everyone of us still takes pride of a being one.
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(read the cover story of Time Magazines Woman of the Year Issue on http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963184,00.html . It is a good read. Trust me. )
(also, check out Time’s article on her death at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1914125,00.html?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r1:c0.161351:b22512282&xid=Loomia. another good read)
whattapose! very good inquirer.net
Did you tune in your T.V to a channel that aired PGMA’s State of the Nation Address? Of course, almost every channel had aired it.
I would not go into serious details about what she had said in the SONA. There are still promises. But unlike the previous Sonas, this one has an attitude of her proclaiming all her accomplishments in all the years of her presidency. It was realistic I say. But still not enough to convince me that she will step down. Yes there may be a new president in 2010. But assuming the government will change, then, she doesnt necessarily need to be the president anymore. . .
Well, lets head to my topic.
What strikes me the most is how she used it to attack her harshest critics. Indirectly she did it, but you know who she was pointing her fingers too. And stupidly, those people shouted back. Idiots I say.
“To those who want to be President, this advice: If you want something done, do it hard, do it well. Don’t pussyfoot. Just do it. Dont say bad words in public.”
That was one epic win. Of course you know who that person is. “anak itabi mo, lagpas na ko. Ang daldal mo”
“The noisiest critics of constitutional reform tirelessly and shamelessly attempted Cha-Cha when they thought they could take advantage of a shift in the form of government. Now that they feel they cannot benefit from it, they oppose it.”
^Do you know who this is? Clue: He was once there looking at the president below. Now he’s sitting, with his title gone, just a plain congressman like everyone else who was there.
“Those who live in glass houses should cast no stones. Those who should be in jail should not threaten it, especially if they have been there…”
^Did that person even understand what she was talking about. Wow. How rude of me to say that. He was the guess speaker when I graduated last April. In the course of his speech, I cannot fully comprehended why my mother had voted him when he ran. And he will run again? Please do us a favor.
And as I have said, these people shouted back. Defensive?
It was a highly entertaining swashbuckling of words. I recommend it more than your nightly dose of telenovelas.
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