What is up, Today

Um...

Really, Nothing is up today. I don't have anything much to do ...
except to ...

1. Read Naruto until Chapter 402. Finally it's over with! I've been reading it for the last week from chapter 285. It's a loooong journey. Great one too, you know... if you leave out Asuma and Jiraiya's deaths...

2. Update my el_se7en blog. The bio section is eventually written and published. It's incomplete, though. But I'm quite happy about that.

3. Not go to gym. Ouch.. What has gotten to me lately? I'm being so lazy to exercise. I think I should discipline myself more.

4. Finished Gossip Girl til the last episode. Like what I've been telling people, the episode 18 (finale) isn't as good as the 17. It's less shocking, less interesting, less problems, no good and no intense cliffhanger whatsoever. So much for the finale. But the previous episodes were really damn great!

5. Want to buy the Chickenized Fried Rice I've been placing my eyes on for the last couple of days. I think I'm going to buy that now and finally have my dinner. Ooh.. I'm so starving. Gotta go! :P

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The World Must Be Crazy

Because Bush has lost his wisdom (and apparently his mind, too) ...

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and Yao Ming is about to die from the tingling sensation ...

and all the pretty girls are either married or gay ...

and my comfortable bed has changed dramatically ...

and my comfortable bed has changed dramatically ...

and all babies turn granpas ...

and all granpas turn to babes ...

and while the adults play childishly ...

and all the cool dudes look like this ...

and all the doctors turn pervy ...

or turn looney ...

and all the cute children turn cyclops ...

or become melty ...

or when everybody's letting their deepest nature out ...

or they cannot control their own bodies ...

or being too much proud of their own bodies ...

or someone else's ...

But nothing says "THIS IS THE END" more than denaturalization ...



like when polar bears romance for the last time since there is no ice left on earth...

or like when cats have no more reason to live ...

or finally found one ... a high maintenance one ...

and stressed out dogs have to work hard to "earn money" ...

or like when some preys have new ways to survive ...

and somehow, all the humans are living in the realm of video games ...

Like I said, the world must be crazy*!


*all the pictures are taken from Kaskus Forum

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"Oh, It seems forever stops today
All the lonely hearts in Medan caught a plane and flew away
And all the best women are married
All the handsome men are gay
You feel deprived ..."

(Robbie Williams - Supreme)

Doraemon - The Manga That Never Ends

Doraemon is one of my all time favourite japanese manga of all time. Always has been, ever since I was in Elementary School watching him every Sunday morning. Now, years and years later, this story of a robotic cat from the 22nd century never ends.

Really!

Doraemon has no ending!

The series author, the Fujiko Fujio duo never discussed the official ending for Doraemon, and then the author's death in 1996 had left Doraemon with no ending.

Of course, there are a few versions of Doraemon's finale episode, but they are all fan fictions. The best one of all (also the most touching one) is the one written by Nobuo Sato and the manga version by Tajima T Yasue in 2005. I read the story years ago thru a chainmail in my email inbox. It's quite popular, too.

Below is the final manga of Doraemon according to Sato/Yasue. It's been translated to Bahasa Indonesia, though. You can read the english and japanese version here. Prepare to cry.

(this manga is read from left to right -->)











Few years later . . .




Many Years Have Passed . . .

Apparently, this manga was sold over 13,000 copies before Shogakukan halted its publication. Tajima apologized to Shogakukan in 2007 and paid an undisclosed amount of money for settlement.

The other ending is less optimistic one, for it suggested that Nobita suffer from autism and all of the stories, Doraemon, the adventures, all of that, wasn't real and only existed in Nobita's realm of unconsciousness. This ending was so bad that there were japanese people protesting outside the Headquarters of the publishers of the series before they found out that the ending wasn't true.

Below are several scans for this hateful ending.

The third ending suggests that Nobita fell and hit his head on a rock. He fell into a deep coma, and eventually into a semi-vegetative state. To raise money for an operation to save Nobita, Doraemon sold all the tools and devices in his four-dimensional pocket. However, the operation failed. Doraemon sold all his tools except for one used as a last resort. He used it to enable Nobita to go wherever he wanted, whichever time era he wished to go. In the end, the very place Nobita wanted to go was heaven.

But ending or no ending, Doraemon will always stay in our hearts, because this adorable cat who recently has become Japan's first Anime Ambassador, has stolen a place in our hearts that will never ever be tarnished.

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