Category: Musings
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Taking Stock #1: New things and old songs
“Taking Stock” is a new series where I try to slow down and take stock of where and how I am right now. | In this issue, I talk about new things I got, old songs that evoke a specific moment in my life and whatnots.
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Wait for it: Recounting my Hamilton experience (2019)
Well two years of obsessively streaming the original Broadway cast recording in Spotify and turning Youtube upside-down searching for just about any animatic I can find led me here.
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READING DIARY: 10 Thoughts I Had While Reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
These musings are way personal than I was expecting. This is how I usually write in my journal – things that are mostly disjointed it’s hard to fashion them into a decent and coherent review. I was honestly debating whether I should post this or not here but I figured, for the sake of documenting…
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Phantom Wound
I dreamt of him again. After so long, this is the first time that I saw his face, close and vivid — almost the same as the last time I saw him more than 7 years ago. He still looks the same, from the way I remembered him. That playful smile and that sincere look…
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THAT ONE LINE {a new blog series!} – #001
It’s the first day of October. Fall just kicked in. I’m back from the dead (a.k.a. a combination of reading and blogging slump) and I am launching a new blog series! Seriously, what is happening? This is “That One Line”.
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On mental health and reading
I recently got into therapy and, boy, am I being forced to confront all these uncomfortable thoughts head on. One interesting bit that came up is how my habit of reading is negatively affecting my mental health – and that’s what I wanted to discuss by writing this post.
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For a start
Last year, in some effort to start again, I decided to archive my former site, “Coffee-stained Dreams”. Giving it up felt like letting go of a huge chunk of myself. But you know what? It also felt like moving on.
Pages and Coffee Cups 