Atarashi housemate!

A new housemate's moving in today. Kinda looking forward to it. But somehow is worried as well. This housemate is my sister's friend and because she's a friend, it would be hard if something goes wrong and end up couldn't be friends anymore. Oh well, like the current housemate. Hopefully everything goes well and pray that we could all get along well.

Toriko

When i was downloading One Piece, I came over with this anime. It seems to be newly released but the manga has gone a long way. The first episode of this anime is a crossover with Luffy and his crews, story about how the two teams met each other in an island and somehow the island turned out to be one of the famous food ingredient spot. Now, this anime is up to the third episode. The second was an introduction to Toriko, a bishokuya, which is a food ingredient searcher or at least something like that, and his partner, Komatsu, a chef from a five star hotel. Komatsu went to Toriko for a request to hunt for a food, Galala Crocodile. However, it was said that this ingredient has a capture level of 8 and was hard to allocate it's location. By the way, capture level is a scale to show how hard a beast or an animal could be hunted. The higher the level, the harder it is to hunt it. This scale was set by IGO, known as the International Gourmet Organization, which controls the Gourmet World, set capture levels and others. It was said that level 1 beast would need 10 professional hunters to be able to hunt it. Toriko accepted the request and Komatsu went along with his hunt. They complete the request and that's it for the first episode. The second episode was the story where IGO requested Toriko to helped them in retrieving the Rainbow fruit which was surrounded by Troll Kongs, capture level 9. This anime is actually quite funny to watch but as youcan see from the summary, there's nothing much to write about. For me, this particular anime, i would recommend to read the manga rather than anime if you're interested.

Good Friday~

It's Good Friday today. This morning we went to church but it's a methodist one. Well, can't help it since Australia does not have a SIB here. Anyhow, today's service was quite special. I mean, i've never been to any Good Friday service like this one. Somehow, it could be said special but it's kinda weird as well for me. At first, they have this pastor from Singapore talking about how God's love change the lives of some of the drugs takers and they even have some of them giving testimonies and singing songs and stuff. I mean it's weird for me since i've never seen any place that gives speeches on anti-drugs for Good Friday. Haha. But if you think deeply, there's some connections to it. Later, there's this special thing which i've never seen in SIB as well. They have this cross with holes over it and flowers on the table. Then they told us to go up one by one to stuck a flower into the cross' holes and prayed for a little while. It's quite fun. I mean, meaningful. I feel as though i'm attending some sort of funeral that we have to put in flowers and stuff. But well, a lot of people cried. And the impact was really big since the even played the part where Jesus was going through his crucifixion from "Passion of Christ". Well, overall, it's really quite good. Normally, back in SIB, we always go through those normal service, singing old songs and prayed for forgiveness and stuff. But i mean, it's the same thing but having us going up there is quite special and i got a new emotion. Well, can't described really well but it's as if, when all those were together, i felt as though i was back into 2000+ years ago, looking as the incident gone through. Just special and heavy feelings but strong ones. I do have such feelings back in the past but i guess, this time it's much stronger. ^^ Anyhow, Easter's coming. ENJOY!! It's the time to celebrate~

YAYE~~

It's still the middle of the week but it's already the last day for me. It's so much fun. Haha. There's no psychology class due to easter holidays and today i came back early as well. Besides that, I don't really like my OT class but this last one turned out to be quite nice. We have this small and simple group presentation about our exhibition photos and somehow, i feel so nostalgic about it. It was so much fun when i rethink about what happened when we went out to take the photos. It was so much fun! Other than that, next weeks a tuition free week, meaning that i get to stay at home for one whole week. I'm planning to do some work on my studies and stuff, play maple for the sake of the golden egg of the easter events and watch some anime while relaxing. However, no matter how i count, i still think that i'm lacking some time. Oh, how could i ever wish that the time for a day would be more than 24 hours and that a week would be more than 7 days only!

One Piece Adventure 401-491

The Straw-hat crews were on the verge of escaping. However, they came across with a pacifista. The whole crew joined their strength, using every bit of their strength but they could only defeat one. A second pacifista appear with Admiral Kizaru and his nephew, Sentomaru (the person in charge of all pacifistas). During their fight, they could not exert any more strength as they finished using them while fighting the first pacista. Other than that, Sentomaru and Admiral Kizaru were both too strong for the crews. This was when Luffy came across the haki (ambition/ will power) from Sentomaru and for the first time, Luffy felt pain when he was hit by Sentomaru's haki even though he was rubber. Luffy recognized the power of the enemies and ordered the crews to run away as fast as possible and to save themselves and not to turn back while he was trying to hold them back. However, having three super strong opponents for himself was a bit too much. The crews got worried and one by one ran off to help one another when Zoro's wound from Thriller Bark (the ship where they fought Gecko Moria) opened and was in great anguish when Admiral Kizaru nearly killed him. At the verge of death, Rayleigh came to help out the crews by holding Admiral Kizaru back. The pacifista by this time was chasing around the crews while Sentomaru was fighting Luffy. One of the shichibukai, Bartholomew Kuma, appeared and by using his devil fruit, the paw-paw fruit, he teleported the whole Straw-hat crews off Saboady Archipelago. All being teleported by his devil fruits would end up teleporting in a paw print-like bubble and for three days they would be floating in the bubble all around the sky. After 3 days, the crews were found in separate destination:
Luffy = isle of women, Amazon Lily
Nami = Sky Island, Weatheria
Franky = Winter Island in Grand Line
Chopper = an island in South Blue
Sanji = Peachy Island in Grand Line, Kamabakka Kingdom
Robin = Island of laborer in North Blue (i think)
Usopp = Bowin Island
Zoro = Gloom Island in Grand Line
Brook = Lazy Bones Island in Grand Line
During Luffy's stay in Amazon Lily, he was nearly executed as the Isle of Women do not welcome men and that the entering of men were considered sinful and would have to be executed. There, Luffy met one of the shichibukai, the pirate empress, Boa Hancock (the woman who was considered to be the most beautiful person in the world) and her two sisters, Sandersonia and Marigold. Three of the sisters have eaten devil fruits as following:
Boa Hancock = Mero-mero no mi
Sandersonia and Marigold = Hebi-hebi no mi (both with different models)
Being placed on the execution platform, Luffy was forced to fight with Sandersonia and Marigold and he won. Boa Hancock ended the execution when Luffy protected them from the country people from knowing the fact about their previous imprisonment as slave by the celestial beings. Later, Boa Hancock fell in love with Luffy and agreed to help him to sneak into Impel Down to save Ace when Luffy knew about the execution news of Ace. He then boarded a marine ship, which was sent to bring Boa Hancock to Marineford for Ace's execution, with Boa Hancock. Upon entering Impel Down, Luffy met Captain Buggy, who agreed to bring him around the maze-like prison by trading Luffy's bracelet which was said to show the place of a big treasure (given by Nami after Thriller Bark incident). Going down the second level, they met Mr. 3. They then continued to level 3 where Mr. 3 and Buggy decided to run away from Luffy as they said that they would not want to die. Coincidentally, they met Mr. 2 and freed him, who later continued Luffy's journey as a friend in need. The whole Impel Down was in chaos when Boa Hancock met with Ace and told him about Luffy. After Boa Hancock's leaving to continue to Marineford, the Impel Down warden, Magellan, caught up with Luffy. Having eaten the fruit of poison, Luffy could not attack him and ended up being seriously wounded and was brought to Level 5. Mr. 2, who have copied the face of the vice-warden, went down for Luffy's rescue. During their escape, they met Emporio Ivankov (friend of Dragon, a revolutionary member and king of Kamabakka Kingdom), who saved their lives. Luffy after struggling through his treatment, he ate tons of food and regained his strength with the intention to continue his Ace's rescuing plan. While talking with Ivankov, he accidentally spilled the relationship between him and Dragon, which led to the change of mind of Ivankov to assist Luffy. They went down to Level 6 where Ace was supposed to be but he was no longer there as he was brought to Marineford with a marine ship. They saw Crocodile and Jimbei (fishman, a friend of Ace and a shichibukai) and freed both of them in order to escape from Impel Down together. They decided to continue their pursue to Marineford. During their escape, Mr. 2 was sacrificed. Meanwhile, Whitebeard Pirates and their pirate allies came to Marineford to rescue Ace. The war has already started when Luffy arrived. After the first attempt to execute Ace, Luffy let out his haki, haoushoku no haki (King's deposition), which shocked nearly all of them and managed to keep Ace alive for the meantime. Seeing this, Whitebeard, who was seriously wounded gave the order for all their allies to assist Luffy. Ivankov saw this as a test given to Luffy by the greatest pirate in the world. Luffy was on the way towards the scaffold where he met his grandfather, Vice-admiral Garp. Garp; however, could not bear to hit Luffy due to his heavy emotions and ended up lost to Luffy, who continued and arrived at the scaffold successfully. Mr. 3, who coincidentally was on the scaffold, made a key of Ace's handcuffs and Ace was freed. During their escape, Admiral Sakazuki said some harsh words towards Ace which flared up his emotions and decided to fight against him. Sakazuki later attempt to kill Luffy when Ace got worried and covered for Luffy, which led to his death. Luffy who was physically wounded by the time, could not bear the death of Ace and lost consciousness. Jimbei and the Whitebeard Pirates carried him and escaped towards the sea while Whitebeard stayed to fight alone with the marines. Blackbeard appeared, killed Whitebeard and stole his devil fruit. Shanks and his crew appeared at the marine headquarter and stopped the fight between the Blackbeards and Chief-admiral Sengoku. Blackbeard agreed to leave without further chaos as Teach said that at his present moment he would not want to fight with Shanks. At the same time, Trafalgar Law (a pirate Luffy met at Saboady Archipelago with the bounty of 200million) appeared and saved Luffy and Jimbei while Boa Hancock in pursue as she was worried about Luffy's condition. Shanks talked to Sengoku about the war and gave advice to stop it. Sengoku agreed and declared that the greatest war has come to an end. Meanwhile, Luffy was carried back to Amazon Lily and was unconscious for few days. After regaining his consciousness, Luffy was being in 'mad' condition as he was unable to accept Ace's death.

Glossaries:

1. Impel Down = world government's greatest prison built underwater. Consist of 6 levels but only 5 was known to people outside as level 6's presence was kept as secret and was used to keep very dangerous villains (which Ace, Jimbei and Crocodile) fell into this category.

MY BROWNIES!!!!

I failed!! For the first time my brownies failed. OMG! It was so delicious that i really wanted to eat it again! One that i baked by myself. Haiz! Should have just said that I don't want to bake and if she wanted, she could have just baked by herself. Idiot! I hate people gossiping around when i bake. Preparing and buying all those stuff just because i wanted to bake that recipe again and eat it. But then, that girl just suddenly appear and said that we have too much food laying around. I told her that I'll bake it next week but she said that she didn't hear it. Oh well, idiotic enough! That stupid walnut that she said she wanted to add with that annoyed face of hers. Who else dares to talk to her except for that guy. At least, I wouldn't dare, just like how she showed her annoyed face after every shift works and whenever i talked about something, she start roaring like a tiger. I'm not that brave to talk to her in that way, at least, it's my way of avoiding fight with her. Then, she said that i forget to tell her about the vanilla essence and that she didn't add it even though she was the one asking me to place all the relevant ingredient on the counter which i did. And she said that i was the one doing wrong for not telling her, even though i placed the recipe in front of her and told her in the beginning. Then, she said that it was my wrong again when i offered to bake but she was the one who actually did everything. (As if i dare to take away what's she doing currently when she looked like a fierce tigress.) Then, she was the one saying to add the walnuts when i don't even like walnuts in my recipe and then, just by following her instructions i was the one wrong again when we realized that the walnuts are spoilt, syaing that i was the one who bought it. LOL! I bought that packet like half a year ago. It's not like i saw that it's spoilt and purposely buy it, put it in the dough and wanted the dough to get spoilt. Idiot! Just by baking with her spoilt my whole day's mood and yet i finished my presenattion outline and was kinda happy and just wanted to relax. And most importantly, i thought i heard her saying that she wanted to bake it. Yet she said that she was angry because she had to do everything even though her intention was just to help. WTH! Because of such stupid reason that i accepted her to bake with me or don't even dare to say "no" when i thought she wanted to eat it, i spoilt my whole day's mood and wasted my brownies' ingredients. =.=" I'm just an idiot! Now that i realised, i learnt a new lesson again today. On how to interact with her. =.="

One Piece Adventure 301-400

Franky arrived to help Robin. Usopp shot the keys for Robin's handcuff for Franky to free Robin. Franky and Robin combined to defeat the marines on the bridge of hesitation. Sanji, Zoro, Usopp, Nami, Chopper, Kokoro-san, Chimney and Gonbe ran down the tunnel leading to the bridge of hesitation when Lucci destroyed the underground tunnel while fighting Luffy. Kokoro-san turned out to be a mermaid and rescued the crews from drowning and brought them to the bridge of hesitation as they decided to make the convoy ship as their escape ship. While waiting for Luffy, the crews got into battles with 200 captains from marine headquarter as buster call was initiated. Luffy won the fight with Lucci but was heavily injured and could not move his body. Going Merry came to fetch them and the crews managed to escape safely. Due to damage of Going Merry, it could no longer sail and the crew burned the ship before returning to Water 7. Vice-captain Garp, came to Water 7 in search of Luffy. It was then revealed that he was Luffy's grandfather and Monkey D. Dragon (a revolutionary and the greatest criminal in the world) was his son. Franky with the help from Iceberg and 3 Galley-La shipwrights, built a new ship for the crews and Franky then joined the crew. The new ship was called Thousand Sunny. The whole crew got their bounties with a total of 600 million. The crew set out and got involved with a bunch of  pirate hunters, the Appachino family. Luffy and crew fought with them and won, later setting out to Mermaid Island, when they was caught in the Florian Triangle, met the living skeleton, Brook who ate the fruit of revival. They came into a huge ship where Nami, Chopper and Usopp got lost. Sanji, Zoro and Luffy's shadows were stolen by a shichibukai, Gacko Moria. In order to retrieve their shadows as well as Brook's shadow, the crew got into another battle with the shichibukai and his members. Brook, after the battle, joined the Straw-hat crew. At the same time, Ace who got into a fight with blackbeard lost, and was sent to the Impel Down and would later be executed. Luffy and crews came to Red Line but were unable to locate the position of Mermaid Island. Coincidentally, they saved Caimie (a mermaid) and her pet, Papagg. Together, they went to save Hachi (a merman of Arlong's Pirate). They later, taught the crews the way to Saboady Archipelago to coat their ship, in order to travel underwater to the Mermaid Island. At the Saboady Archipelago, they met Shakki (a previous female pirate) and Dark King, Silver Rayleigh (vice-captain of Gol D. Roger's Pirate, now a mechanic of ship-coater). Luffy and crews got into a big incident by hitting the celestial being. In pursue of marines and admiral Kizaru, Luffy and crews escaped and heard the story about Shanks and pirate king, Gol D. Roger).

Glossaries:

1. Bridge of hesitation = a bridge led to the Gate of Justice.
2. Buster call = a call made through a golden den-den mushi (phone of their time). Normally was held under control of 3 admirals but the CP9 gained the authority to initiate it through Ao Kiji. Robin's hometown was destroyed by the same attack, which enable 5 vice-admirals with 10 war ship to attack the island, destroy and wiped out the presence of a certain island from the world map.
3. Celestial being = descendants of kings of creation of world government, inhabitants of mariejoa.
4. Mariejoa = holy land situated above Red Line and Mermaid Island.

One Piece Adventure 201-300

Luffy and crew escaped from the marine base with the help of dials gained from Sky Island. They came to an island where they got involved in the Davy Back Fight with the Foxy Pirates. After they won the fight, they arrived on an island and was involved in the incident of "amnesia" where their memories were taken away. Retrieving their memory successfully, Luffy and crews came to a little island where they encountered marine headquarter admiral, Ao Kiji, and the crew lost. Later, following a frog (Yokozuna), Luffy and crew met with Kokoro-san, Chimney and Gonbe. When being told about searching a crew member of shipwright, Kokoro-san introduced them to go to Water 7 and look for a man called Iceberg. Arriving at Water 7, the crews exchanged the gold they stole from Sky Island into cash with the intention to repair the damages of Going Merry. While their meeting with Iceberg, Robin was taken in by the words, "CP9", and left the crew. An incident arise where Luffy and crews were labeled as the assassins of Iceberg. Robin left the Enies Lobby with the CP9, in addition to Franky and Usopp while Sanji secretly followed the sea train. After learning the reason of betrayal behind Robin, Luffy and crew decided to follow the sea train. By getting help from Kokoro-san and Iceberg, they rode "Rocketman" with 3 Galley-La company shipwrights and Franky's members total of 60. Upon arriving Enies Lobby, Luffy got separated from the crews and all members later got into a battle in order to retrieve "what was taken away from them". Battle opponents:
Luffy = Blueno (ate doa-doa no mi) and Lucci (strongest member of CP9 in history, leader of current CP9, ate neko-neko no mi, model leopard)
Zoro = Kaku (ate ushi-ushi no mi, model giraffe)
Sanji = Jyabura (ate inu-inu no mi, model wolf)
Nami = Califa (originally secretary of Iceberg, ate awa-awa no mi)
Chopper = Kumadori
Franky (joined the battle after freed from CP9) = Fukurou (aka: silent owl)

Most of the battles ended while Luffy's continued with Lucci. In the battles, Luffy discovered new power, Gear Second and Gear Third. Zoro gained  a new technique called Ashura. Sanji gained the leg of "Devil Leg". Nami won by using the new "Perfect Climate Tact". Usopp did not fight but contributed by stopping the entering of Robin into Gate of Justice. Chopper ate 3 of his rumble ball and won the battle but has lost consciousness due to that.

Glossaries:

1. Dials = shell-like object used in daily life by Sky Islanders. There's a variety of time, ranging from sound to heat or impact. Usopp traded a lot of them when they were preparing to leave the Sky Island.
2. CP9 = Cipher Pol 9. A secret group of assassins owned by the government, contain 9 members including the chief. 8 members were known as rokushiki.
3. Rokushiki = people who has special 6 moves and were said to have inhuman power.
4. Enies Lobby = island of judiciary of government.
5. Franky = Iceberg's friend, a shipwright and the person who stole the money of Luffy's crew from Usopp.
6. Rocketman = first sea train, a prototype and was a run-away train.
7. Sea train = miracle train moving on tracks in sea, work of 3 shipwrights by spending 10 years time.
8. Galley-La = company of shipwright owned by Iceberg, contains the best shipwrights of the world.
9. Doa-doa no mi = fruit of door-door, ability to create door where ever he wants.
10. Neko-neko no mi = fruit of cat-cat
11. Ushi-ushi no mi = fruit of cow-cow
12. Inu-inu no mi = fruit of dog-dog
13. Awa-awa no mi = fruit of bubble-bubble
14. Gear Second = a new technique increasing the speed of Luffy's technique hence, increasing the force. A technique usable only by him by pumping his blood into his heart, increasing the pressure and enable him to move in better speed.
15. Gear Third = a new technique increasing the power of Luffy's technique. Also known as Bone Balloon by blowing air into his bone and increasing the size of his arms or legs hence, increasing the power. However, this technique decreases the speed or agility of Luffy and has the side effect of becoming tiny.
16. Ashura = Zoro's technique by creating an image with 9 arms and 3 heads.
17. Devil Leg = Sanji's technique by rotating on ground at high speed, causing the leg to heat up and thus, increasing the damaging rate.
18. Perfect Climate Tact = weapon made by Usopp for Nami. Has the ability of controlling the weather or climate. Called perfect after their visit on Sky Island as Usopp added dials into the tact, hence, increasing the speed and power of the tact.
19. Gate of Justice = a huge door named justice as the door would lead to either marineford (marine headquarter) or Impel Down (great prison of underwater of government).
20. Rumble ball = a ball of combination of chemical created by Chopper. Increase the number of forms of his devil fruit and extended the limit of his devil fruit. Effect lasted for only 3 minutes. Second intake would caused effect of inability to control the forms. Third intake would caused him to lost conscious and be in great pain, however, he will gain great damaging power.

One Piece Adventure 101-200

Luffy and his crew got engagaed in a battle with Baroque Works with the intention of stopping the rebellion war in Arasbasta. With the member of 6 by now, they fought with their opponents:
Luffy = Crocodile
Zoro = Mr. 1, Daz Bonez (a famous swordman from West Blue, ate supa-supa no mi)
Sanji = Mr. 2, Bon Clay (ate mane-mane no mi)
Usopp & Chopper = Mr. 4 and Miss Merrychristmas (Mogura Ningen)
Nami = Miss Double finger (ate toge-toge no mi)

All battles were won by the Straw-hat Pirates and they managed to stop the rebellion successfully with the defeat of Crocodile. After the fight, Luffy saved the partner of Crocodile, Nico Robin (ate hana-hana no mi) and the king of Arabasta, Nefetari Cobra. The pirate crew rested in the castle for days while waiting for Luffy to regain consciousness. After Luffy woke up, the crew left the island and became friend with Mr. 2, Bon Clay, who Luffy called Bon-chan. Nico Robin joined the crew as she demanded. Successfully leaving the island with many marines in pursue, the crew came to Ruluka Island and got caught in the incident of Rainbow Mist. After that, they came to Mock Town, Jaya, where they met Bellamy's crew. Luffy and Zoro was mocked for dreaming, restraining from fighting back, they were beaten by Bellamy and his crew. Wishing to know the way to Sky Island, they met with Montblanc Cricket and Saruyama Alliance, who gave them the guide to Sky Island. Bellamy heard about it and beat them and stole their gold while Luffy and crews were in the jungle searching for the South bird. After returning and understood the incident, Luffy got angry and chased Bellamy, defeated him and got back the stolen gold. They successfully came to the knock-up stream and went to Sky Island. But as soon as they arrived, they became criminals for not paying the entrance fee and was wanted by the four priest and God Enel. Knowing that the God Enel intended to destroy the Sky Island as well as to steal the Golden belfry and bell, Luffy and crews joined the war between Shandia and priests and Luffy defeated God Enel, rang the golden bell and stopped the war between Sky Islanders and Shandias which lasted for 400 years. Coming down from Sky Island, they got caught in a current and landed in the middle of a marine base, G8. Going Merry was confiscated and the crews were in escaped.

Glossaries:

1. Hana-hana no mi = fruit of flower-flower. Able to grow any body parts at anywhere as she likes.
2. Rainbow Mist = known as the graveyard of ships. Appear after 50 years.
3. South bird = a bird which always faced to South and was said to be used as compass in ships in older days.
4. Knock-up stream = a vertical stream caused by geothermal energy under sea, leading to an eruption of sea water, making a vertical stream directly shoots into the sky.
5. Priest and God Enel = present rulers of Sky Island
6. Shandia = originally islanders of Jaya until Jaya was separated into two parts and shot up to sky by the knock-up stream.

One Piece Adventure 1-100

Story background:
The main character of this anime is called Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber human, who have eaten the rubber fruit (aka: gomu gomu no mi) of devil fruit by accident when he was young. Because of an incident of him when he was young with Shanks, one of the four emperor (aka: yonkou), Luffy dedicated his life to be the pirate king. After leaving his village, he started out to look for members for his pirate crew and aimed to enter the greatest sea, Grand Line, to look for the greatest treasure, One Piece.

Ep. 1-100:
The story started by having Luffy, drifting in the sea after leaving his village and met with a storm in the sea. Having no navigation skills, he hid himself in a wine barrel which was later picked up by sailors of a cruise. Coincidentally, a female pirate, Captain Alvida, attacked the cruise, demanding all valuables and food. Some of her crew members mistook the barrel as a big barrel with tons of wine and decided to open it when Luffy, who was taking nap in the barrel woke up. There, Luffy met a tiny, short guy called Coby who has wanted to be a marine but has accidentally got caught to be a slave in Captain Alvida's pirate ship. Luffy decided to help Coby to escape and started his first fight. During the fight, he heard about a pirate hunter, Zoro and decided to make Zoro to be his crew member. After defeating Captain Alvida, Luffy brought Coby together and came to an island, ruled by Captain Morgan (a marine captain). He heard about the news where Zoro was being kept in prison by the marines for helping the villagers and decided to help him to escaped. He attacked the marine base and freed Zoro. Successfully, Captain Morgan went down and they started out their journey when Luffy accidentally got caught by a bird and was brought to an island terrorized by Captain Buggy who turned out to be a friend of Shanks. Luffy and Zoro fought the Buggy Pirates and got Nami as their navigator. Later, they met Usopp, who was Yasopp's (Shanks' crew member) son. During their stay on the island, they discovered the plan of Captain Kuro to kill Kaya-ojousama (Usopp's friend) and decided to help Usopp in defeating him. Out of gratitude, Kaya gave the Straw-hat Pirates a caravel, known as Going Merry. Due to this, Luffy gained a new pirate ship and a new member, Usopp, as their ship's sharpshooter. Setting out to sea, they coincidentally met Johnnie and Yosaku (Zoro's friends while being a pirate hunter). They learned the lesson of having nutrition deficiency and decided to get a cook as their crew member when Johnnie suggested them to visit the sea restaurant, Baratie, and Luffy accidentally destroyed the roof of Baratie which led to him having to worked as waiter to pay off the bills. There, they met Sanji, one of the best cook in East Blue. A pirate, Don Krieg, after entering Grand Line and was completely annihilated appeared and demanded the cooks in Baratie to give them their ship. At the same time, Nami got caught in her problems and set off secretly with Going Merry when Luffy ordered Zoro and Usopp to catch up with her and bring her back. However, one of the shichibukai, Hawk-eye Mihawk, appeared and sliced through Don Krieg's ship. Zoro was amazed and having the dream of becoming the best swordman in the world, he challenged Mihawk but lost. Usopp, bringing the injured Zoro and Johnnie, followed Nami while Luffy stayed to defeat Don Krieg as trade to pay off his bills. After defeating Don Krieg, he got Sanji as his crew member when Yosaku appeared stating the need of Luffy's help as the enemies are going to be very powerful. Luffy, Sanji and Yosaku set out to the island where Nami was as both Zoro and Usopp was caught by the enemies, Arlong Pirates. Learning that Nami was threatened by the pirates, Luffy and the crews decided to help in freeing her. They got into a fight and successfully brought back Nami as their navigator. With only four members, they set out to Grand Line but stopped at Loguetown (the town of beginning and ending), which was the town where the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, was born and executed. In the town, Luffy was nearly killed by the marine headquarter captain, Captain Smoker, but was saved by his father, Monkey D. Dragon, without knowing his identity. On their way towards the Red Line, which separated the Grand Line with the four seas (North, East, South and West Blue), they met Apis (a girl who ate the whisper whisper fruit) and Ryuuji (a sennenryuu). Deciding to help Ryuuji to get back to his birth island, Lost Island, while being chased by the marines, the Straw-hat Pirates got into a fight with the marines (battalion 8). After the incident, they came to Red Line and successfully met Laboon (a whale), Crocus (keeper of the Twin Cape, a doctor), Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday (Princess Vivi of Kingdom of Arabasta). Crocus told them the way to sail in Grand Line, a sea of magnetism where the compass would not work here, by using the Log Pose. The came to the first island of Grand Line, Whiskey Peak, an island filled with pirate hunters of a secret criminal organization Baroque Works. Zoro himself defeated the 100 pirate hunters on the island when he and Luffy got caught in misunderstanding and started fighting each other while fighting the officer agent of Baroque Works, Mr. 5 pair. After sorting out the problems, they decided to help Vivi in sending her back to Arabasta when they stopped on a pre-historic island, Little Garden. They met Brogy and Dorry, captains of Giant Pirates and warriors of Elbaf, and fought with both Mr. 5 and Mr. 3 pair, who were ordered to assassinate Luffy, Zoro, Nami and Vivi for discovering the secret of the Baroque Works Boss' identity. By defeating them, they successfully got the Eternal Pose to Arabasta when Nami was bitten by a bug, which brought about the sickness, Kestia. The crews stopped on an island, Drum Kingdom and Luffy fought the Kingdom's King, King Wapol. With this stop on the island, they gained another new crew member, Chopper, a reindeer who ate the hito-hito no mi and inherited the greatest medical skills. They continued towards Arabasta when they met Mr. 2 on the way. Upon arriving on Arabasta, Luffy met his step-brother, Portgas D. Ace (son of Portgas D. Rouge and Gol D. Roger, second commander of Whitebeard Pirates), who was searching for the traitor of his unit, Marshall D. Teach (aka: blackbeard). Having the same destination, Ace traveled with the Straw-hat Pirates through the desert.

Glosarries:

1. Yonkou = four emperors, consist of four pirate crews that ruled the second half of the Grand Line as if they were Kings.
2. Shichibukai = seven pirates who were acknowledged by marine headquarters by paying a certain amount of tribute to the marines. For other pirates, they were dogs of marines but were extremely powerful.
3. Twin Cape = the cape after exiting Red Line and entering Grand Line.
4. Log Pose = a clock-like compass with only a needle, adapting to each island's magnetism and showed the route to the next island.
5. Eternal Pose = similar to Log Pose but the magnetism would never change.
6. Baroque Works = criminal organization controlled by one of the shichibukai, Crocodile. Having the rank of Mr. 0 (boss/ Crocodile) to Mr. 13. All work in pairs except for Mr. 2. Higher rank indicating greater strength in a battle. the first 5 agent known as officer agent have the power of the devil fruits.
7. Hito-hito no mi = fruit of human-human
8. Whitebeard Pirates = one of the yonkou and the captain, Edward Newgate, was said to fight in par with the previous pirate king and was said to be the greatest pirate after Gol D. Roger's death.

Weekly post

Oh, well. Another week has passed. It has been really busy, especially with two group presentation on progress and another extra assignment. But it's nice enough that i've already finish my assignment and my part for one of the group presentation. Just pray that the presentation going on on Wednesday could go on smoothly and nothing goes wrong. It costs me 20 marks for my unit. I wouldn't want it to have a bad mark anyway. But, I guess i'll be satisfied anyhow, since we didn't really make much preparation work on it.