Friday, August 30, 2019

Weekly Haul (117)

Bought a bunch of books last month. The Harry Potter ones are my souvenirs from Denmark lol.


Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 20th Anniversary Edition by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Danish version) by J.K. Rowling]
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Anatomy of Being by Shinji Moon

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Packing, Moving, Unpacking, & Packing Again

Most of July revolved around packing, moving, and unpacking. Then Ebony and I went to Copenhagen for eight days. It was a hectic month.

David started working at his official accounting job on July 1st, so we went out to eat at the Chinese place we like in Kennesaw to celebrate. We tried the Chinese bubble pancakes as an appetizer and really like it!

I decided not to go to Lance and Sam's Fourth of July party on the actual holiday. Instead, David came over on the third and we spent the night watching The Rising of the Shield Hero, which was a really good anime. 

That Friday, I came to pick David up and see his new living situation before we went down to Warner Robins. We decided to get dinner at Bento Box since we've always seen it but ate at the restaurants next to it lol. We had this high schooler as our waiter, who was unintentionally hilarious lol. Half of the things that we wanted to order were out of stock, so every time we'd want to order something, he'd be like "ooh we're out of that" and felt bad since this was our first time there. The food was still good since we ordered takoyaki and different types of bao among other things. 

After that, we went down to celebrate the Fourth of July at Alec's house, where he had a huge BBQ and lots of fireworks like usual. It was great seeing everyone again, and we met Harnish's new girlfriend who got drunk off of the whole bottle of wine that they brought lol. She kept on talking about veganism to Mikey and Jerry even though they had already changed the topic, so Jerry threw her to David to talk about their restaurant jobs. Poor David had to listen to her talk for at least an hour since I abandoned him lol.

After I came back that weekend, it was nonstop packing and moving boxes of stuff to the new house after work. The worst part was the we weren't even done packing by the time the movers came on Saturday morning. So while they were busy loading up their trucks with our furniture and boxes, Shelle and I were packing up the kitchen and office. They came around 10am and didn't leave until 8pm. It was crazy. One wall of the loft was just stacked high with boxes. 

There was a bunch of small stuff left at the old house that we didn't pack, so we spent the next day packing all of that up and moving it to the new house. We had a lot of clothes and furniture to donate, so we had to move all of the clothes for the Vietnam Veterans of America to our front porch and all of the furniture to the garage before we left. I was just glad to finally stop going back and forth from the old house to the new house. 

The next Thursday, Starbucks had a BOGO deal on frappuccinos for Happy Hour, so a bunch of us took a 30 minute break and headed over to the Starbucks at the mall. As we left the mall, we found out that the Amazon Prime Treasure Truck had set up shop in front of the mall entrance and was giving away free energy drinks. So we came back with a bunch of free drinks lol. It was a good day even though we all melted from the heat.


The next week was David and my five year anniversary. We went out to Tuk Tuk to celebrate since I've been wanting to take him there for ages. The food was really good, but I kept embarrassing him in front of our waiter lmao. I had originally wanted the food to be spicy, but then I remembered that he couldn't handle too spicy stuff, so I changed my mind in front of the waiter while David was like no, keep it spicy, it's fine. When the waiter left, he turned to me and was like "you're fucking embarrassing me!" all exasperated lol. Later, the waiter asked if we wanted dessert and started listing their daily specials. David immediately said, "we'll take it" when we heard mango sticky rice, but then I was like, "wait, I want to see the rest of the menu" and embarrassed him again! Lolol. It was a fun night.

The next week, we started hardcore unpacking the house since the parents wanted to come up and visit in a week or two. That was exhausting since we had to upack after we got home every day. 

In between all of the unpacking, I also had to pack for Copenhagen since Ebony and I were leaving that Friday. I'll make a separate post about Copenhagen soon. I've just been lazy about posting since I've been meaning to post all of the pics on Instagram but keep on forgetting to.

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Shows I'm Currently Watching: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II, Titans, The Untamed, & The King's Avatar

I've been watching a lot of anticipated shows for the past few weeks.

CURRENTLY WATCHING:


I wasn't even expecting there to be a sequel out! That's why I've bought and read the light novels for the past few years! But I'm happy that there is a sequel because I already know that there's going to be some awesome battles ahead! Watching the new episodes helps also helps refresh my memory about what happened in the books, which is why I was ready to read volumes 10 and 11 while I was in Copenhagen.

I forgot how much they like to focus on bouncing boobs in the anime, but it's just a small part of the episode, so I don't really mind it.



I've been meaning to watch this since I found out that they was going to be a live action version of Teen Titans. Of course, I should have known that it would be kind of dark like the rest of the DC series are, and the animated version got pretty dark. too. I'm also really loving Beast Boy's and Starfire's characters in here! Gar is such a cute goofball looking out for everyone, and Kori is unapologetically herself even though she doesn't remember herself.

I was watching this on Netflix in Denmark. Now I need to watch it somewhere else since it's not on American Netflix  lol.



The drama is the live action version of The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. You know, the donghua (Chinese version of anime) that I fell in love with earlier this year and have been waiting for the second season to come out this year. Well, I randomly found out that there's a live action drama that came out last month and will be finishing up this month and that the second season of the donghua just started last week as well! Great news all around! The only thing that sucks is that due to China's censorship, the true romance pairing will not be shown in either the donghua or drama.

Regardless, the actors in the drama are so good that you can tell from all of the little hints and subtle clues from their facial expressions and actions that they like each other. Ugh, I just forgot how sad it gets for a certain arc; I had to take a break and read a fluffy story to feel better after watching those couple of episodes lol. That's probably what stopped me from reading the novel that its based on because I wasn't ready for all of those sad emotions right after I finished watching the donghua last year. I'm on episode 21 now, and the comments say that the next couple of episodes are also going to be sad, so I'm not sure if my heart can handle this lol. I'm weak. XD I just want the main characters to be happy!



I've been waiting for this drama since last year when they announced that it was being made into a drama! I loved the anime version so much that it got me interested in reading the Chinese novel, but then school got busy, so I had to stop reading for a while. When I got back into it, the website that translated the novel moved to a different website where you had to pay to read each chapter, so I didn't bother catching up since it was hundreds of chapters ahead, and I was poor lol (and there were a lot of side character's who I forgot about). That's why I was super excited to find out that they were making a drama version of this series, and it's actually on Netflix as of yesterday!

I'm about halfway through the series and am loving it! I remembered a lot of the plot since I think I stopped reading around chapter 400, and it has been really fun seeing how everything plays out in live action. Since it's a drama, a lot of the plot differed from the novel like how all of the team members end up meeting at the game cafe so soon, but it's not a bad change as you can see their teamwork grow earlier on.

I'm just kind of annoyed with Chen Guo's character in the drama because I feel like they really made her annoying and stupid for comedic effect. I felt like her realization arc was pretty draggy, especially when she tried to think of making Ye Xui stay.

I am at a part where the plot's surpassed where I last left off in the books, so I'm super excited to see what happens next!

FINISHED:



I watched this on the plane ride to and back from Copenhagen earlier this month, and man was this drama engrossing. It's only six episodes, but shit goes down! You've got a zombie outbreak that everyone's trying to keep hidden, a power hungry minister, a prince with charged with treason, a medic who's trying to save everyone (the actress is my favorite character from Sense 8!), and a guy who's really good at surviving. And a bunch of zombies and really great cinematography. It's so good! I can't wait for the next season to come out!

Koreans are really good at the zombie genre. I highly recommend Train to Busan as well if you're looking for a zombie movie. I think it's still on Netflix, too.



After years of waiting, season two finally came out! This season was created by a different animation studio than the original one, so there were slight differences in character design and animation. The plot was also a lot different compared to the first season. This time, it focused on a lot of new characters with sprinkles of Saitama for comedic effect. I liked and didn't like this aspect since I really like Saitama's character and wanted to see him more, but at the same time, I liked learning about these new characters and seeing how they interacted with Saitama. Lol poor Genos is still too serious but still trying his best, too.

Monday, August 5, 2019

Books I Want to Read This Month

I managed to read one book off of this list last month. Let's keep this trend going mainly since I bought more books last month lol.
  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. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 13 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda
  5. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 1 by Memeco Arii
  6. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 2 by Memeco Arii
  7. Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 1 by Chie Shimada
  8. Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 2 by Chie Shimada
  9. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
  10. Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
  11. Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
  12. becoming. by Renaada Williams
  13. On Love by Alain de Botton
  14. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
  15. The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune

Sunday, August 4, 2019

July in Retrospect

This month was busy! I went from binging a bunch of Chinese novels to reading manga and manhwa and then finishing two Japanese light novels. I guess variety is the spice of life? Lol. I also moved and just came back from Denmark for work. Life has been busy.

I read:
  • Rebirth of the Wolfish Silkpants Bottom by 泡麵香腸君
  • My Buddy Keeps Trying to Turn Me Gay by JiaoHuaQingJiu
  • Fuck Off Unless You're the One by Tan Suan
  • Social Outcast by Ka Bi Qiu
  • It’s Not Easy Being Your Love Rival’s Big Brother by 精分柚子茶
  • The Prince's Loyal Lover by Jué Jué
  • Kimi ga Kirai na Koi no Hanashi vol. 1 by Sora Mizuki
  • Kimi ga Kirai na Koi no Hanashi vol. 2 by Sora Mizuki
  • Soul Mates by Yeo Ho-Kyoung
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? vol. 10 by Fujino Ōmori & Suzuhito Yasuda
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? vol. 11 by Fujino Ōmori & Suzuhito Yasuda

I watched:
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
  • The Rising of the Shield Hero (2019)
  • It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (2019)
  • One Punch Man Season Two (2019)