Reviews
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While I don’t do reviews often, there are times when I will feel like writing a review about something. Some of them are long and some are brief. I usually will do reviews on my baking and cooking adventures, books, movies, animes, mangas, and video games — some genres more than others. I tried to alphabetise the order by titles, by the way.
Animes & Mangas
- Antique Bakery (Anime and Manga)
- Gakuen Heaven (Anime)
- Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (Anime)
- Gravitation (Manga)
- Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan (Anime season 1 and 2)
- Junjou Romantica (Anime)
- La Esperança (Manga)
- Le Portrait de Petite Cossette (Anime)
- Love Mode (Manga)
- Magic Knight Rayearth II (Anime)
- Mirage of Blaze (Anime)
- Nadia (Anime)
- Nodame Cantabile (Anime)
- Persona 4: The Animation (Anime)
- Princess Mononoke (Anime)
- Princess Princess (Anime)
- Random Animes (January 15, 2007)
- Random Mangas (August 4, 2006)
- Record of Lodoss War (Anime)
- The Rose of Versailles (Anime)
- Spirited Away (Anime)
- Wolf’s Rain (Anime)
Baking & Cooking
- Almond Butter Cookies aka Ghoraibi
- Almond Rice Pudding
- Asian-Inspired Baked Fish and Potatoes
- Banana Oat Muffins
- Blueberry Scones
- Boston Brown Bread Muffins
- Broccoli and Corn Salad
- Buffalo Chicken Dip and Salsa Rice
- Buttermilk Pudding
- Butterscotch Rum Pound Cake
- Cajun Chicken Pasta
- Candied Spiced Nuts
- Chili Con Carne
- Chocolate Amaretto Cake
- Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies
- Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes
- Cinnamon Pecan Irish Soda Bread
- Cinnamon Sugar Coffee Cake
- Cocktail Sausages
- Crazy Cake aka Wacky Cake
- Cream Cheese Brownies
- Curried Ground Beef and Veggies
- Double Chocolate Dream Cookies
- Double Chocolate Dream Cookies with Almonds
- Easy Chocolate Fudge
- Ghetto Spaghetti alla Bolognese and Garlic Bread
- Ghetto Spaghetti Part II
- Grandmother’s Buttermilk Cornbread
- Guinness Beef Stew
- Honey Castella
- Hummus
- Nutella Brownie Cups
- Nutella & Greek Yoghurt Dip
- Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chips Granola Bites
- Pot Roast
- Oatmeal Cornbread
- Pecan Scones
- Random Dessert Dish
- Red Velvet Cupcakes
- Strawberry & Spinach Salad
- Strawberry Oat Muffins
- Sweet Ginger Soba
- Tex-Mex: Chicken Enchiladas, Spanish Rice, and Refried Beans
- “Thai” Yellow Curry
- Tomato Cilantro Soup
- Unusual Cajun Pasta Salad
- Wheat and Rye Soda Bread
Books & Literature
- Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
- Clippings by A.J. Mirag
- Galápagos & Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- The Old Capital (Kyoto) by Kawabata Yasunari
- Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
- Random “YA” Books (July 9, 2008)
- Ship of Dreams by Reilly Ryan (goes off-site)
- Sparks: How Parents Can Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers by Peter L. Benson
- Standish by Erastes
- Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession by Troy Veenstra
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Films & TV Shows
- 8 Mile
- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
- Brokeback Mountain
- Contact
- Copying Beethoven
- Cora Unashamed
- The Core
- Curious George
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Ghostbusters
- The Godfather Trilogy
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret
- The History Boys
- I Spy
- It’s My Party
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Life is Beautiful
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Mallrats
- Much Ado About Nothing
- The Pianist
- Pirates of the Caribbean III
- Random Films (November 11, 2002)
- Random Films (January 26, 2003)
- Random Films (May 9, 2005)
- Random Films (November 25, 2005)
- Random Films (Chinese) (July 27, 2006)
- Random Films (August 4, 2006)
- Random Films (November 5, 2006)
- Random Films (January 15, 2007)
- Signs
- Sleeping Beauty
- Spider-Man III
- Star Wars Episode 1-6
- Steel Magnolias
- Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness
- Wall-E
- Walt Disney Animated Classics
Technology
- Amazon Kindle Touch (Wi-Fi, Special Offers)
- Dreamwidth
- Internet Applications (Firefox, FF add-ons, and Pidgin)
- iPod Touch (December 2008)
- iPod Touch + Apps (March 2011)
- JournalPress (WordPress Plugin)
- JVC 32″ LCD TV
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Tumblr
- WiBro and Google Chrome
Video Games
- 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Nintendo DS)
- Cate West: The Vanishing Files (Nintendo DS)
- Cooking Mama I + II (Nintendo DS)
- Cooking Mama PETA Style (Flash Games)
- Distant Worlds [music from Final Fantasy] (Concert February 7, 20101)
- Distant Worlds II [music from Final Fantasy] (Concert October 23, 2011)
- Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
- Gyakuten Kenji (Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth) (Nintendo DS)
- Gyakuten Saiban I (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) (Nintendo DS)
- Gyakuten Saiban II (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Justice for All) (Nintendo DS)
- Gyakuten Saiban III (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Trials and Tribulations) (Nintendo DS)
- Gyakuten Saiban IV (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney) (Nintendo DS)
- Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan (Demon of the Fleeting Blossom) (PlayStation Portable)
- Persona 4 Golden (PlayStation Vita)
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo DS)
- Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Nintendo DS)
- Radiant Historia (Nintendo DS)
- Random GameCube Games (July 17, 2006)
- Random Nintendo DS Games (April 14, 2008)
- Suikoden III (PlayStation II)
- Suikoden IV (PlayStation II)
- Suikoden V (PlayStation II)
- Suikoden Tierkreis (Nintendo DS)
- Time Hollow (Nintendo DS)
- To the Moon (PC Download)
- Trace Memory (Nintendo DS)
- Touch Detective 2 1/2 (Nintendo DS)
- The World Ends With You (Nintendo DS)
- Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward (PlayStation Vita)
End of the Year Reviews
These are usually my recap on each year. I put these entries here for my own purposes.
