Hey, hey, it's been a while!
So, how long has it been since I wrote something here? Lemme check the history...August 11th was my last entry. So...it's two and a half months. Not bad, I've been away for over a year if I recall correctly.
Anyway, here's the new updates on my life.
First of all, I've been doing some soul searching (i.e. deep memory probing) on what made my thought process like it is now.
It's a pretty strange experience. I kept remembering stuff I was so sure I'd never forget yet I did. Like the first and foremost reason on my insistence on romance. It was one of the earliest romance movies I had ever seen. I was so moved by it, it changed my life forever.
It was the moment where Cassandra, my romance Muse, was born.
It was a rerun of a 1971 movie Melody. The story was about two lovers who decided that they want to get married. As in right now. They don't want to wait. At all. The problem was that they were still children. Eleventh grade, if I'm not mistaken.
I wasn't much of a romantic up to the point, but boy was I a changed boy after the movie. I myself was only about...maybe 10 at the time. A time when my mindset was being challenged by the outside world. A time when my childish notions were supposed to be crushed by the harshness of the real world. But Melody changed all that.
Watching Melody somehow made me guard my mindset against any and all outside influences. I mean, if children can go and get married like it was pictured in the movie, then everything else can definitely happen, right?
Recently I read that the movie Melody didn't rate so well in the US, but it was a rave in Japan. Could it because they were much more relaxed about underage relationships there?
Then again, those who watched Melody as a child should be grown ups now, like I am. Perhaps the current wave of anime (both normal and hentai) depicting children were made by those same people, influenced by one 1971 movie?
I'm not much into conspiracy theories, unfortunately. Maybe I would, had I watched all episodes of The X-Files, but somehow I always have homework to do.
Secondly, I've been watching the anime Lucky Star lately. People I know should understand how easy I was to get involved with such cute characters. As many should be able to guess, Konata is my favorite. Not only that she's a gamer, she's also into manga and anime. Not to mention ankle-length blue hair, which was amazing on its own right. But the best feature of Konata that I can't get out of my sick mind is...no, not the beauty mark, but the cat-like smile. I'm a cat lover, so that's my excuse for loving it, hahaha.
Also, since Lucky Star made blatant references to another anime, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu), I've begun to follow it as well. It's hard to watch this one, though, because they were broadcast in a different order than it's supposed to be. The earliest instance, the first episode aired should've been the 11th episode chronologically. People in YouTube usually post them as their broadcast order, but some of them post them as their chronological order, which confuses me for a while when I tried to watch them.
I finally managed to watch all the episodes, though, plus I've read all the published manga so far. If I'm not mistaken, Amazon is finally selling the translated version of the original light novel on 28 October. Definitely gonna get it.
But before that, I've made my very one Haruhi fan fiction! Yays! Ohisashiburi desu! It's been a while since I last wrote any fanfiction.
I've already finished it, but I'm going to release the chapters once or maybe twice a week to gather more attention, heh heh. Also, I'm going to make a chapter by chapter analysis of each chapter to be posted right here on my blog. The analysis will try to capture the essences of the chapters and perhaps explain some stuff that would be too long to be put in an Author's Notes. Since the chapters will most definitely be posted on Tuesdays, the analyses would probably be posted on Mondays. Perhaps I can even add a review response segment to it, if enough people reviewed the fic.
Something bothered me, though, about this fic. It's kinda dark. Oh, it has romance and comedy, definitely, but the underlying story was kinda dark, at least for me. I wonder what happened in my brain for me to come up with this plot? Perhaps it was because of that doujinshi. I once read a Lucky Star doujin that was kinda dark. It didn't start out as being dark, or perhaps I just didn't see it coming. But mentions of wrist cutting and the pain of being alone were enough for me to stop reading. Perhaps I chose to let it out through this fic. Perhaps.
I just hope I don't make this a recurring theme. I like romantic and funny stuff. I don't like dark, emo stuff. That's my kid sister's department.
Finally, I've made myself a twitter account. But my non-access to internet at work and my phone not be able to send text messages abroad made it completely useless. I'll probably find a way to make it work as a twitter account should work, but don't count on it.
So, that's what I've been doing all these days. It's not like I goofed off and just do my job all the time. I also worked hard watching anime and writing fanfiction. Wait, which one was 'work' and which was 'goofing off'? Meh, who cares.
The fic is going to be published on FanFiction.Net sometime this Tuesday, October 28th 2008. Do have a read, whether or not you follow the Haruhi Suzumiya fandom or not. Leave a review! Maybe it'll be mentioned in the chapter analysis!
Cheers,
SQ
Anyway, here's the new updates on my life.
First of all, I've been doing some soul searching (i.e. deep memory probing) on what made my thought process like it is now.
It's a pretty strange experience. I kept remembering stuff I was so sure I'd never forget yet I did. Like the first and foremost reason on my insistence on romance. It was one of the earliest romance movies I had ever seen. I was so moved by it, it changed my life forever.
It was the moment where Cassandra, my romance Muse, was born.
It was a rerun of a 1971 movie Melody. The story was about two lovers who decided that they want to get married. As in right now. They don't want to wait. At all. The problem was that they were still children. Eleventh grade, if I'm not mistaken.
I wasn't much of a romantic up to the point, but boy was I a changed boy after the movie. I myself was only about...maybe 10 at the time. A time when my mindset was being challenged by the outside world. A time when my childish notions were supposed to be crushed by the harshness of the real world. But Melody changed all that.
Watching Melody somehow made me guard my mindset against any and all outside influences. I mean, if children can go and get married like it was pictured in the movie, then everything else can definitely happen, right?
Recently I read that the movie Melody didn't rate so well in the US, but it was a rave in Japan. Could it because they were much more relaxed about underage relationships there?
Then again, those who watched Melody as a child should be grown ups now, like I am. Perhaps the current wave of anime (both normal and hentai) depicting children were made by those same people, influenced by one 1971 movie?
I'm not much into conspiracy theories, unfortunately. Maybe I would, had I watched all episodes of The X-Files, but somehow I always have homework to do.
Secondly, I've been watching the anime Lucky Star lately. People I know should understand how easy I was to get involved with such cute characters. As many should be able to guess, Konata is my favorite. Not only that she's a gamer, she's also into manga and anime. Not to mention ankle-length blue hair, which was amazing on its own right. But the best feature of Konata that I can't get out of my sick mind is...no, not the beauty mark, but the cat-like smile. I'm a cat lover, so that's my excuse for loving it, hahaha.
Also, since Lucky Star made blatant references to another anime, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu), I've begun to follow it as well. It's hard to watch this one, though, because they were broadcast in a different order than it's supposed to be. The earliest instance, the first episode aired should've been the 11th episode chronologically. People in YouTube usually post them as their broadcast order, but some of them post them as their chronological order, which confuses me for a while when I tried to watch them.
I finally managed to watch all the episodes, though, plus I've read all the published manga so far. If I'm not mistaken, Amazon is finally selling the translated version of the original light novel on 28 October. Definitely gonna get it.
But before that, I've made my very one Haruhi fan fiction! Yays! Ohisashiburi desu! It's been a while since I last wrote any fanfiction.
I've already finished it, but I'm going to release the chapters once or maybe twice a week to gather more attention, heh heh. Also, I'm going to make a chapter by chapter analysis of each chapter to be posted right here on my blog. The analysis will try to capture the essences of the chapters and perhaps explain some stuff that would be too long to be put in an Author's Notes. Since the chapters will most definitely be posted on Tuesdays, the analyses would probably be posted on Mondays. Perhaps I can even add a review response segment to it, if enough people reviewed the fic.
Something bothered me, though, about this fic. It's kinda dark. Oh, it has romance and comedy, definitely, but the underlying story was kinda dark, at least for me. I wonder what happened in my brain for me to come up with this plot? Perhaps it was because of that doujinshi. I once read a Lucky Star doujin that was kinda dark. It didn't start out as being dark, or perhaps I just didn't see it coming. But mentions of wrist cutting and the pain of being alone were enough for me to stop reading. Perhaps I chose to let it out through this fic. Perhaps.
I just hope I don't make this a recurring theme. I like romantic and funny stuff. I don't like dark, emo stuff. That's my kid sister's department.
Finally, I've made myself a twitter account. But my non-access to internet at work and my phone not be able to send text messages abroad made it completely useless. I'll probably find a way to make it work as a twitter account should work, but don't count on it.
So, that's what I've been doing all these days. It's not like I goofed off and just do my job all the time. I also worked hard watching anime and writing fanfiction. Wait, which one was 'work' and which was 'goofing off'? Meh, who cares.
The fic is going to be published on FanFiction.Net sometime this Tuesday, October 28th 2008. Do have a read, whether or not you follow the Haruhi Suzumiya fandom or not. Leave a review! Maybe it'll be mentioned in the chapter analysis!
Cheers,
SQ