Japanese Moe Rice

Full Moe Panic!!! Here comes the Full Moe Japanese Rice. I know that some of our readers don’t understand what is “Moe”.

“Moe” or 萌 is actually a japanese slang, pronounced “mo-eh”. Originally it means budding of a plant. However, in otaku culture, it is also used to describe something that is extremely wonderful especially lovely girls (2D). Nowadays, even cute boys or lovely non-living things can use this phrase to describe (2D).

a small transparent fraction for us to check out the rice in the package.

Folks in Malaysia might noticed that the Japanese rice is different with local rice. Japanese rice is actually short grain rice which is small and round in shape, while our local rice is long grain rice, long and cylinder shaped. (picture below)

Manga on the back. O.O

Wait a sec… You don’t just get the rice only, you actually get bunch o free stuffs with it..

A bag… for you to carry the rice…

Sorta booklets or something readable for you to read while waiting the rice to cook… ^^

This is how Japanese rice looks like when it is cooked.

Oh wait, this is a 1kg pack, costs 2000yen, which is approximately RM60… OH MY GOSH… RM600 for 10kg of rice… щ(ﾟДﾟщ)

Information and images via Gigazine

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Danny posted an Osaka Bang video a while ago which shows how folks in Osaka react to being shot by an invisible gun and cut down by an invisible sword.

He wrote up a post introducing this phenomena at BoingBoing and soon after Tim at Trophy Wife saw his post and went and made an American version!

Below is the original Osaka Bang video clip with english subs.

Well, from above video clips, the Osaka people reacts a lot more better in my opinion. While we could see that americans seems to ignoring guns but jump at martial arts… Their reactions are just quite disappointing and they doesn’t seems want to bother him. Don’t forget that he’s doing this in a theme/amusement park, whereas the Japanese are doing this on the street…

The folks in Osaka are said to be more friendly and open than folks in Tokyo. Don’t ever mention about doing this in M@l@ysi@…

Differences between Anime and Cartoon

As I said in previous post, there are bunch of people that don’t know what anime is, in addition, due to animes are being presented in animated form, so most of them think that anime are equal to cartoon…

 

Anime VS Cartoon

Cartoon VS Anime

“Cartoon” is a term that once referred to fine art during the renaissance period. Somehow, the term’s meaning evolved into the Cartoons which are animated TV programs meant to entertain people, mostly children.

“Anime” is a term used by the Japanese to refer to animations. Somehow, the world started using the term, “Anime”, in reference to Japanese animation exclusively. Japanese animation was once called “Japanimation”, but this term was discarded when the term ‘Anime’ was put into use.

Some say that they see absolutely no difference between the two. Some even classify both cartoons and anime as “childish” because they are both animations.

Technically, there’s no official “laws” to prove the difference, but you only have to watch a single episode of any anime series and you’ll see that anime is far more than your usual stupid comedy man-tripping-on-a-banana-peal cartoons. There is a HUGE difference gap between the two besides their spellings: Anime is so much more than ‘just a cartoon’.

Story/Plot

Cartoons usually have a simple and defined plot. And they’re usually about the good guys fighting the bad guys. Cartoons rarely go beyond that border.

Most Anime series, on the other hand, are also about the same, good vs. evil, but the plots are rarely simple and rarely predictable.

You’ll find an element of politics, religion, humanity, and a score of several other abstract concepts within an anime. Whereas cartoons are just about ‘evil’ cats chasing ‘innocent’ mice or a hero defending himself and others from a very evil bully.

Anime can blur the lines between good and evil so much that you’ll be left wondering which side is really right. Look at the plot of Gundam, there aren’t any good guys or bad guys. They’re both fighting for a worthy one, and both sides are prepared to do good and evil to achieve their goals.

However, there are few exceptions to the ‘cartoons are simple’ rule. There are cartoon series that are far advanced like X-men and etc.

In terms of humor, anime goes beyond the stupid comedy that cartoons offer. There won’t be any corny joke about the chicken crossing the road and tripped by a banana peal.

Anime humor is deep and witty. However, it is to be noted that cartoons are mostly for kids. Anime can be for an adult audience, actually it is… HUNDRED times that some anime plots are HARDLY suited for children.

But, there is some animes which are made for children, such as Doraemon.

Characters

In cartoons, there’s a protagonist, an antagonist, and bunch-o supportive characters. Their roles are well-defined and clear and the characters always act according to their roles.

In anime, however, a small supportive character may very well become the antagonist, leaving the protagonist in distress. There’s no knowing what to expect in anime. Anime characters, a lot of times, are developing overtime through trials and growth, while cartoon characters remain the same from when the show started. (I don’t think Mickey has grown old) (Of course, there are exceptions in advanced cartoon such as X-Men, Spiderman and etc.)

Since there’s an ongoing plot, Anime characters actually grow up and may even produce the next generation for the series. Anime fans tend to get into the characters a lot deeper because of the characters’ depth and charm. Consider Shounen Onmyouji; viewers see the protagonist, 安倍昌浩(Abe no Masahiro) grow, the way he relates to people, the way he learns new techniques, and the way he evolves visually. That is one of the chief reasons for popularities of anime over plain cartoons.

Source of this article:

1. GOOGLE
2. The differences between Anime and Cartoon by Henry Hsieh

 

 

 

 

 

someone should give me a medal for writing this post…

more details on Anime, go Wikipedia by Click HERE

School Reopens

back to the school and… everyone knows that we’re getting back our exam papers… ehemm..

so how was your results? most of my results just like poo…

talk about poo results… it reminds me of my Pend. Moral paper.. and a conversation between me and Ju Shuen…

We’ve being a group of good boy and good girl for taking this much of subjects forced offered by Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia for SPM. A total of 11subjects.

Well, if you take a good look through the subjects, You’ll find that some subjects are pointless… Lets take Pend. Moral as an example, what’s the aim of this paper? Could someone ever tell me? are the teachers gonna tell me the answer? Yunani?

ehem, This paper focuses on the 36 moral values and most importantly the answering technique… alright, I dont have much complaints about the moral values but the strict answering technique is hell so annoying!!

Why the heck must we answer the questions using those techniques? following blindly, the answers are not accepted if the technique used is wrong… is this because the Moral is too easy to score? Everyone knows what things held to be right or wrong or desirable or undesirable. of course its easy to answer… THIS IS NO LONGER A MORAL EXAM, IT JUST TEST OUR BLINDLY-FOLLOWED ANSWERING TECHNIQUE…

but still whats the purpose of this? According to some analysis, this is to train that the students to follow the instructions obediently properly and carry out the solution. those who understands the last sentence will know what KPM is thinking of…

Well, this is not something like hating something I can’t archieve, I respects those I can’t archive. This is RIDICULOUS!!!

To be reality, it is useless for our future… what am I going to archive in my life after my mastered the moral answering technique? are teachers going to answer this question? Yunani, u know mah?

Forget about the FAKE SEJARAH… shame on KPM…

ah…. Lets move on to another topic…

Akihabara Stabbings

Read about this news in various sites…

“I was tired of life. I came to Akihabara to kill. Anyone would have been fine.” – the words of the person who killed 7 people in Akihabara, Sunday.

For your information, Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods. yeah, it is “Anime Heaven”, holy ground for Otakus.

Its all over news in Japan and even across the world. The killer, Tomohiro Kato aged 25. He rented a 2 ton truck and drove to Akihabara from Shizuoka which is situated 180km away. Police still undergoing investigations on why did he drove 180km to Akihabara just to kill.

He drove into the main crossing at Akihabara which is closed for pedestrians on a Sunday and hit 3 people. Kato stopped his truck and headed back to where the victims lay while stabbing 3 people on his way.

Kato then ran into the crowds and stated to stab more people. A total of 7 people died and about a dozen injured – most of these people were stabbed from behind and it looks like one was stabbed in the neck.

Witnesses said that Kato had a frenzy look on his face and that he looked like he was enjoying his killing spree.

An officer chased Kato down an alley and tried to apprehend Kato with a baton. Kato only dropped his weapon, described as a 13-inch survival knife, when the officer drew his pistol and threatened to shoot him where upon Kato collapsed to the ground and gave himself in.

Killed in the incident was a woman aged 21, two men aged 19, 31, 47 and 74. The media have been digging into Kato’s past to discover that he done well in school and was a sportsman. Apparently his father was a drunk who was violent to his mother.

What witnesses said:

“He was screaming as he stabbed people at random,” a woman told NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster.

A clerk at a used computer store yards from the scene added: “People came rushing into the shop, yelling at us to call an ambulance. I went outside to see what was happening. There were people running in all directions and then I saw the attacker. He wasn’t running, just walking in a really strange way.”

Another witness, Shunichi Jingu, 26, told Kyodo news agency: “At first it looked like there had been a traffic accident. Then a man got out of a vehicle and began to brandish a knife.” The victims were easy targets. The area’s stores draw thousands of shoppers and tourists on Sundays, when the main street is closed to traffic.

Felt saddened for those innocent people who were out and about shopping and minding their own business but being killed by a man who said “Anyone would have been fine.” [誰でもよかった]

This kind of news is rare in Japan – the land where the crime rate is so low that a man sticking ice-cream in a post box made prime time news.