Chinese New Year is coming. Of course, it's nice to keep updating every day, but Chinese New Year is a busy time, so I don't expect to have time to post anything beside short rants like this one at the most. The blog will be taking off for a week. Update: My copy of Devil May Cry 4 and Lost Odyssey just arrived today. Woo hoo!
Japanese Anime I'm Currently Watching
Well, since I talked about US TV series I following, it is only fitting that I continue by blogging about Japanese anime I'm currently following too. 1. CLANNAD - Well, er, do you need a reason to follow it? KyoAni still pulls it off well. I've followed every series the company has put out since AIR.
2. kimikiss - I'm still following it closely.
3. Minami-ke Okawari - still hilarious, still funny.
4. Shakugan no Shana II - Well, the long first half was beginning to remind me why I didn't watch Zero no Tsukaima. I'm unsure when I'll give up on the series, but I think it might be soon.
5. Bleach - I have kind of stopped following it - but that being said I do intend to catch up eventually. Hopefully not too long later.
6. Zetsubou-sensei - The antics of the easily despaired teacher and his crazy group of students is always good entertainment. Or at least I think so. Does anybody else think this is strange?
I haven't picked up any new ones since I have considerably less time to follow anime now that I'm back in Malaysia. I suppose I'll follow Gundam 00 one fine day. One fine day.
US TV Shows I'm Following
Well, as with every new year, there are some television shows you start following, some you stop following, and some you continue on from last year. A notable disappearance is Heroes, which went on hiatus due to the writers' strike in the US. So what am I following now? 1. The Celebrity Apprentice - no, I don't think I like it very much anymore, but it's fun when some of these publicly successful people start fighting or complaining about each other.
2. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - I don't know if it'll get bad towards the end, but the first two episodes of the series indicate that it'll go the way I want. The fact that it doesn't have to tie itself into the T3 canon is also promising to me, since it doesn't have to kill itself trying to work its way there.
3. Boston Legal - The cases have gotten more ridiculous and the current focus on the newer members of the law firm while not particularly favourable sometimes, does keep the show fresh.
4. Mythbusters - A new series of episodes has come again (it's so spotty now it's ridiculous, I'll just assume it's new since it has a 'new' opening sequence) - with some long awaited more ridiculous James Bond myths. The show is starting to get old to me. There was an episode several episodes ago that I thought was nice. I realised that I like the slower tempo of the older shows much better than the faster tempo of the newer ones. Probably because a lot of engineering and troubleshooting gets cut out nowadays - even the part that does get put online feels rushed.
5. Stargate Atlantis - The second half of the season has started airing. I didn't particularly like the series when it started, and unfortunately I still don't. I haven't watched the latest few episodes at all. While I'm still hoping it won't suddenly suffer the fate of the now-cancelled SG-1 series, I somehow don't particularly care as much about Atlantis as I do about Earth. So excuse me.
Stuff I Do Miss From Australia
Reply to a reply to What I Miss from Australia 1. Having everyone within walking distance - I think everyone who's left home to study will share this feeling - most people are no more than 15 minutes walk of each other, and going out together is a regular occurence rather than a special occasion. This is probably the best part of uni life. (Heck, our neighbours, kl and I kept going from apartment to apartment, sometimes leading to me locking kl out. Whoops. :P)
2. Boost and Bacio Dolce Melbourne fruit smoothies - Heh, I think there isn't much of a need to explain. Fruit smoothies taste good and make a good meal replacement.
3. My bed - usually one would miss the bed from home, I miss my bed from there. I spent a good amount of money on a good bed there, and it's comfortable, and its location is unbeatable - close to my table. Where the monitor and speakers and computer are. 'Nuff said.
4. The nice weather - In summer, I'm not there, but the rest of the time, the cold weather is heavenly. Even when it rains in Melbourne, it usually does its work in bursts of five to ten minutes. And no lightning storms to threaten your modem. (OK, so almost none.)
5. My file server and network - it was so convenient to have a file server that does BitTorrenting for you. As for my network? Well, I could stream video and audio to anywhere in the apartment. :D
Stuff I Surprisingly Don't Miss From Australia
Since chewxy took the liberty of blogging about things he misses from Australia, I thought I'd talk about what I surprising don't miss from Australia. 1. My dual monitor setup - despite having lived with a dual screen set up for what must have been the better part of a year (a 22" monitor at that, here I only have a 17"). I think, however, this is because I haven't been doing much work - as in audio editing, video editing, script editing, text editing, website editing, assignment editing or whatever other task I usually do in Australia but not here in Malaysia where I just play a hell of a lot.
2. My huge table - again, probably because I don't do much work. There I have this table that can hold my laptop, my monitor, several books all while still having my stationery and space to move my monitor around.
3. Cheese - there I eat quite an amount of Coon Tasty cheese - about 12 slices every two weeks, I think. (in weeks because that's how often I do my shopping) Here, I couldn't care less about cheese. Maybe it's all the good Malaysian food.
4. DDR - actually, I did miss it for a while, but now the, um, withdrawal symptoms are gone. No doubt that once I get back the parking basement is going to get a little noisy again. :P
5. My internet connection - I have 1.5Mbps there, but only 512kbps here. While TMnet is unreliable, it's still much better than it was this time last year - and as long as I can still surf, MSN, YouTube and the occasional HD trailer, I ain't gonna complain about what I would call pretty damn good internet.