My Travel Diary, Movie Reviews and Other Thoughts
17 Oct 2024 2 minute read 0 comments logen9f
The Richest Man in Babylon is a classic book on how to gain and retain wealth. Similar to Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad; the lessons are told in parables which are entertaining and easy to undertand thus is a good teaching tool even to childre...
5 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f
I watched Salem's Lot on HBO today. It's a horror story set in 1975 based on Stephen King's novel. Summary The story begins when Ben Mears who like Stephen King is also a writer returns to his old hometown, Jerusalem or shortened Salem's Lot in...
4 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f
The Black Phone is a movie based on Joe Hill's (Stephen King's son) short story. It's a horror/thriller movie set in the 1970s much like other movies based on novels by his dad, Stephen King. Summary The movie's main character played by M...
1 Oct 2024 2 minute read 4 comments logen9f
image credit Overlord is about a salary man who got isekai'd to the game he was playing as he became the character in his game, Momonga (later Ainz Ooal Gown). If this sounds familiar to you then it's because it's the same plot as Sword Art Online w...
30 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f
Summary Twilight of the Gods is an 8 part TV series from Netflix based on Norse Mythology. Created by Jay Oliva and Zack Snyder, the story starts when Thor the god of thunder crashed a wedding and massacred the bride's giant clan. What follows is...
29 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f
I just watched the new movie from Netflix this weekend, Rebel Ridge. It's about an ex-military who was a victim of small town cops' corruption. The movie starts when our main character was bringing money to bail his cousin. He encounters some cops w...
30 May 2024 2 minute read 2 comments logen9f
I've written about some places we visited in our trip to Japan. Here is another one and I translated some words and phrases in Nihonggo from what I learned from my lessons in Duolingo 😀 We visited a lot of places in our recent trip to Tokyo. Before...
28 May 2024 1 minute read 3 comments logen9f
It's my third visit to Japan my last being five years ago before the pandemic. I'm surprised by google photos randomly showing memories of my previous visits and I realize I forgot about them. Like visiting a particular place, experiencing a new adve...
26 May 2024 1 minute read 3 comments logen9f
Last Lent, we visited and prayed in some churches. One of the sites we visited was Intramuros, Spanish for "within the walls". It is a walled area in Manila and home to two old churches. The place takes you back in time from the old houses, horse dra...
