Leader of Festivals
Bloomed
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The Misadventures Of Misfit And Mieko.
It starts off looking silly and like a slice of life, but later on in the story it becomes a action fantasy, it is worth reading, it has amazing story, world building, and characters.
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MAM day 5: Just a lil guy!
Finally painted my little Bellua figure! I made this with air dry clay as practice since I want to make little figures for my friend’s birthday this month. She turned out soooo cute I love her so much
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MAM day 3: Niya by @niyarest !
Art block struck me… AT THE START OF THE MONTH!!! so, day 2 accidentally got skipped… but it’s no bother! I summon my shiny Mina Niya in attack position (or whatever they say)!
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Museu de Arte de Macau acolhe retrospectiva de Vieira da Silva
O Museu de Arte de Macau (MAM) vai receber, no final deste ano, uma grande exposição retrospectiva dedicada à pintora portuguesa Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), uma das figuras mais influentes da arte abstracta contemporânea.
A iniciativa é o resultado de uma colaboração entre o Museu de Arte de Macau e a Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva (FASVS), sediada em Lisboa, cujo director,…
Museu de Arte de Macau acolhe retrospectiva de Vieira da Silva
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Il y'avait un certain bruit au niveau de notre terrasse durant la dernière tempête, comme une sorte de planche ou un morceau de feraille, j'avais décidé de monter quand le temps serait calme je monterai voir, et effectivement comme par hasard j'ai trouvé le fils du voisin dans les escaliers pour des faire trucs, j'ai profité pour lui demander comment ils montent à la terrasse il me l'a expliqué, et il a proposé de me donner leur échelle, mais il n'a pas proposé de monter voir pour moi, de toute façon moi j'avais besoin de monter moi même pour pouvoir bien identifier la source de ce bruit là, il m'a affirmé que je ne pourrai pas monter car c'est très difficile je lui ai dit que non je vais le faire et que je suis sportive, alors après quelques minutes quand j'ai terminé mes affaires j'ai pris une chaise pour monter juste vers le passage, et j'y suis allée, je suis passée par la petite portière et directement vers l'extérieur, c'était très délicat et un peu dangereux, quand je suis arrivée à l'extérieur j'ai vu le mur était trop haut pour moi et l'espace très étroit, je me suis rétracté, c'était beaucoup trop dangereux pour moi, je fais plus attention à moi et ma santé plutôt que de m'occuper de ce bruit provoqué par le vent, alors j'ai décidé de revenir, et c'est à ce moment là que le père du voisin est sortie de sa maison il a été choqué de me trouver la bas, il m'a répété les mêmes mots que j'ai dit à son fils, que j'étais sportive mais il fallait pas que je monte il fallait que je le lui demande, c'est claire que son fils en lui a parlé, je lui ai repondu que j'y suis montée car il n'y personne à le faire à ma place, il m'a dit tu viens et tu me poses la question moi je monte, je suis descendue doucement pendant qu'il me parlait, il m'a offert sa main pour m'aider à descendre mais je ne l'ai pas prise j'ai pris appuie sur le mur, puis nous sommes restés devant la porte pour lui expliqué le problème qu'il y'avait, il a été très gentille il m'a offert son aide entière, puis il est parti pour quelque temps et dès qu'il est revenu il pris son échelle et il est monté, il a trouvé un morceau de zinc sur le toit de notre balcon, il l'a enlevé, je l'ai remecié beaucoup et il était très heureux d'aider. J'ai parlé avec maman de ça, elle s'est inquiété c'est très normal, et elle m'a un peu grondé comme d'habitude, alors que je lui avait prévenu avant, elle devrait être fière d'avoir une fille débrouillard courageuse qui prend des initiatives, et c'est bien d'avoir de bons voisins comme ça!
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عندما تعيش مع شخص يعبر لك كل يوم و كل لحظة عن مدى كرهه الشديد و احتقاره لك لسنوات طويلة من الاذية النفسية، ستصبح تكره نفسك و لا تصدق انك تستحق الحب او يمكن ان يحبك شخص ما و تتصرف على هذا الاساس مع نفسك، هذا حالي مع اختي الكبرى المؤذية، و تستمد قوتها من سكوت و دعم أمي لها، حسبي الله و نعم الوكيل فيها
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ماما ارسلت لها في وقت الفجر اني اتسحر و اصوم، و صليت الفجر و دعيت لها، و ارسلت لها شيء اخر من الفايسبوك كي تستيقض و تصلي الفجر كما تحب، و لما نهضت في الصباح على العاشرة لم اجد اي رد، خفت عليها و دخلت مسنجرها كي ارى ما بها، وجدتها ارسلت لأختيا يوم مبارك في الصباح و انا لم تجاوبني على كل ما ارسلته لها و لم ترسلي يوم مبارك، انصدمت و تأكد ظني كما تأكد في كل الناس، أمي تفضل اختيا و لا تريدني في كل الاحوال كبقية الناس ما يشعرونه نحوي، اني ازعاج او شيء لا معنى له لا اهمية له كيس قمامة، لكن الواجب والخوف من الله و الايمان هو ما يدفعها لمساعدتي و الاعتناء بي، و بعد هذا اعلم لم يبقى لي هدف دنيوي اعيش له لما ان الكل لا يطيقني و لا يهتم لي كيف تعيش و الناس كلهم لا يقبلونك، من اليوم قررت ان اتخذ حياتي لبناء اخرتي، حياة بعد الموت التي نعيش فيها ليس للناس، ولكن خوفي ان لا يقبلني الله و ملائكته حتى.
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Tsukisuta on 26th February, the guest is Kousuke Toriumi (Madara).
It will be pre-recorded this time.
So that means MaM fan thanx event on 28th February!
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Making a Monster
Chapter 96: Spending Time with Red
You spend some time with Red to show him you care.
(This Fic is Rated E(xplicit)!) This means it has a rating of 18+, meaning it’s meant for those 18, or older, and has or will have some sensitive topics being discussed. If you choose to click on the link you thereby are giving permission saying you are old enough to read this story, and that you accept the topics at hand being discussed. I am NOT responsible if you become upset, or triggered by the content.
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9 jan 2026, 12:17am
writing when its easier not to,, family lore drops and tea talks
today was kinda a bum day, i was left on my own for the morning coz cece nginep sm andrew, papa mama aar pergi cari jas for the wedding, ama pergi ke wukung. so today i doomscrolled and worked on my 2025 eoy reflections station and a bit of my 2026 vision board. yay progress! i also went to kian’s bnb (apm enggano lantai 18 unit 8) to return the key card and do a final sweep. i chilled there for probs like half an hour since i was checking out the entire bnb bc i am actually impressed w how nice it looks,, none of the apts ive been to (except for the penthouses ive been to (swenson’s and amanda’s) looked as modern as that. i liked the master bedroom’s closet space. would be so nice to have, my clothes in sydney are everywhere lol. anyway, trs ama plg so then i got ready and dilly dallied as pak freddy isi bensin, then i went to rata di pik to check if my retainers r fitted good bc it fits perfectly until i bite down and then it lifts up a little bit. anyway, was left to my own devices for like 10 minutes, the nurses fotoin my teeth then left me,, anyway, the dr came in, said it was all good, and my interaction w her wouldve taken like 2 minutes if it wasnt for my decision to do scaling. i think the last time i did it was last july but udh bs lht karang giginya and im not likely to come back to jkt until dec (😞) so yeah. oh yeah also, i temenin akong as he ate lunch, and i realised why junior always sits so nicely beside the chair and looks at us so expectantly and its bc akong likes to give him a lot of food… anyway, i had my own lunch after on my own, and mba risma laid all the food out for me so nicely and complete bgt like damn i rly am privileged and its so nice to be privileged. not many people would have everything laid out for them whenever they say they wanna eat yk. my plate w cutleries, all the dishes w their own cutlery, telur dadar made for me bc i asked, a glass of water, even the tissue box was placed nicely within arm’s reach. what the heck! so blessed.
anyway, went home after rata dentist, ama was still cooking outside, she offered me some indo salad to eat but i was like nah and mba was like “kayak kimchi,, asam”,, ini salad indo" and i was like “nahh aku g suka toge, jg g suka kimchi, g suka yg asam” (not rly those words). anyway, i was sitting and petting junior and im not entirely sure how the conversation came about, but i think twas bc i was kinda speaking to ama in dookiewater-quality chinese and she was like “u have to learn chinese” and i was like “mei pny temen mau bljr chinese di guangzhou” (keep in mind this entire convo is in chi-indo). then she started saying how guangzhou is nice, and i also asked if she’s been and where in cbina she’s been to,, unforch that her health bar has decreased bc sometimes i cant rly understand what shes saying bc she slurs her words sometimes or like poor enunciation. anyway, shes been to guangzhou and xiamen and shanghai and a few other places. she said that jinjiang is akong kampung. and that her kampung is yongchun. it took me ages to figure out what city she was referring to bc i didnt know how to spell it. anyway, i’ll leave the story here for now. gn.
10 jan 2026, 5:20pm update:
writing when its really easier to not.
the older i get, the more i appreciate being home. everyones getting older; my parents, grandparents, my apartment, even my beloved dog.
growing older also means having a deeper understanding of empathy and feeling it in all its emotional/solemn/heart-wrenching/nostalgic ways. context: hanging out w ama in the living today, she was watching a 2026 youtube perfomance of a lady with tiktok logos around the stage,, anyway, she had a lot og background dancers and ama was saying how dancers would train from 9-12 or 2-5pm or smth or so basically 3h, she knows bc she used to dance. she was motioning to herself and looking at me and watching the tv with a grin on her face. i gave her a knowing smile, rubbed her shoulder and kinda was in a *eyebrows slanted down / \ + smile* look, we both grew big genuine smiles and she looked at the tv again and said “pengen”. not in a sad or troubled way, but in a notalgic those-were-the-times way. i hung out w trista for like 8h yesterday, she picked me up from home at 1pm to cp to boulder and dinner and she drove me home and we chilled in the car for 20mins for ganjil genap to finish at 9pm. throughout the day (mostly when we were seatbreaking and yapping for a long time at bouldering), we were reminiscing about bbs (as always), bringing up old memories like the sec 1 notice board w the waterfall dick and spongebob “imagination”, mr brian’s tiktok, visiting mr deenas house at the sky court during edufair, ms toni and mr matthews rivalry + nerf gun fights, malang trip and mr crestly on all fours tryna peek under the hotel doors to see if students were sleeping, etc,, those were the good old days. right now is the good old days. we are getting older and i know ive been saying that “its not gonna be like this anymore” (in a neutral way) and yes that is true. i think its so easy to get wrapped up in ur own life and try so hard to live it and make the most out of it and u kinda discount everyone around u. but ive grown to enjoy and see the value of spending quality time and having the patience to sit and kinda do nothing with people, and by people i mean my grandparents/parents. i think ama is a brilliant woman, shes sharp and worked hard and she lived life well in her prime. shes living life right now too. everytime i sit and do nothing to spend quality time w ama lately, i kinda just learn new lore. e.g. that the misses dancing, where her parents are from, how she loves watching planes and prayed to god that she could one day buy a place to watch planes often. people can surprise you when you give them the opportunity to. i think this should be my goal for this year. have the patience and give myself the space to sit and do nothing with other people. much love.
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the history is that ama’s parents were from yongchun (永春), it took me agess to figure this out bc i couldnt spell the “chun” properly and when it took me to the yongchun google page the first time, ofc it wasnt in hanzi so ama didnt think it was the right one. she wrote the hanzi for “yong” on her knee, and only did the top half of the “chun” so i was also hella confused. i only managed to get it when she was like “musim” and she mentioned the four seasons in chinese so i google translated english to chinese and finally got the hanzi for “chun”. im surprised that ama akong masih bisa read and write chinese (bc thats rly difficult), and that ama bisa read my phone text on the smallest text size lawl. papa previously mentioned that krna dia lasik pas getting rid of cataracts, now she can see far and up close still v clearly. impressive. anyway, her parents walked from yongchun to xiamen untuk cari kapal trs ke pulau serang. dulu yonchun miskin, now its pretty ok and kinda rich. anyway, we continued the convo as ama and akong ate dinner. akong pny dad dr jinjiang (晋江市), akong gtw mamanya dr mana. he ws thinking about it for a bit before saying that he doesnt know. ama was born in ambon, akong is from makasaar. i rmbr yearsss ago i think it was ama who said that they met bc akong came to ambon. i asked about that a little bit last night, it was still a bit unclear,, something about how akong pny mama pny papa suka ajak orang, dia guru zhongwen or something like that. i think he meant that the dad liked to travel to teach ppl chinese?? gtw deh. they were both born in the 50s im pretty sure bc mama papa were born in 1973 and 1974 respectively. zamn. in a 100 years, we will rly be forgotten. pretty much. my great grandparents probs lived in the 30s. thats nearly a whole century. wild !
14 jan 2026, 1:53pm update:
vvv quick
the tea talk i also learned that day was when papa mama aar and i had a late lunch at home, and i asked how the meeting w pak fendy was (bc they had a brunch w him and cece and andrew),, and then papa mama dropped lore on how gbi apm is doing w pak wijaya (papinya sam and gabby).
basically abt how pak wijaya got rly mad and even banged his hand on the table when asked to see the financial accounts (yg hrsny public,, its for ppl to see what the church has been doing w the offering money). and how there were sus things happening like how this lady gave the church $2k or 2jt or wtv for a new LCD screen (?) tp screennya g dtg" and she got annoyed/mad,, how ko ahui (daisy’s dad aka pak wijaya’s right hand man aka deputy) mau buka cabang di medan, trs some rich medan lady offered a kantor space di medan for the church and only for the church,, come to find out that pak wijaya has been renting it out to a restaurant. trs yah ngoceh" kan, i think he tried to sue, she also had lawyers,, tp her mom apparently goes to the church jd yaudh lah, she dropped charges. anyway, i asked kl fendy and wijaya masih deket,, mama blg wijaya used to be pak fendy’s deputy, trs mau open a new church so okay wtv, tp he also tried to poach everyone which apparently is a bit *side eye*. so from what i gather, they are on b aja terms, but with a bit of unease. a little bit. anyway, ko ahui and his family apparently moved to sydney or orange or whatever, and ig now pak wijaya is taking care of gbi apm (which now moved to pluit village) and the one in medan. for more context, churches biasanya ada it’s own (i forgot what its called) “groups”. kek, some churches, including gbi prj, follows the teaching of one guy. so somehow all activity in the churches goes to him or whatever. kinda like how all catholics in the world follow the teachings of the pope. kl pak wijaya, he opened his own church, so all financials go to him. just sus activities going on mayn. pas diannounce that he wanted to make a medan cabang, ada yg suggest to give the old resources that they dont use to the medan branch, tp pak wijaya was like “naur! everything has to be new” or wtv. interesting tea talk. mama papa seems to be very neutral. when gbi baywalk split into gbi baywalk and gbi apm, we just went to gbi prj lol. mama blg its also bc they wanted to find a church yg sesuai ke kita, more suited to our level (e.g. ada englishnya jg).
there are a lot of people that i have lost contact with due to no more forced proximity, and i wonder how they are. what they look like now. what they are up to. e.g. araya from our apm childhood, johan aka my guitar teacher from the church, jason/karen and their mom (mama is still in contact w the mom ig), i rmbr ada these two sisters yg masih agak kecil, maybe 7yo, and they used to come to church w v intricate hairdos sampe karetnya bisa idk 20?? (think bubble hair from the crown of the head). that girl that studied guitar w me w ko johan and learned to play a little bit of love yourself by justin bieber. that one mom from church and the only child girl. i rmbr pas kt pergi retreat/bonding and the parents did the outbound, she slid down the last zipline, kinda bounced back to the middle of the zipline and she tried to pull herself from the line or wtv and she cut herself. i kinda miss the retreats, those were fun. i didnt participate much, but i had a good time being there. i rmbr there was one on my bday, i also fell sick on my bday, and there was a campfire and i walked closer and closer bc i loved the heat. x-factor was playing on the tv as i laid on the couch. the older kids played pool. there was one guy who was more tanned and he had a little sister and i saw their dad outside the primary school near apm at the corner otw to school. rahhhh memories.
argh im just gonna life update here too. in other news, i got the lifeblood nursing assistant role. i interviewed monday morning, got the offer tuesday morning. they told me i would hear back next week so zamn they just want me so bad i think /hj. i was conflicted coz mayn it’s 9 shifts a fornight, and i was unsure on how i would juggle that and honours bc i hear hons is vv time consuming. anyway, the fam thinks i should go do it, if it doesnt work out then i can just leave. im glad i got the offer too actually, ive been eyeing this role since the middle of t3 i think. anyway, i just asked hayley chandler from sonder and ninh from boost to be my references and they responded to me surprisingly quick and with support so yay. hoping for the best. other than that, i found old photo albums, including one from papa mama’s wedding (there were 7 more albums holyyyy), and a few smaller albums on papa and when he was somehow (?) in china in 1993 and 1994. thoughts: 1. damn. hes my age. 2. ppl do be growing older. it is inevitable. and i will one day grow old and still somehow keep my features that make me look like me. 3. some pics he looks like aar. i see a strong resemblance. i think its cute that aar looks like papa when he was younger. 4. ngl lowkey hes fine shyt, hes rly cute. i mean like, i think my parents r both attractive still. he defs still has his rizz/charisma. 5. makes me feel sad that i was ever mean to him. 6. rahhh adulting empathy bc it rly do be their first time living too, and i wondered how it would feel to be him being that young and thinking about how in the future “i” would have 3 kids and my oldest daughter is getting married. anyway, i had some mixed feelings flipping through those albums, bc damn time rly do be passing by and it feels weird to be growing older!!!!!!! all of us growing older. i concluded that im just feeling too deeply about it. ok we all grow older. so what!! such is life!! and it is lovely and beautiful and such a privilege to have life for so long. i think i should just have fun in this life instead of being so existential about it all. hehehahaing in life this year.
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Mystery lolita-chan wears Maxicimam’s fake fur simple coat in pink.
This photo was taken 20 years ago today, on the 7th of January.
Example image via this lolita’s wardrobe.
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