Pd Sanctuary

Well, it's this time of year. This year instead of doing in a jungle resort , we were doing it at a beach resort. But, where was the beach? Anyways, it was our annual psycho course, this time at Port Dickson Sanctuary.
If i'm not mistaken, this course was almost the same as what my senpais had last year, except for the venue of course. Did i enjoy it? Did i change after all the motivation ' mojo'? Well, i definitely don't feel much different or neither have i transformed to an 'A Star student' too. For such a renowned speaker throughout malaysia,brunei and singapore, i really don't know who he is!( not that i know any famouse self help gurus anyway..)was he good? well, for the general masses and this group of people, i would probably say it worked wonders . Why? That's cause the touched on poverty and the parents line to make you study? But in the end, if you're going to study for that thing, you're gonna suffer... at least in my point.
So, he was trying to make us cry..he did actually in most cases, except i was the unsensitive ass here. But i was quite surprised that he did touch a lot of people( at least during a limitied time..) Then, he was talking all about mind and so on and so forth. Don't really remember much but i'll give him this one credit. i rarely slept. It's a major major thing cause i almost always sleep when i hear someone talking about all this nonsense. Bottom line, how to study, for what purpose to study, only you yourself can find an answer. There's no universal one.
So, that was probably all the bad stuff i can say about.. which is alot actually but i just chose to shorten it. Oh yea, there was one more.. COCKROACHES! must say it was pretty pretty huge like maybe 6 to 10 cm!and there were like 10 of it in my friend's room. summore, that guy got the balls to stomp them with his smelly shoes.. such cruelty....
Anyways, on the the good part, planes, boats and dirt! see, one aspect of the course was t build a model palne that could fly.. it flew but we didnt win, sad to say but really, it was fun. We noticed that all the physics knowledge we tried to apply was just a waste! next was kayaking! i was the only one using a single seater one( so proud of myself!) haha, but was really tiring and being my first time paddling it, it was pretty tough. was fun though, goin round and round and round..so next, on to dirt n mud! was more like a scolding actually cos some od us didnt wear the required shirts during the 2nd day , so the 3rd day some guy were scolding us and sent us to a mud filled beach. It was great! very cold and sticky and mushy, like clay:) OH ,about the beach.. it was like 20 mins away:P
That was it? about so.. we did do a presentation which i was very proud of my group! semi matrix style drama.. was abit messy though. not enough time to practice(excuses..)
so that's it i guess.. cya soon...

Destiny

Here's my review on Gundam Seed: Destiny though it's not complete yet.
Well, genreally it's about an ultimate evil guy with plans to create a world, where everyone is born with a destiny, much like gatacca if u;ve watched the movie. This is done through alterations of genes. So, the good guys will go and stop them? Yea, it's pretty that much straight forward.
However, the way the story's told non-linearly, which makes it quite interesting. It starts off with the Zaft camp, with Shinn Asuka as the main character. Azuran's around too but Kira is barely to be seen. In fact, he doesnt even fight until eps 25? For those who didn't watch Gundam Seed, Shin might be considered as the protagonist here but i still think Kira's the one. The antagonist is Dunnidal, Zaft's Chairman, yet again..( BIG SPOILER here..)So, Shinn and Azuran( for quite a while) are being manipulated by the chairman. And there's Rey, another Fraga clone or something. Oh, Fraga's still alive!( big big spoiler...) but he's like got amnesia and is on the Earth side fighting the war. Any other spoilers?:P
Now, to my thoughts about this series. First and foremost, the mechs, gundams. I'm pretty impressed. The Zaku's look awesome and there are so many versions and customizable ones. Lunamaria's is pretty cool. The Gundams though, are like recycled stuff from the 1st season. so Strike's still there.. rouge strike actually. and impulse is awfully similar to it too. strike freedom is freedom + strike. infinite justice is justice.. legend is like providence .. destiny.. well, reminds me abit of shinning gundam from cant remember wat series d. the coolest thing maybe be destroyer, a giant mobile suit.. and maybe akatsuki( red moon) belonging to cagalli then fraga. It's golden though:P
Characters, next. All from the last season are still around. New ones are like dunnidal, rey, shinn and lunamaria. All of them have a depth and they're quite complex, which makes things interesting. Cagalli faces her toughest challenge as representative of Orb while Kira and Azuran have doubts about the war and what they're actually doing. The strongest character is still Lacus. She's the one that keeps the group together and she's actually quite touching.
I would say the themes potrayed in this series is probably their selling point. As from the last season, war is the major theme. The series is trying to prove that there aren't any good or bad sides in war.everything is bad. war ain't black and white and they're lots of grey points. This was strongly potrayed in the series, even though i doubt kids might understand it.( maybe adults too) Maybe parents should watch this with their kids and educate them. Think it'll really be helpful.
Running out of time to write . So i'll conclude. Give it an 8.5 rating. Sorry btw, for not posting anything in such a long time:P Cheers!