#2.8.19

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Hot take here but uh, English accents are cute. Not all of them obviously, in fact a lot of English accents are kinda grating, but living in Scotland where I’ve known a fair few people who’ve moved up here from England, most of them have quite pleasant voices.

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Harry liked Gucci’s tweet - 2.8.19

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Vlog and shoot with mike, jp and alyssa.

📍 The ruins by the bay, Roxas

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Dr Stone episode 5 was pretty good. I think spending this much time on a flashback for Senku isn’t really necessary since you can kinda guess what he was up to anyway and the only addition that really feels new is the funny monkey observers, but eh it was still fun to watch. And I’m pleased with how they handled Tsukasa killing Senku and the obvious fact that we’re not gonna kill off the main character - Senku’s revival being related to the petrification science just kind of makes it easier to swallow, especially given that, yes, Tsukasa did actually kill Senku. We didn’t get to meet the blonde girl from the OP who was lighting the smoke signals though. Also while we escape from Tsukasa we still don’t actually defeat him at all so it’ll be fun to see where that goes. Good episode, probably the weakest one so far, but to suggest that it was even a bad episode would be completely wrong.

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Sailor Moon episode 34 was great, super eventful. Hecking, Sailor Venus’ name is Aino Minako, but none of the TL notes explaining names appeared for her so all I know is that “Aino” means “love of” or something to that effect and “ko” is obviously “child” so uh, yeah. We also got Usagi and Mamoru at last learning the other’s identities, which was bound to happen eventually so. Turns out Mamoru’s also got a tragic backstory, parents died in a car crash when he was 6 and he has no memories from before that because of it - seems the Phantom Silver Crystal will restore those memories as well as the Tuxedo Mask related ones. Speaking of which, Tuxedo Mask pretty much dies and at this, Sailor Moon awakens the Phantom Silver Crystal and becomes the Moon Princess, meaning I was totally right and Usagi is a reincarnation of the Moon Princess. The episode ends at this point but we’re hella in the middle of something big, Zoisite and Kunzite might even die next episode the preview suggested that might happen who knows. I’m hyped though. Also most importantly Ami-chan got to wear her cute magic glasses things again, always a delight.

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The Jerk

Date : 2 August 2019

Duration : 33 minute at bedtime

Depth :

Last night I resumed my strategy of taking time. There is no hurry to grow. There is a need to pay attention. There is an urgent need to keep my attention. The super conscious can grant you with the most bizarre temptation when it comes to your lack of patience. Time warp. It will twist the idea of time so badly that your attention will not know the difference between now, earlier and what’s next.

As I sat up straight to meditate last night, I became aware of the amount of tension leaving my face and body. That one minute insincere effort at meditation the night before did not help me any way. That much was clear to me. Thankfully, returning to my best concentration level wasn’t difficult.

There was that jerk. At some point, my attention got concentrated enough to pull all my energies towards the attention. A wave like movement rising up in the direction of the head ran through my body. That’s where our attention resides - In our heads. The heart was not violent but enough to change my posture. This jerk is similar to the descriptions of ‘kundalini energy’.

It is the jerk that makes me eager to meditate again. This energy rising is an important milestone to me. The reason is that I have read about it in all the spirituality related books written by Hindu saints. This means something to the practising Hindu. This is a milestone as old as Patanjali.

And Patanjali, according to Wikipedia, existed somewhere between 2nd century BCE and 4th century BCE. Nearly every Hindu saint thereafter has mentioned him in their talks. And the ones that I have read, have most definitely given their due attention to Patanjali’s eight fold path. The ones I have read are Swami Vivekananda and Beloved Gurudev Paramahansa Yogananda.

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I’ve been genuinely trying to avoid swearing lately so I shan’t be saying the coarse words I want to say about Buck Cluck but just note that the main thing I want to say rhymes with “Duck Buck Cluck”

Earlier today I was talking about Chicken Little with Lily which has made me decide to change my blog title and description to reflect some feelings I’m going through.

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Last and definitely least for Friday’s anime we’ve got episode 5 of Granbelm, which was exactly as dull as every other episode. Seems MC’s got a ~dark form~ because of course she does, and she maybe killed Nene who actually is the best character, because surprise surprise, battle royales are bad. Shuishou or whatever her name is got to speak a bit more in this episode though and she’s voiced by Aoi Yuuki which is actually the best thing about the entire show so that was at least fun. I have so little to say about this show. I’ve seen it be compared to Madoka a few times, including an ANN article calling it “the first good Madoka-like” and boy that’s a big oof.