November in Retrospect

I read a couple of Chinese novels and Japanese manga this month! I really need to start reading physical books though... But reading is still reading!

I read:

• Full Marks Hidden Marriage: Pick Up a Son, Get a Free Husband by Jiong Jiong You Yao
• Namaikizakari vol. 16 by Miyuki Mitsubachi
• Namaikizakari vol. 17 by Miyuki Mitsubachi
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 1 by Fumita Yanagida
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 2 by Fumita Yanagida
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 3 by Fumita Yanagida
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 4 by Fumita Yanagida
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 5 by Fumita Yanagida
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 6 by Fumita Yanagida
• Tomo-chan is a Girl! vol. 7 by Fumita Yanagida
• Lessons on Raising a Partner by Ācí Gūniáng

I watched:

• Xie Wang Zhui Qi (2019)
• 42 (2013)

Harry Potter, VR, Group Costumes, Weddings, Game Night, Dinners, Concerts, Thanksgiving, & Friendsgiving

I've been slacking on updates for the past couple of months. It's mainly because I've been busy, lazy, or procrastinating since I haven't really felt in a blogging mood for a while.

Plus, I was traveling a lot for a while, so I got backlogged on my travel posts. I think that made me more unmotivated to blog since I felt like I needed to get those posts out first. Now idgaf lol. I'll get to them eventually if I even want to do it anymore lol.

Here's a couple snapshots of how October and November has been for me!

OCTOBER:

Kyle, Michelle, Archana, Raj, David, and I got dinner together one Saturday. This was because Archana wanted to introduce us to her boyfriend before we went to go watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in concert which had a live orchestra performing. It was awesome! I hadn't watch the movie in years, so I forgot how funny it was! And Raj was really nice and sweet, so I liked him, too, lol.

We did an Avengers VR thing with a bunch of Kyle and Michelle's friends. We got to put on these backpacks and helmets and helped fight against robots during Infinity War. It was pretty fun, and I want to go back since they have a scary VR scenario, too!

Michelle and I made canh chua, which is Vietnamese sweet and sour soup, for the first time. Mom's version was never spicy because she was worried my bro wouldn't be able to handle it, so it was our first time having a spicy version, and I was in love lol.

Then, for work, our team and some other people on our floor got together to do a giant team costume since we had a costume contest. We were all just a bunch of puns like identity theft, jack in the box, and formal apologies lol. We made this sign so people could try to figure us out.

NOVEMBER: 

Emily and Sean got married! It was a really pretty wedding; there was a waterfall for their backdrop! Pretty cold though, since it was outside lol. No matter, we had a lot of fun since we had rented out an Airbnb for the weekend and basically had a reunion with all of the boyfriends around lol.

This is a pic of Emily looking for Sean so she can surprise him with a first look! :D He cried when he saw her lol.

I got sick the next week, but that didn't stop David and me from going to Gibbs Gardens for the Japanese Maple Colorfest to see all of the pretty maple trees in fall. I've been wanting to go for a while as my birthday present lol. I doped up on medicine and almost coughed out a lung on the way there, but it was all good when we walked around the gardens.

Later that night, we went over to Archana's apartment for game night with a bunch of coworkers since we decided last minute to have a game night since it was Labor Day weekend lol. It was so fun and funny since almost everyone brought alcohol and snacks, so we were lit all night. There were a lot of memorable quotes like "loving can hurt" from when Archana serenaded us with her ukulele and "okay boomer" lol.

The next Friday, Jack and I took Ebony out for dinner and dessert since she was having a rough week with her husband. We ate dinner at Hello Chicken since they both haven't been there before, and then got dessert at the matcha cafe across the street. We tried the raindrop cake that went viral on the internet last year. It was pretty light, which was needed since we were still stuffed from dinner.

Last Monday, I went to Jay Park's Sexy 4eva concert with Kyle, Michelle, Sam, and her sis, Dominique. I wasn't super excited about his concert at first since I haven't listened to him for a while, but I started getting hyped after catching up with his music on Spotify. He's such a good performer with really smooth dance moves, which should have been expected since he started off as a bboy I think. Even his backup dancers were hot lol.

I also really liked one of his opening acts, Ted Park, who was really hyped and authentically himself even on stage.

Last Wednesday, we celebrated Thanksgiving at work with our yearly potluck. I ate so much food. It was great lol. Then, because it was happy hour at Starbucks a few hours later, we also went and got coffee to help fight the food coma from lunch. It was great!

This past Saturday, we had Friendsgiving at Alec's house, so I basically stuffed myself again. I definitely gained weight this past week lol. I also brought back a bunch of leftovers along with other food mom gave us, so we didn't need to food prep this week. -__-"

For actually Thanksgiving in the next few days, we're going down to visit the parentals and having seafood, I think. Then we're heading down to Florida for a cruise. So yeah, busy month!

Weekly Haul (119)

Meant to post this last month, but here we are lol. Also got the new Harry Potter book as a birthday present from the sis and bro-in-law!

Mouse Books quarterly segment

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling & Illustrated by Jim Kay

Sorry for the bad quality pics. I just haven't been taking them so well lately lol.

Books I Want to Read This Month

I didn't manage to read anything on this list last month, and now I'm in the middle of an uber long Chinese web series that's taken over my life since last week. Let's hope that I can find the will to pick up a physical book this month!

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
2. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
3. Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
4. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 12 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda
5. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 1 by Memeco Arii
6. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 2 by Memeco Arii
7. I Hear the Sunspot: Limit vol. 1 by Yuki Fumino
8. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
9. The Anatomy of Being by Shinji Moon
10. Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
11. the witch doesn't burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace
12. On Love by Alain de Botton
13. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
14. The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune
15. Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

October in Retrospect

I only read one book last month, but I watched a lot of great dramas as well! :D

I read:

• Online Game: Willingly Captured by Bei Qing & Northwards

I watched:

• The Untamed (2019)
• Arsenal Military Academy (2019)
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II (2019)
• The Age of Shadows (2016)
• What's Wrong With Secretary Kim (2018)

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

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

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)