Mocha & Pie

Guide to Traveling in Tokyo, Japan You turn up at the airport, it is your first time in Japan. Whether you are flying in and arriving at Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports or the numerous other international airports, what you need is a comprehensive guide to traveling in Japan. The first thing you need to do before traveling to Japan is to decide how long you plan to visit the country and determine which locations capture your interest the most. In this guide, I will be sharing personal tips I gained from my experience so you can create memorable experiences that last a lifetime and help make the most out of your trip to Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo is an amazing new world to discover, and an absolute must-see for anyone who loves traveling. There you can soak in the traditional Japanese culture and learn firsthand what modern Japanese life is like in the city. When it comes to food, Tokyo has it all so make sure to try all the amazing food offered there. There are high-end restaurants and...

For my junior year in high school English class, I chose to take AP English & Literature. (I thought I was challenging myself, not killing myself...) We were constantly required to read novels and annotate them every single day. Many months ago, (I know it has been a while) we were expected to read a book called The Things They Carried  by Tim O'Brien. It is a powerful story with an innovative view on war, the many memories the soldiers carry with them,  and what they imagine throughout the war and the rest of their lives. This mind-changing book sold over two million copies in print and has been influencing lives since March 28, 1990. This book is about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War and each of its chapters is a short story based off of a true event. Tim O'Brien purposely uses real names of his comrades and also includes himself in this novel. This means that this book is full of metafiction, a technique that authors use in order to mix and blur the li...

I had actually started watching Death Note during my last few weeks at school before finals and finished the entire series right before final exam week began, but I hadn't posted anything about it because I had only just started this blog of mine during summer break. Let me give you a little background information first though: I had only just started watching anime during my freshman year in high school and the one that I watched first was Naruto. The problem though is that the Naruto anime is unbelievably long and I've only gotten to a hundred or something, and truth be told, there have been too many filler episodes. As a result, I went around asking people what are some good anime I should watch and many of them replied with Attack on Titans and One Piece, but the problem was that these anime were also pretty long. Instead, I went online and searched for anime that were good and I found a couple, one of them being Death Note. I had heard that a good anime was an anime that w...

For this summer's homework, I was required to read two books and one of them was Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. I had actually read another one of his books, For One More Day,  before I had been given this assignment and had immensely enjoyed reading it so I had extremely high expectations for this book. Luckily, it met and even surpassed my expectations. Tuesdays With Morrie talks about Morrie Schwartz, Mitch Albom's college professor from about twenty years ago. For Mitch, Morrie was the wise and patient grandparent we all had. The one who would understand how it was to be young and guided us along the way with their sound advice. They were the ones who understood that they were wise not because they were older than us, but because they have had more time to make more mistakes, the very mistakes they don't want us to make too. Mitch had graduated from college with the promise of keeping in touch with Morrie, but he hadn't as he soon became too busy with ...

Okay, I'm still fairly new at this so bear with me please. I had to think for a long time on what I should post about. I've decided that on this blog I will post random things including my thoughts on various books that I've read and also my thoughts on the anime I've watched. I'm still in high school and currently it's summer vacation for me right now so I'll probably post more frequently for this and next month, but when school starts I'll have loads of homework so I won't be constantly posting and I apologize in advance to that. Anyways, thanks for reading my blog and I hope you'll follow me. Thanks! ＼（＾▽＾）／