Peko Peko

It's what's for dinner.
Organic acai juice.
Organic baby mixed greens with creamy sesame dressing.
Rosemary lamp chops.
Haiga rice.

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Magic Mike

Update!

or lack thereof... ugh sorry for no updates!
But between work, studies, and gaming, I can easily forget to write a simple post on anything shiny I find.

Recently got the opportunity to check out a movie! IKR! b/c tickets these days are $5,000 not including the popcorn and coke. Yeah, the title says it all: Magic Mike! A force not to be reckoned with. I have waiiited ALLLL my life for this.

So to the review rather than my heavy panting induced biased opinion on Channing Tatum's fat-less pecs and ass - The movie is yes, a story about a male stripper and his buddy strippers and how he takes a college drop-out and gives him the career of a lifetime. However, besides all the body rolling, stage thrusting, and lifting of full-bodied women, director Steven Soderbergh is smart enough to show the male camaraderie as we had seen in Ocean's Eleven so that the straighter counterpart of the male sex could feel included in the fun. The film does show a darker side to the whole male stripper lifestyle but then again, that's to be expected. I mean, when you think about it, it doesn't seem any more different than the female stripper's lifestyle.

And if it wasn't for Gurkie for cluing me in that Joe Manganiello (who played "Big Dick Richie"/ or Alcide from True Blood) and Matt Bomer both graduated from CMU, I wouldn't have had to /facepalm HUGELY after the party ended. Funnily enough, Matt Bomer is also gay in real life. I KNEW he was too good looking for the role. I mean, cmu has also produced Zachary Quinto, which I say would have been an even geekier addition to the stripper staff had he been hired. But really, when you think about the forty grand per year kids pay to get an engineering degree, and graduate jobless, with the possibility of janitor at Microsoft, and yet Joe and Matt make wayyyy more than all those kids combined, you really do think twice about whether these days a good education is worth it in this economy.

but whatev! here's some good eye candy vids I could muster up with from Youtube for your viewing pleasure:


Behind the scenes (why wasn't I an extra??):


And yes, my theater was a little like this but not as loud:


My personal favorite:


Go out there and watch Magic Mike if you want to see a lot of body rolling, thrusting, handsome men. Girl's night out or absolutely fabulous gay entourage, this is a good stop by in the night before the pick me ups. If you're straight, take a girl to see this, tolerate that you're just not as hot as them, but you'll be rewarded later in the night; I swear this movie will land at least a bj for anyone in an awkward relationship. And finally, just go see it just to see it. Because it's 2012, and being objectified as a man is sooo 5 minutes ago.

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嵐 Android™ au CM 総まとめ 30本

嵐のアンドロイドのCMです！
チョーーウケルっ！！でも、愛愛愛愛＞ヽ(´Д｀●ヽ)≡(ノ●´Д｀)ノ＜愛愛愛愛
相葉くん～結婚してくれない？？
っか、まつじゅんんんと・・・デートしよう！

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Vampire Prosecutor Season 1 End

Well back to the wonderful world of Kdrama!

I think I've just about seen one of the best asian dramas in all the years of my experience in watching dramas, and I kid you not, though the title may seem really odd and stupid, the storytelling and characters are not your usual suspects.

Of course, last fall when Vampire Prosecutor was about to air for the winter season drama of 2011, I would have watched it anyways to see what kind of rules and twists they would use for 'yet another vampire story' during this time and age of vampires everywhere.... But the first episode was pretty impressive, not on the story alone but directorial view and style and acting. There wasn't any kind of hint of 'paranormal romance saga' - in fact, I'd say it was a pretty beefy episode that really almost had no inkling of vamp-ness to it. Well, when i think about it, the pilot was all about setting up the story really and being a vampire had no real drive to the story (during the pilot, but is revealed later on).

The biggest thing for me was that the guy who actually was the vampire, the prosecutor, wasn't all that perfectly handsome or bishi as usual like most asian actors. He was a totally normal looking guy, no sharp features, but he nailed his part so perfectly, coming off as a really perfect stoic, and lonesome man (dead man?) in the world of unjust law. Him being a vampire was only a side thought, and didnt' take away from the story at all.

I dont want to spoil too much of the season but another main attraction of the drama was that there was almost little to none romantic story in the drama. There was slight tension perhaps, between the vampire prosecutor and his partner prosecutor, the human female, but it really only starts to build up near the end of the season, and even then, they don't share more than a handshake as I guess, they're both pretty tough prosecutors and their jobs are more important than their social lives. Good going writers!

I read in another blog about this drama was that this show was created from an independent network of writers and channel. Goes to show that in this economy, quality is really better than spending the big bucks and hiring the famous actors to make an ostentatious show with no storyline and awful plot drivers and same old fashioned romantic trios.

To top it off, the whole season of Vampire Prosecutor was so good and got such great ratings and reviews that a season 2 is being considered, or perhaps it's already being worked on! If so, I can't wait! And if you're curious, you can watch the whole first season at http://www.dramacrazy.net/

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FFXIV patch 1.20

December has come too soon, as well as this holiday season! And in my area, it's still warm on some days, haven't seen a hint of snow which makes me kind of sad. But for the gaming world, I'm glad patch 1.20 has been released for FFXIV. For a long time, there was a huge lull as indicated by this blog as well, of not really much to do within FFXIV. But with the coming of 1.20, there were so many additions to content, quests, and fights, I think Square Enix did a pretty good job of wrapping up for the holidays before all their workers take a break from fixing this game.

Also, with the announcement of SE going to charge for the game starting January 6th, 2012, this was good timing to have added such a juicy patch for many to try out beforehand. Well, at the same time, I do hope the billing will help filter out and get rid of trolls and idiots from the game.

The moogle prime fight is pretty amazing. Haven't beaten it yet but it's much more fun than ifrit which tends to be just a running and timing fight. I don't care much for ifrit since the weapons are too ugly for me in my opinion but I really want to try to get all the moogle weapons, or at least the top few that I like, namely for conjurer, archer, and maybe even pugilist though a lot of people seem to think the moogles sticking out at the end of the fists are overboard designs.

I like them just cuz they're simply goofy and overboard. I don't think i'd ever really fight with these except for random exp or stronghold parties. I dont know, but I think they are cute and ridiculous.

I can't wait for mog houses/estates to come. I hear perhaps in the next patch (in February) they will be added but I can't be sure. I guess it's only rumors for now but since people will start to be paying for the game, they better get more worthwhile stuff coming out soon.

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Long time, No adventure~

It's been a long time since my last post. Just wanted to post real quick about FFXIV since it's really all the news I feel like writing about. Too much work in real life to get into other shiny entertaining things but I do hope to write a bit more this winter season.

Sakuya as archer, during a quest

Firstly I got my second 50 fighting class in FFXIV, archer. Nothing to brag about really though since there are a ton of archers already since the darkhold dungeon was released. Working now on a mage and perhaps one more melee DD~ pugilist most likely. On getting 50s though, I did achieve 50 on my blacksmith, armorer, and weaver. My tanner is at level 49, just a couple 10k away from 50. Then I'll have a few more crafts to finish up to 50 and be done with crafting for a while. Hopefully before they start charging.

Since the last patch, or perhaps since 1.18, lots of updates, news, and information has come out regarding the future of FFXIV. Besides the billing cycle that's to come the end of this year, there was a slight mention of implementing new races down the line. Of course, firstly the obvious which is just the opposite genders of miqotes, highlanders, and roegadyns. But then I remember skimming real quickly about being able to play a demon race. I guess that must be the 'horned humans' people have rumored/guessed about. During a cutscene/quest, I myself guess this is the type of race we might be able to play:

Raya-O-Senna, NPC during a quest, sister of Gridania's leader

And finally, I got around to finish the main storyline quest(s) of FFXIV/Limsa Lominsa... I won't give away any spoilers but this dude, from one of the cutscenes, really reminded me of darth vader... lot of stuff felt very star wars-y. There's another dude that really was like Darth Vader, even his voiceover sounded like him! I won't reveal what he looks like, people will have to do the quest and see for themselves!

One of the NPCs in L46 Main Storyline Quest

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Into the Dark Complete!

This past Sunday I was finally able to complete the Into the Dark Quest (Ul'dah), defeating the ogre and clearing the room we needed to clear. We were unable to get to the final boss, Batraal, but it was still relieving nonetheless to complete it and accomplish one thing at least since the patch in FFXIV.

With the seals reward we got, I bought myself a shiny new sword!

Now I'm hoping a solid scale mail will drop from one of the chests in the next runs I get to do ^^

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