i want to live every bit of life

January usually feels like such a slog: vacation/the holidays coming to an end; the backlog of work you’ve left for the next year last year hitting you full force; the days trudging on in an endless haze of “when’s the next day off?

1: merribee zoo with family!

i consider myself a fan of direk tonet (antoinette jadaone), though i know of her more through the ang walang kwentang podcast rather than her works (i’ve watched fan girl though!).

yesterday, i joined jessica zafra's book club for accidents happen by f.h. batacan, a collection of crime fiction short stories set in the philippines. i have previously read smaller and smaller circles, which i absolutely loved, so when i heard that she…

i was scrolling through my storygraph, trying to decide what book to read next (i wanted a read that was a bit lighter), when i stumbled upon the people on platform 5. the title rang a bell, as i vaguely remembered having already encountered it before. i…

update (7/6/2025): sharing an artwork i've made while letting the movie linger :") hehe last saturday, carlos and i watched wim wenders’s perfect days (2023), and afterwards, this movie earned a spot on my letterboxd top 4. there was actually only one oth…

my mom laughed and commented on how i'm regressing, and honestly?