There is Blood in this Diamond!
6th June 2007, Wednesday
My thighs are screaming in pain after an overdose of lactic acid accumulating after last evening IPT session when the PTI put us through endless jumping regimes to get our leg muscles seasoned for standing broad jump...
But to this day, what would actually be the use of all the items in an IPPT which is not a true gauge of a person's fitness...
However in "Letters from Iwojima", the character played by Arashi's Ninomiya Kazunari, Private Saigo certainly bore the attributes of a soldier that made use of the IPPT techniques to elude from the American forces from the front-line at Mt. Suribachi into the final defense within the caverns where General Kuribayashi (reprise by the brilliant Watanabe Ken) plot his ultimate strategy against the much stronger American Marines....
Although it took a lot of sheer luck, Saigo jumped, ran, sped and toiled through the tough terrains of Iwo Jime, while American bullets rained and killed many of his comrades while his mind was to stayed alive to meet his wife and baby girl back home...
In such a tragic times of war which director Clint Eastwood accurately depicting the pain the Imperial soldiers of Japan were feeling, fighting a war deemed to lose before it began, illustrating that despite been viewed as "the bad guys" in the Asia Pacific for the atrocities they had commited, they were after all merely following orders they had committed to their empire and their emperor.
There were many unwilling souls like Saigo and Shizumu who were pulled into the battle against their will when the former would just be contended in his bakery trade...
I am not a strong advocate for war movies but I truly enjoyed this complimentary feature to Eastwood's previous film, "Flags of our Fathers" which seems a bit less appealiing...
Then again it could be the strong allegiance to Japan in my blood...
Anyway a pun I just thought of today with my elementary knowledge of the Japan language... Saigo also means "last" in Japanese, thus perhaps a strong indication that Ninomiya's character would be the final survivor in the war...
Beautiness' return from his ICT with a bit of glee and alot of flashiness...
He is into ear studs recently and went to had his left ear pierced to accommodate a costly titanium studded with a diamond...
Of course as of many renowned homosexual men (such as Ian McKellen and Elton John), the natural choice to signal his sexual orientation would be the right ear but perhaps he is still holding back inside, unlike the postulated idea that he is prepared to come out of the shell...
Actually BY's suggestion to have both ears pierced for various occasions seemed logical, then of course he had spent a good 1.5K on his diamond stud, I doubt he wanna top up much more to make it a pair...
Diamonds had become a best friend to women, metrosexual men and now gays and a novelty item to show off your wealth, status and perhaps taste...
However in "Blood Diamond", we were taught that before the Kimberley Process was imposed in 2003 to curb diamonds from African nations to be used as liquid assets to fund rebel groups or guerillas, the diamonds we had in the market may actually be smeared with blood of millions of innocent souls as a civil war as seen in the movie based within Sierra Leone could break families up and turning children into unwilling soldiers..
The movie was laced with action sequence that led the adrenaline pumping as the diamond hunter played by Leo di Caprio, Danny Archer took all means to retrieve a precious pink diamond found by a Mende tribesman, Solomon, putting themselves in grave danger from a South African military force which Danny was last based and RUF, a ruthless local rebel group who both wanted the stone for themselves...
However the story which narrate the woes of the African countries despite the various adversities they are well known to be facing that got me really into the film...
Then again how can you not, well you see Jennifer Connelly, still so hot after all these years as the photo-journalist, Maddy Bowen who is the hand to push to unveil the torrid diamond trade as well as the supposed love interest to Leo's Archer... After all the years with David Bowie in "Labyrinth" and in "Rocketeer", Connelly seems to age like wine and surely one of my favorite Hollywood actress...
Another commendable feature would be that Leonardo can really act and no wonder he was nominated as the best actor for this role in the 2007 Academy Awards together with his role in "The Departed" which isn't that fantastic (even after all the F words)...
He can really displayed that intensity of a seasoned diamond hunter always prepared for the worst and after so may great films, he has really progressed much from the boy from "Growing Pains" and showed that pretty boys can actually act unlike others (i.e. Brad, Keanu etc)
After the show it seems like the best excuse ever not to adorned my missus with costly carbon structures (which if you twisted the molecular structure you will get nothing but coal)...
"Cannot buy that diamond, imagine if it is not conflict-fee..."
Finally if I ever find out that stud Beautiness will be eager to display soon happens to from such source, I will surely spit on him...then again I am always ready to spit on him...
My thighs are screaming in pain after an overdose of lactic acid accumulating after last evening IPT session when the PTI put us through endless jumping regimes to get our leg muscles seasoned for standing broad jump...
But to this day, what would actually be the use of all the items in an IPPT which is not a true gauge of a person's fitness...
However in "Letters from Iwojima", the character played by Arashi's Ninomiya Kazunari, Private Saigo certainly bore the attributes of a soldier that made use of the IPPT techniques to elude from the American forces from the front-line at Mt. Suribachi into the final defense within the caverns where General Kuribayashi (reprise by the brilliant Watanabe Ken) plot his ultimate strategy against the much stronger American Marines....
Although it took a lot of sheer luck, Saigo jumped, ran, sped and toiled through the tough terrains of Iwo Jime, while American bullets rained and killed many of his comrades while his mind was to stayed alive to meet his wife and baby girl back home...
In such a tragic times of war which director Clint Eastwood accurately depicting the pain the Imperial soldiers of Japan were feeling, fighting a war deemed to lose before it began, illustrating that despite been viewed as "the bad guys" in the Asia Pacific for the atrocities they had commited, they were after all merely following orders they had committed to their empire and their emperor.
There were many unwilling souls like Saigo and Shizumu who were pulled into the battle against their will when the former would just be contended in his bakery trade...
I am not a strong advocate for war movies but I truly enjoyed this complimentary feature to Eastwood's previous film, "Flags of our Fathers" which seems a bit less appealiing...
Then again it could be the strong allegiance to Japan in my blood...
Anyway a pun I just thought of today with my elementary knowledge of the Japan language... Saigo also means "last" in Japanese, thus perhaps a strong indication that Ninomiya's character would be the final survivor in the war...
Beautiness' return from his ICT with a bit of glee and alot of flashiness...
He is into ear studs recently and went to had his left ear pierced to accommodate a costly titanium studded with a diamond...
Of course as of many renowned homosexual men (such as Ian McKellen and Elton John), the natural choice to signal his sexual orientation would be the right ear but perhaps he is still holding back inside, unlike the postulated idea that he is prepared to come out of the shell...
Actually BY's suggestion to have both ears pierced for various occasions seemed logical, then of course he had spent a good 1.5K on his diamond stud, I doubt he wanna top up much more to make it a pair...
Diamonds had become a best friend to women, metrosexual men and now gays and a novelty item to show off your wealth, status and perhaps taste...
However in "Blood Diamond", we were taught that before the Kimberley Process was imposed in 2003 to curb diamonds from African nations to be used as liquid assets to fund rebel groups or guerillas, the diamonds we had in the market may actually be smeared with blood of millions of innocent souls as a civil war as seen in the movie based within Sierra Leone could break families up and turning children into unwilling soldiers..
The movie was laced with action sequence that led the adrenaline pumping as the diamond hunter played by Leo di Caprio, Danny Archer took all means to retrieve a precious pink diamond found by a Mende tribesman, Solomon, putting themselves in grave danger from a South African military force which Danny was last based and RUF, a ruthless local rebel group who both wanted the stone for themselves...
However the story which narrate the woes of the African countries despite the various adversities they are well known to be facing that got me really into the film...
Then again how can you not, well you see Jennifer Connelly, still so hot after all these years as the photo-journalist, Maddy Bowen who is the hand to push to unveil the torrid diamond trade as well as the supposed love interest to Leo's Archer... After all the years with David Bowie in "Labyrinth" and in "Rocketeer", Connelly seems to age like wine and surely one of my favorite Hollywood actress...
Another commendable feature would be that Leonardo can really act and no wonder he was nominated as the best actor for this role in the 2007 Academy Awards together with his role in "The Departed" which isn't that fantastic (even after all the F words)...
He can really displayed that intensity of a seasoned diamond hunter always prepared for the worst and after so may great films, he has really progressed much from the boy from "Growing Pains" and showed that pretty boys can actually act unlike others (i.e. Brad, Keanu etc)
After the show it seems like the best excuse ever not to adorned my missus with costly carbon structures (which if you twisted the molecular structure you will get nothing but coal)...
"Cannot buy that diamond, imagine if it is not conflict-fee..."
Finally if I ever find out that stud Beautiness will be eager to display soon happens to from such source, I will surely spit on him...then again I am always ready to spit on him...
Japanese word of the day: 弾丸(Bullets) The grand toll of empty cartridges found after the 2 above-mentioned movies came up to 179545434335357464 plus 2 mortars found on Nakamura Shidou
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