All About Cartoon Characters

Got a challenge from JieJie to write this...
Challenge accepted but not sure what is the main content
to write though but here it is.

As a young kid, we watch them and usually don't understand a single thing what's happening on screen, and it sometimes just is plain funny (Even if its supposed to be sad, as a kid, it will still be funny).but as you grow older, you begin to catch the story, the illogical ideas or the sometimes the "subtle messages" that we didn't get as a kid. As an adult, we sometimes see how these characters look a lot like us, and sometimes too much like reality. It really could relate sometimes. 

The first thing to wonder:- Is it about the characters of cartoon or the characters of a cartoon?

Or say, the cartoon characters are all about, where the sentence being rephrased as "All About, Cartoon Characters." To explain the character of a cartoon is fairly simple, a film / clip which is a 2d hand-drawn with significant exaggerated expression and body language which is usually funny. 3d based films are no longer considered cartoons but are animations. Meanwhile, the characters of cartoons? Even more simple, some of the more popular characters includes (and my personal comments):- 

Spongebob Squarepants

Really a yellow sponge underwater, which 

can still water plants underwater? 

Bugs Bunny

The rabbit who's sole job is to terrorize others and

maybe has visited the doctor too often. 

Doraemon

A blue robot cat? (Does he come in other colours?) I mean, blue?

Why can't he be yellow like Dorami? Looks weird as below, irradiations?

Donald Duck

A duck that doesn't wear any pants.

Although this, this is one of the characters which I still like until now

Goofy and Pluto

Wonder if Pluto is the mentally challenged equivalent in the cartoons.

Compared to the other animals, he's the only one considered to be a pet.

Transformers (Jie, you asked me and I had to include it)

These guys are the craze in the 80s. I didn't understand the story back then

and all I could remember was:- "Autobots, let's roll!"

Chilly Willy

I only saw him once but the impression was huge.

A penguin with a big appetite.

Ah..those were the days. But generally, these 2d cartoon characters trumps over their 3d counterparts due to the fluidity of the animation made. 3d cartoons does seem nice, but it is for one thing, too real. I might as well watch a costume show or movie if I ever wanted it to be realistic. Excuse me while I go find some downloads to satisfy the kid in me..

Arigatou Gozaimasu

Been meaning to post this for sometime now but procrastination has been pulling me back. Japan has been fascinating to me since I was young, maybe due to the fact that it was expensive back then and we rarely traveled anywhere for holiday, but it is one of the places which I've wanted to visit.


Our first accommodation, First Cabin at Haneda Airport.
It was pretty small and I didn't sleep much. Slept at 12am and
woke up at 4am.














The first item I bought in Japan is this chocolate biscuit which I had
for breakfast. The taste was ok, but it totally reminded me that
I'm in Japan from the vending machine I bought it from.

Had nothing to do due to unable to sleep and took this video of the "cabin"

Had free time the next day, and so, we visited Shinjuku, Shibuya and Akihabara.
Akihabara was a great place for me. Lots of electronics, figures, dvds. Didn't take
much photos of the other places though. Was in a working mood, didn't thought
of the places, which was a waste.


Big Celine Dion poster at Akihabara



Streets in Akihabara

This video reminds me of the sights and sounds of Akihabara and to me is the
definitive video of the trip to Japan. The atmosphere is clearly heard and displayed.

Trains in Japan are pretty much similar, but I noticed one of the more prominent
sounds is the squeaking of the trains due to age?




With a price tag of almost RM150 per night, Toyoko-Inn
Souka-eki NIshi-guchi (eki = Station, Nishi = West, Guchi = Exit)
is a pretty nice place to live in. The rooms were quite spacious
with a soft bed. Its pretty far from Akihabara though but good
for the adventurous which likes to explore the outskirts of the city.



Our original intention in Japan was to visit the laboratories to see
their capabilities to compare with the local laboratories for building
products. Throughout the trip in Soka we had the pretty Satomi Hoshi as
the translator (far right).




Plastic food display do look nice but we didn't eat the actual food in
respect to the Muslim lecturers which I accompanied in this trip.


Besides Soka, we went also to Osaka, using the high speed
bullet train Nozomi N700. Its a bit pricey, with RM500 for the ticket
from Tokyo to Osaka. At 2 hours for a 500+ km distance, it
really is fast though. There are other options, slower trains
but cheaper tickets. But since we hadn't too much time to spare
we took the fastest available.


This cost me 1000 Yen which is about RM30++.
Its a bento box with fish, caviar and mushrooms.
Kinda salty though with the caviar. The original intention
was to buy this because the box looks nice and I thought
maybe to keep it as a souvenir. But heck, the box is made
of plastic with a paper bottom.


One of the last photos of the box which I had to throw.
Sad that it cannot be kept.



Forgot the name of the hotel at Osaka but the room is pretty small.
Costs more than the one in Soka but with smaller rooms. There;s no wifi
at the rooms either.

We visited a number of places which can be categorized into two:

being sight-seeing and shopping. For shopping we went Shinsaibashi and

Namba while for sight seeing, we went to the Osaka Castle park and

Umeda Sky Building.

Osaka Castle Park video

Eating to Live or Living to Eat

This video made me think. Are we eating to live or are we living to eat.

La surconsommation

Treatment to Insensitive People

Recently, I've read a post by Felis-domestica-licious here that mentions on friends that the she would unfriend on Facebook. What caught my attention was this:-

*update*

This case no. 3 bests all cases: a university friend died in a workplace accident. Friends offered condolences on FB. One persistent agent wrote something like: this is the outcome of not having sufficient insurance coverage: your loved ones suffer when mishaps befall you.  Contact me to review your insurance policy.

Unfriend! There’s no other way!

How much more insensitive can a person be? A person died and all she (the post was made by a she, a friend to felis-domestica-licious) knew was to advertise her services? Did she mean she could defeat Death with her insurance policy? With this in mind, when anything happened to the FB persona, I suggested to felis to advertise the following:-