Sayuri: One of My Favorite Singer

酸欠少女さユり(Sanketsu Shōjo Sayuri) is a Japanese singer who is born in 1996. She aimed to be a singer when she was six because she saw a group of idols performing and was deeply touched by them. After that, she bought a guitar and tried to compose, and her very first song "るーららるーらーるららるーらー( Ru-Rararu-Ra-Rurararu-Ra-)" have already won the prize in a contest while she was only 15 years old. 

Three years after the contest, she held her first live concert in Tokyo, and all tickets were sold out. The concert was a farewell for Sayuri, since she would no longer be a student, but a singer. Few months later, she released her first single "ミカヅキ(Crescent Moon)" as a debut, and the song was adopted to an ending song for an anime called "Game of Laplace".

Her stage name means a girl who is running out of oxygen. The reason why she gave herself a name like this was because she had difficulty with getting alone with others after enrolled in high school, feeling that she was disconnected to the world. She brought that suffering feeling, as if she is running out of oxygen, to perform every song. 

As for my favorite song of hers, I would say it is "来世で会おう(See You in the Afterlife)". Sayuri always use her heart, even soul, to sing, especially in this song. It makes me crying every time I listen to it.

I Am Tired Of This!

Since I enrolled in university, I have been in a miserable life. I was unable to make any friend because of my characteristics, first, I always blame my own fault on other people's head and say something offensive to provoke them. In addition, I tend to bother those who want to study by persuading them to play with me. Furthermore, I get mad easily. Due to those bad characteristics, I didn't have good relation with my classmates in the department. This made me have a hard time and now making me want to quit. And, finally, I have to tell you one thing, HAPPY FOOLS' DAY!

All of above are just kidding, everyone I met since I got into the university is amazing person, and they helped me a lot no matter in academic or any problem I encountered. The most meaningful decision I have made in my life is studying in FLLD, since I meet a lot of good friends and finally can choose what I want but not what my parents' want. 

Here is another interesting thing that will happen today, that is, people like to pretend they have a girlfriend or boyfriend for joking thier friends, because people think it is difficult to make a boyfriend or girlfriend and often ridicule others.

Have you experienced anything special today? A fake confession from your close friend? Or a little trick you have been played? Please feel free to share with me!

Animal friends: An overnight sensation Japanese animation

When hearing Japanese animation, people expect to see some works that have delicate illustrations.

But, one animation from last season called Animal Friends is very different from those beautiful works. Its quality was so low that many people didn't consider it as an animation. However, there were reasons in this circumstance. In general, every animation has a team to create it, and the most difficult part of making an animation is drawing. From line draft to coloring, each step has different group to operate. As for Animal Friends, it had only ten people in total to making the whole animation, and its funding was much lower than any other animation company.

Surprisingly, everything changed after the fifth episode was broadcasted. Not only the plot had a massive turning and there are some foreshadowing that was very attractive, making audience wanted to know the ending. 

In my opinion, the animation is very cute and positive, and you can learn a lot of knowledge of rare animals. It basically just saying animals are personated and accompany the amnesia main character to find what animal she is. Though I haven't finished it yet, I really enjoying watching it and can't wait to find out the truth. 

One interesting thing that is even the producer didn't know it can be so popular, since he had failed once with the same theme on a mobile game. By the way, its ending song is pretty nice.

Have you ever watched a Japanese animation? Please feel free to share with me!

UTA Night

Many departments of the university and clubs have their own "night", which means a series of performance presented by departments or clubs. 4/14 was UTA( United Taipei Association) nigh, and UTA gathered students from north area of Taiwan. We have been practiced since February, and we almost go to Yunping building(雲平大樓) for discussing every night.

At the beginning, everyone was not close to each other, so we just sat there and stared at others. The atmosphere was really awkward, but after few days, we started to chat and we gradually became very close friend. 

We have five performance in total, opening dancing, hosting, warning drama, romantic drama, and sound effect drama. I am the member of sound effect drama, and our performance is that we have to cooperate with the sound effect and make our audience laugh.

Everyone in the UTA had a great time with the whole staff, and we always had midnight snack together after practicing. One of the best part of participating the activity is that I can make a lot of new friends.

On the day we were goning to go up stage, we spent entire day to rehearse, wanting to show our best to all audience. We truly did it. All of the shows were awesome, even myself felt very touched by the performance.

I know there were some classmates form FLLD came and watched our show. I were too glad to know that because more and more people left after one program, and my show's order was the last one. 

Did you come to our UTA night? How did you feel about our performance? Please feel free to leave the comment and let me know your feeling!

Kano: My favorite cover singer

In Japan, there is a website which function is similar to Youtube called Niconico, and Japanese are tend to use that website to watch videos and listen to music. Most of works of Vocaloids are uploaded to Niconico, and a special song cover culture is formed there. Basically, those cover singers are some unknown guys. They could be a student or a thirty years old office worker, since they seldom reveal their true identity or face, just to keep the mystery.

One of those cover singer who use Kano(鹿乃) as her name on the internet uploaded one song and became very popular because her voice is very cute and soft, and the video below is Kano's cover.

Actually, I prefer the original song to the covered one, but somehow her voice makes me very touched and gets me goose bumps all over, especially a song called Kokoronashi.(心做し)

After hearing this song, I started to look for more songs that she had covered, and I found that she sings very nice and can express the song well. 

Here is another reason why I like her so much. It is because that after she become famous, she sang her own songs but not just cover all the time, and even sang for animation's opening song and ending song.

Please feel free to share with me your favorite singer or your feeling about Kano.

Clickbait: Let's talk about the most amazing thing in the world

Do you click into my article for seeing the most amazing thing in the world? If yes, congratulation! You are baited by a clickbait. So, what is a clickbait? According to Wikipedia, Clickbait is a pejorative term for web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching thumbnails pictures to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks. Clickbait headlines typically aim to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content. In brief, that means editor would use a horrifying title to get your attention so that you might click into their article or video.

Below are some common clickbait examples:  

1. Shocking/ amazing/ unbelievable results

This type of clickbait headlines work in two parts. The first part explains the plot which is usually very catchy. The second part says that there is more to the plot and that the outcome is quite astonishing. The bait lies in the second part because it challenges our imagination power by using the phrases like: ‘…You won’t believe…’, ‘…shocking result’, ‘…too good to be true’ etc. 

2. Mysterious stories

They are the most common ones. They make the readers get interested in someone else’s life but, in a very convincing manner.

3. Instances of people’s stupidity on social media

We all like making fun of other people. It makes us feel superior and intelligent. Posts like this always get a lot of views and truth be told, they are actually fun to read!

4. A challenge to your IQ

Honestly, I have been fooled by this type of clickbait not once, not twice but many times. But, who is to blame?…some of these questions are interesting to solve, whereas, most of them are simple 3rd grade mathematics.

5. ‘Tricky’ stuffs

They use the term ‘simple tricks’ to attract more viewers.

I mean…Come on!!!

6. The fear inducing stuff

They are as manipulative as the number 2, but they use the ‘fear’ element and this type of clickbait is targeted towards a specific group of people.

Escape room: An Interesting reality game

An escape room is a physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles using clues, hints and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Players are given a set time limit to unveil the secret plot which is hidden within the rooms. Escape rooms are inspired by "escape-the-room""–style video games. Games are set in a variety of fictional locations, such as prison cells, dungeons and space stations, and are popular as team building exercises.

Real Escape Game (REG) in Japan was developed by 35-year-old Takao Kato,of the Kyoto publishing company, SCRAP Co., in 2007. It is based in Kyoto, Japan and produces a free magazine by the same name. Beyond Japan, escape games appeared in Singapore from 2011. Escape games in Singapore expanded quickly with over 50 games by 2015.Kazuya Iwata, a friend of Kato, brought Real Escape Game to San Francisco in 2012. The following year, Seattle-based Puzzle Break, co-founded by Nate Martin, became the first American-based escape room company.
Parapark, a Hungarian franchise that later operated in 20 locations in Europe and Australia, was founded in 2011 in Budapest. The founder, Attila Gyurkovics claims he had no information about the Japanese escape games and based the game on his job experience as personality trainer. Supposedly another escape room, "Origin", was created in Silicon Valley by a group of system programmers in 2013, but no concrete evidence for this game has been found. The mysteries and challenges in the game were inspired by the works of Agatha Christie and became a popular tourist attraction.
In 2015, the first escape games opened in South America in Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo. At this time there were over 2,800 escape room venues worldwide.


I have longed for playing escape room and I am really exciting because I am going to experience it tomorrow! Hope it will be well tomorrow!