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Hotlinking images from Bluesky because I'm lazy but want to document things in a less ephemeral place while I figure out my travel journaling situation. ^^; One day I will regret not reuploading the pics on DW but that day is not today.

Food!! )
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  • How to Make 1 Dollar Indomie Taste 5 Dollars by FutureCanoe: Happy Indonesian Independence Day! The algorithm brought this to me and since I'm always thinking about ~elevating~ my Indomie breaks, I thought I might as well click it. XD It's a 10-minute video where OP shows popular Indomie recipes they found on the internet. The Sudanese one was interesting!

  • Songs that hit you hard (2023) from All Songs Considered (Spotify playlist here): I haven't finished this yet because I have the awful habit of switching out of podcasts even when I'm in the middle of them, but Kristine from 7th Grade was an excellent and unexpected addition. I was dubious until I got to the line We went to a good school, Kristine which is the exact thought in my brain whenever I happen upon the bewildering social media posts of people I went to school with:

    I'm not really sure what to say / Kristine from the seventh grade / The anger, the all caps / And all the pseudoscience / The misspellings, they must be on purpose / We went to a good school, Kristine / So what would you imagine I might / Take from this deluge of memes

    Excited to go through to the Spotify playlist once I'm done with the episode!!!

    Btw my personal off-the-top-of-my-head submission for this would be Quiet Light by The National and 平凡的一天 by Mao Buyi which hollow me out in different ways. (Neither is from 2023, though this extended version of Quiet Light appears to have just come out last year.)


  • Offline TV Guess the Asian Person: I was invested because there was a person who claimed to be Filipino in the mix and I didn't trust Michael Reeves's Filipino radar and needed to judge for myself. XD
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    Pre-CNY successes :')

    ✓ Donated A LOT of books (...to an Italian restaurant, of all things) and put a few up for sale...

    ✓ Fiiiiiinally finished 我五行缺你 (My Five Elements Lack You). No more danmei for me for a while after this lmfao. (Also taking a break from cnovels, for obvious reasons.)

    ✓ Swapped instant coffee for instant matcha latte (but now it's too hot for hot beverages again...)

    ✓ Journaled (physical) regularly through January ♥

    ✓ Sorted out the Philhealth thing

    ✓ Got my hair (bangs only lol) trimmed

    ✓ Changed my DW layout hehehe (credit: [community profile] myrtillenne)


    January was, for the most part, wearyingly productive. I feel like all the "fun stuff" I did in my free time was scheduled and rotated very rigorously in lieu of taking breaks from one or the another. ^^; A lot of the mental energy was siphoned into work (which has been very busy, problematic, and sometimes sad), decluttering and donating (especially since I tended to fit my donation trips with my other errands for ~*efficiency*~)... and basic human-ing and adulting.

    Anyway... mini photodump time.


    Found during a decluttering session: Tenipuri things that were gifted to me ages ago—I still use the Oishi nail clipper. :')
    oishi, kikumaru, and ryoma phonecharms, and a round nail clipper with oishi's face on it

    I need to share the tikoy cheese turon that my SiL made... We got gifted with tikoy (niangao) that was bizarrely orange in spite of being—allegedly—brown sugar flavored. The mini-turons ended up looking like crabsticks lololol
    orange-colored tikoy and cheese rolls in translucent wrappers

    And a photo of our NYE spread because I'm pleased with how balanced and nutritious it was and how well everything went together... Also my favorite party trick of getting the fancy grapes from Unimart never fails. :P
    asparagus soup, century egg tofu with pork floss, steamed grouper, fast food cha mi, grapes, kiatkat, yuzu sake

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