Saturday, November 17, 2007

Announcement of Leave

Well you can really tell don't you? Just finished my last paper a couple of days ago and yeah, holiday is coming, well it's not like I don't enjoy study week as holiday but getting to have fun without the guilt of not studying is like HELL YEAH! I actually just notice the difference:

1) Sleep better
2) Wake up better(well basically it's just you can sleep when you want to and can wake up feeling good when you want to)
3) Eat better, my appetite seems to grow after the exams.
4) work better, well get to focus on a lot of things without thinking of study.
5) Packing sucks (do I actually have to explain?)

Well come to the point, since I'll be leaving U soon I'll be forced to go "offline" possibly in the period of school holiday. So my fans out there would not be able to see my fascinate Gundam 00 reviews. Juts be patient ya, it would be less than a month.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Gundam 00: Episode 6

Now lets start with this week's episode. We're shown Ali at the mine field where the Gundams has attacked in Episode 2, he commented that Celestial Being are ignorant of others welfare when it comes to their goal of ending all wars, the country would not be able to survive without the mines. Then he get a call for him to get back to HQ, the scene switch to a meeting of AEU, and they decided that they will send their army to Moralia.



Moralia is a fictional country in this anime founded just 23 years ago in AD 2284. It’s located at modern day France’s Mediterranean coast (around Marseille) and surprisingly it is not part of the Advanced European Union(AEU). Although it has just 180 thousand citizens, over four million foreign workers live in the country. This is because the country’s economy is highly dependent on the private military industrial complex. It attracts foreign investments by giving tax breaks to private military companies.

Of the 4000 plus companies in Moralia, a giant conglomerate called PMC Trust owns over 20 percent of them. PMC Trust is a private military contractor which has its own mercenary army and weapons development programmes. Although they are not part of AEU, Moralia and PMC appear to be heavily involved in AEU’s weapons and space elevator development.



After the OP we found out that Allelujah got himself into jail(ok, lock up) inside a paddled cell of the ship due to his heroic deed in the last episode, wondering who is it that he feel in his head, Tieria comes in and declared Allelujah unworthy of becoming a Gundam Meister, Allelujah ask whether he is no longer allowed to pilot Gundam Kyrios, She...err...., he! says he wish to answer "yes" when Sumeragi comes in and she needs the Gundam Meisters for the next mission.


Meanwhile, in the lab of Human Reform League(HRL), Soma was being check but the scientist find that her body is completely normal, but they know that there is a second person of the same kind with Soma that caused her to go mad, and modification will be done to her MS so that she could be combat ready again, Sergei isn't happy with the fact that they disregard the sense of moral completely.



Back to AEU, Queen Marina was turned down very politely her request of technical support for Solar Power, but AEU promised food aid for Azadistan. Back at Setsuna's apartment, Kinue make some extra food and Saji brought it to Setsuna, but Setsuna is about to start his mission so he just move out, but stop at halfway to say "It's a tragedy", Saji answered that he can't believed Celestial Being save them and Setsuna goes "Me too" which make Saji pops a lot of question marks.

Then we got a chat between Billy and Graham about AEU and Moralia, Billy commented that it is just a trap to lure in the Gundams. Far far away in Moralia, the AEU's military have arrived and we get to see Patrick the-super-bragging ace for the first time since episode one. The Celestial Being crew finally arrives on Earth where our young chicks goes on shopping(Although Grace wanted another check on the mission plan), and Sumeragi decided to have a drink. Back on the deserted island the Gundam Meisters meet Ian and he introduces the new equipments for Exia and Dynames.


Inside some sort of bar Billy and Sumeragi meets, they seems to be old friends, Billy mentioned the Anti-Gundam Squad and the special particle the Gundam emitted in their chat, and Sumeragi is aware that the Gundam's secret might no longer be. Billy asked about "that" incident and Sumeragi anwered that she forgets it. Back in Moralia, Ali is given his new custom mobile suit and is promised "wealth for the whole life time" to capture a Gundam.


So the mission is starting and the Celestial Being's crew arrived at LiuMei's place, the Gundam Meisters approaches the mission area and is spotted by Moralia's military, battle commences. All the Gundams spread out and attacks different squadron, and Virtue shoots at Patrick's Enact to make him goes down in a funniest way possible. While all the Gundam easily finishes off all their enemies and goes on to phase 2, Exia is attacked by Ali's unit, Ali comment that the Gundam are a good unit with a lousy pilot, Setsuna recalls that Ali's voice was of someone he knows. And the episodes ends with this cliffhanger.


Well this is finally getting better and better after all the background building of the first four episodes, quite some revealing here. First, we found out that more equipment for the Gundams are developed while Celestial Being carries on with their plan, and Sumeragi and Billy have possibly romantic past, she might just work with Professor Aifman before. Also we get to meet someone from Setsuna's past and he seems like a mercenary to be hired, disregard whether he was a friend or foe with Setsuna in the past because the flashback of Setsuna reveals too little, but for sure he is someone senior to Setsuna, can Setsuna beat this guy? Or more importantly, can Setsuna conquer his fear?

I know I know

Ok, I know that I got a sucking writing and my posts of reviews are inconsistent, but this my first time blogging actually, I've created my first blog on blogger on "I don't know how many" years ago but I've totally forgotten it after I've posted my first post.

"Then why create it in the first place?" you will ask me, yes you will, I insist, I'm the Lord of my blog. Well blogging was like the new rising trend back at "that" year and this blogger haven't even belongs to Google, I just feel cool do it, are you happy now?

"Then why stop?", yes you will ask when I want you to do so. Internet wasn't the most comfortable experience in Malaysia back at those years, and having a tech-rejecting mother(yes, your right) doesn't help the situation. So not just blog that I stop at just creating an account, even e-mails and friendster(although friendster comes much later).

So it went on for "I don't know how many" years until Google bought Blogger, which coincidently I have a Gmail account, leading me to see the word "Blogger" again and remembers that I have an account here, I log in and glad that it actually still working, so I deleted the old blog and made this new one with my proud name."?" aha! I see another question mark from you, ok ok I was too shy back then to put my own name in the blog, so this time, be happy about it, or else.....

OK, the above are just ramblings, just for laughs(but my personal blogging history is true though, although it isn't much of a history). By the way, Episode 6 of Gundam 00 is coming up(oh it comes out already) and I will have that review posted ASAP, really, I'm no longer like "I don't know how many" years ago.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Gundam 00: Episode 5

This episode kicks start with a new report stating the Taribia has returned to the Union of United States, after all the commotion they've caused in episode 4, which wraps up the Taribia scenario, and I think we've seen the last of this fictional country.



Meanwhile, Queen Marina is embarking on a quest to negotiate with a faction(maybe one of Union, Human Reform League or AEU) to transfer solar power to Azadistan, this won't be easy because Azadistan do not participate in the contruction of the solar power elevator(thinking that they can manage themselves with oil).



And Halleluyah!(Oops, I really started to get influenced), we got Saji and Louise on a feel trip at the lower orbit of the solar power elevator, while we skip the boring part(for us, it was fun vacation after all for Saji and Louise), the scene switch to Sergei boarding the elevator with Soma the super soldier, we go Sergei asking Soma the reason she volunteered to be in the super soldier program, Soma states that she is a baby created for the sole purpose, and Sergei isn't happy with the whole idea of nanomachines in human body. On the same ride Allelujah is going for his next mission.



Sergei and Soma quickly board their Tieren mobile suits and head out to space for a test ride, in the halfway, Soma senses Allelujah and goes berserk , Allelujah senses Soma and the split personality named "Halleluyah" comes out and threatens to kill Soma, which makes Soma starts shooting at the elevator, which causes a small block of the lower orbit station to break up, with the people inside!




The block is falling down to earth and Sergei with his ms tries to push it back but his effort was about to goes in vain. But halleluyah! here comes Allelujah with his Gundam Kyrios pushing the block along side with Sergei. While the MS and pushing, Gundam Dynames snipes from Earth to destroy the part where there is no people, making it lighter and possible for Gundam Kyrios to push it away from Earth. Saving the day, with the real rescue team coming afterwards.


It seems that things are starting to heat up with the character development, after all the politics in the past episode. I do not have a fluent writing so if you want to know exactly what happened the exciting way go watch the show: Mobile Suit Gundam 00.