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Mar. 12th, 2018 11:27 pmAnother list of random stuff:
1. If you drink black coffee, you can drink as much coffee as you want!
- in the sense that you're not ingesting too much sugar, and which is an enlightment that sadly came late in my life, but I'm making up for it by buying more coffee. *shrugs*
(I mean, it goes for tea as well, but I've always drunk tea, so it doesn't change my habits much.)
2. Currently watching K-drama Descendants of the Sun. Only caught parts of it when it was first aired, as I was a bit annoyed about the use of an imaginary Middle Eastern (?) country/conflict for romance, action, and drama. Then again, it's not like Hollywood has exclusive use of other people's conflict (imaginary or not) as an opportunity for romance, action, drama and jingoism, and I've watched more than a few of those movies. So. Enjoying the pretty, the stakes are not very high (it's a K-drama, romance comes first) and the characters aren't behaving too stupidly either in the action scenes or in the romance scenes. :) Of course, this was the series known for bringing the two leads together (they got married last year), so that's kind of sweet too.
3. Starting to read Singapore & The Silk Road of the Sea 1300-1800, John N. Miksic (associate professor in Department of Southeast Asian Studies at National University of Singapore), geared for a (mostly) general audience, using archaeological evidence and historic accounts to build an account of southeast Asia, in particular Singapore as a thriving seaport, before western colonisers came to this part of the world. I'd seen some of the artefacts in local museums, but had no idea there was a lot more to it, so this looks pretty intriguing.
I'm on the part about ports located in what is now Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma, and my viewpoint of China gets turned around a bit (they didn't have trading as much as they had diplomatic missions where some exchanges of gifts/goods went on, and also weirdly enough, gives a clue why China was just so bad at opening up trade to Europeans in the 19th century (because they'd were just so used to treaty ports).)
And doesn't Oc-Eo sound like a place out of a fantasy? (It was a port in now southern Vietnam.)
1. If you drink black coffee, you can drink as much coffee as you want!
- in the sense that you're not ingesting too much sugar, and which is an enlightment that sadly came late in my life, but I'm making up for it by buying more coffee. *shrugs*
(I mean, it goes for tea as well, but I've always drunk tea, so it doesn't change my habits much.)
2. Currently watching K-drama Descendants of the Sun. Only caught parts of it when it was first aired, as I was a bit annoyed about the use of an imaginary Middle Eastern (?) country/conflict for romance, action, and drama. Then again, it's not like Hollywood has exclusive use of other people's conflict (imaginary or not) as an opportunity for romance, action, drama and jingoism, and I've watched more than a few of those movies. So. Enjoying the pretty, the stakes are not very high (it's a K-drama, romance comes first) and the characters aren't behaving too stupidly either in the action scenes or in the romance scenes. :) Of course, this was the series known for bringing the two leads together (they got married last year), so that's kind of sweet too.
3. Starting to read Singapore & The Silk Road of the Sea 1300-1800, John N. Miksic (associate professor in Department of Southeast Asian Studies at National University of Singapore), geared for a (mostly) general audience, using archaeological evidence and historic accounts to build an account of southeast Asia, in particular Singapore as a thriving seaport, before western colonisers came to this part of the world. I'd seen some of the artefacts in local museums, but had no idea there was a lot more to it, so this looks pretty intriguing.
I'm on the part about ports located in what is now Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma, and my viewpoint of China gets turned around a bit (they didn't have trading as much as they had diplomatic missions where some exchanges of gifts/goods went on, and also weirdly enough, gives a clue why China was just so bad at opening up trade to Europeans in the 19th century (because they'd were just so used to treaty ports).)
And doesn't Oc-Eo sound like a place out of a fantasy? (It was a port in now southern Vietnam.)