Whoa. I just had an eye-opening experience. I was reading a typical Korean shoujo manhwa (Korean comic aimed at teenage girls – usually featuring one ordinary but pretty girl caught in a love triangle between two guys. Best-known example would probably be Goong/Gung/Princess Hours.) In this case, the manhwa My Girl was about a sports-loving [...]
May Day, Labour Day… the first day of May, and the beginning of what I think of as my holidays. The NUS students are through with one week of exams, and have one more week to go before the term officially ends. My marking has been completed, my lecturer is preparing to submit them now, [...]
I’ve figured out the cause of the stress over the last couple of weeks – it’s secondary stress caused by too much identification with my students as they work through their problems in their projects. I’m stressed because I know how much they have to work through, as I’m helping them solve their problems. And [...]
*blink* I can’t believe I just spent the last four hours programming in Blender as a way to kill time. I think I’ve realised something about myself, though. I’m easily addicted to problem-solving. As long as I am reasonably familiar with the parameters of the problem, I can spend endless hours trying a bunch of [...]
So… I just recently went over to Popseoul to have a look at what’s been happening in the Korean media industry, and I find two pieces of information that has surprised and shocked me. 1) Shin ae is getting married. To someone other than Alex. Within 6 months of dating him. In June 2009. Ah, [...]
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