Everything looks so yummy in there and I mean everything *droolz*

Time sure flies when you enjoy what you’re doing. Without realizing it, a year has already passed since I first started this blog. According to my WordPress, there are a total of 258 posts (excluding this one) and 594 comments at the time of this posting.

I like to think that it’s because of the interactions with readers, commentators, and other bloggers that had kept me going, so a big THANK YOU for everyone who’s reading this and hopefully I’ll be able to make another similar post next year 😀

My original plan back when I created this current theme was for it to last only until today. I wanted to create a new theme for this blog’s first anniversary, but because time doesn’t really permit, I’ll just update the banner and the layout’s colour scheme a little. It might not be a new theme, but at least it has a fresher look now 😉

Looking back, maybe I should have waited another week before starting this blog. That way, it would share the same birthday as me! XD

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12 years and 558 chapters later… Rumiko Takahashi finally puts an end to Inuyasha. And luckily, it seems like a pretty decent ending to me. It should be safe for me to post this up by now since most of those who had been following the manga would have read it by now.

pwned 2 with a single word

It’s amazing how Kagome can throw out such an innocent remark after calling out to Sesshoumaru like that.

Now I can’t wait for Rumiko’s next project, and hopefully it would be a funny one like Ranma 😛 Her epics are just way too long-winded.

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Firefox 3 will be launching today and they’re aiming to break the world record for most downloaded software in 24 hours. Firefox 2 has been my preferred browser for years now thanks to Dyna and I really can’t go back to using IE.

The fox is cute, but still no match for the Kyuubi guarding the sidebar

Firefox is not by any means perfect, it does have its share of bugs and problems, but overall it’s much better compared to IE and is highly customizable.Firefox 3 seems to have fixed the problem with the browser hogging up memory and cpu resources even when it’s idle, and it will finally have its own built-in session restore function.

I’m gonna be taking part in Mozilla’s effort, are you?

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Geometry Wars?

Zero just keeps getting pwned every other episode nowadays. Whatever happened to the grand master of scheming 10 moves in advanced that captured the hearts of everyone last season? Charles’s memory altering Geass must have caused Lelouch to drop a few screws in his head.

Not only did Xing-ke managed to read Zero’s every move, he even allowed Zero to think he had the upper hand when the entire time the Black Knights were dancing on Xing-ke’s palm. To top it off, the Chinese Federation still has Kallen hostage. I thought it was rather humiliating for Zero to have Diethard talk to him like that as well.

Strongest Knightmare Frame around. Also the ugliest.

Damn mad Indian scientist. If you could create such overly high-spec’ed Knightmare Frame, why didn’t you do that with Guren or with Gawain before? And it puzzles me that an Indian-manufactured Knightmare Frame was given the name “Shen Hu” even though it wasn’t meant to be give to the Chinese Federation in the first place.

I actually had hope for a brilliant episode during the Black Knight’s counter-attack to rescue Kallen, but that ended up in a very disappointing manner. Zero should have tried to win Xing-ke over to his side like he did with Rollo, but instead he made him into a bitter enemy he cannot defeat both in strategy and combat.

Zero’s big talk about how he will teach Xing-ke the difference between strategy and real-time combat was back crumbling down at him. Definitely not good for morale, espcially now that they’re trapped in a tomb no less.

“Just wait til next episode. I’ll pwn the whole lot of you in a single move.”

At least he seems to be confident at turning the tables of their hopeless situation around next episode. Even without Xing-ke and Shen Hu to worry about, there’s 3 Knights of Round and Avalon. The Black Knights are missing Kallen and her Guren Kashoushiki. Although judging by his performance lately, it might not work out as he hoped. Subete wa keikaku doori… janai.

But the biggest surprise and mystery of the day was…

Double-U Tee Eff?

OMGWTFBBQ!? What is he doing back in Ashford when he’s trapped in a tomb surrounded in all directions!?

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After watching xxxHolic episode 6, I found myself wondering this: Why hasn’t there been any anime or manga solely on the topic of Mahjong?

We’ve had anime and manga based on food, bread, Go, chess, Tamiya, tennis, gambling, card games, etc but none on Mahjong. While I’m no expert, I do play the game for fun every once in a while and there’s really a lot of depth to the game. You need to plan a strategy based on your initial hand, predict your opponent’s hands and adapt accordingly.

While it’s possible to get a very good hand right at the start (I once won the round on the very first tile discarded) there really isn’t such a thing as a bad hand. It’s how you play that determines whether you have good or bad tiles.

Something I’ve been trying to get since forever. Pity the last pair isn’t a dragon.

The lighthearted and comedic episode around mahjong proved that mahjong can be a fun and interesting focus in a series. One might think that mahjong is also a form of gambling and that it might be a bad influence, but there’s already Kaiji. Mahjong is also a rather healthy game as it has already been proven that the game keeps your mind sharp.

Hatsune Miku, the Mahjong Girl.

This was one of the more memorable and interesting episodes in xxxHolic & Kei so far. Watanuki’s royal beating and zashiki-warashi’s open comment about his full green tiles were definitely the best parts of the ep. Even everyone’s favourite vocaloid leek wielding girl makes a cameo appearance on a Mahjong guide book cover.

Unlike Kaaya‘s cat impression, Watanuki just looks wrong like this…

So, when are we getting an entire series about Mahjong? Or perhaps xxxHolic should change its focus towards the game instead of the paranormal.

 

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