Bird vocabulary
愛屋及烏 : to love the house and its crow 放鴿子 : to release the pigeon 畫眉鳥 : thrush
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Dreamt that they cloned our dog
Dreamt about waking up to Chippy lying down on the rug at the foot of the stairs, as was his habit. My mom had met someone who could clone animals for a fee and somehow gotten Chippy cloned even though he’s been dead for years. I asked about where they got his DNA and why he was already fully adult-sized and if he was still epileptic—no answer. The new Chippy wasn’t exactly the same so I didn't…
Reading report: Lu Siqing in Zaowu vol. 1
Just finished 造物的恩宠 The Creator's Grace volume 1 for a bilingual (CN/EN) readalong! My main takeaway is LU SIQING BEST GIRL
an ordinary day
A fire tree blooming near the train station Red Shanghai beauty flowers (just ID'd them today!) Bougainvillea flowers, sparser now that summer is over Journaling in a food court at 9AM Rare supermarket find: señorita bananas Someone gave us a box of avocados... ....A box of mangoes too :) Yay fruit :) Today's soundtrack:
Panels that go hard: 風之咒 (The Wind Spell) 2.3
All that is beautiful and holy shall forsake you And the flames of hell shall feast upon your soul— Witch!
Finished The Fellowship of the Ring!
Earlier journal pages here .
May eats
Lots of celebrations this month, and therefore lots of food. Funnily enough I have 0 photos for the most important one (my younger brother's engagement dinner). 5/10: Seafood pasta from Three Dots (Mother's Day) 5/17: Wagyu sirloin from Stoned Steaks 5/27: Wagyu donburi bento set from Key Coffee I wasn't able to take a picture, but the guava and pomelo mille feuille was also really refreshing.…
Bird observation log
Observation log of a baby sparrow that fell off the nest on a rainy day. You can always tell when a baby sparrow has fallen off the nest because the adults are very loud about it. They form a committee and chirp urgently—maybe among each other, maybe at the stranded baby—and the commotion always attracts the attention of a nearby yellow-vented bulbul who briefly flies up to check out the…
Game journaling: Legend of Mana
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Now playing: The Legend of Tianding
Saw this game go on sale for $5 at the Nintendo eShop and picked it up on a whim. It's a sidescrolling platformer set in Dadaocheng under the Japanese occupation. It has a comicbook-like narrative style and the spoken dialogue is Taiwanese Hokkien (and Japanese, when applicable).