"it was what I was born for— to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world— to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation."

• a weekend in sorsogon with friends
• watching the moonrise by the sea
• a few days road trip to rizal with the family
• sleepover at thea's, dinner made by t & b, playing charades late into the night, sharing too much inside jokes
• went to see seventeen in concert for the first time with my sister, nicole, and nikka
• met with r & went to a dino cupsleeve together
• learning to cook new recipes, cooking a birthday meal for myself
• bought a new bike to share with my siblings
• getting back to regularly listening to kpop
• taking endless personality quizzes on uquiz and discussing them with lois & domi
• baking for the first time & trying to perfect my cinnamon rolls
• getting back on book twt (and getting to know lovely new people)
• getting back on tumblr and filling it with things i love
• netflix parties with friends
• joining ab & joining my first protests outside college
• getting to know weki meki
• new room shared with ate jan + a bigger bookshelf that still can't contain all my books
• spending afternoons watching youtube videos with my sister
• henggarae listening party with ate jan & nicole
• getting back into digital art with jerzon's new drawing tablet
• reply 1988 (the food and the family and the joy of youth)
• starting a blog, getting back into writing, putting my most personal thoughts out into the world
• watching kdramas & discussing them with shaan
• soft friends discord & playing among us together
• "pagbaba" for a– akt–sta & meeting nanay tes
• buying plants & flower pots with mom (and building a garden)
• hushed conversations and gaya sa pelikula marathons with my siblings during the blackout
• reading through the blogs of my dear college friends, supporting each other on our post-grad projects
• playing party qs with friends (at coffee table with thea and maia; at alfogens with khryss and alex - always with gony and boboy)
• playing stardew valley
• mornings reading by our bedroom window (after the storm)
• spending entire afternoons just cooking
• lois reading banana heart summer; lois' letter & gifts
• relief operations at c– and t–: the generosity of people, gaining the friendship of children there, the ride home on the back of a bigg's truck
• trisha anne's christmas care package and letter
• xmarx party at the opis! huhuhuhuhuhu potluck, kantahan, messages from the nanays, afterparty with the ys, pure happiness
• december 30, 2020 with my people: afternoon spent with k, m, n; evening with g, b, and glad