january

• pen15 (sam + maya 4eva)
• the rose honey cake i baked for my birthday
• johnny making me a purple star wand
• strawberry burrata salad
• still walking (kore-eda)
• witch madness on the criterion channel is my aesthetic
• songs: hana by fujii kaze, morning by gontiti from the still walking soundtrack making me think about our brief time on earth and calling my parents, psy’s new face for silly cathartic dancing
• my 2024 takipsilim journal by raxenne maniquiz housing my short and long term plans
• strange town and reconciliation soup
• watching as told by ginger in high res on paramount+
• journal du thé
• on happiness road making me wanna go back to taipei
• jatinder singh durhailay & david edren’s ep, tea notes
• adobo cookies from mayumu
• tv show from! hooked and finished an entire season and a half in one weekend
• stonewall kitchen’s dark chocolate sea salt caramel sauce on everything
• zorongollo for spanish cuisine day brekkie
• repapalos for spanish cuisine day dessert, perfect for a cozy midnight
• edo music for naptime drift-off ambiance
• butter beans soup
• swan song

february

• cat sitting for my husby’s bday and making the same honey cake but better
• valentines day 3-course meal: i got the cajun salmon with strawberry chutney on top of saffron rice + pavlova for dessert (husby got steak with shepherd’s pie)
• farm dreams
• this never too small treehouse
• rewatching high fidelity and not wanting to shake rob out of her stupor this time, and also falling in love with mac and clyde simultaneously for the second time oops
• seda bodega covers
• devendra banhart's and meshell ndegeocello's what's in my bag
• songs: bismillahi rrahmani rrahim by harold budd, fade into you cover by seda bodega and eartheater

march

• my husby bought me a pair of my dream hoka hopara in eucalyptus!
• finally got to watch counter space
• rewatching bob's burgers
• putumayo's acoustic arabia when the sun is setting
• obsessed with the song there's no easy way again and i keep picturing michael kyle from my wife and kids

april

• watched every day a good day a film about japanese tea culture gave me a new perspective

may

• taipei with my family: an entire day walking, shopping, hitting creative parks with my sisters, early morning trip to the onsen, meeting a peruvian selling handmade goods in ximending, trying out cacao tea, a bit of time walking around the mall with the husby, etc. etc. etc.
• rewatching veronica mars with bisou every night
• obsessed with the new twilight scent i got in taipei
• unboxing a large package of nature books

june

• binged why women kill in one night: loved and simone and karl's fabulous marriage, obsessed with beth ann and april's friendship, in awe of taylor's character and life is so complex

july

• exchanging weekly picture updates with aida
• munimuni x venus event we went to in pasig
• my beads table necklaces
• sunnies flask
• shopping vintage
• cyanotype printing

september

• seeing my bestie after 8 years!!!
• going to the katutubo event
• getting emotional over maria clara and ibarra
• watching pulang araw with my husband every night
• from season 3