ICA 2 out of 4

not too hard... not too easy...

now very busy so i gotta go...

ICA 1 out of 4

Financial Management...

can't really say that the ICA was hard... it just whether one had revise through the tutorial questions because all questions are similar to the ones used for tutorial class

...and i sort of butchered the 2nd question... now i don't even know whether i'm correct or wrong after comparing the answer with some of my classmate...

sigh...

Next ICA is... lemme think for a sec...

oh ya...

Database Management System... [i think]

coming soon this thursday...

and also one of my weakest module so far in term of understanding and applying the knowledge...

i sure hope this and next week... that time will flow faster...

Anyone can tell me...

the price of a...

16x DVD±R/RW

your reply will be much appreciated...

=D

[the reason why i'm posting this is... well... 'cuz that i'm running out of disk space...]

Yawnz

basically, i did nothing for today... well except recovering part of my music collection... [through the usual channel in Rizon]

was too sleepy to do any revisions for the upcoming ICA week...

[to michelle: your torrents seeding rate was too crap... some don't even have peers on the tracker... seems like it will take a while to complete most of your downloads...]

watched Mobile Suit GUNDAM SEED DESTINY PHASE 36 a few hours ago... it's freaking time that Asuran should run away from ZAFT and rejoin the ArchAngel crews since the 'death' of Kira and ZAFT's command to take out the ArchAngel... Asuran also took Meyrin with him... haha... what if next episode Lunamaria come to the conclusion that Asuran 'kidnapped' her sister ??? LOLZ

next episode is Asuran [Gouf] vs Rey [Legend GUNDAM] & Shin Asuka [Destiny GUNDAM]... should be nice to watch since Asuran is going to be shot down one way or another...

future episodes sypnosis & the 4 newest and most advanced GUNDAMs can be found at: http://aeug.blogspot.com/

magic the gathering... maybe planning to buy a new deck not because our class is playing it right now... but most of my cousins are still playing this card game...

nothing much to blog about since i'm going to be busy in a few days time... ICAs projects and all...

...but the weird thing is...

...i don't feel any stress yet...

...maybe i'm taking things too easy...

...or maybe...

...i'm still in slacking mode...

...maybe i should get serious soon...

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think i'll go take a short nap...

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Kidou Senshi GUNDAM SEED DESTINY 3rd Intro Theme
Courtesy of: http://www.darkmirage.com/lyrics/viewtopic.php?t=69&sid=3fecbb24c7cc6428bd65414b770656ec

僕たちの行方
作詞：Yuta Nakano+shungo
作曲：Yuta Nakano
唄：高橋瞳

僕たちは迷いながら
たどり着く場所を探し続け
哀しくて涙流しても
いつか輝きに変えて…

閉ざした過去が今　胸を揺さぶるから
求める程遠く　置き去りの心
僕らは生きる程　何かを失って
それでも明日への夢を捨てたくない

悲しみの理由でさえも　強く抱きしめていたい
通り過ぎた季節のその先に何があるのだろう

僕たちは迷いながら
たどり着く場所を探し続け
哀しくて涙流しても
いつか輝きに変えて
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

誰かの優しさに背中を向けたのは
寂しさ　それさえも強さにしたくて
出逢いと同じ数　別れがあるのなら
ふたたび会える日を　僕らは信じよう

すべてに隠された意味を　ひとつひとつ見つけたい
不器用過ぎた　あの日のサヨナラも理解（わかり）合えるだろう

僕たちは変わってゆく
夢も心も見てきたけれど
どれぐらい時間（とき）が流れても
変わらない思いがある
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

迷っても　遠回りしても　そこにだけ在（あ）る何かに
気付いたなら　疾走（はし）り出せる

僕たちは迷いながら
たどり着く場所を探し続け
哀しくて涙流しても
いつか輝きに変えて
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

Bokutachi no Yukue
Lyrics: Yuta Nakano+shungo
Compose: Yuta Nakano
Vocal: Hitomi Takahashi

bokutachi wa mayoinagara
tadoritsuku basho wo sagashitsudzuke
kanashikute namida nagashitemo
itsuka kagayaki ni kaete...

tozashita kako ga ima mune wo yusaburu kara
motomeru hodo tooku okizari no kokoro
bokura wa ikiru hodo nanika wo ushinatte
soredemo ashita eno yume wo sutetakunai

kanashimi no riyuu de sae mo tsuyoku dakishimeteitai
toorisugita kisetsu no sono saki ni nani ga aru no darou

bokutachi wa mayoinagara
tadoritsuku basho wo sagashitsudzuke
kanashikute namida nagashitemo
itsuka kagayaki ni kaete
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

dareka no yasashisa ni senaka wo muketa nowa
sabishisa sore sae mo tsuyosa ni shitakute
deai to onaji kazu wakare ga aru no nara
futatabi aeru hi wo bokura wa shinjiyou

subete ni kakusareta imi wo hitotsu hitotsu mitsuketai
bukiyou sugita ano hi no sayonara mo wakariaeru darou

bokutachi wa kawatteyuku
yume mo kokoro mo mitekita keredo
doregurai toki ga nagaretemo
kawaranai omoi ga aru
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

mayottemo toomawari shitemo soko ni dake aru nanika ni
kidzuita nara hashiridaseru

bokutachi wa mayoinagara
tadoritsuku basho wo sagashitsudzuke
kanashikute namida nagashitemo
itsuka kagayaki ni kaete
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

Bokutachi no Yukue
Lyrics: Yuta Nakano+shungo
Compose: Yuta Nakano
Vocal: Hitomi Takahashi

We continue to search for our destination,
Even as we lose our way.
Though tears may flow with our sadness,
They will shine with radiance someday.

The sealed past is starting to stir in my chest,
The forgotten heart goes further each time I wish for it.
The longer we live, the more we lose,
But even so I don't want to throw away my dreams for tomorrow.

I want to embrace even the reasons for our sadness.
I wonder what lies before us as the seasons pass.

We continue to search for our destination,
Even as we lose our way.
Though tears may flow with our sadness,
They will shine with radiance someday.
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

By turning our backs to the kindness of others,
We try to change even solitude into our strength.
If there are as many farewells as encounters,
Let us believe in the day when we will meet once more.

One by one, I want to find the concealed meanings of everything.
Then we will understand each other's reasons for that awkward goodbye.

We are going to change,
Though we've started to sense dreams and hearts.
No matter how much time flows by,
There are some feelings that will not change.
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

We are lost and taking detours,
But if we take notice of the things that only exist at our destination,
We will be able to take off running.

We continue to search for our destination,
Even as we lose our way.
Though tears may flow with our sadness,
They will shine with radiance someday.
'Cause I'm Never Gonna Stop Streakin' My Dream

Initial D

Warning: The following contains major spoilers to those who has not watched the movie. If you do not want to be spoiled, please close your browser and kindly knock yourself out



Story: [difference will be noted in brackets...]
Source: http://hk.initialdthemovie.com/index_en.html

It's a story about the fastest street racer of Mt Akina. Takumi, a delivery boy; Ryousuke, an engineer of speed; and Kyouichi, a professional racer: the three of them become duelists of drifts.

[In both the manga and anime version of Initial D... Kyouichi never raced at Mt. Akina... the place where Takumi challenged him was at Mt. Akagi & Iroha Slope. Instead, it was Iwaki Seiji that raced against Takumi as a member of the Emperor Team at Mt. Akina. The characters that challenged Takumi at Mt. Akina were in the following order:
Takahashi Keisuke [FD3S], Nakazato Takeshi [BNR32], Shouji Shingo [EG6], Takahashi Ryousuke [FC3S] & finally Iwaki Seiji [LanEvoIV]]

For five years, 18-year-old Takumi has been delivering tofu in his father's obsolescent Toyota AE86 every morning. Not only has he become a good racer but he has also unwittingly perfected the art of drifting.

He was never an aficionado of hill racing until he is asked by his father to drive his AE86 in a David and Goliath race against Night Kids' Evo IV. A glorious but unexpected victory awakens the competitive genes in his blood, while his overnight fame inevitably leads to hellraising races one after another, each one more perilous and exciting than the previous one.

[First of all... TYPO MISTAKE MADE BY THE OFFICIAL SITE!!! LOLZ
Since when Night Kids' got an Evo IV, their best car was a BNR32]
[Takumi 1st battle was against Takahashi Keisuke's FD3S]

From a neutral point of view:
Story: 3.5/5
Music: 2.5/5
Character: 4.5/5
Race: 4/5
Average: 3.625

Story:
- Started off with Takahashi Ryousuke challenging Nakazato Takeshi [or was it the other way around...] to see who's the fastest in the Gunma Prefecture.
- At school, Takeuchi Itsuki boasted that he took 1 year to be the leader of Akina's Speedstar and at the same time told Fujiwara Takumi that drifting is done using handbrake
- Takumi tried to correct him but Itsuki told him that he would have crashed long before he had completed the drift
- Takeshi went to the Gas Station owned by Itsuki's father and queried about the fastest racer of Mt. Akina
- Itsuki boasted that he's the fastest racer of Akina to Takeshi
- At Akina's summit, they were preparing for the race
- Itsuki's RPS13 vs. Takeshi's BNR32 [~186HP vs ~390HP]
- Takumi in RPS13 and Ryousuke in BNR32
- Countdown... 5... 4... 3... 2... and Itsuki sped off
- Itsuki was overtaken by the BNR32 at the 2nd corner [???]
- Later that night, Takeshi's BNR32 [~390HP] was overtaken by an AE86 [~126HP]
- Takeshi's went to the Gas Station again
- Itsuki raced against Takeshi again... [nearly... with a van]
- Takumi with his father's AE86 raced against Takeshi instead
- Takumi won... using the Gutter Run Technique
- Takumi went to the beach with Mogi Natsuki then to Lake Akina
- Meanwhile... Ryousuke paid a visit to Fujiwara Bunta
- Itsuki changed car... from a RPS13 to an AE86 [~186HP to ~126HP]
- Itsuki's AE86 was challenged or rather banged by Iwaki Seiji's LanEvo IV [~126HP vs. ~350HP]
- Takumi took over and won when the LanEvo IV crashed against the guard rail
- Takumi asked Ryousuke about suspension settings and so on...
- Sudou Kyouichi in his LanEvo III [~350HP] challenged Takumi's AE86... and AE86's engine blew up
- Bunta 'squeezed' a racing engine [AE99 ~250HP] into the now-broken AE86
- Itsuki saw Mogi in a Benz
- Takumi having some trouble with the new engine
- Bunta showed Takumi the way to fully utilized the new engine at Mt. Akina [after 11000rpm]
- Takumi saw Mogi in a Benz too...
- Triple Threat between Ryousuke, Kyouichi & Takumi
- Kyouichi took the lead... Ryousuke in between and Takumi last
- Ryousuke retreated for a little bit letting Takumi the second spot
- Both Takumi and Ryousuke, using the Gutter Run Technique, overtook Kyouichi
- Kyouichi crashed
- Ryousuke overtook Takumi for a while before surrendering his lead due to the stress to his tires
- Ryousuke asked Takumi to join the new team he was forming...
- Takumi saw Mogi coming out from the Benz
- Takumi decided to join the team after he saw Mogi coming out from the Benz

Music:
Wasn't paying enough attention to it...

Characters:
Character portray-wise... superb... especially when Takumi daydreamed at the Gas Station

Race:
Enough tire-screeching to make one like the race...

Well... from a Initial D's fan point of view:
Story: 2/5
Music: 2/5
Characters: 4/5
Race: 3/5
Average: 2.75

Story:
Differences in bracket while sticking to Shigeno Shuuichi's version:
- Started off with Takahashi Ryousuke challenging Nakazato Takeshi [or was it the other way around...] to see who's the fastest in the Gunma Prefecture.
[totally out...]

- At school, Takeuchi Itsuki boasted that he took 1 year to be the leader of Akina's Speedstar and at the same time told Fujiwara Takumi that drifting is done using handbrake
[where's Kouichiro Iketani-senpai, the LEADER of Akina's Speedstar]

- Takumi tried to correct him but Itsuki told him that he would have crashed long before he had completed the drift

- Takeshi went to the Gas Station owned by Itsuki's father and queried about the fastest racer of Mt. Akina
[since when Itsuki's father came into play...]

- Itsuki boasted that he's the fastest racer of Akina to Takeshi

- At Akina's summit, they were preparing for the race

- Itsuki's RPS13 vs. Takeshi's BNR32 [~186HP vs ~390HP]
[what a joke!]

- Itsuki & Takumi in RPS13 and Takeshi & Ryousuke in BNR32
[same...]

- Countdown... 5... 4... 3... 2... and Itsuki sped off
[same... but this part was funny]

- Itsuki was overtaken by the BNR32 at the 2nd corner [???]
[this showed that Itsuki's technique is the same at all version of Initial D]

- Later that night, Takeshi's BNR32 [~390HP] was overtaken by an AE86 [~126HP]
[wrong... should be the FD3S driven by Keisuke was overtaken by Takumi's AE86]

- Takeshi's went to the Gas Station again
[he visited it once...]

- Itsuki raced against Takeshi again... [nearly... with a van]
[haha]

- Takumi with his father's AE86 raced against Takeshi instead

- Takumi won... using the Gutter Run Technique
[against the FD3S actually...]

- Takumi went to the beach with Mogi Natsuki then to Lake Akina

- Meanwhile... Ryousuke paid a visit to Fujiwara Bunta
[got meh???]

- Itsuki changed car... from a RPS13 to an AE86 [~186HP to ~126HP]
[he bought the AE85 and no he did not own the RPS13 prior to the purchase of the AE85]

- Itsuki's AE86 was challenged or rather... banged by Iwaki Seiji's LanEvo IV [~126HP vs. ~350HP]
[should be "Iketani-senpai's RPS13 was banged from behind by Shingo's EG6]

- Takumi took over and won when the LanEvo IV crashed against the guard rail
[ya he did... in Itsuki's AE85 against a group of baka from elsewhere...]

- Takumi asked Ryousuke about suspension settings and so on...
[Initial D 2nd Stage... after Akiyama Wataru showed up in his Levin AE86 Turbo but Takumi asked his father...]

- Sudou Kyouichi in his LanEvo III [~350HP] challenged Takumi's AE86 and AE86's engine blew up
[in Mt. Akagi that is...]

- Bunta 'squeezed' a racing engine [AE99 ~250HP] into the now-broken AE86

- Itsuki saw Mogi in a Benz
[since when?]

- Takumi having some trouble with the new engine

- Bunta showed Takumi the way to fully utilized the new engine at Mt. Akina [after 11000rpm]
[he only told Takumi that the limit for that engine is 11000rpm]

- Takumi saw Mogi in a Benz too...
[not in broad daylight...]

- Triple Threat between Ryousuke, Kyouichi & Takumi
[???]

- Kyouichi took the lead... Ryousuke in between and Takumi last
[??? x2]

- Ryousuke retreated for a little bit letting Takumi the second spot
[??? x3]

- Both Takumi and Ryousuke, using the Gutter Run Technique, overtook Kyouichi
[??? x4]

- Kyouichi crashed
[Kyouichi would never crash because he would take the safest and surest way to overtake an opponent]

- Ryousuke overtook Takumi for a while before surrendering his lead due to the stress to his tires

- Ryousuke asked Takumi to join the new team he was forming...

- Takumi saw Mogi coming out from the Benz
[??? x5]

- Takumi decided to join the team after he saw Mogi coming out from the Benz
[should be... he want to join the team because he wanted to improve his skills in driving and mechnical skills]

Music:
A terrible mis-matched... if you have watched at least a stage of Initial D... you should know...

Characters:
Let's see... Takeshi was strange so was Itsuki and his father...
Best was Takumi, Bunta & Mogi

Race:
Would have scored better if Kyouichi had not crashed

whew... i think that's the gist of the movie

there were some funny scenes between Takumi and Bunta especially in the 1st part and the ending part...

the movie as a whole was not bad but certainly fell short of Initial D's fans expectations by squeezing the plot from 1st stage to the 2nd stage in just 110 minutes... [maybe they should have excluded the 2nd stage part...]

okay... time check...

1:30AM

need to sleep... NOW !!!

maybe i'll continue tomorrow...

'start
Dim Draft As String
Draft = "20 Minutes"
Dim Edit As String
Edit = "40 Minutes"
'end

Out for the whole day

presentation for ECPJ today, we were shot by enuice ang in our product and supplier like until cannot make it liao...

no choice but to make our web super-duper impressive when she see it at the end of the semester...

to ivan: don't transfer ur leadership to me lar. i'm not cut out to be a leader cuz i'm a 100% natural-born slacker. [heh]

after the presentation [guess i summarize...]

- went to AMK central with Ian & Eng Sheng
- Ian went off to meet his friend
- went to A* coffeeshop with Eng Sheng while waiting for ian
- met ian at julibee [argh... whatever it is spelt...]
- eng sheng left
- went to bishun junction with ian
- walked and walked and walked for 30 minutes
- waited at GV entrance, anticipating a huge crowd of people following ivan after waiting for so long but...
- surprise!!! only two people came... [ivan & tony]
- make our way down to city hall mrt station
- soon poh appeared behind our back almost undetected
- multiple phone calls were received
- met the rest outside city hall mrt station
- walked to funan
- did nothing except browed through IT product until 3pm [?]
- went to sakae sushi and...
- ate until dunno what to say... [raw's still the best]
- meanwhile...
- bobby was trying to fill our stomache by playing 'zong ji mi ma' after he had...
- ordered several plates of sushi
- shuyun and co. left...
- played magic card
- tony left
- walked to suntec city
- while on the way through citylink to suntec city...
- we made several 'pitstops' due to...
- them walking from one shop to another...
- finally reached suntec city
- we made another set of 'pitstops' with the longest one lasting more than 30 minutes
- explored suntec city
- went to a store selling model kit with bobby
- saw destiny gundam [normal <1/144] on display
- strike freedom by start of july
- cisco guards on duty [is this even needed here cuz they said something on this???]
- blank for 10 minutes while i look at the car display at 1F
- went to carrefour
- bought myself a bottle of mineral water
- saw some mitsubushi car on display
- saw the lancer evolution ix
- went to 'unknown'
- backtrack to suntec city
- changed destination to esplanade
- morree 'pitstops'...
- reached there and went to the top
- sights were not as impressive as i first thought
- only several small vessels out on the river [or soon-to-be reservior]
- talked craps until they initialized Plan A
- talked even more craps while Plan A was in motion
- left the esplanade
- bobby mistakened kellie for jinyi
- walked back to citylink and to city hall mrt station
- took the train to marina bay and did a train-hop
- went home
- did the usual stuffs
- on computer
- watched bleach 36

*edit spelling / grammar*

and blogged here...

the detail stuff can wait till tomorrow...

was here but not here anymore...

Updates

wait for saturday...

been trying to get my PC up and running after a format...

and my MP3 collection with it...

=.=