30.5.12 Pokémon | Banned episodes

There's total of 5 episodes in pokémon that are banned. Some are for stupid reasons, and some are really serious.


Banned 1 - Episode 18: Holiday at Acopaulo (US Name: Beauty and the Beach)

This episode was banned because they gave James clevage so he could win a beauty contest. This took over a lot of the episode which is why when KidsWB (US kids channel) aired a cut version of it, it was horribly mutilated and severely cut in time.

Banned 2 - Episode 35: The Legend of Dratini

This episode was banned because of over use of a projectile weapon, other eps use Guns but none involve the firing of guns towards other people. In the US there were many shootings by children and it was thought best not to subject children to this sort of thing. The lack of this episode also caused a lot of confusion as there were multiple captures by Ash in it which by going by the US airings... just magically appeared.

Banned 3 - Episode 38: Electric Soldier Porygon

The most famous of the banned episodes, banned everywhere in the world including Japan. During the episode when Ash and co. are with Porygon in Cyber Space, missiles get fired at them from Team Rocket. Pikachu blasts the missiles with Thunderbolt causing a flashing of red and blue which put 800 Japanese children (in the real world) into hospital with epileptic seizures. After this the show was put on a 4 month hiatus and was almost totally banned with Nintendo to be blamed for it.

Banned 4 - Episode 252: The Ice Cave

The first episode in almost 4 years that was banned; banned due to some people having a problem with Jynx being a "racial stereotype" and since Jynx was prominently in these episodes, they decided not to air it wtf.

Banned 5 - Episode 377: Shaking Island Battle! Barboach VS Whiscash!!

It was originally postponed due to massive earthquakes in the area and since it features Whiscash making earthquakes so it would have been bad taste. However, this episode was scheduled for a further Japanese showing but didn't air. Now it has come to the US airing and it again has been skipped.

Of course I'm getting the most interesting one to talk about! Episode 38.

A pokémon series caused something so damn serious?! Are they serious? They are.. I went to check around and now I know why. Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. In simple words, it's when your brain wire go the wrong way. You can watch this banned episode somewhere which I don't really feel like saying because I might be the one causing people to be admitted to the hospital because of this. At first I don't understand how a innocent show can cause such serious shit and decided to watch it myself.

It happens that when Pikachu uses thunderbolt on that "toy" pokémon called Porygon, resulting a flashing red and blue which provoked the nerves in our brain causing it to signal abnormally. Sounds like nothing much I know. But the flash is continuous for few minutes, that's why it provoked the nerves in the brain!

Bet many people are very curious after reading this. So if you wanna watch it, go search "Dennō Senshi Porygon", click on the wikipedia, there should be a small video down there, do not go fullscreen for this. If you're scared of getting epileptic attack after watching, hit the play button and hit pause immediately, drag the thing on the timeline through the whole video to see what's going on.

Be warned, an epileptic attack can cause headache, dizziness, unconsciousness and a lot more serious shit so be careful of... flashing stuff in general.

So this is how people in the news of them dying because of online gaming. Mystery solved?
One thing I don't understand, why did they draw the flashing shit after the thunderbolt Pikachu produced?

28.5.12 Untitled

I'm not going to apologize to not have a post up everyday. It's not easy to have something interesting to blog about everyday, especially when I don't go out as often anymore. Home, sleep, school, computer, sleep, school, study, home, eat, school, sleep. It's always the same. I don't even know how am I not going to waste this coming holiday with nothing to do, with no mood to go out alone because I can't spend money on make-up because I'm trying to finish and throw some of the make-up away before they rot. I don't even have inspirations to come out with special daring type of eye makeup these days.

Maybe it's because of the school rules, with no colored hair, no this and that. Professional image they say, restrictions to become who we really are I say. Singapore, they want everyone to be the same, to be normal. It's hard to do many things at once here. You want education/work, you gotta be normal. You want to be yourself, you got to get out of the education/work society.

So all I can do now is to be normal and get as many education I possibly can get while I can, then slowly get back the me before I completely lost myself to the world of normal, boring.

Letting go the thoughts of high-ranked jobs. Because I wanna be myself, and successful at the same time.
You gotta let go of something in life, to achieve something better, not everyone might agree, but so what?

Give me money or time, I'll show you success.

23.5.12 Dream

Now I'm currently sitting on my living room's red sofa waiting for my grandma to bring me to the docs so I might as well spend this time to blog about what I dreamt!

I dreamt of this guy from my class that nobody would ever guessed. He brought me to a Japanese restaurant full of spicy stuffs which I don't eat and he knew it. The seats are row by row, weird restaurant but just when I was about to take a sit, he said "let's go somewhere else to eat" so I told him it's okay, there's something on the menu that I know how to eat. He said "I want a place where we can talk to only us" and I somehow got what he meant so I say "好啦好啦，我知道了" (we talk in mandarin btw) and we walked out the restaurant with me grabbing to his arm. My hand slid because someone knocked onto me and he grabbed my hand and we continued walking. He brought me to this restaurant called Anna Sui, it's a Japanese Western restaurant. I clearly know Anna Sui is a makeup brand, but it is what it was in my dream! I mentioned that I hate the word "Anna Sui" because of the flowery packaging of makeup and he said "just try this" so we went in. I wanted to take pictures for a blog post because although restaurant is small but it looks so high class! Then I realized that there's a sign saying no photography is allowed. I even planned what to blog about!!! Damn. The first sentence I thought of is "_____ brought me to this restaurant by the name Anna Sui.." continuing with the story above just without the word dream. Hahaha! Worse thing was, before I've decided on what to eat, I woke up.

This was just a dream but I thought the "storyline" was cute. LOL XD

22.5.12 Misses.

A very meaningful song indeed...

Though I haven't really lost anyone in my family other than my dear bunny which I cried 2 weeks straight after losing her.
And I still miss her and will still tear.
My mother's dad bought it for me and he's actually the most important man in my life.
I always cry when I think deep into my grandpa, especially when I'm falling sick because he's not as healthy as he was. I can't even type properly now. The hardest post ever. Also because for all that he've done, I should have treated him better.
But I'm not one of those people who will express my love for my family, never was..
I remembered when I was young, he always secretly get chocolate and many weird stuff for me to eat,
because I was a sick child, I can't eat anything sweet otherwise I will fall sick,
very sick that I was admitted to the hospital with needles all over my hand.
Used to go around the supermarket to get free stuff to eat and we don't feel shameful at all.
Used to go to the playground together.
Used to share coffeshop's tea and mom found out and totally rage about it (it was funny to us).
Used to call him up for him to bring me for a ride till when his legs aren't strong enough anymore.
Used to cry because he wasn't free to bring me out to play.
Used to find him and his friends in the coffeeshop just to say hi when I'm in elementary (around primary 5).
I honestly think nobody understands him more than I do, for the fact that we are the same.
Attitude, pride.
When he bought food specially for me, when he cook stuff for my mom to bring home.
I feel stupidly dumb for not doing things for him to know how much I love him.
Can't imagine my childhood without him..
I more can't imagine my life without him in the future.
The fear of losing someone so dear is too scary for me to handle.
Because the both of us aren't healthy. I'm afraid of the word death, on him and on myself.
It's not that we're both dying or what.
But tell me whose grandpa doesn't pamper them like how my grandpa did?

I hope somebody will translate this to him..
Because I want him to know how fucking important he is to me when I was young and even till now when we're not that close anymore.

21.5.12 Past few weeks...

Yes I know today's Tuesday but I'm going to schedule this to Monday hehehe.
I want to start blogging everyday.
And only if it's a really cool blogpost eg. when something cool happen, went somewhere cool;
then I will announce that my blog is updated.
So maybe, you guys can come visit my blog every night if you want to see short updates? ^-^

Each small instagram picture has it own story. And I miss everything that had happened in each and every one of those pictures...
1. We went to get ingredients.
2. We baked cookies and made cake pops.
3. Those laughters, inside jokes.
4. Had some arguments but we had fun nonetheless.

16.5.12 Blogging line

Hello hello my dear bunnies and dragons! ( let the females be bunnies and males be dragons because that's my 2 fav.. creatures? )

So many people who wants to walk towards being a blogger parth are asking me about blogging. Be it layouts, blog posts, starting a blog and maybe there's more but I didn't catch. But today I'm going to cover the 3 main chapters of my first ever written book call Blogging Line. No I'm just kidding, I am not publishing any books... not for now! A little disclaimer, I am not a famous blogger (at least to what I see) but I should be though. Ok maybe not now because we all know we have to work for everything good. Time to get serious!!!

MY BLOGGING TIPS & ADVICES

1. STARTING A BLOG
There's a few blogging sites I've tried (blogger, onsugar, wordpress and livejournal) but I still came back to blogger in the end. Simply because it's the best, duh. Out of these 4 sites I've tried, I hate livejournal the most. The website itself, the settings, it's too messy looking. Onsugar can get messy and I don't like the style of onsugar. Wordpress is cool for their themes but also the themes made everything feels so.. plain boring. There's a fine line between simple and plain. Simple is like my blog and plain is like, too simple.

2. ABOUT BLOGGING
When you first started blogging, of course there's no one visiting them but you can gain readers from almost anywhere around the social networking sites! It takes time for people to find your blog - don't get too desperate to make your blog famous and start blogging about what others are blogging and for having a blog is for yourself to voice out, it's a personal space so there's no right or wrong thing to blog about.. but of course, don't attack people in your blog posts, that's wrong. Common sense okay! Remember that although it's your personal space, your blog is public unless you private it, but what's the point of privatizing your blog when you want to be a blogger?

3. BLOG LAYOUT
Sorry if I'm going to sound stuck up or something but I'm going to be completely honest here. I get quite frustrated when people keep questioning me on how I did this and how I did that because I taught myself about anything funny you see here. I learn as I go. I mean, you can ask me about how I did the coding for my skin but that doesn't mean you could COPY.

I am kind enough to explain step by step sometimes, and I explained for your reference, to let you get creative from something out of what you want to know. But I always, fucking always, I receive messages from anonymous saying that so-and-so is trying to "copy" my blogging style/layout. So here's a tip, go to http://blogskins.com and look at the codes and slowly you'll learn from there. By the way, I don't help anyone do blog layouts (even if I want to, I prefer working alone with no one else around me) but as I said, I am willing to teach or explain to you how I did what I did to the codes.

If you wanna play around with your codes while you're still learning about html coding, remember to back up your codes, copy and paste in somewhere just in case you messed everything up or if your computer crashed.
*I don't use photoshop to do anything on my blog or anywhere else.

Thank you for reading, hope this helped a little! :) x

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14.5.12 BellaBox | May 2012

 
 

Surprisingly, it is actually not a box this month but a bag with a very nice scent to it, which makes me extremely excited after opening the delivery box! So before I get into details of the things inside, I really want to let everyone know that I am so much happier with the things given this month because I'm not a fan of skincare products, especially when they are not full size. Last month, BellaBox sent me things that I don't use at all (which was quite a waste) but I will get on to using them someday! The best thing in the box last month was J'PAN BEAUTY DRINK (click here for last month's BellaBox) that was super delicious!


Products included in my BellaBox:




1. Enavose Cellogist Youth Guard Cream - A luxurious treatment is what I love. It nourish your skin cells from deep within, boost its natural restorative processes and fight the numerous causes of premature aging and maybe I do not need it now but I'm sure I'll need it someday.

2. Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Gold Ultra Restorative Capsules - Totally what I am looking for although it is to restore youthful cushion and ageless skin BUT it fades age spots and the look of fine wrinkles. Not that I have scary wrinkles but you know what I mean! These potent and purely intensive single dose capsules deliver breakthrough retexturing results you can see.

3. Essential Damage Care Nuance Airy Shampoo and Conditioner - I can't believe I only know this brand of shampoo and conditioner after so long because this is such a good deal in terms of the pricing! They repair your hair and restore lost shine. Do I have to say more?

4. Macadamia Natural Oil - Again, this is for the most important part of my life, hair. This natural oil is to nourish and rejuvenate for ultra-smooth, manageable and shiny hair! I usually take an hour or at least half an hour to dry my hair but this treatment reduces the drying time by 40-50%.

5. CandyDoll Powder Foundation, Liquid Foundation and Makeup Base - Did I mention that I just don't like Japan makeup brands? Have yet to try any Japan makeup brands' products although I heard a lot of good reviews about them. And now, I heard that CandyDoll's foundation is really good but I've never planned to purchase it to give it a try, and now that I have some of them, I will of course give it a go and I might like them... Who knows? :)

My BellaBox always arrive between the 10th-20th unless of any delays which I will inform everyone through twitter so be sure to follow me there and be sure to check back around middle-ish of each month if you're interested in this monthly subscription beauty box!

3.5.12 Class Trip 2012: Malaysia

Went to a over-the-river trip with my class, OE!