The K-Pop Rabbit Hole

Alright it's time to come clean.

I've fallen into the K-pop Rabbit Hole. When I stumbled upon a karaoke version of Fifty Fifty's Cupid, by a VTuber (full disclosure: I fell into the the VTuber rabbit hole first!) named Takanashi Kiara, it got stuck in my head. I still cannot believe how much time I spent watching V-Tubers on YouTube, but that's a story for another time... if I'm brave enough.

Anyway, here's the song. I think it's apt to share, now that it's February. I should note I feel the beginning of the song is extra-special to me because of the lyrics: 

A hopeless romantic all my life
Surrounded by couples all the time
I guess I should take it as a sign

 

Cupid is so dumb

I think this is just the beginning. After Le Sserafim collaborated with the Overwatch 2 team for a really unique in-game event, the k-pop vibes have lurked in the back of my brain, waiting to emerge. It helps that I kind of love South Korea: they have the best e-Sports scene in the world bar none, the people that I've met here in T.O. have been nothing but a pleasure to interact with (shout out to the LoL PC bang in Koreatown, and my old friend B-S Kim), and kimchi is probably in the 0.1% of the most nutritious foods on earth (and I crave it). Need I go on?

So yeah. K-pop is going into my music library. Anyone have any suggestions?

Tearful love

I'd rather be a comma, tha(e)n a full stop. 

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay

Commas help me breathe. Literally.

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It's been a long day for me. I got up early, and went for a walk around the neighbourhood. I did a bit of rearranging of my bedroom, and found drumsticks. I used the drumsticks to practice air percussion, and also, some ground strokes.

Speaking of sports-speak, I'm thinking of picking up badminton again. Except this time, I'll play left-handed. I expect this will be an enormous challenge, especially if I play against people who have played before. Because honestly, pickleball is straining my nerves.

Another bright day ahead tomorrow.

Waiting in queue for a chance to queue for QP (GFN Release!)

 I don't care how good Apex Legends or The Finals is: I keep going back to Overwatch 2.

I miss 6vs6 dearly, but it was total chaos. I laugh as I say this, because I don't really have friends who play this game with me. Only randos I met online, which is fine, but I'm afraid of people I don't know because it's only normal.

Something I notice now, though, is that instead of having a main tank and a side tank, you now have a main DPS and a side DPS.

As of current patch, healers get healed by hiding. Of course I'm gonna play support; I ain't about to pop off on Widowmaker with my Joy-Cons, lol.

No such thing as a homeopathic dose of water

 What does that mean?

Answer: The daily double.

Flip flopping weather

No, not flip-flop weather; flip flopping weather. Meaning, it snows a bit. Stops. Temperature rises, snow melts. Temperature falls just enough - it snows again. Still no sun. This time the snow sticks, and the sun finally comes out, but oh no! It's -15 below with wind chill! So it's cold but at least there's sun. But then, it starts warming up again. Rain on the forecast for this week, actually. All the snow melts - again - and if we're unlucky, the temperature will dip once more and the melted snow will turn to dangerous ice and make transportation difficult.

Such is the flip flopping weather cycle in Toronto this year. There were, I believe, a total of two tiny snowfalls at the end of 2023, where the snow lasted at most a couple days, and then nothing until January. Without checking the stats, I'm confident that thus far this winter has been the one with the least amount of snow. Which is regrettable, because I like having a winter that feels like a winter, and despite snow shovelling being a chore, I still enjoy getting the exercise when I can.

A gentle snow is falling now at this very moment. And it's good to be grateful about the present moment. So I'm content with seeing that gentle snowfall outside my window, but knowing that it's probably going to rain tomorrow, I won't even bother shovelling anything. Oh well. Time to enjoy the snow while it's there!

Freewrite time

 It just came to me that I don't often use the simple tool of a blank page to escape by filling it up with words. Words I use to fill this place up, and even if the sentences might not make sense because they're used to fill this place up, it doesn't matter, because I'm using this as an escape. Oh, it won't last very long, I mean, writing nonstop without thinking about what to write until I actually write it down can't last very long, a few minutes at most. Can you imagine just writing for hours on end? I don't think I've ever done that.

The closest I've come to writing hours on end would be when I was writing essays in uni. But I would never write for hours on end because there was always some possible distraction in front of a screen. Opening up a new tab. Clicking a video. Reading random comments online. Browsing, essentially. A pure hour of just pure writing, I don't think I've ever done that.

I mean, it's been about 5 minutes already, and I did take a small break to listen to some of the things my housemate was saying in a nearby room. And it's part of the reason I'm writing now, so that I seem busy because dangit I just don't feel like conversing with someone right now.

The loud gum chewing is annoying me, so I will go to a different room and end my writing here.