"Pigoin", or "the defendant".

I should be studying for exams and obviously I'm here posting about K-dramas...

The Defendant is one of those shining examples of Korean script-writing that in part explains why, while Japanese dramas in general is in a decline, the new Korean dramas continually break records in ratings and audience response ( Read more... )

Firstly, congratulations on surviving 2016 and welcome to 2017.

2016 was certainly an interesting year, not just because of the number of shock celebrity deaths (RIP). It showed us there are flaws to every form of government, including democracy, and it gave us a world that proudly preys on our fear of "them" and "those people".

“There is a ( Read more... )

Completely random, but thought to look up the actual definition of this very common phrase "the seven passions and six desires" which are inherent in all ordinary humans, and which in Buddhist philosophy are all attachments to be renounced.

The seven passionsAs according to Buddhist definition: 喜、怒、忧、惧、爱、憎、欲 ( Read more... )

Yesterday I heard a woman hound a policeman about his beliefs.

"Are you Christian?"

"No."

"You don't believe in God? Are you an atheist?!"

"No."

"Fine, are you agnostic?"

"No."

"Then what are you? What do you believe in?!"

"I don't believe in anything. I'm a cop."

Vimes would have been so bloody proud.

After brooding on this for a night, I've realised that Rango makes a perfect study for a post-modernist film, without being so tied up with its own self-importance and techniques to make it unenjoyable ( Read more... )

Went and caught up with Gintama episodes (not all of them, no!) I think I've just been systematically going through episodes in which the Shinsengumi appear. I can't bring myself to watch teh Tsusengumi episodes unfortunately...even though Hijikata pretending to be an otaku cracks me up ( Read more... )

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
This soliloquy makes more sense to me every year. LOL ( Read more... )

Just brief spoilers on chapter 105 of Gakuen Alice...the long-awaited fateful meeting of Yuka and Narumi - "A kid in A class with very powerful pheromone Alice". No wonder Narumi wore so many Alice-suppressors.

His expression is kind of like Natsume's at the start of the series. Aloof, alone and really antagonistic. What is it with Gakuen Alice ( Read more... )

You know those self-propelled water decorations that drains into wells and pools without the need for power? I wonder if waterdrops ever weep for recircling the same path in eternity.

I just finished reading a manga called Vampire Girl. From the title and synopsis one might never have guessed its conclusion ( Read more... )

We've started on our second "block", kind of like a new topic, and the first two weeks have been filled with lectures and tutorials and case studies and otherwise on illicit and licit drugs ( Read more... )