Showing posts with label relationship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relationship. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Anime Watch: Subbed Version of Skip Beat! Episode 21

Here is the latest update to Skip Beat!. Episode 21 can now be viewed here:



Watch sb21 | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com


Thanks so much to the user for uploading this subbed episode. It must have taken the person quite a lot of time to do the subbing and the uploading in order for people like me to be able to view the show.

In this episode, Kyoko is on her way to her first TV role in Dark Moon as Mio Hongo and she discovers that Ren would be acting alongside with her as well. We also see Director Ogata for the first time and the way Kyoko described Ogata as fragile is so hilarious.

From this episode onwards, we shall see a total evolution of Kyoko as an actress when she is put to a test by the veteren actress who played Mio 20 years ago.

I hope we can get to see how Ren struggled with his love scenes and how he used Kyoko to practice his love scene, in the process discovering about his love for her. That part is very detailed in the manga and so I hope I can see that in the next episode of the anime.

Stay tuned!

Anime Watch: Subbed Version of Skip Beat! Episode 20

Skip Beat! episode 20 is finally out and you can view it here:



Watch sb20 | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com


Well, hopefully this video doesn't get removed that fast as it's getting really hard to find Skip Beat! episodes due to the fact that it has been licenced.

Nonetheless, thanks to this kind soul, we are able to continue to catch the anime together with the Japanese viewers right now.

This episode centres on how Ren deals with finding out the truth that Kyoko is trying to hide from him. You see, Kyoko knew that Ren hates her motive for joining the entertainment industry purely for revenge. Ren felt that it won't get her to anywhere.

Hence if Ren were to find out that Kyoko had just completed filming in Shou's music PV, things might go bad for Ren knows that Kyoko has a deep hatred for Shou. But Kyoko also couldn't hide the fact that she had managed to use acting to try to defeat Shou during filming.

So she admitted that she wasn't out for revenge when she did the filming, which was a total lie. This made Ren very angry and jealous, which puzzled Kyoko as she still don't know that Ren likes her.

However in the end, it was heartwarming to see them patch up after Kyoko said the truth to Ren about her revenge being the main motive. Her joy at getting Ren's forgival is somewhat obvious that she harbours some sort of feelings towards Ren. But both characters are still either not aware or, in Ren's case, in denial of their feelings.

Well the manga has yet to get Kyoko to realize about Ren's love though Ren has already acknowledged his love for her.

It would be interesting to see how the anime will pan their love out in the remaining episodes. I hope they would make Skip Beat! into a long-running anime series like InuYasha. It would do much justice to the hugely popular manga too since the manga has many important plot points from here onwards.

Stay tuned for more.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Anime Watch: Skip Beat! Episode 19 without Subs

Here is the video for Skip Beat! episode 19. However, it comes without any subs and it's in Japanese audio dialogue. You can watch it here.

This episode is very funny and I love the way they dress Kyoko up so beautiful. Her new beauty did made Shou dropped his jaws in shock. Plus it's so funny seeing her trying to strangle and kill the devil, the character which Shou is playing. It is even more hilarious seeing her talking to Moko-san while asking for help. Her inattentiveness to listen to other people is indeed very annoying but that's part of her personality, I suppose.

Then when Kyoko finally completed her filming in the PV with that famous crying scene, I can tell you Shou's heart is a goner for Kyoko by this time. Then we have Ren who is also falling in love with Kyoko, albeit unknowingly. His manager is much more astute in observing these small little things in Ren.

All in all, the anime is going great and the next episode is bound to be as good too. Stay tuned!

Friday, November 7, 2008

Everything's Gone... I've Lost.

Well, what can I say? Everything is gone for me. Totally destroyed. In my career. My current job. I thought it would be a better future for me since it's a statutory board. Boy, I was so so so wrong. In all accounts.

I have been badly backstabbed in this company and it doesn't help that I am way too ignorant of the intricate things that go on in big companies. I have never worked in a big company before and certainly not as big as my current company. Never in my wildest dreams would I realised that I would be a victim of office bullying.

But it happened. And I was helpless to do anything.

I never stopped to think that all the while, I have been doing things wrongly in this job. Everything. I should have suck up to my boss. I should have suck up to the FM manager. Especially the FM bitch. I stubbornly did things my own way and this FM bitch was not pleased with me at all.

So she plotted to get me into trouble and she succeeded. She had something that I don't have. Power. She can wield power in her favour and I would be defenceless against her.

That is how things work in the corporate world and I was too naive to show my real feelings and thoughts to my "colleagues". To people whom I had put my trust wrongly. Right now, I am feeling the pain, the hurt that my job has given me.

Hurt by colleagues whom I thought were reliable. But I was wrong. My thoughts and feelings somehow managed to get to this FM bitch and poof! Here comes the attack. In this company, you have to do everything and you can't bitch about it. Every single work that comes into your hand has to be accomplished and you can't say that you aren't paid to do that job. You have no choice in any matter.

Guess what? I did exactly that and it's career kamikaze for me. Not that I minded much. It's just that my colleagues are so unreliable that irks me to no end. Yes, I admit I am a stupid person to believe them in the first place. Work is something that you can't find and build true friendships or relationships.

I know some of you will disagree with me on this. But to me, that's how I perceive my workplace now. This FM bitch even went to the extreme of getting my colleagues to stay away from me except for work-related matters. So I have become an outcast in my dept and a loner too.

I have been truly stupid to think so simple of these workplace matters. This FM bitch is not to be trifled with and she showed that to me. Now I have no more future left for advancement in my job. She put paid to that by complaining excessively about me to my boss, thus giving my boss a bad impression of me and my work attitude.

Now this FM bitch is leaving for another organization and that's a relief. However it's too late for me and my career. I can only hope to stay till end of this year and start looking for a new job next year and start things afresh. This time round, I will be smarter and interact less with my colleagues.

Also, I must start doing more work so as to appear extremely busy in front of the boss so as to increase my chances of promotion. Life's cruel and harsh but there's nothing we can do. It's a survival of the shrewdest individual that will win the competition.

For now, I just keep to myself and don't talk to anybody unnecessarily. I work alone, I lunch alone, I go home alone. Everything is just one word for me: ALONE. That would be the best way for me to proceed even though it will turn me into a super outcast.

Now I just want this whole year to go by and I can't wait to get my hands on a degree. With a degree, I would be able to get a better job and probably get to boss other people around. Wahaha! Ok, that's mean of me. Just joking. I just want to get out of the admin mold. Nothing else matters.

As long as I get to put food on the table, nothing else matters. There are people out there who live to work. But there are others who work to live. I belong to the second group but I would still put out my 100% into my work and hold nothing back. It's only when I feel that injustice had been done to me that I start drawing clear lines around my work.

Why should I do other people's work when they are supposed to finish it? And it's not as though they are too busy to do anything else. Rather they are spending time doing unneccessary work instead of prioritize their work. It's not my fault if they can't finish their work in the end.

However, I have no say in my dept and so I kept my mouth shut. But I do bitch around just like everyone else. No one is a saint in their lives. It's just that I'm pure unlucky that my bitching gets round to the boss. I'm resigned to it now. I stay clear from everybody so that I won't have to face awkward situation whereby no one talks to me. In fact, all the executives have stopped talking to me as they have been conditioned by the FM bitch.

I will never know the real reason behind her actions but one thing for sure, she's evil and probably that's why her husband left her together with their son. Yep, she's a divorcee. And I tell ya, this FM bitch is probably the best paid manager in my company as she did the least amount of work, choosing to delegate her work to the executive. She usually spent most of her time having tea/coffee breaks, long lunch breaks and shopping.

YES! She does shopping during office hours. How lazy can she get?! Anyway she's leaving in a couple of days and I won't be seeing much of her during this time. Hopefully by the time I go back to office after my training, she would already be gone by then.

By then, I hope my working life would be more peaceful without any troubles. I need to have a peaceful mind in order to survive in this cut-throat place. All right. Tonight's rambling is certainly long-winded. Time to stop. I'm falling sick to the flu virus soon. Argh! My nose has turned runny and I'm sneezing non-stop. Plus my throat is feeling the itch and I can't seem to stop coughing. Gosh!

Time to rest.... Orhmmmm......

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Shopping Time!

Today's a shopping day and after I completed my facial at Fil, I headed straight to Plaza Singapura for some pleasure shopping.

Well, I planned on buying some clothes to wear but my face was feeling too sore from the facial and that made me lost interest in buying clothes.

After some window-shopping, I finally bought some books from Times Bookshop. They are Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight.



I had been wanting to buy Hosseini's new book ever since it was released last year. The only thing that stopped me from buying was that it came in a hardcover edition. It's too big and heavy for my liking until I saw the soft cover version today. I grabbed the book without a second thought.

The same thing goes for Meyer's Twilight. I heard from maomao that it's a very good story and since I'm in a buying mood, I decided to get the book as well. It's a vampire/human love story and that alone is worth a read. I love vampires.

I will be starting on Hosseini's book first as it has been on my reading list for a long time now. His first book, The Kite Runner, was simply too good and I have high hopes for this second book.

Off to reading now!

Tada!!!

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Empty Spaces in My Heart

Wu Jiahui - Empty Spaces - Wu Jiahui


I had just listened to this wonderful song by local male singer Wu Jiahui and found it to be very poignant. It reminded me of how I used to fantasize about finding true love and experiencing it. Those were the days when I was still hopeful about love. But now... it's a different story altogether.