Because There’s Nothing Wrong With Working [Too] Hard

Ended up rewatching the last two episodes of Hataraki Man after reading the comments in our recent Anniv post, which brought me back to the time I started out blogging [we started out blogging, fellow chefs and I]. Was it fun? Spending hours writing episodic summaries, rewatching each episode about 3-4 times to catch almost all the details, reading the novel side-by-side the anime and jotting down the discrepancies and what fans are missing out on, or taking up days to come up with thoughts on a particular episode (which, by then, have already spanned a couple of eps due to delay). The struggle was definitely not, but during those times the drive to blog was so strong that I barely noticed it. And seeing at least 1 person appreciate what you wrote (even if you never really expected it), or having been given the otsukare! pat in the back by your co-blogger and/or commenters, is enough to make you feel that it was all worth it.

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State of the Scrumptious: Birth, Death and Rebirth(?)

It’s been a while since there’s been life here in the blog, but fear not, for we have come to rectify that! or so we hope. Springtime has come, now it’s April, a month dear to me and my co-bloggers because it’s the month our blog was [officially] born. The same goes for Totali, Owen, CCY and… oh wow that’s it?! I don’t know any more April blogging celebrants ;_;

Anyways, we figured we owe you guys some explanation for this long absence, especially on this Special Day (I’m pretending that it’s still the 17th). I myself am very curious about the sentiments of my co-bloggers–why they drifted from blogging, why they started out blogging (because they started out this blog, and I was the foreign specie that ruined their habitat), how Scrumptious was born, and ultimately, whether or not they have joined the ranks of people who turned their back 180° from blogging, never to come back. So without further ado, a word from the Scrumptious chefs:

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Thou Shall Not Mess With .htaccess

If you visited the blog recently, then you would’ve been plagued by 404 errors all over the place. But rest assured, people, the situation is under control. The blog wasn’t hacked (though I thought of the possibility, and panicked a little, until I realized what really caused it) it was just uhh– messed by yours truly. Been working on the new buggy theme for the last couple of days, and thought I’d tweak the .htaccess file to load the post images on my local server– and forgot to bring it back to the way it was.

So yeah, Golden Rule people: don’t mess around with your .htaccess file. It might be < 1KB, but it holds the power to mess up your entire blog, sorta.

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Of Love & Food, Honey & Clover: A Teaser

While I’m still not done done with my Honey & Clover rewatch (Gonna ‘restart’ it after I’m done with Midori no Hibi, since that’s the one with a deadline) and also not done deciphering this interview with Umino Chika in Manga Kitchen, I’m afraid you’re gonna have to bear with this little teaser:

usagijen: I just read this “Manga Kitchen” book/mook/whatever
usagijen: which features various manga series wherein “food” is a motif of some sort
usagijen: or that food, in some ways, had a significance in that series
usagijen: thought it’d be soo relevant to scrumptious!
usagijen: and it so happens that H&C is featured in that book, the very first one too.
usagijen: ever wondered why the opening of H&C is the way it is?

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Life at 25: A Series of (Un)Fortunate Events

(大空テラス少女 by hoppang)

On the 13th of December my true love sent — rather, I turned 1/4-of-a-century old, a ‘Quarter Centurian’ according to j1m0ne. Might not be much, but it’s still zOMG 25 freaking years living on Planet Earth! Just another 25 years and I’ll be an obaasan! (or a MILF, we’ll see) Hello quarter-life crisis?
Birthday, [...]

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JLPT Shackles, Begone!

I AM FREE!
well, sorta. JLPT is over since last Sunday, and while I’m still not 100% sure that I’ll pass (50-50 chance, could also be 60-40), I’m happy to say that it wasn’t as frustrating (exciting?) as last year. I had the same proctor (who didn’t seem to have recognized ‘The Girl Who Haggled For [...]

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How to ‘Dissect’ 101, feat. Guinea Pig Code Name: 03G

The verdict is in: Our blog is eliminated from the Otaku Elimination Game, like Oh Em Gee. Was hoping they’ll check out our blog after I’m done with the site renovation, new theme, plugins and all that, but what do you know, they’re more excited than I thought! :3

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OFF TO FACE THE FINAL BOSS

and it goes by the name of JLPT1.
still got a heapload of vocabs (語彙) to study/memorize, those with very subtle nuances (like telling the difference between 活気,活躍,活動,活発, and 活用, how they’re used) especially, and re-memorize MOAR kanjis. They’re making my brain bleed
I’m confident with my reading/grammar, but have to make one last quick [...]

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How I Want the Otaku Elimination Game to End

’nuff said.
…but for some reason I can’t stop myself from saying more.
As opposed to bloggers sucking up to each other (Anime Blog Awards), this time around we’ve got an otaku eliminator who jizzes and pisses at them blogs. Looking forward to the cumming of age of this one (I think it’s already happening, actually, not [...]

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My Animusic ‘Blues Chaser’

Thanks to my melancholic mood for the last couple of days, I came up with a list of my ‘10 Favorite Anime Music Blues Chasers’, also in response to adaywithoutme’s ‘Anime Music to Listen to When Depressed’. What better way to fight melancholy but drown yourself in music, right?
I rarely talk about music in this [...]

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