Check this out, I lol'd

I found this by just looking at article's. This is a weird Zoo drill, I love all the people who are all around watching like its super serious. This was so dramatic, especially the people that the "rhino" knocked over lol.

Also, it is the 71st birthday of The Wizard of Oz? You knew that?! I didn't ha

Samshio ©

Metroid: Other M "made Sakamoto cry"

Metroid: Other M "made Sakamoto cry"

Must have been quite a cut scene to see if it made a co-creator cry lol.

Also, there will be an exclusive Golden Paddle controller that comes with a bundle is Autumn for the remake of Golden Eye on the Wii. Kinda like the golden gun. This way, you can kinda play the same control scheme as you did years ago on the Nintendo 64. Good stuff. Article.

For today, I really don't have anything to tell. Not much happening. Seams yesterday, I checked out will at the doctors just getting a TB test on my skin since my last one was in 94' lol. Got to check in on the results tomorrow. There are storms coming our way in Virginia or at least Northern Virginia today from what I have heard and it might be rough but lasting a short while.

I added a link to the newest chapter of Claymore 106 on the Otaku page under releases. I haven't really found anything else to update, nothing really cool in the movie news or nothing really cool in general lol.

I have been looking online though about my travels to Japan in the future and trying to decide if I homestay for a while (couple weeks or so) or just plot a bunch of places I want to go to in the country, save up and go for a few weeks if not a month all over. The second choice will eat up a lot of cash but I also get to see a lot of places. The first option is I stay with a family and pretty much stay put in that house with them and maybe go do local things or go out and about around the country. Staying with a family though has its benefits as I will make connections and friends in the neighborhood if I wanted to come back to Japan or stay in contact. Also, I will learn the language better and also get more involved living as the Japanese now do in that area. It might be a better experience and I an always come back to visit areas across the country.

Post down below as to what you think I should do or reference places that I should visit. When I go (if I go) I will take lots of pictures and probably write down everything and will post it for sure.

Just let me know! I will follow it!

Post #90! Ten left for 100!

Samshio ©

Tainted baby milk in China causes girls to grow breast?

Well as the title says, I found an article that Synutra (one of China's largest producers of baby milk) has made some baby milk that has caused three children to enter puberty. These girls are babies, like from a couple months to like a year they are starting to develop. The company said they are 100% confident in there product and pass all the regulations and test on their products. Yeah ok. This is the second article I have done this week about early puberty. Article here.

Anyways, I have tons of articles today that are all over the place. Good stuff.

Here is Donkey Kong and Donkey Jr. Playing some Donkey Kong lol. Thought I add some humor.

Pic source gizmondo.com

Check this Video out. It's on over at CBS NEWS and it is about a space elevator that people in Tokyo are working on. The idea is that they will build an elevator from the surface of Earth and it would go to space and maybe doc at a space station or the moon. The moon will probably be way way to far, and plus just the expense of making this elevator to a space station is going to be astronomical. With t his elevator though, we can transport items up it to the space station and also down to Earth. Send data or samples quickly without having to constantly sending space ships up. It could also work as a good source of power. the space station could have solar panels on the outside of it to power the space station and also to send power back down to the planet. Also, the connection to the Earth can keep the station in orbit. Just the amount of work and planning will take a really long time. It has to be sturdy, stand winds, the climate change as it is higher in the atmosphere and keep it warm on the inside in those heights. Has to stand storms and possible debris in space. I wonder if they got the idea from Gundam Seed where they actually have elevators in space. :P Yes I would know that.

Freshly shucked, uninfected. (Photo: Regis Duvignau/Reuters)

You thought you heard it all, but yes Oysters in the Pacific Ocean are contracting Herpes. Right now it is only effecting the Pacific Oysters. It is killing a lot of them and causing the industry to go bad. Sources say that Global Warming is to blame for this. Article here.

Check this video out, at a concert where Justin Bebier was preforming some one threw a water bottle on stage and it smacked him in the face. The little girls were not happy, I was :P

(Credit: OkCupid)

Check this graph, this article states that out of all the smart phones out there, iPhone users get the most sex, with Blackberry's right behind and Android phones in the dust. I always knew the iPhone users were crazy. Also, woman has the higher numbers to. Interesting article.

Heard of Fantasia Barrino, the Idol winner? She is now recovering in a hospital after overdosing on Aspirin and sleep aids. Crazy.

That meteor shower is supposed to peek tonight! Perseids Meteor Shower! Check this article for a line up of other showers that will happen this year and also viewing tips!

For those college students that live in Virginia, you get discounts on Amtrak! That's right, take a trip on the train because you get a discount. It's not like you get the discount at Regal Cinemas anymore lol. Article here. It is only valid through Dec. 31st and it is coach so none of that first class stuff. It is 15% off adult rate.

Nintendo is planning on upping there ad campaign for Metroid: Other M this month using all kinds of media. Can't Wait, article.

Since November 2006, Nintendo has now sold 3 Million Wii's in the United States, 71million world wide. That is quite something people. Makes it the fasting selling console ever betting Playstation 2 by a 15 month span! The xBox 360 that came out a year before the Wii has sold 10 million less then the Wii in the United States. That is something to boast about. Article here.

Ok now that I am done with the news that I have found, I will also add those video's to the online video page for later viewing.

I uploaded my beach photos to the Picasa albums online and will add the album to my photo page for viewing later today. I have added some pictures from the Gunpla Super Expo 2010 yesterday on my Gundam blog (refer to link on my link page). Lots was shown there. I finally am starting to put my Tamiya spray paint on my Deathscythe model. That is great news since once I get that done all over the model, just need to panel line it and clear coat it and will be done. It has taken all summer to do it haha. While I do that or I can't paint, I have been prepping my 1/100 Red Frame model for the priming. I also built my Metallic Ver. Exia Repair 2 last week and it is sitting under my 1/100 00 Gundam on the stand. My Red Frame is going to have a different color scheme, one that will have a dark green (British green or racing green, like that) with the white, black and maybe some gold in there somewhere or gun metal instead.

I leave work year today for a doc appointment. Going to get all my shots and vaccinations for school, then late lunch with a friend that is now leaving for Virginia Tech so it's sad to see her go. We were at J. Sargeant Reynolds together for 2 years but worked previously before that together at where I still do retail. After that, I go work at that retail store :( such a long day and I hope the shots wont make me sleepy or that would suck at work.

I have been really thinking about the Japan trip a lot recently and I am not sure exactly where I want to go when I get there. There is so much I want to do there and when you think you can do it all on that small island, it really isn't that small of an island. Yes the bullet train speeds the travel at a heavy burden on the wallet though. Should I stay longer to view a bunch of sites or just go and stay with a family for a few weeks? Staying with a family in one location with a few trips will be the less expensive of the two that is for sure. Also, I wonder if I should get a International drivers license before I go lol. Lots to think about but I do have till 2012.

Well I am out, seya!

Samshio ©

Adding Otakon 2010 photos and more now

I finally got to edit some of my photos on to Flickr and now have them. I couldn't add all of them because there is a max per month that I can upload and the ones that I couldn't were the Nags Head ones so I will work on that! Enjoy them I will post links to them on the Photo page.

Also, just added some Gunpla Super Expo 2010 pic on my Gunpla blog, click here> http://samshiogunplafixation.blogspot.com/p/pics.html

Updated: 3:10pm Eastern time

Samshio ©

Gunpla Super Expo yo

Sup people, the Gunpla Super Expo 2010 is happening right now. For those who don't really know what it is or don't follow it, Bandai each year I guess holds an event where the show their Gundam Models and merchandise that they will be releasing soon. Also they show off some exclusives that you can only purchase at the event itself. They are actually showing the first episode of Gunpla Builders (check the online vid page for the trailer), which is the newest Gundam series that has been produced other then Gundam UC. It is about a boy being inspired from the life size Gundam Statue in Japan and he starts to build gunpla (Gundam Models). Pretty much tons and tons of models will be there to view. Of course I can't be there as I am here in the United States and it is in Japan, oh rats. I will updated the Hobby page or the Hobby blog with a list of what is going on. It is Samshiohobby.blogspot.com A little long sorry about that. That blog has a page for my models, Pictures, and a list of up coming releases. I will be trying to updated it as much as I can. It is added to the links page and is also on the right panel under blogs that are followed for a quick click. I added a video clip to the hobby page though of the event if you want to check it out.

On with other news and such,

If you are in my area or D.C. area and really like Transformers the movies, then why not be in Transformers 3? Go here for the open casting call for extras that they need in D.C. that they will be filming later on this Summer. Who knows you might see Shia Labeouf and other cast members. I might submit an application but I have a feeling that I wont be wanted for this film. For the Akira film I will definitely submit one though! They are also looking for precision driving for the casting call in Transformers 3!

Yesterday at work I read a Majora's Mask Manga that was ten chapters and it was a little kiddy but I still read it never the less. I have been thinking and I really want to cosplay as Majora's Mask. I mean it is one of the coolest interesting characters from the Legend Of Zelda franchise that I think personally. I don't know what it is about the Skull Kid with that mask on, but it draws me in and is still my favorite game of the series, with Twilight Princess behind. All the characters are interesting in it and you have ton of side quests and can upgrade your sword as well.

I caught up on Claymore now at chapter 105 and it is getting intense and also I have been reading Golden Boy. Golden Boy is about a boy that travels and picks up new jobs everywhere he goes. He is like a master of the trade now. A lot of odd things happen to him, and it is a guy manga I'd say because it is a little perverted but I think anyone can read it and find it hilarious. I hope more chapters come out one day.... They are like 30 page chapters and usually it's one job per chapter unless it is an ark

Also, Fullmetal Alchemist is going to get a side story published soon so catch that when you can online. Check article.

I finished up Pom Pocco, another Studio Ghibli film this morning and the clear message of the film is please preserve our forest and our creatures that live there. We may not kill the creatures directly but when you kill their habitat they have no place to go and die from pollution, over population of people, cars and just everything about deforestation. It is centered around a clan/group of Raccoons. They can shape shift into other objects or animals. So in the film they try to live with the humans by transforming into human figures but it is a rough life for them and eventually most come back to the forest. Watch it, also it will be good for a child to see because they can be more sympathetic towards nature. I have now moved on to WhisperHeart from Studio Ghibli.

I don't know if you remember the article about Only Yesterday, film from Studio Ghibli, that is about a girl and it shows her kinda of growing up. It is hard to explain but it is a movie that I couldn't see a child enjoying though. Its mature to understand and become immersed with. Anyways, it is the first Studio Ghibli that is getting a stage adaptation! It is going to be a musical film that will run in Tokyo's Ginga Gekijo theater from April 16 to 29, 2011. Picked up the article at Anime News Network. It is a movie that has yet got a DVD release in the US but has been released in the UK and Australia.

Can't think of anything else people! Seya, and have a good day!

Samshio ©

Pink Grasshopper!

pink grasshopper
Uploaded by berryzb.

Found this over at Japanprobe.com

Apparently Pink Grasshoppers are really rare and the guy who found it named it Mai :P

Also want to add this video of some ping pong, asians are crazy at ping pong!

Also added some info on my Hobby Page about Gunpla Super Expo 2010 which is Bandai having their show case for their newest models being released! It started today and so I will post with articles and info on the Hobby page!

Samshio ©

Little Fockers, Narnia and more lol

Here is the poster for the Little Focker's that will be the third movie in the series!

It is a funny series if you haven't see it. Probably one of the few movies that I like Adam in.

Also I added a video of The Avengers logo on the Movie page.

Also here below is another trailer of the next Narnia film

Also added it to the Movie tab for everyone to find it again. This movie looks good but I don't know if I want to spend $10 on a ticket to see either...$10 is just so much right now for a movie ticket for a college student. I might have to hit the Byrd Theater in Carry Town for like $2-3 for a ticket. That is worth it :)

I just added the Jackass 3D movie trailer to the Movie page towards the bottom. I didn't think they were making a third one but when you have "3D" out now why not make a third one just to use "3D" in the title lol, everyone else is doing it ha.

Here is an article that has some new pictures from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie!. Adding it to the Movie page as well.

Also I am glade to hear that Clover Field 2 is still high priority for J.J. Abrams who is currently working on Super 8. Here is the article over at MTV.

Last movie news are some release dates.

Breaking Dawn part 2 will be released November 16, 2012

Monsters, Inc. 2 is Nov. 2 2012

The Guardians, which I kinda want to see and is voiced by Leonardo DiCaprio is moved back to Nov. 21 2012

Beauty and the Beast (3D version) and another film that Disney/Pixar was working on called "newt" has been removed from the releases that they were going to do.

On to news that I heard on the radio and now found online. Link here. Girls now and days apparently in America start puberty around the ages of 7 and 8. Thats right 7 and 8, thats like 2nd grade people. That is super early. The study shows taht girls around those ages are starting breast development.

Quote from busniess Week article:

Among 7-year-olds, about 10.4 percent of white girls, 23.4 percent of black girls and almost 15 percent of Hispanic girls had started developing breasts, the team report in the September issue of Pediatrics. Among 8-year-olds, 18.3 percent of white girls, about 43 percent of black girls and just under 31 percent of Hispanic girls showed evidence of breast development.

That is just crazy to me how early on that is. Only plus I can see out of this is a boost in the sports bra industry because of the need of it more for a lot younger generation.

This also increases the risk of breast cancer as an adult when they start development this early. Their bodies may look as if they are around 13-16 but mentally they are still obviously that 7-8 year old you raised.

One of the biggest reasons is early obesity which triggers an early development. IT causes problems for doctors as when they are this young they can't tell if its fat tissue or breast tissue anymore since it occurs at such a younger age. Though statistics say girls with a higher BMI (Body Mass Index) are the ones that are starting the earliest of the girls.

Some intense stuff so check out the article if you like.

That is all I have for now, I enjoyed a long weekend with my girl friend and her brother and sister. She had to watch them as her parents enjoyed a cruise which I am sure was really nice! We have been trying to find a DVD of Castle in the Sky (Laputa) but Blockbuster around us doesn't have it and so we put it on the list of Netflix's to get to her house. She really wants to see it and I was trying to find if Cheap on Ebay to get. I found a box set of Studio Ghibli films (18 total) that have some of the movies in English, Japanese, Cantonese. Here is the link. Only reason I have yet to buy it is that it is $23 for shipping and the DVD but it is the Malaysian version and not the Japanese or America box set so the DVD quality isn't as good as the ladder. It is region free and should play on all DVD players but I might wait a sec to get it. Here is the link to an American box set of the Ghibli films, it is more money and less films but all Dubbed in English. For the movies on it though it is worth it if it works though. I am trying to finish up Pom Pocco right now which is about Raccoons fighting for the forest against humans that are trying to cut it down for homes.

I am sorry I have been so lazy about getting links and my photos online from the beach and the convention. I was with the girl friend this weekend as said and had a goo time seeing her. I wont see her much during school so I will soak up as much time as I can. I got to see one of my long time friends yesterday and we played tennis before she had to leave today for school. I lost >_> but I was close. I can get better and actually work out more now that I can use the VCU gym for free. I am going to try to get down to the campus this week to find my buildings and just to walk around a bit and use my parking pass. Get my moneys worth as they are $170 :(

Seya!

Samshio ©

Iz been gone for a while

Hey everyone, I think the last time I posted was maybe 2 Thursdays ago so it has been a week. This will be my first post of August!

Anyways, I enjoyed going to Otakon 2010 this year. I went by myself and stayed at the Days Inn across the street with about 4 other people in the room. They were great room mates and would do it again with them. If you have heard around 2pm on Saturday at the convention center someone pulled a fire alarm and the entire center had to empty out on Pratt street or neighboring streets. It was crazy crowded out there since it was like early afternoon on the busiest day. That was probably the one bad thing that happened at the convention for me. I believe the con gathered about 29,000 + people this year which is more then the 26,000 some odd people of last year. I attended two of the concerts; Friday was the Yoshida Brothers concert and then on Sunday I watched the Home Made Kazoku concert. There first concert out of Japan was actually Otakon this year. They loved coming to the convention and loved our crowed. It was a great concert. Also, if you have not heard of the Yoshida Brothers and there traditional Japanese music, you might have in a early Wii commercial a few years back. Go check out the online vid page where I uploaded a video from YouTube and see if you have seen it before. I am sure you have ;)

I went to a few panels like the Mecha Fan Panel, Gundam Fan Panel and I loved just walking around and talking to people. I was wearing my Waldo costume on Friday, it was duck tape and it looked good. The Vendor/dealer room was great. Many great things but I am cheap. I picked up a Rei figure from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Studio Ghibli figure set number IV, which is the one from Laputa Castle in the Sky. I got two figures from Rurouni Kenshin that look great in front of the manga collection on my shelf, I picked up a revoltech figure from Evangelion. I also picked up what I call my prize at the con and glad I found it. It is a statue of Tetsuo when he is changing. Here is the link to it. If I can find Kaneda one where he is sitting on his home made seat that would be great. This is what it looks like. Also I picked up a limited run of a High Grade Exia Repair II Comic Con exclusive Metallic version at a booth selling and displaying Gundam Models. I grabbed the newest Evangelion model too when they marked the price down for the people. Alls the booths wouldn't go down in price so I didn't buy my MG Wing Custom Ver. Ka

The modelling contest had some great looking models that entered. I saw a MG Spiegel that I had though about getting and looking at the work man ship on it I actually sent an order for one yesterday while Hobby Link Japan has the half off FedEx shipping now, plus it is a hard to come by model. When I finish it and my MG God Gundam I will most likely display them attacking each other, I loved those charters a lot. There was a lot of great artwork in the Artist Alley but I really didn't think I had anymore room left on my walls to place anything. The best I could have done is bought it and save it for when I have my own place. I swear I will have my own room where I will have all my nerd stuff in, it can be called my 'office' hehe. Hope my wife wont mind that there is a room with game and anime wall scrolls and artwork on the walls and a few selves of models and figures. I will also make a glowing green or blue desk with a comfy seat. Honesty I don't think my girl friend will mind, heck I think I managed to convince her to go to Nekocon this November down in Hampton Roads.

Once again a great year at the con, enjoyed it except for the fire alarm and the traffic was actually bad going to and leaving Baltimore >_>

I will still be trying to get the photos up of Jocky's Ridge from the Outer Banks and also the photos that came out from Otakon. I really didn't take that many photos though so I will link to a few photo albums that I find online, and I will added it to the Otaku page where I talk about Otakon. I also just updated the Otaku page and added a few links to new chapters suh as Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece. It will be hard to read manga online now as some of my favorite places to read like Onemanga.com will not feature anymore manga that is licensed as the manga industry doesn't support the scanning and translating of their manga online so they dropped the manga that has the licensing. Unless the website it's self gets the support from the industry they wont appear on those manga reading sites anymore.

Work has been going slow this week as my two bosses are on vacation so I have been sitting here reading up on all the manga that I have been missing out on. I would watch some anime but I think I will stick to reading off the screen for now. Yesterday evening a terrible storm came through Richmond and central Virginia and caused some flooding in parts of Midlothian and South Side of Richmond. I was down at Bush gardens and we left to head to my girl friends grandparents house to wait it out and when we left it started to rain really hard. She managed to get us there safe but she almost slept on the drive home when I tried to offer to drive >_>

I am wondering if I will get the chance to go to D.C. this summer on one of the weekends with my mom or girl friend. Since both can't do it this weekend it can't be this weekend and school is nearing everyday now. I still need my books!! I am selling a few online right now and also looking for a Studio Ghibli box set DVD too, so if you have one and looking to sell new or used send me a message!

Looking on the net I found a great time laps video of the 59 foot Gundam Statue that I have posted links to pictures plenty of times. I will added it to the Online Vid page an here it is below

Also adding a fan made AKIRA live action trailer to the Online Vid page. It wasn't that bad either and used a lot of footage from movies that I have seen that actually work for the movie itself. Please go check it out.

I got nothing else that I can think of off the top of my head! Seya

Samshio©