Hello!

I’ve had a bevy of exams last week and couldn’t really update as planned. In addition, there are also reports to be made, so a proper update will (hopefully) come later this week.

On other news, there’s a book sale in our university. Aside from obtaining a rare Virginia Woolf hardbound novel, and Camus’s shorter works, I’ve also bought six Faulkner novels or compilations that I don’t have as yet. I’m so happy!

I’ve promised myself that I will finish Finnegans Wake first, however, so reading those would have to come later. Also, my backlog of books has once again bloated to almost 20.

I’m looking forward to enjoying Code Geass R2. Until then!

I thought that I had already resolved this issue with my writing in the past, but a close friend of mine had asked me why I wrote about literature so much. I also believe I have alienated some people with regard to my writing style, use of rhetoric, or some idiosyncrasy of mine, so I will try to set things straight (although I doubt I can change how I write at all). It still helps to clear things up. I believe that in this post a quasi-Wittgenstein approach is apt, so without further ado, I will begin. (more…)

After all those rigorous final examinations, I feel happy and relaxed to have returned home. Quite a euphoria has filled me; I am in a death wish to view the entirety of Shuffle! Memories in all its ‘depth’ and ‘glory (fanservice).’ More than my rants, however, I’m very happy that the Spring season is filled with a lot of anime that possess premises which are interesting, to say the least. Now I’m not going to do a summary post, as that has been done (with more research and resources) by Omni as well as fellow anime bloggers, I simply just have a dokidoki feeling of expectation admixed with a little anxiety as there will be a slew of awesome anime (from their initial premises) coming out this summer.

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I seriously think Code Geass is an anime emanating both wit and wisdom. Am I weird? (more…)

It was simply on a whim that I downloaded Soukou no Strain. I was about to sleep, but since I don’t turn off my laptop I decided it would be better for me to download some new episodes, and decided to watch S-Strain simply because it had too little information on the Internet – at least for me. I didn’t expect the first episode to be anything as good as what I have just seen: I was in a stupor having slept for only four hours (it is imperative that one makes the most out of the last days of his vacation), but having viewed the first episode I’m very awake. It was akin to having a dog bite me in the ass (yes, and I’ve been bitten by a dog [rabid, no less] before) – it’s just that jarring. (more…)

My temperament and sanity has not been the best these past few days, and it is because problems and predicaments have stacked and piled up atop one another that it takes all my sanity (and a little more) to endure it without breaking down. And I’m not joking here – my problems right now, to me, are very serious and very grave to the extent that I started my own personal blog just to pour out all my angst and misgivings into a more apt place. What’s worse is that the entry I’ve tried so hard to write and tried so hard to intellectualize didn’t really generate discussion or may have been gone unread. (I’m not complaining, however; it just verily disappointed me because I spent five hours writing and polishing it – the reader as the reader has every right to skip any one of my posts, especially long and verbose ones, understandably.) I know the reasons, but the occurrence itself simply disappoints me. But again, as much as I want to rant about my sadness and my disappointments, they are for another time and place. I just wanted to make it known – in a hopefully short paragraph – how I feel right now because it would probably contribute to the detriment of the quality of my writing, and I’m sorry if you guys ever feel duped. (more…)