* I had to explain to my father why you don't use the same knife/chopping block for raw meat and vegetables, or that you at least have to wash the utensils in between ( Read more... )

First of all: thank you, buddha_loves_me, vegetas and autumnhaired for the Christmas cheers. I admit to freaking out slightly before I realised that that particular kind of virtual gift is free of charge.

Lately, I've been spending some of my leisure time watching TV shows of questionable artistic quality, and I have this to say: why the constant censorship, American television? ( Read more... )

While I'm happy to see that democratic issues such as the current one in Iran occasionally manage to attract so much attention from the outside world - and to see so many people on my f-list acknowledging the situation, at that - I don't think I'll add to it. Let's hope that the pressure from outside will do some good for the Iranian people, but ( Read more... )

( Twilight review )

( Dear various writers of shoujo manga... )

I'm invited to one of my cousins' wedding tomorrow, which means I won't be back home until sometime during Sunday, for those of you whom that might concern ( Read more... )

I recently watched Tales from EarthSea (yes, I know I'm late), a Studio Ghibli  production by Goro Miyazaki. I generally enjoy Hayao Miyazaki movies,  despite that I usually find the plot either painfully slow or horribly confusing and messy (the latter usually happens when he makes movies of already existing books *cough*Howl'sMovingCastle*cough ( Read more... )

Thank you, sitting government, for making my country yet another Black Hole of the Internet. Thank you for messing with what I consider to be one of the most important and fundamental rights in a democratic society - freedom of expression. No, I'm not particularly worried that you would read my private love letters - as long as I avoid writing ( Read more... )

Today (or yesterday, or tomorrow, depending on what time zone you're in) is the International Women's Day. The time to celebrate the women around you with flowers, chocolate and congratulary cards - in short, it's Valentine Day #2.

I can't say how much I dislike this. The International Women's Day did not come to be for the sake of celebration - it ( Read more... )

In my country, there's currently a debate on whether to give same-sexed marriages the same legal status as opposite-sexed ones (instead of civil unions versus marriage, as the case is to date), and in relation to this, the question if the Church should have the legal right to marry at all has been brought up as well.

I say it's about damn time. It's ( Read more... )