Code-R

Only one day before the rest of the exams resume, and what I am I doing? Revision, of course! And no doubt along with several other stuffs that suppossedly should not be done during this period. But hey, this is me. I’m not really good at resisting temptation, especially if it concerns what I enjoy doing.

I just started doing the lineart for this page of Katekyo Hitman Reborn! manga chapter 191 yesterday. I’m planning to colour it when the whole Mid-Year-Examination ends. No doubt, I’m still watching anime too though it’s only a few episodes per day. And by ‘few’, I really mean ‘few’, as in one or two episodes.

I know I’m suppossed to be studying and such but I think one or two hours of ‘free time’ for relaxation wouldn’t hurt. And it’s not like I haven’t started revision yet. Even though it’s only very little, it still counts as revision, right? I believe in Miracles and in myself. So, hopefully, I’ll do well.

Oh, and I’ve been wanting to post my thoughts on the 4th episode of Code Geass R2.
[SPOILERS for those who watches Code Geass but haven't seen this episode yet.]

My favourite part of this episode was when Lelouch manipulates Rolo and sweet-talk him into joining him as one of the Order of The Black Knights and rebel against Britannia. Basically, Lelouch plans to use Rolo, his fake brother, for his own personal gain. The way he gains Rolo’s trust was very clichéd yet genuine, and he didn’t even have to use his Geass.

I think Lelouch is really evil because he didn’t even think twice about using Rolo and only thought about what he would gain from it, and he can gain a lot by having Rolo as his ‘chess piece’. But still, I think he’s really awesome anyways. And I think Rolo deserves it too (he being gay and all…), and not to mention stupid (it’s so obvious that Lelouch is lying to him…).

Well, that’s that. Must try to resume revision now…

So Friday’s my English exam and I don’t think I’m ready yet. I did a composition during class and was surprised to see that I took quite a lot of time to finish my planning, let alone the whole paper. Though I’ve been doing quite a bit of compositions this year, all of which were not done within a time limit, so that may be one of the reasons why I took so long.

Anyways, I just thought I’d post the essay I wrote here.
It’s edited and incomplete because it’s really long. Some parts may be illogical but just deal with it, I’m no genius.

Original concept by the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.

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Flight
By: — R –

Flight has always been a dream for human beings. It was made possible with the invention of aeroplanes but there are some who feels that it is insufficient. Flying on an aeroplane does not, in their opinion, give a sense of freedom. They wanted something more natural that will give that which aeroplanes does not. This desire, this greed, is what drives them to look into genetic engineering to create a human-avian hybrid, a human with wings and the ability to fly. Thus, countless experiments were conducted on humans and as a result, lives were lost due to the failure of the experiments. After years of experimenting was there finally a successful experiment.

The hybrid, experiment number 431, was brought up in a cell located in the research laboratory and is constantly under the watchful eye of the scientists. He was given limited, if any, freedom. Everyday, he would be brought to several rooms to be experimented on or examined. All was going well for the scientists until one day, when 431 was being examined, a scientist detected an anomaly in the hybrid’s nervous system. He brought back 431 to his room and hastily approached his fellow colleagues to discuss the problem.

“From the look of things, it would seem that his nervous system is slowly being ineffective,” said the scientist who had examined 431. “This process would continue until it would one day be completely dead. Number 431 would be nothing but a piece of mindless flesh and meat.”

“So what do you suggest we do?” voiced another scientist, directing his question to no one in particular.

“Well, there is only one thing we can do,” answered another. “Elimination.” He continued, “We have no use for failures and keeping a defect will only waste precious space. It would be for the best if we dispose of him as soon as possible so that we can start work on another one.”

Without wasting any time, the scientist ordered for their specially trained personnel to take experiment number 431 to their private island which was specifically built to dispose of failures. 431 was placed in a cage and loaded onto a ship headed towards the private island. 431 had been around the lab for nearly 15 years and he knew all too well where he was going. His suspicions were confirmed when he overheard a pair of scientists’ conversation, “What a waste, and he lived for pretty long too, compared to other experiments.”

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431 had had enough. He was tired of being caged up for years and yearned for freedom. On his trip to the island, he started to formulate a plan to escape from the clutches of the scientists and his preordained fate. The journey did not take long and soon he was making his way towards a high-tech looking building. He knew that if he were to escape, he would have to act now because once he was inside, there would be no more chances left. Fortunately for him, only his hands were bound with chains. His legs and wings were free. “And I thought they were supposed to be smart,” he thought to himself silently.

The hybrid’s eyes darted left and right, confirming his position among the lab’s military personnel. There were only three people, one in front of him and the other two flanked him on both sides. Again, he was lucky because there were only three people for him to deal with. When he was a couple of hundred metres from the building, he set his plan in motion. He suddenly unfurled his wings without any warning and this caused the two men at his sides to halt momentarily. The dust that was being blown around by the wind created by the sudden movement only added to the confusion. 431 took this chaos as an opportunity to ram the person in front of him and in the process, taking the key for his chains. When that was done, he summoned all of his energy into his legs and within a second, he was soaring in the sky. He then transferred the energy from his legs into his wings and brought them up and down with as much strength as he could to get away from the scene as fast as possible.

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Within the chaos on the island below, one of the specially trained personnel, the one who got knocked down, quickly grabbed a rifle strapped onto his belt and took aim. Only thing was, there was nothing to aim at except for a small dot that was getting smaller by the second. He brought it back down and scowled.

“Shit….,” mumbled the one that was to the left of 431, “How troublesome….”

“They are so gonna kill us,” grumbled the other one.

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When the news of 431’s escape reached the research lab, the scientists were ferocious. No doubt they blamed the guards for this escape.

“What the hell do we do now!?” yelled a scientist.

“We cannot afford for the public to know what we are doing here. If word gets out, we would be put to jail or even death for toying with human lives,” said another, though this one was fairly calm.

“True, that’s why we must find and kill him at all cost,” said a feminine voice. “We need to set aside all other experiments and concentrate on finding number 431 first. Eliminating him is our top priority now.”

“Yes,” said another. “Good thing for us, we inserted a tracker in him,” he continued and smirked menacingly.

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Well, that’s it for now.

It’s still incomplete and I don’t know whether to end it with the next ‘chapter’ like I originally planned it at school, or continue and make it into a multi-chapter story kind of thing.

Anyway, as I’ve mentioned earlier, this piece has been edited because there’s no way I’m gonna get away with writing ‘Shit’ in a composition and also, it’s really very long (No way am I gonna be able to finish it in an hour…).

Hmm….it’s not good to keep looking at the downside of stuff. So, instead of posting about my negligence to revise and all that, I’ll post about something light and good this time.

In the course of the past few days, I have completed watching Dragonaut, Gundam 00 and Clannad! Oh, and I’ve also caught up with the latest of Katekyoushi Hitman Reborn! Not bad, eh? Maybe this is what I just need. If there’s ‘no more’ anime episodes to watch, I’ll have nothing to do, so maybe I’ll finally start my revision!

In any case, I have also been regularly downloading and watching all the new series that I recently picked up at a steady pace. So I hope this will continue but maybe I shoud miss one or two weeks’ worth of episodes to make time for revising.

Besides, I may have found a motivation to study. Maybe. I don’t know if it’s worth it to start revising for but, hey, I can hope, right? In fact, I should believe that it should work. If you’re wondering what it is, it’s a game. Or perhaps a ‘memory card that can store games’ would be a much better explanation.

I took a look at my schedule for the remedials of the March Holidays. Guess what? It’s only two days!! Lol, I thought it’d be at least 3 days. I think last year’s remedial was much more intense. Haha, anyways, not complaining.

With that, I think I’ll be able to catch up on most of the episodes and series. I think I’m going to create a signature too though that depends on my mood and maybe if there’s a nice panel from a manga, I’ll colour it.

Hopefully, I won’t procrastinate on my homework and revision.

My lack of motivation seems to one of the other key problems for me, second to laziness. I refuse to elaborate further as I feel that there is no need for it. I think that if I somehow manage to find a motivation to work hard, I will be able to improve (academically). But sadly, I have yet to find a motivation. I hope I will by the end of this term.

Also, I won’t be creating any signature or avatar this week. I know I said I would but I just couldn’t get any ideas of what style to do it in and I don’t know which character to feature. No motivation here either.

Then just what have I been doing this weekend? Well, I’ve been watching anime, catching up on weeks worth of episodes from several series and yet there’s quite a lot more to go.

What!? March already ??!

Well that was fast. I know that I usually change the theme every month but I think I’ll continue to stick with the current one. Reasons being; 1. It’s nice, and 2. I can’t find anything else that’s suitable.

Oh, but I did change the ‘Featured’ column in the sidebar.

A f*cking cockroach went inside my wardrobe!! This happened in the morning and I was in a rush to go to school. When I came back home, it was nowhere to be found, or rather, I was too lazy to clean my entire wardrobe. I think I’ll do it during the weekend.

Well, I had my Social Studies test today, it was managable, I guess. Nothing too difficult if I had memorised everything correctly. I couldn’t recall one or two factors clearly so I had to crap my way through, I tried to make the crap as logical as possible though. I think I should be able to pass and get a decent grade, at least a ‘B’ and if possible, ‘A’.

About the signature/avatar, I still have no idea which character I should use and what style I should do it in. I was planning to do it today, just now, but I had to finish doing my school project first. Hopefully, it’ll be done by Monday. Don’t want to wait too long lest I forget.

Sorry, no avatar as of yet. There was no time since my friends came over to my house to study. But I’m sure I will whip something up by Monday, hopefully. Hmm…not much else to say…

Oh, well. I guess I’ll just leave it at that for today.

(Well this was a waste of a post…)

Lol, check these videos out. They’re really cool. The Japanese never cease to amaze me.

The voice actor for Gabriella is the seiyuu for Rukia in Bleach and the voice actor for Troy is the seiyuu for Ichigo from Bleach. Lol, the coincidence. The dubbed really sounds nice.

I think Nami Tamaki did a good job on this song because I think that this song is not her kind of genre. Or it could be because I’m used to hearing her sing Pop songs. Either way, it’s still pretty good, better than the original even.

It is subbed in Spanish, but no matter. Hitomi Shimatani did a really great job on this. I think it’s definitely way better than when Vanessa sings it.

Ah, another good song. They did a good job on this too. The dubbing is flawless.

Well, that’s it for now. If I come across anymore videos, I’ll post it here.

Ahh~ Almost miss posting an entry. I’m not about to let the chain get broken yet.

I didn’t get to do much today. My structured remedials started today and I have quite a load of homework to do especially since I didn’t do the ones assigned the day before, so it was double the work. Oh, and I have a Biology Test tomorrow.

And as a result of all this, I didn’t get a chance to use the computer. :Sigh: It seems I have to skip reading fanfic for today and by the looks of it, I don’t think I’ll be able to read tomorrow too.