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Toradora! I was in the mood for some mindless, tropey shoujo, and where better to look than the show with one of the most iconic loli tsundere? I was actually pretty pleasantly surprised by it in the first cour since I'd thought it be one of those "so there was premis--then they fell in love"-type shows, when in fact Toradora! spends a lot of time developing Ryuuji and Taiga's friendship. Not that their relationship made any sense, but hey, that's not something you see a whole too much in the genre. Of course, that positive aspect was easily offset by 1) Taiga's irritating personality 2) Ryuuji's pushoverness 3) the fact they dragged on what could've been a one cour show into two cours 4) the ending and 5) the unnecessary drama. Considering that shoujo is basically defined by unnecessary drama, know that Toradora!'s unnecessary drama went above and beyond the usual. I just... the last few episodes tried so hard I was actually cringing for the characters. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun Still on my shoujo spree, I turned towards this show. I liked this far more than I did Toradora!. Shizuku and Haru, the main couple, were "unique" people, so to speak, and they did weird, startling things as individuals. Together, however, you really didn't know exactly where they were headed (except for the general direction of "together"). There were a few times when I laughed out loud or just sat there, wordless, as the quirks of the show and its characters suddenly gets all "in your face." I also really respected the fact that Shizuku, thank god, wasn't one to constantly stutter or have disproportionate/unreasonable reactions to the things happening around her. If she wanted something or felt something, she said it outright and was firm about it. Including, or especially, with matters concerning Haru. Because let's face it: IRL, none of the things Haru did would be attractive and would most likely land him in jail. But in the anime, we can all just admire how well they animate his eyes and hair and the chicken, for some reason Free - Iwatobi Swim Club I don't know why I watched this. This is really just your typical moe-blob but with muscled guys, if that makes any sense. I fast-forwarded through most of it because it was 10% swimming, 40% Haru saying he only swims "free," 40% assorted mindless dialogue, and 500% fanservice. At first, the fanservice was limited to spontaneous stripping, skintight swimsuits, and muscles muscles muscles, but after the fourth episode mark, they began to really push it. No opportunity was overlooked in getting any of the guys into some "situation" (ex: I never knew mouth-to-mouth respiration--you know, the procedure that's supposed to be life-saving and all that--needed as much buildup as it had) Ao Haru Ride The anime was okay, but oh god the manga it was so good I was practically squealing when it finally got to the point where it finally hits you and you realize just how far the story and the characters has come and it's so GAHHH-- But since this is the anime thread, I'll stop there and just say that the anime is worth the watch, but it really becomes far more worth it if you finish the manga as well. (^I'm really bad at writing about stuff I like alright))

Went to see Finding Dory with Raki and co. Hanging out was fun, though I can't say the same for the movie itself... I may or may not have fallen asleep for a quarter of it Whaaaat? I think it feels better to wake up earlier naturally than it is to be dug awake at a set "waking time" by your alarm clock. But then again, I'm not a morning person and have almost never experienced the former so :V

*whispers* but technically.....

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Spring mornings right after a light shower. Preferably ~60 degrees with the sun up. It's refreshing, and probably the only time I'll feel not dead in early in the day. == Opinion on the Pledge of Allegiance?

Thanks

Sorry if I came off like that, but discrediting people's efforts wasn't my intention. I'd been looking into SAT subject tests for both Chinese and Spanish, and it struck me that the distance I still had to go with Spanish was far greater than I'd thought. Comparing the thought process I have for the two languages really put that into perspective, and my post was written to reflect a "what-if" scenario where I didn't have Chinese as a marker for "fluency". Being bilingual has always been a prevailing factor in my life because my internal "voice" "speaks" (yay tons of quotation marks) in both languages. English may be my primary language now, but there was a period in my life when I could actually feel the "voice" shift from being Mandarin-centric to English-centric, and as a small child, it was very hard to adjust. (I'm still very fluent in Chingrish.) Despite being a Spanish student of 6 years (though I didn't really learn much in the first 5), I can't imagine ever having the same problems I do with being a English-Mandarin speaker, and thus, in a sense, that same level of fluency. Perhaps I'll one day be able to communicate in Spanish in a conversational setting, but this sort of proficiency won't have some of the defining traits of bilingualism that I feel with Mandarin. With Mandarin, it's completely without thought, while with Spanish, I'm forced to procure a written form of the audio clip in my head, translate bits and pieces, then rearrange it to better accommodate for my English-orientated mind. It's a long and arduous process, and exactly what I've been telling my parents not to do for all my life, only that it's me who's now struggling to find a more efficient process and realizing there are none. Again, I'm not trying to brush off languages students in the classroom. It's quite the opposite really--I probably understand the laborious efforts too well.

Faulty

For the most part, I'd leave my past the way it is. But I do wish that I'd been better at showing love and appreciation to certain people before the chance was taken away from me. == Summer or winter?

Nice. I wish I could say the same thing; it's a really fun show. Yeah, that's more like it. While you're on it, add NCIS and House to that list too. Or have you already watched those?

Yet I've heard you watched it...?

Oh yay! Join the fam~ I haven't been following it lately though since I just watch it when it comes on TV. What season are you on? Ummmmmmmmm I want to say yes but I don't feel that yes is a sufficient answer... *dies* (again)

Feast your ears.

AHAHAHA ... ... No.

Breaking

Yes, though in what ways and which degrees is debatable. I do think it's something we shouldn't take for granted though. -- When was the last time you fully let yourself loose?

Any recs? To be totally fair, I haven't gone deep into the thriller genre yet. thus shouldnt be making these generalizations but oh well I think it was my recent meh experience with Gone Girl that sort of turned me off. Ah, that's at the top of my TBR pile. I've been putting it off because I have the "watched the movie lolz" excuse, haha. I really should get to it

Because their parents are cruel people who let their children believe in blatant fantasies. jk jk What's "over 9000"?

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