Freedom!

Ordinarily, unemployment is not something to rejoice about – yet in my case it’s certainly a cause for celebration. After three years of servile white-collar labour I can finally look forward to a few precious months of rest from the rat race. I’ll have to hit the racecourse again at some point in [...]

I’ll be back soon

This blog is going on a brief hiatus as I attend to some urgent matters related to my imminent resignation. (Though strictly speaking, we’ve been on hiatus since the 10th, the date of my last post.)
Regular blogging resumes after QuitDay (i.e.: next Friday – woohoo!) or perhaps sooner, depending on how packed my [...]

I left my heart in Neo Venezia

For much of the past week, I felt as if I were sitting alone in a boat without oars, left to the mercy of a storm-tossed sea. The next week, and possibly the one after that, might be just as difficult. It’s in times like these that I find myself in the greatest [...]

A new manga mine opens in Makati

I’m bogged down with work so there won’t be a lot of updates this week. I wasn’t even planning on putting up a new post tonight, but I found something nice on my usual lunchtime walk and I figured it might be of some interest to readers in my corner of the world.
I was [...]

Saimoe 2008: The triumph of the avenger

All I can say is: Brilliant. Bloody brilliant.
In the epic Duel of the Twins that marked the end of Saimoe 2008, Lucky Star’s Kagami emerged triumphant over her younger sister Tsukasa to take the crown of victory 1037-976. Unlike most of the previous battles, the outcome of the final match was far [...]

Saimoe 2008: The Duel of the Twins is nigh

It appears that Nagisa’s final curse has come to pass.
In the Battle of the 31st, Lucky Star’s Tsukasa sustained an early lead against Hayate no Gotoku’s Hinagiku to win a spot in the finals of Saimoe 2008, 1137-1096 – a margin of just 41 votes. The hourly chart shows that the gap between the [...]