••• First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the well wishes you sent my way since my last entry, both here and on Facebook. It was a tough time for all of us, so all your comments really helped, and I appreciate that.

( Here's what's happened since then... )

A couple of days ago I received a Christmas card from

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1. Firstly, my thoughts and best wishes go out to everyone affected by the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan -- if you're in Japan right now and can read this, I hope you're doing OK, and if you have family and/or friends in Japan I hope you know they're doing OK too! It's assumed the students from my college studying abroad in Japan right now are ( Read more... )

Director Satoshi Kon passes away

This is breaking news just coming in as I type this, emanating from the Twitter account of GAINAX's Yasuhiro Takeda and later confirmed by Madhouse's Masao Maruyama via the Otakon committee, but the renowned and much-admired anime director Satoshi Kon passed away yesterday at the age of 47.

During his life, Kon was ( Read more... )

TOPIC #1: Does anyone know how I can get $150,000 within the next 3 months?

It's not for me; it's for Nomadicare, a non-profit based here in town which tries to give adequate health care to nomadic herders in Mongolia (at least those who want to continue that lifestyle).  I met the woman who runs the organization a few weeks ago; she sent me an e- ( Read more... )

The 30-Day Meme

Day 01 | Your favourite song
Day 02 | Your favourite movie
Day 03 | Your favourite television programme

Day 04 | Your favourite book

This one is really hard to say, because, well, I haven't been reading books -- not even graphic novels/manga -- on a regular basis for a very, very, very long time now.  I used to be a voracious reader when ( Read more... )

One project and one exam down, one paper and two more exams to go. :/ My Japanese exam was today (ironic given that today is the 68th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and that I bought the first volume of Barefoot Gen in the college bookstore -- what, it was on sale! XD), and I have to say it went very well! So I'm spending the next couple of hours ( Read more... )

Sorry for writing a third entry in 24 hours, but here's an update to this:

He's back at home now, and he just logged to Facebook for the first time in over a month. That's how I found out he's keeping a blog about his recovery: Rocket Legs. It's funny, sad, disgusting, moving, well-written, and overall brilliant, and I hope you have the chance to ( Read more... )

Last week, an acquaintance of mine, who was studying abroad this year in Alexandria, Egypt, was in an accident involving a tram.  I just received an e-mail saying his legs had to be amputated above the knees, and that he will be returning home tomorrow to start rehab ( Read more... )

• So I'm thinking of getting rid of my sideburns pretty soon. I've gotten a lot of compliments about them (in a previous entry, I mention how a random kid at college said they reminded her of Wolverine), but there are a number of reasons why. Mainly I've had them for three years now, so they've overstayed their welcome. Plus, I don't really take ( Read more... )