travelled

china

• beijing
• datong
• fuzhou
• hong kong
• pingyao
• suzhou
• shanghai
• tongli
• xi'an
• yanan
• zhangjiajie

south korea

• seoul

under construction.

october

• t.s. eliot, aunt helen
• t.s. eliot, conversation galante
• t.s. eliot, cousin nancy
• t.s. eliot, the hippopotamus
• t.s. eliot, hysteria
• t.s. eliot, mr. appolinax
• t.s. eliot, portrait of a lady
• walt whitman, one's self i sing
• walt whitman, as i ponder'd in silence
• walt whitman, in cabin'd ships at sea

▸ downloaded r rewatch

• some like it hot (1959)
• a clockwork orange (1971)
• the godfather (1972)
• chinatown (1974)
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)
• blade runner (1982)
• forrest gump (1994)
• apollo 13 (1995)
• the english patient (1996)
• fight club (1999)
• a beautiful mind (2001)
• donnie darko (2001)
• the pianist (2002)
• eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)
• the prestige (2006)
• no country for old men (2007)
• reservoir dogs (1992)
• a beautiful mind (2001)
• toy story 3 (2010)

• breaking bad
• community
• parks and recreation
• game of thrones
• orange is the new black
• the blacklist
• sleepy hollow

▸ listened / ♪ faves jazz, blues, swing, soul

• albert king
  • born under a bad sign (1967) ▸ ♪
• arethra franklin
  • amazing grace (1972)
  • who's zoomin' who? (1985)
• benny goodman
  • sing, sing, sing (1937) ▸ ○ ♪♪
  • the famous 1938 carnegie hall jazz concert (1950)
  • b.g. in hi-fi (1954)
• billie holiday
  • strange fruit (1939) ▸ ♪♪♪♪
  • god bless the child (1941) ▸
  • lady sings the blues (1956) ▸
• duke ellington

wishlist

• elizabeth arden / green tea / tea
• tom ford / black orchid / dark floral, patchouli

want to try

• bulgari / black / tea, woods
• bulgari / eau parfumée au thé vert / tea, citrus
• caron / nuit de noel / woodsy floral
• chanel / bois des iles / edp / woods, floral
• chanel / coco / spicy floral
• chanel / coromandel / woods, oriental
• comme des garçons / kyoto / incense, woods
• donna karan / black cashmere / incense, woods
• estée lauder / white linen / aldehylic floral
• guerlain / après l'ondée / iris, almond
• guerlain / chamade / hyacinth, blackcurrant
• guerlian / l'heure bleue / orange blossom, neroli
• guerlain / pampelune / grapefruit, patchouli
• guerlain / mitsouko / peaches, oakmoss
• guerlain / samsara / sandalwood, jasmine
• guerlain / shalimar / oriental, vanilla

• songs of innocence ... (1794), william blake
• selected poems (1848), george gordon byron
• leaves of grass (1855), walt whitman
• les fleurs du mal (1857), charles baudelaire
• illuminations (1874), arthur rimbaud
• the waste land (1922), t.s. eliot
• twenty love poems ... (1924), pablo neruda
• another time (1940), w.h. auden
• in country sleep (1952), dylan thomas
• lunch poems (1964), frank o'hara
• howl and other poems (1965), allen ginsberg
• ariel (1965), sylvia plath
• live or die (1966), anne sexton
• diving into the wreck (1973), adrienne rich
• the city in which i love you (1990), li-young lee
• selected poems (1991), james tate
• new and selected poems (1992), mary oliver
• my alexandria (1993), mark doty
• the great fires (1994), jack gilbert
• the collect poems (1994), langston hughes
• words under the words (1994), naomi shihab nye

october

• "Jihab? Hibab? Jibab????" — Seb
  • "????? You mean hijab?" — Self

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• "Oh look, someone drank too much and passed out on the street. — Seb, on homeless elderly woman lying on sidewalk
  • "Oh my god, you are so fucked up." — Self

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• MEET TO CONSIDER MARRING (sic) TO USA SOON IF NOT INTRUDUCE (sic) ONE? — Random Beijing Girl , proposing to Seb

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• "From now on I'll only use chopsticks with this hand. I'll become Edward Chopstick hands." — Seb

2014

• lived on my own
• lived in a foreign country
• worked full-time
• visited hong kong
• visited korea
• renewed a visa

• 1984, george orwell
• a brief history of time, stephen hawking
• a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, david eggers
• the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay, michael chabon
• animal farm, george orwell
• being and nothingness, jean-paul sartre
• the bell-jar, sylvia plath
• bluets, maggie nelson
• brave new world, aldous huxley
• crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky
• the death and life of great american cities, jane jacobs
• east of eden, john steinbeck
• the english patient, michael ondaatje
• for whom the bell tolls, ernest hemingway
• good omens, neil gaiman
• the good women of china, xinran
• the help, kathryn stockett
• history of sexuality, michel foucault

under construction.

living in beijing and all the books are back home!

male

• adrian
• aiden
• addison
• anson
• august
• charlie
• cyrus
• dallas
• jack
• julian
• king
• luca
• matias
• milo
• mischa
• nate
• river
• sebastien
• ulysses