— january.

• 01. burning the old year by naomi shihab nye +

status: travelling, happy new year! ⋆｡𖦹°‧★

• 0/30 books
• 0/30 films

reading. book of tea by okakura kazuko (chinese trans.)

watching.

listening.

• apply the principle of charity
• it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. - invitation, mary oliver
• you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you feel like you’ve lost many years to grief or darkness or wounds that won’t close
• good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you (๑'ᵕ'๑)⸝*
• do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly, now. love with mercy, now. walk humbly now. you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
• never apologise for being obsessed. read all day. work all day. run for hours. forget time exists. be everywhere but be a ghost. turn off the world and create your own. let craft become compulsion. positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

cherry blossoms as recognition of the impermanence of life, rainbow halos, consumption, research papers, letters, unvoiced goodbyes, moral relativism, the sound of rain, crossroads, the limits of language, deconstruction, mental forests, lines and curves in playtime (1967), the myth of apolitical media, blurred edges, waterfruit green tea, social constructionism

artists: ziferblat, silica gel, sudden lights, yvette young, mei semones, mico, napa, vansire

• or the becoming and unbecoming of a eurofan.

media favourites:

• book. perfect victims by mohammed el-kurd
• film. when lightning flashes over the sea (2025, dir. eva neymann)
• album. animaru by mei semones
• poem. instructions for having a soul by joseph...

wind chimes, winter cherry blossoms, sun glitter

— music diary ♫

02. coincidental planet - shohei amimori 04. painty paint pots - 800 cherries 06. don’t look back in anger - youmou to ohana

— and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. 𖦹°‧

• heath, they/she genderqueer sapphic
• singaporean, eng/中 (2007)
• a collector of small and meaningful objects (with no inherent use other than to make the heart glow a little softer)
• aspiring sociology student, full-time archivist of memory, with a chronic dependence on tea and critical theory to interpret reality

♡︎ hobbies: photography, researching, writing, media criticism, music discovery, birding, journaling, reading, exploring museums, engagement with niche passions

“make your life the first life that you save.”

── likes. photography, tea, lepidoptera, sumikkogurashi, commonplace books, existentialism, wildflowers, literature, lace accents, critical media analyses, kaomojis, studio ghibli films, the golden hour, having niche passions, patchworks, clouds

── dislikes. false dichotomies, toxic optimism, overly sweet tea, monotony, pseudoscience, listening to my own voice, anti-intellectualism, conservative ideology, ai art, amatonormativity