Welp, I replied to someone in very basic Japanese, and now they think I can speak it. 😅

New eyeglasses.. 2-3 weeks for production, $1083.
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Happy new year everyone!!

I can't believe how fast I preordered the upcoming xdinary heroes album.... 🤦

Saya maintenance after 10,000 years...

😂🤔🫠🤘

Took about a week for airmail from Japan for the new #ftisland album to arrive. Gacha luck held!!

My sister is just missing one last BTS member for the happy meal toys. I don't even know how many happy meals I've eaten this week.

One of my students today asked me if I was also still studying (I assume she meant graduate studies) while teaching... It took a moment to process before I replied "oh no, I finished a long long time ago."

A haha.... So new #ftisland album dropped and it's so good! My early faves in order:
Universe universe
After the rain
Monochrome
Giants
No.3

Ugh, so I haven't posted on here but I fell hard into ftisland. And they're touring all around Asia right now till Dec14, and I'm just 😖 The earliest I can theoretically fly to Asia would be Dec15th.

My sister's acquisitions.

Currently running around to different McD's with my sister at 5:30am because my sister is trying to grab all the BTS happy meal toys.

I... Enabled my sister to buy BT21 merch. 😆 So I won't feel so bad when all the xdh merch I ordered comes in.

(sorry for the spam 😅)

xdinary heroes

xdinary heroes

xdinary heroes' jungsu

xdinary heroes' jungsu

xdinary heroes' jooyeon, gaon and o.de

xdinary heroes' gunil, jungsu and junhan

xdinary heroes

Please tell your friends and family to not come to the United States. No one is safe from us here.

Pinkish white cast, yes.

It sure does seem that way doesn’t it.

⚠️ BREAKING:

U.S. 🇺🇸 reports 4.676 million new COVID-19 cases in a single week, with 668,000 daily infections.

Currently, 1 in every 72 Americans is infected with COVID-19.

Transmission rates are now higher than at any point during 59.3% of the pandemic.

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Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods YouTube video by CBC News

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Poilievre knows that temporary residents already get deported for violent crime. The point is to associate visiting migrants with violence. Suggest a "woke" liberal plot is to blame. And create a climate of suspicion.
Remember: Trump won an election with this playbook.

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

A 2025 Lunar New Year illustration of a snake among flowers

GUNG HEI FAT CHOY
SUN NEEN FAI LOCK
SUN TAI GEEN HONG

Happy Lunar New Year!

I find astrological horoscopes really silly, it's as accurate as "your fortune in year of the _____" for Asian astrology.

But looking at where celestial bodies are and how they move through the sky is really interesting.

Something I guess I haven't talked a lot about is that I've gotten curious about astrology in recent years. I'm not 100% on board about the beliefs around it, but I just find the study of it really interesting?