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Consumables
So the first episode of HBOMax’s White Lotus is out and I am chuffed! Although I do miss the douchiness of Jake Lacy from Season 1, the view’s not so bad over here in Season 2. Theo James? Aubrey Plaza? Will Sharpe? The Queen of Awesomeness Jennifer Coolidge? I’m there. + Why aren’t more people…
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Song Mood: Wake Up
You know those days, don’t you – those days when you aren’t motivated at all to get out of bed? I have conducted various experiments over the years and have come to the conclusion that music is extremely helpful in dragging your body out of the warm, comfortable covers and into the cruel world … So here I am, still in…
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22 Years Later, My Bloody Valentine Release a New Album
The website of My Bloody Valentine crashed last night after they announced that they’d be releasing their new album in the following hours. I was up till 2 am, absolutely freaking out, until I got the copy. And so, 22 years after the release of Loveless, the band of my heart, whose songs have accompanied me to so…
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That Kind of Night
… where I cross the entirety of Paris to get to La Fleche d’Or. It’s freezing cold, even with my sheepskin gloves and my thickest scarf on. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m in a skirt and normal, non-thermal tights? (Fucking idiot.) But anyway. I procrastinate as long as I can, meeting friends for…
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Safety’s Off, But the Gun Has No Trigger
It was a lovely week, my lovelies, despite the rain and the sluggish weather. Lila went the entire week without pulling her spaghetti legs trick on me during our morning walk to school, I was able to squeeze in an exhibit before school pickup, and then for this week’s date night Julien and I went…
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Let Them Eat Cake
For those who are stuck in Paris this summer: I suggest an evening in Versailles to visit Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes (Fountains Night Show), which takes place every Saturday night from… well, this Saturday (technically, 2 Saturdays ago) up to 7 September. I got tickets for Julien’s birthday and it was a great way to…
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Shaped by Songs
While I was pregnant I constantly listened to the Deftones’ White Pony. The album came out in 2000; I was still in Manila then, and I had the album on repeat every evening on my way home from work, and people in the MRT (metro) would stare at my hugely ridiculous headphones (stare if you…
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
This morning the doorbell rang. It was Julien, tired and unshaven, but it was Julien! I didn’t even know he had caught a flight back home. Miraculously, the sun is out as well and the temperatures have risen. It feels like summer again. So I leave you with my favourite song from the newest Arcade…