Magnostat's Mogamet may strike the reader as evil at first, but in his rhetoric in the 161st chapter of Magi, he starts to make sense. When you draw parallels with the real world, the magicians would be the scientists and intellectuals who are striving for a more enlightened world, while the goi would be the politicians and the businessmen who rule ( Read more... )

I am very behind my updates on my 365 Days Project. I swear to God, when I get home, I will devote a huge chunk of my nights and days to updating my blog. Because, what else can I do while I wait for slips of papers that will ferry me outside of this country and into a new adventure?

I...just want to write. Other people create using tools that carve, etch, and paint and so on but I...want to create things using my mind and words, aided by images, people, and events around me and even words of other people. I feel limited being where I am. I keep holding myself back saying that I don't have all the resources I need at hand when ( Read more... )

This day was a very happy day for the football fangirl me! It was still 15 January in the other side of the world, but already 16 January in the Philippines. As per my usual habit in the mornings, I went online using mobile data, opened my Twitter app, browsed my timeline for the results from last night's games, and voila ( Read more... )

This day is a very happy day, of course. Because it's salary day! Seriously, it's one of my most awaited days in a month, when my perishing wallet is replenished. It's a dastardly cycle my wallet lives, but it makes do. I do have savings put aside, but I don't like touching them, so I'm doing my best to budget, now with the help of Toshl ( Read more... )

Woke up to a fantastic news in the morning: BVB won 1-0 over FC Sion in a friendly match! Yes, it's only a friendly but it bodes for good things to come.

BVB beat Sion 1-0 to win first friendly of the year #LaManga15 http://t.co/ZuE1VdM6jX pic.twitter.com/0frq8P7Ud4
- Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) January 13, 2015

I am now excited for their next game ( Read more... )

I had a sort of long conversation with my host, Aimi, on this day. It started when I asked her the day before how here New Year is so far. She didn't reply immediately. I was actually seen-zoned. But to my delight, she sent a long reply the same day and our conversation spilled over to this day ( Read more... )

I started watching Natsume Yuujinchou again. I guess this streamed from the lack of anything new to watch, as my external hard drive with my latest downloads was still with my co-worker. That and I was beset with nostalgia. The series is one of my favourites. Sad to say it only has four seasons when it could have more ( Read more... )

I woke up pretty late this day. I did wake up at 10am, but I slept again and really woke up at 12noon. If I was back home in Talisay, Negros Occidental, this would be found unacceptable by my mother. As would be going home at 3.30 in the morning. I didn't even get up immediately; I dawdled in my bunk, checked my messages, and sent SMS before going ( Read more... )

This was a lazy day, mostly. Since I finished Re:Hamatora the night before and died for the nth time in Don't Starve, I had nothing much left to do but chores. But my only chore was to do laundry, and I didn't have a lot of dirty clothes so I decided to put it off till the next day. (Yes, that's called procrastination ( Read more... )