...and harold sakuishi pockets some cash from the makers of calorie mate.

i wonder if he earns money from fender and gibson and whatnot by mentioning all those guitar models...

sometimes i wonder abt product placement in manga... most products are spelled correctly but sometimes we're suddenly flooded with WacDonalds and Sany products.

anyway harold sakuishi is an evil evil man. reading beck is probably one of the most torturous experience ive ever had cos tho its interesting, all the crises of the band breaking up and getting together and finding members(either new ones or old ones who happen to be lost and late for a gig) is torturous. it draaags the storyline to multiple cliffhangers making me wanna read more and more.

damn that evil mangaka!

despite that beck is a good read. wish i had picked it up earlier.

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omg who rmbs this show? i used to love it. it was so funny... at least i rmb it as being funny at that point of time in my life.

apparantly it was a spin-off of ferris bueller, which was a rather nice movie all-in-all. but this show was so much more. it defined all that i loved abt scrubs and malcolm in the middle.

pls whoever rmbs this show pls tag. i think im the only one...

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chris benoit is dead. he killed his wife, then his autistic son and them himself.

what is wrong with the world? benoit was like this wrestling hero. a good guy of strict moral fibre. a guy who worked hard and didnt get receive as much credit in the pro wrestling circuit as he truly deserved. the newspaper sort of summed it up perfectly, he was like rocky, the underdog, the hardworking quiet hero.

it was like rocky killing his wife and kids and then commiting suicide.

depressing. first eddie guerrero, now benoit. great wrestlers are dropping like flies.

and i cant believe i just found this out. my jaw dropped when i read the paper. i had nights off on wednesday, i read that issue of life and totally missed the article. i read the 2 reviews on the same movie (transformers) and all the transformers specials and totally missed the benoit article.

i had THAT SAME PAPER in my bunk the whole week and didnt see the article.

benoit... a murder suicide? just... unreal.

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and it's police SERVICE not FORCE cause we don't wanna sound too agressive.

just finished watching hot fuzz and its the most fun i've had watching a movie since kill bill vol 1.

it is perfect representation of all that is good and sacred of british humour. it starts off with clever scripting of witty quips and intelligent visual gags... sort of what you'd get in a modern british sketch show (goodness gracious me, the sketch show...) then near the end it blows up to pythonesque proprtions of absurdity, making the show thoroughly hilarious and exciting. the point break scene was of course the icing on top of the cake.

the whole murder mystery thing surrounding the plot is not all that suspenseful, they did not do much to create multiple suspects and leave the audience wondering who the killer could be. basically they painted big neon flashing lights on one guy saying "he's the killer" such that you come to expect a twist and when the twist comes you feel yourself becoming coldly perplexed at the absurdity of it all... sort of like how the main character himself felt upon discovering the truth.

also the ending sucked. it was just taped on for the heck of it... like the writers couldnt think of a way to end the movie properly or anything. sort of reminds me of monty python and the holy grail's crappy slipshod ending.

*spoiler*
it probably should have just ended with the line about "alot of paperwork to do" and not dragged on to include yet another gunfight scene, another huge explosion, and a way to resolve the whole sea mine in the evidence room issue.
*end spoiler*

o well the only thing i didnt like about it was the ending. the rest was a'ight. the lack of suspense was not really a gripe cos it wasnt really aiming to be a suspense movie... it think. all in all one of the best and subtly funniest movies ive watched in a long time.

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Content editing
Besides typical English translation and localization, the English version of Kingdom Hearts II differs from the original Japanese version, in the content of gameplay and several scenes. The Hydra boss in Olympus Coliseum has its green blood from the Japanese version (which in turn was taken from Hercules) changed into black and purple smoke in the English version. An earlier cut scene retains the green blood.

The World That Never Was boss Xigbar's telescopic sight has been changed from view with a crosshair and black shading around the sides to three glowing circles.[6] An attack animation was also altered; in the Japanese version, Xigbar combined his two hand-held guns to create a sniper rifle, which was used to shoot the player's party during the telescoping sight sequence. In the English version, Xigbar does not combine his guns, but twirls them around and shoots at Sora with a single gun. The death of Organization XIII member Axel was slightly edited, as in the original he caught on fire during his kamikaze attack.

Port Royal contains the most content edits. Cut scenes have been edited to remove some of the violence, such as William Turner threatening to commit suicide while aiming a gun at his head.[6] Also, undead pirates do not catch fire when affected by Fire magic and their muskets have been modified to resemble crossbows, though they still fire with an audible shooting sound effect.[41]


i hate america's disney. why can't they be more like japan's disney? why must they kiddify the game?

anyway no news on KH2: final mix +. prob not gonna come out in english. maybe i should just get the jap version? bu then since when do i have time to play?

a stray dog has been following us around signals camp. its damn cute. ok so it doesnt really look cute cos it looks like the run-of-the-mill stray mix-breed mutt. butit does stuff like run 2.4 with us, march with us to cookhouse and lectures, run right in front of uss suddenly while we're marching and cause us to trip over ourselves, walk in between the 3 rows and inspecting us when we're falling in...

its super friendly, does not bark or bite and follows us EVERYWHERE. we have named him jackie (after a fellow platoon mate and a hated staff sgt from sispec golf coy). He will be our mascot.

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omg i just got a copy of grant morrison's doom patrol from the bishan nlb. the adventures of Flex Mentallo! who struggles to use his amazing telekinetic muscle-flexing powers to turn the pentagon (that big govt building) into a circle. and the beard hunter... the fearsome gun toting killer out to rid the world of bearded men and add the beards to his collection.

after the awesome darkness and narration of alan moore's swamp thing, its great to just have a totally weird comic.

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omg angel densetsu is totally teh roxxors.

the new story arc seemed kinda disappointing at first like... oh another 2 new characters that are added in that have a misunderstanding with kitano because of his looks etc etc... but it ended just perfectly and heartwarmingly hilarious. it seems that the more characters they add the more the kitano social circle seems to become more lively and interesting. i can totally imagine future confrontations between leo, sana, ryoko and that blond punk takehisa...

angel densetsu just never ceases to amaze me. its just one gag, one basic story repeated over and over many times... just with different characters... and they all end the same way. however it just... works somehow. i think it just goes to show how good the author is to be able to recycle one plot endlessly and still make it an enjoyable read.

ok so life as a signals spec so far has been... slack. its like jc life all over again. wearing a uniform, studystudystudy, lectures, and pe lessons 2 times a week. ok so there's ALOT of studying to do... which kinda sucks. id rather be doing more PT but... i guess i should try to continue being used to study so that i dun suffer as much when uni life starts.

plus we also have PROJECT WORK. a bloody presentation to do. and we have to acess some online shit at home during weekends as well to complete some module or another... bleagh.

good news is i have lots of free time at night. bad news is theres no recreation room so no tv or computer or whatever. good news is i have my ds.

unit life may be better or worse than this current life... i hope its the former.

urg i hope i can defer 3 months off ns. having to wait 9 months between ns and uni would kinda suck.

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err yea so im a signals specialist... which is great n really slack and all even though im chiong sua signals and not truck signals. i have a feeling that unit life as a chiong sua signal spec will be worse... lugging the bitch-heavy signal set and 12kg signal cables... urgh.

anyway... supposedly we have a shitload of admin time and... get this... no overnight field camps! only field training at most. plus our encik is a "family man" so can exercise cut early... early weekend...

buuuutt.... we have ndp. this year they decided to choose signals school as ndp paraders. so well be burning 3 saturdays. bleagh. also since statmont camp is super small and the smallest combat fit fries there are us corporals... super guard duty time! apparently will have 2-3 guard duties for us for the first 3 weeks or something? then the privates will come for their signals course for like 6 weeks, relieving some of the burden, then its extra guard duty again.

why the hell are we on the 5th floor? dammit. at least that means the enciks/sgts will be lazy to check on us. officers get 2nd floor. BAH. elitists.

anyway been hooked on puzzel quest. puzzle quest is crack. its evil. its a melding of 2 completely "wtf?" genres that somehow works to devastating results. a bejewelled rpg. i cant explain wat it is but its like... rmb when u just started playing bejewelled and it was rather addictively mindless fun for like the first 2 hours or so... now add in the rpg multiplier which automatically causes addictiveness to rise by a factor of ten. yea thats how it is.

im a mighty fire and air elemental mage whose awesome abilities are unlocked by matching 3 or more red and yellow gems on a puzzle board. FEAR ME....

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THE SKY IS GREEN BECAUSE OF POLLUTION
Yet the picture is still beautiful. Therefore pollution is beautiful.

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joshua chin
NUS law
21 years old
April26 1988
Singapore