random things.
OH. i forgot to post this yesterday =_=
"...Koyasu is also the creator of the Weiß series, and has authored the manga Weiß Side B."
hmmm?!?!?! O_O i never knew that!! wow! takehito koyasu! :O not just a brilliant seiyuu! :O
randomly, i think the hmmm!??!?! when gin-san woke up and found sa-chan next to him was hilarious.
anyway, just wanted to say, think kuroshitsuji looks quite promising. i think the animation is okay only la, but the premise seems quite interesting. a blood contract with a demon (suddenly i am nostalgic for sheila paulson's lovely fics. dr. v! :D), and the bocchan and butler both seem promising characters. and £%()&%*(£&%£. what lovely OP and ED! and whoa the ED is by meredith brooks O_O.
in other notes, i have also completely dropped the bokurano anime because it is really very disappointing. the director really screwed up the story, and my favourite characters la :( nakarai seemed so stupid in the anime! geez. but sigh. really want the manga to continue! c'mon scanlators :D! jia you! :D
i don't want to do my work. poo. i should be having a 5-day weekend but nope, i'll be having academic engagements every day. woohoo! holidays are just a bunch of lies.
and hmm, just read a bit of this blog post, and think this paragraph is rather true.
"...I was reading any article that was advising women not to listen to songs that make them believe that they can’t live without a man. Songs such as ‘No Air’ by Jordin Sparks (”Losing you is like living in a world with no air…how do you expect me to live alone with just me? ‘Cause my world revolves around you, it’s just so hard for me to breathe.”) or ‘Here with Me’ by Dido (”I won’t sleep, I can’t breathe…I cannot be until you’re resting here with me”). As pretty or catchy as these songs may be, they get into our heads and mess with our emotions. I would much rather be reminded that I am a strong survivor then led to believe that I need a man to save me."
i don't particularly agree with that list of songs hahaha, but i think the point is there.
i've been grappling with gender discrimination issues recently but am too tired to write more for now i guess. but briefly, i don't believe that a woman's true happiness is only found when she is happily married off to a man. i have no beef with women whose happiness lie in that, but this over-homogenising attitude towards women makes me sick. i believe that happiness is an individual construct. there is nothing wrong with someone who find happiness in a good marriage, but there's nothing wrong with people finding happiness in doing their individual things either.
i believe in gender equality. i do not believe that men have to hold the door for me, or have to have a condescendingly gentle attitude just because i am a girl. i believe that other than biological-based events, whatever men can do, women can do as well, and meritocracy should be gender-blind. i won't say that women can "do them better", because this is not a competition - and i believe any individual with the appropriate knowledge and skills can do tasks well, no matter whether they are man or woman. all i am tired of is the attitude that women are second-class to men. i want to believe in equality. i want to believe that women can be their own persons. and i want to believe that one day society will advance to that stage, when gender is no longer an issue that requires debate.
unfortunately, i do not believe that will be in my era.
"...Koyasu is also the creator of the Weiß series, and has authored the manga Weiß Side B."
hmmm?!?!?! O_O i never knew that!! wow! takehito koyasu! :O not just a brilliant seiyuu! :O
randomly, i think the hmmm!??!?! when gin-san woke up and found sa-chan next to him was hilarious.
anyway, just wanted to say, think kuroshitsuji looks quite promising. i think the animation is okay only la, but the premise seems quite interesting. a blood contract with a demon (suddenly i am nostalgic for sheila paulson's lovely fics. dr. v! :D), and the bocchan and butler both seem promising characters. and £%()&%*(£&%£. what lovely OP and ED! and whoa the ED is by meredith brooks O_O.
in other notes, i have also completely dropped the bokurano anime because it is really very disappointing. the director really screwed up the story, and my favourite characters la :( nakarai seemed so stupid in the anime! geez. but sigh. really want the manga to continue! c'mon scanlators :D! jia you! :D
i don't want to do my work. poo. i should be having a 5-day weekend but nope, i'll be having academic engagements every day. woohoo! holidays are just a bunch of lies.
and hmm, just read a bit of this blog post, and think this paragraph is rather true.
"...I was reading any article that was advising women not to listen to songs that make them believe that they can’t live without a man. Songs such as ‘No Air’ by Jordin Sparks (”Losing you is like living in a world with no air…how do you expect me to live alone with just me? ‘Cause my world revolves around you, it’s just so hard for me to breathe.”) or ‘Here with Me’ by Dido (”I won’t sleep, I can’t breathe…I cannot be until you’re resting here with me”). As pretty or catchy as these songs may be, they get into our heads and mess with our emotions. I would much rather be reminded that I am a strong survivor then led to believe that I need a man to save me."
i don't particularly agree with that list of songs hahaha, but i think the point is there.
i've been grappling with gender discrimination issues recently but am too tired to write more for now i guess. but briefly, i don't believe that a woman's true happiness is only found when she is happily married off to a man. i have no beef with women whose happiness lie in that, but this over-homogenising attitude towards women makes me sick. i believe that happiness is an individual construct. there is nothing wrong with someone who find happiness in a good marriage, but there's nothing wrong with people finding happiness in doing their individual things either.
i believe in gender equality. i do not believe that men have to hold the door for me, or have to have a condescendingly gentle attitude just because i am a girl. i believe that other than biological-based events, whatever men can do, women can do as well, and meritocracy should be gender-blind. i won't say that women can "do them better", because this is not a competition - and i believe any individual with the appropriate knowledge and skills can do tasks well, no matter whether they are man or woman. all i am tired of is the attitude that women are second-class to men. i want to believe in equality. i want to believe that women can be their own persons. and i want to believe that one day society will advance to that stage, when gender is no longer an issue that requires debate.
unfortunately, i do not believe that will be in my era.