• a work in progress: a memoir connor franta ∙ i bought it online here, since i hadn't had a bank acc i begged my dad to transfer the money with a promise of it's an english book for me to learn!
• imaginary city rain chudori ∙ on january 1st '18 i bought it from gramedia lombok, i was with my friends vacationing our short new year's holiday and lem didn't have gramedia
• sea of strangers lang leav ∙ my first ever lang leav's work woohoo! i bought it with g's card cause apparently they didn't accept card w/o credit card logos. it was when my friends and i got back to our hometown, at periplus in airport

— lady bird: "i gave it to myself. it's given to me by me."

• the good side troye sivan ∙ (from troye to c.) i learned that things wouldn't stay the same way, but that didn't mean those weren't real
• tonya harding sufjan stevens ∙ everyone deserves to be gifted this song, and i'm gonna give it to myself

my parents make a challenge to shove me healthy food during sem break as much as they can and here i am

• wed. 16.01 bland porridge, avocado with melted chocolate, crispy broccoli, french fries, dragon fruit, shrimp, soup + rice.
• thu. 17.01 spicy chicken + rice, bread, dumplings,

some lyrics annotation i found cool.

• white winter hymnal fleet foxes ∙ i was following the pack. all swallowed in their coats "from first grade to high school i spent every day with the same bunch of kids. and it was weird to see how people i had known so long would change so quickly – suddenly they’re drug dealers. i hated it. how did our friendships become less important than wearing a backwards baseball cap?" — robin pecknold.
• should have known better sufjan stevens ∙ i should have known better; nothing can be changed "everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. i really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes." — sufjan stevens.

• 29.01 ∙ "one day, if you're lucky, you'll say something beautiful and true and people will love you for a little while." — iain s. thomas
• 09.02 ∙ sometimes when you meet shitty people, you just need to understand them a little better. because no one, in this life, means to be shitty. life happens to them and that’s the real shit. life is shit and sucks. we are people with hearts, either closed or on your sleeve, we are all still people. we just have to understand each other better and be a little nice.
• 10.02 ∙ "i love you terribly, i can’t think why. don’t worry about anything. don’t fall into the hands of any scheming woman (other than me). write to me soon, you silly ass. make a note of this: i love you." — iris murdoch to wallace robson
• 20.02 ∙ i think, when i got a good result, it’s not because i’m diligent (i’m actually not. a very lazy person) or becau..._i love what i learn, and i genuinely want..._