Christ’s Blog (beta-max)

Lately I was interested in printing my own pictures. Those pictures I took, watched once and forgot^_^.
So i thought it might be neat to print most of them and pin them all arround my bedroom
There are none of them right now but I’ll work on it

My first picture here in my blog.

Basically, this is my computer-wallpaper for years now.
Yes it is a black and white pictures. I guess you understood now that I like b&w pictures more than colored one ;).
Plus a b&w picture as a wallpaper is neater since winXP has a color frame. It just created like a contrast. Since then, I cannot use a color wallpaper anymore

I took this picture in Saigon, Vietnam in September 2001. My first time there since 1992 (my real first time and last time since though).
You have to know that Saigon has 11 districts (I’m not sure). The “heart” of Saigon, the 1st district (my second home :D) has many “buildings” (not so high but at least it is “modern” buildings). From the first district, you can take the ferry to accross the Saigon river to reach Thu tiem peninsula. And ….. oh my !!!!
You just leave a “modern” world for a country side. But both are just separated by one river and a 2 minutes long ferry trip !! A such contrast was really amazing !!
Crowded, noisy, stinky (motorcycles smoke) but “clean” in a side and almost desert, silent, “fresh air” and dirty (durst) the other side. The people are also different.

camera : an unknown Nikon FM3 (not mine) + Nikon Ais f:1.8 / 50mm
film : kodak T-Max 400 developped with kodak T-Max chimical
scan : an old Epson film scanner GT-2000 (or so) ; works only under W98 !!!

another japanese drama ^_^ (12 episodes + 2 specials)

It is also from an anime / manga. The drama was first aired in 2002 on the nippon television.

What is the story about ?

Kumiko Yamaguchi is a new teacher in xxxx high school (too hard to remember japanese name lol). As in GTO, Kumiko will be in charged of the class that none other teacher wanted. The worse of the school, the 3-D class.
Contrary to GTO, Onizuka’s students look fine. Here, Kumiko’s students are delinquents. Long hair, blond-colored haired, “dirty”, ……. they look like real bad guys.

Kumiko’s first step in the 3-D class :

It sounds to be a very funny drama like GTO was. Maybe it should be better. I’ll tell you later

As Onizuka sensei, Kumiko do not accept the fact that her students are considered as wastes. She is ready to defend and protect them. She is also ready to get into fight for them.

How a “tiny” teacher like Kumiko can fight for those delinquents ?

haha that is the funny part lol ; When I first watched the first episode, I didn’t really know about the story except the fact that Gokusen is a “GTO female like”.

Here is Kumiko (red suit) the first day when she was introduced to her students during a short celebration. The girl on her left is a new teacher too. As you can see, she (not Kumiko) looks “hotter”.

Of course, during their presentation and their short speech in front of their audience (students), Kumiko’s colleague was applaused while Kumiko was ……………. at that moment if the students had eggs or tomatoes, ……………

(maybe you have noticed it, she is also the crazy girl in You’re under arrest !)

Kumiko is not really attractive ugh ? hahaha

But she is soooooo cute lol

in fact, she is a “two face” girl . You know like Clark/Superman. He takes off his glasses and he is someone else. But in Clark you can easily recognize Superman and vice versa.
But with Kumiko it is kinda different lol
In her sport wear and sneakers, she is not really attractive. At school with her small and friendly voice, she is not really respected by her students and even her kyoto (principal).
In the first episode, after her first day class, she is on the way back to her place. Arround her place, it seems like everybody knows her and is very popular ; on her path, anyone salute her. Those 30sec is a huge contraste to the Kumiko from school.
Then she started to untied her hair and when she went through her gate, she took off her glasses.

It seemed to me that it was two different actresses ; I had to backward a couple of time before to admit that both Kumiko were the same hahaha

For your pleasure …. and mine another screen from the generic.

The thing is that Kumiko has been raised by her grand father after her parents lost. Her grand father is ………. a chief of the third generation of xxxxx (couldn’t remember the name again family. In some others words, she is from a Yakuza family hahaha

Once more, a must be seen drama.

You can get the seven first episode here (#SARS fansub page).
The japanese DVD set box do not have english sub :’(

(Screens are from the 10 first minutes of the first episode)