| 9:03am | Dreams are not for Asia | | | | There’s a pretty good essay on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s call for young Singaporeans to “dare to dream” over at The Online Citizen. The gist of it is that this statement is highly ironic when interpreted against the realities on the ground, much of them the results of... |
| 1:14pm | Spider Attack | | | | I was told that this is the last part of whatever this thing is. This city seems to be constantly under attack from campy sci-fi monsters. The monsters ought to get together and plan out their attacks so that they don’t overlap. It’s just so uneconomical for the giant robots and spiders... |
| 12:01pm | Robots Attack | | | | Second part of three of whatever this is supposed to be. These robots clearly do not obey the Three Laws. Incidentally, the word “robotics” was coined by Isaac Asimov (one of my favourite writers of all time) in his 1941 short story “Liar!” which was eventually included as part... |
| 1:58pm | Spice and Wolf | | | | Once in a while, a rare gem tumbles down from the monstrously huge pile of worthless pebbles sitting on your front lawn and against all odds lands itself next to your foot, carrying with it a much welcomed reminder of why you chose to intentionally clutter your expensive landed property with unsightly... | | |
| 12:29pm | Monsters Invasion | | | | What the heck is this? I don’t know. Why am I posting this? Good question. I am sure all will be made clear in due time. Incidentally, by calculating the amount of money we are willing to spend on things that prolong our lives, (insurances, safer cars, healthcare, tax spendings, etc.) it can be... |
| 10:27am | Anime Festival Asia 09 – Press Conference | | | | I just got home from the press conference for the second Anime Festival Asia and got a feel of what this year’s AFA09 will feel like.What feels like not too many daybreaks ago, a young innocent boy travelled through time all the way from 1989 to witness history unfold one fateful September day... |
| 6:00am | Plants vs. Zombies in Japanese | | | | Plants vs. Zombies is a great game, possibly one of the best works from casual-game maker PopCap Games. You can check out the tons of positive reviews online if you don’t believe me. For those who have played the game, you have to agree with me that the end credits roll (YouTube link) was pretty... |
| 10:58am | Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth | | | | The fifth entry in the Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) series of GBA and NDS games has the player take on the role of Miles Edgeworth (Reiji Mitsurugi), the public prosecutor with an ice-cold exterior and a boyish heart. Ace Attorney has always been one of the sole reasons why my DS Lite is not yet lost... |
| 2:11pm | Identify this song! | | | | This song is Sayonara wo Kikasete by Nanase Aikawa, a veteran female J-rock singer. It’s the B-side of one of her earlier singles from the late 90s and it is one of my favourite songs from her. This is not the song I am looking for. [See post to listen to audio] However, I know for a fact that... |
| 2:11pm | Identify this song! | | | | This song is Sayonara wo Kikasete by Nanase Aikawa, a veteran female J-rock singer. It’s the B-side of one of her earlier singles from the late 90s and it is one of my favourite songs from her. This is not the song I am looking for. [See post to listen to audio] However, I know for a fact that... |
| 2:31pm | Jury Trial in Japan | | | | Those of you who played the 4th Ace Attorney (逆転裁判) game would be aware of the new jury system being implemented in Japan, first proposed in cabinet review committee in 2001 and subsequently passed into law in 2004. After five years of policy fine-tuning and mock trials, Japan held its first... |
| 10:43am | Learning French — Help Required | | | | My impression of the French I’ve been taking French lessons at Alliance Française de Singapour for some time now and I have sadly not been making much progress. Maybe I’m just getting too old for it but this foreign language thing seems a lot harder than it used to be. Either that or I... |
| 3:27am | New York Times: Love in 2-D | | | | Found a semi-interesting somewhat sensational NYT article on 2D love in Japan. (You can get a login from bugmenot.com) There’s a Boing Boing blog post on it too. Predictably, it didn’t take long before commentators started to sound the paedophile alarm. Cue the righteous condemnations. Honestly... |
| 4:52am | Israeli Conscription | | | | Image shameless stolen from Rachel Papo’s gallery Sometimes diving around in the polluted ocean of Digg nets you a rare surviving coral or two. The frequency of this rare occurrence is inversely proportional to Digg’s user base. And so the dance between culture and counter-culture continues... |
| 2:48pm | DaiCon | | | | I was in an apartment somewhere in Malaysia, sitting on the floor of an under-furbished room with two vicious felines plotting the death of my sleeping bag. The stench of cat feces permeated the air, but fortunately my nose was blocked. You have read the event coverages of DaiCon, the anime convention... |
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