Review: Star Trek

I'm not sure if I've told anyone but I really love Star Trek reboot. I don't think I can watch the original series yet. I don't want to compare the original one from this one, and I guess it's from my generation and I guess it was made so people like me who are from this generation to love the classic series. As in I think this might be my most favorite movie series now. I'll try to list the reasons as to why it is so.

The first thing I love about Star Trek is that it shows cultural diversity. United Federation of the Planets. Don't you just love the idea of all special co habituating and having one council representing them? I honestly love ASEAN. I mean, I always think of South East Asia as a place where there are countries with groups of islands. So guess what? Those group of islands didn't care and just made an association representing all of them despite having big cultural differences within their countries and outside their archipelagos. I think it's really amazing that in Star Trek all the members of the Federation are walking around each other's planets co habituating without discrimination nor prejudices. I want our world to be like that. Isn't it making anyone jealous that the main protagonists have deep dependency between each other and they aren't from the same planet. Oh yeah. The best reason to love the Enterprise crew? There's a Scottish engineer, a Japanese helmsman, a Russian navigator, Vulcan-Human first officer. So yeah basically I love all of them but I listed the first three people I love the most. Most of the crew might be human, but there are others who are not really named but everyone in the Enterprise respect each other despite their race and cultural differences. What keeps them together? Their love for space.

Another thing I loved about Star Trek is that because of it I really took the time to understand air force ranks because of it. Well I want to share that I learned military ranks because of Full Metal Alchemist but air force and military ranks are different. Well yeah military ranks are important, but I can't see much about military ranks but politics and power houses. I love air force ranks maybe because the Enterprise crew don't really try to advance and leave their crew. It's especially clear in the third movie where Jim was offered Vice Admiral position in Yorktown and he chooses instead to still be Enterprise's Captain where he can be himself with his crew. And the time where Jim and Spock were practically separated in the second movie because he was demoted and put in another crew. He proposed a mission after a certain incident not sure if anyone would be interested and I'll spoil them and he still choses his crew to be with in that mission. He treats his crew as family and is distraught whenever he sees something bad happens to his crew mates. It might not be expressive but his actions show all of his love for his crew. And everyone loves him back. Nyota practically traps herself with Krall trusting that Jim will save her and the other members of the crew. They don't have second doubts. Although Krall is right that the crew's love for each other is also their weakness. Spock was mortally wounded yet Bones wouldn't leave him to be on his own. Another instance is when Krall was about to kill Hikaru and they gave what Krall wanted because they didn't want Hikaru to die. They're actually family more than a crew now at I think about it.

Another thing I love about Star Trek is that it is infinite. Star Trek actually opened my eyes to the different kinds of time travel. I understood the different kinds of time travel. Here in Star Trek, they believe that space time continuum is altered when you time travel. Meaning you are living another life when you time travel. This reboot series is actually another time dimension from the originals which is why I don't want to watch the originals. This series is now different from the last. It might have similarities, but the life they are living is different from the last which is why Admiral Spock does not interfere as much as possible with the lives of the current Enterprise crew. He knows how his life plays out but the lives of the current Jim and Spock is different from him and his friend Jim from his time. Want proof? I only know a few things about the original series so there are only a few ok? Jim's father is dead. In the original series, Spock said that Jim's dad lived to see him become a captain. Spock also says that in the original timeline, Jim's inspiration to join the Starfleet was because of his father unlike in the alternate timeline where he only joined because of a dare. Another difference is that the planet Vulcan is diminished to nothing in this timeline. Ok last difference is in the second movie where Jim dies instead of Spock dying. It was Spock doing everything he can to avenge Jim and along the way finding a way to revive Jim.

I can list lots of more things about why I love this series but I think I kinda forgot some of them. I'll list more when I can think about it :) Anyways this post was supposed to be posted in my other blog but I decided to post it here as well in hopes there would be some interested in the series as well. It's really amazing and I wanted to let you guys know what kind of person I am and the things that interest me. Anyways that's pretty much it about this post. This is long anyways owo.

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bonus gifs of the lovely crew. I made these gifs

Updates and Article Reaction/Review

aia. I haven't been blogging lately. And I feel like there are lots of things to blog! Well I'll try to cut them by pieces and tell whichever comes first. So I just wanted to say that for a few days now I've been planning to watch NigeHaji because a student of mine recommended it and I accidentally watched a video of people doing the 恋いダンス. So I'm currently very curious and I want to try it too! Is it really very famous? Please tell me! hahaha.

hmm. What else is there? hmm. I'll be travelling to my hometown for Christmas! So I'll be gone from December 23 to December 26. Oh and I'll make another blog post about what happened last Sunday :)

I don't know what to expect these next few days because I kinda have a bad news affecting me lately. I hope it doesn't show too much during class so I'm saying sorry ahead. I'll still try my best to be lively :)

I'm thinking about buying lots of toys. haha. I just wanted to share that sometimes kids have lessons with me but aren't really interested in class. I had a student last night who I think didn't want to talk to me last night. So I ended up showing him my pet toy and that got him talking. Maybe I need more toys. I was thinking maybe kids will like it if we kinda have role play between toys? I mean I just thought of it last night so back me up on this. Well, I think kids have it rough and I know that some of them do not really want to or are forced to learn things they don't want to. So I was thinking maybe I should make it interesting for this kid? And I feel like my theory is correct because another person actually thinks the same and applied it to an institution. I really feel like English shouldn't be a めんどくさい thing for kids. I know the importance of english because I, myself, use it better than any of the other languages I know. But if I have other opinions I'd better keep that to myself :)) For now I think supporting my students and being what I am is best for my students. I just wanted to share as well that if I was given an opportunity to teach at that school I would because I think that institution would be the real definition of catering to student's needs :)

My current repertoire of toys

Can you imagine what kind of future children can have if they can start choosing at a young age? I would just like to share that at a young age I didn't know what I wanted to be because there are soo many things in school that I can be and I don't know which I'm really good at. I wasn't until I was working did I realize what I really wanted to be. I have to be honest that when I say I want to be a teacher in the future. It was never "I always wanted to be a teacher". I only discovered how much I wanted to be when I was actually doing it. I only landed this job because I was doing jobs a teacher can do and my previous company gave me the opportunity to be a teacher for real and it was amazing how much I came and loved being a teacher. I did not expect that I would be here almost one year and still be teaching. I'm in a different company, yet here I am doing what I love doing. I'll do my best to stay here. :)

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和楽器バンド / 千本桜

After months of not watching this here I am again sharing 和楽器バンド. Enka is really amazing. I can't help but not be amazed by this. What is up with me? I started Russian a few days ago but because of GPF, youtube is showing me all of the Japanese people and songs I really like. and here Wagakki bando pops out from under. I have no regrets tho. Their vibrating voices really amaze me. So not sharing this is a sin. haha. Anyways I think I'm in a slump -_- I need to stop procrastinating orz.



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音楽：和楽器バンド

First off, I wanna say this is all Mafu's influence. So yeah. I'm now kinda addicted to this band because of her. First off I wanna say. I've always been semi fascinated with Enka. And rock music has been one of my default favorites so. This is soo much of a cherry on top for me. I was totally happy Mafu shared this with me last Friday and I was table flipping happy.

As of now I still don't know if I have any favorite song. But if I have to at least pick one, I think I like 千本桜 I loved the most out of all of them.

I have to say that one thing that really made me love this band is that they show or remind other people how awesome loving your tradition is.

and somehow incorporating new ways of singing the traditional ways is really very awesome. It shows that somehow we millenials still care about the past but somehow we want to show it in a different way.

kinda like how the world sees us. We are very different and expressive and you know what we are awesome

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Cartoon: Adventure Time (FinnxFlamePrincess)

SPOILERS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I'm not sure if I told anybody from work other than Gela, Sadee and Zyra or my students. But I really love watching AT. I mean I watched it yesterday and now I kinda feel refreshed watching it again. Well I'm doing this review because yesterday they aired an episode with FP on it and I couldn't resist not watching it because I totally love FP and FinnxFP So yeah. I'm doing this. I made lots of gifs with FP and Finn for this. And I kinda changed my mind and put (FinnxFlamePrincess) on the title because I feel like I'll just talk about them. I might make another post about AT that's not just about the 2 of them.

First off I wanna say I'm happy that they're finally interacting! I was kinda super sad that she didn't have any big roles during season 6. I mean she's part of the main cast but she didn't have a big role there so I was really disappointed. I mean c'mon only a cameo with CB on Mountain during season 6? What's up Frederator? So it's a big relief that I finally get to see her again this season. And you know what makes me really happy? She's rapping! Like oh my glob! Are they doing this on purpose? oh my glob. She's paired to Finn's favorite past time beatboxing. Please let me not be the only one to think that she unconsciously picked up this new hobby because it kinda reminds her of him. I mean Finn also loves rapping

So I think somehow she picked it up from him as well. Oh yeah I have a shipper heart so I notice things like these I just wanted to share that other than the 2 of them the only characters in the Land of Ooh that can rap are the bears. I mean even Jake doesn't rap even if he can do beatboxing. So yeah. Anyway I wanted to do this post because I wanted to do an appreciation for the 2 of them for not talking for a long time. I'm only gonna post the good times ok?

Ok since I wanted to share I might as well start from the beginning. This was how they actually first met. It was kinda funny actually because Jake was the one who actually first saw FP. and pretended to not like her anymore because he thought FP was evil like her father said. But Finn did actually fell for her at first sight regardless of what Jake says.

Which is a really cutie patootie happening because FP was really angry at first at him because of what Jake did and Finn was all blunt and says I like you and FP becomes all flushed at the gif above. Watch more of those episodes to know how they really met Season 3 Incendium and Season 4 Hot to the Touch.

Imma skip the other episodes and just share this cutie patootie episode. This was the time FP first referenced Finn as her boyfriend. It was soo cute because at first you just see them being kinda self centered at this episode but you see how they kind of adjust to one another just so they can have fun together. It's really soo sweet of them (♥ω♥ ) ~♪ Season 5 Vault of Bones

I wanna share this episode of full out FinnxPB episode. It's soo cute that they made this totally innocent way of Finn and PB hugging. It's sooo adorable!（*´▽｀*）

But of course this episode wasn't all cuties and hearts. I wanna say more but I don't wanna spoil all the way. I just wanted to comment on the above picture that that moment made me realize how much Finn actually likes her. Like her life because fire needs a lot of oxygen to be "alive" is actually shortening his but he still gave her his oxygen even if it means somehow endangering his. We all know that Finn is selfless. But somehow everything about this pic made me realize that he trully loved her because he didn't think about himself anymore and just thought of her. I know that there are times that when he helps others he goes and thinks about the pros and cons of helping them. But for her he didn't think about anything and just went to help her. I just also wanted to point out that in life that it's true that we can love someone that can be dangerous for us.

But you know what? He tries everything he can just to show how much he loves her. And I love him for that. And FP appreciates that Season 4 Burning Low Aia this post is kinda making me want them to have a relationship again (˃̥̥ω˂̥̥̥) Either way. I'm forever gonna be team FinnxFP! I might make another set of review about Adventure Time. So I hope you read by then o(^◇^)o Catch you guys (/^▽^)/

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Bonus (Bacon Pancakes)

ドラマ：戦う！書店ガール

I just wanted to share that I watched a drama last night and I kinda didn't expect that it'd be good. I'm trying my best not to give spoilers. I'm gonna try to phrase my review in a way it wont really reveal much. All gifs are mine.

I've been planning to watch this series for a long time already. I mean I first saw the cast at VSA. But what I'm really curious about is to how will they make the plot interesting? I mean a drama about people loving books? I mean I love books that's why I'm very curious. Also it really took me a while to know Daito Shunsuke's name :))) OGURI SHUN'S YOUNGER BRO! They look sooo alike! I dunno why but I forgot his name :))

Ok. So I wanted to say that I think I had little to no expectations with this drama. And I find myself surprised because I watched all of it until the end. At first I found myself a bit wary of the plot because most of the first episode was focusing on love and I didn't want that because I expected them to love the books more but then I realized maybe the love part was important for the drama because I noticed Tashiro was somehow a bit shady. Luckily I didn't stop just because of that because I loved it. Well mostly because I find myself admiring all of the employees of Pegasus Bookstore.

I wanted to say that I also love 3人 Mami, Keiichiro and Yuka. I dunno but I kinda can relate to them. Mostly because I'm also considered as one of the youngest in the company. And sometimes I kinda feel like I need to do whatever is given to me and sometimes it kinda feels めんどくさい tho I try my best not to think that way. Like them I feel like some people judge me for being too young.  I do kinda hope that the situation where I lose trust on my upperclassmen doesn't happen to me. I mean I give my trust wholly. I'm afraid of being disappointed. But overall I really love the 3 of them

I also want to comment how much I love Obata. I mean. How can you not?! hahaha I mean he's sooooo cutie! He's soo head-over-heels in love with Aki.

And he gave up his job without second thought when he learned that she cares for him more than she leads on. Ugh sooo romantic! haha I love it. I mean I kinda thought that in his mind he must be thinking, this girl is only using me. If I was in the same situation, I would think like that because of how she talked during that time she was asking for his help. but no she loves him too and she's soo subtle. But I noticed that he's actually also the most important person for her and their love is soo lovely :"> Which is why I suddenly also loved the love part of the story.

Speaking of the love part of the story. I kinda can relate to one of them. I feel kinda frustrated during the drama and only realized at the end it was because of Mita. I can relate to Mita. I also have someone I look up to and want that person to depend on me. I dunno how but I'm still gonna try my best and be a better person. I still feel like I need to mature more as a person before I can call myself reliable or dependable. I'm like Mita

I think I have more to say but for now I need to go. I need to sleep. got to work tomorrow! See you!

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映画：神様のカルテ２

I wish my pictures don't get put down or something. I made the gifs myself. Also most of my pictures are from the end part of the movie. はいどうぞ

Somehow I can't stop myself from making a movie review now. Well It's been a while since I watched movies. And honestly I watched this movie already. Like last year I think. And I can't help but say what I think about this movie. This movie made me emotional.

I really dunno what's up with this movie. It's not exactly a movie that can make me cry. But this movie is very emotional.

I mean at the start of the movie you will start to hate Tatsuya because of his somehow arrogant facade. He comes and leaves on time and somehow he makes the young nurses of Honjou Byouin worried. He also mades comments that somehow also made Kurihara worried.

Somehow I also remember from the first movie that Haru is pregnant by now. I watched the first movie btw and I can't stress out how excited I am actually for her. And I can't stress how happy I am that in this movie Ichi depended on her more.

I'm not sure if it was because of his dream at the start of the movie. But I really loved the fact that he went to her and told her his problems. And that when everything felt too full for him he just went to her and hugged him.

I wanna become someone like Haru and Chiyo someday. Someone that a person wouldn't need to explain to. I'd understand everything, without words, and love unconditionally.

But the thing I loved most about this movie is that the characters develop a lot. Ichi might not stay longer at his home but he's made Haru feel more and more of his love. Tatsu slowly balancing his duties as both a doctor and a father, and along the way finding in himself to forgive his wife for neglecting him and their daughter. And Nukita Sensei for somehow finishing all of his duties as a doctor to finally give all of the time he has left for his wife.

I know I have said that I mostly only love action movies. But somehow I really loved this movie. This movie has made me realize that there are people who take care of people but in the end get blamed for everything and they don't get appreciated. I think I just shot myself in the head as well. So I think this is somehow a reminder that we are not gods but people. What we do and what we feel are important. How we treat others is important. Like how they stood up against their manager, we aren't supposed to look at each other and think of each other as some kind of source of money. We need to see each other as people. I really loved the fact that this was set in a hospital. It really marks the importance of life. 人生だ。

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