We went out for a road trip to Mornington Peninsula. We started with our road trip tradition ━ of getting a shakshuka with chorizo and bacon from Tall Timber, South Yarra. We ended up at Kerri Green.
Kamala Harris won. May she be the inspiration that we need her to be.
I celebrated her victory with an Asian dessert at the Hong Kong Dessert store on Chapel Street.
We celebrated Diwali with Indian food.
And crab dish from Dainty Sichuan at night.
I can’t remember why, but Fafa got me Insta bubble tea from the city as a treat.
There is a new Izakaya place opened in Windsor called The Golden Gai. We went there to check it out. It was good, but a bit too expensive for the food.
Speaking of tarot decks – Today, when the clock turned 00:01, I went to The Gentle Tarot website. I got myself the tarot community’s much-anticipated indie deck created by Mariza Ryce Aparicio-Tovar. Mariza is a nature-inspired illustrator who created the hand-drawn tarot deck filled with imagery influenced by her remote Alaska life and indigenous spiritual background. I have been waiting for The Gentle Tarot deck for months and have long decided it will be my last quarter of the year purchase (I limit myself to only one deck purchase each quarter). But I waited until today to get it to mark and celebrate my last working/adult-ing/pile-of-responsibilities day of the year. Also, I’d like to think it’s a Christmas gift for myself. Alas, I woke up earlier, feeling warm and fuzzy, knowing I have something to look forward to in the mail next year.
Time Machine
Read more about last year’s happenings.
Hi, guys, I am reinstating weekend reads from this month onwards. It’s a curation of interesting reads and stuff hence I am calling it Kurated by Kovfefed. I am going to post this series only on the last Saturday of the month for now.
Without further ado, enjoy!
A library built in honor of Haruki Murakami.
There is a Silent Book Club one here in Victoria. I am so going to check it out.
Interesting bookshops in Scotland.
Stuart Dunker reminds us that today’s bad day can be tomorrow’s nostalgia.
Coronavirus – Days Without Name.
I have been waiting for Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin for months. It has been released early this month. Waiting for my fave gamers’ reviews before dropping $69 on it.
I have a thing for architecture and creepy abandoned architecture. Here is a half-decade abandoned hospital, Yang Ning, located in a small town in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
The creepy Cecil Hotel.
Hungry for books about Cannibalism.
Eating pickled fish and picking mushroom will make you happier.
I watched Unsolved Mysteries’ Tsunami Ghosts on Netflix. It brought me to tears. Highly recommend! It also reminded me of a beautiful post: Nine Years after Fukushima, penned by Rebecca Otowa. Other Netflix shows I watched and recommend this month: 1BR and The Call. Both are brilliantly acted horror-thriller.
“I am on a sacred fucking mission. I’m waiting for the goddess. I believe in ghosts. And I will defy the darkness and I will tell our story. — Adrian McKinty on Why He Writes.
The rich culture and cuisine of Indonesia, beyond Bali.
Tynan, one of the bloggers whose writing I read religiously, took his first international trip after 7 months.
Enjoy your weekend! 🧡
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