I was just youtubing some of U2's songs and I just really liked listening to this one classic hit:
I really like the song, despite the really random video. When I saw boyzone I nearly shivered from shock!
The views and happennings of a Manga-obsessed Neuroscience nerd with a strange interest in the medical genre.
Monday 24 August 2009
Monday 17 August 2009
I live in a bubble
I've recently read a book called 'The Yacoubian Buuilding' which details events that happen to individual characters who are ivolved with the 'Yacoudian building' in Egypt, which is an actual building that still stands today in one of the 'poshest' areas of Cairo. The book encased Governmental corrutption and power, scandle, forced abortions, homosexuality, sexual harrasment, the substantial divide between the poor and rich, religous extremisim and torture.
Alot in one book right?
When I reached the end of it, I was not only in a state of shock and anger; I had also just realised that I live in a bubble of safety and comfort, that I complain about the most insignificant things in relativity to the horrors that are actually out there in this world.
Then I was watching Panorma last night and the stark contrast of how 'easy' my life is compared to others was once again exposed to me with high definition.
I now understand how grateful I should be for my position in life, even though I damn well comlpain about it.
Alot in one book right?
When I reached the end of it, I was not only in a state of shock and anger; I had also just realised that I live in a bubble of safety and comfort, that I complain about the most insignificant things in relativity to the horrors that are actually out there in this world.
Then I was watching Panorma last night and the stark contrast of how 'easy' my life is compared to others was once again exposed to me with high definition.
I now understand how grateful I should be for my position in life, even though I damn well comlpain about it.
Monday 10 August 2009
Manga of the Month August
It's taken me quite a bit of thinking to choose what manga to review this month..... I wanted to review a shonen (boy's manga) as I've been talking a lot about shoujo manga for a while. But I just can't help myself. I have been holding myself off ranting about 'Nana' for a long time and I think now is the time to do so... only because I'm so upset that the new chapters have not been released yet :(
Well, 'Nana' is my all time favourite manga drawn and written by the prestigious Ai Yazawa. There is only one manga of hers that I haven't read, she is to me, nothing short of amazing. Her drawing style is very unique, but in each of her different works there is distiniction, I think she did best in 'Nana'.
The manga is sorta a fashion manga as it experiments with different types of clothing styles and has everything from the punk to the baby. I have met people who have started reading this series and stopped, because they got all 'emo-ified' so it can seriously grip you. For those of you who are pretty inclined to adddiction, maybe you should stay away from this one then.
'Nana' is about two women who are both called Nana and they're friendship, however, they are very different and come from very cross-dimensional backgrounds (not literally). One of them was in a normal family unit, pampered and loved, while the other was abandoned by her mother and left to live with her grandmother, who died when she was 15, so she had to start caring for herslef at a very young age.
I could spend hours and hours typing out the storyline, but that would ruin everything for you, so I'll stop here.
Just Joking :p I won't let you off that easy.
The main thing that one should know when considering this manga though, is that despite the unusual storyline, it depicts life and human relationships in its true and realistic form. There are disappointments, there is sadness, and betrayal. Things that do occur in life.
I like this manga the most, not because I'm a mad fan of the mangaka, but because you see the maturaion of the pampered Nana, she adjusts to the hardships of life that she had been too childish to understand of before, and more than anyone in the the entire series, she is the one that scarifices most for what she believes is right.
For those manga haters for the sake of ignoring my rants, the series has also been made into a film (with real life 3d human beings) I haven't watched it as nothing can be as good as the origiinal right? But this picture looks pretty good that it seems promising.
Well, 'Nana' is my all time favourite manga drawn and written by the prestigious Ai Yazawa. There is only one manga of hers that I haven't read, she is to me, nothing short of amazing. Her drawing style is very unique, but in each of her different works there is distiniction, I think she did best in 'Nana'.
The manga is sorta a fashion manga as it experiments with different types of clothing styles and has everything from the punk to the baby. I have met people who have started reading this series and stopped, because they got all 'emo-ified' so it can seriously grip you. For those of you who are pretty inclined to adddiction, maybe you should stay away from this one then.
'Nana' is about two women who are both called Nana and they're friendship, however, they are very different and come from very cross-dimensional backgrounds (not literally). One of them was in a normal family unit, pampered and loved, while the other was abandoned by her mother and left to live with her grandmother, who died when she was 15, so she had to start caring for herslef at a very young age.
I could spend hours and hours typing out the storyline, but that would ruin everything for you, so I'll stop here.
Just Joking :p I won't let you off that easy.
The main thing that one should know when considering this manga though, is that despite the unusual storyline, it depicts life and human relationships in its true and realistic form. There are disappointments, there is sadness, and betrayal. Things that do occur in life.
I like this manga the most, not because I'm a mad fan of the mangaka, but because you see the maturaion of the pampered Nana, she adjusts to the hardships of life that she had been too childish to understand of before, and more than anyone in the the entire series, she is the one that scarifices most for what she believes is right.
For those manga haters for the sake of ignoring my rants, the series has also been made into a film (with real life 3d human beings) I haven't watched it as nothing can be as good as the origiinal right? But this picture looks pretty good that it seems promising.
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