orz

Days & nights pass so fast, it's absolutely scary...
It's coming to August 2007 already??!
What happened to July?!!
orz...

There's been a spate of resignations at my workplace this past month...
Well, it's just after the pay-out of our performance bonus, and most importantly, the market's really good. Really good. I wonder how long it'll last. Anyway, all this means is that the people who are left behind have tons more work to take care of. Sigh. Luckily, work-wise I really like what I'm dealing with. With the exception of the angry bitch, everyone else is pretty manageable too. In my field, this is a good place to gather work experience, which is why it's so tough to make the decision of whether to take up the Japan scholarship or not.

On one hand, it (the scholarship) might open new markets for me, beyond the Singapore market. On the other hand, i wonder if there's too high an opportunity cost to forego. At the end of the day, the dilemma stems from my uncertainness of how best i should spend a year; which place is it that will bring me farther. And because the course will only start next Oct, whether things at my current workplace will change drastically in a year's time, such that I'd want to leave anyway?

Geez this is such an incoherent post after a long absence from this blog...
my apologies~

wish i can leap through time too

sshhiiiiittttttt
Wubai & China Blue's live at Genting is on 18 Aug and I have to lecture on that day!!!!!
orz.......
How coincidental can it be???!!! And i was all raring to go Genting this time round...
uurrrggghhh

Anyway, yeah, the freelance lecturing's started again, so i'm going to be really busy all the way till Nov...

And another thing... I thought I'd be able to last quite some time before the craving comes on again. But I was wrong. The craving... for... mucc liiiivvvveeeeee. This is a disease, i tellya! orz... How? Dec? but will there only be events during that period?

Should i finally aim for the Mito countdown live?

時をかける少女 (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)

Animation style is really important to me... i've enjoyed many of the works produced by Madhouse so far (like Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Monster, Denno Coil), and yes, this movie has just added itself to that list. The characters and settings come across to the audience so simply and naturally, you find yourself almost wishing that YOU can be animated too, so that you can go melt into celluloid and live with them in that same environment!

Wasn't the Makoto & Chiaki sunset scene just so beautifully drawn?

That said, I'm not so sure the plot is fully convincing. I was sure I must have missed something since I've heard this movie's supposed to be based on a novel, except that it takes place after the novel, i.e. kinda like Part II of the novel.

I was right. So all those poignant remarks made by Makoto's Aunt really were about her own experiences of time travel. And that lingering scene with the photo of Makoto's Aunt and her 2 pals when she was young was another reference to the original novel. The synopsis of the original novel sounds really interesting and answers some questions about the future state of the world that Chiaki is in. Still, I wonder about some of the unanswered questions in 時をかける少女... like the significance of that painting... well, looks like I should get my hands on either that manga or the live-action 1983 movie!

After this movie, hope to catch Paprika in the cinema next~ And I'm really really really x100 hoping that Animation Nation 2007 brings in Tekkon Kinkreet finally... I would have ordered the DVD that's just been released, but alas it has no English subtitles! TOT Neither does the Byosoku 5 Centimeter DVD!!! orz...

By the power of Grayskull!

Hot Fuzz has the BEST shoot-out scene of all time

(i laughed so hard i almost teared XD)