Category: Life snippets


  • Recap 2025 (1/4): House projects, Austen, and Underpaintings

    Recap 2025 (1/4): House projects, Austen, and Underpaintings

    In an effort to bring in a little more creating in my life this year (and also to visit and write in this blog more often than I did in the past couple years), I decided to do a regular recap, publicly documenting some of the interesting things that I’ve gotten myself into recently.

    I’d initially thought about making it a monthly thing, but let’s be real here: 1) there’s honestly not a lot interesting I do in a month these days that I can talk about, and 2) in a more positive side of things, I truly have cut down on my media consumption the past couple years. (You can say it’s perhaps why I haven’t blogged much in that same period but really #1 is a bigger reason for it haha!)

    And thus, a quarterly recap was deemed more appropriate – hence the 1/4 part in the title.

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  • A recap on 2024

    A recap on 2024

    Hello there. It’s been a while. Are there still people who visit this blog? Are there folks still reading this? To be honest, I don’t think those questions and their answers are that important. The important thing for me is: I’m still here, though definitely not as much as I should have been.

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  • Feels Weird.docx – thoughts from two years ago

    Feels Weird.docx – thoughts from two years ago

    I briefly mentioned in my 2022 purchase ban that I already successfully did one specifically for art supplies a year back. Whilst going over my old files in my computer today, I found this draft, aptly named “Feels Weird.docx”, that I never finished about my feelings after that 2021 art supplies purchase ban. I don’t really want to finish it now, but the sentiments I held more than two years ago still ring true today. I also like how “unfinished” it is and that there’s no concrete conclusion at the end – because, even though I have resolved about certain things about my relationship with consumerism, that’s still how I feel in general. So here it is in its unedited glory:

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  • A reflection on 2023

    A reflection on 2023

    Hi there. It’s been a while. For those who aren’t new here, thanks for sticking around. I know I haven’t been around much this year.

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  • Fangirling Highlights 2022

    Fangirling Highlights 2022

    I initially wrote an intro here, reflecting about my year. But as I wrote it, I found it made more sense to end the post on its note. So let’s get onto the list first:

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  • purchase ban

    purchase ban

    Hello hello! It’s the first day of June where I’m from which means my hobby purchase ban has officially taken place.

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  • puzzles and simmering

    puzzles and simmering

    “You’ll be next, Kate.”

    My friend said happily as we gathered together, catching up over dinner. Just a minute ago, everyone was gushing over their happy announcement of finally being in a relationship. Now, the whole table’s attention shifted towards me. The only single person in our little group.

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  • Fangirling Highlights 2021

    Fangirling Highlights 2021

    I really went ahead and said “Posting in -ber months? NOT THIS YEAR.”

    You could literally see last year’s recap posts in the main page of this blog akskskssk

    I guess this is simply me not sharing my life online less. And not just that but also treating them like “content” less. “Optimizing” them less. Putting out stuff to be “relevant” less.

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  • sharing things online

    sharing things online

    Almost five years ago, when I was happily discovering watercolors for the first time, a family member silently looked over my shoulder, glanced at what I was painting and asked a question I feel like anyone who have spent significant time on any hobby gets asked often:

    “Why don’t you sell that?”

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  • 2020: A year in review

    2020: A year in review

    Don’t you think it’s funny how the start of the decade feels like a whole entire decade? (insert skull emoji)

    And like many of you, boy am I Glad 2020 is done.

    Still… it feels improper to bid the year adieu without a little review.

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