Doujin Market, Doujinma for short, came back again this year! The annual event was held on 4 and 5 May, from 12pm to 7pm, at Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre. It featured mostly anime or anime-related merchandise from various artists and creators. Admission was free! Isn’t that great? Photo credit: (top to bottom) ladderbros instagram,…
The anime 3-gatsu no Lion (“March comes in like a lion”) just ended this week. Despite being really well directed and animated by Shaft, who was responsible for other big titles such as the Monogatari series and Nisekoi, sadly, this anime remains one of the more underrated shows this season. An analysis of just the opening shots…
No one wants to be normal in Singapore. A ‘normal’ person takes 5 years to complete secondary education. That’s too slow. Not when ‘express’ only takes 4 years. If a person has to take an extra year to be schooled, they must be stupid and are an embarrassment to their parents who will never be…
Cool! A little puzzle box a friend got me as a souvenir from Japan! Apparently, it takes an easy 5 step sequence to get the box open. Going by this sample, the key has to be where the patterns misalign slightly. Ah! The first piece slides out a notch. Now the second piece unlocks and…
The following review contains no spoilers. With that out of the way, on we go into a gripping recount of my experience with this magnificent Science Fiction/ Western, a masterpiece of a film starring everyone’s favorite huge jacked man, Hugh Jackman, and the ever-lauded Patrick Stewart, reprising their roles one last time for the big…
YouTube sensations, The Piano Guys, played a glorious set from their repertoire of entertaining classical-contemporary mashups for their fans in Singapore over two evenings (13-14 April) at the Star Performing Arts Centre. Mainly headlined by pianist, Jon Schmidt and cellist, Steven Sharp Nelson, they thrilled the audience with amazing skill, clever arrangements and a constant…
The video starts off culturally confused. The first shot puts the band in front of some beautiful Chinese architecture in Chinatown. But it is the Korean greeting, ” annyeong-haseyo”, they shout as a cue to start. A more amusing contradiction is the song title. The first thing that comes into mind when you read “A tear in…
When I first picked up this anime approximately 6 months ago, I did not realize what I was getting myself into. What starts off as a seemingly upbeat and “slice of life” anime gradually became more than just that for me. The series starts off with a cheery schoolgirl’s encounter with a jet black kitten.…
Like an onion, there are many layers to unravel in Twenty One Pilots’ Fairly Local, so let’s start from the outside, the title: “Fairly Local”. The song title is a rather odd phrase because one is either local, or one is not. ‘Fairly’ suggests that one is close to, but not completely integrated in the…
I have always been thrilled by math and its beauty (though that has hardly been reflected in my grades) and I have never been able to last a conversation about math with any of my friends for more than thirty seconds. Here’s how the conversation would be like: “Hey! Did you know that 1 is…
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