I've just discovered that Apple is finally going to release a long awaited superportable computer called Mackbook Air. When I first saw a picture of it before knowing what it was and immediately guessed that it was made by Apple (the design is too obvious), but thought that it was just a concept. I was actually quite surprised to find out how slim it actually is, and predicted that it would have very bad specs. I was surprised to find that it could have a 1.8 Ghz Core Duo and 2GB of RAM, but even more amazed by the graphics card. How the hell did they fit it in? Anyways I'm quite scared that it will overheat like crazy if used over long periods of time. And of course there's no disk drive. Plugging in a disk drive through the USB port is a pain, and since there is only one of them that will mean removing my external harddrive... But I need a disk drive to watch DVD's! Especially on such a nice screen (the full size keyboard is also a very nice touch)! I'd have to see it in real to make my decision on whether it's worth it or not however, also because it is quite expensive for what it does.

Well otherwise there's still the usual ramblings about school, which prevents me from being here often or even playing video games. In the end I find that I spend most of my time on messenger talking to friends... As always I've been taking pictures, writing stories, and drawing stuff (although I draw so badly it's embarassing). I've also been watching Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo (anime series for those who don't have a clue what I'm talking about). I really got addicted to them, and I also got a few friends of mine addicted too. If anyone remotely likes anime then you must watch them. I've also been reading short stories by Akutagawa (such as "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove", which were made into a movie by the famous film director Akira Kurosawa) to complement my Japanese studies, although I read the stories in English (I'm nowhere near good enough to read them in Japanese). Again highly recommended, as well as all the Kurosawa movies if you're willing to watch anything slightly more challenging than the usual Hollywood blockbuster movies. They're mostly samurai films although some are also set in modern Japan, but arguably the most interesting ones are Kurosawa's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays: King Lear as "Ran" and Macbeth as "Throne of Blood". Watch out for the movies featuring Toshiro Mifune, he's an incredible actor. Oh and "Seven Samurai" is probably Kurosawa's best film.

Wow, that was probably one of my longest blog posts... I would like to give special thanks to MaDNuGgU for his great list of rock artists he would recommend, quite impressive, although you missed out two obvious bands: ACDC and Led Zeppelin. Where those ommisions due to the fact that you don't like them or is it that you haven't listened to their songs? Anyways thanks. You're all probably either really bored by now or just not reading this at all. Just to see if anyone actually read this to the end could you add a dollar sign ($) at the beginning of you comment to show you have? I will show my appreciation (possibly by reading your blog posts fully and commenting...)

That's all folks!