Friday, October 18, 2019

Book Unhaul 18

It's been almost a whole year since I did an unhaul! I'm sure I unhauled some books before I moved earlier this year, but I guess I forgot to document them since it was so busy lol.


Ketchup Clouds ARC by Annabel Pitcher
Fury of the Phoenix by Cindy Pon
Huntress by Malinda Lo
Ink by Amanda Sun
Shine by Jeri Smith-Ready
Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin


Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Copenhagen Trip

Lol I'm almost three months late, but here it finally is!

Friday/Saturday, July 26-27:
  • Flew out Friday night with a layover in Newark, New Jersey and got there around Saturday afternoon
  • Checked into our Airbnb
  • Walked to the park nearby and played Pokemon Go
  • Grabbed dinner at Livingstone, which was really good
  • Got exotic flavored ice cream at Osterbro

Sunday, July 28:
  • Ate breakfast a random cafe
  • Got free cappuccinos since we had to wait so long for our food
  • Went on a Hop On Hop Off bus tour
  • Got off at Reffen Street Food and tried out a bunch of different foods and explored the shops there
  • Took another bus and walked the rest of the way to Nyhavn
  • Explored the shops around Nyhavn
  • Took an ice cream break cuz it was hot and our feet were dying lol
  • Walked around and explored some more areas nearby before going back home
  • The internet stopped working, so I ended up staying up late reading a book

Monday, July 29:
  • Went to work
  • Went to Laundromat Cafe afterwards for the free wifi and early dinner while we had a Skype meeting for a new project
  • Explored another park near the ocean
  • Internet still wasn't working at the Airbnb, so I stayed up late finishing another book lol

Tuesday, July 30:
  • Went to work
  • Explored the Round Tower
  • Walked around a big bookstore before we got kicked out since it was closing time
  • Had dinner at a restaurant our coworker recommended to us
  • Walked around and bought crepes since it was getting cold

Wednesday, July 31:
  • Went to work
  • Bought some limited edition European Harry Potter books at a comic book store
  • Bought some Danish Harry Potter books at Arnold Busck (the bookstore we got kicked out of yesterday)
  • Had dinner at Det Lille Apotek, the oldest restaurants in Denmark (Hans Christian Anderson used to come here often)
  • It started raining, so we bought souvenir ponchos and went home

Thursday, August 1:
  • Had dinner with Ebony's mentor at Bindia
  • Tried masala chai coffee, which was really good!
  • Grabbed ice cream at Gelati Martelli
  • Walked around the lake nearby and played Pokemon Go

Friday, August 2:
  • Last day at work where Kenneth and Jan helped map out our most expansive tour of the city yet lol
  • Visited the King's Garden
  • Walked by the Marble Church since it was under contruction
  • Had a tea break at the cafe around the corner
  • Visited the Queen's Palace and Amalie Garden
  • Went on a relaxing boat tour around Copenhagen
  • Went to Tivoli's Food Hall for dinner
  • Watched a Chinese dance group
  • Attended our first Danish concert at Tivoli which featured Inferno and Ude Af Kontro
  • Went home and started packing

Saturday/Sunday, August 3-4:
  • Ate our last breakfast at a cafe nearby
  • Took the bus and train to the airport
  • Flew out to Chicago before getting on our next flight back to Atlanta where David picked me up at midnight
  • Finally came home

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

New Anime and Movies This Fall That I'm Excited For!

Fall already started a few weeks ago, but it still feels super hot over here. This week, it dropped down from 95 degrees to 85 degrees! Anyway, there's a lot of anime that I'm super excited to watch! I didn't even know Chihayafuru was getting another season! :D

Not many movies I'm interested in, but that's cool since I still have a lot of movies to catch up on Netflix anyway.

Anime:
  • My Hero Academia season 4
  • Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods
  • Chihayafuru 3
  • Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious
  • Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo
  • Kemono Michi: Rise Up

Movies:
  • Joker (Oct 4)
  • Zombieland: Double Tap (Oct 18)

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Books I Want to Read This Month

So I didn't read anything on this list last month... But now that I'm not traveling anymore, I should have more time to pick up one of these books! :D
  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  2. Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
  3. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 12 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda
  4. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 1 by Memeco Arii
  5. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 2 by Memeco Arii
  6. I Hear the Sunspot: Limit vol. 1 by Yuki Fumino
  7. I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino
  8. Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 1 by Chie Shimada
  9. In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
  10. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
  11. The Anatomy of Being by Shinji Moon
  12. Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
  13. On Love by Alain de Botton
  14. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
  15. The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

September in Retrospect

Last month was so busy that I didn't even have time to post much. I ended up watching a lot of movies and read a couple of books this month since I was traveling a lot.

I read:
  • I Want to Enjoy a Country Life! by Botamochi
  • Villain Days by Mitsuru Nakata
  • The Script is Not Like This! by ZiWuYueYuan

I watched:
  • Men in Black: International (2019)
  • Dark Phoenix (2019)
  • Aladdin (2019)
  • Innocent Witness (2019)
  • My ID is Gangnam Beauty (2018)
  • If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord (2019)