Renxkyoko Iglesias here, hello, hi, how are you ?
For the first time, WordPress has reminded me that I’ve been blogging for 7 years. WP has never done this before.
I feel old…… and very, very nostalgic. All my friends from the old forum ( then we all moved to WP ) are gone now. Phio-chan, Alexis, Kioko ? Where are you guys ? Phio-chan is from Indonesia, a medical student, Alexis is from Oregon, and teaches English in China, and believe it or not, she’s my co-author here on my blogsite,, and Kioko’s from Michigan. I wonder if she’s still with her boyfriend. I miss all the fun we had, fangirling over mangas and animes. I think it was my fault that they stopped communicating with me. Guys, I still read mangas and watch animes. Come backkkkkkk !
Anyway, thank you for the happy memories , my friends.
And about the Las Vegas massacre……. I have no more tears to shed. The last time I cried, it was for the massacre of 20 students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and Trayvon Martin. I have already become inured to what’s happening here in the US…. mass shootings, massacres, police violence , racism, political shenanigans…. what else ? It’s a burlesque world we are living in now.
I’ll just sleep it off.
This is all . Peace to all and live green, folks.
Check out my manga/anime/video games blogsite at http://2megaworthitwordpresscomblog.wordpress.com/
Am a Molecular Microbiology student, love to read books, and I play the violin. 
dreamsending
renxkyoko
renxkyoko's space 
Posted by Anindya on October 4, 2017 at 5:36 pm
Quite honoured to be in connection with such experienced blogger like you….:)….compliments on completing 7 years……
Yes, lot’s of sad and unfortunate events are happening worldwide, and that gives us the resolve to be more united and stay strong and fight it out….
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 6:16 am
Thanks, Anindya !
Indeed, it’s a sad, sad world. We can only hope.
Posted by Kyoki on October 4, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Hello Ren! I got a notification that mine has been around for seven years too. It doesn’t feel like I’ve had it for that long. :O Oh my boyfriend isn’t my boyfriend anymore since we got married! Yay! 😀 It’s been awhile since I commented on here, but I still read your posts.I’ll try to comment on here more often. :3
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 6:15 pm
WHOA ! ! ! No way ! ! ! Is that really you, Kyoki ? ? ?
Posted by Kyoki on April 16, 2018 at 7:40 pm
Yeppers! It’s really me! I don’t do much posting/commenting anymore, but I visit here quite a bit. 😀
I would have responded back way sooner, but WP didn’t notify me that you responded and then it slipped my mind that I had left a comment until today when I was catching up on your posts! LOL!
Posted by gardeninacity on October 4, 2017 at 6:09 pm
Congratulations on your first seven years. I know how you feel regarding the state of the nation.
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 7:58 pm
Getting desensitized is more tragic, imho.
Posted by raistlin0903 on October 4, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Wow, seven years that is truly an amazing achievement indeed, and something you should be really proud of: congratulations! As for the state of this world, I was saying it to a friend of mine this morning. There are times when I really don’t want to live in this world anymore because of all the sad and terrible things that keep happening. On the other hand though, if we live in fear and sadness because of a bunch of crazy people that seem determined to ruin everything, we let them win and that’s just not worth it.
I hope your blog will continue for many more years to come!
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 8:08 pm
I hope I can continue on, Raistlin. Do you know that it’s only this year, 2017 , that I get to post more often , at most 3 x a month. Before this , it was like, one post a month, sometimes , 1 in 2 months. I am amazed ( and very appreciative ) that my long time readers still read me, and I feel the same enthusiasm when they see my name on their email folder.
Posted by Rebecca Dawn on October 4, 2017 at 9:12 pm
Happy 7 years! Iwas reminded last week of my 7 years but couldn’t reblog it😂 I’m inept
It was so sad about Las Vegas if only people would value life more
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 8:12 pm
Oct. 1 is my anniversary…….. but actually , my move was much earlier than that. My buddies used to post on Live.com, then I guess it was bought by WordPress….. so , whether we liked it or not, all our live.com blogposts were transferred, lock, stock and barrel to WP, unofficially in March , 2010, and officially in October 1, 2010.
Posted by Rebecca Dawn on October 5, 2017 at 8:44 pm
Yes that is where I posted too. Ugh to be honest I like WP a lot better
Posted by aquibview on October 4, 2017 at 10:14 pm
Congratulations,keep going .
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 6:52 am
Thanks, aquibview !
Posted by equinoxio21 on October 4, 2017 at 10:45 pm
Happy anniversary nonetheless.
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 8:14 pm
Thanks, equinoxio21 ! !
Posted by equinoxio21 on October 6, 2017 at 6:55 pm
Pleasure, “Ren”. Have a lovely week-end.
Posted by Jay on October 4, 2017 at 11:38 pm
Yeah, once Americans decided it was okay to slaughter children, the rest comes as no surprise.
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 4:18 pm
This is what happens when leaders /politicians are beholdened to weapons manufacturers and to a powerful organization ( NRA ) that advocates gun proliferation. Gun culture is already in people’s DNA.
Posted by Tony Burgess on October 5, 2017 at 12:38 am
Congrats on your blogiversary. I have said hello and goodbye to many bloggers in my journey. Thanks for your friendship!
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 6:10 am
Thanks !
Not to be morbid, but I had 3 blogger friends who passed on already. It was so shocking.
Posted by Tony Burgess on October 6, 2017 at 6:19 am
Not morbid at all. It’s a part of life. May they rest in peace and power.
Posted by Rocco B on October 5, 2017 at 1:11 am
Grats on being around this long Ren :D. hope you continue to do so!.
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 6:01 am
Thanks, Rocco B. I hope to be around for a long time, ha ha ha. I feel so ancient. he he
Posted by Mel & Suan on October 5, 2017 at 1:34 am
Wow. 7 years! We plan to stop by the end of year 5, if we get there!
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 5:47 am
I’m running out of interesting topics to talk about. That’s why, I post just 2 or 3x a month. And to me, that’s a lot already. I used to post once a month.
Posted by Mel & Suan on October 6, 2017 at 2:01 pm
Oh yeah we can understand. Topics we still have for now, but somehow it feels like there isn’t as much “kick” to it… fatigue we think.
Posted by disperser on October 5, 2017 at 1:53 am
Don’t lose sight of the fact that for the vast majority of people, things are much better than they were in any century you care to pick.
Also, recognize that you are now a lot “closer” to tragedies than anyone ever was. That’s both due to the fast response when it comes to getting news out there, and due to the fact that for events such as these, you are being inundated by images (often the same images played on a loop) 24/7.
Contrast that with the Christmas day tsunami that killed over a quarter of a million people. Or, for that matter, the fact that roughly 90 people each and every day die in automobile accidents doesn’t make the news. We don’t read their names on the news, we don’t send flowers, the President doesn’t visit.
These are all tragedies, but we don’t live them. We don’t have them shoved into our eyeballs wherever we look.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t “feel”; we absolutely should. I’m saying that if all you look at is a toilet bowl all day, you might not appreciate what’s around it. You might not even appreciate the marvel that is the toilet bowl.
Yes, that is an attempt at humor, but it’s also a metaphor to think about.
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 8:24 pm
I get it, disperser.
Anyways, although I always say I feel I’ve been already desensitized by all these tragic events, the day before I posted this, I donated blood. The line was long, it took me 4 hours to get it done…. about 10 minutes for one pint of blood. I got a free T-shirt , though. My cousin was rejected…. she’s iron deficient. ( she pulled an all nighter, 3 nights in a row for her exams ….. became anemic because of that … she didn’t get a T-shirt )
Posted by punjetry on October 5, 2017 at 4:29 am
Whoa! Happy anniversary!! 🙂
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 3:44 am
Oh, hey, thanks ! !
Posted by aysabaw on October 5, 2017 at 5:43 am
Happy anniversary Ren! you are not that old yet, at least not older than me haha
Posted by renxkyoko on October 5, 2017 at 8:31 pm
He he… At the moment, I feel young and vibrant…. I just donated blood for the Las Vegas victims.
Posted by aysabaw on October 6, 2017 at 3:01 am
ha ha ha that’s great!
Posted by Sreejit Poole on October 5, 2017 at 7:09 am
Happy Blogaversery. I just completed 5 years. Guess that makes you my older sister in the blogging world! I feel old too. I left all of my old friends when I moved to California at 19… and then to India at 35… That was 8 years ago. Damn, where did all the time go. Can barely remember the faces of the first set of friends anymore, except for the three that keep honored positions in my heart…
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 4:19 am
I’m your Ate ( older sister in Filipino language ) in the blogging world, ha ha. Im still close friends with my high school classmates, two of whom have gotten married, and I was their bridesmaid, and one is getting married in June, and I’ll be her maid of honor. I’ve been friends with them since elementary. * sigh * I’m afraid I’m the proverbial ” always the bridesmaid, never the bride. ” He he
Posted by Auri on October 5, 2017 at 11:50 am
Congratulations! That’s so cool- 7 years!
(I just completed 1, haha)
Yup, Vegas was an insane tragedy, I just can’t seem to process it anymore…
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 4:29 am
You’re right. I don’t think anyone can process these tragic events anymore. This is the second one this year where at least 50 people died .
Posted by typicaljenn on October 5, 2017 at 3:56 pm
Ranker.com is looking for Anime content writers. The post made me think of your blog so I wanted to send you the link.
https://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wri/d/seeking-anime-content-writers/6332815289.html
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 5:45 am
The site is cool. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m that knowledgeable on animes. I’m just a casual fangirl . ^^” Check out Karandi of 100WordAnime. Click on her avatar on my LIKE list. She writes well too. Me ? I’ m a lousy writer.Thanks, just the same.
Posted by D K Powell on October 5, 2017 at 4:40 pm
I just had my seven year anniversary too! Happy blogversary to you Ren 😊
For now, let’s leave it at that. Think unhappy thoughts another time… Xx
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 5:35 am
There are a lot of us with 7 year anniversary. I think 2010 was the year Live.com bloggers moved to WordPress. Just guessing.
Oh, hey, I’m not going to this kind of events anytime soon. A member of my cousin’s Drum and Bugle Corps was one of the dead victims. He was 19 years old.
Posted by D K Powell on October 6, 2017 at 11:13 am
Very, very sad to hear that. Truly ghastly 😦
Posted by Amielle De Torres on October 5, 2017 at 9:38 pm
Congrats on the 7 years!! 🙂
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 5:39 am
Thanks ! And cheers !
Posted by Peter Wells aka Countingducks on October 6, 2017 at 11:41 am
I don’t know for how many years I have been visiting your Blog but it is certainly quite a few and you are one of those people who are on my blogroll because what ever you write about there is a kind of lovely charm and immediacy attached to it which warms my heart. Bless you and keep blogging. You always cheer me up and we all need that 🙂
Posted by renxkyoko on October 6, 2017 at 6:19 pm
You’re one of the originals, Peter Wells ! ! * pops confetti * I’m celebrating my 7 year- anniversary with you. Cheers to us ! ! !
Posted by Sarah Ferguson and Choppy on October 6, 2017 at 12:43 pm
Happy blog-a-versary! It’s funny how people come and go from the blogging world. There are so many I wonder about – where they are now, if they’ll ever come back.
Posted by imagesbytdashfield on October 6, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Happy 7th to you! Mine was the end of August (forgot about it) and 5 years on WP. I’ve felt like being under the covers with comfort food…. sigh.
Posted by Erma Santo on October 7, 2017 at 5:38 am
Happy 7 years! Wow, that’s really been long. It makes me wonder now if in 7 years I would still be here, but I’m hoping. 🙂 Anyway, I’m glad to have become one of your followers before hitting 7. I hope you won’t stop blogging and you get to inspire more people. 😊🎂
As for what’s happening in US, I hope that would the last. Please take extra care. My prayers to all the people there. 😦
Posted by renxkyoko on October 7, 2017 at 3:11 pm
Thank you for the kind thoughts, Erma Santo.
Posted by Erma Santo on October 7, 2017 at 4:08 pm
You are welcome! 🙂
Posted by The Otaku Judge on October 8, 2017 at 8:28 am
Sleep is always a good idea. Congrats on blogging for seven years. That shows commitment.
It’s sad to hear that your online buddies have gone AWOL. Just like real life, internet friends come and go due to life commitments. I have lost count of the blogs I follow that suddenly go silent. Hopefully all their authors are okay.
Posted by Josh Gross | The Jaguar on October 11, 2017 at 4:59 am
Happy anniversary! All this violence and abuse is indeed getting old: you’d think that after 300 or so years we would’ve made some progress in the world’s wealthiest nation. I suppose we have, but at the moment we seem to be sliding backwards. It truly feels like we are a nation in decline.
Posted by Shreya Dutta (Yashika) on October 22, 2017 at 7:39 pm
Congratulations, Ren! Happy Blogging!
Posted by Colors of my life on October 24, 2017 at 10:21 am
Congratulations, I have been with you for a very long time. Like I guess 5+
Posted by Sartenada on October 28, 2017 at 10:51 am
Congratulations on your first seven years. I started in in October 2009. 🙂
Have a wonderful day!
Posted by applebitsblog on January 30, 2018 at 9:33 am
Congratulations on your seventh year! 😊💕
Posted by renxkyoko on January 30, 2018 at 5:21 pm
Thank you. Seven years is a long time to be blogging, isn’t it ? I feel I’m running out of steam.
Posted by applebitsblog on January 31, 2018 at 5:57 am
You shouldn’t feel that way. Your blog is amazing! 💖 There’s a lot of good read and a lot to learn from too. So, keep inspiring. 😉👍