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A few weeks ago, I finished watching TV drama series called ばけばけ/Bakebake/The Ghost Writer’s Wife. I first encountered the promotional poster of this drama during my trip to Matsue (Japan 2025). It was a very interesting series! It tells a story loosely based on Lafcadio Hearn s life. That s why the setting of the drama is [ ]
This year felt so long but also felt like it was short too. Many things happened and it was tough to go on too, but in the end things will turn out fine, hopefully. The year started pretty well, riding on the highs from last year, but I broke up and had to start coping [ ]
In a website UX pattern, a dialog is an interruptive piece of element, usually interactive, shown to cover a page while the rest of the page are not interactive. Dialog can be treated like a page overlaying the current page. Sometimes, this dialog that got treated like a page gets its own route in the [ ]
So I visited Japan again in the later half of October 2025. Unlike my previous trip in 2024, this trip was kind of booked without much plans in mind. Back when booking the flights, I only knew I wanted to explore Kansai region and maybe visit Tottori Hokuei, the Detective Conan s author s hometown. But [ ]
It has been many months since I started this side project called Ikuyo (source code in GitHub). I think I m now relatively satisfied with the feature set to do a write up. Ikuyo is a web application for made to help and collaborate on travels. Features Ikuyo currently offers the following features: Timetable View In [ ]
Over the years, I keep facing this issue of upgrading yt-dlp using winget. I had to search the resolution over and over with many people pointing to different places, but only this worked for me, so I m documenting it for myself. Background Winget is a pacakage manager for Windows. yt-dlp is a program to download [ ]
Last year in 2023 in Review, I picked that the yearly theme would be Year of Experience . Indeed, this year I experienced a lot of things. Experience came in different forms, from travelling, events, meet ups, and many more. In this post, I ll share several memorable experiences. Coldplay Singapore The first major event of the [ ]