Maison Ikkoku – the unlikely romance

Maison Ikkoku is one of the first animes that I started watching, and ignited my love affair with Japanese cartoons. This unlikely romance between a weak student and the lovely female caretaker of his boarding house is surprisingly captivating when I don’t consider myself a big fan of love stories.
Godai Yuhsaku is a weak-willed college [...]

Camera-less Nokia E51

My new job does not allow phones with cameras. Rather than to spend $68 on a simple 2g phone that i do not want to use, i extended my 2 year contract with m1 and got a nokia e51 for $98. It’s my first 3g phone, so m1 had to give me a 3g sim [...]

Pizza hut Starzbites cheese extreme

These days, when I eat out at eating places that I used to enjoy when I was younger, I find myself asking whether I have suddenly grown up a lot and found the food portions to shrink in relation to my new size, or did the food portions really get smaller as inflation hits everywhere?
The [...]

Jap gore flick: The Machine Girl

My first Japanese b-grade movie, and I found it very enjoyable. A Japanese high school girl with a machine gun for a left arm. Cool concept! The plot is simple, don’t take it too seriously, and don’t watch this gore flick after a heavy meal, especially of sushi. Very creative ways of dying.
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Shocking review of The Golden Compass

While surfing blogs with wordpress.com’s Tag Surfer, I stumbled onto this quote of a review of The Golden Compass. When I first saw the advertisement, I was thinking that this is just another fantasy story based on some book and I was not terribly interested since many of them turn out badly. This movie is [...]