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Catriona Gray's Four Funny Faces

Well, I'm just glad to realize that she's #ReviseTerrorBill not #JunkTerrorBill.

Why I Love The Auto Jump Break Function Of The Newer Blog Templates

Do you remember a lot of the old blogging format in Blogger? Well, I'd like to really say that as a hobby blogger - I really enjoyed writing both long and short posts. However, the longer the posts I wanted - the more difficult scrolling down even MY OWN BLOGS become. Fortunately, a few years ago (I think 2017) -  Blogger introduced new easy to have formats such as Contempo, Emporio, Soho, and Notable which made a nobody blogger's blog look professional. I didn't immediately shift to newer formats because I think the Dynamic views doesn't click with my style that much. So, what's so good about the new format? Blogger does the jump break function for you. Take a look at any blog that uses these formats. I type and I type, I can write a thousand-word entry and I don't have to worry about inserting the jump break. Instead, it's the new theme that does the jump break for me. It would look like a newsroom blog or a business blog even with the use of a free do...

Gotta Do A Lotta Reading With Gracie Dzienny

Image Source Apparently, she's not just a beauty but she also loves to read, huh? Hmmm, Disney could've used her as Belle too if you ask me!

The Use Of Chinese Pinyin VS. Traditional Phonetics

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 ...

Remembering The Hummer Team Bootleggers

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...

Toku's Like A Ghost That Never Leaves Me

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...

Rediscovering Chemistry Beyond The High School Classroom

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...