"Motohiro Hata (秦基博, Hata Motohiro, born 11 October 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He debuted under the major label BMG Japan in 2006 with the single "Synchro" (シンクロ, Shinkuro)."
He is one of my favourite artists. His song kimi, meguru boku from Itazura na kiss is so adorable <3 His voice and his style of music is really soothing. I've been listening to this song of his over and over and love it so much. It makes me really happy and calm.
Recently I started doing Kendo. I have been very busy with school and other things but one of the activity that I have been dying to participate in was Kendo. Finally, I am doing it. All I can tell you is that ~ YES! Kendo is as tough as it looks.. The pros make it look easy but when you start doing the footwork and holding the shinai, then you realize how hard you have to practice.
As the weeks passby, the classes get more intense. My foot's got blisters and I have sore muscles >_< but I really love Kendo, especially because of all the hardwork I am putting in it. Naoki Eiga is one of my favourite Kendoka =] He is one of the reasons why I started doing Kendo.
"Naoki Eiga (栄花直輝) is a Japanese kendoist who in 2000 won the individual event at World Kendo Championship (WKC) as well as the highest title in Kendo: All Japan Kendo Champion. His progress toward the championship was documented by the Japanese broadcaster NHK in a 2003 program named A Single Blow.
Naoki Eiga started kendo under the influence of his brother, Hideyuki. Both competed at the highest level of the sport. Eiga's wife Naomi was also a kendo practitioner. She was his younger classmate at Tokai University and a member of same kendo dojo. Eiga joined the Hokkaido police force and became a member of the Hokkaido Police Kendo Team. From 1997 he was also a member of the Japanese national kendo team. But his rank on the team was a substitute, and he was allowed to participate only in the preliminary bouts of the WKC team event in 1997.
Feeling that he had to earn the respect of his fellow team members and coaches of the team, he decided to concentrate on the All Japan Kendo Champion tournament. At that time, the event had been dominated for years by Masahiro Miyazaki, one of the greatest kendoists of modern times. Eiga faced Miyazaki in the finals of the 1999 tournament, but lost.
After his defeat in 1999, Eiga entered the All Japan tournament once more in 2000, and faced Miyazaki again in the finals. This time, he was able to win with za kote strike just before the match went into overtime. By winning the title of All Japan Kendo Champion of the year 2000, Eiga ended the Miyazaki era. He attributed his success to his teacher, Kazuo Furukawa.
Based on his success in the AJKC in November of 2000, Eiga was chosen as team captain of the Japanese national team for the World Kendo Championship 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland."
*this is one of his best tsuki.. he is really amazing..just watch the video*
G.I. Joe - Rise of the cobra Genre: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi Director: Stephan Sommers Cast: Channing Tatum (Duke), Christopher Eccleston (McCullen / Destro), Sienna Miller (Ana/Baroness), Marlon Wayans (Ripcord), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (the doctor/Rex), e.t.c
WARNING!!! CONTAINS SPOILERS >>
REVIEW: if you love action packed movies like i do, then its the movie for you. Watching the movie was a thrill.I, seriously had low expectations of the movie, so it surprised me a little. There wasn't a single boring or annoying moments. Although, there are tons of flashbacks; it's just a necessary part of the movie. The characters are interesting especially, snake eyes, so mysterious and awesome. Overall, the special effects were amazing, well almost all of it except for the part where the aircraft hovers over the sahara desert and heads into the "pit".The desert and the aircraft itself looked a bit fake but the movie was a blast. The movie captivates you from the beginning till the end.
I give the movie a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. It's definitely a must watch movie of summer 2009. so, if you're bored and looking for a movie to watch then pick G.I Joe (that is if you enjoy action movies).
PLOT:" The film opens in France, in 1641. The Scotsman Klan McCullen has been accused of selling weaponry to both the Scots and French. Rather than being executed for treason, the jury brands his face with a white-hot mask in order to humiliate him. In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston) has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness (Sienna Miller), who Duke recognized to be his ex-fiancee Ana Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe's command center in North Africa, and upon arriving rendezvous with General Hawk (Dennis Quaid), the head of the G.I. Joe Team. Hawk takes command of the war-heads and excuses Duke and Ripcord, only to be convinced to have them join his group after Duke reveals that he knows the Baroness.
McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an army of soldiers with the aid of the Doctor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), planning on using the warheads to bring panic and bring about a new world order. Using a tracking device, McCullen locates the G.I. Joe base and sends Storm Shadow (Lee Byung-hun) and the Baroness to retrieve the warheads with assistance from Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), inflicting casualties on several G.I. Joe soldiers. After a fight, Storm Shadow and the Baroness retrieve the warheads and take them to Baron DeCobray, the Baroness's husband, for him to weaponize and use them to destroy the Eiffel Tower to serve as a showing of the warhead's destructive power. Making their way to Paris, the Joes pursue them through the streets but are unsuccessful in stopping them from launching the missile. Duke manages to hit the kill switch, but in doing so he is captured and taken to McCullen's base under the Arctic.
G.I. Joe locates the secret base and fly there as McCullen loads three missiles with nano-mite warheads. After Snake Eyes takes out one, Ripcord pursues the remaining missiles in a prototype Night Raven jet while Scarlett and her group infiltrate the base. While Scarlett and Snake Eyes attempt to shut down the Arctic base, with Heavy Duty leading an attack on Cobra's forces, Duke learns that the Doctor is Rex Lewis, Ana's brother believed to have been killed on a mission led by Duke four years ago. He was trapped in a bunker with Doctor Mindbender (Kevin O'Connor), disfigured in the blast which everyone presumed had killed him. The Baroness tries to free Duke but the Doctor reveals he has implanted her with nano-mites which has put her under his control for the past four years, admitting his amazement that she is resisting the programming. Attempting to kill Duke, McCullen ends up being facially burned as he flees with Rex to an escape vessel. Duke and the Baroness pursue him while the Joes fall back when Rex activated the base's self destruct sequence.
Rex then heals McCullen's burned face with nano-mites, encasing it in silver as he christens McCullen "Destro" and assumes the identity of Cobra Commander before they are captured by G.I. Joe soon after. On board the supercarrier USS Flagg, Baroness is placed in protective custody until they can remove the nano-mites from her body. Meanwhile, Zartan, having been earlier operated on by Rex, infiltrates the White House during the missile crisis and assumes the identity of the President of the United States (Jonathan Pryce). [D-Man2010]"
