• feeling too dependent
• physical affection
• when people move on without me
• eggplants
• buttons
• an empty mailbox
• religion
• being physically and emotionally distant from my family and relatives
• rust
• shopping centers during the weekends
• hummus
• celery
• people who think they're too cool for mainstream music
• ketchup
• my birthday
• phone calls
• people who refer to their families as "fam jam/bam" why
• the word "exotic"

• they'll name a city after us and later say its all out fault (regina spektor)
• when he comes around / do not tell him nothing / do not make a sound / 'cause if he knows we're there / he might tear his heart out / and beat us to death with it (pete yorn)
• i'm in love with your honour, i'm in love with your cheeks (bon iver)
• i don't ever wanna die but i'm hating how i live (the dean's list)
• all my life / i've tried / to make everybody happy while i / just hurt / and hide / waitin' for someone to tell me it's my turn / to decide (sara bareilles)

• rumours - fleetwood mac
• everything in transit - jack's mannequin
• for emma, forever ago - bon iver
• my private nation - train
• spring awakening OBC
• conditions - the temper trap
• 21 - adele
• sigh no more - mumford & sons
• volume one - she & him
• in evening air - future islands

Asia

• siem reap, cambodia
• hong kong
• bombay, india
• goa, india
• hiroshima, japan
• nagasaki, japan
• okinawa, japan
• kathmandu, nepal
• kashmir
• lahore, pakistan

Europe

• prague, czech republic
• paris, france
• rome, italy
• florence, italy
• london, uk

Laptop

• Meryl (2010)
• Eleanor (2015)

Hard Drive

• Drizzle (2009 - 2010)
• Sherlock (2012)

iPod

• Albatross Sheldon (2006 - 2010)
• Minerva (2011)

Camera

• Merlin Gabor (2010)

• arrested development
• the best years
• the big bang theory
• beyond the break
• black books
• bones
• breaking bad
• castle
• chuck
• community
• cougar town
• dance moms
• dance moms: miami
• dawson's creek
• degrassi: tng
• doctor who
• dollhouse
• don't trust the bitch in apartment 23
• downton abbey
• firefly
• freaks & geeks

• shotgun shower
• bin + cleaning schedules
• mini throwback parties
• fairy lights in the living room
• the blizzard of 2013
• hurricane sandy
• brownies
• seeing bailey
• that time we were all on the sofa, up until 4am talking about gross things
• the first fight
• experimental cooking
• christmas party
• expedition to get good indian food
• nirvana + weed
• the ongoing banana case
• "Goals of 2013" engraved on our dining table
• bollywood dance sessions
• "what dreams are made of" numerous times
• sex therapist emails

• the berenstein bears
• harry potter - j.k rowling
• stig of the dump - clive king
• the christmas doll - elvira woodruff
• i am not esther - fleur beale
• red sky in the morning - elizabeth laird
• enid blyton
  • the famous five
  • the secret seven
  • the adventure series
  • the st. clare's series
• nancy drew - "carolyn keene"

• if music be the food of love, play on—
• some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em

• i met a lady in the meads / full beautiful—a faery’s child / her hair was long, her foot was light / and her eyes were wild (la belle dame sans merci)
• the poetry of the earth is never dead (on the grasshopper and cricket)

• 50/50
• The Artist
• Away We Go
• Becoming Jane
• Circumstance
• Election
• Ever After
• Half Nelson
• Me Without You
• My Fair Lady
• Now and Then
• Shakespeare In Love
• Stand By Me
• The Tempest
• Third Star
• Trainspotting
• Waitress
• Lost In Translation
• Girl, Interrupted
• The Mummy
• Les chansons d'amour

• Saitama, Japan ('92 - '97)
• Auckland, New Zealand ('97 - '04)
• Singapore ('05 - '10)
• Toronto, Canada ('10 - '17)
• Sydney, Australia ('17-

• The Diving Bell & The Butterfly – Jean-Dominique Bauby
• The Rest of Her Life – Laura Moriarty
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• The Proud Highway - Hunter S. Thompson
• Richard Siken - Crush
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
• Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller by Marshall Chapman
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
• She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
• Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
• A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
• Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
• I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan

• 562 B&B
• the best housewarming party ever
• drunk pumpkin carving
• tinder
• the spadina crew (meeting our neighbours)
• scabbers
• mehaa visits toronto
• mrin & dick
• meeting ron swanson
• diwali get together
• the indian posse
• #whiteboytravis
• flynn enters our lives
• gracie's
• adi baby enters our lives
• mrin's 22nd birthday
• polar vortex
• easy a goes monogamous
• elaine's palace
• bedgate '14 (and my escape to bay-college...

• harriet m. welsch
• harry potter
• katniss everdeen
• oskar schell
• atticus finch
• paulina (from the winter's tale)
• hermione granger

• auckland (mangare) international airport (auckland, nz)
• changi international airport (singapore)
• dubai international airport (dubai, uae)
• hong kong international airport (hong kong)
• indira gandhi international airport (delhi, india)
• jinnah international airport (karachi, pakistan)
• lok nayak jayaprakash airport (patna, bihar, india)
• london heathrow airport (london, england)
• narita international airport (tokyo, japan)
• nội bài international airport (hanoi, vietnam)
• pearson international airport (toronto, canada)
• suvarnabhumi airport (bangkok, thailand)

• Dyed your hair? no
• Pulled an all-nighter? yes
• Baked a cake? yes
• Fallen down in public? always
• Fallen down the stairs? yes
• Fainted in public? no
• Built something out of wood? no
• Burned yourself with a curling iron? no
• Been hit on by someone too old? yes
• Shopped at Home Depot? no
• Lied about your age? yes
• Bought something at a yard sale? no
• Been recovered at the hospital? no
• Made a prank call? yes
• Had a massage? no
• Ridden a horse? no, they scare me
• Been lost? yes
• Snuck out? no
• Snuck someone in? no
• Crashed at an event? no
• Lied about where you were going? yes

• louise fitzhugh
• hayao miyazaki

Singapore

• 03/03/07: Fall Out Boy
• 05/03/09: Jason Mraz @ Singapore Indoor Stadium

Toronto

• 09/11/11: Mat Kearney @ The Opera House
• 19/02/12: Monkey Majik Acoustic @ JCCC
• 25/03/12: The Temper Trap @ Phoenix
• 15/12/12: Tegan & Sara @ Phoenix
• 16/04/13: Fleetwood Mac @ ACC
• 09/05/13: Ryan Cabrera, Teddy Geiger & Tyler Hilton @ The Opera House
• 08/03/14: Paul Simon & Sting @ ACC
• 01/05/14: Lo-Fang @ The Drake Underground
• 22/08/14: Young Galaxy @ Yonge-Dundas Square
• 08/09/14: Sylvan Esso @ The Horseshoe Tavern
• 12/09/14: Lorde @ Echo Beach

• Canada
  • Montreal (Dec. '11)
  • Niagara Falls (Sep. '10, Nov. '11)
  • Toronto
• India
  • Agra (Apr. '11)
  • Delhi (Dec. '10, Apr. '11)
  • Patna, Bihar (Apr. '11)
• Japan
  • Saitama
  • Sendai (Aug. '10)
  • Tokyo, Yokohama
  • Yamagata (Aug. '10)
• Malaysia
  • Johor Bahru
  • Malacca ('05)
• New Zealand

• be a full vegetarian for at least a year
• bungee jump
• buy an antique
• do a first aid course
• donate blood
• dye my hair
• fly first class
• get a tattoo (?)
• get over my fear of horses and go horseback riding
• give up (red) meat for a year
• go back to all the places i grew up in (new zealand)
• go camping
• go fishing
• go on a roadtrip with friends
• go on a wine tour
• go on helicopter
• go skydiving
• go to a casino (and play something)
• go to a cherry blossom festival in japan