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Polyglot Problems
The thing with learning a new language is that you tend to jumble them all in your head, especially if you're not yet adept at code switching. Even now, as I type, my brain is in Japanese syntax mode. So if the sentences seem a bit oddly structured, blame Japanese. Lol. (And I won't proofread this so I can see how weird this sounds when my brain is ( Read more... ) -
NANA Chapter 84.5
...is not a real chapter. I just made this up as I finished re-reading the official Viz translation (which I found easy to read, but only captured the essence of the dialogue 90% of the time). I read it alongside the original Japanese text for added context.
Based on where the story left off, this is how I see the next few pages unfolding.
Nobu ( Read more... ) -
Deconstructing Yazawa Ai's Nana
Since I'm completely amazed at how intricate Yazawa Ai wrote Nana, I am taking the time to go through the manga again to analyze the characters. Yazawa-sensei brilliantly used symbolism and parallelism in the story that it really is not enough to read it just once. I believe many of the images and dialogue (heck, even the juxtaposition of dialogue ( Read more... ) -
NANA chapter 84
Thanks to NANA for getting me out of my writing rut. I decided to re-read the manga after 11 years, and I've come to appreciate the story from a different light. It's been 11 years after all. When I last read it, I was an immature 19-year-old who knew nothing about the real world. Now, I am reading it from the perspective of a 30-year-old who has ( Read more... ) -
The Pianist in a Dream
Slow, careful notes reverberate through the thick air as I turned to face the endless maze of mirrors before me. It cried of loneliness and despair, as what Jamelle had told me. Fixing my gaze onto the layers of glass mirror in front of me, I try-though I knew it’d be a futile effort-to peer through the glass as if to look for an invisible hole. I ( Read more... ) -
space & time
Disclaimer: Geekiness from 2008. Taken from my bravejournal. Random musings of a teenager ( Read more... ) -
Of Love And Poems
Please don’t let me write ( Read more... ) -
romeo & juliet
And though you are
as if already dead,
but still you live
here inside my head.
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I’ve killed you once, twice-
one too many times.
But my heart, it stops
as though your heart was mine.
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So why don’t we?
Together, let’s die in harmony;
Let go of life and its boundaries;
Beyond the clouds and sky’s our destiny.
(circa september 2010; revised: 2013)
