This is my personal blog. Opinions and thoughts are my own.
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Fountain Pens – a love reinked
School systems back in the day recommended a transition of writing implements, from pencils to fountain pens. “Ink pens” was the name in the Indian school system and this sounds odd in hindsight. Ink as opposed to what, given that all pens use ink in some form. My childhood experience with fountain pens was horrible.…
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Nanoblock “Space Invaders”, Character Collection Series – Review. Also, rant on the pains of recording videos
I love building blocks and I purchased a discount (50%) set from Kinokuniya in New Jersey, Estados Unidos de América earlier this year. This was a four-character set from the space invaders video game. Space Invaders is a 1978 arcade video game developed in Japan and was quite popular in les États-Unis d’Amérique. This is…
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Build Review – Liverpool FC Anfield Mini BRXLZ Stadium
I am a bandwagon fan of the English football club Liverpool FC. I watch some matches, I recognise a few players and am moderately emotionally invested in the club’s success. I do not live in the city of Liverpool or in the UK and have visited the place only twice. Why I support this club,…
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Wooden puzzles – Rolife
I purchased a wooden puzzle in Japan on a whim. I saw these previously, somewhere on the interwebs and was fascinated – how sturdy are the finished models, how easy is assembly and is it fun? I can now answer all these questions since I built my first, albeit with some difficulty. The model I…
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Past Lives – Layers of complexity
Past Lives is a 2023 romantic drama film focused on the literal past life of a Korean immigrant child in North America. The central plot line is how this child’s parents decide to leave South Korea for Canada, how the protagonist then moves to the USA for professional success, finds it, finds love and in…