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Archives by Month: December 2007

Mochitsuki (0)

With New Year’s Day approaching, people in my family are scrambling to get ready, with New Year’s being a somewhat important day in Japanese culture. One of the things we do is mochitsuki, where we make the mochi (or rice cakes) that we eat in some sort of soup on New Year’s morning.
Normally, we [...]

Review: Sailormoon: Season 1 (2)

So, Ryan got me the entire first season of Sailormoon on DVD. :3 Sailormoon is the second anime I ever got into (the first would be Pokemon), so I am quite happy.
As for why I like Sailormoon so much, it’s not that I like seeing junior high girls transform into sailor-suited warriors [...]

Boxing Day (2)

When I first saw Boxing Day on a calendar, I thought it had to do with…boxing. But reading about it in Samantha’s Book 3 from The American Girls Collection, I learned that it was actually practiced in the Edwardian era. It was a day for servants to spend time with their families or [...]

Nostalgic! (0)

For those who don’t know, I’ve been a fan of the Sailormoon series since ‘98 or ‘99. This was also back when I first started browsing the Internet. One of the sites I visited frequently was Ai Ling’s Sailor Moon Midis, that was just an archive of Sailormoon midis. This was also [...]