from june 2017 to june 2018 — 12 months narrowed down into fragments

• tita mylene treating me to food and us just being comfortable with each other's silence + that one time we watched a teleserye together in her car
• watching students excitedly finish a whole day of school to buy snacks with their friends
• buying grilled ham & cheese and a ฿15 cup of lod chong at 7-eleven before walking back home
• the young soldiers who elbowed and bumped each other before waving hello to my sister and i
• calling out to the many dogs i pass by in khao talo and them never acknoledging me
• buying a pint of dairy queen's choco chip mint ice cream and gradually eating it throughout the week
• travelling on 3 hours of sleep
• spf 50 not being able to withstand the sun's rays
• collecting tesco lotus stickers to claim freebies
• eating roti saimai again after a long time
• walking to the wet market in khao talo with my mom
• clothes shopping at the ฿50 store
• eating papaya salad whenever i can
• listening to sounds that filtered through the electric outlet in the living room as if it were a radio
• there is a season wherein dragonflies will be hovering nearly everywhere you go
• leaving rice grains out for the birds (who will sometimes make noise at our door when we forget)
• fetching a songthaew in the middle of the night after spending the entire evening at the beach
• celebrating loi krathong! to me, it felt like an early birthday gift on its own