Advent Children FTW!

Just done watching Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete. Note that it's a newer and better version of Advent Children...

Basically, it's just some more new scenes, more action and more story told...most importantly, the final battle between Sephiroth and Cloud has intensified. There's rarely any blood spilled except on Sephiroth's Masamune after he stabbed Cloud in the shoulder in the previous version.

But in the current version...ho ho, oh brother.

Impalement after impalement...cuts after cuts...each swing of the Masamune draws blood from Cloud's fair, delicate skin...blood oozing out of the wounds and splatters all around him as Cloud hits the ground.

Boy, am I enjoying this...

Sephy's definitely gotten more bad ass from the previous installment. He even took on his "winged-angel form" for more elegant moves. The fight's an epic win...

However, despite this being a newer version of the movie, the traditional rule of "Good will triumph over Evil" has not been abolished. Apparently, people still prefer happy ending eh? Not me, that's for sure...

It has always been like this...the villains are definitely stronger than the protagonists...but to portray that goody-goodies always wins, the villains are FORCED to lose because the protagonists will receive a sudden burst of strength out of something as minute as a piece of PowerPoint slide show of the protagonists' friends and family pictures at the end despite being mortally wounded or even dead...

Ah no matter...I'm glad Sephy's attained new heights with his new arsenal of swordsmanship...

Oh and I gotta give Reno and Rude credit too...they've gotten more screen time...I think...and needless to say, more comedy. Although it's a shame that they took away the scene when Reno climbed the building to help out Rufus, but the new scenes sure made up for the removed ones...

Unfortunately, no videos up here yet since there ain't no decent piece of video uploaded yet, but I'll keep an eye out for em...

W00t~~~

Yamazaki's Piano Recital

A batsu game (punishment "game") featuring Yamazaki Hosei.

This poor guy is supposed to play piano in the dead of the night at a school...abandoned or not...I dunno. Haunted or not, I'm not too sure either. However, a school's definitely one of the worst place you can ever visit at the deepest of nights.

So Yamazaki's gotta walk all the way from his 1st floor "suite", up till level 4 to where the music room is, which held nothing but a lone piano in the center of the room...

Of course, traps are installed along the way...

The problem is...he's gotta walk through the same corridors 4 separate times due to the fact that he had to play 4 different pieces of melodies at an hour interval. And not to mention different traps are utilized every single time...though 1 or 2 might still remain. So yeah...very unfortunate, but it's fun to watch...

Just in case there's some enigmatic surprises...I'll try my best to describe what are the traps laid down for poor ole' Yamazaki...

1st attempt:

1. There's this sign that says: "Meeting in process, please keep quiet." (A meeting in the middle of the night...what else could that mean...)

2. Random sounds just pops out of the wall...

3. The elevator shall move...


2nd attempt:

1. An old soul shall be on patrol...

2. Sound of glass shatter...

3. Lotion applied onto the door handle of the music room...

4. Piano keys had trouble producing sounds...


3rd attempt:

1. Cries of a woman coming from within the toilet...

2. A pair of twins in kimono will be stalking Yamazaki. (This part is the best in my opinion...it gave the most kick to anyone who ventured beyond the point in person...and see of you can notice that one of the lil girl jumped at Yamazaki's screams...)

3. Farting cushion...

4. Secret #1...


4th attempt:

1. Blood on piano keys...

2. Secret #2...

Well, those are based on what I know about Japanese characters. As for the 2 secrets, I merely noted them down as the video stated...so you shall be kept from the secret until you've watched it...and on a side note, this is the video which allowed me to discover Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence...

Ok without further ado, lemme present Yamazaki Hosei's Piano Recital...

The longest 1 hour...

It took me 1 freaking hour to render a 30 seconds video...just because I had an extra bubbly scene which lasts for about 3 seconds in the clip.

What the hell's gonna happen if it's a 3 minutes project...

I'm soothed once again...

I can't help it but admire this piece of music playing as my current blog song now.

It consisted of no vocals...at least for this version, but it's THE melody that even evil souls find peace within...magically delicious. It's a super-duper-old-ancient piece since it's like out during the 1980s. Not all that far off, but it's like 10 years before my birth...thus I shall categorize it under "OLD". But this vintage melody didn't give me that impression upon first listening, and I'd say that I'm lucky enough to have bumped into this music.

I mean it has even surpassed my previous lullaby, which I believed to be one of the best all time classic. The theme of this melody, in my opinion is like...so "crystal" and "glacier" . I can't really describe em, but those 2 words are how I felt when I listened to the music...

Another piece of music added to my cerebral archive of favorable audio files, I guess...tru-ly bea-u-ti-ful...

Song: Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Artist: Sakamoto Ryuichi

Risen yet again...

Finally...after such a long period of time, my foot has recovered. Well, almost actually, for it is still kinda stiff...

This lil sprain took me the longest amount of time I've ever needed to recover...compared to my long history of other issues of sprained ankles, busted elbows and over-twisted abdomen. But no matter no matter, I shall be in fighting shape soon enough.

Other than being not able to flex and land heavily on my foot, I think I'm pretty much ready to carry on with my 18 years odyssey, since there's gonna be one less issue to preoccupy me...

Once in a long while...

Nothing much...just thought that it's been a while since I last sprained my ankle and had it swelled like a pig's trotter...

But then again...this pain is not what a masochist would normally enjoy for it greatly...and I mean GREATLY hinders your movements...I've been walking around as if something's up my ass and though I can't see it, I strongly believe that I look awfully queer when I walk and strut and limp and hop...

No matter, try ta spot the difference!


Well...it's not that difficult to spot it, right? However, if you really can't see what the hell is wrong, the following image shall be your answer of the lifetime...

Happy Birthday, Addeh!

A belated happy 18th birthday to lil Addy-belle...

Hope that you've enjoyed the lil celebration and the anytime-anywhere-choir whose members just keep abruptly bursting out the birthday song in high to low pitch and of fairly high magnitude...

And sorry, I could have been more into it if my ankle had not been sprained on the way.

Anyways, really hope that you'd like the lil cushion a.k.a pillow a.k.a anything that comes into your mind. Oh, by the way, should you suddenly have the urge for gores...like Friday The 13th, I don't mind watching it again with ya and your peers, that is if you don't mind my presence that is...

Again, tanjobi omedeto gozaimasu!

And to Shan...don't worry too much. These ordeals will eventually boost man's physical resistance and immunities. So just look forward to his recovery, and enjoy having a stronger soul standing by ya.

Lastly, thank you to everybody for inviting me over, also thank you guys for your concern and help to ease my swell just hours ago...and Angeline's dad for footing the bill, though it's kinda pai seh for ya to pay for us when you're a "special" guest.

Well, that's how I see it, for he made a surprise appearance.

That's all for now, I guess. Everybody, cares and cheers!