Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Cowboy Bebop + Harry Potter
Since uni's started there really hasn't been much to blog about, but I've suddenly felt like blogging, so here I am.
The title probably reads weird, but it helps me to determine the timeline of my life. Next time when I'm 50 I'll click through my archives and know approximately when and what happened. Right now I only feel like talking about Cowboy Bebop, since I've already discussed HP at length with my friends and cousins already. It'd just be a tedious process to type all I've said out again.
I've noticed that whatever drink I buy from Boost, I dislike. And somehow, I always go back for more. I just don't get me sometimes. Anyway.
Yeah. Cowboy Bebop. Have I ever explicitly warned people about stereotyping and making assumptions? I do that all the time, especially when I had to defend the Transformers movie. If not for my cousin I would have fallen into another trap and been deprived of an old but classic, stellar anime. I know I know. At first glance this anime just looks like just another anime set in the future, replete with spaceships and aerial combat and the proverbial bounty-hunting to add that cool-ness factor. But figure in unique jazzy music, strong and well-fleshed out characters with all their quirky vices and hobbies, non-stop action that will leave you slavering for more and just the right amount of mystery, and you get a brilliant anime that lives up to all the hype that has been built up around it throughout alot of years.
No wonder anime such as this never die in popularity. Like how some of my friends keep reiterating that Jay Chou would be a star that will never stop shining, I believe, likewise, that Cowboy Bebop will be just such a star, along with popular raved-about classics such as Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion and Full Metal Alchemist. So if any of you people out there dismiss Bebop with a wave of your fingers as "just another aniime", you'll be missing out alot on what I believe is an anime masterpiece. Replete with unforgettable music as well.
Plus it's only 26 episodes. It's not like you'll burst a vein trying to finish it, unlike Naruto or One Piece.
Ahhh. That was such a raving good review. I feel so much better now. All that remains is the formidable prospect of having to hanker down with my Law readings after I finish this post. NOT FUN.
I love my creative and professional writing classes this term. The people in my workshops are all so talented writers, I love it when they read out their writing in class. Some of it is funny, nostalgic, tragic, sentimental, and others are just plain frank, raw and reflective. How I'm going to be able to compete with all these sub-human geniuses is beyond me. All I can do is try my best and hope that I don't get smothered in the process. I really really hope that one day I'd be able to reach a literary level that will be on par with theirs.
Meanwhile, today, I missed out on lunch, not because I wanted to, but because i had no money on me. Literally. I forogt to top up my bank account and had no cash with me (despite the fact that I was so loaded down with coins so recently). I ended up trudging off to afternoon class clutching my dismal bag of gummy bears I always keep handy in my school bag for just such occasions. Needless to say, when dinner came along I wolfed down my usual portion, and then some. :) Though my aunt's curry was a tad hotter than it usually is.
I'm getting mighty sick and tired of wandering around campus on my own. Everywhere I look I see people walking around in twos or in groups and I think to myself: why is it that I'm always walking around campus on my own? Then I answer my own question: because tehre never is someone with the same next class I have, and because my uni friends are just not, well, on good enough terms with me to warrant a lunchtime hang-out session. And so I was thinking this as I walked past yet another student BBQ. You might have wondered why I didn't just dip in and get some free sausages, but I wasn't sure if the BBQ was a free-for-all, and it's just awkward going to a BBQ on your own. Most everyone near the pit were laughing and talking with friends.
That's something else I've noticed about me and uni life. I've started talking less often. Sometimes I can go for whole stretches not uttering a single word, and it can get kinda depressing, considereing how chatty I usually am. But what can a person do if there's no one THERE to talk to? I can't very well go about campus muttering to myself about how insanely crazy the wind was today. I can't help but wonder if this would have been the case had I gone to NUS instead, or even attended JC. I find it easier to speak up when I'm around people from similar backgrounds. It's just harder for me to voice my opnions in a roomful of foreigners.
Maybe it's a mindset problem. I always think of myself as an outsider, the International student amongst all the locals who speak so freely and easily, as well as the Aussie-born Asians, who speak just as easily. I miss the days at Trinity where people would just refuse to answer questions and be too afriad to speak up. I felt more at home there.
Oh no. Here I am getting all nostalgic when I have who-knows-how-many pages of Dispute Resoluations to read. Have to go. BYE!
...is what I said. Savvy?
8:11 pm
friends
June 2006