Sunday, March 29, 2009

two days from now tomorrow will be yesterday
heya folks. ;p

again, another quiet week. i dont think i really should bother updating you with my life, nothing much ever happens.

well, i suppose thats not really true. i went out on thursday night because my assistant manager is leaving us on monday, so we all went to this sports bar in London and ordered beer buckets and chicken wings. it was actually a really fun night out. til the kareoke started...some of the singers were good, but some were plain awful. we room and the music and singing was being piped to us through a sound system. fortunatly we got the staff to switch it off. XD



This is my assistant manager by the way. we're gonna miss him. XD

we're getting a new assistant manager (to go with our new store manager XD ) within the next month or so. apparently one of our colleagues knows the new assistant manager and she is supposedly a bitch. i guess i'll find out sooner or later...



yesterday i went out with two of my work colleagues and we went and got ice cream. it was kinda fun. this place was italian, and they did desserts that looked like italian food. so they had ice cream dishes that looked like spaggheti and pizza and tagliatele (sp? :q ) it was kinda cool, but i stuck with "Black Forest" cup, which was an ice cream version of a Black Forest Gateux. good stuff. ^^


earlier this week i watched "The Girl who Leapt Through Time", and, Unlike "Origins" which i reviewed last week, i was impressed! its a really cute story about a girl who acquires the ability to leap through time (are you with me so far?) and goes around doing selfish little acts to make her life better. she soon discovers that going back and changing the past, even in little ways, has a big effect on the future. she tries to correct these effects, and things go from bad to worse. and then she discovers she only has a limited number of jumps...


putting the sci-fi aside, this basically is a romance comedy, but its handled really well, and the time-travel element is really well incoporated, which just makes it all the more believable. There's good character development, and the script is well written, with a very interesting plot twist near the end.

the character designs are good (thanks to the designer, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, whose other works include the infamous "Neon Genesis Evangelion" character designs and manga) and the scenes and locations are beautifully rendered by Nizo Yamamoto, a studio ghibli art director. my only nit pick, and its more of a quirk than a complaint, is that NONE of the characters ever cast a shadow on themselves...the characters are in flat colours. it doesnt detract from the animation, in fact it gives it a unique feel.

the film is cute, funny (the way Matoko, the titular time-traveller, appears rolling uncontrollably from out of nowhere after she time travels is hilarious) and yet suprisingly subtle and grounded when it comes to the characters and the emotion within the film. it is very well handled, and definitely a film you should see at least once. a very good film.


*pauses in blog writing to go and eat croissants with jam*


mmm.. yummy

its my mum's birthday today. she and my dad are going up to london today to go to this Music Hall Open Day thing, which is nice.


anyways, im gonna finish this off with the last batch of Gundam pictures that i have at the moment...




The Cherudim Gundam (left) is the one im showcasing, along with its predecessor unit, The Gundam Dynames (the model of which i got last year)



The Cherudim and Dynames are sniper gundams. i much prefer the Dynames design to the newer Cherudim design. i actually hated the Cherudim when i first saw it, but i have to admit...its grown on me! as a model kit, the number of gimmicks it has is amazing!



one of the main differences between Dynames and the Cherudim is the Dynames Mobile armour option, the GN ARMS Type-D. the GN ARMS was destroyed in the first season, but the Cherudim wouldn't have been able to use it anyway. despite the fact that they both have the same GN DRIVE, the dynames mounts it in the torso like the rest of the third generation gundams, which allows it to plug into the GN ARMS. the cherudim mounts its GN drive on its bum. once again, the second season gundams have GN drives in weird places.




the coolest feature of the Cherudim are it's Mobile Bits, which are remote controlled units that are attached to the Cherudim's shoulder, knees and GN Drive normally.



The bits are controlled by the onboard Haro unit, and they can be used either as a defensive shield or as a remote offensive weapon. each bit mounts a GN beam cannon, and when all the bits combine, they form a more powerful GN beam launcher. unfortunatly the transparent stand included with the kit doesnt give you the offensive option, only the ability to create different shield patterns. its still cool though!




and thats all my Gundam piccies for now. the final episode of Gundam 00 aired in Japan last night, i am patiently waiting for the sub to be released...i should be able to see it by monday evening, and then i'll give you guys the review of Gundam 00 in its entirety, though i can probably tell you now...its awesome. in so many different ways. XD

i still wanna get the Seravee Gundam model kit, and i might try to pick up the GN Archer and the Seraphim Gundam too if they become available. im rapidly running out of space (and flight stands) for my 00 models though!!!



well, till next time!!
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