Father

Father your failures are so grave,
they have seeped to son.
No amount of wishing,
for grace to be regained or won.
10,000 pounds of hope,
on the shoulders of one.

Yukino & Satoshi Big Adventure

The second episode follows Kiina through a case of dissociative identity disorder, this time more sentimental than puzzling intrigues.

A girl believed she was possessed by her deceased older brother who died in a drowning accident when they were young children. She kept entertaining suicidal thoughts and blamed her brother for it, thinking that her brother felt that she was the one who killed him. To top it off, the house they recently moved in was seemingly haunted.

Remind me again that I’m watching Kiina and not Galileo. Galileo also had an episode whereby this particular house experienced strange happenings like violent shakes. In fact, I’m really inclined to believe that both shows were either produced by the same production team, or Kiina was adapted to model after Galileo, having seen the latter’s success with 1 special and a movie on its tail.

The MO already sounds alike. Strange unbelievable cases presented. Culprit is a no-brainer. The crux lies in how the case was performed. And science (thank goodness not religion) is the saving grace for each story. Oh, and not to mention Kiina’s scanning of countless of books is reminscent of Fukuyama Masaharu’s eureka-scribbling-on-sidewalk-with-equations-and-theories moment.

Back to the second episode: The Possessed Girl.

One of my favourite part was the one when the mother was falsely accused of killing the son, when actually the girl meant to point to her own reflection on the mirror.

On a sidenote, I discovered that the producer of Kiina, Kato Masatoshi also produced Hataraki man(surprise surprise), Gokusen and Ai No Uta.

life so dreary.

really. loathe. microb.

What a week to look forward to.

Kiina

Kiina presents Kanno Miho in a similar role to Hataraki man, a work-centric person however remarkable and capable she is in her career, she is ever so downtrodden when it comes to her personal life.

Kiina (Kanno Miho) is a police detective with a penchant for solving mysterious cases. At first glance, this sounds like your over-the-mill detective drama. But what strikes me is that the cases were drawn from factual accounts and real-life diffult police case. Of course, Kiina is armed with an amazing ability of photographic memory and keen observation skills to point out overlooked details and cruxes.

Aiding her is Yuta Hiraoka (Swing Girls), the police officer dispatched to help Kiina in her cases. He is the predictable vessel viewers would relate to and turned from skeptic and believer.

And Kanno Miho fans would probably spot out in an instant the man who played the police commisioner also happened to be Kanno Miho’s father in Iguana No Musume back in 1996. He had this unmistakable ang-moh face and he has hardly acted in many dramas currently. So it was pretty refreshing to see him here.

First Ep: The Heart that Remembers

A heart transplant recipient woman plagued by recurrent nightmares is convinced that the dreams held the key to the murder of her donor. She does not know who is the donor is.

This is based on the article:

There is the 8-year-old girl who got the heart of a 10-year-old murder victim, according to medical reports. Plagued by nightmares of the crime after her transplant, the girl used the images in her dreams to help locate and convict her donor’s killer.

Some people termed this as cellular memory.

There is the ballet dancer, Claire Sylvia, who wrote the book “A Change of Heart” after her 1988 heart-lung transplant, when she developed unfamiliar cravings for beer, green peppers and chicken nuggets – foods she had disdained as a health-conscious dancer. After contacting her donor’s family, she learned these were the favorite foods of the young motorcyclist who became her donor.

“With any solid organ, you are transferring DNA from the donor to the recipient,” he said. “These are genes that relate not only to the specific organ, but to other systems as well, such as cerebral function. So there may be something to this thing that personalities can change.”

But Copeland stresses the huge change a transplant brings to a person’s life.

“They go from being a cardiac cripple, an invalid, to being a pretty active normal person again,” he said. “We’ve seen all kinds of effects from that kind of change – people turn athletic, they get divorced, they get married, they have kids. They tend to take one day at a time and live life to the fullest. Whether that could be confused with acquiring the habits of your donor, or whether this is a real phenomenon, we don’t know.”

End

The most direct route

Aramia hates dealing with anything microbial.

It’s just so darn hard to get started on microbiology today. Not a word i nto my head & since I won’t be configuring all the crap anytime soon I thought I put my stylus to use after watching K20 last night & went all entralled by the very PRETTY visuals.

I’m going to be a dentist. Not going to diagnose people with tuberculosis, toxic epidermolytic necrolysis or furuncles. GLGB you annoying little people.

K20 is a regular movie, probably would have been outstanding 10 years back but given the advent of hollywood/foreign films with amazing complex and intertwined stories and character depth it is going to be very hard to please movie-goers. Plot is standard, why even the twist was expected. But everything else helped make up for what the plot lack; interest.

Not that it fails to impress. Personally I liked it. The retro-futuristic era was pretty creative and extremely captivating. I loved the old street japan or back alleys and streets with all the clutter and yellow bulb lamps. The reproduction of old technology in modern set is also very interesting to watch. I was so inspired to lift my stylus and get started. Though who know what crap I will conceive this time.

& Takeshi Kaneshiro is devastatingly handsome. What Edward Cullen. Sorry to all twilight fans but posters of Robert Pattison always make me think “must be the bad lighting” or “i think it’s the angle.” You will never catch Kaneshiro in any unglam moment. He’s so chiselled perfect.

Toru Nakamura is Akechi. I watched several of his other shows and I’m taken in by his stern and solid manner. Great acting but understated.

 

Anyway, if anything to uplift the mood in the wake of the bank crisis 2009 is the year of good movies. I personally feels so. There’s The Reader, Doubt, Valkyrie, Slumdog Millionaire, Let The Right One in, Benjamin Button & The Wrestler. Watchmen & Transformers are among the goodies to look forward to. On the Japanese side, there’s Ponyo, K20, Suspect x, Detroit Metal City & Departure.

Very very interesting.

books for everything else

Incredibly mundane is how my life would have read right now. Likewise sentiments shared by classmates, all nose in papers, struggling to remember the entire complex web of polypharmacy. Bleah.

Today’s PI/GI made me disillusioned with my once favourited wax tape floss. Doesn’t do nuts for me at all.

On my way home this afternoon got sh oved aside by an elderly woman while boarding the bus. While I normally excused bad behavior from old people, believing that they’re older than us after all and some have pasts of lemons and bitter grapes it’s only right that we accomodate them. But this is too much lah. Being old doesn’t warrant anyone to push or shove people out of the way. It’s simply ungracious. Respect. Don’t bully the system.

Georgina is kicking a racket as usual. She’s making fun discovery with her limbs, trunk and neck muscle, writhing and squirming every single moment. She still can’t walk or crawl, but making do with the lower alternative of rolling her body sideways to wherever she wants to go.

Yesterday she started crying & we discovered she was in the midst of shitting. Solid shit. So painful lah. She laboured for a good fifteen minutes before falling asleep in her own fatigue & pespiration all over head. The product was about the size of an egg.

WHEN IS K20 GONNA SHOW

school, hurry up and be done with.

Finally I acquired a pretty little laptop in the form of NEC Versa S5600. It comes in deep wine red. Before that I was so sure I was going to get a mac but I supposed being not able to use corel painter can be a drag. & This particular model stole me breath away in aesthetic and sleekness. Justine prefered the other one; the big fat one with a huge black band across the front shouting NEC. More for function I guess.

This week nothing really much happened. Except that the modules we’re taking are coming to a close soon. & that only serves to remind us that 2 weeks of school is all we have left. (yay!) I unearthed my partial denture from the mound of green stone & plaster. Shears don’t like me. Dr Toh did it in a flash, reproducing the hidden treasure like a magic trick.

On other news I began obturation. In spite of incessant worry over having to redo my molar for cleaning & shaping and the fear of not being able to take the test, everything happened pretty smoothly. Ah. No more troublemaker in workplace. Endo don’t seem to be my cup of tea, but I really want to do my best. After all, the doctors are super nice.

It excites me to know that we’re going to see patients soon. Like, very soon. It also terrifies me now how awfully monolingual I am.

okay bye.

ladders where are you.

Some updates are in the order.

I’m entering the foray of American television. Okay, not quite. Just 30 Rock. Tina Fey is awesome. Been having some crappy sessions on Endo and feel-good-teevee comes in the form of Liz Lemon, Jenna , Tracy Jordan & Jack Donaghy. Few eps later & I forgot why I was so flustered over cervical flaring & apical transportation which led me backward on a perpetual snake & ladder puzzle.

Last night was Ziying 21st Birthday Party. She wore a pretty lbd. When I arrived it felt like a pre-valentine party with classmates coming with spouse-attached-to-hip. Tell me how not to feel sidelined. But it was fine. Since I’ve met most of them prior anyway. 

There’s only 2 things in my life to be deprecating funny about. Everything else is guarded.

Moving on. Xiaoyan introduced me to her friend’s blog where I unearthed many lovely discoveries of indie music. With melody so soothing and tranquilizing the likes of Blind Pilot & Laura Marling. I exceptionally loved Ghost, Crawled Out of The Sea, I Buried a Bone, A Burden etc etc. No intentions of sending. yet. Tokyo Police Club was also amazing with songs like Juno, Listen to the Math, Your English is Good. Upbeat songs to up the mood.

I finally completed Fraction Of The Whole & it was disappointing. Promising beginning that crumbled to a strangely vivid but not very fascinating plot. It’s strange because I actually finished the book but it didn’t leave a pleasant aftertaste. That said, credit must be given to certain parts that were really amusing in elegant writing.

I told my mum I’m convinced that I’m in for a rough year & I wanted to join the kiasu pack that was featured in the papers this morning for turning to religion to seek solace and help in the face of economic downturn. After some mad references to Lilian Too’s here’s what she concluded. (& pretty funny yet since it can be pretty true.)

February 2009

-applies to all fire rabbits these year.

The quarrelsome Chi in your chart threatens to wreck havoc in your life. (yes!)

There may be a troublemaker at your workplace making life unpleasant. (a-hem.)

You have money & wealth luck, but may be too wrapped up in your own irritation to notice. (got my tuition pay for last and this month)

Your love life is nothing to shout about. (I think this is an established fact since time immemorial) 

Lay low this month till the troublesome energies blow over.

But I won’t be offering incense anytime soon since this is simply tough luck.

In other news, I’m in absolute jealousy over something ha ha. Adding on to one of the greatest mysteries that I can never configure for the rest of my life I just have to contend with my tough luck. Go figurre.

& lastly I just broke something and I’m worried what it is going to cost me. Oh no I’m so going to dread Mdm Tan’s reaction come tomorrow.