good day, sir

much to my own surprise, this week has been a great week.

ch.357 "cutty flam" came out, and now can be downloaded from the forum. truly an emotional flashback chapter. this is another one that brought tears to my eyes since chopper's flashback. franky has undergone some serious character development, and is now qualified to be classified as one of the well-established character. if anyone's going to join as the shipwright, it's going to be him. kalei-chan must be very happy if franky joins, because otherwise she'll be eating her hat. ^_^

here's the badass moment of the week:







and here's the scene that made me cry.





here's a translation of the dialogue, courtesy of oceanizer from kefi.org.

"stop, puffing tom!! [name of train]"
"where are you gonna take the man that gave birth to you?!"
"tom-san..."
"i don't want to build anymore ships..."
"because i cannot love ships that hurt the people that i truly love..."
"but tom-san,"
"my dream is to be like you..."
"so i want you to come back and teach me again!!"
"one day..."
"i want to be able to build a 'dream ship' too"
"one that can overcome"
"the unknown waves at the end of the world with pride..!!"

come on now, franky's got the guts there. he sumo-wrestled the umi-ressha just because she's taking tom, the man who built her, to enias lobby where he's going to be executed. o the irony...

kristin called yesterday to ask if i want to get golden spoon with her. i'm giving up eating out for lent, but when a cute girl called and asked you at 9.45pm, you don't think twice. oh the lure of the darkside. she ended up keeping me companied while i buy groceries. so thanks to her for providing the incentives, now i have eggs and lettuce to eat.

aside from that, for the first time in nine weeks i got my homework done early, and that already included procrastination. 100b and 132a hw were done since wednesday, and today four out of five 105b hw were completed in 10 hours. amazing. that's our new record. usually it takes about 6-8 hours to do a problem.

so one problem left for tomorrow. get that shit done early, then go home and start my friday.

good week, good week.