Lina's Blog

 I wouldn't say I'm someone who reads comics a lot, since I didn't really grow up with them personally. Sure, my dad would enthusiastically show me Arabic copies of Tintin or Asterix comics stolen from the internet which were usually missing a few pages and scanned in a weird angle, but other than that I never really followed any specific comic or manga.  However, there's this one comic that I used to read a lot when I was a teen, based on an animated TV show called Avatar The Last Airbender. It used to be one of my favourite shows back then, and it's still one of the best shows I ever watched in my opinion. After I finished watching the show (for possibly the third time), I spent a lot of time consuming fan content or looking up for more content on the internet, and that's when I found out that the series had a comic. And even a continuation comic that continued from where the animated series left off. The one I'm about to show is a collection of short stor...

There was this video that I watched about English names for apartments in Japan, so I decided to share my thoughts about it. I did ramble a lot in the video so sorry about that haha. P.S. today is my birthday!

Playing games has always been one of my favorite ways to pass time, and it's something that carried me through both my best and worst moments in my life. At some point video games became more of an obsession than a way to pass time, so I've been recently trying to monitor my impulsive tendencies like getting too immersed or spending money. I think nowadays I have a much better appraoch than before and am able to manage the time I spend playing them, and not let myself become dependent on them for too long. As for my favorite games, there's one game I always talk about when people ask me that question, which is Reverse: 1999. A game with gorgeous graphics, amazing story, and, while for me personally it's the game's weakest point, a really interesting gameplay. The game is turned based tactical rpg, which means it doesn't have the stress of real-time games and rather, it focuses more on strategy and planning. The story itself is historical fiction, following the s...

As someone who enjoys cooking (and eating!), I always shy away from middle eastern food, because it takes so much time and effort to make. However, I think some of their dishes are really worth the trouble of spending hours for them, with one of them being Dolma. So many versions of Dolmas! I suggest you try them all if you ever get the chance. Personally not fan of the cabbage and eggplant ones though. Dolma means "stuffed" in Turkish, in Arabic we call it "mahashi", which essentially means the same thing. It's a dish that's very common across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Dolma is a dish made with cooked vegetables stuffed with rice, herbs and sometimes meat. The most common vegetables used are grape leaves, bell peppers, squash/zucchini, eggplants, tomato and cabbage.  My favourite one is stuffed zucchini made with the Syrian version, but because I don't have the proper tools to make them in Japan, nowadays I only make bell pepper Dolmas,...

 People keep asking me what kind of music I usually listen to, and I find that question one of the hardest ones to answer. I had strict parents, so I wasn't allowed to listen to music that my parent's didn't provide. So for pretty much 18 years, I didn't listen to songs much outside of what my family, and sometimes my friends, let me.  My childhood songs mostly consist of Fairuz and Arabic songs from a popular song channel for children called Toyor Al-Janah (old cast was better, nowadays their songs are a flop).  Toyor Al Jannah Logo. They now have so many variations of this for their different channels And even after I became an adult, listening to music hasn't become much of a habit, until I came to Japan and started listening to songs from Japanese music projects or anime. For English, most of the songs I know come from animated shows that I like, or from animatics (basically a storyboard with a soundtrack) made by creators on YouTube. One of the songs that I got...

 Hi there once again.  This time I come with a pretty interesting video that I keep coming back to every now and then. Not only is it entertaining, but it's also educational, and makes you think about how fast fashion brands steal from the hard work of designer.  To sum the video up, she previously made a video about designing the red dress, which she sewed by hand, and later, she was told by some people that her dress's picture was in one of those cheap clothing brand sites. So she decided to investigate and try the knockoff dress herself. She then goes on to discuss about how these brands affect clothing designers and how on top of that these brands tend to use cheap labour to make as many clothes as possible with the lowest cost. The first 5-6 minutes are the less serious parts of the video so I thought it fit today's theme somehow. Bernadette has a lot of videos related to historical fashion, and I love her designs a lot. I think she's very talented and her videos a...