Sunday, February 15, 2009

awuu~ another week in paradise.
hi folks. its been another week here in Darke Land, and not much is up, to be honest.


i guess the big news of this week is that we've hired some more staff for the store where i work. and, much to the delight of the male staff (which is pretty much everyone who works there) we've hired some female-type people! ;p seriously though, we only had two females on the rota. one would only work weekends, and the other would do one day a week. the rest of our approx twety-strong staff are male. its gets to you after a while, im just sayin'...

anyhoo, we hired four new girls. Anna, Catherine, Angela and Ana. Catherine is from Scotland, and she'll only be working saturdays. shes a pretty nice girl. Angela is from Canadia (i know i spelt it wrong, its a joke) and will be working almost full time. I havent really met Ana yet, i think she's from spain and will be working part time.

and Anna did the induction day and decided she wasnt "passionate enough for the job" and has quit already. which is a new record for us. shortest duration of employment ever. of course, everyone knows that "not passionate enough" equates to "this job is f***ing boring", which is fair enough.


so yah....newbies! and apparently we're going to be losing more people soon, which might mean MORE new peeps. we shall see.


I was having a bad day earlier this week. i woke up late, missed the train, had to get the next one and transfer at London Bridge station, got on the WRONG train and ended up at Blackfriars station instead of Charing Cross (my usual stop). fortunatly Blackfriars is on the District and Circle Line of the London Underground network, so i caught a Tube (metro/subway train) to where i was supposed to be, and then walked the rest of the way to work. i was about half an hour late.

i went out at lunch to buy the latest volume of the Black Lagoon manga series, and ended up buying three Gundam models as well. ^^;;; which is always good, but i had never really intended to buy these models in the first place... i suck. ^^;;;; still, Gundams work wonders for bad moods. XD

so yeah...been a not great week for me. it actually snowed that night as well, making the trip home difficult. fortunatly it didnt settle.

i've been re-reading the manga series "JUNK" this week, and its reignited my old flame for Transforming Super Heroes (along the lines of Power Rangers etc)
Junk itself is a pretty interesting twist on the "superhero" genre. a kid gets sent what basically amounts to a power suit and gets told he can do whatever he wants with it, so long as he submits data reports on the suits performance. Long story short, he goes on a selfish rampage in the first three or four volumes, but through his interactions of people he knows and people he meets, like another JUNK suit user, he undergoes a personal transformation, and ultimately becomes a better person. There are no real "enemies" to fight, that is to say, no "evil" presence in the book. no monsters or aliens or whatever. so the enemies that the tituar "last hero" has to face are the ones that block his path. who can be considered "good" people, depending on your perspective.

The manga strives to point out that the JUNK users arent "super-humans" but rather just regular Humans; that the JUNK suits really are nothing more than a metaphor than the shells people build around themselves to shut out the outside world, to shut out reality. and the true transformation here is not from Human to Super Human, but from your enclosed shut-off self into a self that is open and interacts as a part of society, someone who understands the world and their place in it. or something like that.

its a pretty good manga. its not my favourite style of art, but its clean and the visuals are pretty spectacular.



staying on the subject of super-heroes, i've taken to watching the new Kamen Rider series on youtube, Kamen Rider Decade. its still the sorta corny superhero show like power rangers was, but i like it. i mean, hey, my entire YOUTH was all about the Power Rangers, even if it was mostly rehashed footage of the original Japanese shows. Let's face it...who wouldn't want that kind of power? (especially when you're a kid...Power Rangers was pretty much the coolest thing in my life)

and maintaining the super hero theme one last time here, has anyone ever heard of the World SuperHero Registry? it can be found here:

http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/world_superhero_registry_gallery.htm

its basically a list of active Real Life Super Heroes in the world today. these guys might not have special powers, but in their respective cities and towns, they are striving to make the world a better place. again, a little bit corny, and if you read some of their blogs, you might think they're a few notes short of a full symphony, but in a way they're doing what they think is right. and hey, i personally think some places could do with a few more of these guys.



so thats my two cents on superheroes for this week. ^^


i got noting else for ya. hope y'all had a great weekend.


till next time!





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