Category: DanDan/ダンダン

Lately, Kokoro and I have been spending more time than usual trying to cook both new things and our families’ traditional recipes. We decided to have a little chat about the food we love and miss the most from our countries and I was surprised at how much she...

We just finished (re)watching the entire Ghibli Studio movie collection a couple of days ago and now I’m sad. I’m sad because they’re over, but that’s not such a big deal, we can always watch them again. I’m especially sad because, unlike Kokoro, I had never seen any of...

As you may have noticed from my previous articles, I do enjoy my share of video games. I also talked in my last interview with Kokoro about my small addiction and obsession with arcades and UFO Catchers in Japan. But there’s one game in particular I didn’t have time...

Just like we did a couple of weeks ago, Kokoro and I interviewed each other once again! The topic? Our experiences and impressions after visiting Canada and Japan for the first time. If you want to read about my first trip to Japan, you can check out Kokoro’s article...

In the past couple of weeks, Kokoro and I have been going through a throwback phase, listening to all kinds of music from our childhood or teenage years. Every time we listen to these playlists however, we love to notice how different mainstream music was for us depending on...

Since we’re still on the language topic, let’s talk a bit about my experience learning Japanese. Before meeting Kokoro, my only interactions with the language were through anime and video games. I still vividly remember playing Virtua Fighter 2 as a child and hearing the characters’ Japanese lines. My...

Kokoro and I decided to do something a little different for this week’s post. Since we’re always writing about our own thoughts, we thought we might have the other person take the spotlight instead. And so, we ‘interviewed’ each other about our experience learning the other’s language. Of course,...

Let’s talk about sports. I love sports. Football (even the American kind), basketball, hockey, baseball, you name it. I love playing them and I love watching them. Growing up in Romania however, the only sport I really knew was football (not the American kind, and I refuse to call...

There are so many memes and silly posts out there about getting along with your in-laws that I won’t even begin to get into it. I mentioned my mother-in-law worrying about my sleeping schedule in my first post, so I thought it might be a good segue to talk...

It’s about three o’clock in the middle of the night. I just started writing this. Yes, seriously. And my wife hates that. I know what you’re going to say, ‘well obviously, DanDan, most wives would hate that’! Well, you probably have a point, and actually this might not have...