Hello, hello! I am now officially on year-end break and finally starting to relax a bit. I hope you are too. Here are a few articles I managed to read and thoroughly enjoyed during the most hectic period of this year. Salute!
First thing first, I passed my CPA exam! I was so stressed about the result that I fell sick the day before.
Instead of acknowledging the, albeit minuscule, achievement, my immediate reaction after seeing the result was to book the next subject, which, retrospectively speaking, was bad of me.
How could I not thank myself, Fafa and the Universe first for helping me progress in life and ticking off my goals. Especially after all the complaining, pre-exam stress and post-exam crash.
When I told Fafa that I passed the exam, he congratulated me and proceeded to book a table at Fonda, our favorite Mexican joint. I told him it seemed unnecessary, after all, it was just one subject. But then he reminded me of my own words:
“celebrating. small and big, things will breed more things to be celebrated”
Ah to be reminded of my own wisdom. I believe any reason to celebrate is a good reason to celebrate. And passing CPA exam that I paid more than $1k for, spent hours studying and stressed out over the result for seems like a more than an okay reason to celebrate. So we are off to Fonda in another 15 minutes — to celebrate both passing my CPA exam and the second anniversary of our second wedding.
We celebrated Summer Solstice here down under with the final three work days of the year. I am already in a celebratory mood.
The Lost Year: Tarot during Covid.
A local road-side food stall in Bali on the Covid impact:
“Early April we began to feel the impact of the pandemic. We really missed the atmosphere of having people around. Our sales dropped to 80%. Luckily around June we could open the sitting area again and my guests have been coming in to eat.”
Japanese Art – Utagawa Kuniyoshi: Nichiren in Snow at Tsukahara.
Things you only know when you’re a tarot reader.
I am so going to get myself vending machine dashi soup the next time I am in Japan.
Best Psychological Thrillers books of the year.
Extensive choices if you are looking looking for QTPOC tarot decks. I am already eye-ing a few.
Learning more about tea and culture from new-to-me blog The Floating Tea Stem:
“茶柱 (chabashira, lit. tea pillar) is the Japanese word for a tea stem floating upright in a teacup. Given its rarity, encountering a chabashira in one’s teacup is said to be a good omen…”
Frozen in time: Abandoned Victorian farmhouse shows simple life of Aussie farmer 60 years ago.
Stylish and minimalistic Muji dream house.
Coffee around the world: different ways of consuming the world’s best-loved drink.
Finally! Genderless school uniforms.
20 Simple New Year Resolutions to follow and 12 ways to live a more enchanted life.
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Time Machine
Read more about last year’s happenings.
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