i got scolded and questioned by doctors for having cramps and diarrhoea.

i wonder what on earth they're for.

Chuka Ichiban & a bit of crap ^^

mugyuseiryuzan. muraryorikai.

zomg, Chuka Ichiban (translation: Cooking Master Boy) has such a dark world for the culinary realm. there're special ways to chop up a cow, equivalent to the sword styles that Kenshin uses rofl. mugyuseiryuzan vs hiten mitsurugi ryu-kuzuryuzan. XD they even have a Mafia-like association that's hunting down the protagonist, Mao. lolz.

the story is set in ancient China, where the protagonist, Mao, hails from the province of Szechuan. XD after he's recognized by the Food Official (did they have such a rank in history? @@ i think there may be some truth after all...), he's sent to Hangzhou for training and to take the Special Chef qualification (Tokyuu Chuushin Shiken). of course, he gains the title of Tokyuu Chuushin, and from there he travels China for his training XD interesting eh.

while there may be corny moments like...Chun-li lookalikes holding fans and dancing around the word "Umai"(Delicious), or savoring the universe in a bowl of Ginza noodles etc. the main storyline is strong, even comparable to that of Slayers. considering that this anime is at least as old as Slam Dunk or even Ranma, the art style and storyline are both praiseworthy.

sure, it's old, it's cheesy, especially when the literal battle of the dragons start when the respective chefs unveil their dish, but... if Tezuka can wipe out the dinosaurs with his tennis strokes, i guess anything goes yar. =P

it's definitely worth a watch if you belong to the Akazukin Cha Cha era XD there's a fair share of irritating female lead character squeaking (but not as intolerable as Miaka) and your loser sidekick, or in this case disciple, but there's a fair share of bishies as well, only if you count...those gorrilla-like Caucasians in Prince of Tennis as bishies...*shrugs* there's one who's really a bishie, he kinda looks like Mikagami Tokiya from Rekka...but he kinda appears and disappeared. OTL not to mention there's this...guy who looks like he belongs to the gang of Naraku, Orochimaru and Itachi ...purple eyeshadow anyone? lolz best thing, he's a good guy, and the mentor of Mao. *all hail purple eyeshadow~*


CRAP ALERT~ you have been warned.

as a side note, i kinda figured out how Orochimaru died by the sword of Sasuke. you see, Oro-chan kinda did a baaaad thing. he snatched Naraku's purple eyeshadow. ^^ Naraku-chan got pretty pissed off when he realised that his last pallet of purple eyeshadow was missing. *cues thunder and lightning* *cues Naraku-chan swearing vengence on Oro-chan* Naraku-chan goes after Oro-chan and coveniently pops into the dimension in which Sasuke was battling Oro-chan in the "final battle" Naraku and his baboon obviously combined powers with Sasuke and together they beat Oro-chan. that was what Kabuto witnessed when Sasuke showed him the "final battle". just before Oro-chan breathed his last, he sent one of his little snakes to deliver the purple eyeshadow to none other than...ITACHI! (i am not going to incur the wrath of Itachi and Orochimaru fans, if the latter has any, by implying that the two are a couple) let's just say that Oro-chan had a deal with Itachi that he would give him the purple eyeshadow laced with erm...Sasuke's erm...sweat maybe? (Sasu x Ita fans? XD) rights, so Itachi gets the Sasu-sweat-laced-purple-eyeshadow. Sasu-chan, got pissed off with the fact that his aniki was into incest/yaoi that he went after Itachi with a roar. he finished off Itachi and took back the purple eyeshadow which he has been eyeing ever since Oro-chan got hold of it. (that was the reason why he killed Oro-chan in the first place XD) and so, we wait with bated breath, to see if Sasu-chan will one day don the purple eyeshadow ^^

-fin-

*scoots off for more Chuka Ichiban before i get slaughtered by Sasu, Ita, Oro, Naraku fans*

a day of shopping

well, not exactly a day of shopping, since most of the day was spent travelling. maybe the title should be changed to a day of stuffing my face.

basically, the day started with me sleeping in. nice rainy morning, in addition to the fact that the party at my house last night ended late with me helping to clean up = reason to sleep in. managed to win the debate with my dad, which resulted in us skipping breakfast to sleep in somemore XD ended up falling asleep while talking to a friend...OTL woke up only at 12pm @@ lolz. then went out for Taiwan porridge at Goodwood Park Hotel with a couple of relatives.

after filling our tummies with a whole lot of porridge (it's free-flow btw, so you can imagine how much we ate), we walked towards Far East Plaza. here something amusing happened. i was chatting with my mum about some random stuff when we were walking out of the carpark, when suddenly, something crashed down onto our umbrella and my head. make a guess what crashed down. the barrier of the carpark gangtry. roflmao. farnie. once again proved that my skull is as thick as a coconut husk.

anw, we continued walking towards Tangs. there, they decided that Taiwan porridge and Durian crepes weren't filling enough so they went along as started eating cake. OTL

walked a little more and our relatives decided they had enough of Singapore's expensive stuff, so they drove back to Malaysia. then we decided to go chase after another group of relatives from the outback eventually found them at Vivocity after a long while in the car trying to find parking space at the impossibly crowded Vivocity.

after locating them, we shopped at...Giant ^^ managed to grab some Anime and J-Drama, then decided to come home to watch an incredibly gay show XD i think the english name is...Cooking Master Boy or something liddat. farnie and gay ^^ chiaoz, back to Naruto and Cooking Master Boy (must go find out the jap name, the eng name is a little hilarious)

Naruto

bashed it once, got hooked onto it. bashed it a second time, got hooked again.prolly lost my mind edi. OTL

within a span of...say two days? i think i covered...89 (still counting) manga chapters worth of story. lol. nuts, never read a manga so fast in my life. even RAVE and Rekka no Honoo were read at a nice comfortable pace.

best thing about this manga? people double-cross then double-cross again until i get slightly confused as to whom they are double-crossing. spoilers here, but i don't think anyone would mind them =P. Sai, the dear replacement for "Sasuke-kun" was assigned to Team Kakashi. his apparent missions: a) to join hands with Orochimaru to destroy Konoha. b) to assassinate Sasuke. c) to save Sasuke. all, concurrently.

"..." *brain concussion* that is after i summarized kay, imagine trying to read that on your own. though I'm sure a particular someone won't have any problems with following the storyline *smacks* this one does.

next best thing about this manga? bishies drop dead like flies XD *poof* Yondaime the moment he appears *poof* Kimimaro *poof* Gaara nearly there *poof* Sasori *poof* Itachi *poof* Kakashi *poof* etc etc. man, they disappear faster than Naruto's Kage Bunshins. well at least they replenish the stock, only to kill them off again or place them in mortal danger. lolz, i'll get down to my roll-call of the dead once i'm done clearing the remaining chapters i have ^^.

that won't be too soon. and it'll take a while for me to clear the rest of the chapters ^^ i have roughly...119 more to go as of now ^^

PS manga's nicer than the anime. true, less colour but much less draggy, coz you go "click" and it's the next page already ^^ on the other hand, manga can be draggy to, contrary to popular belief.

PPS Sai IS kinda cute. and so is Yamato *hearts* soon they'll go *poof*

lessons learnt

1. SPOILER ALERT (KUROSHITSUJI)

discovery of the day. the curry bun we (all) love was invented by none other than...Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji! amusing. he came up with the idea of stuffing curry into a bun. for what reason? for the convenience of little children to enjoy e curry without having to use utensils! *throws confetti into e air* and to make his "godlike" curry that even beat that Indian butler's curry, he added, a bar of Phantomhive Dark Chocolate. hallelujah~ laugh die.

2. SPOILER ALERT (KUROSHITSUJI)

Kuroshitsuji is so packed with shounen-ai and yaoi (implied i guess) that a straight guy turns gay mid-way. welcome to the dark side, pal! XD let's just say it's because the girl he was chasing kinda ditched him. so he turned to none other than his butler! XDDD master x servant, banzai!!! it isn't Ciel and Sebastian I'm talking about  =P that couple long ago together already mahhhh XDDDDD

3. steaming an egg may result in the egg disappearing from the plate. serious. my plate ended up empty after i steamed the egg. guess it kinda decided to drown itself in the water used to steam it...

4. seemingly docile Parrotfish (see image below) are really aggressive predators. we decided to fish up some guppies from the pond outside to rear in the aquarium inside, when to our horror (and my disgust) the guppies disappeared faster than my sister's dinner did. urgh. gross. there wasnt any apparent hesitation, as though the Parrot fish were used to eating live fish, even though we only fed them with fish food up till today. fish eating other dead fish i can barely stand, fish eating other fish live? urgh.

5. expected the unexpected, as Kerberos always says.

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