NO YOU, Miracle Train

So I watched Miracle Train and something about it has been bugging me ever since.

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The Introvert Shadow: Reflections on the Camp, and Onani Master Kurosawa

The week-long camp is over, and right now I’m feeling both the afterglow and the aftergloom of the said experience.

It was great, a clear sign that I am officially back on track with my life, back from being a lost little backslider sheep. During that short span of time I got close to a number of people, and felt my whole world expand in the process. Meeting people from all over the country who shares your belief was a joy; meeting people who are also friends and acquaintances of my baka aniki#2 made it even more rewarding, as it bridged the gap between us siblings (and no it’s not simply because he shouldered my camp fee). Not completely just yet, but getting there. Not to mention my brother was like my cheat sheet into getting acquainted with some of the delegates since I could be so conveniently introduced as “baka aniki #2’s sister” (since my brother is quite active in this nationwide event, being one of the coordinators for the past years or so), and they would go “Oh! you’re [baka aniki#2]’s sister!” yep, that’s me! *flash smile* But I digress.

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How Facebook Ruined My Oniichan

Commercial break!
Inspired by some recent turn of events in the house.

Oniichan no b-b-baka!
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Comments Are (Not) Allowed

So I’ve been away for a few days, had this one s-s-silly post scheduled, looking forward to what people have to say about it upon my return, if readers were actually compelled to respond. So imagine my shock, surprise, and overall frustration when I realized that the comments were disallowed in the post, like, 4-5 days after the post was published, with the post’s sizzle now gone or what. As it turns, the post was also incomplete, so is the version reflected in the feeds. The earlier revision was the complete one orz

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Nihongo Speech Files #2: How I Met Nihongo

aka The Crazy Things You Do For Nihongo

Just added the English version of this as I write this post, with other additional side-comments. So yeah, be forewarned that this is not an exact 1:1 Japanese-english translation.

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The Cumming-of-age of Onani Master Kurosawa. And I Came Buckets.

Those are True Tears btw.

woah, the resemblance between Kurosawa and Hei didn’t occur to me until I saw this fanart, looks-wise and otherwise.

I’ve been putting off reading Onani Master Kurosawa for the longest time now (as with the rest of my backlogs), and a rather unexpected turn of events finally got me to stop bumming [...]

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WordCamp Philippines 2009 – With Great [Blogging] Power Comes Great Responsibility

Reporting for the recently concluded WordCamp Philippines 2009 last Saturday o>

I totally failed at giving the heads up about this early on in the blog, unlike last year. It was already too late by the time I realized I wasn’t able to inform hazy and Zeroblade about this, the two blogger friends I went with last year OTL

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Learning Nihongo, One Sense at a Time

Quite some time ago, whenever someone asks me about the best way(s) to learn Nihongo, I’m sure to give “playing Japanese games/visual novels” as a response, because, according to me, it’ll boost up both your listening and reading skills — hitting two stones with one bird! pun intended. Part of this scheme of mine is watching chinese subs, which, as my know-it-all self once said, can help clarify what’s being said (assuming the chinese translator knows what he/she is doing).

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Nihongo Speech Files #1: On ‘Lettting Go’

LISTEN TO MY SPEECH

Not quite anime/manga related, but I thought I’d share this anyway. This is not the first Nihongo speech I delivered in the office, but since this is the most ‘ready for posting’, I decided to have this published first

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9/9/9: Musings On Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 9 and Hatsukoi Limited 9

At the time of this writing, it’s September 9, 2009 (since I know for sure I won’t be able to finish this in time, with my flu and all), the day of my flight back home after my 5-month business trip in Cebu, and coincidentally, the last two anime episodes I watched is that of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 9 and Hatsukoi Limited 9, both of which are pretty relevant to my situation at the moment too.

That said, please don’t ever make the mistake of reading this post until you’ve seen Tokyo Magnitude episode 9, because the episode might lose its impact if you already knew what’s going to happen. Click here to skip to my ‘unfinished business’ rambling (past the Tokyo Magnitude spoiler) or here to skip to the Hatsukoi Limited 9 rambling.

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