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Sora no woto 5

Oh good grief, this series brings back so many memories, many of them not good at all at the time of the events in question but with the passage of time and the safety of hindsight, have become humurous and even nostaglic. There were a few times when, due to budgetary pressure and messed up logsitics, we were not issued any blank rounds for our fire and movement training. So we were told to shout "BANG BANG BANG!!!" as we scrambled around the training area. BOOMZ.

Definitive proof that Filicia is an Evil Overlord and will be able to whip the ass of anyone who crosses her. *Get in line already!*

Bridge Bunny 1: We're detecting high energy output heading our way!
Bridge Bunny 2: It's a Nagato Type Moé Energy Beam!
Cap'n: EVASIVE MANOEUVRES!
Bridge Bunny 3: TOO LATE~~!!
*Pink explosion*

I was pretty shocked by Kureha's crush on the Major. What's happened to her love for Rio?? But I was even more shocked by how the Helvetia Army uses Majors for dispatch clerk duty.

Good grief, how I hated FBO. And I hate road march with FBO (btw OC's tip: always wear double pairs of socks) though I learn a number of very funny and obscene songs along the way.

In the post apocalyptic future, Made In China will be magic-like technology rather than QUALITY.


Oh LOLOL double facepalm. This just reminded me of this time when our PC pointed us towards the next hill we had to cross and one of the guys exclaimed: "That's a mountain!?" It was just a hill, of course. But when you're tired, hot, sweaty, hungry, mosquito-bitten (even though smeared with that horrible and totally ineffective mosquito repellant), have all your facial pores blocked by your terribly drawn watermelon/panda-bear-like camo stick pattern, any hill looks like frickin' Mt Everest.

Other favourite/dreaded phrase: "Do you see that tree over there?"

Feng na - WHAT

Noel's moe comes in burning and water modes. I shall call her... Moel *crooked pinky next to mouth*

Forget Sun Zi and Clausewitz, Napolean's aphrorism about how an army marches on its stomach is the besto aphrorism when you're outfield and you're hungry - even the crap that they dished out (they didn't issuee no MREs to us in my time) tasted out, sometimes mixed with rain and mud and random leaves, tasted like manna from heaven.


Ah the joys of topo. Though you also get retrospectively hilarous results when the person in charge keys in the wrong coordinates for the GPS.

Argh, even Moel's pouting and figurative finger pointing was so pink explosion inducing. That's what you get for not picking the mountain peach berries - a hungry man is an angry man!

Needs MOAR yuri rabu rabu hearts

To the ends of the world, a postcard from Chise

Bring me to life, Moel

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  1. Skane
    March 10th, 2010 - 19:09

    As explained by Crusader over at THAT, it will be revealed why they needed a Major to send the mail. There’s a lot of story build-up in this series, and why things happen the way they do is all explained indirectly in the episodes to come.

    Cheers.

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  2. Skane
    March 10th, 2010 - 19:15

    That’s one thing I like about this series. The reveals are not hammered into our faces. The answers are casually dropped in normal conversations, and it is up to us, the viewer, to catch them. Makes it so much more natural and fulfilling.

    Cheers.

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    • Zyl
      March 11th, 2010 - 14:07

      You’ve hit the nail on the head there, Skane. Great to hear that things are holding up in the second half of the season and I’m very much looking forward to catching up.

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  3. Kherubim
    March 10th, 2010 - 19:46

    Yeah, as Skane said, there’s a reason, although I find it strange that someone whose job is like the Chief Clerk or Bn S1 would be delivering letters.

    When your PC is like Felicia, would anyone dare not to obey her commands??? Plus, the only thing moar fun than running around with the universal blanks is actually loading the plastic buggers your PS passed you into the magazine just as the enemy is attacking because he forgot to issue them like three days ago…

    Were you from the hokkien peng cook era or SFI???

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    • Zyl
      March 11th, 2010 - 14:08

      My NSF time was hokkien peng cookhouse: Luncheon meat x peas x rice x curry sauce was Da Bomb. Yours?

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      • Kherubim
        March 11th, 2010 - 23:20

        Same, same… remember Ayam brand canned sardines and chicken curry? Later replaced by the green packets, with the solid block of white rice *shudders*…

        For me it was Tuesday chicken rice, cooked in MSG and chicken oil, accompanied by boiled-to-near-mush white chicken. Performing guard duty with the cooks was good because they’d always have some way of making sure their buddies whipped up something nice for night snack, just don’t drink the coffee they brought to the guardroom… :D

  4. McGee
    March 10th, 2010 - 20:10

    I’m watching it just because of Moel… I mean, Noel… If she had more screen time I’d probably die in front of the TV.

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  5. Crusader
    March 11th, 2010 - 14:10

    I see… you had no blanks during a blank firing exercise too eh? We just had to walk up to people and yell SAFETY KILL. Though In our situation it was because the Command wanted the blank firing exercise to last the week instead of 24 hours, suffice to say we were hard up for blanks as the training unit gave us all they had and the Marines had none to spare. The command got their way much to the groans of the enlisted, oh and guess who got the most blanks…

    Blanks are fine but they really dirty up a weapon. First Gen MREs weren’t too thrilling I had them back in my JROTC days. Still to a freshman with no prior knowledge of chemistry the FRH was like MAGIC. You have to love how Rio tore up their sacks and took all their food as punishment, but left Kureha her rifle. That was classically Sergeant Major mean.

    Double socks only help so much. I eventually caved into buying my own pair of Danner Boots and invested in Thirol hiking socks which goes a long way more than the standard issue especially if you are one of those poor bastards who got Wellco boots.

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  6. Keiri
    March 12th, 2010 - 22:12

    BOOMZ

    “Inspired” by a certain Ms. R*s L*w? ^^

    I initially waltzed into watching Sora no Woto hoping for a good story and a good message behind the story but I slowly came to realize over time that I wanted to watch it for…Noel. She lights up the series for me, besides the typical antics of Papa Rio and Mama Filicia playing house with their 3 children. :p

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    • Zyl
      March 13th, 2010 - 09:36

      Ms Low is truly an authentic voice of Singapore. Maybe that’s precisely why some many of us have our panties in a twist over her antics.

      Your second para sums things up for me perfectly too. Though I tend to think of Filicia as the Big Daddy rather than Rio – methinks fathers tend to be more upfront in being indulgent of their daughters.

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