Here are random snippets of my life this month:
We went to Tasmania, visited the Museum of Old and New Art, chili-tasted at Salamanca Market, ate countless fresh oysters and drove to a small town called Ross, where Kiki’s original bakery is located as a tribute to Miaw. There were boozy road trips to Mornington Peninsula on my birthday weekend with Jik and to the scenic Marysville on a random weekend.
Birthday gifts this year served as a reminder of how well my friends know me. Jik gave me a full-day meditation retreat as a gift. It was on a Sunday; there were 16 of us, meditating and journaling all day long. I passed the 20mins and 30mins meditation sessions easily but struggled with my own demons when they up it to more than 40mins in one seating. The practice has been stuck with me so far. I have been doing a 10mins meditation at home at night ever since, not judging and letting random thoughts flow.
I crossed off one of the wishes from my latest birthday list of trying 3 new cuisines; Vi treated me to Nanjing food while in Singapore, I took Jik to a Russian restaurant called Babka Cafe in Fitzroy and Fafa took me to an Afghan restaurant last week.
After a long time, I took a sip of Hoegaarden on the first night in Singapore, which felt like years of memories were released from the bottle.
My watch was lost recently, and I have been so sad about it. The watch had a lot of happy memories. I got it and its’ twin for my cousin in Japan in 2015, and I got the strap from Singapore in 2016. It felt like carrying a part of those two countries, both the past and the future, and wearing it in my present, Melbourne (I am good at symbolic stuff). Unfortunately, it also means losing it felt like losing a part of myself.
I had an impromptu chakra cleansing session in Jakarta. The session was okay. I don’t know whether it helped at all; they told me that I had a blockage in my solar plexus chakra. I knew that even before going there!
Coconut oil finally seeped its way into my life. I plan to use it for as many things as the internet advises me before being grossed out by it.
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