Liebester Blog Award Number Three

Lynn from Lynn’s Book Blog has passed on the Liebster Blog Award to me. Not one for ignoring praise (please give me praise, I have writer’s syndrome) and never one for ignoring Lynn (a blogger with great taste in films as well as books) or any of my fellow commenters/bloggers, I have put up my responses here. Here are the rules:

1. Tell us 11 things about yourself

2. Answer 11 questions the blogger who awarded you asked

3. Pass the award to 11 people

4. Give them 11 questions.
5. Tell them about the award
6. Don’t award people who are recipients already

I have done this before so I’ll skip the formalities and the whole nominating people bit because I doubt anybody I would nominate has the time to reply to be quite frank.

11 Things About Me Updated for 2013

1. I have met Doctor Who.
2. I have met the film director Isshin Inudo.
3. I have Japanese relatives, I own Japanese things, I obsess over Japanese films, I speak Japanese but I have yet to go to the country.
4. I have a sister who is much younger than me and more beautiful, cooler and smarter than me. She has developed a cool taste in films.
5. I watch at least two films a week, usually both Japanese.
6. I spent most of my childhood watching subtitled films from France and Hong Kong.
7. I like rainy weather.
8. I work in an art museum with a famous collection.
9. I sometimes like to watch trashy anime like Haiyore! Nyaruko-san and Haganai.
10. I am trying to write a novel.
11. This is Year II of My Time of Getting Things Done.

Liebster Blog Award Answers

I have been given a Liebster Blog award by Andina over at Inspired Ground (thank you Andina!). Here are the rules:

1. Tell us 11 things about yourself

2. Answer 11 questions the blogger who awarded you asked

3. Pass the award to 11 people

4. Give them 11 questions.
5. Tell them about the award
6. Don’t award people who are recipients already

Actually this is the second time so I’ll keep this short and sweet and just answer the questions.

11 Random Things About Me

1. I have met Doctor Who.

2. I have Japanese relatives, I own Japanese things, I obsess over Japanese films but I have yet to go to the country. Also I speak Japanese – it has improved, so much so I spent time talking to Japanese tourists during the Olympics!

3. I have a sister who is much younger than me and more beautiful, cooler and smarter than me. She has developed a cool taste in films.

4. I watch at least three films a week – two Japanese and one from somewhere else.

5. My mother and father helped me get into foreign films. I spent most of my childhood watching subtitled films from France and China.

6. I have ruined a friendship by not waiting at a train station for a person stuck on a train because I was afraid I was going to miss a film at a cinema. The film was Infernal Affairs and it was awesome so you can hardly blame me for leaving the person behind. That person also had poor taste in films. While I was taking them to see stuff like Oldboy, they made me suffer through Bridget Jones.

7. I tend to go to the movies alone (because my taste is idiosyncratic) but this year I have been going with others. And frowning at them when they make noise eating after the film has started. Seriously, pay attention!

8. I like rainy weather.

9. I sometimes like to watch trashy anime like Haiyore! Nyaruko-san and Haganai.

10. I am trying to write a novel.

11. This is My Year of Getting Things Done.

Liebster Blog Award

I had a nice surprise at the end of last week when I received a Liebster blog award from Andina over at Inspired Ground. It is the first blog award I have received and it comes at a time when I have big plans for my blog. Anyway my thanks go out to Andina.

“The rules are that the winners have to pay forward to other people whose sites are worth the recognition. If they accept the award, they should: thank the person who nominated them; nominate five other favorite blogs with fewer than 200 followers, and copy/paste the Liebster Blog Icon into their post.”