Merging Genders

My addiction to television series', be it cartoons or real live humans, started with Meteor Garden and my aunt's DVD copy of the series. TV series, reduces life matters into the simplest things, and as I am constantly being thrown in the middle of complex issues of life and such, I welcome the addiction with arms wide open. I don't watch tagalog tv series. Sorry for being "unpatrionistic" but I'm surrounded by Filipinos everyday seeing them in television when I want to rest is just a bit too much. Besides, most series from this country are Drama, if I want to cry I would only need to contemplate the direction of my life.

Anyway, I've noticed that lately there've been a number of series' (cartoons and live humans) with girls pretending to be boys. One is Korea's "Coffee Prince" where a girl, Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye), pretended to be a boy to get a job and ended up seducing and falling in love with her boss, Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo who is currently serving his two year mandatory military service).

The "girl getting away with pretending to be a boy" concept was a hit in Korea and also here in the Phils which is probably the reason why there's another one of them being aired on Primetime TV: "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e" of Japan and "Hana Kimi" of Taiwan (sorry, not sure whether the Taiwanese title really is "Hana Kimi").

I haven't watched the Taiwanese version but I was hooked on "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e," which is based on a Manga called Hana Kimi, mainly because the guy playing Nakatsu Shuichi (Ikuta Toma) is cute. Horikita Maki plays the lead Ashiya Mizuki, a girl who went to an all boys school just to see her crush Sano Izumi played by Oguri Shun. Ikuta Toma plays the Nakatsu Shuichi, the dude who also fell for Ashiya even though he knew she was a boy. If you've watched Hanayori Dango Season 2 (Episode 1), you'll remember him playing Oribe Junpei, the guy who used Makino Tsukushi to get to Doumyouji Tsukasa. The series is slightly different from the Manga but it was 'cute' as well.

What is it with these stories with girls pretending to be boys? Does this have anything to do with the number of gay people coming out of the closet? I mean, technically, these boys who fall in love with the girl who is only "pretending" to be a boy is gay right?. But then again, maybe it's can serve us more than just entertainment. Years ago, if shows like these turned up it probably wouldn't be this much of a hit but now that people are finally accepting gays... maybe it'll help more people adjust to the fact that gays are a part of our society too.

Anyway, as long as they're making show like this here's another one with a girl pretending to be a boy: the cartoon series Ouran Academy by Bisco Hatori. Haruhi Fujioka was mistaken for a boy when she entered the school's "Host Club." She accidentally knocks over an 8 million yen worth vase and was immediately put to work as their 'errand boy' by the Host club president or "King," Tamaki (sorry, I forgot his full name). When Tamaki found out that Haruhi actually looked good under her messy hair, he promotes her to host. Her real gender was eventually found out by the whole club but because of her debt, she stayed as a host and hid her gender from the customers and the rest of the school. I bet this one will be a hit too. Producers, what do you say?

** pic for Hanazakari no Kimitachi e was from http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa228/scizor_star/HanazakarinoKimitachie.jpg

**pic for Coffee Prince was from

http://www.coffee-prince.com/
** pic for Ouran High was from

http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s114/deviant_14/?action=view&current=ouran.png

Meet GRRR

I don’t get celphone clans. I think the concept is that you you’re your own chatroom and sign all your friends in it so that when you send a message to one person, everyone receives it and has the chance to respond. My sister, Grrr (when she's mad she literally says "GRRR"), is addicted to it. She said her clanmates are working together in some company or something in Makati so when one of them calls her she can hear the others in the background. My other sister, Friday, is also in her clan. So they speak to each other frequently.

Grrr’s last clan broke up because of her. She had apparently triggered a fight between the members and they ended up abolishing the thing all together. Her new clan is with the ones who sided with her in her argument. Now Grrr stays up until four in the morning talking to her clan. What do they talk about? Nothing really or at least I don’t really hear them talking about anything that’s worth discussing. It’s more like they’re all flirting with each other on the celphone; like having tons of textmates all at once. It’s so adolescent.

Grrr wants me to switch to suncel so I could join them. I would be receiving text messages from her clanmates on a regular basis… and then what? At least give me a goal, like a free celphone if I send out one thousand text messages. Give me that and even if I have to squeeze my brain for something to say to these people I don’t give a bleep to, I’ll participate.

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You are now reading the work of a proud owner of a brand new Student Driver’s License! Tat-ta-dada!!

I got it two days ago after falling in line and waiting for my name to be broadcasted repeatedly world wide in humongous speakers for three hours. I would’ve applied for a license but I think you need a student’s license first before you get a real license then there’s that one month waiting for you to get a Non-Professional Driver’s License.

Now, do I know how to drive? No. Do I own a car? No. Then why in the hell would I apply for a driver’s license?! Well, that is a very good question and someday I will get to answer it but right now I still have to wait 28 days before I get a real License and the clock is ticking very slowly.

Late news...

I had a look at the PW site. So the 'banning' of Accounts is actually caused by 'technical difficulties'. The Account Advisory was dated yesterday, March 31, 2008 so that means my account is safe from being suspended?

Where is everybody?

I had a hard time logging into 'Perfect World' yesterday. Apparently, the new server ‘Serpent’ is up and patches need to be updated. Unfortunately, the computers I was using won’t update properly so it took almost an hour before I could log in.

Oh, to Filipino non-geeks out there, ‘Perfect World’ is an MMORPG (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game) by Level Up Games (Philippines). I used to play Ragnarok but it costs too much and the graphics for Perfect World is nice. There were two Servers (now three including the new Serpent): Dragon and Tiger. I used to play Tiger but GIR had one character in Dragon and she gave it to me now I use that one. If you ever get to play in Dragon, look me up “Ootoro” is my handle.

Anyway, when I finally got to log into the Dragon server almost no one was there (most had moved to Serpent) and those who were there were ‘loud-speaking’ themselves hoarse, complaining about the GM’s banning their characters from entering PW without any apparent reason.

There have been a lot of complaints with PW especially about the events and I never paid no-never mind to it but the ‘banning’ issue sort of concerned me. PW is my new therapy, the reason why I haven’t been suicidal for more than a month now, and if I get banned for no apparent reason (not that I’m doing anything illegal in PW) what’ll I do? What’s going to be my new therapist?

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On the lighter note…

I ran into my Sempai, The Flash, this morning. The Flash used to be my topic in my previous blog, the one I erased before I started this one. I know him like the back of my hand but this morning I noticed something I know should’ve noticed before… his ears sort of stick out from his head.