The Chaos-Knight Journal

 "The journal of one who is walking in the Realm of Men, yet always facing towards the Realm of Heaven and Glory
  Of a Knight who follows the path of what is true, living in the hope of a salvation by grace alone and not by works
  Living not by fear of men, but by fear of God, setting his sights not on the earth, but on the things which are above"
 

Page 76: Greeting

Blue Chaos Scanlations presents you Page 76 of Death Note. The story is getting interesting and the plot twist is strong in this one. Near’s SPK was dissolved by the vice-president, but they are still conducting their Kira investigation secretly. Meanwhile, Near pointed out that Mello is likely to contact one of the team and he will share what informations he has with Mello, especially about the possibility of the Second Kira (which is Light) being Kira. Then he pointed out that among the four man team, it is most likely that Mello will contact Hal Ridner, the only female member of Near’s team. In the end of the chapter, Hal brought Mello to Near’s headquarters and for the first time after some long years, Mello stands face-to-face with Near.

The most interesting thing in this chapter is Mello’s new appearance. Light made a point that Mello couldn’t have survived the explosion without any injuries, and yes he has been injured. But with a scar in his face an a “Kingdom Hearts II”-like jacket, he looks very badass now and for me he has become my no.1 personal favourite, dropping Ryuuzaki to spot no.2. Hal Ridner has also become my no.1 female character here. Her appeal is far more than Misa (Sayu and the others don’t even count). Especially after you see her “special” page on page 17, just who can resist a lingering eye like that? I hope this character won’t get killed soon. This character can prove to be a kind of… ahem, “fan service”… for the male readers, if you know what I mean…

Next Chapter: Page 77 - Use

Another twist of the UEFA Champions League 2005/2006 appeared yesterday when Chelsea and Liverpool are both drawn into Group G of the tournament. Since there is no country protection for Liverpool, it was inevitable that Liverpool would meet another English team, but to meet Chelsea again at such an early stage is the most interesting outcome it can be. The other smaller twist came from Group D, where Manchester United meet Villareal. It would be a perfect stage for Diego Forlan to make his revenge against Manchester United, the club who sold him and deemed him useless before he moved to Villareal and gained success there.

On the English Premier League, Chelsea’s 4-0 win against West Brom brought them to top of the league right now, with a perfect 9 points to date and 6 goals difference (6-0) to boot. Arsenal made a comeback after their loss to Chelsea with a 4-1 hammering against Fulham. Coincidentally, both of Arsenal’s and Chelsea’s main man, Thierry Henry and Frank Lampard respectively, scored two goals each in those matches. Right now Henry’s leading the top scorer ranks with three goals from three matches.

The UEFA Champions League group stage will start on September 13, so don’t miss it.

Page 75: Recognition

Right now I am working with some RAW cleaners and translators to provide the latest Death Note scanlations under the name “Blue Chaos Scanlations”. These scanlations are the work of at least three people. The RAW cleaner - the one who cleans the RAW, erase the original Japanese text and make the pages look better. The translator - the one who translates the original Japanese in the RAW to English. And the typesetter - who puts in all the translated texts in their respective speech bubbles and boxes.

For this Page 75 Release, I am the typesetter (and I will still be for future releases), Naiujiro - who provided us with decent HQ releases in the past - as the cleaner, and Rei/Chikubi from TOWNL as the translators. Thank you for all of them, now the Page 75 has been released and can be downloaded here.

This chapter follows the story after Light’s team managed to get the note back at the cost of Yagami Soichiro’s life. The U.S. made an important statement where their vice-president announced that they will not go against Kira. Matsuda even doubted if Kira is really evil, because crime and war have vanished since Kira appeared. And finally Light made a point that now, the battle is not against just Kira, but against the world, since the world is behind Kira now, even the largest country in the world have bent over and submitted to Kira. So now it’s the world, not just Kira. Try to stop it, if you can! (Also in this chapter, we can see that Near is getting more and more like Ryuuzaki, speaking in those manners of percentages and all).

Chelsea 1 - 0 Arsenal (Drogba Winner - 73′)

This was one of those matches where luck was the most important factor on the pitch. A match that could change the course of the entire season, like last season, when Drogba beat Manchester United on their first home game and buried them so that they could never come back to the title challenge. This season, there is a very big chance that Arsenal will drop to the third and Manchester United will rise to second, especially considering that while Arsenal have sold Vieira and bought no classed player, United have bought Edwin Van Der Sar and Park Ji-Sung, who have both played with great form for United. And to think that this kind of match had been won by luck, maybe it is kinda cruel…

But as Soccernet stated it, the goal did not come from luck only but also due to Arsenal’s lack of concentration, especially Senderos, making the same mistakes against Drogba as he did in Arsenal 1-2 loss to Chelsea in the Community Shield. The luck factor played when Drogba evaded Senderos, ran towards Lehmann, and the free-kick pass from Lampard hit his shin (he failed to control the ball, actually) to go slowly and helplessly towards goal. It was a very lucky goal, not even a lucky shot because it was not a shot, it was a deflection off his shin. This lack of discipline and concentration showed up again in the last minutes of the game, again by Senderos, whose missed back-pass almost granted Drogba his second goal, if it was not for his indecision who only managed to put the ball straight into Lehmann. Surely Arsenal would miss Vieira as captain now… there is clearly no more discipline in the Arsenal team play since he left (btw, Juventus lost 0-1 to Inter).

Now we will just have to wait and see how will Chelsea fare against Manchester United… As for the end of Matchday #2, there are currently 4 teams with 2 wins: Tottenham, Charlton, Manchester United and Chelsea. It will be interesting to see who among the four will be the first to fall on Matchday #3. Or will they be able to survive the next fixture? Arsenal have currently fell into 9th position after today’s loss against Chelsea, so let’s see if they will be able to bounce back, or be doomed like Manchester United last season.

No, this is not another Sadako animated gifs, nor are they fake edited pictures created in Photoshop to scare you. These images are real, and there is a story behind all this. If you care to listen, please sit down, while I spread the star powder on the campfire, before we tune in to another session of Are You Afraid Of The Dark… *maniac hysterical laugh - screams can be heard from far away*

The story began when I went to the Data Sari Cipta (DSC) office, the modem distributor. Of the two solutions I proposed earlier in this journal, there came the third new option. The owner of DSC, a graduate of the Computer Engineering major in STTS (Technical High School of Surabaya), decided to let me borrow one of his modems until I finished my final project. Maybe because we are both students of Computer Engineering (although I steer towards the Information Systems division), he can understand what I’m going through, so he let me borrow his modem. I was to meet him in his office and take the modem earlier today at 11 am, and this is where the actual ghastly apparitions story began…

When I arrived, the office building was not like what I imagined an office building would look like. The building used to be a hotel named Jane’s Hotel, and the office was actually only in one room of the hotel, room 106. Since the owner was away, I decided to waste my time by looking around the hotel. It turned out that this hotel was a classic hotel that existed from the Dutch colonization era (early 1900’s). There is even a map of Surabaya that is still written in Dutch, and the notes from the map suggest that the map was made in 1929. The artifacts that exist in this hotel are ethnic Javanese, with some influences from the Dutch culture here and there, especially on the layout of the hotel itself.

Since the owner was not back in 30 minutes, I took out my Sony Ericcson S700i and snapped some pictures.
•  Hallway towards backyard
•  Exit towards backyard
•  Backyard tree and “pendapa”
•  Lobby - Angle #1
•  Lobby - Angle #2
•  Room 106 - The Office
•  Gamelan lounge
•  Vases and paintings
•  Hallway towards front door (apparition?)
•  Receptionist desk

For the guy that told me to go out and contribute to Indonesia’s 60th Independence Day… well here is my contribution. This post shows you a building from the pre-independence days, so it should have some historical meaning in it. Besides, if I’m not mistaken I saw a painting of Teuku Umar in here, but I don’t feel like taking an up-close photo of the painting because taking pictures of a painting can be spooky. Also remember that I took these pictures on 11 am, so there’s still daylight, but I bet you wouldn’t want to sleep in this hotel in the night.

Also, for the information of those who might be interested, this hotel is for rent. So maybe if you’re not scared and you want an office or workplace with an ethnic feel and a mystical atmosphere, this will be a good place to look at. Maybe the guys from the Outcasts Community can rent this place as their Surabaya Headquarters? The address is a “good number” too, it is located on Dinoyo 100 Surabaya, so it should be easy for your customers to remember where your office is located if you decide to rent this place after all.