Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. - David Letterman

i was in couch potato heaven from the 2nd week of september until the end of october. i was living at my aunt's house and jacking up her electric bill because of my tewwible, tewwible tv habits. (happy birthday auntie Len, mwahhh =) i wake up at around 10 am or 12 noon, play with my adorable dog choco, eat when there's food left for me in the fridge, and watch tv on and off until 3 am. Before the first week was over, i was a full-fledged bum.

thank god television and computers were invented since going to the beach during the typhoon season is a no go. by the end of september, i was best friends with animax and knew every character of my favorite anime series. i stayed up late/early (depends on how late or early 2am or 3 am is for you) just to watch reruns of my favorite animes, especially those that were shown while i was catching some zzzzzz's. i had so much fun watching kyo kara maoh! or god (?) save our king! i've never seen so many good looking guys in one anime. add some gay undertones and you're in for quite a ride. i wish jade had a dvd of this so i can watch it all over again.

gunther, wolfram, conrad, yuri and gwendal

speaking of the divil, no i'm not going to singapore and taking your detective conan dvd with me but i believe inday is leaving on wednesday night. hahaha! i spent 2 days watching the detective conan dvd i borrowed from him. i ate, slept and dreamt of nothing but kudo shinichi aka edogawa conan. it's a compilation of 10 detective conan movies which they release to every year from April 17, 1997. there's now a total of 12 movies released, most recently was on february 2008. there are over 500 episodes of the tv series and i want them all... (demanding!) i hope you're reading this jade, hahaha!

kudo shinichi

shinichi is actually a famous teenage detective. but after being forced to drink a poison by 2 henchmen of the black organization, he shrunk and became a kid again. my favorite episodes were the episodes he ended up teaming up with the thief, kaitou kid and his rival detective, hattori heiji. there's one forum on the net that says that the kaitou kid is related to the kudo family which could explain how he came to know of conan's real identity. i'm trying to pick a favorite from the 10 movies but i'm quite torn among magician of the silver sky (where he teamed up with the kaitou kid), the phantom of baker street (where he played a virtual detective video game on sherlock holmes' turf), and the private eye's requiem. i've yet to see the 11th and 12th movie because i don't know if jade has them yet. Hahaha! tigas!

another anime that i'm really hooked on right now is blood+. i can't wait to see what would happen next. saya is a vampire. she was born in 1833, survives on the blood of others, and is destined to destroy chiropterans and her twin sister Diva. it's so bloody interesting now that saya has made a chevalier out of her own younger brother and the appearance of another group, the schiffs, a breakaway group of artificial chiropteran created out of diva's (saya's twin sister) blood. the schiffs attack both saya and diva's groups, believing that blood from the 2 queens or any of their chevaliers can stop the Thorn.

saya and her chevalier haji

during the weekends (although everyday was a weekend for me then), i watched reruns of gunxsword. but due to some change in my habitat, (thanks to my grandma's hypertension, i had to temporarily move to slopes of mt. isarog but sadly they have cartoon channel but no animax.), i think i only got as far as episode 10 of the gunxsword series. unfortunately, i couldn't even remember where it left off...damn! i guess i'll just have to watch it all over again.

van of gunxsword

the first time i watched this anime, i didn't even like van. he's not your typical anime hero. he's a reluctant hero, even slow at times and rude to wendy but like any hero he pulls through when he's needed. i think i got as far as the episode when wendy saw a glimpse of a blond and then everything is blank after that. wendy's brother, michael garret, was taken by the some baddies who attacked her village and then sold him to the same guy van's looking for (a man with the clawed hand) and now wendy is trying to track michael down and get him back.

Van has a white Armor, Dann of Thursday, or just Dann. it's held in place over the planet in a crucifix-shaped satellite, and is launched to his position when he twists his hat 180 degrees and swings a 'V' with his sword in the air. it is one of the strongest armors on the planet, and uses a sword as its primary weapon. as one of the "original seven" he needs to enter his armor once a week to regenerate. if he doesn't, he will die plus he does not age due to his being one with Dann.

anyone here got any gunxsword dvds? i'll donate the chips and the popcorn if you'll let me watch it, pretty please with cherries on top.






Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery