Japanese Anime and Manga

Konichiwa!!!!!
Genki desu ka??!

Hi everybody!!!

Today i will talk about Japanese anime or cartoon, and manga or comics. Japanese anime and manga are very popular for the teenagers. There are some anime and manga that i really like. Some of them are not really new but they are very good.

1. Death Note
I watched the DeathNote anime and it was really cool. The story tells about notebooks of Shinigami (death god) and it is used to kill people. One day, a guy named Light found it and he started to kill criminals using that notebook. To kill people using that book, you just have to write theire fuul name and imagine their face so you won't target the wrong people with the same name with your target. You can also set the time and arrege the way hoiw your target will die. If you don't write any specification of the death, the target will suddenly die in 40 seconds by the heart attack. Light use the name Kira and tell everybody that he will save the world from criminality. But, it has been going to far. Fortunately there is a person called L fighting Kira and he work together with the police including Light's father because his father one of the polices that are in L side to defeat Kira. L is a very smart boy and very mysteriousl. But after all his struggle with Kira, he dies. Kira kill him by asking his Shinigami that can see L's real name. After L has died, there are two heir of L that will continue L's mission, they are Mello or M and Near or N. Mello dies in the middle of his struggle and Near continue to fight Kira. At last Kira dies because of his own Death Note.
I recomend this anime to the anime lovers because it is very clever and very cool.

2. Card Captor Sakura
This Card Captor Sakura is already old enough and read the manga version of it. It was about A girl named Sakura who had the power to capture the souls that are released from their cards. The story is not really long and quite simple. It has very cute dress design and cute creature. One of the cute crature is call Kero, it is Sakura's pet and it can transform into Keroberos, a big and cool creature that has maig power too. Sakura also had a sweet love story with a boy from china called Lee Shaoran. Lee had a super power too. The story of Card Captor Sakura is full of magic power and cute and sweet things.

3. Beauty Pop
I just started to read this manga and it is very good. It talks about hair styling and comepetition between har styling geniuses. Uftonately, i haven't finished rading it so i can not talk much about it. But i guarantee that this manga is veryy good!

There are a lot more good manga and anime but i can not talk about it all here. Sometime a manga has many fillers in its anime because the mana cannot ballance the anime. Producting a manga takes a longger time because there is only one or to people working on it. But, in anime production there are a lot of people and they use the studio system, so they work faster. Because there are many different people make an anime, the quality of the picture is not the same. Sometimes you can find a big difference in it, for example is Bleach. Sometimes they have a very good picture, but sometimes they have a bad picture. Even though the quality of the pictures is not the same, it's still a good anime.

So, enjoy your weekends with anime and manga!!
Jaa Naa!!

-Valencia-

beautiful beaches i can find

HI! I'm Elizabeth

today, i'm going to talk about the most beautiful beaches in the world. i want to talk about this because i want to go there and relax, not thinking about homeworks, assignments, and exams.. hahhaaa....

Here's a small summary of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

Let's start with Polynesia. Thanks to the huge size and the geographic variety of this territory we can find many wonderful beaches there.

All the islands have great beaches. White sand (because of the corals), emerald green waters with some coral reefs which give a wonderful effect of contrast, coconut palms, and of course the sunset!!!

Bora-Bora and its very famous lagoon

Huahine (southern point of the island)

Then the archipelago of Tuamotus, still in Polynesia

Aratika (more precisely one of the small islands inside the atoll)

Kauehi (interior edge of the atoll)

and last but not least, another Polynesia's pearl : Gambier Islands (even if it's not the best place to have a sunbath -the spot is not really suitable for tourists-, however there're some really good beaches)

Cuba and in particular the beaches of Varadero

Here'a a 15 km beach, with white and fine sand. There are not so many fishes next to its shore, unlike Polynesia. The sea bottom is completely flat and without stones..

Beach of Varadero

still Varadero, here's the beach in front of the hotel Brisas Del Caribe

Crete Island

Peninsula of Elafonissi (South-Western point of the island)

Balos Bay and its amazing lagoon

Marathi Beach

Matala Beach

Thailand

Koh Rok Island - In this island protected by the rangers you can find two bautiful beaches: a small one and a really bigger one just in front. It's a little piece of heaven! The sea bottoms are full of corals and so it's really easy to see lots of fishes.

Ao Nang - next to Krabi : a wonderful beach that is often "assaulted" by "part-time" tourists: infact they arrive by boat and they usually don't stay more than few hours. There should be another beach not far from the first one, but i didn' see it.

loh Dalam Bay in Koh Phi Phi Don Island - a lovely touristic beach

Northern Bay of Koh Racha - a very peaceful place with white sand, palm trees, some quiet bars recreating the atmosphere of the late 60's

Dominican Republic (sorry for the bad quality of the images, which hides the natural beauty of the place)

Saona Island

still Saona Island - all sides are beautiful

Mexico

Beach of the archaeological site of Tulum - Take the perfect white of the sand, add the turquoise blue of the sea, and mix it with the amazing spectacle of the Maya site.....you'll have a cocktail absolutely unique!

one thing i want to do now is to go one of the beautiful beaches and just sit on the soft white sand while drinking coconut and just enjoy life...

hmmm.. =p

Yoga : Exhausting Relaxation

Tonight my mom asked me to go with her to a yoga class at a sport club nearby. I have never been in a yoga class before, so i thought all you have to do is sit down, relax and do some strerching and then relax again. Since i had no idea how practicing yoga would feel like, i decided it wouldnt hurt to try this time. But my assumption turns out to be wrong. It was not just stretching and relax; in fact it felt as tiring as if i had just practiced tennis or went swimming. Probably this first try felt really tiring because my muscles are so tense and stiff that i couldn't even feel relaxed during the while practice. But i tried to think optimistically and there are actually positive benefits and purposes of practicing yoga.

In ancient hindu religion, Yoga is believed to be an exercise to meditate and focus our concentration to the nature surrounding us. These practices are also believed to gain our understanding of the world through our mind. The word “yoga” comes from the sanskirt language, and it means to unite or to control (yoga). In a more religious view, yoga is practices to worship the Hindu Gods because they believe that this activity helps them to have a more intimate relationship with their Godesses.

Nowadays, yoga exercises were done by people plainly for the purpose of health. Some movements in the exercise can actually help to improve our concentration skills, and it could also help us relax our minds. In yoga, controling our respiration is very important. We have to follow a certain beat and inhale or exhale at the exact right time and we have to do it at the exact amount of time while doing certain exercises. It is also im portant to have a really good balance within your body and flexibility would really help in doing yoga exercises.

Out of many different movements in yoga exercise, some movements are believed to have medical purposes because they have the ability to help heal back problems like scoliosis. Those exercises streched our muscles and it effects the shape of the bones as well. It is also highly recomended to do yoga because it has been prooved to improve the metabolism of the human body and of course it burn calories.

So i highly reccomend all of you readers to try practicing yoga for all the reasons i have written above. It is a calorie burning exercise, but also a stress reliever!

-Angelina-

Something to smile

From time to time, people will definitely change. Its either being more positive or negative. Everyone always find a special friend or eventually, that plays a major role of being the best-friend character in your drama, your life. They will make you laugh until you can’t stop but will cry with you when you’re crying too. They make you believe that life isn’t always terrible but there are always glimpses of light that leads to happiness. They convinces you to believe that there’s always a way out in hard times, preventing you to fall into a deep hole.

It’s an enigma really. How can a person makes you feel all that?

But it’s plausible. You don’t have to know the answer through words.

Be a hedonist that just seeks the pleasure of having a special friend.

Be a special friend to someone and may they can feel the same way too. Help them when they’re in need. Be brave for them but it’s understandable when you are afraid as well. Always open your eyes, looking at every perspectives, avoiding tenacious results. I know there are hard times to do this, but it’s very crucial, LOVE your friends, no matter who they are and what they’ve changed into. Hold on to your friends since they are precious, very few and far between. Try to always indulge your friends and yourself in spending unique vacations yet leave amusing memories that releases the stress because as probably you’ve heard a lot of times, everyone got their own madness inside them.

In each and every new day, try to have a little fun with yourself and friends too. It’s healthy, for the heart. Say ‘I love you’ as often as possible but express it in imaginative ways. Don’t ever worried of being unloved because there’s always someone who loves you more than you realize. Cherish each day that you spent throughout your life and never regret it. At the end of the day, don’t forget to pray.



One more thing, don’t forget to smile at least once a day.



P.S. I know I always smile everyday. =)