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Topics for this journal:
- Graduation
- Blood tapping
- Primeval season 3: episode 1 and 2 Review
- Dragonball Evolution review

Graduation:

Friday March 6th 2009 I finally graduated on the field of Information management the "Hoge School van Amsterdam". That day, after studying for 4 and half years, I received my diploma from my mentor at the school. The day after that I had some visitors over (Including and some teachers from one of my previous elementary schools)

At this moment, I'm saving money so I can go to Japan sometime this summer on one of those organized tours.

Bloodtapping:

This morning I had to tap some blood to let it test it on Haemochromatosis (a metabolism disorder in which the body stores too much iron in the organs) My dad has it and it can be genetically carried over, so today I was tested to see if I have it as well. I will know if I have it or not sometime next week.

Primeval season 3 Episode 1 and 2 review:

Primeval season 3 has finally started and here's a little review of the first 2 episodes.

Episode 1 revolves around a crocodile-like creature called Pristichampus that escaped through an anomaly that appeared in an Egyptian artifact called the Sun Cage. An Egyptologist (Who will later be a new member of the ARC team) thought the creature was the Egyptian demon Ammut.

Meanwhile, Hellen retrieves a strange artifact from a ruin, some time in the distant future (Which appears to be the future world of the future predators)

After getting the Pristichampus back to his own time, the Egyptologist joins the ARC team and her task will be to identify the mythical creatures and cryptids by comparing them with prehistoric creatures that somehow got into ancient times of mankind (For example a dinosaur ending up in Medieval times was thought to be a dragon)

This was a pretty good start of the series and it gives a good explanation about why people came up with so many mythical creatures during the course of history.

Episode 2 revolves around an abandoned house in which 3 boys dissapeared there. Abby and Connor eventually find out that some time ago, an anomaly leading to a future era opened there, releasing a strange gremlin-like critter that can camoflage itself in the same way cuttlefish can do, in order to blend in the background.

I thought this creature was well thought out and the episode had a good story.

And now...

My Review on....DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION

To be honest...Like most of you, I had pretty low expectations about the movie. But I was really surprised in a good way about how the movie turned out.

Movie in general:
Positive:
- A decent story-line
- Many of the characters show features similar to their anime and manga counterparts
- Great special effects
- Yamcha's flying car
- The story progressed steadily and was build up pretty well.
- Goku's Kamehameha
- The use of the Japanese terms (Shen long, Oozaru and Mafuba)
- Mai refering Goku as "Son Goku"
Negative:
- Movie was a bit short for my taste
- Absence of many important characters from that part of the Dragonball story DBE was portraying (Like Krillin, Puar, Oolong, Tenshinhan, Choutzu, Yajirobe, Pilaf and Kami)

Goku:
Even though starting out as an high school outcast, he made quite a good development during the whole movie. Justin Chatwin did quite a good performance as Goku.
Positive points:
- Excelling in martial arts
- Not fighting when it's not needed. (Goku already explains in the anime he doesn't want to fight when it's not needed and asks some of the villains (Like the Ginyu Force) and even asks to get away before things get out of hand.)
- His huge appetite
- His outfit when fighting Piccolo wasn't too different from his regular outfit in the manga and anime.
- The whole "I'm not ready for this" was poorly placed in the trailers and it was only refered that Goku said that his grampa said that Goku wasn't ready to learn a certain attack.
- Getting the 4-star Dragonball from his grandfather
Negative points:
- Goku was a bit lacking in confidence, but not really in the sense that he wouldn't be ready to fight Piccolo.
- The whole "High school" scenario, even though that was just a really small part of the story.
- No Krillin or a substitute for him

ChiChi:
ChiChi shows an interest in Goku quite early in the movie and even shows her love for martial arts.
Positive:
- ChiChi lives in a castle-like Mansion (More or less like Gyu-Mao's castle)
- ChiChi's early love interest in Goku
- ChiChi being a strong martial artist
- No last name (Like the whole "McRobberts
Negative:
- No Gyu Mao
- Being a bit too mushy with the love scenes

Bulma:
Bulma wasn't too shabby in the movie. Emmy Rossum did a good job on playing her.
Positive:
- Last name Briefs (And not Enchanto like said in early rumors)
- A smart girl capable of inventing gadgets like the Dragon Radar (DBE in the movie)
- Capsule Corps
- Seductive towards boys
Negative:
- A bit too Lara Croft-like in character
- Not well informed about the Dragonballs (Goku had to explain about them instead of the other way around like in the manga and anime)
- Brown hair instead of blue

Master Roshi:
His role was one of the best done in the movie.
Positive:
- He's the funny pervert we all know and love in the original series (Touching Bulma's butt and collecting dirty magazines)
- He says his full name is Muten Roshi.
- The wise old man who also trained Grandpa Gohan
- Showing that he's one awesome martial arts and uses the correct terms for his attacks (Like Mafuba instead of Evil Containment wave)
- Wearing the Hawaiian shirt and sun-glasses
Negative:
- He doesn't look old enough

Yamcha:
Positive:
- Starting out as a desert bandit
- Being a bit cocky towards his opponents
- Dub-like voice
Negative:
- Emediately falling for Bulma (And not scared of her)
- No Puar

Piccolo:
James Marsters potrayed Piccolo quite well
Positive:
- Piccolo's green
- Piccolo has antenea (Even though they are stuck alongside his head)
- An intelligent villain, planning his actions ahead.
- His air-ship looks quite similar to the one in the original series
Negative:
- Mai as his henchman (Who should be one of Pilaf's henchmen)
- Having an Oozaru as a pet when he tried to destroy the world 2000 years ago

Shenron (Called Shen-long in the movie):
I really liked his design and how he was made.
positive:
- Asian Dragon body design (Even though his head looked a bit too much like a European dragon)
- Original Japanese name
Negative:
- Shenron was too small.compared to his original version

My rating:

4 out of 5 stars

That's all for now and please....don't bash my opinion on the movie T__T
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