Uninspired Art Idea

Can't take my brain anymore. It's like I've been gone back to bed again in the morning, after doing a sketch and despite that I ate a healthy breakfast to keep my energy up! Though the worse news is...ARTIST'S BLOCK!AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!! Why, on why is it there?! Need, to find inspiration and a copy of The Times' Sudokou book collection now, before my brain has finally lost it on controlling my life.

Anyways, happy 'horrible' birthday, Hanh! You're now officially to drink as many alcohol as you like, BUT not too much!

Quote of the moment -"Keep linin'em up and I'll keep knockin'em down!" - Sakon Shima from Samurai Warriors 2. My God, he's such a charming person, I always play as him and levelling up to the max! Now, if I persuade Koei to make Kojiro Sasaki playable in the next sequel...

My 'Evil' Birthday

You Are 36% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

So that's why I'm evil underneath. Anyway, I'm FINALLY 19 today! Woohoo! So how am I going to spend my birthday? Erm, showing my sisters and taking them to a nice Belgian Bar. And even though I should act like an adult now, I'm still a teenager at heart (and probably nearing the end of it). Now, if you excuse me, I've got to watch Watership Down as my treat.

Quote of the moment - "Er, let's just keep going." - Sho from Crimson Sea when Yangqin talks about Sho's romantic issues with women.

Shop Till You Drop and...O_O

Well, today I went with my good ol'friend from uni and we went shopping around in Hanley for clothes shopping, manga shopping, games shopping, anime shopping, DVD shopping (I can't believe Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is now part of 'buy 3 for £20' offer in HMV! XD) and smoothies buying and I laughed my head off when she told this was her first time on tasting an actual smoothie! Glad, I gave her the 'Strawberry Forever' on. And now, my feet are exhausting (Hanley's only a 15 minute walk).

And now this...strange, terribe and yet pretty at the same time...

You can visit their website over here. Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to watch Powerpuff Girls Z (the anime).

Quote of the moment - "I'm not made of potions!"- One famous Cloud from FFVII commenting about the natures of a main lead character o a famous VGCats webcomic. It's hilariously funny for video games and anime/manga fans and you can see the comics over here.

WTF? World Embryo being licenced already?

Yes, you've heard me. I was going to the M7 site to check on the progress and unfortunately, now I'll have to ages for this, as manga publisher, Tokyopop has licenced World Embryo. Dammit! Now, I'm going to cry as I was looking forward on reading chapter 17 and wonder what's going to happen between Riku...T_T...and then there's Takao and the events that is going.

You've heard it from me, now go and blame Tokyopop that the English translation takes a very long time (and also going to ruin the beautiful colour pages). I hope you're listening from me, Tokyopop! I want the colour pages to be left unaltered, so that I can enjoy the pages that Daisuke Moriyama has craftfully made, especially in later volume or I'll going to rant on how much time Tokyopop has ruin the Chrno Crusae creator's great work!

Quote of the moment - 'A Trojan Horse hasn't got wheels!' - A random person from the university I'm attending exclaiming on the art project we're doing as a group.

WTF? Jesus in Japan?

Here's an interesting article about Jesus in Japan

As being a Vietnamese Catholic descendent, I find this article very strange, but I never thought that Jesus would walk nearly 5,000 miles from Calvary to Aomori; he could be dead halfway through the journey. If I shown this to some fundamentalist Christian in America, he or she is going to rip my head off for this.

So anyway, only a few more days, till I'm officially an Uni student! Yay! And now, for some Fai/Fye/Fay lovin' from Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle or something (damn CLAMP, damn NHK).

Quote of the moment - "Hyuu~!" - Fay D. Flowright from Tsubasa Chronicle (he has now added to my bishie collection)

How Not to Piss Sting Ray Plus Sister Rant

Poor Steve Irwin...Died by a sting ray aattack, even if the sting ray wasvery docile.

And now this...my stupid lil sis, Hanh thinks that I am a lazy slut bitch who does nothing but going to the Internet all day long. HELLO! It's her who is a bitch that annoys me all along. She needs to stop jumping people's personalities into conclusion! I'm not some selfish bitch that only cares for myself you know. Whenever she says about me and there's some trouble at the shop that my parents work there (as well as living in there) she goes like this...

*In an imitating Hanh's voice* "WHY DON'T YOU HELP IN THE SHOP MORE YOU SELFISH PERSON!?"

F**K HER! I'm not selfish! I care for my parents and my older sis as well as Hanh, but she just doesn't get the idea at all. I just wish that she'll just look into people's impression, including me personally, more than she is. *Sighs* And now, she's into her A2 Levels exam mode and I doubt her immature childish personality would go into adulthood and respect older people, like me. I just hope that she reads this blog entry and make her realize that she rushing and concluding into the people's impressions and would next time, try to think over and stopping bitching me saying I have no feelings for other people's feelings. And this is for Hanh if she's reading this blog:

"Why don't you stop being a bitch, calling me a 'selfish person with no feelings for others' and just slow down and judge the people around you, before you can make your impression. I'm getting sick and tired of this! I have feelings for other people too and it's time that you should grow up and stop saying that 'you're a baby'. You're not! You're turning into an adult soon and it's time you should take responsiblity yourself! You might think you can order me around, just because you want to, but you're still too youn to be the boss! Get some experience and once you're old enough, then you can boss some younger people around!"

There, I said it...I typed it with my feeling that should get Hanh's impact. Now, I'm hoping that she didn't get into a blog entry and start ranting about me.

Quote of the Moment - "Transformers! Robotsin disguise!" - The first verse of the original Transformers intro song. Don't know why I've put it.

The Next Sequel to Snakes on a Plane

*laughs like a real idiot* I can't believe this was the winner of the Blanks on a Blank competition and it shows. Now, if only there was a Final Fantasy edition to it...hmm, maybe 'Chocobos on an Airship' where Cloud can be the lead charaacter shouting: 'I want these mother-f**king chocobos off the mother-f**king airship!'

Or even better, the Kingdom Hearts version, 'Moogles on a Gummi Ship' where Sora goes out yelling: 'I want these mother-f**king moogles off my mother-f**king Gummi ship!'

Quote of the Moment - 'Eight hours of running after her and we've finally chased her down." - Rosette Christopher from Chrno (Chrono) Crusade, to which it was Daisuke Moriyama's great work. Now can someone please tell every D.M. fan to look at his other great work, World Embryo.

Good Way To Exercise Yourself

Oh cool! I found this over at YouTube and this is the coolest music video I've seen - Dancing on Treadmills! Eat your heart out Snakes On A Plane!



Better go now and do something, before I go to M7 site and shout: "WHEN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO RELEASE CHAPTER 15 OF WORLD EMBRYO?! THIS IS WWWWAAAAAAYYYY PAST DUE THE DATE?!"

Quote of the Moment - "Come on and lend me that thing's power." - Takao from World Embryo (my second favourite character, though I wish he didn't go 'catch'em-all' the Jinki Users and chopping their heads off afterwards)

GOING TO UNI!

I've finally got my A-Level results and yes, it is crap (though for some reason I passed AS Product Design with a C), but that doesn't matter cause I'm going to uni to do an art and design degree and no more exams, notes and those long-boring hours of listening to teachers = I can draw whatever I like!

Quote of the moment - "Shit! What have I done!?" - Some bloke from San: Three Kingdoms (the comic)

DAMMIT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!

WHY M7?! WHY HAVEN'T YOU F**KING RELEASE THE SCANLATED CHAPTER 15 OF WORLD EMBRYO ASAP?! I know that you're scanlating Trigun Maximum, Hellsing, Gintama and Bleach, but haven't those been licensed?! JUST RELEASE WORLD EMBRYO NOW! My paitence has been running so thinly now!

And if you're wondering on why I'm ranting now, just look at the website below and demand Maximum 7 to release the further scanlated chapters of World Embryo ASAP. DO IT NOW!

http://www.maximum7.com

Quote of the moment - 'Stupid bloody cliffhanger!' - Me when every further chapter of Daisuke Moriyama's World Embryo is making me addicted to read again and again and again and...(repeats over a thousand times)

One Big Reunion

Huzzah! My dear old friend from school had answered my email I sent ages ago and she still remembers! And that's all the details I'm giving, because this is really special to me and I don't want to show off everything. Well, ciao!

Quote of the moment - 'JESUS CHRIST IT'S OSAKA GET IN THE CAR' - Saya-Biki from the TRPG forums. God he remembers me!

Long Ago In A Trailer Far Far Away...

I was at YouTube recently, until I found this - Star Wars Banjo! I actually laugh at this when I first watch this. Never knew imagining Darth Vadar taking up a banjo...Well, why don't you see it for yourself!




Well, I'm off to watch that Utada Hikaru's video, so see ya!

Quote of the moment - "I need two emotions" - Utada Hikaru singing Passion, except this one is the reversed version.

Found in Translation - World Embryo

Just a quick drabble to the World Embryo fans. If you're wondering on what the title in chapter 14 says, I recently downloaded mIRC and then spoke to one of the mods asking for the translation and this is what 'he' says:

"From Hand to Hand"

So there you go. Big thanks to -Asakura- from the M7 mIRC channel for answering the question. Now, if you excuse me, I'm 'going to bishie-hunt down' Riku and meddle with his 'ears'. *Turns an evil grin*

Quote of the moment - "We suggest you use an A4 hardbook sketchbook for this project." - That Introductory Studies Course Leader (who will be nameless) from Staffordshire University (Huzzah! They accepted me! ^_^)

Must Be Seeing Double

Yes, you read that right. I was going to the alternative called the 'Internet', where I find something surprising similar to the characters from World Embryo.

Takao (World Embryo) and K' (King of Fighters series)

Whoa! Takao does ressemble K', in terms of hair style, except K' uses fists and Takao uses a katana...and there's something not human about him. You want proof, go and check below for these screenshots and decide for yourself.




Riku Amami - Kanshu form (World Embryo) and Allen Walker (D. Gray Man or Something)

Someone mentioned that Kanshu Riku looks like that bloke, Allen Walker and I dismissed at first. Until I went to the D. Gray Man fansite and found I was wrong. My God, he DOES look similar to Allen! Except, I don't think Riku would be a good Exorcist, lol.



Youhei Takabe (World Embryo) and Kaede (Last Blade series)

Choose the blonde haired version of Kaede and you'll see why he looks similar to Youhei.



Nagase (World Embryo) and Reno (Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children)

Oh come on! Don't look at me like that! Someone at the Deviantart.com website thought that not only Nagase looks like the fangirl's favourite Turk, he also act like him, except...Reno didn't die, unlike Nagase, but I'm not going to tell you, since you have to read it for yourself.




Riku Amami - Human Form (World Embryo) and Harry Potter (Harry Potter series)

Last, but not least (well for the male part. Dammit! I can't find the female lookalike), is that before Riku became Kanshu, his human form really looks like the Wizard-in-training boy, as told by my sister. At first, I thought she was joking, but boy was I wrong...



And there you have it, a shortlist of the World Embryo lookalikes that I've found out. Okay, I would have add Kanzaki and Rude to the list, but somehow Rude's not some head of the Turks (it's Tseng!). If you've got any more lookalikes, including the female characters of course, just let me know. Well, ciao for now!

Quote of the moment - "My wife awoke me with grim news: Russell Crowe was on TV, in handcuffs." - Jack Marx quoting about Russell 'Gladiator-cum-Master-and-Commander' Crowe from the Sunday Time s Magazine.

Cannot Stop Reading

Damn you Daisuke Moriyama (in a good way ^_^)! Because of reading too much World Embryo, I am now somehow attracted to the main protagonist, Riku Amami, because not only his characterisation, but his looks. By the time I got into chapter 6, where...

*SPOILER! Highlight it, either at your own risk or you already read* Riku was killed by a Kanshu after he was free and barely managed to keep his memory from losing by the enemy, but then got resurrected from Neene's mysterious powers, to which he becomes a Kanshu himself. Only except, unlike the unlucky ones that become Kanshu, Riku (now in Kanshu mode) killed the bloody lot and after regaining his senses, in particular thanks to his childhood friend and Jinki User, Youhei; he was captured...and yet after that, he was still in his Kanshu form, but now he can control himself. Man, I never he would turn out to be so hot and goodlooking! *Drools at Kanshu Riku. A lot.* *END SPOILER*

And now, becuase of the bloody tension he's left at 13, I can't wait for a bloody month to download the scanlation and read. And then re-read. And then re-re-read. And then, etc. Only a couple of days to go. Dammit. >_< Quote of the moment - "What is it...?(Mesh?)" - Riku Amami from Daisuke Morimaya's excellent latest manga, World Embryo.

Nearly Got Out of Exam Hell

Dammit! Only 6 days to go, before I can really say sayonara to exams, school and chemistry teachers (well, there is one exception, but I'll it at that)! Yay! But wait, bad news! *Gasp* Unfortunately, three days after my A2 chemistry exam, I've got that Book Return Day *BOO!*, where I have to return the bloody textbooks I've used, but I lost two technology textbooks! O_O;

Hehe, but at least I've saved the GCSE version, so that my graphic design will not haunt me for the rest of my life! Well, only 6 days to go, before I can finally post the two special chapters of Nimbus Exploration! Btw, the special chapters were written, before revision start, so be grateful the wait is well worth it.

And oh yes, I forgot to say thanks to mihoyonagi for making the great AeriSeph icon; I gave the original source for her to photoshop it, as you can see on the top-right hand corner. Thanks mate, keep writing the latest chapters for Unspoken! ^_^

Quote of the Moment - 'You think you so clever? I think you're a disgrace!' - My cousin's ex-GCSE math teacher telling one of the students' off. You can hear my cousin's masterpiece and cult hit, 'The Mr. Moore's Song', if you e-mail me.

Me Verus....Live Journal?

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Sorry, if I had to do that, LJ users, but that stupid freakin' LiveJournal won't let me customise my LJ account! Argh! It's like, everytime I've tried to get there, they want me to log in and then after a few moments, they want me to log in again! Argh! The mad have to stop right now! I demand an official complaint to those bastards responsible for this LJ nonsense! Please, sort this out...NOW!!!

And if you're really curious, just look at my pathietc LJ: http://sho_saka.livejournal.com

Quote of the moment - " It looks like some sort of doujinshi or fanart." - A person named Ayu_mi_kay from LiveJournal, who also is a huge AeriSeph fan, like I do, too.

My Lovely Ball Photos

Yes, this was the last time my friends and I are going to see each other at school, but hey, here are some photos with comments by moi!

My friend Graham wanted to do some poses while I took some photos with him, so here you go Graham! Love that James Bond pose!

"The name's Wade. Graham Wade." lol

Laura and Yoo Jin - The two lovely girls dressing up for such an occasion. You look so fabulous!

And here is my favourite friend Michael, who loves Final Fantasy VII as much as I do too.

Oh look! It's the party bus! Just arrived here in time for the ball!

And here's the rest of them, since I can't be bothered to post them all of my ball photos.

Btw, if you're not in the ball on Saturday night and been wondering who's that short girl in a white Vietnamese national dress, that's me. Yes, that's Sho-saka, ak.a. Sho Lover herself. Now, you can comment about the ball or something. They're very welcome indeed. ^_^

Wow! I never knew his voice was sexy...

Let's see, I've bought (well my younger sis paid the other half) for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children DVD last week with a FREE poster, I've decided to watch the whole film IN ENGLISH and this is how I thought about the character voices:

• Cloud: I've already heard Steve Burton's voice in Kingdom Hearts, so it's no surprise he still reprising his role in Advent Children and it still really fits his voice.
• Tifa: Well, it did fit her voice, but on the mobile phone, she sounded like a robot!
• Barret: Fits well, nuff said.
• Cid: Haven't heard him for a long time, but it did fits his rough attitude.
• Yuffie: Well, at least her voice wasn't a hyper version of Rikku from FFX.
• Red XIII: For some reason, even though his accent's a bit British, he does sound and fit well.
• Vincent: He sounded like Snake from Metal Gear Solid having a bad day with his throat, but it still fits.
• Cait Sith: Scottish accent?! Don't usually see this in many video game movies. More surprisingly, the Japanese version had him in Scottish accent too!
• Rufus: Cool and intelligent. That's all I could say.
• Reno: His voice did fit well, but no 'yo' slang in it. Drat!
• Rude: His voice did fit well too and I'm surprised Crispin Freeman did that, even though he did the voice of Albel from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time!
• Elena: Short role, but fits.
• Tseng: The same goes for him, having his voice done by a Chinese bloke or something.
• Reeve: And for him.
• Kadaj: Young and violent. That's very fitting for his voice.
• Yazoo: His voice fits well too, but sounds a slightly fruity, though with a hint of Riku's English voice from Kingdom Hearts.
• Loz: I'm really worried about this when he was actually a big softie at heart, but thankfully at least the voice actor actually cried.
• Marlene: She sounded like an eight year old girl, but it fits well.
• Denzel: The same goes for him.
• Zack: Short role too, but at least his voice did fit well.
• Aerith: She really sounded a lot like Yuna from the English version of FFX (btw, Mena 'American Pie' Suvari provided the voice of Aerith), but it really fits her well.
• Sephiroth: And finally, I've come to the last person that I have been dreading to hear his voice in English, but...[highlight, if you don't want to know]....MY GOD, GIVE GEORGE NEWBERN A TREAT, because his voice is way too sexy to describe this! And thank the Lord, Lance Bass isn't going to reprise his role.

And that's my summary. Feel free to commment on the voices, whether you like it or not.

Quote of the moment - 'Reno: (speaking in high pitch) Hel-lo!

Rude: Hell no! (The two Turks ran away like scared chocobos.)' - English version of FFVII: Advent Children

I Found An AeriSeph Doujinshi...

...well at least I found one as an online doujinshi. Even though it's in Japanese I found this VERY rare AeriSeph online doujinshi called 'Secret Innocence' and it's set how would Aeris/Aerith and her mother Ilfana (Effulunar in the Japanese FFVII for some reason) escaped the Shinra Building with a help from a certain silver-haired teenager (i.e. Sephiroth), before the 'real' storyling in FFVII kicks in.

Now, before you can go to the link in a moment, here's a warning: If you ARE not an Aeris/Aerith x Sephiroth fan like me, then I suggest you would not click it right now as it would contain some AeriSeph moments. However, if you are an AeriSeph fan, then this is a great read for all AeriSeph fans, even if it's in Japanese.

Click here for the RARE AeriSeph online doujinshi, if you like the pairing.

And if you like artwork, then you click to the FFVII fanart site here.

Now, if only could someone please translate 'Secret Innocence into English (and yes, that involves asking the permission to the original fanartist that created this doujinshi)? I'll pay you with lots of 'money'!

Quote of the Moment - 'I have two themes for Narnia' - Harry Gregson-Williams (Yes, the same composer that gave you Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3) talking about the compsosing of 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' (2005) film.