anime|otaku

After all this time I’ve finally managed to properly immerse myself in anime once more. I have been watching Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Lovely Complex, Darker than Black, Sailor Moon, Hataraki Man and will watch Mononoke once the subs come out. It’s a great feeling, and I hope I can maintain this feeling that I’ve lost […]

We just had our first exam on Organic Chemistry yesterday, and I was happy because I regained confidence in myself: if one read my previous posts, I cried foul at our Histology exam because it was just so damn difficult that after taking it I felt as if I were as smart as a snail. […]

mono no oware … 物の哀れ

It’s the problem of every student: school is cramping their style and their lives, and it’s my problem as well. I haven’t really watched the amount of anime I would have liked to, but then again, I’ve promised I’ll be more serious towards my studies this semester.

Class for the second semester begins tomorrow. That would subsequently mean that my intermittent posts will become even more intermittent as I’m expecting a difficult semester ahead of me. I’ve had fun in the last few days of my vacation; I’ve coalesced into blog posts different ideas and concepts whirling in my head; most of […]

(written on Nov. 3)
I’ve finally done a pogrom against hackneyed literature with the reading of Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down. His literature is not as terse or brief as Hemingway’s or as serpentine or long-winded as Faulkner’s, but I would argue that he’s among the best writers (American or not) of short novels (and novels […]

I’m going to act conceited and selfish once more, but kindly allow me to rant (once more) because my schooldays have gone increasingly vapid, and in a sense have become worthless to me. I know and recognize that I am in utmost danger from succumbing to the call of becoming a freeter, but circumstances in […]

I guess I’m killing my parents slowly. Yes, I’ve thought (and still think) I’m pretty smart, but that wasn’t entirely from my perspective: my parents until now think I’m a real genius incapable of failure if I tried hard enough. My teachers of yesteryears similarly think so, and my siblings think I’m some god that […]

The thirteenth episode of NHK ni Youkoso! for now seems to be the pinnacle of this series. It became a visual short story interwoven with many pastiches of meaning as well as reflections on human nature put into play from the interactions of the characters subsumed in this series.

Despite my efforts to study assiduously for an exam (to the extent of abnormally giving a whole week so I could properly prepare for it) I didn’t even get a decent score when compared to the time I’ve studied. It really just enervates one; yet it would have been alright had it not happen to […]