You can't fight fate, sawry... | Tales of the Abyss anime premieres 5 January 2012 on Animax Asia

That's in less than a couple hours from now.

© NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. / SUNRISE  BANDAI VISUAL  MBS  Original Character Design © Kousuke Fujishima [Image from Animax Asia]

Tales of the Abyss premieres 5 January 2012, Thursday, 630pm WIB (UTC+7), on Animax Asia and airs every weekday thereafter. It replaces Beelzebub.

Luke fon Fabre has been confined in his house since young, and the freedom he is about to experience will shatter everything he's ever known.
–Animax' synopsis

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Houi! Jouso! Ketsu! Metsu! Tenketsu! | Kekkaishi anime premieres 15 February 2011 on Animax Asia

Airs weekdays at 830PM WIB (UTC+07)
In original Japanese audio with localised subtitles

© Tanabe Yellow / Shogakukan / Yomiuri TV / Sunrise 2006

Reminding: Kekkaishi premieres this coming Tuesday, 15 February 2011, at 830PM WIB on Animax Asia.

Yoshimori Sumimura has the skill to form barriers to destroy demons, and he uses this power to protect the peace of a sacred land from numerous foes.
–Animax synopsis

What the Animax synop omits is that Yoshimori's partner in dispatching monsters or Ayakashi is Yukimura Tokine, also a barrier master and a more proficient Houi! Jouso! Ketsu! Metsu! Tenketsu! one at that. So sleep-deprived high school students by day, but agile defenders of their school grounds from demons by night.

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flora sunrise

Playing with flowers... it really is too hot for photo expeditions, so I'm shooting mostly indoors.

Summer is half gone. The schools will be back in session soon and autumn will follow. The seasons pass by; like watching sailboats from the shore, they glide past our vantage point. In summer the white hot sunlight fills the sails and the sound of children playing on the shore fills the air. The breeze is a welcome coolness on suntanned skin. As autumn approaches, the skies are less blue and passing storms disturb the calm surface of the sea. Boats head for the safety of the harbors and bays, the beach is nearly abandoned and we begin our preparations for the onset of winter.

So... we are mid-way through the season. Last chance for vacations to sunny beaches, last chance for flip-flops and shorts, last chance for sunflowers.

a brief diversion

Took a long weekend trip to Daytona Beach, FL... and now I am immersed in the final preparation for South Africa.

Haleakala Sunrise

So I went to paradise... alone. I saw many beautiful places and although the traveling to and fro exhausted me, I'm glad I went.

I learned that I don't like traveling alone, I do like driving a convertible and there aren't enough miles that you can put between you and your grief in order to forget - even just for a moment or two.