#3GoodThings
🥝 Bought small ruby gold kiwi from Jeju Island. It’s the first time I see red kiwis!
📖 Bought (and started) a new Japanese book.
📔 Did my monthly spread for December and a list of books I want to read before the end of the year.
4 December 2023 @ 1:52 pm
Read today:
- I finished a short story by Kwak Jaesik (곽재식) about a private detective in 1949. It’s from the collection 사설탐정사의 밤. The story was good, but I mostly love the setting.
- I started another book by Futari Okajima (岡嶋二人). This time I came back to the writing duo’s first works with 焦茶色のパステル. It won the Edogawa Rampo Prize and is their first published novel.
4 December 2023 @ 12:01 pm
I finished the last short story of this collection! It feels good to finish a book and reduce the pile of Korean collections of short stories I started but haven’t finished / still haven’t read yet.
괴이, 학원 had entertaining short stories, but I also did not like them that much overall. Maybe a little bit too supernatural for my liking.
I’ll continue this #ReadingChallenge (read two Korean short stories per week) until the end of the year. Still have 9 short stories to read then!
2 December 2023 @ 8:52 am
Oh my gosh! The illustrations are just so cute! So adorable! You know what… You could be a manga artist and publish your own comics and I’ll definitely buy. Lol. By the way, the older generation doesn’t understand the things we treat as hobbies. To them, everything you do must have a purpose (like to get a job in Japan) or they won’t understand why you go through all the trouble for the sake of fun. Like you, I’m studying Japanese language because I like the language and to take the JLPT is for my self-fulfilment satisfaction. The test is like a measurement of how much I am able to achieve after an amount of months or years of study.
Thank you so much!
Yes, a lot of people just don’t understand that learning a language can be a hobby in itself. And taking a test does not correspond to their idea of “fun” or “hobby”. Taking the JLPT might not be the funniest part of learning Japanese, but it is extremely motivating and exciting too!
Seriously your illustrations are so beautiful throughout the blog. How do you do them? pardon me for asking , I am a complete novice. Are you using a pressure pad?any software in particular?
Thank you very much! 😊 I am using the Surface Pro 4 by Microsoft. The surface pen has a good pressure sensibility and I can draw directly on the screen in tablet mode. As for the software, I am using clip studio paint.