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Hello all of you!!
Long time no see!
reader : yeah, where have you been dickhead?! It's been like 1,5 month since your last post!!!

Nyahahahah! Sorry about all that hiatus and all! Do you think I was abandoning you? (Well, I might be...) NO! The truth is, I was a little lazy to type back there!! Wahahah!! It was holiday and I was back in my house for almost three month. Most people love that kind of thing, and so do I. But, my holiday was 2 weeks longer than usual. That's makes me start to rot. Both on my body and my mind.

Back on my house, I've been like playing XBOX almost all my time. That was like paradise. Since my first time playing XBOX, that was the longest continuous days playing for me. Aside from that, my new LCD TV (well, not new anymore I supposed) give me one helluva experience on watching anime!! I've been watching 11 series this holidays, yet I have finished watch none.

Right now I already back to my college to study again (or will I~?). This semester is so great (I hope it will be). The schedule is like spoiling me. I have Saturday off, with my last class of the week is on Friday and finished at 11.00. That's just, WOW!! The class itself is great in one way or another. I have many acquaintances here. From my 3rd semester class, my 4th semester class, from my junior high, and from IDWS Forum. I love this semester (at least for now) .

And, if you aware, the link to my Afterlife story has been removed. Why you ask? Well, I've been stopped writing it since January, that's first. Second, I decided to publish that very story for public consumption. Not so long ago, I've realized that if I just sit around, thinking without writing at all, will get me nowhere. If I get to write, then I should get something from it. And the conclusion is publishing it.

Anyway, expect several updates on next month. October is "you-know-what". You don't know? Well, shame on you. :p
One more thing, I'm thinking of changing the view of my blog. Just wait and see. I hope it will not be a mess when I try to change it.

This is Benard, finally reporting in after a long time, see you on the next post!!
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Anime, an Expensive Hobby

Hey, whassup guys?
It's not too long after my last post ^^ << Not quite sure about the grammar, but what the heck!

So, it maybe not a secret anymore that I'm one of those guys who love anime (and manga, and game also). I don't know since when I like anime, but I don't care about that anymore. As long as there are animes in this world that's enough for me. LOL

When you think about it, anime is not that expensive. If you want to watch animes, you can just download it over the internet. Yeah, if you don't know already (seriously, you don't know? Where have you been?!) you can get animes for free. The same goes to manga. You can get those for free. Well, they currently ban it now, but who knows until when this will goes. As for games, you can get them free "IF" you know where to look.

Hey, if it's like that, why the title's like that?
Yeah, that's what I used to think...
Everything change since several months ago. At that several month, I started to watch many animes. Before that time, I only watch one or two anime at a time, but now I can watch ten anime series at a same time (well, I don't mean watch them all at the "exact same time" though). And that my friend, is a turning point in my life.

Since that time I watch more animes than usual, read more manga than usual, also always use Japanese dub for many games when they are available. A little bit after that, I found that this hobby of mine will be one helluva expensive hobby. I started to bought some cosplay stuff, which I believe I've posted here before. That's cost me over 800k on one day. Really kill my wallet. And I haven't use it fully yet...

Another turning point is when I bought a set of Death Note Petite Nendoroid. My friend sell a set of 8, or 10, I forget. And I bought 6 of them, coz he promised me to give me a special edition for free if I bought 6. And then, since then I started to window shopping for Anime's Figure. It's getting worse when I went to Nippon Club no Hayutsuki.

I saw a lot of figure there. They're so great and cute. I love looking at them. Then somehow I started to think, "It will be great if I have those." And since that time, I started to plan to buy many figure. I already browse trough many sites and found out that the price is too much for me, especially after I bought my LCD TV.

Now, I'm currently looking things that may give me money regularly (Legal, of course). I really fall in love with those Figures. Especially Nendoroid. I want to buy Hirasawa Yui Nendoroid. It look's so cute >.< This Hobby, is really expensive when you think about it. But somehow, I can't ignore it. They're so damn cute >.<

Huff, this is Benard speking and see you on the next post!!
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Haven't Cried Like This For The Last 5 Years

Well, yes, I cried. No, not because of something Important. Instead, it's only because of one damn good game. We'll talk about that later on.

You maybe curious why do I cry just because of a game. To start with, I'm quite an empath, or simply said a guy who can feel other people emotion. I don't know empath is a valid word or not, but, meh, I don't care ;p This trait of mine is really strong especially when the subject is a game or series or movie or novel, well mostly on fiction. I haven't gone through an experience in real world where I can tell whether I have empathy or not.

So, basically when I following a fictional media which have quite deep drama on it, I can literally feel what the character feels, especially the main character. When they feel sad, I feel sad. When they're uneasy, I feel uneasy too. This is also one of the reason why I can't play any RPG a few days after I finished Suikoden V which somehow have took me inside of it.

The game that made me cry recently was a visual novel called "Da Capo". It's just like the other VN. You are the main protagonist and have 5 or so number of girls you can choose to be your girlfriend. Simple, yet I like it. I only play one route and realize that this game have a great story. On my first play, I chose Asakura Nemu, main chara's sister, as my target. Yes, it's his own sister. Yes, it's incest. Yes, I know it's not good. But, what the heck. She's cute, she's sweet, and she's so adorable. Besides, it's just a game for God sake!! It's not a matter since it's fictional.

!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!
BEYOND THIS POINT IS A SPOILER OF ASAKURA NEMU'S PATH IN "DA CAPO"! IF YOU INTENDED TO PLAY THIS GAME AND DON'T WANT ANY SPOILER, DON'T READ PAST THIS POINT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Summer is Coming!! And Here I Am to Get All The Prizes!!

Summer!!
Summer!!
Well, frankly my country, Indonesia, doesn't have 4 season. So there are no Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter. We only have Rainy and Drought. Kinda too bad, but I don't care much about this.

So what's this prize all about?
You see... Northern Hemisphere Summer season is the best 3 month in a year!! And why is that? Of course because of the damn long holiday and a great amount of it's companion! I'm talking about Summer Blockbuster, New Game, and new Anime!! Well, some of them is not really connected... The point is, I'm on holidays and have a plenty entertainment with me!

Let's talk about it one by one. Hmmm.... Where should we start? Ah, Summer Blockbuster! What do we have around here? Let's see... We have Splice, Toys Story 3, Inception, Despicable Me, The Last Airbender (which people said sucks), and a lot more!! (I'm too lazy to check my list so this will be all ;p) I've already watch Splice and Toys Story 3. Both were really Great! SPLICE is Science Fiction Thriller Character Driven Movie. While Toys Story 3 is a Story Driven with little Character Driven Movie. I plan to watch Inception this noon. People said it's a great movie. I hope they right...

Next is about New Game! I've been waiting for long holiday especially because of this. In normal days, I only touch my X-Box 360 on Saturday and Sunday, because I'm not at home on the other days. Now, in this holiday I've prepared quite number of games! Some of them are leftover from the other days, where I already bought them but haven't play them yet (My little brother is so lucky to have me as a brother...). I'm currently playing Ninety-Nine Nights 2 and Lego:Harry Potter Year 1-4. On my list are Resonance of Fate, Red Dead Redemption, Record of Agarest War, Toy Story 3, NIER, Transformer : War of Cybertron, Metro 2033, The Saboteur, Alien versus Predators, and Battlefield 2 : Bad Company... Fyuh, that's quite a lot. I'm not quite sure I can finish them all or not... Well, let the time tells then!!

The last one is about anime. I promised to give some reviews for Spring animes. I will try to do that. Meanwhile, the summer anime is already sailing on the port. They're here! Well, one thing to be happy is K-On!! S02 will have 26 episodes! That's mean it will be on the list until the end of Summer!! YAY!! So, we have some good animes for this summer. We have High School of The Dead, Amagami SS, Ookami-san to Shichinin Nakamatachi, and Nurarihyon no Mago. Those are already on my list with top Priorities. I haven't check on other titles yet, so I can't comment much on them. Expect me to watch them before next week...

You see? That's the prizes I'm talkin' about!! Hell yeah! Three Months of Holiday with one big Ship full of entertainment!! To make things more beautiful, I have something new on my room! Guess what? A brand new HD Ready 32" LCD TV!!! That's freakin' cool man!! I already try few animes on that and the result were awesome!! I will watch anime on that big screen for all holiday!! See, What else do I need? (Well, I do need a girlfriend right now (-_-))

Huff, that's all folks!!
Enough blabbering and go to sleep...
I'm damn sleepy right now...

So, This is Benard reporting to you! See ya on the next post!!!
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I Build a Ship and set sail to an Island

No!
I don't mean I set sail and never comeback in the real life!!
What I say is about MouseHunt...

So, whether you know MH or not, I don't Care
LOL
This is my blog and I'm free to tell whatever I like
Gyahahahha....
Ups, my evil laugh is out again ;p

In the past one month I've been Improve my MH quite much...
I've catch a Hydra mouse with Ship Blueprint (And triple strike on my first try, which give my friend a headache XD)
I build the ship and set sail for 3 days before finally reach the Tribal Isle...

Now, what happen in trible Isle?
I've been there for about two week for now...
In that two weeks I managed to create HVMT
HVMT (Horrific Venus Mouse Trap) is the strongest Tactical trap available...
Now I'm collecting Savoury Vegetable to create Gumbo Cheese to trap Big Three mouse on Nerg plain who drop Yellow Pepper Seed...
I need those seed for Jungle of Dread...

Seems complicated?
Yes!!
Mouse Hunt is a complicated game!
And that's what make this game so addictive!!
Well, if something good happens again, I'll tell u for sure ^^

This is Benard speaking, and see you on the next post!!
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It's exactly One Month!!!

It's exactly one month!!
ONE MONTH Ladies and Gentlemen!!
One Month!!
Of what you say??

It's been one month since my last post!!
Hell yeah!!
(Should I be happy about that? Don't think so...)

Anyway!!
I've been promising of this and that...
But to no avail...
I couldn't fulfill it, just like usual...

Then, I won't promise anything anymore...
I'll just say, "Just wait and see!!"

Tired of Supernatural Mouse? Let's go to the Big Tree!! Or Maybe not....

Well, on Mouse Hunt lately I've been hunting on Catacombs.
It last for around 3 weeks or so (maybe longer than that)
Well, it's true that I get more gold and more points.
But, somehow I'm bored there. Especially when time like my RB cheese run out.
Well, that's really frustrating.

So what do I do? I went to the Great Gnarled Tree.
I was planning to collect some Gnarled Potion there.
The Result? Not good.
You see, the drop rate of Gnarled Potion is very, very low.
Besides, the mouses there give less gold and less point than Catacombs.
(Well, everyone knows Catacombs is the best place to farming for gold)

Right now I'm getting bored of GGT and misses the catacombs...
Well, I think I'll go back there to farm more gold before returning to GGT.

As for you guys who doesn't know what I'm blabbering about, shame on you!
I'm talking about Mouse Hunt, one of the most popular game on Facebook.
If you want to know what game it is, search for it and see for yourself ;p

This is Benard reporting, see you on the next post!
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A Week Of Hard Work

After a longtime, I've finally able to write... a bit.

So at least I want to tell you about one of the most hard week in my life, which is this week.
Lemme see...
Everything started this Monday....
I woke up around 8 o'clock in a CLASSIFIED place after doing annual meeting for 2 days.
Still sleepy and tired, I went back to my boarding house and continue to my class at 11 am.
After class, about 5 pm, Me and my friends went and worked on our project all Night.
I finally can get sleep on 6 am. At 9 am, I woke up, ran to my boarding house, took a bath, and went to teach TOEFL on BNEC.
Finished at 1 pm, I went to collage for project presentation.
After we finished class at 5 pm, I went home to create a teaser video for a BNEC Event.
I get sleep at 1 am. The next morning I was overslept. Only get a moment to get ready and ran for my 3 pm class.
After the class, I started to continue the video again. It finished around 4 am.
I took my time to sleep and woke up at 11 am. I went to borrow class for TOEFL test.
Somehow, I got confused and went touring the Binus Campus Area.

And that's conclude the Dread Week!
Fyuh....
That was harsh, really. Plus, last night my head really hurt. I think it's because of some overwork or something.
Well, at least I manage to make a decent video. This was my first video project using After Effect you know. (Aside from the one that asked by the lecturer on my multimedia class. That only use small amount of AE.)
So, I'd like to present to you.... BNEC Graduation Day Teaser Video!!


Please enjoy my video there ;)

And I think that's that!
Thank you for reading my blabber every now and then!
Btw, I don't whether I've said this or not before, but my review for this season anime series will be after most of them finished. So the review will cover all episodes!
And as addition to things I've talked around here, I've decided to keep my journal on my Mouse Hunt on Facebook here. Every now and then you will see new post talking about Mouse Hunt...

And this is Benard reporting, see you on the next post!
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Hey What's Up??!!

Yeah!!
Here I come with nothing to say!!!
Yay!!
Or do I????

Well!
Anyway, several weeks ago I was attacked by Mid-Term Test.... Despite my so called unpreparedness and unwillingness to do any study at all (well, I did study in the end though), I get a pretty good score. Quite satisfying, though I still blame myself for get one B on the result (yes, the rest is A).

And also several weeks ago I said that I will give you some preview of this season anime. Be glad!! The time hasn't come yet - -a. You see, I'm kinda a perfectionist guy to start with. So, I heard there are some good show running around, and I haven't get my hand (or eyes to be precise) on it yet. Should I give you review? Other people maybe say, "Sure, why bother try it all?" But I said to myself, "Hell, if it's good then I'll definitely watch it!" Or so I thought.

Frankly, this is my first time to watch this much series at a time, and I really can't handle things well enough. From roughly 7 series that I have start (which I still have around 4 that I haven't start watch yet), I watch frequently 2 title only! "K-On!!" and "Angel Beats". I haven't continue on "Heroman" and just start continue "Mayoi Neko Overrun!" and "Kiss X Sis". "Kaichou wa Maid-sama", "Rainbow" and "Hakuoki Shinsengumi" are the series that only go as far as 1st episode for me. And I still have "Arakawa Under the Bridge", "Working!", "Giant Killing" and "Ichiban Ushiro Daimou" waiting for me to start watch them. It's a lot guys!! I don't think my External HDD can handle it (the fact is they CAN).

And while you are waiting for those thing, preview and trailer for the next season anime are coming and peeking in the corner. Well, I need to watch at least 2 episode of each anime and then give you some review. Looking at the number of title I've put up there, this should be a snap. Or so I hope....

And another thing. Lately I've been thinking to start watching west series again (YATTA!! If you now what I mean). My plan is to catch up with current "Heroes" and "Supernatural" and try to add some more titles to it. They say "Glee" and "Flash Forward" are good. We'll see.....

Well, then I need to clean up my HDD first. Put things on it place, and give some order to make it neater, especially on the video Folder of mine. It's feel like some broken ship there. Then after that I shall buzz off to my friends place and rob their collection... Yay for friendship!!

Well, I think that's all to report (Why the hell I'm bother to report? And why the hell YOU bother to read?).

This is Benard speaking right from the studio! See you on the next post!!!
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Red-Gold-Metal Superhero is Back!!

Hey, long time no see eh?
Sorry about that. I'm busy with mid test and all.
Anyway, now I'm back and bringing you some fresh thing for you and only2 for you.

So today, after a long battle with those tests (which I still have another one on 5th), my friends ask me to go watch movie.
And so I watch it and decided to write a review on it.
So what is this movie that I watch?
Well, it's a great movie which Indonesia get a privilage to see it sooner, one week before worldwide release.
It's IRON MAN 2!!
(Hell, I bet you know already from the picture above)

The first movie get a good response. I don't know about the critics, but me and other fans certainly liked it and enjoyed it. So what about the sequel? Comic books, novels, and games adaptation often get bad result, if not on the first movie, on the sequel. Let's say Transformer, Twilight saga, Harry Potter(I still enjoyed it though), X-Men(I really hate the Wolverine:Origin), and more that I can't mention one by one. But, still... As a comic books lover, hardcore gamer, part-time writer, action freak, I still kinda enjoyed those I've mentioned before(errr, twilight not included). So, what about Iron Man 2? Well, if we're talking about me, I'll say Marvelous. But, we're talking about a big market, a worldwide movie goers. So my opinion is a bit different.

So, on the first movie we saw the birth of one of the famous Avenger member. We love this Red-Gold-Flying-Metal-With-Shiny-Thing-On-His-Chest super hero and we love how the first movie bring it out. Is the second brings us some great flavour about this Iron Man? The answer is yes. And for you comic lovers will be served with extra dishes around...

The story starts 6 months after the first movie. Between the time skip Tony had made peace for West-East war, doing this, doing that, and then become a celebrity. He then held a Stark Expo, where people can see the most advance and modern inventions from all of the greatest brain from all around the world. But, behind all of this, Tony has several problem, well every hero has at least one. Both of his problems seems ironic. The first one is about legal thingy. Apparently, the New York senator (who I don't bother at all to find out his name) doesn't like the fact that Tony had a WEAPON (which Tony declined and said it was High Tech Armor or somewhere around it). They even go as far as showing photos of what seems to be imitations of IronMan Armor taken by the all-seeing-lens of the sattelite to which Tony counter with videos of how awkward and miserable the imitation were (and seriously I pity them. That's what I'd like to call a "Perfect Blunder", especially the last video of Hammer Industries). His second problem is personal and only open to no one but himself. The Godly-Ultra-Power Arc reactor that's embedded on Tony's chest to keep his heart beating and powering his suit is actually has some drawback. First fact to known is that the Arc using Palladium as it's core, which extremely depleted and corroded after it's energy run out and thus need to be replaced. Thanks God Tony has tons of it (well, not literally). So what's the problem? Oh, not much of a threat. It's just that the Palladium start's to poisoning his blood. The more he used the Arc power, the more the poison rate is. When it reach high enough rate, nothing much will happen except his death. Beside that, there are another problems that outside of Tony knowledge. There was a man named Ivan Vanko who held a grudge on Tony because of something that I'm lazy to explained here. He has a blueprint of the arc (watch it if you want to know why) and build one of his own. He then show up in front of Tony with electric whips powered by the Arc Reactor on his hands....

Well, I won't spoil the fun. That's for some quick review. There's no more spoiler I will speak out. If you want spoiler, go to wikipedia. Basically the second movie will bring you the Fall of Tony Starks and also his Rise in one single movie. The story is decent but can be better with more tampering. Just as the first movie, the sequel also incorporate some comedy with the same style of the first one (which I really love). Hell, they even give out humorous scene on a serious battle part. They put it nicely and neat, so we can still enjoy the movie without questioning "what was that about?"

Robert Downey Jr. once again potrayed the eccentric-narcistic-multi-bilionaire Tony Stark. How I love him become Tony Stark. We still can see his selfishness, his sarcasm, and his style of giving out comments, with sarcastic humor of course. Don Cheadle takes over the role of Colonel Rhodey Rhodes. Rhodes scenes are not as much as last movie. Cheadle apparently can handle this role quite well. And also, please remember that on this sequel we will finally saw Rhodes as the WarMachine after his famous "Next Time, Baby!". A great addition to this movie eh?

How about the action? Well pal, you shouldn't even ask in the first place. There's fly BOOM shoot BOOM punch BOOM walk BOOM jump BOOM drive BOOM. Whenever you see a metal suit, whatever the occasion, whether there are enemy or not, expect a boom. The more suit on screen the more boom will be around. Especially with the appearance of Warmahine (which is really heavy-armed) you can expect more booms with him around. The Special and Visual Effect is also out of question. Remember the fascinating 3D holographic blueprint from the first movie? Well, bless the director, we can see it again here.

There are several scene on the movie that give us things from Marvel Universe. As you know, there were several instances that Samuel L. Jackson shown up as Nick Fury on several movies. But it seems Iron Man is a special Movie for this Nick Fury and his SHIELD. Firstly, SHIELD first mentioned on Iron Man. Secondly, Nick Fury get quite lengthy scene on the sequel. What more can we ask? A Red-Haired-Hot-Russian-Spy-Chick? GRANTED. Black Widow get's a role here on the Iron Man 2. She's potrayed by Scarllet Johansen, which I found out not quite suitable to play her. Natalie/Natasha Romanova/Romanoff aka Black Widow is supposed to have a Russian accent, which I like, but Johansen speaks with standard US accent which come with disappoinment for me and my friend.

There is a little joke which I can't stand to not laugh hardly. I will try to be as spoiler free as possible on this. When Tony created something on his house, he shipped many materials to his house. One of them is a very famous thing on Marvel Universe. When I saw it was taken out from the box, I said to my self, "OMG, isn't that ***********************?! What's Tony gonna do with it??" My head and heart are full of expectation and question. Then Tony grabs it and guess what? He used it only for something TRIVIAL!! Bang! My expectation turn into burst of laughter. Well, I keep the details for you to figure out. If you one of the Marvel fans. then I'm sure you can't not laugh on this part.

Okay, let's see....
Eccentric Billionaire? CHECK
Red-Gold-Flying-Metal? CHECK
Heavy-Armed-Flying-Metal? CHECK
Mysterious-Agent? CHECK
Electric-Whiped-Crazy-Man? CHECK
Blonde-Hot-Chick? CHECK
Red-Haired-Hot-Chick? CHECK
A-Lotta-BOOM? CHECK

Overall, this movie is a decent one, but still not as good as the first. I enjoyed it(well, I'm a big fan of Marvel) and like it. But, I believed that they can do better. So what do I say about this? Worthy to watch, action-packed, super-hero movie with humor as spice, but not quite worthy to rewatch. But, if you starving of a good high-tech-action, I really suggested this one.

Oh yeah, before you go, you maybe noticed that Marvel really likes to put post-credit scene that served as teaser or fan service, and Iron Man 2 is not an exception. I missed that part on the cinema today, but managed to find the video on youtube. The post credit gives us the scenery of a wasteland somewhere. Then we can see a car driven by a SHIELD Agent go to a crater. And then, guess what is on the crater? Mjolnir, folks! It's the Fu*k** Mjolnir!! If you don't know what Mjolnir is, it's a great Hammer wielded by a Norwegian God  who also a Marvel Super Hero, THOR! I know Thor will be around soon, but I don't expect to see Mjolnir this soon.

Well, That's for my review on this movie. Hopes you like it! After this, expect some review of several animes of this season. Among them will be K-On!! 2nd Season, Heroman, and Angel Beats.

This is Benard reporting, see you on the next post.
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