Hello, I just want to get this off my chest:

I am a member of an organization, one of its highest members pa nga. Our organization's head is graduating this year and there has been talks as to who's going to replace her. There are two names that float: me and the officer below me, one of my closest friends. But it seems like they are leaning towards him.

Now, I truly believe he deserves the post. After all, he's much more organized and systematic than I am to the point that many organizations have been scouting him out to make him one of their members. Honestly, I admire that guy for being able to juggle his tasks.

What I don't think is right is that they did not give me a chance to show off what I can, basically a fighting chance. Throughout the one year run of our organization before accreditation by the univ, all that was handled was schedules for meetings as well as finances, all of which fell under the jurisdiction of my friend. I was supposed to be in charge of minutes, documents, and checking of the work of our members; however, since my friend is being advertised as the "next head" and because many misconceive him to also be in charge of the papers, our members tend to pass their works to him and he directly communicates them to our head, completely bypassing me.

I just feel hurt. I still needed to forcibly insert myself into the procedures when an event spearheaded by our organization was held, and even there I felt like I was "bureaucratic bloat" (I mean, it's true since instead of tbe efficient way that bypasses me, it goes through me which slows the process down). It feels like I'm an irrelevant person, just there whenever my friend needed another set of hands (or brain). And I can't criticize him for that because he seems to not notice and he's a totally nice person that I cannot refuse any pleas of help he asks of me. I feel hurt, but also conflicted. Do I make myself important and insert myself into the equation at the expense of organizational efficiency and my friend's happiness?

Otome Isekai

What's the full title? I'm not quite into isekais as much as I am to romcom, psychological, and drama LNs, but I've read KonoSuba from the fifth volume up to end, and I'm currently reading Re:Zero Volume 18 right now so I'm pretty acquainted with the genre.

Also, I agree. A lot of character monologues are lost when adapting a text-based piece into a picture-based one. That's why I'm pretty unsatisfied with the anime adaptations of light novels - they just don't do justice to the characters at all and those that should be redeemable or loveable end up getting hated or shallow. I know it's hard to translate character internal monologues into something tangible on the screen, but still it makes me sigh. :<

Yeah yeah, that's what I hope happens. Na macurious sila sa daloy ng story that they start reading the novels. I pointed them to A Certain Magical Index and Classroom of the Elite as examples of brilliant light novel series that have crappy anime adaptations. One of my friends dived into one LN - That Time I Reincarnated As A Slime - but nothing more, nothing less. Well, I guess that's a win. Somehow.

Ang lungkot ng may hilig kang niche hobby and wala kang mapagkuwentuhan sa circle of friends mo. I love light novels but ny friends only love manga, manhwa, and anime. Well, I know that not everyone is into reading walls of text and I don't resent them for that but wala lang, malungkot lang HAHAHA wala akong ma-impart-an ng saya or reactions ko sa nabasa ko

Ganda ng Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun light novels. One of my recommendations if you like high school slice-of-life light novels or if you just enjoy things like Oregairu or Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai. Tinapos ko yung ten volumes ng Tomozaki-kun in three days HAHAHA

Extremely nerdy. I don't really joke that much though. I just follow historical meme pages on Facebook and laugh at them when I get them. If I get them, I laugh. If I don't, a new hyperfocus is born. Like how just yesterday, I saw a meme about the Albigensian Crusade and I looked it up. Now I have three PDFs about the Crusade HAHAHAH

I live in a small backwater town so to those in Manila, I want to ask: is there parking policies there? Like are parking spaces paid to encourage people to not use their cars and just avail of other modes of transport? And if there are any, are violators of these parking policies made to pay a fine and their cars towed to the nearest LTO depot?

IDOL by Yoasobi - Epic Orchestral Version

What's interesting is that I'm actually currently learning Japanese (actually, I have just started - currently finishing Wanikani G1 and JLPT N5) and, while resting from a kanji test, I decided to look at our language from a language learner's perspective. And I found it pretty hard HAHAHAHA. Like hell, how would I know if the "pa" in "hindi pa" means "yet" and not "more" (as in "isa pa") or "still" (as in "papunta pa lang").

フィリフィン人は面白い。

The long ones (that basically spoil the plot in the title itself) are mostly isekai, made to distinguish themselves from each other in the oversaturated isekai light novel/manga market. Probably 90% of all long anime titles are from the isekai genre alone.

I think what you mean is "meron pa nga ba? Sana"?

Isa pa yan. We take it for granted, but we mash these monosyllabic particles together and somehow change what the sentence means.

"Meron pa" has certainty. "Meron pa nga" has insistence. "Meron pa nga ba?" questions the insistent certainty of the previous particles.

It's fun and at the same time confusing to think about HAHAHA

I wonder how hard Tagalog Filipino is to learn from a grammatical perspective. I mean, if you think about it, our monosyllabic particles alone are very diverse in functions ("ba", "pa", "nga", "sa", "na").

Like these particles alone can change the entire meaning of a sentence:

• "Meron pa?" (surprised)
• "Meron na?" (not surprised)
• "Meron nga?" (don't lie to me)
• "Meron ba?" (legitimately inquiring)
• "Meron sa?" (finding)

A conversation:

• "Meron bang kalabasa sa palengke?"
• "Meron na."
• "Kailan pa?"
• "Kahapon pa."
• "Magkano ba?"
• "PHP30.00 na."
• "Ang mahal na, ah."
• "Oo nga."

EDIT: Changed "Tagalog" to "Filipino" because it's tantamount to saying langue d'oil is French, Castillian is Spanish, or Old English is Modern English.

Hugging. My father loved to cuddle with us (a lot, and that's one of the reasons why I feel like I'm closer to my dad than to my mom), his sons, to the point where I subconsciously picked up that habit of his and now I feel so satisfied whenever I get a pillow to hug (not the usual hug, but rather the one with one of your legs above the side of the person you're hugging).

Blame Hanako for that slip into insanity 😂

Asobi Asobase OP: What the girls think they are Asobi Asobase ED: What they really are

Anyway, I agree with you. The KonoSuba EDs in general are too underrated. Like hell, everyone remembers the iconic Kimi to mita sekai from the first OP ("fantastic dreamer") and the opening beat from the second OP ("Tomorrow"), but they seem to forget the calm EDs.