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+title: Miscellanea
+language: en
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+translationKey: misc
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+---
+
+Here are some miscellanous things I do.
+
+## Conlangs
+
+<dfn>Conlang</dfn> stands for *constructed language*.  Many people created
+conlangs for hobby or as linguistic experiments.
+
+I was inspired by the conlangs in <i>Inheritance Cycle</i> and <i>The Lord of
+the Rings</i>, as well as others like Esperanto, Dothraki, Toki Pona, et al and
+conlang from time to time as a hobby.  None of my conlangs reached its
+maturity, though, mainly due to loss of copies and lack of time.
+
+Currently, the only available conlang I have is [Hàäsdáïga](/conlang), though
+I'm halting on it due to lack of time.
+
+## Books
+
+I'm not the bookworm I used to be, reading mostly mainstream books. Some books
+I read and liked:
+
+- <i>Dế Mèn phiêu lưu kí</i>, a famous children book in Vietnamese about an
+    arrogant cricket who learned humility and altruism during his journey.
+- <i>The adventures of Valya and Karik</i>, a Russian children book (my copy
+    was a Vietnamese translation) about the adventures of shrunken children in
+    which they learn about small animals around them.
+- <i>Sans famille</i>, a story about a child who had to leave his family for
+    poverty, though now that I think about it, it sounds like children
+    trafficking and child labor.
+- <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i>, a dystopian tragedy that is often mistaken as
+    criticism of socialism, while the actual object is authoritanism and mass
+    surveillance.
+- <i>The Hobbit</i> and <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, the well-known fantasy
+    franchise
+- <i>Inheritance Cycle</i>, often labeled as rip-off <i>Star Wars</i> by haters
+- <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, a book that's supposed to be satire but I didn't
+    know enough to understand these deep meanings.
+- <i>Le petit prince</i>, a novella with a childish theme but discuss many
+    aspects of life in a lighthearted way.
+
+Books I'm reading:
+
+- [XKCD what if](what-if)
+- [Ellana][ellana] (<i>Le Pacte des MarchOmbres</i> series) (French)
+- <i>The Necromancer</i> (<i>The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel</i>
+    series)
+- <i>A Storm of Swords</i>(<i>A Song of Ice and Fire</i> series)
+
+[what-if]: https://store.xkcd.com/pages/if-you-re-looking-for-the-what-if-book
+[ellana]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24210815W/Le_Pacte_des_MarchOmbres_-_Ellana
+
+## Comics
+
+Reading comics is my pastime.  I follow several webcomics, some of which you
+may have heard of:
+
+- [xkcd](https://xkcd.com): nerd stuff
+- [SMBC](https://smbc-comics.com): more nerd stuff, and usually less concise
+- [Oglaf](https://www.oglaf.com/): silly and occasionally NSFW comics
+- [Dinosaur comics](https://qwantz.com/): a 5-panel comics with only dialogues
+    changing
+
+I also enjoy drawing every now and then, not that I want to be an artist or I
+draw well.  I just find scribbling something fun.  I recently decided to post
+[my scribbles](/comics/) on this website.