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 recipe 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, my childhood dream man

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 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
• getting a fujifilm digicam after weeks of research
• my beads table necklaces
• shopping vintage
• cyanotype printing

september

• seeing my bestie after 8 years!!!
• going to the katutubo event and owning a beautiful handmade bleach-dyed robe from angkan
• getting emotional over maria clara and ibarra
• watching pulang araw with my husband every night
• from season 3

sorry self, you and i had the best end of the year and i couldn't document it, but here's a few

• going to korea in december and seeing my college best friend get married to the love of her life and singing the song we used to sing and play on the ukulele together in college on her wedding
• falling in love with extrait fragrance in korea, bibiAng in lost wood being my favorite with bay leaf top note but nonfiction has a special place cos it reminds us of our trip
• nami island is peak
• clairo's charm album changing my life
• finally getting the strega nona tattoo of my dreams
• going to la union every weekend
• fried sinigang at putik
• meeting friends at tipon tipon
• going on a cute field trip to binondo, escolta and intramuros
• the lark!
• making rose cacao barks to fill our magnesium gaps
• rpdr philippines season 3! khianna makes me extra proud to be bisaya
• the ikat textile symposium and meeting people in the textile/ fabric arts industry from around the world
• bisou getting spayed
• watching shewarma (drag queen) live twice this year
• being bowie for halloween this year and going to a drag show for halloween
• seeing khianna as pearl live
• chocolate xiao long bao from this one taipei resto we always go to in manila
• poeira cósmica (this and this but also the translation in portuguese)
• shopping for korea and our countless trips to kultura
• opening of balay yatu: house of the earth and (((o))) playing
• my mom accompanying me in manila to shop for makeup for rosie's wedding cos she's more knowledgeable and having tiny adventures with her around the city, even walking by st. luke's where she got her surgery done, reminiscing and making jokes about it now which reminds me again how grateful i am that she's still with us (it's been 4 years!)
• korea stuff i love: trying authentic yukgaejang for the first time and liking the one in woodnymph more oops, trying samgyetang for the first time, rosie and dong eun's smart house made me rethink my wood stove cottage dreams lol, our first snow in seongsu, salt bread and fish cakes on a freezing day, suwon with the newlyweds ugh crying just thinking about it, seven hundred photo booth pictures from every crevice, baskin robbins even though it's frigid, bought everything i want and need from olive young, authentic ajumma resto experience in myeondong, manju, christmas markets and christmas towns, getting a pair of ugg-ish boots from an ajushi and sharing stories through a phone translator, ssamzigil!, finally visited yiayia and friends and owning yiayia specialty oils, seeing old college friends dorothy, rinee, mark, etc. at rosie's wedding, a lotta ginseng, our hostel host in suyu is the most precious human ever, the cat shop!!!, exploring itaewon by myself going to places i've crossed out on the map and visiting the BORNTOSTANDOUT perfumerie/ exhibit, getting my nose re-pierced, christmas eve lunch at a hanok village, christmas lunch with rosie and dongeun in gangnam and to this day still yearning for that nurungji soup they ordered, exchanging gifts with them was so much fun, husby's billionbox review, husby getting me for you by tatsuro yamashita on vinyl, woo do ok bossam and spicy entrails soups, gwangjang market and trying the seaweed knife-cut noodles from that netflix show, mark food delivery-ing us k-chicken cos "we can't leave til we've tried it", prepping for nami by singing winter sonata songs, god redirecting us to mullae, cycling around nami island on a double bike having hotteok for the first time and visiting mom (yu jin) and dad (jun kang)'s first kiss spot and redoing it cos they just didn't kiss hard enough lmao, the soy milk our host gave us so we'd have energy for our trip back home