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Best Fiction Books to Read: How Do You Live (Genzaburo Yoshino)
How Do You Live is an old Japanese book that was written in 1937 by Genzaburo Yoshino. It has recently become more mainstream after it was announced that legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) is going to be adapting it into a movie. The format of How Do You Live is a conversation between an…
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Best Documentaries to Watch on Netflix: The Speed Cubers
The Speed Cubers is a short documentary on Netflix about the sport of speed cubing. It mostly focuses on the relationship between the two most famous cubers in the world (or that’s how it portrays them at least), Felix Zemdegs and Max Park. Like any sport, there is significant competition at the top and Zemdegs…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: The Pumpkin Plan (Mike Michalowicz)
The Pumpkin Plan is a business book written by Mike Michalowicz about how to grow and build successful businesses. Like many business books, I think that the book is repetitive and could definitely do without so many anecdotes. However, this does not mean the book is not worth reading (feel free to skip parts if…
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Best Japanese TV Shows to Watch on Rakuten Viki: My Fair Prince
My Fair Prince is the latest Japanese drama I completed on Rakuten Viki. Apart from Dean Fujioka (one of the best Japanese actors around), My Fair Prince actually had a main cast of actors/actresses that I haven’t seen before in other shows. My Fair Prince does have a romantic storyline, but it also had other…
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Best Podcasts to Listen to: Land of the Giants: The Google Empire
Land of the Giants is a podcast series that I have mentioned before with Land of the Giants: Delivery Wars; however, there is also a series called Land of the Giants: The Google Empire. In the Google series, Vox goes into detail about what makes Google so special and different as a company (looking back…
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Best Japanese Shows to Watch: Choosing Spouse by Lottery
Choosing Spouse by Lottery is a drama with an interesting concept on Rakuten Viki. The show is completely fictional, but it proposes a Japanese society in which anyone from the ages 20-38 (who are not currently married) gets randomly matched with people from their age group. The pairings are completely random, and the only way…
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Best Apps to Download: Express VPN
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network”, and it really is a great tool to have nowadays. VPN’s can serve several purposes, and two of the main ones purposes are: it can help you watch TV shows even if you are in an unauthorized location and it can help to protect your data when you are…
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Best Podcasts to Listen to: Land of the Giants Delivery Wars
Food delivery is an industry that has seen massive growth during the pandemic, and it is almost assuredly going to be a major part of people’s lives in the future. However, it is also a controversial industry, and one that benefits certain players more than others. In the podcast “Land of the Giants Delivery Wars”,…
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Best Restaurants in Hong Kong: Hui Lau Shan
Hui Lau Shan is a dessert chain originally from Hong Kong. They specialize mainly in mango and coconut desserts. Apparently, they have now opened up locations in the USA and other parts of the world as well, which is great to see. I do not know how the quality in the locations outside of Hong…
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Best Restaurants to Eat at in Honolulu: Broken Rice
Address: 3607 Waialae Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816 Since my family has been doing a lot of takeout recently during lockdown, I have been lucky enough to try some new restaurants in Honolulu. One of my favorites that I have had recently is a Vietnamese restaurant called Broken Rice. I have never eaten at the restaurant…
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