- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 10 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda- Hitorijime My Hero vol. 1 by Memeco Arii
- Hitorijime My Hero vol. 2 by Memeco Arii
- Hitorijime My Hero vol. 3 by Memeco Arii
- Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 1 by Chie Shimada
- Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 2 by Chie Shimada
- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
- Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
- Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
- becoming. by Renaada Williams
- On Love by Alain de Botton
- The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Books I Want to Read This Month
Unfortunately, I didn't read any books off of this list last month. Not too sure if I'll manage to read any this month either since we're in the middle of packing, but I'm working on it!
Monday, July 1, 2019
June in Retrospect
I read a lot of Chinese novels this month! But why haven't I read any of the physical books that I own? Because I already packed them up lol. I'm moving in the next few weeks! Things have been crazy because of it and because I had already made plans before I found out that I was moving -__-"
I read:
I read:
- You Boys Play Games Very Well by Yi Xiu Luo
- Bark?! by Lu Tianyi
- My Enemy is Actually Secretly in Love With Me by 疾风不知
- Evil Cult Undercover Gets Exposed Every Day by Lu Tianyi
- Sharing Rain and Dew by 掩面而遁马甲君
- Waiting for You Online vol. 1 by羲和清零
- The Destruction of a Triad Boss Trilogy by Wu Xiu Long Xiang
- Your Highness, I Know My Wrongs by Haorenka
- Everyone Thinks That I Like Him by Dashing Small Snail
- Silent Separation by Gu Man
- Demon Boss in the Human World by 即墨遥
- Transmigrating into a Mob Character to Rehabilitate the Villain Plan by Sha Xiao Wan
- When They See Us (2019)
- Mob Psycho 100 Season Two (2019)
- Rampant (2018)
- Di Wang Gong Lue (2018)
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
New Anime and Movies This Summer That I'm Excited For!
I actually haven't watched a lot of movies or anime this past spring, so I'll try to do better this summer! There's so many sequels coming out this summer! I'm excited! Lol I can't believe I'm interested in a rugby anime, but the art's so pretty~
Anime:
Movies:
Anime:
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II
- The King's Avatar Season 2
- Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 2
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
- Isekai Cheat Magician
- Given
- Try Knights
- Weathering With You
Movies:
- Spider-Man: Far From Home (July 5)
- The Lion King (July 19)
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Aug 2)
- It Chapter Two (Sept 6)
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Bachelorette, Avengers, Blackpink, Graduation, Realizations, Mother's Day, Trips, & Weddings
Forgot to mention that after we came back from South Korea in April, we spent that next weekend in a treehouse for Meethu's bachelorette party. We "kidnapped" her and drove her to Candlelight Forest, which had a big treehouse Airbnb that we had booked a month earlier. Meethu has been trying to get us to stay at a yurt for the past couple of years, so she thought that we were finally spending the night in one lol. She was really happy about spending her bachelorette in a treehouse though!
It was really pretty! The forest also hosted weddings and had hiking trails to walk explore, so we had a lot to do as we walked around. They also had a picnic option, so we ordered lunched in a picnic basket and had a picnic in the forest. Then we went for a hike and realized that we're all out of shape lol.
We dressed up and went to Cheddar's for old time's sake for dinner. Then, we went to an escape room, which was really hard! It was fun though! We made it out with around 29 seconds to spare! After that, we went back to the treehouse and spent the rest of the night talking and catching up some more.
All in all, a successful bachelorette lol.
The next weekend was the beginning of May. David came up to visit, and we finally went out to watch Avengers: Endgame, which came out the previous weekend. I took him to Studio Movie Grill, since David hadn't been to one before. The movie was really good! I only cried twice lol.
The next day, David, Kyle, Michelle, and I went to the Blackpink concert. David told me that he had wanted to go to the concert a while ago, so I bought him tickets as a graduation present. It was really fun! They had great stage presence, and I knew all of their songs. Merch is always expensive, but I still got a longsleeve shirt because I wanted to something lol. We actually ran into Lauren with some of her friends there, and I know David's older sis was there with some friends.
That Wednesday, I drove down to David's house after work. We got dinner with Kim and his dad and chilled for the rest of the night. When it was midnight, I decided to go to sleep since I was tired, but David was still playing Fortnite with his friends. I ended up sleeping for 30 minutes before I was woken up by the game, and I couldn't go back to sleep. I stayed up for another hour reading on my phone since I couldn't sleep. David noticed that I was awake and was mad at him, but what does he do? He continues to play Fortnite.
By the time he turns off his PS4, I'm still mad at him and I realized that we stopped putting each other first. Instead, we've been putting our friends first. That's when I thought that our relationship wasn't going to last, so I was crying for half of the night while we talked things out. The next morning wasn't any better either.
I was so sure that we were better off breaking up that morning, but David was graduating that day, so I didn't want to do that to him and ruin his whole day. I kind of kept up that line of thought the whole day, but by that night, I had changed my mind thinking that we could get stronger from this now that we knew what the problem was. We just needed to work on us. We then kind of put off on having that discussion since we were so busy that weekend.
The next night, David and I met up with Willy and Janice to watch Detective Pikachu. I ran into my bro there, who I hadn't seen the whole time I was in town. He was also going to watch the same showing of Detective Pikachu with some friends lol. Afterwards, we were hanging out in the lobby, talking about the movie when I ran into Krista and Eric! I hadn't seen them in so long! Lol they came to watch Detective Pikachu as well.
That weekend was Mother's Day, so the parents came up to hangout with some family friends on Saturday. Then, on Sunday we took them out to eat hot pot. Afterwards, the kids went to get bubble tea while the parents bought some groceries at the farmer's market. Then, we went to the mall since Mom and I needed to get a dress for a wedding the next month. I didn't find anything for me, so Shelle and I went to the mall close to our house, and I found a cheap dress instead!
The next morning, David went to Vietnam. He had a morning flight, and what do ya know, I woke up at five for no reason and couldn't go back to sleep. So I texted him some of my pent up feelings since we never had a chance to resolve anything last week, and we talked until he got to the airport. I finally felt better afterwards since I felt like I was finally able to tell him everything that I was feeling.
That Wednesday, Archana came over for a sleepover. We hungout and ate Masaman curry that Shelle and I cooked the night before. Archana, who eats like a bird, actually ate a giant plate and had seconds. It was a miracle lol.
That weekend, I went to Florida to house sit with Jessica's family. I finally got to meet her hilarious mom and younger bro lol. The house owners are some family friends who recently moved to Florida, and they needed someone to take the dogs out and feed the cat. It turned out that we were over-prepared for the cat and under-prepared for the dogs lol.
The dogs were super scared of us, so it was hard to get close to them at first to even take them out to use the bathroom, while the cat was super friendly and always asking for pets lol. It was a big, fat, inside cat who got jealous of me petting the dogs, so the cat scratched me and the dog! By the end of the weekend, the dogs finally warmed up to us and came to us for pets and scratches lol.
The house was really big, and they had a pool, so we spent the majority of our time outside. I didn't really feel like swimming, so Jessica and I spent most of our time in the shade reading and napping lol.
We went to a beach later in the day, which was nice. We got lost on the way, but we made it in time to watch the sunset at the beach, so it was all good in the end. And the weather was so nice! It was finally cooler with a breeze.
The next weekend was Meethu and Luke's wedding. Saturday night was the dress rehearsal, where we all found out that they hadn't planned anything lol. I helped them figure out the wedding party order and order of procession. By the time Emily and Sean came from her sis's graduation dinner, they helped us practice the order of procession and told Meethu that she was also missing other things as well like music lol.
Man, what would we do without Emily who was also planning for her wedding in November? Lol.
The next day was the wedding! It was crazy lol. All of the bridesmaids came over to get ready at my house since we had the most space, and it was just like us getting ready for prom all over again, except Meethu had a professional makeup artist this time and I actually know how to use makeup this time lol.
Then we ran over to the venue, where the guys were supposed to help get things ready. However, Meethu and Emily ran over to the bridal store to pick out shoes since Meethu hadn't gotten any yet, so they were late. Actually, Harini, Meethu's sis and maid of honor, was also running late, so we couldn't get any pictures done yet either. Lol her parents came late and were busy getting ready as well, so we didn't get many pictures taken together.
All in all, the wedding was really nice. After the ceremony, the wedding party went outside to take pictures, so we all melted. Then we came back to eat and do speeches and dance. We all stayed behind to help clean up.
Then Jackie, Shanice, and I went over to Jackie's new apartment since we hadn't seen it yet. She also got a new puppy named Leo who was super cute! But we made plans to hangout that night the day before since we all haven't had a Wine Night in so long. It was really good too. We went to Kroger to buy wine and snacks, and we talked until 1:30 that morning catching up on everything. Man, it was really nice to talk about all of our relationship issues and laugh and cry about it lol. Definitely need to have another Wine Night again soon.
The next day was Memorial Day, which was great because I needed a day to relax after having such a hectic weekend.
So that's how my May went. :)
It was really pretty! The forest also hosted weddings and had hiking trails to walk explore, so we had a lot to do as we walked around. They also had a picnic option, so we ordered lunched in a picnic basket and had a picnic in the forest. Then we went for a hike and realized that we're all out of shape lol.
We dressed up and went to Cheddar's for old time's sake for dinner. Then, we went to an escape room, which was really hard! It was fun though! We made it out with around 29 seconds to spare! After that, we went back to the treehouse and spent the rest of the night talking and catching up some more.
All in all, a successful bachelorette lol.
The next weekend was the beginning of May. David came up to visit, and we finally went out to watch Avengers: Endgame, which came out the previous weekend. I took him to Studio Movie Grill, since David hadn't been to one before. The movie was really good! I only cried twice lol.
The next day, David, Kyle, Michelle, and I went to the Blackpink concert. David told me that he had wanted to go to the concert a while ago, so I bought him tickets as a graduation present. It was really fun! They had great stage presence, and I knew all of their songs. Merch is always expensive, but I still got a longsleeve shirt because I wanted to something lol. We actually ran into Lauren with some of her friends there, and I know David's older sis was there with some friends.
That Wednesday, I drove down to David's house after work. We got dinner with Kim and his dad and chilled for the rest of the night. When it was midnight, I decided to go to sleep since I was tired, but David was still playing Fortnite with his friends. I ended up sleeping for 30 minutes before I was woken up by the game, and I couldn't go back to sleep. I stayed up for another hour reading on my phone since I couldn't sleep. David noticed that I was awake and was mad at him, but what does he do? He continues to play Fortnite.
By the time he turns off his PS4, I'm still mad at him and I realized that we stopped putting each other first. Instead, we've been putting our friends first. That's when I thought that our relationship wasn't going to last, so I was crying for half of the night while we talked things out. The next morning wasn't any better either.
I was so sure that we were better off breaking up that morning, but David was graduating that day, so I didn't want to do that to him and ruin his whole day. I kind of kept up that line of thought the whole day, but by that night, I had changed my mind thinking that we could get stronger from this now that we knew what the problem was. We just needed to work on us. We then kind of put off on having that discussion since we were so busy that weekend.
The next night, David and I met up with Willy and Janice to watch Detective Pikachu. I ran into my bro there, who I hadn't seen the whole time I was in town. He was also going to watch the same showing of Detective Pikachu with some friends lol. Afterwards, we were hanging out in the lobby, talking about the movie when I ran into Krista and Eric! I hadn't seen them in so long! Lol they came to watch Detective Pikachu as well.
That weekend was Mother's Day, so the parents came up to hangout with some family friends on Saturday. Then, on Sunday we took them out to eat hot pot. Afterwards, the kids went to get bubble tea while the parents bought some groceries at the farmer's market. Then, we went to the mall since Mom and I needed to get a dress for a wedding the next month. I didn't find anything for me, so Shelle and I went to the mall close to our house, and I found a cheap dress instead!
The next morning, David went to Vietnam. He had a morning flight, and what do ya know, I woke up at five for no reason and couldn't go back to sleep. So I texted him some of my pent up feelings since we never had a chance to resolve anything last week, and we talked until he got to the airport. I finally felt better afterwards since I felt like I was finally able to tell him everything that I was feeling.
That Wednesday, Archana came over for a sleepover. We hungout and ate Masaman curry that Shelle and I cooked the night before. Archana, who eats like a bird, actually ate a giant plate and had seconds. It was a miracle lol.
That weekend, I went to Florida to house sit with Jessica's family. I finally got to meet her hilarious mom and younger bro lol. The house owners are some family friends who recently moved to Florida, and they needed someone to take the dogs out and feed the cat. It turned out that we were over-prepared for the cat and under-prepared for the dogs lol.
The dogs were super scared of us, so it was hard to get close to them at first to even take them out to use the bathroom, while the cat was super friendly and always asking for pets lol. It was a big, fat, inside cat who got jealous of me petting the dogs, so the cat scratched me and the dog! By the end of the weekend, the dogs finally warmed up to us and came to us for pets and scratches lol.
The house was really big, and they had a pool, so we spent the majority of our time outside. I didn't really feel like swimming, so Jessica and I spent most of our time in the shade reading and napping lol.
We went to a beach later in the day, which was nice. We got lost on the way, but we made it in time to watch the sunset at the beach, so it was all good in the end. And the weather was so nice! It was finally cooler with a breeze.
The next weekend was Meethu and Luke's wedding. Saturday night was the dress rehearsal, where we all found out that they hadn't planned anything lol. I helped them figure out the wedding party order and order of procession. By the time Emily and Sean came from her sis's graduation dinner, they helped us practice the order of procession and told Meethu that she was also missing other things as well like music lol.
Man, what would we do without Emily who was also planning for her wedding in November? Lol.
The next day was the wedding! It was crazy lol. All of the bridesmaids came over to get ready at my house since we had the most space, and it was just like us getting ready for prom all over again, except Meethu had a professional makeup artist this time and I actually know how to use makeup this time lol.
Then we ran over to the venue, where the guys were supposed to help get things ready. However, Meethu and Emily ran over to the bridal store to pick out shoes since Meethu hadn't gotten any yet, so they were late. Actually, Harini, Meethu's sis and maid of honor, was also running late, so we couldn't get any pictures done yet either. Lol her parents came late and were busy getting ready as well, so we didn't get many pictures taken together.
All in all, the wedding was really nice. After the ceremony, the wedding party went outside to take pictures, so we all melted. Then we came back to eat and do speeches and dance. We all stayed behind to help clean up.
Then Jackie, Shanice, and I went over to Jackie's new apartment since we hadn't seen it yet. She also got a new puppy named Leo who was super cute! But we made plans to hangout that night the day before since we all haven't had a Wine Night in so long. It was really good too. We went to Kroger to buy wine and snacks, and we talked until 1:30 that morning catching up on everything. Man, it was really nice to talk about all of our relationship issues and laugh and cry about it lol. Definitely need to have another Wine Night again soon.
The next day was Memorial Day, which was great because I needed a day to relax after having such a hectic weekend.
So that's how my May went. :)
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Books I Want to Read This Month
I read one and a half books off of this list last month! Maybe I'll get the motivation to finish reading the first volume of Stupid Love Comedy this month lol. It's just a little too predictable and dramatic for me right now, which is highly ironic since I've been on a Chinese novel reading binge recently lmao.
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 10 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda
- Stupid Love Comedy vol. 1 by Sakurai Syusyusyu
- Stupid Love Comedy vol. 2 by Sakurai Syusyusyu
- Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 1 by Chie Shimada
- Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 2 by Chie Shimada
- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
- Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
- Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
- becoming. by Renaada Williams
- On Love by Alain de Botton
- The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune
- Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Saturday, June 1, 2019
May in Retrospect
I read a lot of Chinese books this month and most importantly, I finally watched Endgame! :)
I read:
I watched:
I read:
- Unfollowing You by Komal Kapoor
- A Slight Smile is Very Charming by Gu Man
- Reborn as My Love Rival’s Wife by Shu Huai
- The Path of the Cannon Fodder’s Counterattack by Mao Niao
- The Pregnant Woman Next Door, How Are You Doing? by Zhen Shi Gou Le
- Love You 59 Seconds by Yun Gou Shi Fei
I watched:
- Brene Brown: The Call to Courage (2019)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
- Detective Pikachu (2019)
- Someone Great (2019)
Thursday, May 30, 2019
South Korea Trip!
Went to South Korea last month, and I'm finally getting around to posting it lol. I'm going back to using bullets because this post will already be long enough. :P
We asked Tawanda if she wanted to come along with us since her boyfriend had moved to South Korea six months ago, so she said yes. Then we quickly realized that she was never on the same page as us. We'd say something, and then a minute or two later, she'd say the same thing. Then she'd always lag behind, and we'd always have to check to make sure that she was still there. Then there was the whole dropping the phone down the toilet issue that turned into her drinking too much on an empty stomach and projectile vomiting at two in the morning.
So yeah, this trip made us think about how we can't keep inviting people all willy nilly for our future trips. We don't want anymore incidents like this, especially when we're out of the country.
Thursday/Friday, April 11-12:
- Flew to Korea, which took 15 hours
- Arrived in time for dinner
- Explored our AirBnb apartment before exploring the area nearby
- Ate dinner at this place nearby. We mainly chose our food based off of the pictures lol
- Bought a bunch of snacks from a nearby convenience store
Saturday, April 13:
- Woke up super early around five because of jetlag
- Bought more snacks at E-Mart
- Went to a ramen place nearby for breakfast and experienced our first time ordering by kiosk over there
- Explored Yongsan Electronics Market, which was a whole street full of new, old, vintage, or limited edition games and game systems
- Went to this huge mall and spent a lot of time in a giant bookstore buying souvenirs for people
- Rested at a Gundam store in the mall while Kyle shopped around
- Found a street vendor at the train station near our AirBnb who sold these corn snacks that we haven't eaten since childhood!
Sunday, April 14:
- Ate convenience store onigiri for breakfast
- Spent most of the day in Myeongdong
- Explored the underground markets
- Ate so much street food
- Got pooped on by a pigeon
- Played at a cat cafe
- Ate dinner at someplace tasty (I forgot lol)
Monday, April 15:
- Explored Kukje Electronics
- Bought a bunch of cute My Hero Academia figurines from Gachapons and made a friend from it because I owned too many Bakugos and she had Ochako lol
- Explored SMTOWN Coex Artium and bought an EXO souvenir cup at the cafe
- Visited the Seoul Sky Tower and took lots of pics
- Ate ramen at a restaurant called Lamen's at the Lotte World Mall
Tuesday, April 16:
- Ate fried chicken for brunch at Mom's Touch lol
- Bought funny looking snacks at the nearby convenience store to try
- Ran across King's Cross Cafe on the way to get Korean BBQ
- Explored Mapo-gu while waiting for our turn for dinner
- Saw this beret wearing guy looking down at us from the third floor of the neighboring restaurant and all automatically thought that he was a douchebag lol
- Ate the best kimchi ever at the KBBQ restaurant
- Went back to King's Cross Cafe for alcoholic butterbear
- Only explored the top floor to take pictures in the robes because it was closing time
Wednesday, April 17:
- Ate breakfast at Innisfree Cafe back in Myeongdong
- Explored Gyeongbokgung Palace the day after Robert Downey Jr posted a pic of him there on Instagram
- Ate bingsoo at a little hidden cafe somewhat nearby
- Ate dinner at a traditional Korean restaurant where we had to sit down on cushions on the floor with our shoes off
- Walked around Hanok village
- Explored a tea museum and got a fresh cup of tea with the entrance fee
- Played with a bunch of dogs at a dog cafe
- Bought a bunch of takoyaki from a street vendor near our AirBnb
Thursday, April 18:
- Went to a kimchi museum, tried different kimchi samples and got free kimchi to take home
- Took a break at a traditional tea house
- Went back to King's Cross cafe during the day time and tried the cafe drinks and snacks
- Took a lot of pictures there
- Played Splendor at a board game cafe where Tawanda dropped her phone in the toilet and panicked for a while
- Ate a typical Korean restaurant nearby and finally got to eat authentic kimchi jiggae and pig's feet (they even gave us gloves to eat it with lol)
Friday, April 19:
- Explored another Gundam/anime store because of Kyle
- Rested at a mint cafe, so mint was in everything
- Went back to Mapo-gu to explore the stores again
- Walked past potential idols since they were recording themselves with a giant selfie stick and had a dude record them with a big DSLR camera
- Walked around and watched a lot of street performers
- Stumbled across a video game cat cafe, so we played with a bunch of cats and video games
Then we went back home the next day.
What did I learn during this trip? 1) Being illiterate in another country can be really funny if it doesn't stress you out lol. 2) Choose your travel companions carefully.
We asked Tawanda if she wanted to come along with us since her boyfriend had moved to South Korea six months ago, so she said yes. Then we quickly realized that she was never on the same page as us. We'd say something, and then a minute or two later, she'd say the same thing. Then she'd always lag behind, and we'd always have to check to make sure that she was still there. Then there was the whole dropping the phone down the toilet issue that turned into her drinking too much on an empty stomach and projectile vomiting at two in the morning.
So yeah, this trip made us think about how we can't keep inviting people all willy nilly for our future trips. We don't want anymore incidents like this, especially when we're out of the country.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Weekly Haul (115)
Ended up buying a couple of more books this month lol.
Stupid Love Comedy Omnibus by Syusyusyu Sakurai
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? vol. 13 by Fujino Omori
Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 2 by Chie Shimada
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