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Looking back, I've had a blast ever since I moved back to NYC. I have a few posts that I've been meaning to write but never got around to doing. So instead, I'm going to post a personal update. I recently moved to Williamsburg in Brooklyn. While it was nice being home with my parents, it also feels pretty good to leave the nest and be independent again. My apartment 2015 was a good year. I've written 43 blog entries compared to the 12 from 2014. That's a significant improvement and I can consider my first new year's resolution to be complete. And my second resolution was completed when I created 4orner . This year, I have some equally big goals and aspirations. My mental state is better than ever before and I truly feel like I have come 180° since a year ago .  Below are my goals in no particular order: Work out three times a week Yoga at least two times a week Cook Blue Apron three times a week Code every day ( non-zero style) Throw a...

@Xcellion So sad your blog is dead again... :D — Jeffrey Shiau (@jeffreyshiau) August 25, 2015 Here's a personal post since I haven't done one in a while. I moved back home. Brooklyn Bridge On a side note, I've been so lazy with all of my personal side projects.

I wanted to update a bit on the game development front as I haven't posted anything regarding that in a while. I recently just finished my second foray into learning Unity  having finished their 2D Roguelike tutorial . Definitely a lot easier for me to understand having tinkered with Unity3D and having developed 4orner . So I am trying to create another game using Unity as my technology of choice. Nothing as strict as my thirty day challenge as last time, but I plan on utilizing some of the mistakes and lessons learned from my previous experiences. Here are the two simple goals to my endeavor: Create a mobile game with Unity Publish to Google Play and iOS App Store As far as what kind of game I want to create, the pictures below are the initial whiteboard mock-ups I quickly put together. What the game will look like (hopefully) How the game will play (possibly) On a site note, I wonder what I should name it?

Title of Show: Battle of Changsha (战长沙) # of Episodes: 32 Length: ~40 min per episode Recommended: No Tear Rating: 3 Favorite Songs: 我会记得你 Spoiler alert. Do not continue reading if you don't want the show to be spoiled. For some reason, I find it really difficult to relate to Chinese dramas. I find some of the characters in this show to be incredibly frustrating and it made the show really difficult to sit through. Had my goal not been to learn the language but rather watch and enjoyable show, I probably would've stopped watching a long time ago. Unfortunately, despite sunk costs, I still struggled through all the way to the end. I hated almost every character in the beginning that wasn't the son-in-law (姐夫). He was the only one who actually did practical things for the sake of the family and despite his "shady" dealings in the black market or ethically questionable businesses, he was the one character who I felt was actively doing something good. Eve...

Title of Show: Steins;Gate (シュタインズ・ゲート) # of Episodes: 24 + OVA + Movie ( シュタインズ・ゲート 負荷領域のデジャヴ ) + Length: ~20 min per episode, 1 hour 30 min for movie Recommended: Yes Tear Rating: 4 Favorite Songs: Hacking to the Gate , いつもこの場所で , and あなたの選んだこの時を Spoiler alert. Do not continue reading if you don't want the show to be spoiled. Back to Japanese already! It feels like just yesterday when I started on this adventure to watch a bunch of shows and I've cycled through Japanese, Chinese, and Korean already. This show is quite different from the last Anime I saw (Code Geass) but it does not disappoint in any fashion at all. I loved each and every one of the characters and their personalities were quite humorous. The comedy and humor was very well-done without being too over the top. A lot of the time travel science stuff was kind of hard to follow, but this image timeline helped me understand it a lot better. It's really awesome how the creators are still creating ...

Title of Show: Reply 1997 (응답하라 1997) # of Episodes: 16 Length: 45~60 min per episode Recommended: Yes Tear Rating: 2 Favorite Songs: Memories , 눈물 , All For You , and 우리 사랑 이대로 Spoiler alert. Do not continue reading if you don't want the show to be spoiled. Very satisfying show. Plenty of interesting characters and funny moments that kept you guessing all the way to the end. The end was very happy and left me feeling all giddy inside, which I appreciate from some of the darker shows nowadays. Because I watched this without subtitles, I feel like I missed a few things throughout the show, but it wasn't too hard to keep up even with the 부산 사투리 accents. I even picked up some new Korean slang words, haha. On a side note, refer to this blog post if you are curious as to why I am reviewing this show.

Title of Show: Black & White (痞子英雄) # of Episodes: 24 Length: 45~60 min per episode Recommended: No Tear Rating: 0.5 Favorite Songs:  放逐愛情 and  關於我們 Spoiler alert. Do not continue reading if you don't want the show to be spoiled. Very underwhelming drama despite the reviews and recommendations from friends and the internet. Unfortunately, the production quality severely detracted from my experience. For example, for an action cop show, a lot of the shooting and explosions were super cheesy and very fake. I found myself fast forwarding through all the action scenes. The show also takes forever to ramp up. It took around 15 episodes for me to somewhat enjoy the plot and appreciate the story. There were so many instances where characters in the show knew what was going on but would never reveal it to the protagonists for seemingly no reason at all. If I had a dollar for every time someone in the show asked "怎么回事" or some variant of that (到底是怎么回事) and the re...