[K-Ani-Me] Anime Review

Anime Title: Last Exile
Producers: GONZO
Genre: Action + Drama
Episodes: 26

Behind the amazingly CGI rendered airship battles that is wage upon the misty skies, this anime foretells the tale on a group of people who flies among the skies for dream, revenge, love, duty, freedom, friendship, pride, survival and power.

War rages upon the heaven skies as two countries divided by the Grand Stream, Anatoure and Deusis wage a war under the manipulation of the mysterious Guild. A pair of vanship pilot and navi has been assigned with the dangerous task of delivering a peace declaration from Anatoure to Deusis. The peace however was not meant to be as both of them died in their attempt to cross the ever violent Grand Stream.

Claus Valka and Ravey Hedde are a pair of vanship pilot and navi that dream is to one day cross the Grand Stream. By the twist of fate, Claus and Ravey finds themselves from delivering messages using their vanship to being enlisted as crews of the battleship Silvana, which is under the command of Alex Rou. Upon the Silvana, Claus and Ravey meets and befriends a huge cast of character each which chooses to fly upon the skies for all sort of different reasons.

Pros:

• A great cast of characters and great airship battles.

Cons:

• Medicore animation quality on some episode, probably budget issue.
  
• The ending was bitter-sweet but left alot of loose end untied.

Verdict:

• A must watch anime for those who enjoy airship battles. A recommended watch meanwhile for those who don't.

(Note: Will upload screen-caps once I got time to do so)

Birthday Wish Top Ten

August Top Ten

Ever thought of wtf u'll wish for when u get to make a wish that will come true? Well, considering today's my birthday, here is a list of birthday wishes that crossed my mind today...

Topic: Top Ten of My possible birthday wish

1. I wish I had another 2 more wishes... Duh! I wish all the wishes I made from now on come true.
2. I wish I had enough savings invested in a winning portfolio so I can can gain financial freedom for the rest of my life
3. I wish I had a chicken that could lay golden egg... Ergh... make it titanium egg since titanium is worth more than gold nowdays.
   
4. I wish I could turn back time so I could go back to the past not to correct the mistakes I done, but to redo them.
   
5. I wish I could retire from IT field despite only working in it for a good 1+ month.
6. I wish I had a PS2.
7. I wish that humanity would do the inevitable and destroy themselves.
   
8. I wish I was the smartest person on earth so I'm not stupid enough to waste this wish to wish to be smart.
   
9. I wish I had better ideas for what to wish for instead of writing this lame stupid wish.
   
10. I wish I didn't wasted 15 minutes of my bloody life to write this stupid blog entry.
    

Swingy Life

Ok, almost been working at my new co. for 2 weeks+ liao, know all the ppl in the co. liao... Wat can I say, I count myself very lucky to be employeed by this co. Too bad I can't speak cantonese else everything will be just perfect.

Anyway been assigned my first module to bang my head on and it involves swing and jdbc. Initially I was to do the module using either swing or swt but getting advice from another collegue with experience in swt and swing, I was advice to use swing. Anyway been cracking my head on the module already as it mainly involves mapping data from UI widgets to a object before mapping again to database columns... T_T. Learn a few new things in UI programming most notable is the mediator design pattern.

Doubt as if I'm up to it to be a programmer has grown in my mind due to seeing my collegue(same age some more) that are good in programming while I even have problem with writting a simple swing+jdbc application. Maybe it's just my pessimistic self again but I really wonder if I can manage to do what my college can do should I be given time... (A word of advice for college students like Eidur that are studying, sacrifice some time to learn up some skill instead of wasting time watching shit shows like Alias so u won't be so underskilled like me when u work). I sometimes even wonder if I can last till the end of my probation?

Okay after almost 1 month of working, I beginning to understand why my father enjoys to go lepak at shopping complex already. I also went to Tesco instead of going straight home as I really need a change from the normal work routine: wake up, goto work, lunch, continue work, go home, sleep, wake up, goto work... Gotten used to driving up and down to work, know which lane to go and which lane to avoid already but still not so familiar with KL roads yet. I plan on trying out the roads near my office every night after work to learn the area.

Today, we celebrated two of my collegue birthday at the office. Funny that these two collegue birthday is so ngam one day apart, one today and another tomolo. Just a few weeks ago, two boss birthday now again double birthday celebration... Bizzare indeed... Anyway time for my routine "sleep" liao... ciao...

Lost and not found yet

Dunno why, but i just get the feeling I'm lost in life... No goal, drifting aimlessly, living for the sake of just living... At times like this I often ask myself, "Why am I so different from others?". I sometimes envy those that live life to the fullest, but for me I just find that so impossible to do... Why? Maybe it's cause of I'm what people call "essentric".

Often I find myself unable to enjoy what other people would enjoy doing. I never could find a goal in life as I dunno wtf I even want in life to begin with? Money? Knowledge? Wisdom? A pretty babe? Though I'm not a Buddhist, I believe in alot of their teachings especially their teaching on "Suffering". We suffer because we crave for something. I often find myself lost and confused because I know craving leads to suffering but yet despite knowing it I still crave for things. It's like I know that if I take another step forward I would fall off the cliff, but my inner self still yearns to take another step despite knowing I would then fall to my doom.

I often have the desire to live my life like a wanderer. Wandering from one place to another, leaving new friends and memories that I just had at a place I just visited with the odds I would never see them again. I always felt that I was always a wanderer by nature, valueing the journey itself rather than the final destination. Am I essentric? Yes I believe I am but as I long ago learned, once a word is spoken, it losses it's meaning (That is y I dun enjoy to talk anymore than I need to).

Me, Malaysia's Biggest Loserz

After one week of working at my new company, I decided to label myself as Malaysia biggest loser. Why I call myself Malaysia's biggest loser? Simple, cause I'm one.

Imagine having ur father driving with u to work and then coming back from work with u (Meaning 4 trips up and down to my office). I'm indeed utterly useless. When I suggest I go solo since I already know the road to office, my father claims my driving skill is not up to mark, blablabla (Believe me, no one stands a chance to be considered up to mark by my father)... Today, I just sort of spoiled my boss birthday party at a KTV because of this reason. I asked my father to gimme drive the car to my office as I know tis party will end very very late but my father insisted on going with me and said he would wait at my relative house at Bangsar. The boss party was held in Kepong which was pretty far from my office. Atlast, a senior worker had to drive me to Bangsar where my father was waiting... I dunno wtf my co-workers thinks of me anymore considering I'm so useless till need my father drive me up to work and back from work....

Besides that, I also had to suffered a stab through my ego. I always thought my Java skill were good, but after working for just a week in my new company, I realized just how much skill I was lacking. I knew my skills nothing at international level but to be lacking that much even at local level, it really puts a hole through my self confidence.

Putting my ego self aside, my new co. is definitely one good co. The environment is great and most importantly the collegues are friendly. I however have doubt if someone so useless as me is worth being in such good co. Most of my collegue are same age but are way ahead of me in programming skills and definitely more independant. But if u think I gonna call it quits, think again. Despite my parents advice for me to quit this job and find a job near Klang or "any area where driving to there is easy", I'm very determined to prove to my parents that their opinion on how I should live my life is not always right.

How can I drive better solo if I'm not allowed to struggle by driving solo to work to begin with? How can I become better at programming if I dun accept the I got points where I need to work one? How can I be independant if I was to always let my parent dictate how I should live my life? I'm considering renting a room at my aunties house at Bangsar so I can goto work easier (cut cost of toll also) but mainly so I can start living independant without my parents ordering me how I should eat, drink, work, sleep, exercise, play and most importantly live my life. I know I owe my parents alot for raising me, but I can let they live my life for me anymore...