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Watching My First Imperial Palace Drama - Empresses in the Palace
Some genres of TV show are just much harder to understand than others, and for me, as I learn mandarin Chinese, a genre that has always eluded me was the imperial palace drama. These stories follow the events that happen surrounding the emperor and their concubines as well as the historical events that took place at the time. This genre in particular is so hard because there is a lot of cultural…
Monster Hunter World Solo #7 - Pukei-Pukei The Terrifying Barrier to High Rank!
Immediately my first actual fight with the insect glaive was completely terrible. Zorah Magdaros was such a bad matchup for this! I couldn’t get all three nectars from the magma cores, so they went down incredibly slowly, and the layout of the monster was so confusing to me that when Nergigante appeared, I spent 10 minutes walking around looking for it, only to see it get repelled without me…
The King's Avatar: Thoughts on Book 2
I genuinely feel like I’ve gone through enough content to cover 5 books, but no, I’ve only just managed to finish reading the second King’s Avatar book, and there are still 17 more to go! Volume Cover The first thing I want to comment on was the decision to include Su MuCheng on the front cover (of the Chinese edition, which is the one I’m reading) since I wouldn’t have considered her as nearly…
Dao of The Bizarre Immortal Book 1 Impressions
While on holiday I managed to finish the first book of Dao of The Bizarre Immortal, which covers the first 175 chapters of the online webnovel. To be honest, I didn’t think I would be able to read this much, and I only set myself a target to do the first 100 chapters in a year, but I’ve just kept on going, reading at an extremely fast pace because it was just too good! In contrast to the 75…
Worst Language Advice: Memorise Words
The most common thing I have heard from those who have given up learning a language was that they simply couldn’t remember any of the words that they tried to learn. But when I try to explain that you’re really not supposed to remember any words, it’s always met with shock and confusion, so I’m going to try to explain what I mean now. The majority of words that I’ve learned from being a beginner…
Monster Hunter World Solo #6 - Using Defender Weapons Again
Welcome back to part 6! It’s been around 4 months since I played this game, mainly due to getting obsessed with MH4U, eventually beating every single quest in G Rank and also playing through Yakuza 0 as well. If this game had captured my attention however, this wouldn’t have happened, so I wondered about what went wrong last time and what I could do differently. Several things occurred to me. I…
Going to a Gaming Cafe in China
I know gaming cafés are everywhere, but the first time I had ever been to one was on a trip in China. I didn’t particularly want to go but everyone else was interested so I just came along to have a look. I don’t really enjoy or play multiplayer online games, and the fact that everything was in Chinese made me think I’d spend the entire time just looking for something to do, but I did remember…
Giving up on Winds of Winter - Why I Wouldn't Recommend Game of Thrones
The amount of time we have waited for George RR Martin’s next book is longer than the time taken to release all the previous 5 books. The author is just too busy with TV shows and other books that an event like Covid wasn’t enough to make him finish. I’ve given up on waiting. While I’m sure the author cares about the book deeply, it’s undeniable that he cares about lots of other things too, and…
Why 35 degrees is so Bad in the UK
Many people who live in hotter countries seem to think red weather warnings in the UK are some kind of joke, but they’re a massive problem, and I’ll explain why. 35 degrees is pretty unbearable to be outside in. If you don’t believe me just try standing outside all day in the sun. The only real way it’s possible to cope is to be in an air conditioned room, and this where the issues start. It…
Monster Hunter World Solo #5 - Getting Rid of Defender Weapons
We left off last time having just unlocked 5 star quests, as well as lots and lots of side content! The first monster I went to was Odogaron, who turned out to be really fun. He always moves around so much and makes you stay on your toes. He’s just fun to weave and dodge around, and it’s nice to see someone else get bleed besides Seregios. My low defence meant that just like the previous fight,…
Plane Waiting Times
I’ve been on quite a few planes recently, and it made me think of CGP Grey’s video where he meticulously went over different plane boarding processes, and what wastes the most time. The thing is, it’s all wrong, not the theory on boarding times itself, but the assumption that boarding time actually matters. The thing is that the people on the plane need a lot of time to prepare things, and…
Worst Language Advice - Just go to the Country!
I think of all the language advice, this one is probably the most misunderstood, because it can definitely help, but not for everyone. I say this because I myself have only been to China on a handful of occasions, each time communicating and enjoying it quite well, but I’ve met people who have spent up to 10 years in the country without ever really achieving even basic conversational skills. My…
Why I Started Learning Chinese
I have hit the 7 year mark of learning Mandarin Chinese, which feels kind of unreal. I started this blog long before I even began the learning process, meaning you can track my progress from someone who never intended to learn Chinese in the first place, but somehow ended up taking an exam in the language since it was the least bad topic at school to someone who could go to China and have in…
Mandarin Output Diary #12 - I'm going to China!
I ended the last output diary by talking about learning tones of the most common words that I missed using anki, filling in the gaps and misconceptions I had learned over time. Things were going quite well back then, but I think now Anki is starting to become a bit less useful and it’s better to learn with other techniques. I have around 1.5k cards now, resulting in around 100 reviews a day, so…
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Solo - Full Journey
Here is my full journey of how I soled every monster in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate! These posts were originally released once per week but I wanted to put everything together for those who really love 4U way too much. Enjoy! MH4U Diary #1 – Let’s start this solo challenge – Unlocking G Rank I’ve always regretted that I never got to finish Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, my first monster hunter game.…
If I could Make Blog Posts with a Button, Would I?
If I wanted to, I could probably put the 1000+ blog posts I’ve written into an AI machine to make it churn out articles on specific topics relevant to what I enjoy talking about, giving it simple notes on my opinions, but that would be kind of pointless and boring. My blog is an expression of myself and a creative outlet for me to enjoy analysing myself and letting my ideas out there, so…
WordPress has a Like Button Problem
If you are reading this on my actual website instead of the WordPress reader you will already see that likes have been disabled here, and I myself have disabled like notifications so I will not see them. The only place remaining where likes can still be seen is the WordPress reader, but that will change if I find a way to disable them there too, but I don’t think it’s even an option, which is a…