I haven’t made much progress with regard to my anime watching. I have been doing my thesis for the past few days, and I also started reviewing for the medical admission test which is three weeks from now.

There weren't any good manga in the convention :c

While some of us may be perverts, let me try (hopefully, in the next posts) to prove that we can also do a lot of things well in our lives.

I’m often glad whenever a novel or an anime series mentions the Philippines in either anime or literature (which are my favorite media). When the first episode of Black Lagoon mentioned Philippines (I think it was an island in Basilan, or something), I smiled. It doesn’t happen much.

Doesn’t he look African-American in origin?

I have a streak of impulsivity with regard to book or novel purchases, because most of the time novels that one wants are in short number. This is most evident especially in second-hand bookstores: more often than not, the novels that one has failed to purchase because of a lack of money or other reasons cannot be found when one returns to the same bookstore (unless one returns immediately after getting the required amount of money, but even then there is still high chance that it may have been purchased, especially if the novel is rare). This is the reason why I tend to rely on impulse whenever I purchase novels, because I primarily buy them from second-hand bookstores. Read the rest of this entry »