Regular Facebook users should have noticed by now the ads for this detox…or teatox programme called SkinnyMint. Detox has been on my mind for some time now. Ever since I started work, I’ve been battling a constipation problem. I also had a persistent pimple problem on my back. I figured what I really needed was a good detox. My mother-in-law…
Year: 2014
some things are better left as memories
As quoted by a friend, “…some things are better off as just memories.” Couldn’t agree more. Normally I wouldn’t start watching an anime series until I’ve got all the episodes. It’s a weird habit but I would rather have uninterrupted viewing than have to impatiently wait for a new episode to be released. This rule sticks unless I’m too excited…
high school romance
I used to go crazy on manga but stopped for a while since it became a little too costly to keep up. Instead, I turned to online scanlations. Yes, I broke the cardinal sin of turning to online English scanlations, but hey, I read English much faster than I do with Chinese. Well, it lasted for a while until I…
amnesia
Another kyaa-ing post. I have discovered that such anime are usually part of an otome game or visual novel’s franchise. Yes, these anime usually have rather weak storylines but have characters that make you go all doki doki. In Amnesia, the main character (her name is not mentioned at all) loses her memory after an accident and she interacts with…
uta wo utau
Quite a bit has been going on but I’ll take my time to fill in the gap since my last post. Since I made a status post on Facebook that I’ve perhaps found a new song to sing at KTV, I thought I’ll clear up some doubt on whether I memorise lyrics when I sing Japanese songs. The truth is…no,…
upgraded
My blog was down for awhile coz it exceeded the 8GB bandwidth. I’m quite sure it was the doing of spam bots as I receive tons of spam comments and all my pictures and embedded videos are hosted elsewhere. As much as I like the sound of thousands of page views, I prefer if actual people are reading and not…
alma mater returns
I got my first birthday present of 2014 in the form of watching Alma Mater return to her pedestal via the very cool Alma Cam. She was taken down in 2012 for restoration. After years of braving the rain and snow, she had obtained a shade of green. This was how she looked like when I graduated. I began checking…
it doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white
Tolerance. Something that not everyone has. Sometimes I wonder why we allow society to shape how we think or act. “The only thing wrong in this little girl’s world is the people who won’t accept her for who she is.” Jazz was not allowed to play girl’s soccer coz she’s biologically a boy and they are afraid she’ll hurt the…
bokura ga ita
Yet another film adapted from a manga series. 僕等がいた (Bokura ga Ita) is a high school romance story about a girl named Takahashi Nanami who fell for the popular boy, Yano Motoharu. Always the same trope but I never get sick of such stories. Haha. I started out watching the anime series and liked it so much that I continued reading…
kyou, koi wo hajimemasu
I’m the kind of person that likes to watch and read the same series to compare the treatment of the story in different mediums. 今日、恋をはじめます (Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu) is another film adapted from a manga series about plain jane Hibino Tsubaki who gets teased by the popular guy in her high school, Tsubaki Kyouta but eventually falls for him. A…