About me

Itโ€™s mishi here. Translator and aspiring project finisher…

Back when I first used to blog I was into Kpop, Jpop, vkei, and makeup. These days Iโ€™m back into Kpop, back into makeup, and more into Kdramas, metal music, nails, and perfume.

Putting all my info out there, but I was born in the US, moved to a tiny island in the Caribbean called Anguilla as a baby, grew up there, then went to high school and college in the States. Iโ€™ve been in Japan for over 10 years but thanks to the wonders of the internet I stay somewhat up to date on what’s going on in the US. It would seem I spend too much time online.

Big horror fan. Too many fictional horror stories later and I’m now desensitized to the genre. ๐Ÿ‘ป Video games shaped my childhood, but over the years I’ve been playing fewer and fewer titles…

Likes:

  • All things dark, creepy, and gloomy (to a certain extent)
  • Melodic music, heavy bass
  • Watching choreography
  • Modern designs
  • Makeup
  • Jewelry (anything that is shiny, really๐Ÿ˜…)
  • Perfume
  • Video games
  • Food (all of it)

Dislikes:

  • Hot weather
  • Debates
  • Gacha/gambling games
  • Moe
  • Edgelords
  • The AI arms race

Favorite games: Bloodborne, Elden Ring, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Super Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4, Dark Souls I & III, Dance Dance Revolution
Movies: Mad Max Fury Road, Hereditary, The Iron Giant, Nope, The Wizard of Oz (yikes), The Thing, Shaolin Soccer, Pirates of the Caribbean I, Black Panther, Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, Inglourious Basterds
Shows: Schitt’s Creek, Abbott Elementary, The Glory, Crash Course in Romance, The Twilight Zone, Hospital Playlist, Pose, Legendary, RuPaul’s Drag Raceย S 1-13
Bands: Gideon, Cane Hill, I Prevail, Northlane, Dir en Grey, Seikma-II, Guilt Trip, Lotus Eater
K-pop: Ateez, Stray Kids, NCT127, Youha, aespa, BADVILLAIN
Artists: Megan Thee Stallion, Kendrick Lamar, Missy Elliott, Azelia Banks (yikes), Bree Runway, Aaliyah, GรผlลŸen
Hobbies: Doing gel/acrylic nails, testing perfumes, starting and not finishing projects
Food: Hokkaido soup curry, Kaisendon, saltfish & ackee, goat roti, real tacos

Pet corner!

The family's fur babies. ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿ‡

L-R: Amy, Lily, Peaceko, Isis, Meatball

Tech setup

I have a love-hate relationship with tech. If I could go back in time, I’d have pursued web development.

Desktop PC built September 2019

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor
  • Motherboard: ASRock X570M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
  • Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
  • Storage: WD SSD M.2-2280 / 500GB / WD Blue 3D / SATA3.0
  • GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8 GB PULSE Video Card
  • PSU: Corsair RM650x -2018-650W [80PLUS GOLD]
  • Case: Fractal Design Meshify Mini C Tempered Glass
  • Fans: Generic ones from Nipponbashi

Pixel 7 Pro (1950s refrigerator / pea soup green)

Surface Pro 8

About the site

Domain: Namecheap

Host: Frantech (unfortunately, they don’t offer hosting like this anymore for new customers)

CMS: WordPress (installed via cPanel)

Theme: Built from scratch, which is why things may be disorganized and not exactly optimized.

Back in the 2000s, I used to handcode with html and tables. Eventually I moved on to WordPress, and it’s been hard to use anything else. The GUI is just too convenient and I’m used to the PHP part of it.

For the theme, I pieced together bits of code and got the basics from the WP documentation and referenced some of the older, more simple official WP themes. I use the bare minimum amount of theme files.

  • functions.php (the brains of the whole thing, the loop to go through the database)
  • style.css
  • javascript.js (for my burger menu and alt-mode theme)
  • header.php
  • index.php (main home page that displays the blog posts)
  • footer.php
  • page.php (non blog post pages, no sidebar)
  • single.php (single blog posts, keeps sidebar)
  • searchform.php

Should probably get a 404 in there and a couple others. ๐Ÿ˜…

At one point I used Bootstrap, but this time around I just did everything myself since there’s more control and more learning to be had. Flexbox for the navigation and grid for the overall layout. I also used to use plugins but aside from spam protection, I got rid of them since they can break things and the updates can stop coming.

Webmentions: IndieWeb plugin (using Webmention, Syndication Links, and IndieAuth) + Brid.gy… Now any comments or engagement on my Mastodon acct will show up in posts!

Added some h-entry stuff to be part of the IndieWeb! โ†“

IndieWebify.Me – a guide to getting you on the IndieWeb

Registered to Searchmysite โ†“

Search My Site – Browse Sites

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Feel free to link to me with this button if you use buttons. Just be sure to host it / not hotlink.

Credits

Lucy Said Ok Font | Billy Argel Fonts | FontSpace Pink logo at the top left

Transparent Textures Background pattern

hill house Media log rating graphics

FOOL LOVERS Cherry icon next to search bar