aprilius20 » Outings

Genting 2010: New Continent Discovery Committee, Dismissed.

aprilius20 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:46:35 +0000

'Smile!'

Um, well, there you have it. It’s finally arrived- the post detailing what seems to be our yearly pilgrimage to the nearest naturally cold spot in the country, Genting Highlands, famous for having the only casino in the country, which in any case, might soon face a dearth of money-seeking pilgrims when [...]

European Union Film Festival 2009

aprilius20 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:03:54 +0000

:w:for lack of a better picture:w:

I’ve been to five Japanese film festivals before, but this one is my first. That’s not really surprising as it’s the first time they’re having it here, but there has been a French Film Festival in the past, which I missed. As you can see from the [...]

ANBU and their dietary habits

aprilius20 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:47:03 +0000

Brick-man, irritating kid, and daft dog.

Today’s outing was a sort of reunion-farewell for a friend who’d just returned from India, where she’s studying dentistry. We’d decided on Times Square (why does everyone feel the need to recreate that noisy intersection in their home country?) as our meeting place, around 2pm, after which [...]

District 9: How to raise a prawn and cuss like South Africans

aprilius20 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:16:24 +0000

But you are.

Author’s preface: As should be obvious from the movie poster above, this is a really, really late post. Some brief announcements: as some of you might have noticed, I’ve just added an advert to the left sidebar. I hope you don’t find it too obtrusive. It’s position might move around [...]

DaiCon ’09: Not so ‘Dai’(大) after all

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:07:17 +0000

Figures on Display

Um, well. Here’s a convention report. This is probably the first time I’m doing this. For some reason all the photos turned out a little blurry, and I’m still a little mad about it. The main highlight of the event was a concert by Chihara Minori (????), a seiyuu most [...]

Japanese Film Festival ’09 Part II: Okuribito/Departures

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:21:03 +0000

おくりびと / Departures

Before I begin with the review, a little rant. I’ve just signed up for a free site on this place called ‘freei.me’, and tried to install WordPress on it- well, if ‘tried’ covers clicking all here and there whilst reading reams of incomprehensible technobabble and eventually leaving the account to [...]

Japanese Film Festival 2009

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:19:24 +0000

The Japanese Film Festival 2009 just ended today. This time it focused on dramas, and even had a big name in Departures (おくりびと), the winner of the Best Foreign Film prize in the 81st Academy Awards. I’ve attended the festival since it’s inception back in 2004. In that year, I think I watched just [...]

A Tale of Sexual Harassment, Enlightenment, and Amorous Monks

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:47:05 +0000

First things first: I’d really love to have post summaries, with a ‘read more’ option for every post, but I just can’t seem to find it. Guess I’ll just throw a link to the photo albums for photo-heavy posts like this one. Ah well. Oh, and I’ll be stuck on an island from Monday [...]

CNY '09: Leftovers

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:56:39 +0000

The very much delayed continuation of my previous CNY post. The events of the first part of this post took part on the 30th of January. A reunion of sorts with some friends from high school.

Went to fetch MC Wing from his condo, and then Geoff. Too lazy to drive up to his [...]

Back to India you go

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:53:58 +0000

Note: Before we go any further, all this took place on the 22nd of May- it’s dated before the previous post. Blame my frazzled brain for this.

I actually skipped class for this one. Ming had come back from India (Where she’s studying Dentistry) sometime late February, but I was just too caught up [...]