Everyone has some kind of hobby, whether it's watching anime or playing video games or a sport or an activity. But so few of us have creative hobbies - so many hobbies are consumptive and it makes no sense.

Say you get a platinum trophy in that game that you've been playing for a few months now, and you're incredibly proud of it. Great! Good for you! I'm sure it was fun to get. Now tell me, who will appreciate that trophy? What did you gain from getting that trophy? Did you learn a...

Over the past few weeks, I've figured out that programming is the technical equivalent of writing. Here's why!

1. Everyone's a programmer/Everyone's a writer - In my web design class, my teacher had every person open Notepad, write some words, and then save it as an HTML file. He then had us open it in a browser, and all the Design majors oohed and ahhed over the fact that they put words on their browser! He said "now everyone in here is a coder!" Basically, that's how a...

Part 1: I learned to cook

I decided that I was no longer going to be the person that didn't know a single recipe and abhorred the oven so I taught myself cooking starting soon after I left PC and now I'm basically a master chef. I've made a few things every week so I'm not going to post pictures of everything I've done but here are some highlights + a few pictures:

-Various quiches
-Beef stuffed potatoes
-Pork and cabbage potstickers (from scratch, not...

-Dress cute twice a week
-Exercise 2-3 times a week
-Eat healthy daily
-Watch at least 2 episodes of anime a day
-Shower in the mornings instead of at night
-Get a summer internship

Leggo spring semester

Because I can't make it to California this year due to some circumstances, I'm going to Otakon instead! And because of the extra money I'll have from not buying a plane ticket to and from California I decided to commission a cosplay of a character I really like :3 It ended up being way more expensive than I expected partially because of the short time limit (since most cosplay makers online are in China so you have to take the long shipping time into account), but I'm going to be cosplaying Mayuri...