Super USO

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There's an Indonesian cartoon in which a child superhero goes around the country helping people with his superpowers. The only catch? His superpower is the POWER OF THE INTERNET.

Seriously, the plot of each episode basically involves him in looking up certain things online and telling everyone what he just looked up.

Nothing says Third World more than treating the knowledge of how to use the internet properly as a superpower.

The animation is cute though, I'll give them that. And 'THE MAGIC OF INTERNET!!!' is a cute catchphrase.

Born in the Wrong Generation?

After a long hiatus, I decided to write again.

This time, I would like to address the issue of being 'born in the wrong generation', most often disgruntled edgy 12-year-old seen in the comment section of Beatles videos.

But are you really born in the wrong generation? I'd say, you are born in the right generation. Right, maybe 'mainstream' music isn't as good as it was, but you have the internet, and about 50 years of music to go and listen to on a whim! If that isn't paradise, I don't know what is.

Okay, let's take it back a notch. Let's say, you are a 15-year-old in 1963, when 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' first came out. Great, you are witnessing the start of a musical revolution. But what else is there? What other great music do you have to choose from that year? Nothing much. You have a limited early Beatles discography, and this. Not fun, is it?

Going back to the Beatles. It's 1963, 'Let it Be' didn't exist. 'Yellow Submarine' didn't exist. 'Hey Jude' didn't exist. Nothing. Just a handful of songs. Take it a step further. Rolling Stones?  They were a year old, barely having anything substantial. Heavy Metal is nonexistent in 1963, Black Sabbath didn't come around for another five years. Punk Rock won't be there until the late 70s. 'Good' pop? That's in the 1980s. Grunge was in the 90s. I could go on all night.

If you were a teenager in 1963, you'd be pretty freaking miserable, trust me on that.

The Origin of Pokémon

Once upon a time, Arceus created Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. He gave Dialga power over time, Palkia power over space, and Giratina power over something else. However, Giratina betrayed Arceus, who then banished him to a parallel dimension called the Distortion World, where time and space didn't exist since Palkia and Dialga didn't have control. Because Giratina was banished to the Distortion World, however, he did not help create the universe, hence the universe does not have whatever it is he got power over.

Dialga and Palkia later continued on and created the world, in which Arceus created Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza. Groudon created land, Kyogre created the waters, and Rayquaza created the skies. After this, Arceus came back and created Mew, and between them Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf was born. Arceus gave the three powers over dimensional travel, thus making them the bridge between the universe, the dimensions where Palkia, Dialga, and Arceus lived, and the Distortion World.

By now, Arceus had created too many things to possibly control by himself, so he created the Unown, mysterious beings able to bend reality using their combined power. Many millenniums later, prehistoric Pokémon such as Omastar, Kabutops, Genesect, Aerodactyl, Cradily, Armaldo, Bastiodon, Rampardos, Carracosta, Archeops, Tyrantrum and Aurorus went extinct because of meteor showers happening at Meteor Falls and Mt. Moon, which brought over Mew's offspring with Rayquaza - Cleffa, Lunatone, and Solrock.

After all this, some Pokémon started gaining interest towards the Unown and learned from them to build, write, and farm. These would later evolve (Darwin way) into humans. The humans later had a war in which AZ (the king of Kalos)'s Floette died, so he created a super weapon that killed many Pokémon, which resulted in Virizion, Cobalion and Terrakion join the war.

Finally, 2000 years later, Red is born in Pallet Town.

Close Encounter of the WII-erd Kind

Today I decided to take my old Nintendo Wii out of its hiatus and use it again, perhaps as a form of exercise for a lazybum like me. At any rate, I was particularly glad that I didn't throw out any of the plastic controllers, nor did I throw out any of my games.

The good news was, I got all of my games except one. The bad news was, the game I lost was bloody 'Rock Band: Green Day', the one which I wanted to play the most. Oh, and apparently child me was a bit of a careless bastard, since most of my favourite games from back then was scratched to hell, so they won't work. I still have Twilight Princess though (and it works perfectly), so it might be worth a re-visit.

Now, there are 2 things that I'd like to point out about my renewed experience with the Nintendo Wii.

The first one was that, those music rhythm games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero? They're bloody difficult! Like seriously, I barely scraped by out of Dead Kennedys' 'Holiday in Cambodia' on guitar on Hard difficulty, when I know how to play that song properly in real life. This shouldn't happen. Maybe it's the crappy plastic guitar controller (Indeed, I've been playing the strum button with a plectrum, which makes it a lot easier), or maybe I'm just too used to the proper guitar to make any sense of the plastic one. Or maybe I just suck at the game, I don't know.

The second one was outside of the games or the console itself proper. I found a store that still sells Wii games. Yes, proper Wii games. To think that such an obsolete console would have nobody else selling the games, but no! I was out to town today and saw that this little small corner shop sells Wii games. I was pleasantly surprised. They were out of the major titles, unsurprisingly, since there were no re-stocks, but I managed to grab a couple of decent games. I am genuinely impressed by this. Might be coming back to that shop.

So yeah, I guess that's all there is to it. I now look forward to the agony that is Wii Bowling.

Song to Share

Here, have a song to listen to:

Sleepless

It is 5 in the morning. I have not slept at all. I seem to have this problem nowadays. I've actually got to meet someone on the othet side of town at 11, meaning I'd have to get up at 9.30 at most. Bloody tall order.

I don't know why I stayed up this late. Well, I know why: I've friends on the other side of the world that I regularly talk to every night, which makes my sleeping schedule a mess. The question is, once I get my head down to sleep, I can't. I cannot fall asleep, at least easily. I know I'm very tired, and I'vs caught myself yawning a few times, but I can't get myself to sleep.

I don't know whether it's something on my mind, or whether I'm always ended up having weird dreams, I'm not sure. Whatever it is, it's been plaguing me. Now I know what the citizens of Dawnstar are feeling.

Out With the Old... And in With the New

Okay, first off I'd like to say, Happy belated New Years to everyone! Hope 2015 is going to treat you well!

2015, that is the sole reason for this post today. The entire reason why I bothered to open a tab on my web browser, and start to write something, be it something substantial or not. Anyways, let's not dilly-dally any longer and let's get down to business, shall we?

Of course, most people make New Year's Resolutions, because this seem to be the time to make such vague promises that you will end up forgetting come Valentine's Day. I, for one, do not make resolutions. I don't see the point in them, at all. You will buy that gym membership on the first day it opens, then go and work out for a week straight, and afterwards you just lie around at home because you feel fatigued and lazy, and as it turns out, it's a lot more fun to just sit on the couch and watch the telly all day. Bam, another resolution failed.

I, for one, set myself goals, not resolutions. Instead of promising myself to do things that I will only do for a week or two, I set myself targets for the upcoming years. Usually it's something vague like 'Be a better person'. That way, when I look back at the next New Year's Day, I can judge myself whether I've actually become a better person or not. This year is no different.

This year, my goals are simple. I just wanted to get my music career going. I've realized that I would be 20 this year, thus I will no longer be a 'teenager'. Therefore, I would love to be able to do something productive. I've always wanted to be involved in the music industry, no matter how small. I've did some recordings here and there, and I've had the odd band or two, but nothing concrete so far. I wanted 2015 to be the year I've actually kick-started my career, to get people to listen to my music and actually play a few shows on a 'professional' level, and not just handing out demo tapes to my friends.

It does sound vague and farfetched, but nothing is impossible, if you set your mind to it. I've leapt past many hurdles in my life to get to where I am at right now, and I will have no problems leaping one more.

To conclude, I would just like to say a few words. Here's to another year of rocking and not sleeping on the floor, pissed drunk. Cheers.