First Ever Blog Post: Hello World!

Today is February 16 and this is my first ever post. I figured that since we just recently celebrated the Chinese New Year and I had too much in my head on most days, might as well work on my new year's resolution and start recording my thoughts in a brand new blog. The last time I had an active blogging hobby was way back in high school, up until my sophomore year in the university. I still had a PC back then and a lot of extra time to maintain a coherent blog for a few years. I don't have both of those luxuries now, but I still hope I can post for a long long while in this. After all I'm supposed to be an adult haha.

So what will my blog be about? My personal life? My fangirling commentary? Anything goes really. This is just a space where I can open about my inner brain rantings.

FOOD

I came across a food blogger in weibo this morning. Very popular that almost each of his recipe posts seemed to have been part of hot searches in the past. That's a feat considering how easy their recipes tend to look. One of which caught my attention: Strawberry Fresh Milk Drink. 

Whenever I hear Strawberry or Banana right next to the word Milk, I instantly get reminded of Korean flavored milks. And now I'm craving for one. So I proceeded to read the posts under the Strawberry Fresh Milk Drink tag and from what I could see it's just the same process: Strawberry homemade jam + Chopped strawberries + Milk + Refrigerate to cool. I doubt anyone with a day job and an unmotivated mindset (like yours truly) had the perseverance to make their very own homemade jam. I literally don't have time for that.  I had an enlightenment: Why not just use a store-brought jam? It has things in it that's not just strawberries, but laziness has a price and I am very much willing to pay. Hmmm, I'll try this out over the weekend.

XIAO ZHAN

Ah the sunshine of my life right now. I'm currently watching his new drama, Douluo Continent. So far so good. A week ago, I decided to continue reading the novel it was adapted from. Started with Chapter 40 last Thursday and I'm now in Chapter 127. I'm quite slow and the alarming thing was the drama adaptation is actually spoiling the novels! It's making me sideye those antis who kept on claiming that the drama did not follow the novel at all. If that's the case, why am I being spoiled then? 

From what I observed, the drama opted to fold the layers of plot to be crammed into one season. I think it's genius because if they're gonna ideally and faithfully follow the novel, we'll be having Game of Thrones kind of length and for Chinese dramas that had to go through heaven and hell to get approved and broadcasted, this is not the ideal route to go for, no matter how much hatred purists will throw at the drama production.

So back to the drama, it will end this week for those who purchased VIP benefits in the streaming platform, which I already did when it was first released. But I decided to halt my viewing for the moment and try to read a much as I can before this weekend comes. Will I succeed? I don't know. We'll see.

DOULUO QUOTES

As mentioned earlier, I'm doing my best to read Douluo Dalu before binge watching the drama adaptation. As I went through the chapters, I managed to gather some quotes worth remembering:

🖤 “Growing too smoothly will often lead to brittleness.“ - Qin Ming

🖤 “Loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean insisting on having them“ - Grandmaster

🖤 “In your character there is a lot of your mother’s softness.“ - Tang Hao on Tang San

🖤 “I’d rather be a blacksmith’s son, to me, what’s the point of status?“ - Tang San

🖤 “Young eagles must spread their wings on their own and fly, only then will they soar to great heights.“ - Tang Hao justifying his abandonment

🖤 “This match is only a fragment of your lives, you still have a long road to walk, as long as you gain something, victory or defeat is of little consequence.“  - Grandmaster

🖤 “Bibi Dong, hear me clearly. If anything happens to Tang San, then I will spare no cost to destroy Spirit hall. In my life I have had no children, but he is like my son.” - Grandmaster

As you may have noticed, so far I like Grandmaster more than I like Tang Hao. I know the latter is supposed to be their world's number one Superman or something, but he left Tang San so abruptly that I'm vibrating with excitement to see the exact reasons why. Because until then, Tang San only had one legit father figure and that is Grandmaster.