Hello Everyone,

It’s been a long while. It seems like this line has become the tagline of all my recent posts. Anyway, I am finally done with my masters. I am officially a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering. Yay!! It was a tough yet fulfilling one and a half years.

Before I start my general life in 2017 post, happy holidays everyone! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018! Time flies!!

2017 was an especially hard year for me. I lost a whole lot of friends in the first half of the year. It was an eye-opener but it felt so sad to lose so many people at once. I never, in my life knew, cutting ties with someone was so painful. So, first half of my 2017 went into losing so many friends over a simple incident which was exaggerated beyond normal. Some people left for good and I don’t think I am talking to them ever again. Some came back. I met new amazing people as well. I am thankful for all three groups of people in my life. Everything is an experience, a lesson. But because the preceding event started during this time, I still dream about losing my current friends.

And then I broke my leg during summers. It’s healed now but yeah. That was a hard time for I didn’t have many people around to help me. Those who did, thanks again. I wish 2018 would be better, for me, for everyone 😀

Moving onto happier things, my graduation… I learnt more in 1.5 years than I had learnt in 21 years till my undergrad. Thank you very much for the experience Carnegie Mellon University. I am sad to part from my “friends” friends, yet I am happy for everyone, working hard to chase after their dreams. Cheers, everyone!

And then the discord community. My online friends were a great support for me in my tough times. I could rant to them anytime I wanted without being judged. I mean even if I was, I don’t know them in real life. When there is no pressure of being discovered (of course when stalking gets involved, not that much), you tend to give up your pretense more often than not. Online world is like a double edged sword that way, lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I tried experimenting and finally came around to starting a small webcomic. The schedule was a fail as usual but it was based on my otaku tendencies and how my roommates react on my everyday antics. 2 episodes are out and I am trying to work back on it.

Oh, and I also started reading Chinese web novels. There has been a sudden rise in their popularity in recent years and a lot of websites are doing fan translations of the novels. It’s indeed a pleasure to be able to read novels of all those dramas which come out with a season and leave the story hanging in-between. You can read some of the Ding Mo novels (When a Snail Falls in Love, Love Me if You Dare, Memory Lost, etc.) and more on Meraki Translation. There is another website called webnovel.com which has vast selection of Chinese novels and I am loving it plenty.

For language learning, as I have mentioned it before, I had attended quite a few classes in the first half of the year (my spring semester). After I broke my leg in summers, I couldn’t attend the classes anymore so my last string of  connection with the language learning broke and I have been passively in touch with Japanese and Korean via anime and dramas.

I wanted this post to be a short greeting and congratulating everyone on successfully finishing another year but it became as long and I haven’t even included the anime and dramas I watched and novels and webtoons I finished. Up next is reviews again I guess? I was told by one of my readers that they got bored of all the reviews, and fortunately or unfortunately, I have been doing these personal posts since then. XD

Anyway, sorry for my laziness in keeping this blog up!! I hope to see you guys sooner…