Okay, the as-promised blog post on my first day at university will have to wait for a while........ Maybe it will be about the first week instead.
A few people have asked me regarding the layout of this blog page and the large number of manga/anime pictures on it.... I have an explanation for that; I like watching anime and reading manga. However, there's another story behind why I uploaded so many anime/manga posters on my blog......It's actually a fallout of my ISC Chemistry project.....
Around 2 months after I had submitted my brief and business-like project(with everything scrawled in my tiny cursive handwriting), my Chemistry teachers dropped a bomb on me saying my project was too short, drab, ugly and not 'colourful enough'....... Well, that really implied that I'd have to spend a whole day with sketch-pens, colour pencils etc. and make a 'colourful project'...... Something which I had long regarded to be the domain of a 7 year old child, and not that of a 17 year old teenager... To me, content was more important than presentation......
Anyway, when I submitted the project the next day, the teachers still weren't happy with it........ It still wasn't colourful enough! I actually had to take the help of the girls in my class to bring it up to the high standards of 'colourfulness' that the teachers demanded......... Anyway, I eventually managed to submit a project they found acceptable......... The content was virtually the same as the first project, but written in larger characters, with longer spaces in between words and some strategically placed blanks.
On a careful assessment of both the projects, I had to admit to myself that I'd have read the second over the first any day...... It really struck me on that day, that we humans do tend to judge books by their covers..... For example, when I wish to buy a novel at a bookstore, and I see that 2 different publishers are offering the same novel, I am invariably inclined to pick the book with a more attractive cover, even though the drab one could in fact, be cheaper.......
And it even extends to textbooks! Most textbooks written by Indian authors tend to have horrible covers and style of presentation, whereas those by American and British authors have considerably better presentation..... For example, the 'Introduction to Analysis' books by Maity and Ghosh may serve my purpose better than 'Calculus' by Michael Spivak, but I'm still biased towards the American book solely for its presentation...... Even in case of books by 2 internationally renowned authors, I find myself partial to the one with better presentation.... So while 'Mathematical Analysis' by Tom Apostol and 'Principles of Mathematical Analysis' by Walter Rudin may be equivalent texts, I'd lean towards Rudin's book because it's printing quality is better(both books are priced at around Rs. 300 at present).....
Coming back to this blog, I realised my previous layout was quite boring and dull and that unless people already knew about the content, they would not be willing to read it, mainly because it was unattractive....
Hence, in a bid to make it more eye-catching, I uploaded posters of some of my favourite anime and manga because, as we all know, manga and anime posters are colourful and eyecatching..... Hopefully, this will attract more readers to my blog..... Any suggestions are welcome
Anyway the anime/manga series featured on my blog are(top to bottom)-
1. InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi
2. Bleach by Tite Kubo
3. Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
4. DragonBall by Akira Toriyama
5. One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
6. FullMetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
7. AstroBoy by Osamu Tezuka
8. Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
9.Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
10. Yu Yu Hakusho byYoshihiro Togashi
A few people have asked me regarding the layout of this blog page and the large number of manga/anime pictures on it.... I have an explanation for that; I like watching anime and reading manga. However, there's another story behind why I uploaded so many anime/manga posters on my blog......It's actually a fallout of my ISC Chemistry project.....
Around 2 months after I had submitted my brief and business-like project(with everything scrawled in my tiny cursive handwriting), my Chemistry teachers dropped a bomb on me saying my project was too short, drab, ugly and not 'colourful enough'....... Well, that really implied that I'd have to spend a whole day with sketch-pens, colour pencils etc. and make a 'colourful project'...... Something which I had long regarded to be the domain of a 7 year old child, and not that of a 17 year old teenager... To me, content was more important than presentation......
Anyway, when I submitted the project the next day, the teachers still weren't happy with it........ It still wasn't colourful enough! I actually had to take the help of the girls in my class to bring it up to the high standards of 'colourfulness' that the teachers demanded......... Anyway, I eventually managed to submit a project they found acceptable......... The content was virtually the same as the first project, but written in larger characters, with longer spaces in between words and some strategically placed blanks.
On a careful assessment of both the projects, I had to admit to myself that I'd have read the second over the first any day...... It really struck me on that day, that we humans do tend to judge books by their covers..... For example, when I wish to buy a novel at a bookstore, and I see that 2 different publishers are offering the same novel, I am invariably inclined to pick the book with a more attractive cover, even though the drab one could in fact, be cheaper.......
And it even extends to textbooks! Most textbooks written by Indian authors tend to have horrible covers and style of presentation, whereas those by American and British authors have considerably better presentation..... For example, the 'Introduction to Analysis' books by Maity and Ghosh may serve my purpose better than 'Calculus' by Michael Spivak, but I'm still biased towards the American book solely for its presentation...... Even in case of books by 2 internationally renowned authors, I find myself partial to the one with better presentation.... So while 'Mathematical Analysis' by Tom Apostol and 'Principles of Mathematical Analysis' by Walter Rudin may be equivalent texts, I'd lean towards Rudin's book because it's printing quality is better(both books are priced at around Rs. 300 at present).....
Coming back to this blog, I realised my previous layout was quite boring and dull and that unless people already knew about the content, they would not be willing to read it, mainly because it was unattractive....
Hence, in a bid to make it more eye-catching, I uploaded posters of some of my favourite anime and manga because, as we all know, manga and anime posters are colourful and eyecatching..... Hopefully, this will attract more readers to my blog..... Any suggestions are welcome
Anyway the anime/manga series featured on my blog are(top to bottom)-
1. InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi
2. Bleach by Tite Kubo
3. Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
4. DragonBall by Akira Toriyama
5. One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
6. FullMetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
7. AstroBoy by Osamu Tezuka
8. Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
9.Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
10. Yu Yu Hakusho byYoshihiro Togashi
I am bit surprised dat samurai X did nt make d list
ReplyDeleteBecause Samurai X is both my profile picture and my banner :P
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