Archive for May, 2008

The Lunar New Year: (9) Filipinos are a bunch of perverts

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

This is a light post.
Anyway, zaitcev linked to #animeblogger (and has posted about it) regarding the Google trends of searching for ‘anime, hentai.’ If you check it out, the people who top the list are …
You guessed it right, Filipinos.
I had a good laugh over it, really. Oh wow.

The Lunar New Year: (8) Media’s intertextuality, and postmodernism as a bane

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The lack of updates can be attributed to a very taxing (yet supererogatory) paper on Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel Tripmaster Monkey. I am grateful to all the people who have helped me. Special mention must be made regarding Daniel, who, despite with his exams of Shakespeare allotted some time to help me organize my paper; […]

The Lunar New Year: (7) Bus Gamer: yes, an anime review

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

This is not an excuse: I do have an exam in a few hours.

Wise beard man does not approve

The Lunar New Year: (6) Athambia, aphasia, apathia

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I am an idiosyncratic guy (I believe everyone is, to some extent). Among the quirks that I have noticed in me, however, is the quirk of being a bibliophile bordering on obsession. Simply put, I have this itch to read, and I tell you, it has not been pretty most of the time. This comes […]

The Lunar New Year: (5) On nouveau bloggers

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

You guys may have noticed that I’m way ahead of schedule. It’s true, I am. But I’d rather fulfill it faster than not fulfill it at all. Maybe I’ll get some bonus points, I don’t know. As long as my mind can think of different topics to write about, however, why should I stop? (This […]

The Lunar New Year: (4) Music in anime

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Thenightsshadow just wrote a new post in his updated blog. I know this because I was talking with him yesterday; the post deals with character music. He quipped:
However, I feel that people have overlooked a gem of the characterization of anime characters; that is, their character music.
This statement reminded me of James Joyce. It’s quite […]