found a new addiction: MANGA

for the past month, i’ve been glued to the computer screen until 5 am in the morning reading scanned and translated manga online. i finished samurai deeper kyo (and the manga–which is 308 chapters long–is waaaaaaaay better than the anime) and now finishing fruits basket. i have other mangas in the pipeline as well.

my cousin, potatochips, told me she is worried about me.

i’m turning into a dork, she said.

“we must go out. you are already living in fantasyland. come on, we must go out this week.”

i told her i’ve been escaping to fantasyland for a loooong time with all anime and young adult fiction i’ve been reading.

“come, we must go out. you have to touch base with reality,” she cried.

but i’ve been too entrenched with reality, i told her. day in and day out, problema ng pilipinas pinoproblema ko din. My job requires me to *know* and internalize world and local issues. Everyday I monitor the day’s news on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg and the online news services while getting dressed and/or eating brunch. By the time I get to the office, I am already inundated by local issues and news from around the globe. At night I still need to read my copies of Newsweek and Forbes. When I get home to the province, I read Time.

“Ah yes, your life is already full of “reality”,” my cousin conceded. “But still, you need to get out to escape it and I have to wean you from your fantasyland. I don’t want you to become a dork.”

I am already in chapter 85 of Fruits Basket. I am reading it right now while waiting for tomorrow’s issue to be closed.