The year is ending, and it’s time for the reflection post. Well, let’s see.

I wrote only 3 posts this year, so 2018 was bad for my blogging. Damn, gotta work hard on writing.

With respect to anime, I followed 2-3 seasonal anime each season but as I have mentioned before, I didn’t get to marathon many. In fact, I didn’t watch my favorites much this year either, no barakamon, no bakuman, no haikyuu, and no natsume yuujinchou.

Barakamon reminds me, I finally was able to catch up to the English releases of the manga, thanks to my local public library. Shout out to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It’s my favorite place to hang out with myself.

Haikyuu reminds me that they announced season 4 for fall 2019 today in Jump Festa. Finally. Haikyuu hype, yay!!

I didn’t read much online manga either this year. But I did read a lot of Chinese webnovels. I have enough material to review some. I am not hoping this time, I will definitely write reviews for the novels I have read so far, including some completely translated ones.

Webtoons are going strong. Although I hate to pay for content which could otherwise be free (dunno how webtoons.com earn their revenue though). But I have been following some webtoons on Tapas as well. Well, they have enough games to let you earn some of their currency and read at least one webtoon for free. So, that is good.

Language learning, not so much however. I started Wanikani again but I am not motivated enough for now because I have forgotten all previously learnt kanji. I had reached level 14, reset it to level 7 to brush up everything without overwhelming myself. Guess I’ll have to start with level 3 again. *Sigh*

What else? Dramas? Nopes, no captivating enough plot I would say. I did watch all those dramas with lawyers and judges and those were good. Nothing else. I am finding dearth of variety shows even. They all feel repetitive. Is it just me or is anyone facing a similar situation?

Oh yeah, I did start some English series including New Amsterdam. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that I went there not only for the plot but also for the celebrated Indian actor Anupam Kher. He’s been doing great in the show and I am just happy to see him gel well with people and act amazingly well.

My excuse for lack of my presence in the beloved blogging community remains the same, I am still job hunting. Oh yeah, my current company shifted to a new place last week and I am finally out of my college’s campus. A small victory for my company? A very small for me too.

On the personal front, I feel I have grown much in one year, thanks to two friends of mine. Shout out to both of them, I hope to see my buddies soon.

K-pop had been a YG year for me. I fell in love with Big Bang first, then iKon and now I am slowly getting into Winner. As for SM, I haven’t heard anything apart from Red Velvet or Taeyeon this year tbh. JYP would be Twice sometimes, but only some times? I did convert a normie friend of mine to BP’s ardent fan. These days all my conversations with him start with one of us sharing Lisa’s insta posts with each other. XD

Books, I read quite a few. I read Dale Carnegie’s books and a lot of job hunting books, but well, it’s a start. I did get into podcasts and Freakonomics has been the absolute best. It was so fun that it also made me read their books.

Wow, this year really flew by. Like I don’t remember half of the days/months. I will make sure to pay more attention to my time in 2019. Other resolutions for 2019? Reviving my dead blog!

Today’s song: As I said, I have been into Winner lately and Song Mino slayed his solo debut. Presenting Fiance

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