从2008年头投开始的涂鸦。下定决心画69张图。到第69图是一定要有进步。

01。死去的温柔 - BLEACH ~ 海白
02。黑崎后宫 - BLEACH ~ 白哉，白崎，雨龙，小葛，恋次
03。白恋漫画1 - BLEACH ~ 白恋
04。上级恋人 - BLEACH ~ 海白/银白
05。Nanyang Judo Club - 原创
06。铜镜中的我们 - Gundam Wing ~13x6
07。死水 - 原创
08。Eternity - 原创
09。Four Seasons - Maplesea fanart competition
10。白羽 - Gundam Wing ~1XR
11。What we cannot change - BLEACH ~ 海白
12。Fishing for a Renji - BLEACH ~ 白恋
13。雪雨 - Gundam Wing ~Trowa
14。Sea of Words -原创
15。Death Star - Gundam Wing ~Duo
16。15033672秒 - BLEACH
17。那年夏天 - BLEACH ~ 朽木白哉
18。皐月 - 原创
19。梦幻泡影 - 原创
20。人间五十年 - 烈火之炎 ~ 红丽
21。转弯 -原创
22。Bleach art Meme - BLEACH
23。发如雪 - 原创
24。吃蛇摸鱼滋补养颜 - 原创
25。兄弟 - 犬夜叉 ~ 殺生丸x犬夜叉
26。If you're not the one - Death Note ~ 月xL
27。银狐 - BLEACH ~ 市丸银
28。头文字G *Silver Soul* - 银魂 ~ 攮夷派
29。秋风词 - 原创
30。20090201 - 原创
31。千年之恋 - 游戏王 ~ 海城
32。千年的寂寞 - 幻想三国志贰 ~ 楚歌x韩靖
33。迟了三个月的春 - 原创
34。 Change - 原创
35。 Bones - 原创
36。Bring on the Wonder - 原创
37。二郎将 - 原创
38。二郎神Q版 – 原创
39。小燕生气 – 原创
40。黑白无常 - 原创
41。黑白无常二头身 - 原创
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在考虑我这个“69绘”要不要换成“100创作”。
因为现在做的很多都是video或maya创作出来的东东。

[NOTICE]
1. mayu is currently in Hokkaido, Japan for a 2 year CG course.

2.For readers of Family of Dragons, thank you for your support for the past 5 years. The final chapter is up and we are working on the epilogues right now. We are considering writing a Family of Dragons2 that takes place after the ending of FoD. Do let us know if you support he idea!!

3. Feel free to friend or drop a message any day~ I don't bite and always enjoy making friends from around the world as long as we have a common language - English, Chinese or Japanese. XD

[CREDITS]
Wallpaper is drawn, inked and colored by mayukkg.
Layout made based on “Celebrities: James Marsters -and when you are sleeping..." by amavel_bel  @ layouts_for_fun .

Woke up to no snow....

so comforted myself by watching Gackt videos... (Seems like recently i'be been falling back into lots of 坑 - Yugioh, Bleach, GW, Gackt... what's up next?)

不过我想我一辈子都不会改变的了就是。。。。 永远是个腐女。 (连同学都可以拿来腐) orz

anyway, suspect that since last year, G did something to his white pearly teeth. They look whiter and straighter. 用句句很雷的话，一笑倾国倾城阿。(mayu共和国)

然后又带着眼镜一副书生样。。。。*流口水ing*

一辈子做饭给我吃吧～ (我现在想吃猪脚酸 orz)

00. Rise and Snow!!
Woke up this morning planning to have breakfast, then drop back to bed before going to school for the sudden extra lesson which the teacher decided to to hold to prepare us for the kentei held next sunday.

As always, drew open my curtains when i woke up, and the most beautiful sight since mayu has arrived in horobetsu greeted mayu a very happy good morning.

Snow!!!!

Not wet yeeky snow that melts upon hitting the floor but dry powder snow that has settled over all the fields and trees throughout the night.


Virgin snow!!! With no foot steps or paw prints!!! Kinda made mayu want to just fly out into the streets and make snow angels all over the white powder. XD


This reminds mayu of her first train trip with miya from Tokyo to Hokkaido. This is exactly the sight that greeted mayu after a long night of travelling from Akita. The true Hokkaido!!!


The snow machine factory right beside us across the street. mayu hasn't woken up early or slept late enough to see the machine work though.


Zooming in onto the snow covered trees!! This feels quite Christmas~~~ XD


my window.

And so after the wondering greeting of snow, decided the throw away my plans of snuggling back to bed and instead skyped miya to show her the beautiful snow~~ XD

01. Welcoming the year 2010
And discussed with her regarding the calendars and decided to buy two gintama and 2 bleach calendars.


Gintama Q version. 2010 version of the one i have in my dorm now that Ros has given me!! XD
Right now, buying 4 of this calendar. For miya, Ros, Ros's sis and myself.

And Bleach Calendar A


And Bleach Calendar B


For anyone who is interested in ordering the calendars from Animate together, do let me know by tomorrow night (Sunday) so that i can place orders~~ XD

02.
Took more photos while going to school for the sudden lesson that our teacher insisted so as to prepare us for our 検定 next week.

In other words, 4 hours of spoon-feeding from our teacher for some of my classmates who probably require such teaching methods?

The teacher means good, and is trying to do his best teaching us and getting us to memorize all the stuff in the textbook.

What i don't get is why he even bothers so much (ok i get it, one reason is prob for the school's reputation, another is prob his passion and sense of responsibility).

When he calls some students to answer, they can just reply in 2 seconds "分からない" without even trying. =_=

And no wonder he hates his hometown.

anyway, onto the photos.


The snow was melting because of the rising sun!!! T^T


Just one week ago, the shrubs across the road were a golden brown. Now they are almost bare.


Blue sky. It was still snowing actually.


Itz strange how when it snows, the familiar scenes turn unfamiliar.


Feels as if i've stepped into Hogsmeade in early winter. XD

Was still snowing when i took the 5pm bus back to dorm, but the remaining snow on the ground were hard and ice had already formed over the ground... T^T

Hopefully, tomorrow will be another white snowy day!!

03. Explore. Dream. Discover
My website is offically up!!



mayu finally gave up waiting for her teacher to upload (not even sure if he's gonna do it or not) and so begun the surprisingly fast and easy project of uploading it. Anyway, while uploading, discovered some bugs (capitalized alphabets) and was ready to vomit blood debugging all my silly mistakes.

Still, it is up (just that if you search it in the search engine it won't appear beause no one visits it).

AND, english version is NOT up yet.
AND, new works after August are also not updated.
AND miya is helping me improve my japanese grammar.

In other words, still under minor constructions.

But still, please check it out! XD

04.
On to the never ending rendering.

mayu hates the word "rendering".

A few reasons.
One, rendering takes bloody long.
Two, given the million ways of rendering, software rendering, hardware rendering etc etc and all those setting which mayu understands zilch.... rendering is terrifying.
Three... erm, just hate it.

Anyway, mayu has no idea why, but she ended up with 10 Tga files when she should have only ONE. (hence the never ending overnight rendering). ORZ

and have no idea whether they are the exactly the same or are actually different. (they look the same to me O_o)

*sigh*

to hell with rendering skills.





and no, mayu doesn't intend to re-render. So whatever mistakes or weird stuff, just point it out here. mayu would mope over them abit and then try harder next time. ^^

*叹*
但不管我做得再怎么样，也都没有某人的好看。。。。T^T
why is he so damn good in everything i am not? *泪奔*

00.
Woke up this morning to be greeted by a blanket of snow over the small town of horobetsu.

Yes, it snowed last night and thus thin sheets of pure white were covering the streets of horobetsu when mayu woke up. Sadly, it was already starting to melt because the sun had came out.


Taken one week ago, when the leaves have turned from a crimson red to a golden brown


Late autumn


Taken on last Saturday. Strong winds and heavy rain and huge waves!!


Thin layer of snow on the streets that melted soon afterwards.


Actually snowing wet snow when i was taking this photo. But the snow didn't show up in the photo.... orz


Random photo of the shiroikoibito chocolate that fumie made for mayu when she visited the 知りおい恋人公園. ^^

01.
And still on my maya room.
Yesterday's


Today's

Added a luminance texture for the lights so that they look more like lights.
Then adjusted the lights again. Made the room even darker, (but might lighten it again tmr), put focused on the table and added Jay's Secret score on the table. XD (Sonia says that my room us turning into a bar, i agree but heck, Eyecandy's room looks like a palace so my bar is reasonable)

Added shadows, discovered i had no idea how to use the ray tracing shadow (i cannot see the shadow)... so ended up using depth map shadow... which is prob not that good?

Still seeking advices and comments!!! (Like weird spots, weird textures, uncoordinated colors etc etc)

01.
温度急速下降。

今天早上起来也不知道是怎么样从温暖的被窝里 爬出来去开暖炉。前几天开着暖炉的时候还会散出种怪味，而且还一度冒烟。。。orz 还好现在已经没事了。

然后等巴士来的时候呼出来的气都变成烟了。

还好fumie给的外套真的是很温暖。

02.
下课后赶回来教英文/中文。

然后才想起今天在学校做的maya animation 忘了交上去。orz

反正老师也没有说清楚什么时候需要交。。。。就当作忘了好了。


03.
教完课后搭学生的车去邮政局。

明明才5点半天却完全黑了。

学生本来还不放心让我一个人走回去。但还是想一个人走回去所以今年第一次用了miya送的耳罩。

但走到一半还蛮后悔的。

从与政局走回寮的路程，有一半是路灯的。另外一半的路程是几乎没有路灯，但至少路旁还有几间看是满温馨的房子。但就在路途上的正中点，有一个拐弯处是几乎一片漆黑的。拐弯处的交口是一个几乎没有人去的神社，然后四周是没有房子的原野和一小片工地。

走过这个被树木遮住了的神社时候真的时候会死以前看这么多USO Japan....

怕死有什么东西跳出来，前后又每次都没有人。orz

*叹*

春天快点来吧。。。

04.
Have been staying back in school every week day till the last bus at 7pm to make my room.

And here's the almost completed image.



Still making lights, adjusting the lighting and haven't put the shadows yet. Anyway, the lighting here is quite bad actually. >_<

The angle of the camera would be roughly the same, except i would zoom out abit more (prob have to delete some parts of the wall behind) so that i can capture more of the bar and the loft above.

And thinking whether to model any thing for my empty dining table. But this is already almost image over-load (because mayu didn't plan properly at first and beveled, smoothed too much stuff, and not to mention lofted and revolved objects with too many edges and faces =_=)

And actually intended to put an image of some night city or sky outside the window.... but sticking to the current reflection might be good too.... hmm...

any comments or advices? My color coordination is terrible and so am currently seeking help desperately.

1.
我最近又再次跌进了一个坑。

护廷十三队的小日子

我只不过是无聊到志波海燕吧绕一圈，结果就这样跌了下去。

海白天道啊啊啊啊~~~~

2.
那天把我的宝贝画板借给了Sonia一用后，才发现他在自己心里是又多么重要的。

没有他在房间里，觉得少了些什么，而且一直担心这花了我几乎六百块的宝贝如果一不小心被弄花了怎么办？

不知不觉原来他已经变成了我的宝贝老公。
留着虽然平时用不着，没有时却又让我想得半死。

结果，以一个老公不外宿的理由把我的画板白回来，当下帮他取了海燕这个名字。想想当初买回这画板时最常画的就是海白嘛。


以后不会再让他寂寞了。

3.
一个游戏，让我非常想要买个Xbox或PS3回来玩。

只因为前几个星期凑巧在Youtube上看到，就让我腐到不行了。



因为这位小哥走路走得让人想扑上去阿!

明明是个信事低调的杀手，但他那背影，那走路的方式实在是会让全世界的小攻们都流口水吧。。。。（还是是我因为生活中太过缺乏成熟男性导致严重胡思乱想？）

虽然是下载了电脑版的这个游戏，可恨我的弄玉速度不够快不太可以玩。等我回到家用那个现在被人砍掉了头的tatsuya来腐！！

4.
等我回到家，我要吃

1.satay
2.海南鸡饭
3.叉烧饭
4.福建面
5.炒粿条
6.泰国餐
7.sizzlers的牛扒
8.鼎太丰的小笼包
9.点心
10.空心菜
11.榴莲
12.roti plata
13.马来餐
14.hummus (指定老爸做的)
15.汤圆
16.很多很多的甜品
17.tomato sardine (那种罐头的)
18.罐头午餐肉
19.猪脚酸
20.芋头糕，芋头糊，所有芋头做的美食
21.一定要去Spom吃一次！！！
22.番茄蛋花汤，番茄炒蛋
22.皇帝鸡/纸包鸡（老妈做的）
23.火锅（在家里一家人一起吃）

然后要每天抓Bobby来一起睡觉。XDDDDDD

01.
Yumiko 说，她是真的宁愿和mayu和Sonia在一起也不愿意去加入班上的女生团体。

This came right when mayu was ready to give up making friends with Japanese.  She is really half a mayuko, interested in american dramas and movies, but sadly without the chances of learning english and getting exposed to more things.

When i look at her, i really think that scholarships and such are for people like her and not for people like mayu. But the sad thing is that, people like her do not know where and how to get scholarships, and her problem is more serious combined with the fact that her self-esteem is next to zero....

相帮却不知道该怎么帮。无奈啊。

但认识她，实在太好了。

02.
My dessan works are one of the best ones in class. (but of course, considering the standard of most of my classmates who seem to live in a manga lines and cute animated world, this is not something to be that proud of?)

不过，我会想如果当年我O水准备考这么好进不了高中结果进了nafa学画画什么的话。。。。我现在会是什么呢？

当然，如果是两个很废的字。

03.
eye candy2 who is the best maya user in our class, and smarty brains who scored the highest in multimedia in our class for last sem, commented that mayu's house has been modeled quite nicely.

Sadly mayu was not around to hear it, went out to catch some fresh air after roasting under the heater for 2 hours, and sonia told mayu about it later. Apparently, mayu is so initimidatng that these guys don't dare to come approach mayu's computer when she is around... orz)

but afterwards, went over to see eye candy2's house and his house is just so.... could i kill him for being so good at maya? *泪奔*

my continuing mission, win that guy somehow or other.... 应该是不可能的任务。。。。orz

04.
overheard  our cg teacher talking to a senpai regarding her 就職。

I have no idea whether it is the bad market now, is it because we are in hokkaido, or is it that our seniors are not working hard enough, but it seems like most of our senpais are still unable to find a job.

Most of them are considering staying on after graduation as 研究生... which, makes mayu feel like they are just using this as an excuse to not go work and that their parents must be damn rich.

or maybe mayu is just being a sour grape, again. orz

wonder how it would be for us next year.... then again, mayu still havent decided if she wants to work here or not....

05.
画美男去。。。。

我居然迷上了这部韩剧。。。。 orz

真要从头说起就是北海道的电视台每天早上8点半会放映一部韩国剧，之前mayu都会早上出门前边做出门的准备边看电视。

之前的连续剧虽然都有趣，但主角都是女生，而且都是现代剧。

然后只能说是天时地利又人和，昨天开电视，就刚刚好快刀洪吉童就开始放映了第一集。

古代，配上搞笑内容又加上帅哥和美男。。。。mayu怎么可能不腐啊啊啊啊啊~~

剧情介绍：
洪吉童雖然出生在官宦世家，但因為他是庶出的這個身份，而令他無法實現當官或做大將軍。吉童自小就被父親放縱，變成一個終日無所事事的小混混，城裏的人都 因為他的所作所為而對他避之則吉。許利綠與爺爺因為在中國混不到飯吃，所以回到朝鮮，但求將他們從中國帶來的藥賣得好價錢，在船上，利綠遇到一心要回到朝 鮮復國的前朝王子──李昌輝。另一方面，吉童想離開朝鮮，到中國一展所長，正煩惱從那學習漢語之際，利綠在城裏比武招親，與爺爺去騙群眾買他們從中國帶 來，以為很值錢的藥，而吉童當然不會放過這個機會



刚出场的洪吉童实在是很无赖的样子，可是渐渐地发现他是个天才，只是没有地方施展才华。
这一幕，在春楼起来的他坐拥右抱，还冒出个小宫~~~（可惜人家只是昨晚来送茶然后不知怎么一起睡觉的了）


小时候的洪吉童非常可爱~


美男登场！！！
怪不得连饿得半死了的許利綠都被美色迷倒跑去看两眼。。。

当然这一两眼就差点要了她的小命。。。。
李昌輝，你也不用人家女孩子说你长得帅所以看你多两眼你就恼羞成怒踩死人家的包子阿。


許利綠的中国式比武招亲，当然是用来骗人家买她从清买回来卖不出的那堆堆药了。


结果摸鱼摸到大白鲨。許利綠就这样成为了他的夫人。。。。orz
不过，当然只是做做的。洪吉童只不过是要这位夫人教他一些汉语罢了。

然后我开始腐了。。。

李昌輝含恨的一瞪。


无言以对的洪吉童。


难得我喜欢的女主角。
还有，以上三张图完全是mayu想象。才看完第一集的mayu根本还没看到两个帅哥美男会面的场面。

谁来告诉我哪里可以BT下载啊啊啊啊？ （现在是在视频上看，但小美男的脸不清楚啊啊啊啊>_<）

Back from Karaoke, which was fun except 2 hours, 4 people, really not alot of time for singing.

But at least it was cheap, one person 212 yen, could i ask for more?

And a thing that mayu have just re-confirmed. Singing is something that must be practiced.

4 months of no KTV-ing, and mayu can't even hit Yui's Tomorrow's Way without her voice cracking. orz

and also, missed singing with miya, hidemi, ros, han, YX, Shuhan, chun and hime.... and the rest, even dad and mom. Even though we often sing songs of different genre, at least mayu knows most of the singers/dramas/animes the songs are from. The songs that Satou san and Sonia sang today, mayu had completely no idea who sang or which anime they belonged to, except for いつかどこか from Spirited Away.....

mayu's otaku level is simply not that high. orz

Fortunately, Fumie sang mostly Ayumi and 信乐团, which mayu have heard of. XD

And satou san's singing is really good. His voice is not special but true to what he claimed, he could really sing. He could hit most of the keys and the best of all, he could really project a strong deep voice. (It would be good if he talks like that too). His falsettos made mayu and fumie crack up but it encouraged Sonia to sing and thatz something mayu is really grateful. XD

Anyway, the guy actually walked all the way from his place to where we were meeting because there just so happened to be no bus coming from his place. He walked one hour.

=_=

the inconvenience of living in a uluated place.... or the perseverance of a boy.... mayu really don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Should mayu feel touched that he walked all the way here to join us, or sigh at the stress that he is putting on mayu?

Still, mayu would just pretend that he is being a very nice friend who keeps to his promise.

Anyway, before he came, had lunch with fumie and we talked alot, mostly about Japanese, which is basically what our conversation often focus on since she is a half Japanese-taiwanese.

She says that making friends with japanese girls are very difficult, coz they often look for ppl with similarities to them. And that Japanese girls can be very calculative and scheming, which is what she really dislikes, even though she admits that being half-japanese, she bears some of those characteristics too. And as a whole, japanese are just much more colder than people of other nationalities.

Whether true or not, mayu feel that, yes, the majority of the Japanese girls are like this. And this kind of connects to what student 2, an obasan who is learning chinese from mayu, was saying this morning that, Japanese are really not as open to people or things that are different from them. It is not in their characteristic and culture.

For example, despite having been hanging out occasionally with Yumiko and Mikako for the last few months, meaning we have lunch together everyday at school, we are not friends. At least, I don't think they consider Sonia and mayu as anything more than foreigner classmates of convenience.

And sometimes mayu wonders if she is being overly-friendly or overly-warm to them. Both of them, especially mikako, wear an ice around them and refuse to let them melt. But anyway, Mikako has seemingly recently joined the huge clique of girls in our class so i guess the ice melts according to the 相手.

Maybe mayu is simply thinking too much into the matter. Maybe mayu is just being a sour grape because mikako has joined the clique...

But, mayu desperately needs a redefinition of the meaning of 'friends'. because, making "friends" with Japanese seems like a total different business (like trying to melt an ice rock in the north poles)  from making "friends" with people of other countries who are mostly, warmer.

Of course, the lack of many friends is not a problem to mayu anyway since mayu generally just requires one or two good friends. Sonia and Fumie are the two best people that mayu has met here and mayu is thankful to that. But mayu just can't help but wonder if the difficulty of making friends with japanese lies with the japanese being cold to foreign things, or that mayu is simply not trying hard enough.

*sigh*

i could probably write a paper on this. *sarcastic laugh*

0。
不知不觉我的第一个秋天差不多结束了。

上个星期气温突然急速下降，连续两天早上都下了雪。这也是今年5月后的初雪，如miya说的真的是很漂亮。我忘记了原来我是这么想念雪的。

但是，雪虽然漂亮，也是要在温暖的房间里看出窗外才美，又或许是去雪中玩然后以开始冷时就可以回到温暖的室内这雪才会觉得格外好玩。

这个星期，气温回复5到10度，所以没有下雪，但每天早上起床都是个大问题。不想从温暖的被窝里爬出来啊。因为还没到真冬所以吝啬鬼mayu不肯开暖炉。orz

然后拉开窗帘最喜欢看到的就是刚出炉的太阳，在海上闪闪发光。

但以这里一个星期非要下两天雨，三天阴，只有两天晴的天气来算，大多数早上起来天空都一片灰暗。


像这个样子


又或许完全像黑白照。我不记得拍这张照片时我是不是把相机的功能换去拍黑白的了。。。


在东室兰，没有人的街道上。这里，在多时年或许就变成个鬼城了吧。


街上的树木的叶子都已经转红


幌别小学的花园不论是春天还是秋天都很漂亮。


还是幌别小学


下午四点，太阳开始西下


现在这里每天到了五点就一片漆黑的了


云和山之间的廖空很细


我还是爱拍光和影


云开始密集


看得到那细雪吗？


然后因为太兴奋我居然在相机上找不到专拍雪的功能。。。。orz

期待冬天的照片阿~

02.
昨天考了就职测验。

老实说这个就职测验是拿来干嘛的我考完了还是不明白。。。。

基本上，昨天的就职测验分成了3份。

第一份是是就职常识测验。
这卷子分成5个项目。

一。时事常识。例问题如下：
日本国有鉄道など、いわゆる三公社を民営化した首相は（a.中曽根康弘　　　b.田中角栄　　　c.福田赳夫）である。
别说我听都没听过选择题里的三个人物，什么是三公社我都不知道好不好。。。。orz
所以，时事常识mayu可以很有信心地说，全灭。orz

二。英文~~~
当然是mayu的强项。例问题如下：
Every student has to take part (    ) the meeting.
a. at    b. to   c. by   d. in
这是我们小学二或三年级的问题吧。。。。

三。文字和语言
不用说当然是考日文。例问题如下：
家を新築して「あばら屋です」ととけんそんする場合の「あばら屋」とは、本来は（a.昔風の家　　　b.壊れかけた家　　　c.わらぶきの家　　　d.小さな家）。
谁来告诉我答案阿啊啊啊。
这一项差不多全军覆没了。

四。数学
我的另一样强项！多亏了五年来的数学补习老师的经验，教学生多了自然也就不会忘记如何解这些问题。也多亏了当年考北京大学时候读了中文的数学题目，不然看到日文的数学题目我一定会连题目在问什么都不明白。例问题如下：
奇数の例　１，３，５，７，９、......
の１番目から１０番目までの数の和は(　　　)である。
这项目应该没问题吧。。。

五。业界常识
基本上就是关于你想要进入的业界的常识问题。已经不想写了，到达这个项目的时候mayu已经是完全放弃的了。

抱着完全投降的心情完成这张卷子后，原以为接下来随表草草写个文章就可以了。。。
没想到还有多一份卷子。。。。orz

这一份是就职能力测验。

基本上就有如SAT一样，考语言能力和数理能力-日文版。
语言能力 - 放弃。到了最后两篇文章已经完全放弃阅读直接随意选择答案。毕竟时间有限而接下来的数理问题才是mayu的强项。

但这里的数理问题也实在不容易啊啊啊。
花了不少时间，有些问题还是没有求到答案。。。orz

结果，抱着完全放弃在日本找工作（其实本来就没有特别希望在日本就职的想法），开始了就职测验的第三部。

就职作文测验。

题目是老师一个星期前就公布的了。
１．「私の強み（自己PR）」
２．「専門学校の勉強を仕事にどう生かすか」
３．「就職に向かって今、努力していること」
４・「私がもっとも大切にしていること」
5．「最近興味を持ったニュースと私の意見」

以删除方法来决定要写哪一题，结果是2。
因为写1的话总觉得好现在自吹自擂。这种自我推荐的东西我觉得写的东西很假。
3虽然好像很好写但老实说我到现在都没有真的为了就职而在努力些什么。
原本想写4但对我来说很重要的东西要真么样和就职活动扯上关系着是个大问题。而且写出来一定是那种感情满腾的作文。。。不要啊啊啊啊~
5 - 写这种应用文格式的文章我是非死不可的。。。

不过不管结果如何，考完了都还是蛮开心的。至少少了一个怪在心头上的烦恼。 XD

03.
Kinki Kids's J Album.
Pre-ordered for miya from amazon. Anyone else wants it? Since mayu will be returning to SG on the 21st Dec, mayu can just bring it back together. ^^

Or any other CDs/books/make up stuff is ok too. Ros ordered mascara from Rakuten and mayu will be bringing them back for her too.

Let me know the orders soon if interested!

04.
Karaoke with Fumie, sonia and Satou-san tomorrow~~~~
Finally!!! the lack of entertainment is killing mayu. XD

Somehow, downloaded The Astronaut's Wife after finishing Starship Troopers. Probably because i was on space sci fi high.

The story is very simple.

Spencer (Johnny Depp) is an astronaut. He goes into Space. Something happens there which no one knows. He comes back and he's slightly different. His wife ignores all the signs and gets pregnant. And now, she starts to think that something is wrong.

Guess what is wrong?

In a nut shall, it was boring and mayu skipped all the way to the end. But credits for the suspense.


And finally, What's Eating Gilbert Grape!!!!

A 1993 film that was so famous it boosted Leonardo DiCaprio to fame before Titanic made him world-famous. Anyway, i had no idea Johnny Depp was in this show too.... orz

Story takes place in a small ghost town called Endowa where Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) seems to have a life all planned ahead which involves taking care of his mentally handicapped brother Arnie(Leonardo DiCaprio), and his TOTALLY obese mother who has never left the house after his father killed himself 7 years ago.

Life seems simple enough, if you ignore
1.  the number of times Arnie tries to mount the very tall water tower and get himself killed or arrested by the sheriff,
2. the danger that his mother is posing by just sitting on the sofa in the living room and eating herself to a weight that is threatening to break the entire floor
3. the fact that a new homestore has opened and everyone is shopping there instead of at the homey grocery store that Gilbert is working at
4. the threats that the husband of the housewife that Gilbert is having an affair with

And one thing starts the ball rolling, a girl who is passing though the town when her car broke down. This is what starts the ball rolling where Gilbert starts waking up and what's been eating him up starts exploding.

To sum it up, it's really a story with no concrete storyline, itz just a story about this normal guy living his normal life taking care of his siblings and mom. But it was good.　

Shows like Forrest Gump or 天使消失的街道 create a mentally handicapped character who,after a lot of stuff, would excel in one special thing that would bring them to fame or at the end they fall in love or something liddat. But for Arnie, this miracle doesn't happen. As a result, this show is really talking about Gilbert, the person who has to take care of him instead of Arnie. The caretaker is the really, the silent hero here.

Anyway, Leonardo was a really really great actor. I totally forgot he is an actor. He felt totally mentally handicapped.

In all, a show that mayu totally recommend. 10 out of 10.


Charlie and the Chocolate factory - a movie that mayu put off for a very long time because of the children-appeal. Just didn't think that i would be interested in it.

But still, since mayu was on a Johnny Depp movie marathon, not watching this would defeat the purpose so downloaded and watched it.

The CG was amazing. And Johnny Depp's expressions for Willy Wonker were priceless. Each of the 5 kids were really good actors too.

The only thing that bored mayu slightly were the moral songs at the end of each naughty kid's punishment and mayu was really glad there were only 4 naughty kids.

Definitely waiting for more Tim Burton and Johnny Depp productions.

In continuation to my movie marathon that blasted off from Halloween to the public holiday 文化の日。



Starship Troopers! Which mayu and miya have watched countless times on TV in SG (of course probably with many parts censored so that the general public can watch it safely without getting cursed to death or brainwashed by the super militaristic ideals)

Yes, Starship Troopers is so pro-militaristic that even a 军服控 like mayu finds it overbearing. The problem with it is that the militarism it promotes is linked with violence and nationalism (in this case federalism). In the Trooperverse, to become a citizen (ie ,acknowledged member of society), you have to join the military and apply violence, in the name of protecting the human race. Of course, in their context, itz a fight and protect our selves or sit and die situation. But how they advocate this application of violence is sometimes just abit too much.

For example, this dialogue just pisses mayu off.

Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.
Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that.
[to Carmen]
Jean Rasczak: You.
Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.

maybe mayu has been brainwashed by Gundam Wing's Absolute pacifism theory....

Still, despite all these advocation of violence, mayu still loves these very controversial movie. XD

And thatz why, mayu downloaded the sequel to this film.



Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

And like most sequels, slight disappointing.

In terms of action and freshness it was still quite ok. New bugs were introduced but it felt like they were taken from "Aliens". The more disappointing part was the storyline, which seemed to just emphasize on hormones between the characters... orz

Not so thought-provoking as Starship Troopers 1.

In a nutshell, a movie to just kill braincells if you have too much of them.

Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.

Great, wonderful movie, which mayu would love to re-watch but some scenes are just too heart-breaking to be re-watched again. *runs off ot hug puppy soft toy*

Will Smith is a great actor in portraying the character's loneliness in the huge city alone. Setting up manaquins and holding one sided dialogues with them. Very brilliant. But the influence from Cast Away was abit strong?

Anyway, the story line is really good too, though some parts were kinda similar to Resident Evil. For eg, the scene where everyone gathers at the gate trying to get out of the city. These scenes has been used too many times ba,,,

But still,  a wonderful movie. Fear factor and suspense was not too high, it was just nice actually. And itz not mindless scream, run and attack either, there were beautiful scenes of the empty city, of Robert playing catch with Samantha, of his lab experiments. Combination of the undead, lab experiments and a dog, what more can mayu ask for?

Except one thing, the vampires, or the infected. Too CG-lized, such that they look like bleached gollems and not so human-looking anymore. Considering that they came from human, how could they be mutated so differently in such a short period of time?

But other than that, perfect.

Such that mayu ended up downloading Richard Matheson's novel.



Of course, the movie strayed from the novel. But gotta say that the movie was a great adaptation of the novel.

And the novel was great too. It answered the question which had been bogging mayu's mind - Why is the title "I am Legend".

Totally interesting concept of the changing of a world and the view of itz people. The majority decides what is norm and what is not. Left behind, unable to join the new society, you can only be a legend.

Lost in Space - Another Sci-fic movie that mayu has always wanted to watch, since its release in 1998.

And after a BT download spree, finally downloaded it and watched it.

The story is simple. Robinson Crusoe family gets lost in space instead of getting lost at sea. They escape from spidery aliens, adopt an outerspace monkey alien as pet, try not to kill the villian whos sabotaged their journey that resulted in them getting lost in space and love blossoms in the air.

At the beginning of the show, mayu seriously wondered if she should have watched the show 10 years earlier. CG effects were of course, incomparable to those nowadays and that was quite a letdown. And the script at beginning was quite cliche and overdone,esp those spoken by Major Don West (the guy who acts as Joey from Friends).

But as the show proceeded, the action started kicking in slightly and the dialogues improved too. And the twist near the end was nice too, though it could really have been done more climatic.

In all, a good show for families and children to watch on a slow weekend evening.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is movie mayu wanted to watch for a long time, because of two main reasons.
1. mayu likes Milla Jovovich (liked her ever since watching The Fifth Element)
2. Luc Besson, the director of The Fifth Element, directed this show too.

So, after finishing Nightmare before Christmas last night, decided to continue watching.

Joan of Arc is quite a famous person in history. So the directors's interpretation of her life was what mayu was more interested in.

Anyway, the story takes place in an era where England is ruling France (therefore there is no King in France at that point of time). The French want to gain back their lands and therefore war is widespread. The story begins with a young French girl, Joan, a very religious girl who confesses at the church twice or 3 times a day. While coming home from church one day, she gets a vision (which she would continue getting) from god and finds a sword. She runs home and finds her village being attacked by the English army. She is very traumatized after she watches her sister kena kill then raped (yes in that order) by the English soldiers and she cant figure out why god would allow that. She finds herself unable to forgive the soldiers.

Years, later, in the French palace, the to-be-King of France Charles VII receives word that the famous maiden of Lorraine(whom the people believe to be the savior of France) wants to meet him. The maiden, is of course Joan, who had visions and come before Charles to tell him that she would make him King if he would give her an army. Drove to desperate measures, he gives the go, but of course not before authenticating Joan's claims.

So Joan passes the tests and goes to the war front, where the other generals are at first skeptical about her abilities and claims but slowly, they turn their loyalty to her when Joan defeats the English army several times. Charles VII successfully becomes King of France when the English pull back. But problems begin around this point of time, Joan is traumatized by the amount of blood shed and violence that occurs in war, although she had been the one who had been and who continues pushing for war, in the name of god, to drive the English back. At the same time, the newly annointed King now finds Joan's pro-action war tactics too un-diplomatic for his kingdom. When his minions try to convince him to betray Joan, he agrees.

Thus, much thanks to the King's betray, Joan gets captured and ends up in the hands of the English, who of course hate her to the core. She is trialed unfairly and at this point of time, her conscious appears before her and she is torn between what was her own will and what is god's will. In the end, she confesses to herself that all those signs that god had given her, were simply all her interpretations and she had simply wanted revenge. In the end, she was sentenced to burning as a witch.

In all, the story left me with a 无奈感.... In the first place, i knew that Joan was gonna be burnt in the end, but still... and of course, the question that's been bogging my mind for a while is, so in this show, is Joan depicted as really her god's messenger? Or is she a fake from the very beginning?

Because at the beginning of the show, we were showed a being in Joan's visions, a young boy whom makes us and Joan assume that he is god. And afterwards, this god grows up with Joan. But he never speaks, only points and looks. And the only time he spoke, he freaked the hell out of Joan. Then near the end, he appears as an old man, and Joan thinks that he is satan. But then afterwards, he seems to be Joan's conscience and that whatever message Joan had received from god, she admits that it was actually just her will in the end. So if there had been no god in the first place, how do we explain the seemingly "miracles" that Joan performed in the show? Were they just coincidences that were results from her belief and the other people's faith in her?

Perhaps, the true theme of the this movie is faith and it's effects on people.

ahh... complicated, mind-smashing but very interesting.

Apart from the mind boggling events, the wonderful suspense and harsh reality of humanitiy, war and religion, the slight humor in the show was interesting too, especially the conversations between Joan and Jean Aulon(whom mayu really wished were a couple >_<).

My personal fav part of the show;

Aulon: Jeanne! Are you alright?
Joan of Arc: Yes, I'm fine. Why are you staring at me?
Aulon: Because there's an arrow in your leg.
Joan of Arc: [Looks down at arrow] So there is.But that doesn't stop you from climbing!
[Motions him towards the wall]
Joan of Arc: Raymond! Take this arrow out of my leg.

In all, a show which i would most definitely rewatch at least one time to fully digest the long and complicated story. And did i mention it had a great soundtrack?



Ultraviolet, another show of Milla Jovovich that i actually watched in October.

My conclusion: quite boring.... in terms of storyline (which i barely grasped but that could be because i was watching in Japanese), and though it was an action movie, the fights were not very exciting.... orz

Basically, the plot could have been made more deeper... but instead, it seemed more like this movie was focusing on the kicks and actions... which ended up so much and repetitive it got rather boring.

But well, maybe one day i would download the english version, rewatch it, and find the movie better.