Yu-chan no Megane

I must be the world’s largest magpie to be this attracted by shiny things. I’ve gone and decorated parts of my nest with some really dazzling objects. Obviously, being the poor magpie that I am, I can’t quite possibly afford all that ice, but the least I can do are Swarovski crystals.
I have to give [...]

Animal Festival Asia 2008 is the first of its kind in Singapore. Held at the Suntec Convention Centre, it promises to be an interesting event, according to Dark Mirage who attended the official press conference.
I think I’ll reserve judgement despite the fact I’ve yet to attend a single anime convention anywhere in this freaking globe. [...]

The QR Code is essentially a 2D barcode that looks like this:

The code for this blog, YuMe.
The nifty image above contains the url for this blog. You can pretty much store anything on it… urls, text, contact details, etc. Don’t ask me how it’s encoded or decoded though as I really have no idea. You [...]

I’ve been working on another post the past two weeks, but that has barely made it past a few lines, so in the meantime, I’ll wax lyrical on my latest obsession, Kimura Takuya.
Rather, Kimura Takuya in cheesy Gatsby ads.
Let’s put it this way, I don’t really know who Kimura Takuya is or what he does [...]

I’ve always been fascinated by Japanese drinks and sweets, quite likely due to my attraction to gorgeous packaging. Nonetheless, some Japanese do have funky taste buds (e.g. dango, natto) and I wanted to try something different from the typical Singaporean diet.
So this time, I tried a natural flavoured yohurt drink, aptly named OHAYO オハヨー, literally meaning “good [...]

While I realise it’s easy to be cutesy and sprout all sorts of quotes from favourite manga and doramas (e.g. “Iku iku! GO! GO! Ore GO GO! — Nakatsu Shuichi, Hana Kimi), it’s not quite the same kettle of fish trying to communicate in Japanese to a native.
I came to this conclusion after doing my [...]