2025.11.16: Sunday Again

I know it sounds mundane but I'm proud of myself for managing to bring a home-cooked lunch for every day I was at the office this week lol. Not so surprisingly, it's much easier to keep your work-induced migraines at bay when you eat enough, who would've thought. And the microwave isn't as hard to use as I thought. (I know I sound really silly right now).

Anyway work is still crazy. I'm working on a whole new concept for my area at work, which includes design, communication, event-planing strategy and other things that I definitely love doing but at the same time having to do all those things by myself (with a little bit of guidance by my co-workers) is kind of a lot.

Besides that I ended this week by going out to eat with some of my friends at one of the few Korean restaurants in our city that I haven't tried yet. I had Tteokbokki and Kimbap, which were alright but not mindblowing. The funny thing is, one of my friends ordered Bibimbap and Bibimbap is one of those dishes that I rarely order at restaurants but when I tried some of my friends' I was surpised by how good it was. We then went to my friends' apartment and played some games, and I also finally got to meet the cat that the cat distribution system had granted them last year, which was so so cute!

I've been having a lot of luck with meeting cats these days. One of the farmers near the fields where I like to take walks just got cats and I always make sure to stop by and chill with them a bit.

When I first met them a few weeks ago they were still babies, but now they are almost grown up!

Since last weekend was a lot, I spent most of this weekend just decompressing, taking long walks with mom, playing video games and working on some music. I finally tried Dave The Diver and it's such a fun game.

The dreary weather is kind of soothing right now. I reflected on the summer as I walked in the rainy fields and I felt melancholic but content at the same time.

I tried my best this year to give myself a lot of good experiences and I'm proud of that.

I have a packed work schedule next week and also some events coming up that I'm excited about, but I'll tell y'all more about that later!

2025.11.05: It's been a while

While my real life journal for this year has around 15 pages left (a lot has happened), I haven't really had the motivation to write online, or generally write on a computer for that matter. Recently I caved on my minimalistic mindset and bought a bunch of different notebooks for different purposes (work, creative writing, and one for brainstorming and organizing my life) and I wonder why I didn't do it earlier.

The year is wrapping up and so most of the exciting things (aka concerts, travelling, etc.) are past me. It makes me a little bit sad that it's over, but also happy at the same time, to be able to look back on the year fondly, despite so many of the struggles I encountered. But I'll leave more of that for the actual year-end wrap up. Work has been so busy since a lot of structural changes happened in September. On one hand it feels liberating to finally be able to get things moving, but at the same time the sudden uptick in workload is a bit daunting.

Apart from work there is so much other stuff that demands my time, like making music, korean class, socializing and also trying to stay on top of my workout routine (and failing miserably lol). I've been trying to simplify my life as much as possible, but I still just want to do soo many things.

But amidst all this I can finally confidently say one thing: I'm finally living for myself now.