beingbeaple

Friends, I have just finished watching the entire series of the almighty Gundam SEED.
Since Thursday last week, I have been making sacrifices - like waking up at ungodly hours
in the morning - just to be able to watch the 25-CD installment borrowed from my future
second-degree-cousin-in-law Roxanne. I am now way behind my work, and I will, without a
doubt, running around again tomorrow to arrange all my unsettled affairs. Still, I do not
regret what I have done; I do not regret risking time and effort just to witness a little
war anime. It was all worth it.

Here are some of the quotes I’ve gathered from the show:

What the hell can you protect if your feelings are the only weapons you’ve got?
I’m not defined by my abilities alone.
- Kira Yamato
(It’s heart-wrenching to see a guy cry!)

What is it one should be fighting against?
- Lacus Clyne
(I used to think she was a D.I.D. until…)

The hardest battle is to keep living.
- Cagalli Attha
(How do you spell that name, anyway?)

People only understand what they’ve experienced.
- Rau Le Creuset
(One of the few sensible ideas he’s ever had.)

I’m going to review this show in my profile soon so I won’t elaborate about it here.
I will, however, say that it is quite an excellent creation; kudos to all those who have
contributed something to make this anime as wonderful as it is.

Okay, I take it back. SEED is anything but wonderful. I mean, it’s amazing all right, but
it’s not exactly wholesome. In every episode, there’s always chaos and casualties; it is a
biological-war show, after all. It can make you cry, scream in frustration, clutch your
chest as though your life depended on it, and disobey your parents just to be able to watch
the thing through your laptop’s Media Player. Seriously. It can drive one nuts.

I love it very much.

Those who have seen it on Cartoon Network say there’s a sequel coming up - Destiny.
Well, I really must get my hands on that thing. Although I can’t, for the life of me,
figure out who they’re going to be fighting against. Patrick Zala, Le Creuset, and Azrael
all snuffed it (Oopsies, spoilers weren’t those?) so what new idiot could the story writers
have in mind?

Sigh. I really must move on to more pressing topics.

As I type, there is a seminar on Human Sexuality being conducted in school. It’s a shame
I’m not there to participate for I reall do love joining talks like that. Besides, the
topic is interesting - it would be hypocritical of me to say I don’t find it curious.
Basically, I’ve already been told of all those things discussed earlier. I will acknowledge
that I’ve never heard of the bad effects of contraceptives like birth pills and IUD (which
are downright sickening). So yeah, just the same stuff about abstinence and the evils of
society, abortion being (arguably) the most heinous of them all.

If Sister Ann were here, she would ask me what struck me most about the talk. If she would,
I’d say I was struck by the topic brought up by that lady in white who facilitated one of
the segments. She was saying that her mother had Alzheimer’s, her dad has cancer, and among
all the seven children in her family, she was the only one who took care of the two. It was
really quite sad that by the middle of it, I was reduced to tears. (Then again, I always
cry, even for the simple reason of some people getting blown up by the vermin Azrael.) She
was saying that while we, the students, still had the chance to tell our parents how much
we love them, we should.

Coincidentally, today is my parents’ 18th year anniversary, which is chiefly why I’m out of
school in the first place. But seriously, I’d rather be here to celebrate with my family
than be in school watching two certain people bridge gaps. Harsh as it may sound, that is
how I feel.

And for those who don’t understand, don’t you worry. You’re not the only ones.

I don’t really understand either.

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