My Song, Her Song, Our Song.... Moon On The Water.

This song is originally performed by a Japanese band, Beat Crusaders. Later featured in the anime Beck, sang by another japanese artist named Sowelu. I dunno why me & my late missus liked it, maybe the lyrics is somewhat related to us. Reminds me of times when were together back then...

Beat Crusaders : Moon On The Water

Full moon sways, gently in the night of one fine day,
On my way looking for a moment with my dear,

Full moon waves, slowly on the surface of the lake,
You were there, smiling in my arms for all these years,

What a fool, i don't know bout tomorrow,
What's it's like to be,
I was fool, couldn't let myself to go,
Even though i feel the end....

Old love affair, floating like a bird resting her wings,
You were there, smiling in my arms for all these years....

Beck : Mongolian Chop Squad.

Found this anime 2-3 years ago, well actually my late gf bought it for my birthday. I really liked it the first time i watched it. Music and anime, really gets me going.

History : BECK is a manga, which was later made into an anime under the name BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad. It was created by mangaka Harold Sakuishi and was originally published by Kodansha in Monthly Shonen Magazine. It tells the story of a group of Japanese teenagers who form a rock band. The manga is currently licensed in the USA by Tokyopop. The series has also spawned three guidebooks. BECK won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. Harold created this manga to show his appreciation to his rock idols.

Synopsis : Yukio, known by his friends as "Koyuki", is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy who enters junior high school with two childhood acquaintances. One is now a useless pervert, and ironically the other is a highly sought after female student. Koyuki's boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck's owner turns out to be an emerging rock musician, Ryuusuke Minami, who soon influences Koyuki to start playing the guitar, and even gives one to him.
The story focuses on the trials and tribulations of their punk and rapcore band named BECK. There's also an important subplot that deals with Koyuki's relationship with Ryuusuke's sister, Maho.

CHARACTERS (Important ones)

Yukio ("Koyuki") Tanaka : The main character, the series follows his rapid development from an average person to an outstanding guitarist. Being extremely polite, he cannot help but let others push him around, a possible metaphoric stereotype on the very proper and manner conscious Japanese society. The last member of BECK, he is the second guitarist and vocalist. He was the last person to ever talk to Eddie and hears his last song. Yukio has a very beautiful voice that is mostly used for Beck's slower songs. He owns a Fender Telecaster.

Ryusuke ("Ray") Minami : A Japanese character with a long history in America, he speaks fluent English, and frequently uses both Japanese and English in his conversation. He lives alone in a shack by the fishing pond. His skills and taste in music inspire Koyuki to take up the guitar. The band's creator, Ryusuke is BECK's lead guitarist. A once-younger Ryusuke and Eddie Lee stole the Lucille from the trunk of Syke's vehicle.

Ken'ichi Saitou : Koyuki's guitar and swimming teacher, Saitou once swam in the Olympics but was unable to achieve his dream of winning so has turned his life to teaching others how to swim better. Saitou is loud and demanding in public, and especially strict when it comes to swimming. But when he is out of the water he is much more open, even turning to Koyuki for advice on his attractions to Momo. Saitou is a fan of British rock and his favorite band in the anime is the fictional Rocket Boys while in the manga it's The Beatles.

Maho Minami : Ryusuke's sister and a talented singer with a strange relationship with Koyuki. At times she seems attracted to him, others she brushes him off with little regard to his often ignored feelings.

Izumi Ishiguro : Koyuki's childhood friend, he eventually was left to choose between her and Maho, though by the time he reached his decision, the two girls also reached one of their own, luckily a similar conclusion.

Yoshiyuki Taira : The first recruited member of BECK, Taira is the bassist, and the most talented band member next to Ryusuke. He plays Music Man StingRay bass. Little is known about him, and his attitude may sometimes come off as uncaring. He has been seen working as a traffic officer.

Tsunemi Chiba : Main vocalist for BECK, he is the key member that Ryusuke needed to bring Taira into the band. Compared to Koyuki, his voice is more punk and rock oriented, like the majority of the band's songs. He also named the band "Beck" after staring at Ryusuke's dog for a few moments.

Yuji ("Saku") Sakurai : The fourth member to join, he was also Koyuki's first good friend, sticking with him even when the school bully and his gang beat him up for breaking the silent treatment on Koyuki. He is the drummer, inspired by his brother, and replaces the original drummer of BECK who followed Ryusuke from his original band, Serial Mama.

Have you watched it??

This is the first anime that turned my perspective about anime. AKIRA, have you ever watched it? In the old days, i thought anime is just normal cartoons. No differents from those westerns ones. Until i found this one, if you're an anime nut than you must know this one. To me this is like the legend of all animes. Masterpiece from Katsuhiro Otomo, this is the piece that made him forever remembered worldwide. The storyline for AKIRA is so awesome yet strange for me when i found it. Serious business, that's what my first impresson of this anime. After that i started to appreciate anime more and more that it become more than just a hobby to me.

History : The manga originally began publication in 1982 in Japan's Young Magazine and finally concluded in July 1990. The collected manga totaled over 2000 pages and was released in 6 volumes by Kodansha.

Summary : The story begins in 1988 in Tokyo, just as the city is destroyed by what seems to be an explosion brought about by an elaborate nuclear bomb. However, the explosion is really caused by the frightening psionic powers of a child named Akira, a test subject for a secret government research project seeking to harness psychokinetic abilities. Presumably due to confusion after the incident, the explosion leads to the start of World War III.
Thirty-one years later, in the year 2019, the futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo stands on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. The city is politically volatile, as there is a powerful group of terrorist insurgents who stage terrorist attacks in the city to destabilize the corrupt government. The government is mostly managed by petty, greedy bureaucrats, and, as Colonel Shikishima observes later in the film, the city under their management "has become a garbage heap run by a bunch of hedonistic fools."

A gang of teenage bikers led by a smug 16-year-old delinquent named Shotaro Kaneda find themselves involved in a street fight with a rival gang called the Clowns. Tetsuo Shima, Kaneda's best friend, having pursued two Clown members in the abandoned Tokyo, finds a child with wizened features (Takashi, an esper who has just been kidnapped from a government facility), blocking his path. As Tetsuo tries to avoid him, his bike inexplicably explodes. When the gang reaches the scene, several military helicopters also arrive. Led by Colonel Shikishima, armed soldiers take Takashi and the injured Tetsuo away while Kaneda and his friends are arrested.

Kaneda's Bike

The gang is brought in for questioning, but the interrogators are soon convinced the boys are not members of the anti-government Resistance group. Among the other detainees, Kaneda recognizes a female Resistance member named Kei from an earlier-spied mugshot and, finding her attractive, gets the soldiers to release her by convincing them she is part of their gang. Kei abruptly leaves the scene, leaving a spurned Kaneda behind. When the boys are returned to their vocational training school, they are harshly disciplined by the school administration.
Meanwhile, Colonel Shikishima, engaged in discussion of a Supreme Executive Council inquiry into Takashi's escape, is summoned by Doctor Onishi, who is monitoring Tetsuo at the government lab. The Doctor says that Tetsuo is displaying strong mental frequencies that are reminiscent of Akira's. Warning that Tetsuo may turn into "another Akira," the Colonel orders the Doctor to kill Tetsuo without hesitation should his power grow beyond control. Tetsuo, apparently using telepathy, repeats Akira's name in his mind.
Tetsuo escapes from the government hospital and meets up with his girlfriend, Kaori. Deciding to run away together, they go to the school the next day and steal Kaneda's bike, which stalls just as the two are leaving town. They are immediately attacked by Clown members, who beat them up and are about to destroy the bike when Kaneda and his gang show up and defeat them.
Tetsuo declares his longstanding resentment towards Kaneda and his leadership role, revealing an inferiority complex. Tetsuo then has a painful headache accompanied by disturbing hallucinations, including brief glimpses of Akira, Neo-Tokyo's destruction, and Tetsuo's own mutation as well as the fate of Kaori. Scientists and bodyguards, acting on orders of the Doctor, sweep in to recapture Tetsuo and take him away.
That night, as the gang hangs out in the city, their excursion is interrupted by a terrorist attack. Kaneda glimpses Kei and Ryu, and follows as they flee the scene. When Kei separates from Ryu and enters the sewers, she is spotted by soldiers; Kaneda wrestles with one of them and Kei shoots and kills another in self-defense. Kei and Kaneda flee the scene.
Experiments are performed on Tetsuo again, who dreams of himself and Kaneda playing as children while the city around them — and Tetsuo himself — seem to crumble. Tetsuo suddenly wakes, his headache causing a nearby fluorescent light to shatter.
Meanwhile, the Colonel appears at the nursery, where Kiyoko, another Esper, tells him she dreamt that she met Akira again, and that Neo-Tokyo was destroyed. The Colonel and the Doctor agree that this might be Kiyoko's precognition at work, and the Doctor notes that the Supreme Executive Council will want to hear about it. The Colonel travels to another top secret facility, this one at the future site of the Neo-Tokyo Olympiad. They descend to Akira's underground cryonic storage chamber, finding all of its systems to be operating normally.

Kaneda and Kei make their way to the hideout of the Resistance, where Ryu and other Resistance members lock Kaneda in a room. The group reviews their next assignment, as given to them by their leader, Nezu: to use special ID cards to gain access to a government facility to rescue a new test subject named Tetsuo Shima. They then discover Kaneda eavesdropping on them from a ventilation shaft and drag him out. He explains that he and Tetsuo are best friends and that he wants to help them. During a later meeting, Ryu and Nezu decide to take Kaneda on the mission, and perhaps use him as a decoy.
The next day, the Colonel appears before the Council, asking for more funding for the project. (Nezu, the Resistance leader, is revealed to be a member of the Council.) They flatly refuse, arguing on how to better spend the money on other projects and questioning the Colonel's sense of duty as a soldier. When he is told he will be placed before an inquiry committee, the frustrated Colonel abruptly leaves the meeting.
In his hospital room, Tetsuo has a vision of the Espers — Takashi, Kiyoko, and a third child, Masaru — posing as gigantic toys. Erupting in a flood of milk, the nightmarish toys attack Tetsuo. When he accidentally cuts his right foot by stepping on a glass cup, it scares away the Espers, who are apparently frightened at the sight of blood. Tetsuo, sensing the Espers' location — their nursery, called the "baby room" — proceeds to make his way there, killing soldiers and wreaking destruction.
Meanwhile, in sewage tunnels beneath the towering complex, the infiltrating band is soon spotted by guards riding "flying platforms" — hovering one-man vehicles armed with machine guns — and a battle ensues. Kaneda and Kei take control of a platform and escape. They hear over the vehicle's radio that Tetsuo is making his way to the nursery, that he's extremely dangerous and must not be allowed inside.
Kiyoko possesses Kei and leads Kaneda to the site, finding that Tetsuo is already within, busy attacking both the Colonel's army and the Espers. He has learned about Akira and is eager to meet him, hoping to make his headaches stop. Tetsuo is able to read Kiyoko's mind to discover Akira's location beneath the city's Olympic Stadium, currently under construction.
After leaving the nursery in a flash of light, Tetsuo goes to a familiar bar for a drug fix. His old gang buddies, Yamagata and Kaisuke, arrive later, finding the place a mess and the bartender dead. Tetsuo, seeming to evince an ominous new madness in his demeanor, kills Yamagata.

Back at the government tower, Kei and Kaneda are locked in a holding cell. Kiyoko speaks through Kei once again, explaining that scientists of the past had tried to harness the energy inside all living things but destroyed Tokyo in the process. Tetsuo, she says, has enough of this energy to consume everything around him. Kei then finds the door unlocked and they escape. The pair shortly unite with Kaisuke, who informs them of Tetsuo's murderous actions. A distraught Kaneda crashes Yamagata's bike into a wall as a funereal gesture to "send Yamagata his wheels." He and Kaisuke suddenly witness Kei walking on water in the adjacent reservoir channel, being escorted away by the esper Takashi, both of whom disappear.
The Colonel, initiating a coup d'etat, orders all members of the Supreme Executive Council arrested. Hearing of this at his home, the mole Nezu murders his staff. As Nezu is stuffing a briefcase with money, a bleeding Ryu enters the room, reporting that their mission has failed. Nezu angrily shoots Ryu and flees, but suffers a heart attack and dies on the street a short distance away. A now mortally wounded Ryu follows Nezu as he dies, and Ryu himself soon bleeds to death.
Tetsuo is now wreaking havoc across Neo-Tokyo, using his psionic power to destroy helicopters, tanks, and a bridge on his way to the Olympic Stadium. Kei, again possessed by Kiyoko, attempts to fight him but is soon thrown aside. When Tetsuo tears the entire cryonic chamber from underground and opens it, he finds nothing left of the dead Akira except dissected body parts housed in canisters.
Making his way though wreckage of the scene, Kaneda, now armed with a laser cannon, confronts Tetsuo, and they begin to fight. In the middle of the skirmish, the Colonel activates the Satellite Orbital Laser (SOL), and its beam severs Tetsuo's right arm in the process. An enraged Tetsuo flies into space and brings down the laser satellite.
That night, Tetsuo hides out at the Olympic Stadium, where Kaori finds him screaming in pain. He has fashioned a new, apparently mechanical arm, which seems to throb with a life of its own, circuits weaving into the Olympic throne where Tetsuo sits. The Colonel soon appears, asking Tetsuo to come back to the lab with him, but Tetsuo attacks him with a barrage of flying rocks. When the Colonel shoots back, Tetsuo's arm transforms into a horrific blob that attempts to swallow the Colonel. Kaneda arrives and shoots the monstrous appendage with a laser cannon, causing the blob to recede. Meanwhile, the Espers have arrived at the stadium and seem to be communicating with Akira's remains in the canisters.

Tetsuo and Kaneda fight again. Soon finding Tetsuo targeted in his gunsight, Kaneda hesitates when seeing Tetsuo's body swell into a huge protoplasmic mutation that almost fills the stadium. Tetsuo's gruesome form manages to accidentally kill Kaori, and attempts to kill Kaneda, who shoots his way out with the laser cannon.
Suddenly, the canisters shatter and Akira appears, triggering another explosion. Kiyoko touches the Colonel, instantly teleporting him to the safety of a tunnel far from the stadium. The explosive energy sphere starts to absorb Tetsuo, who pleads for Kaneda's help. Kaneda allows himself to be recaptured by Tetsuo, venturing inside the energy sphere with him. In an effort to save Kaneda, the Espers decide to enter as well, intending to use their combined powers to free him. Inside, Kaneda sees the memories of Tetsuo and the Espers. The Espers tell him that Akira will be sending Tetsuo "away" (to an undisclosed destination). Kaneda then seems to be ejected from the inside of Akira's onslaught, awakening outside the explosion upon hearing Kei's voice calling his name, perhaps telepathically communicated by the Espers.
Neo-Tokyo is destroyed by the violently expanding sphere; streets are gutted and flooded by the event. Kaneda survives, as do Kei, Kaisuke, and the Colonel. The former three meet up at the ruins of the Olympic Stadium, wondering if Tetsuo is truly dead. They then ride their bikes across a bridge into the ruined city.
Somewhere, a stylized "big bang" breaches the cosmic darkness and Tetsuo's voice is heard to say, "I am Tetsuo." This may imply that Tetsuo is now a god-like entity residing in his own universe, or that he has become another universe entirely.

Am i an OTAKU?

Well it seems like i am an otaku. I'm into manga, anime, gunpla, games and almost into anything related to those things. Why? I dunno. maybe thats what i enjoy most. Lets see what i can dig from Wikipedia.

ARTICLE TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA : In modern Japanese slang, the term otaku refers to an overtly obsessive fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. Common uses are anime otaku (one who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels), pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks), gēmu otaku (playing video games), and wota (before referred as "idol otaku") that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls. There are also tetsudō otaku or denshamania (metrophiles) or gunji otaku (military geeks).

While these are the most common uses of otaku, the word can be applied to anything (music otaku, martial arts otaku, cooking otaku, etc). The loan-words maniakku or mania (from the English "maniac" and "mania") are sometimes used in relation to specialist hobbies and interests. They can indicate someone with otaku leanings, (for example- Gundam Mania would describe a person who is very interested in the anime series Gundam). They can also describe the focus of such interests (a maniakku ge-mu would be a particularly underground or eccentric game appealing primarily to otaku). The nuance of maniakku in Japanese is softer and less likely to cause offense than otaku.

Some of Japan's otaku use the term to describe themselves and their friends semi-humorously, accepting their position as obsessive fans, and some even use the term proudly, attempting to reclaim it from its negative connotations. In general colloquial usage however, most Japanese would consider it undesirable to be described in a serious fashion as "otaku", many even consider it to be a genuine insult.

Although stereotypically male, there are also many female otaku or fujoshi. A small alleyway of Tokyo's Higashi Ikebukuro district is known as "Otome Road" ("Maiden's road"). A feature of the area is that there are so many bookstores devoted to comics and books filled with stories about homosexual men, in a genre called Yaoi or Shōnen-ai. Dōjinshi, manga produced by amateur fans, dominate the shelves along Otome Road, with a significant chunk of the comics' stories about more famous anime that imitate, parody or develop on characters who are usually household names in Japan.

Nissan Skyline "Itasya"An interesting modern look into the otaku culture has surfaced with an allegedly true story surfacing on the largest internet bulletin board 2channel: "Densha Otoko" or "Train Man", a love story about a geek and a beautiful woman who meet on a train. The story has enjoyed a compilation in novel form, several comic book adaptations, a movie released in June 2005, a theme song Love Parade for this movie by a popular Japanese band named Orange Range and a television series that aired on Fuji TV from June to September 2005. The drama has become another hot topic in Japan, and the novel, film and television series give a closer look into the otaku culture. In Japan its popularity and positive portrayal of the main character has helped to reduce negative stereotypes about otaku, and increase the acceptability of some otaku hobbies. Perhaps encouraged by this reduction in stigma, a few famous Japanese celebrities, actors and models have come out about their otaku hobbies.

A subset of otaku are the Akiba-kei, men who spend a lot of time in Akihabara in Tokyo and who are mainly obsessive about anime, idols and games. Sometimes the term is used to describe something pertaining to the subculture that surrounds anime, idols and games in Japan. This subculture places an emphasis on certain services (see fanservice) and has its own system for judgment of anime, dating simulations and/or role-playing games and some manga (often dōjinshi) based upon the level of fanservice in the work. Another popular criterion — how ideal the female protagonist of the show is — is often characterized by a level of stylized cuteness and child-like behavior (see moe). In addition, this subculture places great emphasis on knowledge of individual key animators and directors and of minute details within works. The international subculture is influenced by the Japanese one, but differs in many areas often based upon region.

On the matter, in recent years " idol otaku" are naming themselves simply as Wota as a way to differentiate from traditional otaku, while chopping off the “-ku” at the end of the word and, with a touch of playfulness, slap on a “w” up front. But the pronunciation of Wota is still ota, ignoring the character "w".

In Japan anime is not as widely accepted and mainstreamed as manga. Because of this the otaku subculture has little influence over the mainstream anime industry in Japan. The area where otaku have the most influence in manga tends to be with dōjinshi. Manga published in the United States are more influenced by their respective otaku subculture than they are in Japan. This is because most people who read manga have some ties to the subculture in the US, whereas in Japan manga reading is more widespread.

What will it be today?

What should i post today? Yesterday we have my fav oldskool edit, plenty of my buddys image. I liked it coz it potraits a family, big and happy. Lets see what i have today...



Todays edit a contribution from Shahrul (original pic actually). Saw my blog yesterday and send me images to prank with. Maybe next time i will post some of his edited image, he's really good at editing. This dude teached me a lot bout photoshop. I learnt a lot from him, from merely and idiot to a quite handal image editor.

Posto! Posto!

It's been only two days since i started this blogging thing. I kinda understand a bit the idea of blogging ( i think ). For me, blogging is another way of expressing yourself when you're not able to do so in the real world. For instant, i get to know more of my office buddy's when i read their stuff. Kinda makes you feel closer to them, and still want to know more bout them. My office buddies are like family to me, were so close and yet so far from really knowing each other. Guess this blogging idea wasn't so bad after all. Sharing is a good thing!

Copy, Cut and Paste.

Good day to all near, far, new, old friends. As written yesterday i will post some modified images of me and my pals. Might or might not look good, but i don't care. This is for recreational purpose only, no pun intended.

(p/s : pls don't post any of these images at other sites)

Blogs, Blogs and more Blogs!

I'm still trying to figure out the reason that blog is such a big fuss. Seems like everyone is doing it. Upon looking for some reference i figured some people really liked doing so, sharing their thoughts and stuffs.

This is the reason everyone in my office started blogging. Well not everyone actually, but this here is the starting one. Belongs to HIDAYU, nice blog with decent everyday this and thats. Might as well feature some other blogs of my pals.

From top : Aishah Panjang, Che Zul Hangover, Wak Lans Renoma.

I'll keep on posting whatever i found on the web. Until then reach out to the shoutbox and tell me the wonders of blogging. Share ideas, thoughts or what ever you think possible to post in my blog. Tomorrow think i will post some of the stuffs me and my pals photoshopped. Expacted to make you laugh and giggle in front of your PC.

Welkam, welkam! I also blogging lah.

Me : So, tell me why the sudden interest in blogging?

Me2 : Dunno la, all my office mates seems to be into it nowadays. Can't be left behind right....

Me : Then it's not from personel interest then??

Me2 : No lah. Why in the world would i spend time writing about me, i'm no bigshot what..

Me : What will be the contents then??

Me2 : Lately me and the office pals have been doing lots of photoshopping. Like put faces to other body, kinda fun you know. Imagine having u'r butt ugly face on a wrestlers body or a chick with a dude's body.

Me : Basically it's making fun of others then? Is it be legal??

Me2 : Legal my ass, you never open internet ah? This kind of things are like million years old lah, it's nothing anymore.

Me : Well then this is your first post. What would you like to say to anybody interested looking at your blog. Not that it matters anyway.?

Me2 : This blog is dedicated to my friends, future friends and friend wannabe. It will contain almost everything you can think of, good, bad, beautiful, ugly, funny, sad, new, old. I'll put anything i found interesting. If you found anything lacking, maybe cus i'm new. I'll improve, but wait a million years if you expect it to be good.