This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on earth

 ..engraved at the foot of Sadako Sasaki's statue in Hiroshima Peace Park.

Sadako, a twelve-year-old heroin who struggled with leukemia from the atomic bomb radiation 1945.

A book I just read, is based on a true story of Sadako Sasaki. Born in Hiroshima in 1943, she was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped. She grew to be an energetic girl who loved and had talent in running. In the age of 11, she was running in a competition when she first felt the agonizing pain, but a moment later she was OK. She decided not to tell anybody about this, including her family and her best friend, Chizuko. She suffered pain sometimes but she felt better and better to the end of the year. She even went to a festival and wanted to wear a kimono, but her family didn't have much money so she didn't really force to have one.

The next year, she couldn't hide the pain anymore as she fell when she was running. Her parents brought her to the Red Cross Hospital where leukemia patients were hospitalized. She didn't want to imagine she had it, her mother called it the atom bomb disease, leukemia. But to her and her parents' surprise, she really had it. She was hospitalized there.

Her friends were really sad and they often visited Sadako. One day, Chizuko visited Sadako and brought a big gold origami crane. Chizuko suggest Sadako to make 1000 cranes -Japanese people believe by making 1000 cranes can grant one's wish- and gave the crane to her. Sadako was so happy, she committed to make 1000 cranes. her younger brother helped her to hang the cranes on the ceiling of her room at the hospital. her schoolmates cheered her up too, they even made a doll for Sadako, she named it Kokeshi and put it beside Chizuko's crane on the table beside her bed.

She was energic and had so much hope at the first days but her physic kept dropping for months later. One night, all of her family gathered and her mother brought a kimono with flowers for her to wear. She felt really happy that night, but she knew she didn't have much time left. She got weaker that she couldn't make even another crane. She stared at the cranes on the ceiling for the last time and she closed her eyes.

Her schoolmates was very sad, they continued the 1000 cranes which were buried along with Sadako later. They wanted to make a memorial for Sadako and published a book titled Kokeshi, a collection of essays in her memory, to raise funds. From the funds, they built a monument which now still standing at Hiroshima Peace Park. The Children Peace Monument shows Sadako holding the golden crane standing on a mountain. At her feet was engraved the wish...

"This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on earth."

Nausicaa; What a Princess

A few days ago, I watched this very old yet modern, fantasy movie from my favorite anime movie producer, Hayao Miyazaki. As you can see, the title is...

Kaze no Tano no Naushika

Created in 1984, the technologies in the film are as good, or even better than techs nowadays. Hayao's really good in air technologies and it could also be seen in this movie. The story plotted when earth was so polluted, some places had too much toxic in air that people must wear masks in those territory. The worst part polluted is the forest Sea of Decay; it's been told that toxic come from there and take life from villages around it. Insects live there and the go rage (red eyes) if people wanted to destroy the forest.

Princess Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was loved by her people and olse by the insects in the Sea of Decay. It was peaceful until Tolmekian people attacked the Valley of the Wind and took Nausicaa for their plan destroying the Sea of Decay. Pejite people then involved also in this conflict; they too, wanted to destroy the Sea of Decay. Nausicaa wanted to save her people and the Sea of Decay -moreover after she had found out the secret of the forest-, but could she do it?

This movie is very touching and interesting to watch. Although it's an old anime, but the animation and technologies are not bad, not bad at all. And above all, its message was clear and very related to our life :) So, I really recommend you to watch it XD

DF: Returning Player

Yes, like everyone else, I love playing games

It's just that I've been to busy to play one

But, eventually, I miss playing games

That's why, when tomorrow is the time for exams

I play today XD

Okay, so this is a game I've played since I was in elementary school.

Meet my character: Wolfvan

This is when I wore all golden weapons and accessories,
cool huh? A golden warrior he was. 

I guess you must have wondered -or maybe not- why is he a male. There's a story behind it. One day, my cousin showed me this game and asked me to play. He then made an account for me and made an avatar. A male avatar. Well, I was there and I agreed with what he did, Wolfvan is the name I made -taken from my favorite anime characters at the time, Wolfram (Kyou Kara Maou) and Van (The Vision of Escaflowne)-

Some time later, I wanted to change the gender of my character, but unfortunately he's level were already high so I stick with it XD

I love the graphic of this game, the characters are all straight and cool. This is my favorite NPC: Tomix

Right: old Tomix, he's in Book 3. Left: Young Tomix, the cool one, he's in Book 1 and 2.

Now, DF's getting cooler with the new animations and all. Check this out: ChonoZ-Preview!

All the quests are getting tougher too, I have to catch up with the quests I've missed while I don't play the game :( but it's OK, I'll have plenty of time later after I finish all of my exams!!

Interested?? Well just play the game !!