{"id":136,"date":"2006-09-27T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2006\/09\/27\/post-403-nankurunaisa\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T22:39:53","slug":"post-403-nankurunaisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/09\/27\/post-403-nankurunaisa\/","title":{"rendered":"post 403 ~ nankurunaisa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"110\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk07h.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk07h_th.jpg?w=545\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk07i.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk07i_th.jpg?w=545\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk07j.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk07j_th.jpg?w=545\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><br \/>\n&#8220;saya &amp; hagi&#8221; from BLOOD+<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>post 403<\/b> ~ some random japanese and filipino stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>BLOOD+<\/b> ~ i finished watching this anime a couple days ago&#8230; but last night, after burning\/archiving the last two episodes 49 and 50 of &#8220;BLOOD+&#8221; onto disc, i tested them on the big TV like i always do, but then i let myself be transported back to its world by watching parts of them again&#8230; such a tearful yet hopeful conclusion&#8230;\n<p>in fact, the entire 50-episode series was such an utterly well-crafted and sublime anime, visually, musically, emotionally&#8230; so much so that it has become my #1 anime, even above &#8220;ghost in the shell&#8221; and &#8220;wolf&#8217;s rain&#8221;&#8230; and as its overall idea, nankurunaisa! (everything will work out in the end!)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>visit to my old job<\/b> ~ yesterday, before work, chatted with vanessa&#8230; how she&#8217;s still swamped as always, still looking for another job, and how the others are depressed as their boss piles more work onto them&#8230; so i decided to visit and maybe cheer them up, despite her &#8220;warning&#8221; that it wasn&#8217;t worth the trip, LOL&#8230;\n<p>well, i did, got there at about 10:30am, and the cramped old office has hardly changed, hahaha&#8230; kiyomi and don were still there, the main developers who&#8217;ve been there since before i started there 3 years ago&#8230; plus even more wires, cables and instruments growing on their cubicles!<\/p>\n<p>hahaha, tried out my japanese with kiyomi&#8230; she asked how, and i said tons of anime!&#8230; &#8220;tadaima&#8221; (i&#8217;m back!), &#8220;baka&#8221; (idiot, fool), &#8220;itadakimasu&#8221; (i will receive! said before meals) and &#8220;itekimasu&#8221; (i&#8217;m leaving, i&#8217;m off!) and &#8220;ja ne&#8221; (see you later!)&#8230; so that was fun&#8230; talked with the others, how things were going, met the new tech writer (another new one!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>when vanessa finally off the phone, we chatted about the upcoming birthday for her soon-6-yr-old son tristan&#8230; showed her the ZipZaps radio-controlled matchbox car i was thinking of giving, but she said there were too many parts! and it would quickly get broken! haha&#8230; so she suggested a DVD like &#8220;curious george&#8221; or &#8220;cars&#8221; or &#8220;ice age&#8221; or something with dinosaurs or astronomy&#8230; typical smart kid!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>i also pointed out how the others were smiling, didn&#8217;t seem depressed, but she said they weren&#8217;t trying to be, but you could tell in general&#8230; talked about the filipino food planned for the party: &#8220;lumpia&#8221; (kinda like mini egg rolls), &#8220;adobo&#8221; (like a chicken stew\/gumbo), but LOL, no &#8220;balut&#8221; (cooked duck embryo still in its eggshell) which i loved as a kid&#8230; lastly, i offered to help with any document-related stuff, she could email the office guidelines draft to me if she needed to&#8230; and sadly, at about 11:30am, it was time for me to go to work, lol&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>nankurunaisa!<\/b> ~ i&#8217;ve told vanessa and morgaine how some things seem to be a battle of &#8220;guilt&#8221; versus &#8220;regret&#8221;&#8230; the &#8220;guilt&#8221; of NOT doing enough for others&#8230; and the &#8220;regret&#8221; of NOT doing the things you want for yourself&#8230; sometimes you can&#8217;t let family or friends or bosses or coworkers or others become too much of a responsibility that you feel so guilty not doing things for them&#8230; sometimes you gotta live for yourself&#8230;\n<p>yeah, easier said than done, but &#8220;regret over oneself&#8221; can be much WORSE than the &#8220;guilt over others&#8221;&#8230; the key idea is: can you TRUST others to be able to take care of themselves? without having to look over their shoulder?&#8230; if you can, then you can smile more easily and happily in life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nankurunaisa!&#8230; everything will work out in the end!\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>p.s. the &#8220;unfair&#8221; issue at LasVegasOtaku.org has also been straightened out&#8230; just a simple matter of word choice and individual differences in etiquette&#8230;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;saya &amp; hagi&#8221; from BLOOD+ post 403 ~ some random japanese and filipino stuff&#8230; BLOOD+ ~ i finished watching this anime a couple days ago&#8230; but last night, after burning\/archiving the last two episodes 49 and 50 of &#8220;BLOOD+&#8221; onto disc, i tested them on the big TV like i always do, but then i &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/09\/27\/post-403-nankurunaisa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[44,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7rIwb-2c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":286,"url":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/06\/05\/blog-076-black-red-blooded\/","url_meta":{"origin":136,"position":0},"title":"Blog 076 &gt; Black &#038; Red Blooded","author":"xjaymanx","date":"June 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jirou from Black Blood Brothers (2006) +++ Black Blood Brothers (1-12) - Restarted 05\/06. 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