FFVII: a reflection?

How FFVII reflects Japan modern society (not to be taken seriously)

1. Shinra represents a typical monopolistic / capitalistic / profit-maximising company in the real world. Aim - makes lotsa money without caring about the impact that technology has on environment.

2. Sephiroth - the typical salaryman that slogs for the above-mentioned big company for almost all his life. Sephiroth's descent to madness after realising the truth of his origins could be a metaphor to how the typical salaryman feel after being given a retrenchment letter after slogging for almost all his life. In most cases, the typical salaryman may actually direct destructive tendencies inward (ie suicide - which may partly explain why Japan's suicide rate is rising). Unfortunately, Sephiroth choose to direct his destructive tendencies outward.

3. Alavanche - a small team that opposes Shinra. Could be a metaphor for small start-up firms that are trying to compete with big names, yet without much resources.

4. Cloud - a metaphor for a young entrepreneur. He leads the above-mentioned company.

5. Aeris - the ideal Japanese woman who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice

6. Tifa - the modern Japanese woman who is taking a career path....

7. Yuffie - kawaiiness

8. Vincent - nostalgic for the past....Vincent slept for years only to wake up to a world that has already mvoed on without him. He represents the feelings that the older generations might have with regards to rapid changes in lifestyle and culture......a nostalgic for the past yet hope of redemption and being useful for the future.

9. Sephiroth's aim of trying to destroy the world - or becoming all powerful - is actually a reflection of a typical salaryman's desire to make something out of his life after realising that his efforts and loyalty towards the company is misplaced. Hence he would want to do a career switch only to discover that it's too late for him to enter the market as an entrepreneur. Cause Cloud was there first and he had first-mover advantage.....so that's why Cloud can beat Sephiroth in the end....even though Seph has more power.

Moral lesson in FFVII: You either be entrepreneur or employee.......don't be like Seph who switch half-way.......most of the time it prob won't work...........(juz kidding)

Oh yah, plus the fact that nature takes care of itself......so enivronment matters......

FFVII

So the term break is here and what am I doing ------- watching Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.....yay hahahah. I've been waiting for this for sooooo long.....dreaming of seeing Cloud and Sephiroth live.......or as live as gaming characters can be.......^_^

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Ahead.........anyway dun bother reading if you dun wanna hear me rant abt FFVII lah.......




I think maybe something's wrong with me cause I'm in "love" with Seph......and the insane look on his face.....hahah I know lah I have a soft spot for any characters with silver hair........eg Inuyasha, Hitsugaya, Youko Kurama (wah that's million years ago k) and now.....Sephiroth.....
That's why I spend my term break wondering how on earth can a SOLDIER have waist length hair and still look so cool........and deadly.....and erm.....insane? So I ask my friend on msn and he say Seph used Head and Shoulders......which makes me happy cause I'm using that too.......hahah

Hey I know he's the villian.......but he's misuderstood k (ya right actually he's really insane lah). He got such a sorry past.......sobsobsob......and he only appeared for like 5 minutes in the show....but that's okay.....cause we get to see Cloud too.....voiced by Takahiro Sakurai. When I hear Sakurai-san and Morikawa-san (Seph's seiyuu) talk, I got reminded of Kyou Kara Maou......wahhhh..........Yuuri and Conrad.........Seph and Cloud......wat a different image sia..........

Speaking of seiyuu huh........I tried re-watching Tactics again cause need to do anime review and I choose Tactics and Inuyasha.........When I listen to Kantarou's voice, Hanatarou's face just popped into my mind (from Bleach). Miyata-san's voice is really distinctive sia........oh yah he also voiced in Kyou Kara Maou with Sakurai........these two seems to work together quite often. Not to mention Sakurai is in Bleach too.......hahaha

The only reason....

sigh.....seriously the only reason why i din update my blog for soooo long is because i'm busy. busy with wat.......i'm not very sure myself either. i just 有一天过一天. i guess i could have said i am busy with school work but that's not entirely true. in fact, i did do lots of school stuff but the strange thing is; i felt like i'm doing a lot and yet nothing at the same time. last time i do things as they come, but now, i spend my time plotting wat to do in advance so that i can free up my time.......including making plans for tuition and stuff. if i sit down and honestly assess myself, i can say i'm not entirely tat busy.....in the sense that i still got enough time to surf net, d/l stuff and generally entertain myself. but i'm not as free as i'm used to be - able to watch so much anime and spend hours online.....i guess i really have to lower my expectations of wat i can and cannot do.....

of course, i'm not unhappy lah......as a matter of fact, i'm quite proud of myself for learning not to procrastinate anymore and doing things in advance. it's really a great stress-reliver - to be able to do things systematically and planning things. but the strange thing is.......i feel sorry that although i did stuff - they are not really the things tat i wan to do.....for example, i wan to read my readings, but i'm busy with tutorials. or i wan to study japanese....but i gotta give tuition....it's really a tradeoff and i need to use all my econs knowledge to deal with this scarcity of time - cost n benefits ya know.

well, when i plan things in advance, i dun feel so stress with myself.....i guess i'm sort of the kind of person that has high expectation on myself (kind of lah...but not quite also). i like to feel like i've done something productive....does it make me a workaholic? haha.....i guess i must be masochistic also.....cause i like to give myself trouble by adding my own workload and doing extra stuff (like learning japanese during my free time)

n if u ask me y i din put capital letters in this post....the reason is.....laziness.......hahaha.....tat's all seriously. pls dun read btw the lines n over analyze.....like how my teacher quote the sociology example of donald duck being example of white supremacy simply because it is.....white. i seriously dunno whether to believe her or not.....^_^

Monday blues

Wah today the guest lecturer of JS anime module showed us a video of Singaporean cosplayers and the cosplay event 2005....makes me wanna go and see. Its really fascinating cause I din expect Singapore cosplayers to be so advanced in their cosplaying. I squeal (inwardly) when I see the characters I know - like Bleach lor....I saw this guy cosplaying as Renji and there are also some other captains around. I think one of them is Ichimaru and the other is shiro-chan (but the hair like not spikey enough??) And then.......cosplayers also performed on stage.......I nearly had a heart attack when two anime/manga/game characters singing Phantom of the Opera.....I mean just think about it........anime characters singing broadway song? It's really out of the world. Oh yah....some more got a group of four people dancing to Asterisk by Orange Range - too bad it got cut off before they could get to the vocal part of the song - cause I'm really curious; how to sing Asterisk.....I know I have been practicing for so long to no avail..........

On a not so happy note: something sway happened to me today. It wasn't a big deal lah........juz unbelievable. I went to library and photocopied some stuff - and it turned out that the power trip while I uas using the machine - so my card is stuck inside. I waited and waited until like 3.30pm where I decided I need to go to tuition soon - so I asked the librarian to help me keep a look out and retrieve my matric card when the machine is okay.....strange that it took so long juz to fix a power trip. I felt quite silly standing around the copier and waving people away telling them it's out of order.

Nevermind: I'll get the card tmr.....^_^

Pro----cras---tina---tion

Wah lau siao liao lah....sit down and count the amount of work I have to do and I'm on the verge of freaking out. So many readings to complete.....tutorials to figure out....projects to do.....plus giving tuition regularly and own stuff to do also.....seems like there's so little time. Somemore I like to procrastinate so much, so my general effectiveness at doing stuff is pretty low.....wah lau now my top piority is to get my school work in order sia.....sigh.

It's been a month since school started and tutorials are pouring in. Right now, I really thank God that He didn't let me take that physics module........otherwise I'll surely be in a more terrible state than now. I cannot imagine having to figure out physics theory on top of econs......it makes me shudder to think about it. Although the JS module got exam and cannot s/u and somemore caused me to have to go school every day, but at least it's about anime.....I cannot claim to be an expert on anime but at least I watched or at least heard of quite a couple of titles and have a relatively strong interest enough to keep me going. Watching anime during lectures is also a big plus. This is called mixing work with pleasure.....hehehe.

But other modules are not so good lah....all the rest of economics modules are very interesting in their own right - but almost everyone of them have heavy readings. Especially behavioral - all journal papers....the concepts are kinda intuitive but the journal language makes it not very easy to swallow. Micro is tentatively game theory - thank God again I took game theory with Xinyi last time (even though I din do well, at least now I know what the lecturer is talking). Money and banking.......the model is kinda more complicated - and we are only at demand for money. Organisation - nothing much to say.....Dr Riyanto is quite nice and detailed but I haven even start the readings yet. Econometrics - wah....I hate maths....and 8 am lectures are really not my cup of tea...

In short, I'm going to make readings and catching up stuff my top priority....I don't even watch much anime or surf net for long periods like I did last time - I'm busy trying to punch holes through my readings and sticking reinforcement rings on them so that the paper won't be torn.

Don't laugh - it's true.

Procrastination is bad.....and I have been doing for a month already. But I promise myself - I'll not procrastinate so much.

P.S Have you people seen the news on Hurricane Katrina? When I read about the anarchy happening in New Orleans....it reminded me of War of the Worlds. Except this is real.