This is my personal blog. Opinions and thoughts are my own.
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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…
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nanoblock – The Japanese micro-sized building blocks
At the Toronto Anime North convention in 2022, I discovered nanoblock, the micro-sized building blocks made by a Japanese company called Kawada. They are small enough to be fiddly and unstable but give you tremendous satisfaction when you assemble them into a more concrete whole. I was slightly taken aback by the prices – most…
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