June Moon

I've been away for a while. We had a series of concerts in Taiwan throughout September. I enjoy traveling and performing with friends and colleagues of course, but it does hurt to be away from New York during the most beautiful part of the year ;0; It's the time of year when it's not too hot or too cold outside. Light jackets and cute boots ahoy~ 

Too bad, by the time I get back to enjoy the weather, the time has passed, my hair is too long, and I have to wear a jacket over my wonderful sweaters.
I love sweaters!

Okay, my latest obsession has been with the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. I fell in love with Uprooted when it was released in 2015 and hurriedly snapped up whatever else was to be had. I loved His Majesty's Dragon (book 1) but just couldn't get into the rest of the series. I picked it up again maybe two weeks ago (?) on the first of our looong trips, and couldn't extract myself. I'm about halfway through the last now: League of Dragons.

I realized that I have a tendency to slooooow wayy down just before finishing a series. I'll start binging something like Westworld or the Mercy Thompson series and barrel through everything I have until the last few episodes or books. Then I put everything aside and look at something else for a while - usually just a week or two, or six months if I really can't convince myself to keep going - before going back and finishing the series. I think I did this when I watched Jessica Jones as well. I'll stay up all night to finish the third or fourth novels, and then inexplicably put down the sixth novel so I don't have to finish the series. Is it because I don't want to finish something I love? Or it's cus I finally regain my senses and try to make myself slow down, instead of ingesting the whole bag of popcorn at once. Usually I fail.

Anyway, I'm now in that weird state of being this close to finishing Temeraire, but am having difficulty summoning the willpower to sprint the final stretch. Then again, maybe I'll just stay up all night to finish the series tonight, since I've written about my affliction now. I can overcome it! Why do I feel like it actually, really, is not a problem to begin with...

In any case, I am back on the epic fantasy train, and am ready to fall into another series. Or maybe i'll watch the third season of Daredevil first. I find it really hard to finish TV though. It's so time consuming! Not like reading books.

It's actually all the same though, except watching TV gives a more concrete idea of how much time I have been wasting bahaha

Until next time!

I've dug this out of my pile of abandoned internet items haha... how tall is that pile now... a tower...

I recently plunged through a new-ish manga called 高嶺と花 (Takane to Hana)
It's so cute! Focuses on the sarcastic (???) relationship between a high school girl and her 11-years-older omiai partner.
It's so weird because he's 26 (at least??), she's 16??? It makes me think about love and how there are so many variables involved.
Cus I srsly don't know any 26-year-old anything that would look at a 16-year-old anything haha
I think the author does a great job of blasting expectations for a relationship that in any other genre would be so wrong, and all the humor is so adorable!
It gets to me bc I'm mid-20's now too... well, i'm still thinking about playing around all the time. So it's mostly morbid curiosity for me
Anyway it's cute! That's my rec of the decade

The other series i have been binging is 7 Seeds. It is probably the best post-apocalyptic-setting fiction anything (this includes books, films, tv, etc) I've seen. It's probably so impressive to me because I have zero background in science so most of the details about what might happen in the future (like... okay i don't think bacteria can chase people around like insects??? but what do I know) go all the way over my head. but the characters are so varied and their arcs are so heart-wrenching that it really throws me for a loop, and it's great to see a story like this find real success, especially domestic success. Good for art that teaches people what it means to be 'good'!
And that's my other recommendation of the decade

cus it has been a decade (okay close enough) since I posted on this acc hahahaha -dies laughing- 
ah well it looks like there will have to be another decade before I post again 呵呵


Will be using this as a guinea pig for a nascent idea, hopefully it ends up going somewhere
once again, 加油 to myself~

This is my amazing blog yo.

I will probably post all sorts of random things, mostly regarding my obsession with manga or music or whatever i happen to be thinking of at the moment.

This is quite an undertaking for myself, since I've tried keeping blogs before but i failed at all of them ):


加油 to me!!