Sean Akizuki's Personal Blog

Pinyin is used in every Chinese dialect. Though, the one I'm familiar with is Mandarin though I'm afraid that ethnic linguicide is affecting Cantonese, Hokkien, and other Chinese dialects. Mandarin is still used in Taiwan as the national language even though their shows would sprinkle the Taiwanese dialect in some instances. Although I'm having issues with China as a political entity - I still sympathize with the people who are but victims of the Chinese Communist Party. Taiwan or the Republic of CHINA still uses Chinese pinyin even if they have declared themselves independent from the People's Republic of China. A lot of people are actually reading pinyin wrong. It's pretty much much how J and Que are misread by foreigners. A lot of people unfamiliar with the Chinese language misread it. So, what's the big point? If j in Tagalog is actually read as a softer h where Juan is read as Huan with a softer h - z is read as tsai or a softer chu. That means Ken Zhu ...

Ever remembered the NES era when the dying NES was facing off against higher systems such as the Super NES, the first Playstation, the Sega systems, and many more. I was just a naive person who thought that the Super Mario World cartridge I had on the NES back then was by Nintendo. Boy, was I in for a rude awakening when I rented a Super NES back then. I never had the system so I ended up using emulators, as a result, to play then. Lately, I've had bad blood with Nintendo due to their extreme policy against fan games unlike what Sega did. Maybe, it's because Sega finally let me have pieces of my missing childhood when they stopped making game consoles and focused on making games for consoles. I never thought that the game was produced by the Taiwanese bootleg team Hummer which I think may have been sacked for copyright infringement. Who can remember this AWFUL bootleg of the great classic Super Mario World ? I was wondering did Nintendo have other reasons and not just Yos...

It's no secret that I'm no big Toku fan. In fact, I'm just a casual fan of the franchise. But as time passed - Super Sentai started to simply no longer click with me due to other newer stuff. Kamen Rider? Well, I'm liking it better than Super Sentai now and I don't care about the old school Showa era Riders that much. Then I want to take a Toku break but guess what... it becomes like a ghost that never leaves me. That's just figuratively speaking, okay? My love for things Japanese is just fading. It's not that I don't use Japanese stuff. Far from it. I still have Japanese appliances. I still acknowledge Japan brought in the electronic revolution. Some non-Japanese shows I watch are too obvious to be influenced by Japan. I decide to take a break from Toku with non-Japanese entertainment. Taiwanese entertainment and South Korean entertainment are my U-Turn points from Japan. I always feel like, "Screw sushi! Get some kimbap! Screw Japanese gyoza I...

It's no doubt that I like and dislike chemistry SIMULTANEOUSLY. It's one thing to consider to love the study of different topics like the applications of chemistry, linking biology to chemistry, or whatever memorization and simple computations are there. However, I do still dislike stoichiometry like I don't like performing accounting cycles on my own. Both stoichiometry and accounting are important though I get dizzy doing balancing while I understand why I need to study them. Stoichiometry is a subject that requires extreme precision otherwise EVERYTHING blows up. I get panicky about it though it does get interesting to rediscover chemistry even if I'm no longer pressured by problem-solving. The science of weight loss is one. I have been trying to burn calories since I got myself a pedometer. Now, I wanted to know how do you lose weight? It's not that emphasized in high school biology except in qualitative matters. High school biology teaches about the h...

I'll do a list of classic beauties from childhood to their replacements. Hee hee, it would be very bad not to acknowledge those who had withered away because without them, new bunches of flowers can't be there! Now for the different eras in no particular order: 1980s: Taiwanese actress Liu Xue Hua. Too bad she never had a child of her own but good thing she adopted at least two to inherit her late husband Deng Yu Kun's estate so it doesn't go to waste! Lately she's still pretty and she managed to keep her amazing figure for quite some time! She could actually play as Liu Yi Fei's mother. Joan Lin, Jackie Chan's wife. She's one of those ageless beauties. I've seen her later figures... though she lost her figure due to age but she's still pretty. Hmmm too bad she and Jackie Chan never had a daughter together. Bridgette Lin... Qin Han's old love flame in the past. Lately she's still pretty even with all the signs of a senior citiz...

There are two similar yet different candies in Asia. I remembered tasting both of them on different times. Both of them are very similar yet different.  This is the treat called khong th'ng which means pounded sugar. Malaysians and Indonesians call it kacang tumbuk. If you compare Tagalog to Malaysian and Indonesian - you may discover similar words. Kacang means peanut and tumbuk means pounded in all three languages. The Chinese delicacy is full of crushed peanuts. Filipinos may have tasted this delicacy made in the Philippines by their countrymen of Chinese ancestry. I think the dishes were also brought to Malaysia and Indonesia by ethnic Chinese. It's also called barley peanut candy.  Meanwhile, there's also soanpapadi. Soanpapadi is an Indian delicacy said to have originated in Maharashtra, Western India. The dessert itself can be found where Indian communities can be found. Filipinos may have been able to taste it where there are Filipino-Indians. The dess...