“Hà Nội ơi! Cái ngày tôi chia xa Hà Nội, Giờ ra đi mới thấy lòng tiếc nuối. Những kỷ niệm một thời nông nổi, Cứ thôi thúc hoài, khắc khoải nơi trái tim.” This is not the first time I leave Hanoi. This is not the first time I leave Hanoi, knowing I won’t […]
“I want to hold on to the particular feeling of languor that I got as I walked the streets of this town, the town of my past, which I would lose when summer ended. This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing […]
Một năm 365 ngày, đã hơn 5 năm xa nhà. Bình thường cũng chẳng mấy khi nhớ nhà, bận bịu, mải học hành, rồi lo lắng chuyện này chuyện kia, nên chẳng có thời gian nhớ nhà. Chỉ đến Tết mới là dịp để gạt hết mọi chuyện ra khỏi đầu, mặc dù chỉ được một, hai ngày […]
From myanimelist (there’s also a challenge for anime) I read a lot of manga as a middle-schooler but as time went on, I found myself reading fewer new manga, and just came back to the manga I read before. Therefore, this is a challenge for myself to tackle my super long list of “to read”. I […]
It has been a week into 2016. This winter break, I have been too busy to have anytime to sit down and reflect on the past year or making resolutions for the new year. To be honest, there isn’t much I want to reflect on in the year of 2015. I also don’t have any […]
The Art Even before I understood what was going on around me, I had been watching cartoons: Tom and Jerry, Popeye, and some Disney movies. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid made a deep impression on me. I remember that I used to draw a lot of mermaid. But this art style wasn’t something […]
It’s been a year since I graduated from Wooster, but being back here and attending Commencement again brought me all kinds of emotions. These were things that I had wanted to say but couldn’t bring myself to. It was too overbearing to reminisce all of the Wooster memories right after graduation. Now, at a distance of […]
Playlist to go along with this post. “I want to be an artist!” Every child must have said this once in his/her childhood. I wasn’t an exception. I might have been 4 or 5 years old when I said “I want to be an artist!”. I was totally serious, as serious as a kindergarten kid […]
サプリ (Sapuri) A woman in her late twenties trying to figure out herself, her work and her love life. This is one the manga that attracts me by both its drawing style and its story. I first fell in love with the cover of Suppli when I saw it by chance. However, the manga was […]
Saturday 01/17 was a warm and sunny day, so I decided to take a walk to the Half Price Books (HPB) Store near my apartment. Here are some of the books I’ve got this time (not including the 8 volumes 1 – 8 of XXXHolic) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han […]
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