May 10th, 2025
- 68 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 21 reviews on Bunpro
- 0 lessons on Bunpro (break day #2)
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Book club: A bit of door 1 of ファタモルガーナの館
- Book club: 葬送のフリーレン第４5話
- Part of a book: 正しく疑う, 30 pages ^^
When I was in Kinokuniya in New York, I wanted to grab myself something completely out of the left field that would interest me and wouldn’t be out of my level, and I found this book on the media literacy ^^
I bought it because I was curious in terms of what are the netiquette rules in Japan and where people post their things, but of course, with most of those purchases it’s hard to find time to read them, and by the time you want to read something in Japanese, you’ve already found something else instead.
Which is where this flight was great, I was able to open it and start reading it ^^
The structure of this book is composed out of three parts, a magazine-ish article on a specific topic, infographics explaining specific phenomena and a manga that exemplifies what people are going through, pics below C:
I find it really cool, though on the flight right next to me there was this pair of people that were talking really loud, and there was a woman with a resting flat, frustrated tone that was making me feel angry just listening to her, so I put on my noise-cancelling headphones and started reading The House in Fata Morgana instead xdd
I still have the longer flight to go, even though I’ll probably try to sleep over that, I’ll see how my energy levels fluctuate with learning Japanese on the other flight ^^
Life:
MONTRÉAL. Yeah, that’s the secret location xddd
Reykjavik
I actually wanted to visit the city on the way to America, but changed my mind because of the story of [German tourists being detained into detention centers](German Tourists Deported From US for Not Booking Hotel - Newsweek on the immigration into the USA, Dublin has a pre-clearance deal with American TSA, so even if they were to turn me around in Dublin, well, I’d be in a civilized country instead, so that’s a win-win scenario. But I miss not having seen Reykjavik, so sighh ;___;
There’s this weird hazy idea of Canada in my head from early 2000s or something, maybe it never existed in the first place, but Turning Red taps into the exact same consciousness, so it must have come from somewhere ^^
That’s also part of the reason why my Study Log has a Canadian flag in it ^^
The idea that I had was a second-generation Asian experience of being in the most prosperous country and region at that time and knowing they have endless possibilities ahead of them in life, and the marriage of Canadian and Asian cultures under an organic umbrella of diversity. Well that past probably no longer exists, if it ever did, so I can only go like ahhhh ;_; <3 xd
I had the soundtrack of Professor Layton: Azran Legacy on my headphones the whole time which made me go like “Man, I miss when Canada.” even though I’ve never experienced Canada 20 years ago, it definitely did bring the idea of a closure to my mind ^^
Also, because of Layton, I found an archeological museum called Redpath there, that had an amazing giant Japanese Crab inside of it C:
And additionally, there is more French than English in some of the places in Montréal, in Paris, I was making fun of people only speaking French and not wanting to engage in English, even though they did, but here in Montréal I’m like “please speak French.”
I wonder if people from Quebéc have a similar level of cultural/linguistic trauma as Irish people in Ireland, French hasn’t died yet, but English is taking over so fast ;___;
Either way, I’m writing from an airplane right now and my reception of my mobile internet is so bad, I’m struggling to upload any pictures ;_;
So, see you tomorrow, and in the better timezone ^^
We’ll see if I can sleep in here, if not, I’ll be crying really loud ;___; xddd