Category: Lifestyle

• Human?

  We’re all just trying to find the missing parts of ourselves on the journey through life. Whether we remain humans or become demons is up to us. This is the thought that went through my head after I finished watching the anime, Dororo. Humans seek completion, and we desperately search for it in so many […]

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  21/04/2020

  Anime/Manga, Lifestyle, Story Time, The World

  anime, Dororo, Fullmetal Alchemist, Human, Humanity, life

• Transcending Meaning – Why I Studied Translation

  I’ve always had a fondness for languages. I realised, when I was younger, that it always thrilled me when a movie in a foreign language was on the television. Subtitles have never deterred me, I loved nothing more than hearing people speak with different words and accents. I couldn’t agree more with what South Korean […]

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  09/01/2020

  Lifestyle, Story Time, The World

  foreign languages, languages, stories, translating, translation, words, writing

• Fruits Basket’s Tohru Honda and her Path to Self-Acceptance

  SPOILERS for the entire Fruits Basket manga. Tohru Honda, the kind-hearted, slightly oblivious heroine of Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket, is a fascinating study of a self-sacrificing female character. Selfless heroines are common in anime and manga, but Tohru is particularly noteworthy because her development throughout the series serves as an example of growing up, coming to terms with one’s […]

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  22/02/2019

  Art/Culture, Lifestyle, Story Time

  anime, Fruits Basket, Self-Acceptance

• Global Summer/Vacation Playlist 2017 Pt.2

  The vacation season is almost done. The cold winds are rising. – “Winter is coming”, you say. Black fur draped around your shoulders, your long sword clasped in your hands. “Aye, Lord Stark. It is indeed”. – Now that we have the embarrassing Game of Thrones references out of the way… It’s a bittersweet time […]

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  28/07/2017

  Entertainment, Lifestyle

  EXO, galantis, george ezra, global citizen, ibeyi, kpop, Lifestyle, mermaid, music, playlist, soca, soundtrack, summer

• Global Summer/Vacation Playlist 2017 pt.1

  Music is a magical force. It can conjure emotions inside you that you didn’t even know were there. The world is full of music, inspired by so many cultures, and sung by so many voices and composed with dozens of instruments. Listening to music from different places is an invigorating way of learning and sharing […]

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  02/06/2017

  Entertainment, Lifestyle

  global citizen, kpop, lana del rey, Lifestyle, lorde, luis fonsi, mermaid, music, playlist, pop, seventeen, sigrid, soundtrack, summer, the weeknd