We fell in love but it didn't last

Okay omg so I got back to watching Cdramas this year. So far, I was able to finish Shine on Me (LOOOOOOOOOVE), Our Generation (so-so), and most recently - LOVE BETWEEN LINES GAAAAAAHHHHHHH! I'm not attracted to the male lead but the story was so cute and light - I LOOOOOVED IT. Actually.. the cdramas I loved the most, I'm not attracted to the lead actor (Hidden Love, Lighter and Princess, and now Love Between Lines) I LIKED THE FEMALE LEAD (same with Hidden Love and Lighter and Princess) THOUGH! She's such a cutie patootie and her character wasn't overbearing and trying too hard to be cute. It's the perfect balance of cutie patootie and charming!

GUSTO KO LANG NAMAN TINGNAN AKO NG GANYAN NI MIN YOONGI LORD DI BA PWEDE MANGYARI YUN IN THIS LIFETIME HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

This scene was soooooo cute and heartwarming. My cold, tin heart felt things HAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyway, so, currently I'm watching Perfect and Casual. Miles Wei IS SO CRAZY HANDSOME! Besides Dylan Wang (my OG Chinese bae), his face was the face I enjoyed the most in Only for Love (this cdrama sucked so bad, I am still gritting my teeth thinking about it) Legit saving grace lang face nila Dylan Wang and Miles Wei. ANYWAYYYYYY, Perfect and Casual is HILARIOUS! I'm just on episode 15 pero ang funny talaga! Nakuha yung kiliti kooooo! Tas cute pa si Miles Wei and the female lead! 

Anyway, I haven't been neglecting my reading goals, though. Omg maybe I did (A BIT????) I'm only on my 4th book for the month. But omg I will finish 10 novels this month. I will! 

This is what I'm currently reading! So far so good! I hope I could finish it tomorrow.. or by Monday. Depends if I get hooked on Perfect and Casual!

Was able to read 23 novels for the year (so far!!!) Please heavenly father, please, let me reach my goal of 100 novels this year!

ANYWAYYYYYYYY, Just random updates!

It's not like I'd ever change a thing 'cause I'm right here where I'm meant to be

March 4 and March 5 dump incooooomiiiiinggggg. 

Met up with Krizzy and Erick on March 4 because Erick had a MAAAAAD craving for Bugis HAHAHAHAHAHAHA then went to omg I forgot the cookie store where Krizzy and I bought cookies while Erick had froyo at Tah-mee! 

Before meeting up with Erick and Krizzy for dinner, I spent the whole day with my mom at the new GH mall where I impoverished myself at Uniqlo and Footlocker. But whatever, it's my birth month haha. (Also.. my mom bought most of it haha) Had lunch at Chow Dynasty because I had a crazy craving for lemon chickeeeeen!

The next day, I had dinner with one of my med school favorites - Dessa. We met up at Incanta and had a lot of chichi! It's been a long time since we had a one on one date. Few weeks ago, Kyle called me to meet up for dinner and drinks with everyone (Dessa, Camille, James, Christian etc etc) but I wasn't available. Dessa was one of the few people I told my life plans to, so when I met up with her, she clarified if what she knew was correct BECAUSE, APPARENTLY, KYLE'S BEEN TELLING PEOPLE I'M DOING IM RESIDENCY. As in confident pa daw sya, "Hindi, ako pinaka-updated. Nagi-IM sya" SAN GALING YUN HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH TAWANG TAWA AKO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH HINDI PADIN SYA NAGBABAGO HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAAH 12 years na kami friends tas until now ganyan padin sya HUHUHUHUHU I told Dessa, "Dessa basta galing kay Kyle, take it with a grain of salt" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyway, so we had dinner at Incanta and dessert at Lola. Incanta was a revelation! I thought the place was just picture perfect but the food was also great! It's more on Japanese-Filipino fusion and we enjoyed it immensely!

Food blogger thingzzzzz JOKE HAHAHAHAHAHAH this was the B O M B!

AND RANDOM UPDAAAAATE but I've been seeing Oui Tacos since October and I've always been curious. So, Yo and I tried it last Wednesday. I got the Mediterranean one and it R O C K S! We got the XL one each (Yo got a different flavor) and we ate it for like 3 meals. Super sulit! Will definitely order again!

This is like 1/3 of it. It's HUMONGOUS and filling! SULIT na talaga. XL is like PHP 400+???? Idk

ANYWAYYYYYYY what a great way to start the best month of the year! Here's to more happy moments this month!

Do you got plans for life? 'Cause I don't wanna just romance tonight

Omg. I just finished (this afternoon) my first 5-star read for the year! It's..

Idk why I waited this long to start (and finish) it! The premise was already intriguing. There's this middle-aged woman (Phoebe) whose life is falling apart so she decided to kill herself in a fancy hotel. She didn't know that the hotel was booked for a wedding. That's all I'm going to say. It's helpful that I didn't read the blurb and that I came in blind, I HONESTLY THOUGHT IT WAS A ROMCOM. It was.. enlightening to say the least. I loved the prose, the relationships, the human-ness of the characters and the situations. I loved the portrayal of not having your shit together even when you're 40. 

Anyway, so that's also the first novel I finished for this month. Currently, I started Patti Smith's Just Kids. I got into non-fiction and memoirs recently because of Belle Burden's Strangers.

Gosh, I really hope I could finish at least 100 novels this year huhuhuhuhu! WISH ME LUCK!

Maybe it's the crazy that I'd miss, It won't get better than this

Happy 1st day of the best month of the year! THE BEST MONTH OF THE YEAR! I really believe in starting the month right!!!!!

Anyway, I am a fraghead. Although, a milder one than the people I know. I recently bought a lot of decants (16 DECANTS) HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA but it's like 2 ml each only. Beeeecauuuuse I want to try a lot of scents on my skin! Spraying on a paper thingy doesn't really do much except to smell the top notes, right? It's still going to smell different in 20 minutes, 2 hours, ++++++ the acidity (????) or the skin make-up could dictate how the scent would smell on a person. HEEEENCE, the decants. PLUUUUUUUS, I realized it's not economically-friendly (FOR ME) to buy full-sized bottles if I'm not going to like it eventually. LIIIIIIKE Carolina Herrera's 212 VIP perfume. TBFFFFFF, it was a gift from my grandmother but it didn't mesh well with my skin. It smelled DIVINE on her and my mom but it smelled like a dying Victorian child on me. &&&&&& bitch, I ain't spending PHP 10k to PHP 20k for a bottle of perfume I won't like?????? 

SOOOOOOOOO, with all of that rambling.. So far, I've used Jo Malone's Dark Amber and Ginger Lily, Maison Margiela Replica's Springtime in a Park, Byredo's Gypsy Water, and Byredo's Bibliotheque. 

Before trying Byredo's Gypsy Water, I found Replica's Springtime in a Park DIVIIIIIINE (which it's still is) and it smelled good on me the whole day. BUT, BIIIITCH, Byredo's Gypsy Water is the B O M B!!!! I'm going to buy the big bottle. I LOVE IT!!!!! I smelled so fresh and so clean and so professional (😜) Kinda like I know what I'm doing with my life HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Byredo's Bibliotheque, on the other hand, is so-so. I kind of smell like a butch. I KNOW IT'S A UNISEX SCENT but it's a kind of scent that I FEEL would smell good on a guy who's studying Philosophy and drives to a homeless shelter to volunteer, you know? I read some reviews that said that it smelled like Body Odor on them (agaaaaaain that's why I believe that getting decants to try first is more economically smart because, seeeeee, it smelled like BO to them but it was, IDDDDDK, like papery and manly to me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) it didn't happen to me but I would still consider it so-so. 

The other scent I really liked was Jo Malone's Dark Amber and Ginger Lily! I know their English Pear and Freesia is insanely popular, but tbh, I like Dark Amber more. I really enjoyed wearing it. I felt like I'm a person who's in finance, clocks out at 5 pm then goes to the court to either do squash or tennis, and who attends fundraisers supporting blind elephants in Thailand. Idk. That's the vibe HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

ANYWAY I LOOOOOOOOVE IT! Can't wait to try the other 12 scents I bought!

On something sadder, I wasn't able to finish my 10-novels a month reading goal last month. I only finished 8 HUHUHUHUHUHU my soul is crushed! I'll see how many I can finish this month but hopefully more than 10 huhu

ANYWAY, again, HAPPY 1ST DAY OF THE BEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!! YAHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU WAHOOOOOOOO!!!!

See me bare my teeth for you

Ughhhh one of the worst news of my entire liiiiiiiiiiiife! When things work out, I'll definitely talk about it. BUT NOT RIGHT NOW 'cause i don't want to jinx anything huhu

I'm reading so slow these days, I hate myseeeeelf. Vigil is supposed to be an easy read because it's less than 300 pages but ughhhh i don't have the mental fortitude to lose myself in novels these days. WHICH SUUUUUCKS because Vigil is actually interesting! The premise is just my cup of tea!

What I miss the most is.. playing Stardew Valley AND The Tiny Bookshop huhuhuhu but I can't because it's my Lenten Sacrifice huhuhuhuhu

I'll try to reach at least 60% of Vigil tonight (currently I'm just 27% in) 

I wish to God I still finish 10 novels this month. Please please please.

I sought a muse but the words just wouldn't come

Okay, so, for real I hit another bit of a reading slump. The plan was to read AT LEAST 10 books a month and, guess what, it's already the 24th of February and I'm just on my 7th novel. I am CRAMMING like CRAZY! ANDDDDDD it doesn't help that the last book I read (I finished it yesterday) fucking SUCKS!!!!

I'm just going to copy and paste my Goodreads review because I can't torture myself by thinking about that novel again:

I got to say this, though. GEORGE SAUNDERS YOU ARE A LIAR!!!!!!! That novel fucking sucks! But, okay, fine, it's no Mexican Gothic (that novel is the bane of my fucking existence) and TBF the prose was okay. I guess I wasn't a fan of her stream of consciousness. I found the protagonist bland and, idk, unlikable. Which, when I think about it, may be kind of the point? Because she's so ordinary, you know?

Which brings me to my next book!!! Currently, I'm reading Vigil by George Saunders and so far so good! The premise piqued my interest so I'm kind of looking forward how this goes!

Anyway, just a random update haha

Knock, knock, knock, you'll come tumblin' down, karma's got a kiss for you

Okay, so I need to get a Certificate of Good Standing from PMA but I need 2 more stuff (like attend something etc etc) to get it huhuhuhuhu

ANYWAY, there would be no new Jujutsu Kaisen episode this week and I. AM. DYING!!!!!!! I need my JJK fix!!!!!!!!! So, I started rewatching old episodes from seasons 1-2. Last night, I rewatched Jujutsu Kaisen: 0 for the nth time. Honestly, idk, i lost count and I have NO REGRETS. I love it so much!!!!!!

My OG babies HUHUHUHU I love them so much!!!!!!!!! Also, this is my favorite arc!

Hail, hail to thee haha 💙 for courage 💛 for love (That is St. Theresa of Avila, right??)

Necklace from my dad!! It's his Valentines gift for me this yearrrr

Finally on my 5th book this month! I'm reading The Second Chance Convenience Store by Kim Ho-yeon!

Random photography haha

Anyway, it's Ash Wednesday! So, I decided I wouldn't use the Switch and SteamDeck for 40 days. That would be my sacrifice. Plus, the no eating of meat every Fridays.

Talk is cheap but lies are even cheaper

Photo dump incomiiiiing! Photos from February 4 to February 11! Actually, idk why I was so lazy to update the past few weeks but a lot (-ish????) has happened! But, mostly I'm trying to keep up with my 10 books a month pact (but so far I'm just 4 novels in this month. I AM CRAMMING! I'm way behind!) So books and.. OKAY JUJUTSU KAISEN. THE 3RD SZN IS BOMB!!!!! BOMB!!!!!!!!!! Idk why there are people who hated the cinematography etc etc etc - it's freaking cinema!!!!!!! Idk maybe because i'm anime only? 

Anyway, here goes my duuuuuuump (i think the photos uploaded starting from Feb. 12, then Feb. 11, then Feb. 4. Whatever i'm lazy to re-arrange it):

Pre-Valentines date with Mommy at Makati Shang

I had to ask for a to-go bag for this because I was only able to eat the fries haha

Their pasta of the day! Tortellini on pointttttt

My Kindle is my favorite gadget and I'm the kind of nerd who brings it everywhere!!

DQ's Popping Cotton Candy blizzard something is the B O M B!!!!!!

Oh this was a chocolate mousse something from Dusit Thani! I loved it! It's so creamy and moist and flavorful!

Tea for the oldiezzzzzz (my mom and I haha)

The shrimp something from Mary Grace

THIS IS SO SMALL!!!!! Our copy was the huge big graphic novel one. But then, idk if this is a novel or a graphic novel. I wasn't able to see the inside. ANYWAYYYYYYY, I was able to read the V for Vendetta and Watchmen graphic novels back in high school. V for Vendetta was the shit.

I wanted to buy this for Jodie and I but it's 700+ and this broke bitch ain't got the chaching for that HAHAHAHHAHAA i would rather buy a JJK plushie

Omg i forgot the resto! Was it Ling Nam??? Basta the chinese resto in Cash! I always get the congee and hakaw!!!

My 3rd book for the month. Bitch, I am in a reading slump. I'm just reading my 5th novel for this month huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu

Anyway, that's all. To sum it up: I'm in a reading slump. I'm also in a kdrama and cdrama slump!!!!!!!!! (I was able to finish and love Shine on Me and Our Generation because hello my babies but now I'm back to the slump. ALTHOUGH I did start The Best Thing featuring Zhang Linghe but I have a lot of activities!! BECAUSE I ALSO GOT HOOKED ON THE TINY BOOKSHOP and I've been holding Yo's steamdeck as hostage HAHAHAHAHHA it's so much fun! Just my kind of game! I get to expand my titles and THERE ARE A LOT OF BOOKS I ALREADY READ THERE! And I get to recommend the books to the people in the game!) and JUJUTSU KAISEN ROCKS!!!!!!

Okay, so let me show some stuff from The Tiny Bookshop! I took some photos of the books I haven't read yet. In a way, I GOT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THEM AS WELL! 

THEY KNOW JUJUTSU KAISEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, they also have Detective Conan and Attack on Titan! They're actually updated with their selection

So, the premise is I'm a travelling book store and I complete tasks and befriend the people around the village and I recommend novels to them. There are classics, of course, like Anna Karenina, Little Women, Macbeth, you know, the works. But they also have, again, an updated selection! They have A Song of Ice and Fire, Agatha Christie, some crime novels that I read before. Basically, genre's divided into Fantasy, Kids, Classic, Crime, Literary, and Travel. I can't remember if I'm missing anything but that's basically it. It's so much fun! This is just my kind of game!