Sunday, March 16, 2008
Gundam 00 update
after saving him two weeks ago they killed off Lockon Stratos =( aka Neil Dylandy =*(. aka Kruz Webber from Full Metal Panic and the famed drifter Takumi from Initial D.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Wire Series Finale
"...the life of kings." H.L Mencken
well it looks like i was wrong in my suspicion of McNulty dying. i really enjoyed the final episode of the wire. true to its premise of attempting to depict reality, even through the events of the series we see nothing change in the city of Baltimore. instead we see characters becoming various reincarnations of other characters.
Duquan seems to be set up to be Bubbles, Michael the new Omar, Sydnor to McNulty, Carver either Daniels or Colvin, etc. After the whole series Bubbles (being clean more than a year) gets redemption, while the many other characters as with the rest of the city just continue on.
well written, progressive, and unapologetic it's definitely one of the best shows to hit television completely deserving of the critical acclaim it's received.
well it looks like i was wrong in my suspicion of McNulty dying. i really enjoyed the final episode of the wire. true to its premise of attempting to depict reality, even through the events of the series we see nothing change in the city of Baltimore. instead we see characters becoming various reincarnations of other characters.
Duquan seems to be set up to be Bubbles, Michael the new Omar, Sydnor to McNulty, Carver either Daniels or Colvin, etc. After the whole series Bubbles (being clean more than a year) gets redemption, while the many other characters as with the rest of the city just continue on.
well written, progressive, and unapologetic it's definitely one of the best shows to hit television completely deserving of the critical acclaim it's received.
Friday, February 29, 2008
it's been a busy week
dropped down 310 buckos to get new break pads for the dad's car. can't say i didn't see it comin with me getting into like 3 near accidents. it's nice and shinney now though, gotta love the complimentary car wash. i think i gotta wake up early so i can dry the mornin dew before the sun leaves it's spots.
not going to semi formal, most definitely could not afford it, i maxed out one of my cards with that maintenance trip. that and i didn't really have a date. apparently lotsa ladies didn't have dates and i coulda asked them, i wasn't really trying. most likely i'm heading back to daygo and gonna grab me some more legendary ramen at mitsuwa before those shops head back to japan.
i don't think i did too good in my math midterm, but at least it wasn't through a lack of trying. i think i learned a good deal. as a whole i'm feeling much more smart again. i started talking in class again and it's always money whenever i speak bwahaha. i definitely feel like i'm gonna own my last few quarters in school.
damn it's 1 am now
not going to semi formal, most definitely could not afford it, i maxed out one of my cards with that maintenance trip. that and i didn't really have a date. apparently lotsa ladies didn't have dates and i coulda asked them, i wasn't really trying. most likely i'm heading back to daygo and gonna grab me some more legendary ramen at mitsuwa before those shops head back to japan.
i don't think i did too good in my math midterm, but at least it wasn't through a lack of trying. i think i learned a good deal. as a whole i'm feeling much more smart again. i started talking in class again and it's always money whenever i speak bwahaha. i definitely feel like i'm gonna own my last few quarters in school.
damn it's 1 am now
Monday, February 25, 2008
thinkin bout things mos def
in one of those wtf am i doing with my life moments. credit card bills, work, needing to study for LSAT and looking out for grad school programs to apply to's got me in a weird mood.
getting back into dance and martial arts has been cool. i've wanted to step back into WoW, but with all the stuff that've been goin on that i need to do it's been hard to get some solid play time. i'd need at the very least 3 hours a day for WoW.
it's already past the half-way point for the year, well past it. i just somehow feel very unaccomplished.
getting back into dance and martial arts has been cool. i've wanted to step back into WoW, but with all the stuff that've been goin on that i need to do it's been hard to get some solid play time. i'd need at the very least 3 hours a day for WoW.
it's already past the half-way point for the year, well past it. i just somehow feel very unaccomplished.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
productive day
hah wiped out my entry cause i had two blogger windows opened and i closed the wrong one.
anyway, short run down of the day
finished first aid training now just waitin on my card and certificate to make it official, afterwards had a locking/breakin session with Brian Lao. after that had a quick tai chi session with Daniel Nguyen. while i did do a little bit of training with eskrima i definitely always wanted to start learning more of the internal martial arts. so i'm definitely havin a bit of difficulty adjusting since eskrima's an external art.
strikes are definitely powerful, but learning to manipulate force is definitely better in a fight. i understood that much starting out with tai chi, and while i did know a little bit about tai chi's methodology; putting it into practice IS seriously a different ball game. what i didn't know was how important utilizing the tendons were in practice. cause frankly the muscles are useless, and while this was something i "knew" getting into it; it's pretty perspective shattering doing the pushing hands and then having your muscles betray you. not only do they telegraph your movements, the more force you use the easier it is to have that force deflected.
anyways i'm gonna go practice some solo forms and then do some fingertip push ups for the hell of it cause i lost my finger strength.
anyway, short run down of the day
finished first aid training now just waitin on my card and certificate to make it official, afterwards had a locking/breakin session with Brian Lao. after that had a quick tai chi session with Daniel Nguyen. while i did do a little bit of training with eskrima i definitely always wanted to start learning more of the internal martial arts. so i'm definitely havin a bit of difficulty adjusting since eskrima's an external art.
strikes are definitely powerful, but learning to manipulate force is definitely better in a fight. i understood that much starting out with tai chi, and while i did know a little bit about tai chi's methodology; putting it into practice IS seriously a different ball game. what i didn't know was how important utilizing the tendons were in practice. cause frankly the muscles are useless, and while this was something i "knew" getting into it; it's pretty perspective shattering doing the pushing hands and then having your muscles betray you. not only do they telegraph your movements, the more force you use the easier it is to have that force deflected.
anyways i'm gonna go practice some solo forms and then do some fingertip push ups for the hell of it cause i lost my finger strength.
Friday, February 22, 2008
and here is why my week is busy
it started off late as hell, i didn't get back to the 'vine til midnight tues/wed. so i ended up being late to my trainer shift. it sucks cause i woke up 30 minutes after the shift started, and right as i was about to call i get a call from the office. i mean the shift was canceled cause we don't ever direct in the rain, but it still sucks cause i called late and one of my trainees was already there.
after my training i skipped my math class to do something i don't quite remember, but i was doing something important. then i had another shift at 1 which turned into something different. as i was doing a work related errand me and my partner for the shift end up kinda shit talking the way our subsection of the deptarments been, and well it was to someone who we later found out to be a narc. so it ends up getting back to our supervisors by like 2-3 hours later. bullshit. frankly she spun what we said way out of preportion so we can definitely cover ourselves up cause she was making shit up.
i ended up stayin on campus rather than headin back home cause i wanted a DD for the yard house. i ended up getting a half yard and another pint. seeing as how i was still recovering from the cold i got pretty wasted.
yesterday thursday
so i wake up early for no reason and be productive. i end up getting really dope grades for both my women's studies midterms. i knew i'd do good on the upper div one, but the lower div class had me worried cause i slack off way too much. for my upper div class got 10/10 on the paper and 23/25 on the oral exam; for the lower div i got 90%. the 90% has me happy cause i did 1 hour studying before that shit, and i thought i totally bombed the essay. i'm sure intro classes love it when you throw some gramsci and random marxist readings. well i am a fucking 5th year =/.
inbetween lectures i end up staying on campus cause it's the kaba meeting and supposedly they were gonna do a talk on people power, i've been pretty upset cause the last time they had any serious political discussion was during the jfav; that's a pretty non controvorsial topic, no critical engagement required what so ever. baucas said: kaba con too if you want to count that; but yea both of us don't really count it.
how did i feel about the meeting? two historical inaccuracies kind of irked me. speaker apparently saw a clip of ninoy being assassinated (didn't say how long ago), of course i saw it too and there is only one clip of that shit. "you just see the door closing, and you hear hundreds of rounds being fired, but they say they were firing at ninoys assassin." it's been 4 years since i saw that clip and its pretty vivid in my mind. an mp brushes him on the back as he gets ninoy up from his seat, ninoy looks disheartened and you see him step out of the plane you hear a SINGLE gunshot, i think there was two or three total. the MP helping ninoy out of his seat brushed his back to feel for a bullet proof vest, an action ninoy recognizes and he realizes he's going to be killed. the MP knows he has a vest on so he aims for his head instead of his body. no need for hundreds of rounds, nor did i hear hundreds of rounds on the clip. other inaccuracy, Marcos initiated Martial Law because of a train bombing. nope there were multiple bombings occuring at the time, the one that initiated martial law was due to a carbombing on the car he was supposed to be in; and this was later found to be initiated by Marcos himself.
i know i'm a history buff and people can't memorize specifics, but you can't go over exaggerated situations, ninoy was killed with a head shot, it wasn't kosovo on that airline strip.
but that aside, i felt that there was too much lecture not enough discussion. i liked that they brought up that marcos did stimulate the economy, it's true; cause there's always two sides to the picture, like the fact that he took that surplus for himself and it's still in an offshores bank rather than the hands of the philippine people. and ninoy was not the end all for philippine politics, nor was corey aquino the savior afterwards; cause she didn't implement land reform and because of that you got situations like the hacienda lucinda massacre down the road. not to mention she had to be an even greater dictator to undue the corruption initially placed by marcos, like that got solved either.
martial law was what facilitated the creation for pil-am orgs in the first place. we can look in hindsight and say: shit martial law was evil. but what many pil-ams don't realize is that during THAT time, our predecessors weren't so necessarily united as well, i'm speaking of the community. even at that time there were folks that were unsure which side of the line to be on, saying: maybe martial law would be good in the philippines. which is alright to an extent cause you don't know. but now in this time WE CAN look in hindsight and say it was evil. yes there was a stimulus of the economy but at what cost? the freedoms and liberties of the philippine people; and where did that money go anyway? in the pockets of the corrupt. this is why i disagree with simply giving information and letting the people decide. those on the other side of the fence decided it was necessary to create an organization, it was necessary to come together.
yes as an individual decisions are ultimately up to the individual; but as an organization a stand must be taken, situations like the state of emergency two years ago we HAVE precedent. even now we're getting evidence of the mass corruption of the philippine government through their political/extra judicial murders. the thing is, kababayan itself was created because a group of people took A STAND. you can't simply wait on things and see if they'll be okay. we live in a country with such grandoise ideals as freedom and liberty and the prusit of the green. notice how money goes last, that means freedom and liberty FIRST. how can there be a situation where the people can't be free and you let that happen? frankly these are ideas that are supposedly across the boarder of the political spectrum, there can't be any half assing of this. and if you disagree with notions of liberty then you're just making whatever group you're with look bad.
however i understand the implications of "alienating" individuals when you take a stand. yes it's important to accept different vantage points, and this does go over that boarder of an organization being for it's membership, but what do we do with that history? do we ignore the fact that the group was created to fight against dictatorship and say: oh we think it's okay now?
i guess i don't understand things because i have too much of an egalitarian mindset. people should be free to do what they want as long as they don't abridge or exploit other people.
the only way i see other people accepting things like dictatorships, labor exploitation, etc is because they want to benefit from it or they themselves want to be dictators. i frankly can't stomach fucking over people just so i can be cushy, i mean i'm selfish too but just not in that way.
and well if you're a jackass, well i'll definitely fuck you up. k time to do my homework.
after my training i skipped my math class to do something i don't quite remember, but i was doing something important. then i had another shift at 1 which turned into something different. as i was doing a work related errand me and my partner for the shift end up kinda shit talking the way our subsection of the deptarments been, and well it was to someone who we later found out to be a narc. so it ends up getting back to our supervisors by like 2-3 hours later. bullshit. frankly she spun what we said way out of preportion so we can definitely cover ourselves up cause she was making shit up.
i ended up stayin on campus rather than headin back home cause i wanted a DD for the yard house. i ended up getting a half yard and another pint. seeing as how i was still recovering from the cold i got pretty wasted.
yesterday thursday
so i wake up early for no reason and be productive. i end up getting really dope grades for both my women's studies midterms. i knew i'd do good on the upper div one, but the lower div class had me worried cause i slack off way too much. for my upper div class got 10/10 on the paper and 23/25 on the oral exam; for the lower div i got 90%. the 90% has me happy cause i did 1 hour studying before that shit, and i thought i totally bombed the essay. i'm sure intro classes love it when you throw some gramsci and random marxist readings. well i am a fucking 5th year =/.
inbetween lectures i end up staying on campus cause it's the kaba meeting and supposedly they were gonna do a talk on people power, i've been pretty upset cause the last time they had any serious political discussion was during the jfav; that's a pretty non controvorsial topic, no critical engagement required what so ever. baucas said: kaba con too if you want to count that; but yea both of us don't really count it.
how did i feel about the meeting? two historical inaccuracies kind of irked me. speaker apparently saw a clip of ninoy being assassinated (didn't say how long ago), of course i saw it too and there is only one clip of that shit. "you just see the door closing, and you hear hundreds of rounds being fired, but they say they were firing at ninoys assassin." it's been 4 years since i saw that clip and its pretty vivid in my mind. an mp brushes him on the back as he gets ninoy up from his seat, ninoy looks disheartened and you see him step out of the plane you hear a SINGLE gunshot, i think there was two or three total. the MP helping ninoy out of his seat brushed his back to feel for a bullet proof vest, an action ninoy recognizes and he realizes he's going to be killed. the MP knows he has a vest on so he aims for his head instead of his body. no need for hundreds of rounds, nor did i hear hundreds of rounds on the clip. other inaccuracy, Marcos initiated Martial Law because of a train bombing. nope there were multiple bombings occuring at the time, the one that initiated martial law was due to a carbombing on the car he was supposed to be in; and this was later found to be initiated by Marcos himself.
i know i'm a history buff and people can't memorize specifics, but you can't go over exaggerated situations, ninoy was killed with a head shot, it wasn't kosovo on that airline strip.
but that aside, i felt that there was too much lecture not enough discussion. i liked that they brought up that marcos did stimulate the economy, it's true; cause there's always two sides to the picture, like the fact that he took that surplus for himself and it's still in an offshores bank rather than the hands of the philippine people. and ninoy was not the end all for philippine politics, nor was corey aquino the savior afterwards; cause she didn't implement land reform and because of that you got situations like the hacienda lucinda massacre down the road. not to mention she had to be an even greater dictator to undue the corruption initially placed by marcos, like that got solved either.
martial law was what facilitated the creation for pil-am orgs in the first place. we can look in hindsight and say: shit martial law was evil. but what many pil-ams don't realize is that during THAT time, our predecessors weren't so necessarily united as well, i'm speaking of the community. even at that time there were folks that were unsure which side of the line to be on, saying: maybe martial law would be good in the philippines. which is alright to an extent cause you don't know. but now in this time WE CAN look in hindsight and say it was evil. yes there was a stimulus of the economy but at what cost? the freedoms and liberties of the philippine people; and where did that money go anyway? in the pockets of the corrupt. this is why i disagree with simply giving information and letting the people decide. those on the other side of the fence decided it was necessary to create an organization, it was necessary to come together.
yes as an individual decisions are ultimately up to the individual; but as an organization a stand must be taken, situations like the state of emergency two years ago we HAVE precedent. even now we're getting evidence of the mass corruption of the philippine government through their political/extra judicial murders. the thing is, kababayan itself was created because a group of people took A STAND. you can't simply wait on things and see if they'll be okay. we live in a country with such grandoise ideals as freedom and liberty and the prusit of the green. notice how money goes last, that means freedom and liberty FIRST. how can there be a situation where the people can't be free and you let that happen? frankly these are ideas that are supposedly across the boarder of the political spectrum, there can't be any half assing of this. and if you disagree with notions of liberty then you're just making whatever group you're with look bad.
however i understand the implications of "alienating" individuals when you take a stand. yes it's important to accept different vantage points, and this does go over that boarder of an organization being for it's membership, but what do we do with that history? do we ignore the fact that the group was created to fight against dictatorship and say: oh we think it's okay now?
i guess i don't understand things because i have too much of an egalitarian mindset. people should be free to do what they want as long as they don't abridge or exploit other people.
the only way i see other people accepting things like dictatorships, labor exploitation, etc is because they want to benefit from it or they themselves want to be dictators. i frankly can't stomach fucking over people just so i can be cushy, i mean i'm selfish too but just not in that way.
and well if you're a jackass, well i'll definitely fuck you up. k time to do my homework.
yea the week has been busy
so yea i saw next week's episode of The Wire due to HBO On Demand. biggest thing that happened, my favorite character from the show, Omar Little, just got killed off. I really liked him cause he was a exceptional character to the crime show drama formula, a black, gay, male that made his living as a stick-up boy robbing drug dealers. in the streets he was a legend and everyone knew not to fuck with him. the dealers hated him for two reasons: he robbed them and he was gay. on the end of law enforcement there were two perspectives, that he was tolerated because he had a code of only robing the dealers and he never harmed ordinary "citizens;" the other perspective was that kids in a way glorified him.
i've been getting the feeling as the season progressed that he was gonna die. the manner in which he died was surprising too. he was killed by a young teen (prolly like 12 or 13) that was seen two seasons earlier arguing with other kids that he "wanted to play omar" when they were re-enacting a gun fight they saw of him. he was brought out of retirement cause a rising dealer wanted to get him, so that dealer (marlo) ordered the death of his mentor, this blind bartender. omar got word from his crib in the carribean and started hunting down marlo's soldiers. during one failed attempt he ended up jumping off a four story window, he survived but his leg was fucked up. still he was hunting them down even though he had a serious limp and got a few of marlo's men. one of marlo's dealers was that kid; and seeing omar limping really underwelmed him, so he tailed omar into this korean groccery store. so the director has it in the shop lady's perspective looking at omar (i hella got the feelin something was gonna happen), omar turns to the side (looking at the kid enter the store out of camera) he doesn't think anything of the kid and looks to the shop lady and then you see him take a bullet to the backside of his head.
part of what i loved about the wire was the writers decision to kill off main characters, apparently he stated in an interview "we're not trying to sell hope." that's kind of why i felt they were gonna kill him off, omar was such an exceptional character, how was he gonna kill all of marlo's muscle and then marlo and just walk off into the sunset. that's not reality.
i read a spoiler that probably the central character is going to commit suicide. this strikes me as possible for a couple reasons. first, also On Demand, they showed three short prequels to The Wire. One was on kingpin Proposition Joe as a kid, the other on Omar as a kid, and then the last was McNulty (main character) on his first day on Homicide. Prop Joe was killed 3rd episode in, Omar just died, leaving McNulty. other reason is that he is stirring up a lot of shit, and while he did the same the first season, keepin in mind what the director said, if his plan completely works to a T how is that realistic. if he gets caught, which he most likely will, they WILL fire him; and it's been made clear throughout the series all he has is his job as a cop.
so this is the spark that starts my insomnia. i dunno why, even though it's fake seeing characters i like in film or movies really gets to me (which says a lot about how i was able to pass out after watching cloverfield hahah)
i've been getting the feeling as the season progressed that he was gonna die. the manner in which he died was surprising too. he was killed by a young teen (prolly like 12 or 13) that was seen two seasons earlier arguing with other kids that he "wanted to play omar" when they were re-enacting a gun fight they saw of him. he was brought out of retirement cause a rising dealer wanted to get him, so that dealer (marlo) ordered the death of his mentor, this blind bartender. omar got word from his crib in the carribean and started hunting down marlo's soldiers. during one failed attempt he ended up jumping off a four story window, he survived but his leg was fucked up. still he was hunting them down even though he had a serious limp and got a few of marlo's men. one of marlo's dealers was that kid; and seeing omar limping really underwelmed him, so he tailed omar into this korean groccery store. so the director has it in the shop lady's perspective looking at omar (i hella got the feelin something was gonna happen), omar turns to the side (looking at the kid enter the store out of camera) he doesn't think anything of the kid and looks to the shop lady and then you see him take a bullet to the backside of his head.
part of what i loved about the wire was the writers decision to kill off main characters, apparently he stated in an interview "we're not trying to sell hope." that's kind of why i felt they were gonna kill him off, omar was such an exceptional character, how was he gonna kill all of marlo's muscle and then marlo and just walk off into the sunset. that's not reality.
i read a spoiler that probably the central character is going to commit suicide. this strikes me as possible for a couple reasons. first, also On Demand, they showed three short prequels to The Wire. One was on kingpin Proposition Joe as a kid, the other on Omar as a kid, and then the last was McNulty (main character) on his first day on Homicide. Prop Joe was killed 3rd episode in, Omar just died, leaving McNulty. other reason is that he is stirring up a lot of shit, and while he did the same the first season, keepin in mind what the director said, if his plan completely works to a T how is that realistic. if he gets caught, which he most likely will, they WILL fire him; and it's been made clear throughout the series all he has is his job as a cop.
so this is the spark that starts my insomnia. i dunno why, even though it's fake seeing characters i like in film or movies really gets to me (which says a lot about how i was able to pass out after watching cloverfield hahah)
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