Review: Hatsukoi Limited

Here is my long overdue end-of-series review for Hatukoi Limited. I usually write these reviews right after the series ends, but real-life got in the way. It’s been a few weeks since the end of the show, so this review is more like a collection of random thoughts (that I still remember). Anyways, Hatsukoi Limited turned out to be a very pleasant show that featured the right blend of light comedy and romance, and it was one of my favorite shows of the spring 2009 season.

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My GRE Experience

I feel like writing today, so I thought I would share my GRE experience. For those who didn’t know, the Graduate Record Examination is a standardized exam prepared that students have to take if they want to apply to certain grad school programs (mainly in the United States). This article is basically my experience taking the GRE general test, starting from when I started studying and ending with me getting my scores. Unfortunately, there won’t be much useful studying tips in here since I tend to study the “dumb” way, but hopefully this article will at least be an interesting read.

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Review: Sengoku Basara

The Spring 2009 anime season is now officially over, and as usual I’m trying to churn out reviews for series that watched but didn’t blog episodically. Unfortunately, progress is a bit slow these days because I have to study for other things and I inhaled too much lead fumes from soldering at work. If the writing in this review is worse than usual, you can thank the lead fumes for that. Anyways, today’s review is for Sengoku Basara, a wild, action-packed series based on a video game.

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