Passion Lost

  Once upon a time, when I was just a crying child who love to eat candy and chocolate every time my mum was not around, I was completely obsessed with cartoon likes Ultra man,  Mars man and Kamen Rider. My brothers and I will had role play session to fight with each other in playful way. Then I continue to live as I move on to the teenage stage, I religiously watched digimon, pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh whenever the latest episode is out. Animation is my personal salvation and safe haven for my spirit as I tackled with exam pressure from PMR and SPM. It is the only entertainment that ease my mind and allow my imagination to reach the fantasy world. No! I do not do drug and this is not even a glorification of drug abuse. All of these had led me to the love for Japanese cultural, I continue to watch anime until to the end of the last year in my high school. I stopped because of the SPM exam and the hours demand job later on.

  Then, I got accepted into UTAR to study animation as my childhood obsession influenced my choice of degree which made me even busier to keep in touch with anime. This was the time where Korean Wave in in its' full force to take over the world. You can't walk around the campus without overheard the female students are gasping, fangirling,  screaming, moaning and kicking their feet whenever their favorite Korean boy band post something extremely important news to social media network until today. For example, messages included food of the day, clothes of the day and hair of the day, you know, like every single day what a normal person would do. I do like a couple Korean songs but that's all. I never understand the craze as girls never get why guys like to play dota all the time. Overall, it seems much more crazier than my childhood but it is still a good hobby I guess.  Whatever make you happy and what other people say don't matter, y'all!

  As the Korean Wave rises, Japanese Wave is unable to keep up with the momentum and falling to its' sleep. One day it may rises but only with good anime to win back people's heart. Today what we see are anime filled with child liked girl who has big boob and run around in a sexual suggestive way. This is so sad for fan like me as any person who have right mind don't want to posses anything related to pedophilia material. Somehow it influence my way of thinking as I decided not to watch anime anymore, minus digimon. 

Also, I lost my passion to study the Japanese language because of it. I can't ignite the fire and I simply keep my head buried on the table when I am in the class. Moreover, I failed in my spelling test as I am not motivated to study. Partly because of the heavy loaded of homework from the lecturers.

    Big boob, check. Large eyes, check. Tiny body, check. Child face, check. This is so bad and sad.

  Even though my love for anime may lost in the void, I still admire the spirit of Japanese people as the earthquake and tsunami happened in Japan. Especially the Fukushima 50, the bravely 50 people who would scarified their life to stop the nuclear explosion in order to lower the radiation pollution to the world. They know they are probably going to died as the radiation would leads to cancer and sickness. They have families just like everyone else, but they would go back to the nuclear reactor to clean up and stabilize the nuclear power plants.

  This is a major inspiration for me as it brings the kindness and humanity with scarify of one's life to save many. I believe it must be stressful for them as the world are counting on them. They never review their face and identity on the news. This is because they never do this for fame or money, but the love for their country, Japan. It inspires me to learn the Japanese's spirit to deal with hardship and challenge. Also, it inspires me not to judge a book by its' cover as the contains are much more important. The impact of the inspiration is just because anime have go through the phrase of sex sell doesn't mean it would bring down the Japanese cultural to the water. I shouldn't judge so harsh on the girl who obsess with Korean Wave as this is what make them happy, also I make me feel bad about myself as the pot called the kettle black. My action would be study hard for Japanese language as i don't want to fail for this foreign language. I still don't watch anime as  I am busy with homework. However, I would support the Japanese cultural by joining my friends' gathering in Japanese restaurant. Also, I don't like Korean pop song and drama, minus Winter Sonata. Although I like to eat in Korean restaurant sometimes.

  Yummy!