The "Japanese movies" loving Takahina

Friends will know I like Japanese movies or any Asian movie more than the average fare of American movie. (Well, friends, if you don't know then now you know).

And coincidentally, I just watched 2 movies today. 1 is American fare and the other is Japanese fare. The American movie is "Bewitched" while the Japanese movie is "Inochi" which I watched on TV.

So, today Takahina shall give a comparison between this two and I'll justify my reasons to why, I prefer Japanese movies. But, my reviews will be basterdized, so you have been warned.

Of course, it's wrong of me to generalise the difference with just 2 cases of movie, I'll elaborate as a whole.

(Students may want to take examples because from what I understand, this is how you can link examples into theories, like subject like Econs. But of course, I may be wrong. I'm no teacher, I'm just Takahina.)

First on:



I won't say this is a totally bad movie.

This movie is quite a comedic touch at least to say and it's rare to see Nicole Kidman to actually film in such a quirky flim. It focuses on the possiblilty of loving someone just cause of love and nothing else and how love is so precious and blah blah...

The comedic touch is fine, but sadly to say... the storyplot can only be moderate fare. In terms of artistic sense and feel, such movies are just too frequently done in US films. The moral and meaning it tries to convey are just too commonfare. Common isn't bad, but it's ordinary so it doesn't make this movie extremely well noticed.

On another note, I don't really like the main actor...



He freaks me off badly.

Secondly:



I watched this on Variety Vision channel 56. The title for it is "Inochi" or "Life" when translated.

This may be a movie from few years ago, graphics and camera-shot wise, it's not as stunning as "Bewitched" or even most films nowadays, but the storyplot and the sense behind it is just exceptionally and beautifully portrayed.

The movie is talking about an unmarried and unfathered pregnant lady seeking support from her ex-boyfriend who on the otherhand suffers from a fatal illness. With 1 life about to be borned while another life about to be gone, how will they support each other in such a time of crisis.

This movie touched on the side of humanity and the importance of life itself, which frankly i feel is a much needed inspiration to many of the misleaded and unguided youths of today. I'm not old myself (So naturally I'm a youth), but this movie had greatly brought to me about the essence of life and love among friends/parnters/parents itself. Birth, Death, Confusion, Disease, all are nicely depicted here. Very encouraging and indeed worthy of a praise.

And to be praised by The True Takahina is no simple feat. It's very sacred.

Now, how do I link this movies to my reason. Simple.

Firstly, I implore all movie watchers to reflect and think back on the movies you have saw. Among how many are US movies?

People in Background: Quite a few.

How many talk about love and happy forever after and blah? If not, about the don't know what kinda plot bad guys are planning and in the end subdued by a much overwhelmed group/person. If not, how many talk about some person denying orders from his superior and then going alone, killing all the badies with some very powerful gadgets?

People in Background: Quite a lot.

Examples like?

People in Background: Wedding Crashers, Charlie Angels, James Bond?

I can't say they are bad, but you know there are just too many examples of such a kind. Too many of the same kind will only lead to - commonfare work. So a supposedly good work can in the end, end up inferior. But of course not all US shows are bad to be fair. Shows like Harry Porter, Finding Nemo, Star Wars and quite a few others, they can be considered excellent.

(So don't you go on saying I'm just biased, i'm only mildly biased)

If so, let me continue on asking, how many of those movies actually discuss on the issues of life, death and not just love? How many of those issues go on exploring on the discrimination and constant problems faced in the true society?

People in Background: Not much.

Of course, their knowledge is limited.

People in Background: Hmph! Then why don't you name some movies of Japanese or Asian fare which explores on such issues?

Sure.

"Inochi" - Japanese film
"Yomigaeri" - Japanese film
"Be with you" - Jap film
"I not Stupid" - Singapore film
"Homerun" - Spore film
"April Story" - Jap film
"Brother" - Korean film
"Perth: The masscre of Geylang" - Spore film
"1 hour??" - Korean film --> I'm not sure of the title. But it's about a parents joy for a baby who can only live for 1 hour after birth.

To just name a few, I've seen few more others which are nicely done. You may notice that some Singapore fare are very nice as well and the moral behind it is well depicted in our local society. Jack Neo has indeed done well.

Of course, there are inferior work of Asian as well... and I'm a little sad to say but commonfare again actually comes from Hong Kong whereby there are once again many movies which in the end will end up the 2 main actor/actress being together. Japanese also has some inferior work like... forgot the title le. Korean films work on a sure win formula which is able to earn laughter and tears but in the end, you can realise the format is just the same.

This is one reason why, I don't really like to watch movies, cause they are mostly US movies which sadly, I got to pale to their slapstick humour and rather, unenthusiatic storyplot. However, I do like Spider-man or Chee-bye-der-man as I like to call it when I was young.

Lastly, of course this are all just my personal opinion. The movie industry may have changed now from what I know. I don't have perfect knowledge after all. One way they can make me change their opinion is to be able to make me cry when watching. I'm a very emotional person who can tear easily when watching movies.

People in Background: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, CHICKEN WUSS!!!!

Shut up.

On a last note, anyone is free to comment on this as I suspect it may bring in unhappiness in hardcore US movie fans. I'm ready for any flaming.

The mushroom-hair styled Takahina

And once again, after a long time since the very long hair cut done in January 2005, Takahina has once again came in known as the mushroom haired guy, a.k.a Shitake Mushroom.



Gotta admit, I really look like a mushroom. But i like to eat them as well so whatever.

An extra note though, you got to know that there are different type of mushrooms.

First, Shitake Mushroom.



Don't it look delicious... Well, it does have several health uses.

1. Weight Reduction - So suitable for me
2. Fights bacteria - but it's a bacteria itself....
3. Inhibits HIV - So eat it before u have sex with monkeys

And many others lah, I don't care.

Second, straw mushroom.



I only know I don't really like it and it looks like a penis head. Oh ya, Qing Heng (my classmate) has a hair style quite similar.

Third, golden needle mushroom.



Ok lah, i translate it direct from the Chinese term 金针菇, so i dunno how should u call it. And i don't know what properties it has. I only know, I quite like it.



This is another type of mushroom I like and I only know it comes from a can food branded Golden Boy Mushroom. I still remember there is a dumb commercial on it.

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A man tries to spray some salt on 2 of this small sized mushroom, the mushroom seemingly alive, actually skipped off the salt!!!



Wow!

That guy annoyed, went to spray pepper at the mushrooms. The mushrooms only continued to skip off at that peppery onslaught!!



Wow!

That guy, completely in furnished fury, just took a fork and he went off to kill it!!! Strangely the mushrooms didn't jump this time, seemingly crying to him saying, "KILL ME WITH A FORK!!"

He ate it and he nodded his head in acceptance, happy that he has finally killed this 2 menacing mushrooms.

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Well, mushrooms aside, i wonder what's wrong with having a mushroom head.



or, just a stupid hair style in that sense.

What I don't understand is why is it that guys are so attentive of their hair? Self esteem? Pride? Or you are just an avid fan of Dragonball Z?



Don't mind that green guy. He's bald and has two tentacles on his head.

If not, some guys love rambutan and durian?




I'm ok with anything, but the only hairstyle in which I can't notice the charm of is spiked hairstyle. I have nothing against Audric (another classmate) lah, I just don't like spiked hairstyle, it reminds me of a guy trying to act punk and that is very fake in my opinion.

But of course, hairstyle is your freedom.

The thing is why must we be that bothered with hairstyle? Because it dignifies our suaveness... to a large extent yes. I'll just show 2 pictures to depict of the great difference.




Due to the hairstyle of the top picture, it fully shows of his dumbness and unsuaveness compared to the one below. The beautiful and demure girl has no change in hairstyle at all. If the guy above has a better hairstyle, he will be more suitable for the girl than the one below...

*People in background runs to the background to vomit.

Aiya, Takuya, I still admire you lah, don't worry.

So point very much proven that hairstyle does make a big difference. However, Takahina still doesn't like the notion of placing hair in a very big position. Hair all in all are just a show of our appearance and appearance are not everything to us. Thus so it's not worth it to bring a bottle of wax/gel to school everyday and use a personalised comb to specialise your hair in the toilet. Do that at home, not school.

Normally, regarding the issue of hair there will be 3 types of people.

1. Totally disregard hairstyles, just uses the hairstyle of their pillow
2. Don't really care bout hairstyle, but will worry when people start to call him mushroom.
3. Everyday bring comb and gel, go toilet and spends more time than a girl
4. Can't help it but can only remain in 1 hairstyle

fluffy hair, yay.

Type 1 has a very strange perspective of appearance. For some reason they are just too lazy to be bothered with such trivia nature and will just ignore it. However ironically they can produce the best and worst hairstyle. The pillow is a great gel that is able to totally hardened the style of your hair, to the extent that even if you shake your head like siao, just a little adjustment will ensure the standardised hairstyle. Also, they are economist. They need not spend extra money to buy gel cause it's already gel for their life.

He just made his hair slightly wet and pushed the fringe to his right eye.

Type 2 are people who are indeed concerned about their appearance but are lazy to do anything about it. Cause they will think that no matter what hairstyle they have, no girls would care to bother about it, life still continues. But, when a girl does start to comment. CHAM LIAO, chiong, they will have to care bout that mushroom/bowl/watermelon hair of their's. So what to do? Use water and sweep their hair over. Problem settled.

Doesn't his hair look like it has too much gel to the extent it can kill?

Type 3 are people who are over concerned. They normally use too much gel or wax that their hair will seem to be flashy shining or just slimy white. They will care too much about the girls' attention even if the girls are just ignorant about it. Also, they use too much wax and gel that it will be so hard, they can use it for many uses like digging the ground or piercing through a wall, very useful indeed.



Do I still need to elaborate on type 4?

So what can we do? Go yunnan jian fa zhong xin to help? Or just buy a super strong gel?

Hairstyle mah... in the future it will just turn white and whittle. Why bother?

The Tired Takahina

Normally, I don't post personal story bout myself, I don't like to. What I normally post on are just social issues which I find fucked up with.

But today, I have no social issues, I find scolding people having no sense of meaning at all, after all will the society even take notice of such a minor blog which is gaining no fame or listening ears in whatever sense. Take for example the previous post in which I'm scolding people who listen to music openly and not using ear phones. Yesterday I sat the MRT only to find 2 Ah Lian to conduct the same behaviour which I have vehemently despised on.

So... why even bother scolding when nobody is listening!? This world is fucked up and the only way you can survive in it is to adapt with it. In the future, I shall blast One Night In Beijing on the MRT, mark my words.

For some reason, I don't know why but I'm so tired. Probably because I'm jerking off too much nowadays or simply I have lack of sleep. Imagine getting only 5 hrs of sleep everyday whereby the next day you have school. 7 Swords (The group in my class) will know I like to sleep around the rock wall area in school, surprisingly the wind is rather strong and cool in that area, making a good sleeping area. But still, I don't find my sleep enough. Then I realised something...

I may be tired physically, but mentally I'm more tired.

Let me just rant today. You'll notice that Takahina has never liked to say how hard life is for him as he has self awareness that in this fucked up world there will always be life more fucked up for others. Imagine Pakistan or Iraq, I don't think I need to elaborate. Therefore, if they do hear of us complaining how hard our life is, like "AH DAMN! I FAIL MY EXAMS. I WANNA GO AND DIE!" or "KANINA THIS MATHS SO HARD TO DO! WA LAO! FORGET IT AR, DUN WANNA DO LE!" they can only laugh at the deplorable Singaporeans who cries and lament on such minor troubles compared to getting bombed everyday.

At least, I have self awareness.

But today, I don't. So I shall complain and lament like a deplorable Singaporean.

I read on the newspaper once that human need at least 5 hrs of sleep to ensure their next day work. I'm reaching the minimum level I guess so by right, i should not be tired physically, i should have the energy to work perfectly the next day. But during tutorials and lectures, it's not that I don't want to listen, it is i can't help but.. sleep. ZZZZZZZzzzz

Perhaps the lesson is too boring? Perhaps the air-con provides a fine environment to sleep, I don't know. If I try to bring myself to listen, there will then be this splitting headache which i lure me to sleep again. ZZZZZZzzzzz

Also, while I'm writing this now, I feel a sense of sleepiness overwhelming me.

So what can it be? That is, I'm finally feeling the effects of stress.

There was a survey done one day in which they determine what type i am among 4 types. If I don't remember wrong it should be...

Tao Kay - Bossy
Sibei Niao - Calculative and Analysitic
Ham Chi - Timid
Sibei Char - Talkative, Sociable

I'm the sibei niao type. Suits me by the way,

They said sibei niao type releases stress by sleeping and being alone. I notice lately that's what I kinda like to do.

For example when 7 Swords went to yak over their Magic The Gathering game, I was pissed off so I went to sit alone in the hall with the fan blowing me. A girl was playing the piano there, nice tune.

Another example is i keep on sleeping early lately and I like to sleep after eating breakfast. Yay. Pig I shall be yes?

Thus I deduce i'm stressed.

But then, is this how stress feels like? Procrastinating the whole day and not doing homework at all even though there are tons of it just cause I don't feel like it. And just wanna stay at home not going out at all even if you give me free money.

It seems I'm just lazy more than anything, stress is just an excuse.

Well, what can I say. Maybe contrary to all my own beliefs, I'm a lazy person. (I use to think I'm not lazy, just tired) Maybe contrary to all my own beliefs, I'm an immature person after all. (I use to think I'm more mature than most of my peers who only compete on how good they are on card games for example.)

I don't know.

All I know is, I'm tired. I don't feel like doing homework. Heck I don't even feel like playing drum now. I don't feel like doing anything.

You know what I wanna do now? I just wanna say....

"WAH! DIE LIAO LOR!"

Pek chiek.

The unloved Takahina

Lately, one of the GP comprehenstion articles I have done speaks of man being able to love more than one person of the opposite sex at once, or the concepts of a bigamy relationship. Also, Tian Long Ba Bu (Which I just saw...) have Duan Zheng Chun loving more than 1 girl and all the girls he loved loved him back wholeheartedly. Also, Duan Yu is having the same case as his father and he has just been released from the crime of incest so he can fuck all of them as well. Yay!

Anyway, I wonder. Should we even condone multi relationship or is remaining faithful to one too difficult to human.

TV drama loves to show an adultress in marriage, i personally prefer threesome in sex even though it's just a pure thought of imagination that can never come true nor will my character allow me unless the opposition permits it. :p

In my life principles, I've always said that I will only remain faithful to only one person and never betray her although I still remain my rights to look at girls in mini-skirt. But lately, I don't understand it anymore and my principles of love seem to be falling.

People in Background: YOU HAVE MORE THAN 1 GIRLFRIEND AR!!! GO AND DIE YOU IMBECILE CREATURE OF THE SOCIETY!!!

No lah, DIAM LAH idiot PIB. Takahina don't even have 1 girlfriend, how can I say 2???!!

Even though I have tried my hardest to pursue to of the girls I liked in my life, one for 4 years and the other for maybe... just 2 months currently? But still both girls have remained maybe unresponsive to my actions. Maybe I'm too persistent and I should change this blog's name to "The Persistent Takahina with regards to girls". And I should only blog on my methods to chase girls I see and then obtain help from people all over the net.

But nah, I'm not The Desperate Takahina just yet... soon enough though.

With recent setbacks in my attempts, I'm thinking maybe I'm using the wrong methods, maybe I'm too impulsive I don't know.

PIB: Didn't you say you won't speak of your love life?!

Shhhhh... didn't I tell u to diam?! I'm getting to the point of my story. Plus love life is always one of the best publicizing topic. The second is to have your naked pictures or obscene pictures being pasted on the blog. It always help, Porn is the most developed industry and the demand is never ending.

Anyway, let me get back to the gest.

Due to the recent setbacks, I'm feeling like, wtf is wrong with me. Why do I feel so fucked up when she says she is busy or wat? She's busy with her work and so, of course it's natural. But then I don't have any information on her life and so...~~~

PIB: OI, STILL TALKING ON LOVE LIFE AR! DUN FORCE ME TO SAY OUT HER NAME!

Oh fuck, DIAM U IDIOT PIB.

With the principles of Takahina, it truly and dutifully stated that "only pursue a relationship when you find it true."

I was sure that it's true when i first went for it. But still, my heart is like having a split. I feel uneasy when I see Mutsumi (Take Mutsumi to be that 4 year person crush) and also, I'm thinking maybe I should just give up and go for others. Like that girl I saw in MRT today always peeping at me while I'm also peeping at her.

PIB: WA LAO, BUI HIAO PAI.

Ok ok, she may be just commenting on my pants which has holes near the private parts, but disregard that. The charm of Takahina is insatiable.

*PIB pukes in the side corner, finding Takahina's words a total disgrace to the word "charm"

Wa lao, sometimes hor, I can't believe I'm always writing things on this blog scolding myself, ain't I confused?

Anyway, the thing is why do I still have thoughts for other girls if I'm loving just one? Is it the human nature which causes this? Or is it that I don't feel repreciated for my efforts. 4 years effort for Mutsumi goes down the drain and 2 months of meeting with only 5 meetings with her is remaining too stale and not moving.

Is it just nature, or just me. Will people really get stale of all this boy girl relationship and eventually quit, while parents hold onto their relationship mostly for the sake of their children?

Singapore, or should I say socially, there are many cases of parents staying together mainly for their kids. Of course I'm not saying there are no cases of love still remaining between couple after marriage. My parents for example have been loving.

From what I remember, last year or dunno what year we went to watch fireworks. My parents went off and snug in a corner while I just sat alone with Tian Wei; both of us acting like gays. :x

But then, I still frequently hear some funny comments from my father with my mother alongside.

Scenario: I sit in the car with my father and mother. Saw a girl in mini skirt, quite chio walking pass the road.

Takahina: WAH, SIBEI SUI!

Father: WAH, SUI! (His sight remained focussed on the girl, not on the road)

Mother: Huh Huh??? Where Where???

The girl walked passed the road, light turned green.

T: Pa, can go liao.

M: Aiya, he like that one. See girls his head will follow the girl. Like Lao Ti Ko!

F: Aiyo, you see girls wear so mini! For us MALES TO SEE ONE! I'm doing her a favour by watching ok??? I repreciating her thought of letting see!

M: See SEE!! He at it again!

T: But it's true mah. (Takahina got influenced by his father for quite some time)

Anyway, my father only began to drive when the car behind us BEEP BEEP him.

The fact is, even though we may love someone, we will still keep our focus on other people of different sex. If same sex den cham liao, that person will be gay or lesbian.

However, for me it's a different case. Even though Takahina knows best that when a girl is acting intimate, she may not mean she likes you, but Takahina just can't help on such matters of his own heart. Under a long period of time, he will eventually fall in love with her. So girls, don't try to act too intimate with me unless you like me. You may be inviting trouble.

PIB: Didn't you always encourage girls to look for you?

I said to like me, not to look for me. If you don't like that person, but still continue to act very nice to him, guys with low self esteem and no girlfriend for their whole life will get the bloody wrong idea and that will cause him or you a very big problem.

Takahina is an example.

The biggest problem for Takahina is

He turned into a pervert and he is too active in his pursues just cause he thought you have the same thinking as him.

So girls, beware.

It's very....

Dangerous.....


Well, regarding my case... Mutsumi is a long gone case. She has already stated that she didn't like me last year. The other one... I don't know.

Oh ya, let me end this post with a Takako pic.



Kirei desu shou? ^^

If you don't agree with the above normative statement. Den PIB and Takahina will have you converted.

Beware.