october 2026

• watching lots of movies
• a few side quests/gigs! cool-but-stressful-but-worth-it
• continuing taking courses (program tbd...)

september 2026

• started taking courses (program tbd...)
  • genuinely took up so much of my time. jesus
• practising french
• the volunteers <i love u>
• malcolm todd
• tame impala concert!

august 2026

• 10k race this month!
• rec soccer 1x/week
• practising french

• mbti: INTP-A
• moral alignment: chaotic good
• enneagram: type 5
• 4 temperaments: choleric-phlegmatic
• big 5 personality: RCUEI
• love language: quality time, acts of service

Reading/Watching

• Miss Ruki (Manga) - Single Volume
• Guyabano Holiday (Manga) - Single Volume
• ダンジョン飯 - Dungeon Meshi (Anime + Manga)
  • Reading physicals; on Vol. 8
• チェンソーマン - Chainsaw Man (Manga) - Ch. 204
  • https://mangareader.to/read/chainsaw-man...
  • https://mangakatana.com/manga/chainsaw-m...
• チェンソーマン - Chainsaw Man (Anime) - Ep. 6
  • https://www.wcofun.net/chainsaw-man-epis...

Waiting / On Order

• 薬屋のひとりごと - The Apothecary Diaries (Anime + Manga)
• Tsutomu Nihei's works

• 두 사람의 인터내셔널 - 김기태 ; January 2026 -
• Piranesi - Susanna Clarke ; January - April 2026
  • a gentle breeze of a story, like a soft tide pool. being lost, then found, then found again. a little ribbon-slip of an ending as well. there’s a certain lulling ease that comes with solitude. i think when we forget ourselves and let go of our ego we come to be more appreciative of the way things are, without wanting them to change. a rather buddhist take.
• Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today - Simon Reynolds ; March - April 2026
  • read most of the essays, skimmed through a couple, pretty interesting! been listening to lots of synth pop and hyper pop lately, some great underground sounds have ...

Currently Reading

• 두 사람의 인터내셔널 - 김기태
• Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone - Jenni Ferrari-Adler
• Sunbirth - An Yu

On Loan / Purchased

• 대도시의 사랑법 - 박상영
• 혼모노 - 성해나
• The White Album - Joan Didion
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (prev. started on May 2026)
• The Complete Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

Waiting / On Order

• Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
• Python’s Kiss - Louise Erdrich
• 이중 하나는 거짓말 - 김애란
• 바깥은 여름 - 김애란

Recommended Films for Cinematography

• ✔ The Lighthouse (2019)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• ✔ The Florida Project (2017)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• ✔ Chungking Express (1994)
• ✔ Suspiria (2018)
• Children of Men (2006)
• ✔ Tomboy (2011)
• Do The Right Thing (1989)
• ✔ In the Mood for Love (2000)
• ✔ No Country For Old Men (2007)
• ✔ Arrival (2016)

Céline Sciamma

• Water Lilies (2007)
• ✔ Tomboy (2011)
• Girlhood (2014)
• ✔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
• ✔ Petite Maman (2021)

Paul Thomas Anderson

To Watch Soon

• Succession
• VEEP
• Barry
• Daria
• Atlanta
• The Sympathizer
• Fantasmas
• Nathan For You
• The Curse
• The Rehearsal

On Hold

• What We Do In The Shadows (Season 6 🤯)
• Daredevil (Season 2)
• The White Lotus (Season 1)
• The Walking Dead (Season 3)
• Brooklyn 99 (Season 1, Ep. 22)
• Sex Education (Season 3)
• The Great (Season 1, Ep. 6)