Ugh.. wish it would come sooner than later. It's only Tuesday and I'm tired of school already. It's STAR testing this week and next week. So jealous that my sister is a senior and doesn't have to come to school until 11:30 since she doesn't have to take testing. I could so use about five more hours of sleep.
Not much this week so far though today in anime and manga club we did see an anime called Princess Jellyfish which was rather interesting and hilarious. It follows a group of roommates and each one of them is an otaku for something. I.e. Jellyfish, trains, kimonos, etc. Think I'll check out more when I get time.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Please Come Home...
I know I've been doing a lot of posts recently about Sierra LaMar. Sorry but I can't help myself knowing there's a missing girl out there somewhere.
Anyway, due to the bad weather it's been hard looking for anything underwater and they just found some trees and other various items but they're working this weekend in the hopes to find possible evidence.
Anyway I found this Youtube video and thought I'd share it in the hopes that she'll be found and will return home safely.
O.M.G
So Avatar: The Legend of Korra premiered this morning, and I watched it, and I'm so happy!!! It's been like what? Two years? since they announced a second Avatar series and now it's finally been released on Nickelodeon!
Avatar is by far one of my favorite cartoon series on the planet. Animation is beautiful, it has a steady story line with comedic relief in between, and of course, characters you just fall in love with! <3 How good is it with only two episodes released in a one hour premiere? Pretty. Freaking. Sweet.
For those completely slow with what The Legend of Korra is, let's summarize.
The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the Hundred Year War where Avatar Aang and his friends won over Firelord Ozai. New Firelord Zuko worked with Aang to bring all the four nations together to create a fifth nation known as the United Republic of Nations, with a capital called Republic city, where benders and non-benders coexist in peace and harmony.
Aang eventually married Katara and had three children with her, one of which would go on to become an airbending master. Sadly, Aang passed away due to spending too much time in the Avatar State when he was frozen that drained a lot of energy. Yet the Avatar cycle continues to the next Avatar who will be a young girl of the Southern Water Tribe named Korra.
Korra's a rebellious, hotheaded 17-year-old girl who loves nothing more than to be a powerful Avatar. Bending came natural to her at a young age as she could bend water, earth and fire. While she has mastered those three elements, she has yet to learn air and how to connect to the Spirit World. Neither of the two come naturally to her because of her completely opposite personality (Like when Aang struggled with earthbending).
She travels to Republic City to learn from Aang's son, Tenzin, to learn airbending and to master it. Yet while getting sidetracked to get to the Air Temple in Republic City, she has become aware that some benders abuse their power on non-benders and as a result, an anti-bender revolution led by a mysterious man named Amon is inevitable. Now Korra has to work with new friends if she is to master becoming a full-fledged Avatar and bring the world back to balance.
So yeah, this is already a good series! And this is just the first two episodes!
Like The Last Airbender, it holds a good plot, has great characters and not to mention a beautiful animation style. This definitely looks like this is gonna be a fantastic series that I know I and other fans of Avatar will love! Check it out if you haven't yet! <3
Avatar is by far one of my favorite cartoon series on the planet. Animation is beautiful, it has a steady story line with comedic relief in between, and of course, characters you just fall in love with! <3 How good is it with only two episodes released in a one hour premiere? Pretty. Freaking. Sweet.
For those completely slow with what The Legend of Korra is, let's summarize.
The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the Hundred Year War where Avatar Aang and his friends won over Firelord Ozai. New Firelord Zuko worked with Aang to bring all the four nations together to create a fifth nation known as the United Republic of Nations, with a capital called Republic city, where benders and non-benders coexist in peace and harmony.
Aang eventually married Katara and had three children with her, one of which would go on to become an airbending master. Sadly, Aang passed away due to spending too much time in the Avatar State when he was frozen that drained a lot of energy. Yet the Avatar cycle continues to the next Avatar who will be a young girl of the Southern Water Tribe named Korra.
Korra's a rebellious, hotheaded 17-year-old girl who loves nothing more than to be a powerful Avatar. Bending came natural to her at a young age as she could bend water, earth and fire. While she has mastered those three elements, she has yet to learn air and how to connect to the Spirit World. Neither of the two come naturally to her because of her completely opposite personality (Like when Aang struggled with earthbending).
She travels to Republic City to learn from Aang's son, Tenzin, to learn airbending and to master it. Yet while getting sidetracked to get to the Air Temple in Republic City, she has become aware that some benders abuse their power on non-benders and as a result, an anti-bender revolution led by a mysterious man named Amon is inevitable. Now Korra has to work with new friends if she is to master becoming a full-fledged Avatar and bring the world back to balance.
So yeah, this is already a good series! And this is just the first two episodes!
Like The Last Airbender, it holds a good plot, has great characters and not to mention a beautiful animation style. This definitely looks like this is gonna be a fantastic series that I know I and other fans of Avatar will love! Check it out if you haven't yet! <3
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Sigh...
This has been a bit of an uneventful Spring Break... Not like I was motivated to do much anyway since it's been pouring rain all week.. Stupid weather always lies.. Besides, I have something else on my mind.
Tomorrow, it will be an entire four weeks since Sierra LaMar went missing from her home.
Just today, the police said they would be reviewing sonar images they took when they were looking through the local reservoirs. They reported that there were "irregularities" in the water. They could be anything: irrelevant objects to the case, more evidence, or worse... Her remains.
God... please... please don't take another sweet girl away from this town. We've gone through enough pain losing precious Tara, and we don't need to lose sweet, sweet Sierra.
It's almost been a whole month. She could be anywhere. I feel just horrible for her family. They raised the reward to $10,000. It's so insane how desperate people get just to get back the ones they love dearly.
The worst part about someone going missing that really brings pain to my heart is not knowing. Is she alive? Is she dead? Where is she? Is she still in the state of California? Is she being raped? Forced into drugs and/or prostitution? God, just look at what I'm doing to myself. Now it hurts more.
No, I never knew her. But this could have happened to anyone and it had to be a 15-year-old girl that goes to the same school I do. She's only five months younger than me! Why her? She never did anything wrong? From what I've heard, she's a sweet cheerleader and never had any issues at home or with herself so why did some heartless thug had to take her away from her friends and family? Why?!
God, please, bring her home. Just bring her back to her loved ones where she's safe and warm and away from danger.
Tomorrow, it will be an entire four weeks since Sierra LaMar went missing from her home.
Just today, the police said they would be reviewing sonar images they took when they were looking through the local reservoirs. They reported that there were "irregularities" in the water. They could be anything: irrelevant objects to the case, more evidence, or worse... Her remains.
God... please... please don't take another sweet girl away from this town. We've gone through enough pain losing precious Tara, and we don't need to lose sweet, sweet Sierra.
It's almost been a whole month. She could be anywhere. I feel just horrible for her family. They raised the reward to $10,000. It's so insane how desperate people get just to get back the ones they love dearly.
The worst part about someone going missing that really brings pain to my heart is not knowing. Is she alive? Is she dead? Where is she? Is she still in the state of California? Is she being raped? Forced into drugs and/or prostitution? God, just look at what I'm doing to myself. Now it hurts more.
No, I never knew her. But this could have happened to anyone and it had to be a 15-year-old girl that goes to the same school I do. She's only five months younger than me! Why her? She never did anything wrong? From what I've heard, she's a sweet cheerleader and never had any issues at home or with herself so why did some heartless thug had to take her away from her friends and family? Why?!
God, please, bring her home. Just bring her back to her loved ones where she's safe and warm and away from danger.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Zombies + Bunnies = Easter...?
Finally, the day has come. The day where Jesus rose from the dead and we celebrate with rabbits breaking and entering into our homes leaving rabbit droppings or chocolate for your kids..
Again, how a Christian celebration and a German pagan tradition coincide with one another to create a huge American excuse to mass produce chocolate, I'll never know. But hell with it. We don't question these things and just go with it no matter how weird it is. We never question Jesus's birth and a fat Nordic guy going into your home and putting presents in your socks so why should we question Easter?
Well anyway, my start to my spring break has been nothing but laziness though I should be getting my homework out of the way so I don't procrastinate like an idiot. Also we're getting in hardwood floors which is gonna be fun so we don't have to do much vacuuming downstairs.
As for fun stuff, today we're going to a friend's house for dinner and game night and by this week I hope to finish Mockingjay and some stories I'm working on. Wish me luck!
Again, how a Christian celebration and a German pagan tradition coincide with one another to create a huge American excuse to mass produce chocolate, I'll never know. But hell with it. We don't question these things and just go with it no matter how weird it is. We never question Jesus's birth and a fat Nordic guy going into your home and putting presents in your socks so why should we question Easter?
Well anyway, my start to my spring break has been nothing but laziness though I should be getting my homework out of the way so I don't procrastinate like an idiot. Also we're getting in hardwood floors which is gonna be fun so we don't have to do much vacuuming downstairs.
As for fun stuff, today we're going to a friend's house for dinner and game night and by this week I hope to finish Mockingjay and some stories I'm working on. Wish me luck!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
It's good to be the king
It's finally Thursday and the start of Spring Break since we get Good Friday off. Ten days of laziness.. and homework.. Ugh I have insane teachers don't I? Not to mention we have STAR testing the week we get back so that's not gonna build up any stress. But I digress so I won't have to think about school anymore.
Since my family's not the regular church going type, likely chances say we'll spend Easter at home or at a friend's house with other friends. Oh and it's my sister's 18th birthday this Saturday AKA Passover. See if this year wasn't a leap year, then my sister's birthday would be on Good Friday. That reminds me that my friend Raven's birthday is exactly on Good Friday. What a small world we live in huh?
As for Spring Break, besides the homework, I don't have much to do so I may plan a movie night or some sort of get together with friends.
As for the rest of my life, not much updates on Sierra Lamar other than she's still missing. There was a report of the finding of handcuffs and used condoms found but they could have no relevance to the case seeing as how they were found in a place where teens usually hang out and do that sort of crap. Now that's not gonna freak out anyone at all. Well done reporters!
Anyway, they moved the search down south to San Martin and Gilroy since they've literally scoped most if not all of Morgan Hill. God, I just can't help but to think what's happening to Sierra as I'm typing right now. Tomorrow it'll be three weeks since she went missing. Is she dead? Almost dead? Being raped? Forced into prostitution? I don't want to sound so melancholy but it's pretty rare when a kidnapper keeps their victim and anything could have happened to her with the limited evidence found.. I pray she's safe and will come home soon.. and not in a body bag.
Since my family's not the regular church going type, likely chances say we'll spend Easter at home or at a friend's house with other friends. Oh and it's my sister's 18th birthday this Saturday AKA Passover. See if this year wasn't a leap year, then my sister's birthday would be on Good Friday. That reminds me that my friend Raven's birthday is exactly on Good Friday. What a small world we live in huh?
As for Spring Break, besides the homework, I don't have much to do so I may plan a movie night or some sort of get together with friends.
As for the rest of my life, not much updates on Sierra Lamar other than she's still missing. There was a report of the finding of handcuffs and used condoms found but they could have no relevance to the case seeing as how they were found in a place where teens usually hang out and do that sort of crap. Now that's not gonna freak out anyone at all. Well done reporters!
Anyway, they moved the search down south to San Martin and Gilroy since they've literally scoped most if not all of Morgan Hill. God, I just can't help but to think what's happening to Sierra as I'm typing right now. Tomorrow it'll be three weeks since she went missing. Is she dead? Almost dead? Being raped? Forced into prostitution? I don't want to sound so melancholy but it's pretty rare when a kidnapper keeps their victim and anything could have happened to her with the limited evidence found.. I pray she's safe and will come home soon.. and not in a body bag.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Dog Day Sundays
Almost time for a new week at school to sta- OMG I JUST REMEMBERED! WE GET FRIDAY OFF AND THEN IT'S SPRING BREAK! YES!!!! God bless four day school weeks!
So other than boring school stuff, we have our spring homecoming where it's once again Battle of the Sexes. Which kinda doesn't make sense to me since last year there were sexual harassment problems, but I digress.
I've finished reading two books this weekend. First of them being Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I have to read it for my English class and it's a really good book about a dystopia where firemen start fires and burn books instead of putting them out. It's a good quick read for anyone interested. The other book I finished is Catching Fire from The Hunger Games trilogy!
Hunger Games has been my recent obsession since all of my friends have been saying it's a good series, even prior to the movie coming out. So now I'm on the final book, Mockingjay, and despite the mixed opinions I've received, it's been worth my time reading all of them.
Adding on to finishing the 2nd Hunger Games book, when I went to the mall yesterday and went into Hot Topic, there I saw a small section just for Hunger Games merchandise which made me super happy. So I bought myself the replica Mockingjay pin. All the employees there are Hunger Games fans which was another plus and were super nice and fun.
And one thing led to another when we decided to go see The Hunger Games movie while we were at the mall which has its own theater. And... It didn't really meet my expectations. It's not the worst piece of cinema I've seen in my life but... Yeah, it could use so much work. I'll do a review of it since I'm already here.
First off, the camera work. For the most part if the camera's not still, it's either extreme closeups or extremely shaky camera and it looks pretty bad. No offense, but it kinda looks like you gave the camera to Michael J. Fox. You could barely tell what was happening some of the time and it made me very queasy and get headaches. It doesn't help that my family was stuck in the next to the front row since we arrived just as the previews started. I felt like I was gonna throw up.
Another thing that bugged me was the lack of explanation of a lot of aspects of the movie. This is one of the few films where you actually need to read the book if you want to understand what's going on. Marina, who hasn't read the books at all, was very confused at the end about what was going on. She had no idea if they were even living on planet Earth and a whole bunch of other things. Some characters they don't even mention by name! Case in point: Effie and Seneca. Yes! They don't mention either by name even though everyone knows they're there! I mean you have this kinda middle-aged woman wearing crazy colors and is all proper in a way that looks silly and a guy with a funky beard design! And the way they were portrayed was so amazing I was sad when I never heard their names.
The other characters met my expectations though I would've like to have seen Woody Harrelson as more of a drunken mess when he was Haymitch but I think that's just based on personal opinion.
When it came to visuals, it was.. a hit and miss. When you saw the people of the capitol it was just vibrant with all sorts of colors. As my sister would describe, "A world ruled by Japanese bubblegum pop". Yet when it came to the Games, I would've liked to have seen more. This may be a PG-13 film but the books are so descriptive on violence that it's pretty scary. I didn't really find the scenarios displayed in the film true to the actual struggles for survival in the books. In the books, Katniss had a difficult time finding water and shelter, and towards the end, Peeta was practically dead he was so injured and sick. I found it very unrealistic if you left a group of 24 teens in the wilderness to fend for themselves in a battle where only one comes out alive.
Some scenes were bang on the dot just as I imagined but I kinda spoiled a bit too much already so I'll avoid going into detail. But I did like how they added what was going on outside of the arena such as the people of District 12 viewing their two tributes struggling, and Haymitch persuading sponsors to send medicine and stuff to Katniss and Peeta.
Just one more critic and that is, the people sitting behind me who never read the book. I got kinda annoyed when I heard them whisper, "So-and-so died??". Pretty obvious you guys never read the book and you would've known that most of the characters will probably die and this particular character died in a different fashion.
So to sum it up, this is a film that you definitely have to read the actual book to understand most of the plot and sitting as far away from the screen as possible so you don't vomit from the crap camera work, but again it's not the worse movie I've seen; it just meets in the middle of my standards for a good film.
So other than boring school stuff, we have our spring homecoming where it's once again Battle of the Sexes. Which kinda doesn't make sense to me since last year there were sexual harassment problems, but I digress.
I've finished reading two books this weekend. First of them being Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I have to read it for my English class and it's a really good book about a dystopia where firemen start fires and burn books instead of putting them out. It's a good quick read for anyone interested. The other book I finished is Catching Fire from The Hunger Games trilogy!
Hunger Games has been my recent obsession since all of my friends have been saying it's a good series, even prior to the movie coming out. So now I'm on the final book, Mockingjay, and despite the mixed opinions I've received, it's been worth my time reading all of them.
Adding on to finishing the 2nd Hunger Games book, when I went to the mall yesterday and went into Hot Topic, there I saw a small section just for Hunger Games merchandise which made me super happy. So I bought myself the replica Mockingjay pin. All the employees there are Hunger Games fans which was another plus and were super nice and fun.
And one thing led to another when we decided to go see The Hunger Games movie while we were at the mall which has its own theater. And... It didn't really meet my expectations. It's not the worst piece of cinema I've seen in my life but... Yeah, it could use so much work. I'll do a review of it since I'm already here.
First off, the camera work. For the most part if the camera's not still, it's either extreme closeups or extremely shaky camera and it looks pretty bad. No offense, but it kinda looks like you gave the camera to Michael J. Fox. You could barely tell what was happening some of the time and it made me very queasy and get headaches. It doesn't help that my family was stuck in the next to the front row since we arrived just as the previews started. I felt like I was gonna throw up.
Another thing that bugged me was the lack of explanation of a lot of aspects of the movie. This is one of the few films where you actually need to read the book if you want to understand what's going on. Marina, who hasn't read the books at all, was very confused at the end about what was going on. She had no idea if they were even living on planet Earth and a whole bunch of other things. Some characters they don't even mention by name! Case in point: Effie and Seneca. Yes! They don't mention either by name even though everyone knows they're there! I mean you have this kinda middle-aged woman wearing crazy colors and is all proper in a way that looks silly and a guy with a funky beard design! And the way they were portrayed was so amazing I was sad when I never heard their names.
The other characters met my expectations though I would've like to have seen Woody Harrelson as more of a drunken mess when he was Haymitch but I think that's just based on personal opinion.
When it came to visuals, it was.. a hit and miss. When you saw the people of the capitol it was just vibrant with all sorts of colors. As my sister would describe, "A world ruled by Japanese bubblegum pop". Yet when it came to the Games, I would've liked to have seen more. This may be a PG-13 film but the books are so descriptive on violence that it's pretty scary. I didn't really find the scenarios displayed in the film true to the actual struggles for survival in the books. In the books, Katniss had a difficult time finding water and shelter, and towards the end, Peeta was practically dead he was so injured and sick. I found it very unrealistic if you left a group of 24 teens in the wilderness to fend for themselves in a battle where only one comes out alive.
Some scenes were bang on the dot just as I imagined but I kinda spoiled a bit too much already so I'll avoid going into detail. But I did like how they added what was going on outside of the arena such as the people of District 12 viewing their two tributes struggling, and Haymitch persuading sponsors to send medicine and stuff to Katniss and Peeta.
Just one more critic and that is, the people sitting behind me who never read the book. I got kinda annoyed when I heard them whisper, "So-and-so died??". Pretty obvious you guys never read the book and you would've known that most of the characters will probably die and this particular character died in a different fashion.
So to sum it up, this is a film that you definitely have to read the actual book to understand most of the plot and sitting as far away from the screen as possible so you don't vomit from the crap camera work, but again it's not the worse movie I've seen; it just meets in the middle of my standards for a good film.
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