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Brandon Lee
@sangsara.bsky.social
@sangsara on Twitter and other places. Design and writing person in Singapore 🇸🇬

Posting about media, gaming, books, the web, Apple, photography.

Blogging at http://sangsara.net
Week 47.25: LUX has got me learning Spanish, the racist toothpaste half the world hasn’t heard of, and a big week for hip-hop.
Week 47.25
LUX has got me learning Spanish, the racist toothpaste half the world hasn’t heard of, and a big week for hip-hop.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Week 46.25: Bangkok Sushiro verdict is in (plus an even better spot). Also: Predator: Badlands with an immersive challenge thrown in, Rosamund Pike’s accent mastery, and ROSALÍA’s astounding LUX.
Week 46.25
Bangkok Sushiro verdict is in (plus an even better spot). Also: Predator: Badlands with an immersive challenge thrown in, Rosamund Pike’s accent mastery, and ROSALÍA’s astounding LUX.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Week 45.25: Vertigo struck again (pray for my upcoming flight). Also: solo dining booths are cozy actually, Anbernic’s DS clone disappoints, and Apple TV’s Pluribus raises the bar insanely high.
Week 45.25
Vertigo struck again (pray for my upcoming flight). Also: solo dining booths are cozy actually, Anbernic’s DS clone disappoints, and Apple TV’s Pluribus raises the bar insanely high.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Week 44.25: Doctor visits for me and my iPad (turns out it ages better than I do). Also: spectacular sodium consumption, impulse-buying MagSafe accessories, and how the Vision Pro beats IMAX for watching Avatar.
Week 44.25
Doctor visits for me and my iPad (turns out it ages better than I do). Also: spectacular sodium consumption, impulse-buying MagSafe accessories, and how the Vision Pro beats IMAX for watching Avatar.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Week 41.25

Got the health all-clear, watched crypto implode, saw Tron in all its neon glory, and figured out what Amazon Prime Day is really doing to us.
Week 41.25
Got the health all-clear, watched crypto implode, saw Tron in all its neon glory, and figured out what Amazon Prime Day is really doing to us.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Week 40.25

Week 40.25: Health checks, couples therapy with Nintendo, blind boxes, extinct media, and a few good books.
Week 40.25
Week 40.25: Health checks, couples therapy with Nintendo, blind boxes, extinct media, and a few good books.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Week 39.25

Dyson betrayed me. Puzzle Quest returned. Shake Shack nearly killed me. Rewatched Cloud Atlas and cringed. A week of breakdowns, fixes, and mixed feelings.
Week 39.25
Dyson betrayed me. Puzzle Quest returned. Shake Shack nearly killed me. Rewatched Cloud Atlas and cringed. A week of breakdowns, fixes, and mixed feelings.
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September 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Week 38.25

New sounds (AirPods Pro 3), new sights (iPhone 17 Pro Max), old ghosts (Ghost in the Shell), future visions (SG60), and a little Bertolucci in between.
Week 38.25
New sounds (AirPods Pro 3), new sights (iPhone 17 Pro Max), old ghosts (Ghost in the Shell), future visions (SG60), and a little Bertolucci in between.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Week 37.25

Week 37.25: iPhone week delivered one of Apple’s best lineups in years. Thoughts on the Air vs Pro pivot, family stories, and Singapore Design Week is back. Pro Max in Silver, btw.
Week 37.25
Week 37.25: iPhone week delivered one of Apple’s best lineups in years. Thoughts on the Air vs Pro pivot, family stories, and Singapore Design Week is back. Pro Max in Silver, btw.
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September 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Week 36.25

Week 36.25: Switched telcos, finished Cloud Atlas, revisited Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker, invented a podcast from the apocalypse, and Apple Music’s “Classic Hip-Hop” station reminded me: we’re the classics now.
Week 36.25
Week 36.25: Switched telcos, finished Cloud Atlas, revisited Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker, invented a podcast from the apocalypse, and Apple Music’s “Classic Hip-Hop” station reminded me: we’re the classics now.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Week 35.25: Funerals, faded traditions, falling-apart shoes, and the eternal brilliance of Tapestry. Also: a Shinchan twist ending.
Week 35.25
We lost a grand aunt at the close of last week, and attended her funeral and cremation on Tuesday. It got me thinking about qing ming, which is a day in early April (I had to look this up) where Chinese families traditionally visit their ancestors’ graves and do some neatening up. I have vague memories of being dragged along to do this as a kid, and even being allowed by my parents to skip school for it.
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August 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Week 34.25: Looking back to see what’s changed. From fish & chips, to Cloud Atlas, the Explore POV app, and my mixtape series.
Week 34.25
Week 34.25: Looking back to see what’s changed. From fish and chips, to Cloud Atlas, the Explore POV app, and my mixtape series.
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August 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Week 33.25: Illness beaten, it’s now time for a summer vacation in game land. Plus ice cream, beta OSes, and banana sandwiches.
Week 33.25
I had some ice cream at last, but no beers yet. Maybe I’ll stretch this sobriety a little longer. Alcohol is, after all, just a poison worth doing socially but not so much alone. But man, this illness. Being sick for three consecutive weeks was not on my bingo card for the year. I should say illnesses, because we saw a doctor early in the week and she said (and these are the words every INTJ raised on WebMD loves to hear), “
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August 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Week 32.25: Down with round two of summer flu, so the week’s been coughs, Netflix junk, and Owen Wilson golf wisdom. 🍦+🍺 are the ultimate recovery goals.
Week 32.25
I was 95% recovered last week. But I must have come into contact with a new virus on the plane because I got sick again, and spent this week in an ever-evolving state of misery. At first it was just mild chills and fatigue, then came a pretty congested cough, blocked sinuses, and conjunctivitis. The cough is the worst part because it keeps me up at night, and according to my sleep stats, I’ve gotten zero deep sleep on some nights, which makes recovery that much harder.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Week 31.25: Fell ill mid‑trip, but it forced me to slow down—fireplaces, bookstores, and Costco hotdogs never looked so good. Also: does using AI to plan travel make the memories fuzzier?
Week 31.25
Checking in now from the first row of a Boeing Dreamliner — a plane that has probably been in the news recently for the wrong reasons. But if you’re reading this post, it means we made it back safely. There was a moment early in the week where we were telling our Melbourne-based friends about last year’s trip to New Zealand and for some reason we both blanked on some key details and took awhile to align on what exactly happened.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Week 30.25: Melbourne air, spiders, and knocking out 3.5 books on a budget flight while Counting Crows played like it was still 1998.
Week 30.25
In Melbourne at the moment, getting some relief from the heat of summer which seems to be getting worse with every year for no reason anyone can see at all! There’s no plan, just chilling at cafes, bars, and hanging with some friends for a few days. Our friends in the city have built an incredible home for their three kids, rabbits, chickens, and visiting mothers-in-law.
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July 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Week 29.25: From handheld consoles to childhood summers to greasy hotpot regrets — this week’s post ended up being about the things that outlast their shelf life.
Week 29.25
It was a low-key week after those few days in Bangkok. There’s more travel lined up soon, so I figure it’s no bad thing to enjoy the quiet while I can. We had someone come by to look at a house issue that’s been worrying me, but the prognosis was that it’s not a big problem for now, and they’ll do some proactive repairs in the meantime.
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July 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New week, new things:
• Apple Music’s great anniversary show
• The Bear S4 won’t let a sentence finish
• Persona 5 X is legit
• Umamusume is… horse girls
• App of the week: Graintouch
• Movie of the week: F1
Week 27.25
It’s getting hot down here, and reluctant as I am to use air-conditioning during the day while just sitting indoors, I’ve had to have it on in short spurts to bring the temperature down at times. Depending on the fates, I might be off to Bangkok again next week, where the heat’s reportedly even more brutal. Let’s see. It was Apple Music’s 10th anniversary, and they’re…
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July 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Happy birthday, Apple Music! I wrote about the Beats acquisition in 2014, guessing the headphones would stick around but the streaming service would become Apple branded.

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➟ The Beats Question
Apple’s Pursuit of Beats May Foretell a Shift By BEN SISARIO, nytimes.com If Apple makes a major marketing push for Beats’s subscription model — or, even better, if Apple integrates Beats into its …
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July 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Week 26.25: What my CliftonStrengths say about my half-finished projects, a delightful game about a bird climbing a mountain, and finally giving Princess Mononoke the daylight watch it deserves.
Week 26.25
I mentioned last week that I had an idea for a new project. Jinxed it! It turned out to be neither fun nor easy, so it’s dead now. Instead, I’m sort of revisiting older territory and picking up where I left off with some drawing a few years back. I know there are quite a few of us who like starting projects but struggle to follow through — I see you, fellow millennial domain hoarders.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Week 25.25: Got back into the Famicom Detective Club series With Emio The Smiling Man, then made the fateful choice to start TSUKIHIME. Also: gallery wanderings, Adobe’s new camera app, and getting priced out of a 4-deli Muji lunch.
Week 25.25
Lots of reading this week, but not the traditional sort. I decided it was time to cross Emio: The Smiling Man off my Nintendo Switch backlog — that would be the murder mystery sorta-visual novel published by Nintendo (developed by Mages) last year. It’s the third installment in the ‘Famicom Detective Club’ series that laid dormant for decades (the clue’s in the name; they were made for the original Famicom aka the Japanese NES) until remakes of the first two games were released in 2021.
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June 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I’m playing Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and I can’t believe the story hand they’re dealing Kiryu?!
June 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Week 24.25: Liquid Glass is luxury pixels. Veblen UI. Apple’s WWDC, and how the new iPadOS is both a surrender and a triumph.

Plus: my Switch 2 arrived, beers with old friends, and a weird new social dilemma in Vision Pro.
Week 24.25
My Switch 2 finally arrived on Monday, praise be. It turned out to be an imported European unit, so it has the right kind of power plugs, but the included download code for Mario Kart World would only work with an EU eShop account. It didn’t take long to make one, but it’s yet another needless fragmentation of my digital footprint.
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June 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM