It’s not easy to say goodbye or close a chapter in a book, but when it’s time, it’s time. And this ending is bittersweet.
Continue reading “End Of An Era: A Fond Farewell To simpleek”If I can define how this year has been so far in one word it would be unstable. A lot has been going on with my company, which has been occupying my mind for the past few months. Just when things seem to be calming down, another thing happens to upend everything once more. Usually when there’s chaos in your life you can’t control, the natural instinct is to retreat into a bit of escapism to forget about what’s currently going on. But when you’ve gone through a roller coaster of uncertainty, it can affect the motivation to do anything.
Continue reading “When Personal Concerns Demotivates How You Want To Escape”Being an adult means your time is precious. Our schedules always feel booked solid with a long list of to-dos and priorities that need to be taken cared of first before you can relax and unwind with the things you enjoy. But even when you have some time to engage in what you love to do, the problem now becomes how to concentrate on it when you’re constantly distracted.
Continue reading “Want To Focus? Find A Way To Unplug”Sometimes you need to getaway, reset, and relax. This is why I’m a huge advocate of taking time for yourself and taking a vacation from your job wherever you can.
Continue reading “Vacation Vibes: Blog On Hiatus”As a kid I never thought the practice of writing my thoughts and memories down on paper would be such a significant part of my life and routine. TV sitcoms in the late 80s and into the 90s would kind of poke fun at young teen girls who would keep diaries, starting each entry with “Dear Diary” as if that was a requirement for anyone who decided to write in their notebook. While I kind of bought into the idea of being one of those girls who kept a diary, or journal as I call it now because it sounds more mature, it surprisingly became a constant ritual I kept doing into my adulthood.
Continue reading “A Collection Of Memories: The Steady Practice Of Journaling”Spring has sprung, and with each new month brings a new opportunity to make continued progress in games, books, and TV. Here are the latest in what has been keeping me busy this month.
Continue reading “April Update: What I Have Been Playing, Reading, And Watching”The Final Fantasy series is well known among gamers, whether you’ve played them or not, with each one having their own distinct stories and cast of characters. With as wide of a catalog this series has, so does the music that defines each game. And for those who wish to relive their favorite Final Fantasy’s music or simply enjoy the ones they’ve never played, the recent release of Square Enix’s Theatrhythm Final Bar Line for the Nintendo Switch is one of the best new rhythm games for all music lovers.
Continue reading “First Impressions: Theatrhythm Final Bar Line”A few weekends ago I was talking to my cousin and the topic of video games came up. Out of the blue, he threw out this question to me—what video games would you come back to again and again? After all the games I have played since the time I became a gamer, a small but growing list of games has become obvious replays for me, if I weren’t going through the backlog of games I have accumulated.
Here are the games I would 100% replay if I somehow managed to play everything in my possession.
Continue reading “Video Games Rewind: Games I’d Return To If I Had Nothing To Play”It isn’t often I would necessarily continue with a video game that’s part of a series so soon after finishing the first or second one. I finished The Witcher 2 without having jumped onto The Witcher 3 just yet. And then there’s the Ace Attorney series which I have yet to complete all the games from the beloved Phoenix Wright games. The best way to describe my gaming mood is mercurial. But the reimagined Tomb Raider from Crystal Dynamics has managed to keep me wanting to continue through the end, and my latest gaming focus is Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Continue reading “First Impressions: Shadow Of The Tomb Raider”When I think about the geeky interests I have, anime has always been my first love before video games. I obsessively searched for and explored all the anime I could get my hands on. I fell in love with many and faithfully rewatched them when the mood struck. But as I got older and adult responsibilities took over my time, anime steadily declined for me. I could no longer keep up with what was new and critically acclaimed by anime fans, and anime was the last thing I seemed to want to watch when I had some downtime.
I may be considered old and no longer aware of what’s hip and cool in the anime world, but there will always be those few that will forever be evergreen in my mind. Ones I will gladly return to if I felt like revisiting my old love anime.
Continue reading “Everlasting: The Anime That Will Always Live On In My Memories”
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