the music of AIR (Amour, Imagination, Rêve) & the works of herman de vries, who writes his name in lowercase “to avoid hierachy”. (hard to google, but his book is worth a look. some images here.)

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i couldn’t sleep last night. the window in my room was open and the howling wind forced himself in and started rifling through my things. i’m pretty sure he read my thesis draft. i heard him laughing. my papers were scattered around but i was trapped under my blanket. i heard footsteps outside my door throughout the night.

next time, i’m not eating masala thosai after 2pm.

(unrelated question: if blair were to marry chuck, wouldn’t her name be blair bass…? ha.)

today i bring you five links to wondrous things:

a perfumer’s journal entry
(the last word is ‘fantastic’, somehow it doesn’t appear on my browser)

minimiam

clip/stamp/fold

the kano collection
an amazing library of japanese maps and anatomical illustrations

help

alright, have fun. and if you have an interesting link, please share it!

i went to a picnic on a bridge in the middle of the week.

for me, the festive season of the chinese new year officially begins with my first bite of my mum’s pineapple tarts (above). three of them are sitting in my tummy right now!