Honestly? Just the usual stuff really. 

OMG I barely made it...

...and I forgot to screenshot the convene result again so here's Phrolova with her signature weapon at Level 1 (LOL)

I'm here with some updates!

 

I've been reading... but most of the books I read this year are surely from flower-picking trips and the library. Damn. Didn't think I would be doing that much audiobook-listening in my life but here we are. I'm in my audiobook era, apparently. It's a very irresistible method when you dread opening a physical (& digital!) books but still want to do some reading. I still won't touch those heavy ones but the ones that's easy to follow and maybe a book I've read before are very much welcome. I usually listen to one while playing a game that doesn't demand my full attention or when doing the dishes. I got peer-pressured (something like this XD) into reading two audiobooks but it's okay, I would just return early if I don't plan to spend time reading them. A couple of audiobooks are just to accompany my slow physical reading journey...

Oh yeah, one of the audiobooks I finished was "Real Ghost Stories of Borneo 1". I never heard about this series before but it looks like the Borneo's version of TSGS so I thought that was cool! One of the stories talked about their experience in KK and described the hotel they went to as a white castle.. Jeez, I wonder which hotel is that? :P
But seriously though, I consider that place to be old (I went there when I was little) so I wouldn't be surprised if some stuff happened there.

I had a brief silly moment few weeks ago where I almost buy a second copy of "The Labyrinth House Murders"... totally saved by my LibraryThing (which is where I mainly catalogue books I own). I think it was partially me misremembering that what I meant to get is the one I got here. Highly recommend the site to anyone who has similar problems (or wants to avoid this) to use LT. I just started using it again back in 2020 when I realised I have a lifetime account (it used to have a limit on number of books you can add, if I'm not mistaken)... but then couple months later in the same year, they became free (no fees, no limits).  

Great news~ I'm kind of out of the watching slump? I guess that's thanks to Tondemo Skill S2! I've re-watched the whole S1 and still enjoyed it (most of the time with food). But I'm so rusty with my I-know-that-seiyuu game XD. It was a pleasant surprise to know that Elrand is voiced by Namikawa Daisuke, it's so fitting! I wish we can meet Gonji soon but I guess that would be in the next season. Even in the WN, if I remember correctly, there's a big time gap between Dora and Gonji. At least Dora is here! I really need to catch up with the WN... I might need to start from the beginning again...

It will be the 20th year next year! Should I do something special???
Ooh, I can do something that runs from the other blog anniversary date until today next year...

Anyway, even though it's the 19th year today... I did skip two years in this blog - no posts in 2016 & 2018 but it's still valid. I updated my both my Tumblr (microblogs, duh!) in both those years. I also posted once in 2016 in my music diary blog.

Again, not really doing anything special today lol... I'm posting today just to acknowledge that I remember XD

Some random info of the day 

-- I started using Twitter@X (April) & Tumblr (October) in 2009... though I'm not really active on both sites nowadays

-- I think it was because I want to keep track the which books I was reading so I made an account on LibraryThing on 19th February 2009 (15th year coming soon!). Interestingly, I only joined Goodreads a year later in June 2010. At that time, there was a limit of books you can add on LT so I use GR more. Started using LT more often since year 2020. I added all books I own in my LT account so that I have a place to refer to avoid buying duplicate books. GR mostly have books I already read. 

-- I made an account on Youtube in April 2006, months before it was acquired by Google in November the same year. I didn't really use the site as much as current day before... I think it's at least a decade later that I started using it more often (there's that one time I realise that I enjoy seeing people playing games, especially horror games XD)

Year in Review I love that you can see books I added in LT in the background and not just some random ones

It's something like Spotify Wrapped, I guess...?

There's a bit difference regarding the pages I read [so far] this year with Goodread's data but I won't think much of it lol... (I did add the amount of pages to those without it but it still doesn't match after regenerating).

Anyway, since LT has the almost complete record of my books, it has the most updated amount of books... including how much new ones get entered...

--"Unknown Author" is supposed to be Hideo Yokoyama *sigh* I don't know why the imported data from Amazon is like that

--Most books added in November... because of that one box of mostly preloved romance books lol

--I'm a bit embarrassed that I purchased more than I read this year... #ohwell

...Which brings us to this: 

 

Hmmm?????

The list:

Oh yeah, as usual(?), I didn't include everything... only the ones I find interesting XD

Here's what you can get from the report(?): 

Maybe :P

Anyway, been window-shopping preloved/second-hand books on Shopee. Found some Fear Street books (with that old, movie-poster-like covers)... which made me think about collecting (and re-/reading, of course) them again. Isn't it great that I catalog books I have on LibraryThing? Now I can just check there to avoid buying another copy of books in my shelf.

--Ooh. I do miss reading an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. I do have that thick book of his... 

Hmm. Reading. I started two books recently. One is "Before We Say Goodbye". The other is a manga ("Bahang Kafe Cinta"). The manga is one of the 13 books I mentioned in this post. Unfortunately, I can't find the manga on Goodreads so I won't be able to add that to my read books later. It's not really a problem but I need to remember that because I might get confused when I compare my the data between Goodreads and LibraryThing...

The two books I'm hoping to finish reading this week are "Before We Say Goodbye" and "The Mill House Murders". Well, it still depends on my mood though lol

Let me just list out some things I forgot to include in my posts this week:

...That's all, for now.