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  • three years ago, i declared that i found my favorite beverage: cold brew topped with two shots of freshly squeezed orange juiceas sickening as it sounds, it was really amazingi would turn to it in times of confusion for solace and i would turn to it in times of celebration for joyi never made it…

  • (writing while listening to Radiohead’s “Let Down” on repeat. I suggest you do too.) “Transport, motorways, and tramlines” as a newborn New Yorker, I frequent the subwayquite adept at naming all the stops of the 1-trainslowly developing a map of the city to match to the lines on my handused to walking as if i’m…

  • after a million firsts this week is going to be a beautiful bittersweet compilation of my last firsts.my last first day of school, my last school diary, my last first foyer assembly.it feels like yesterday i was burdened by an extra textbook i carried to school a a first grader,the biggest problem in my life…

  • i’m right at home in between 25C and 27C,the perfect temperature to live comfortably and contemplate efficiently.it never gets too cold where i liveand it’s never even dipped below 15C, thank gosh, i would become a snow-woman. still, last week, i mulled over events without mulled wine,and i saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills,that…

  • art is not a number. the sistine chapel covers at least 12,000 square feet,it is 134 feet long,44 feet wide,68 feet high,it took michelangelo 4 years to complete,it began to be made 517 years ago. the numbers make the art more brilliant and moreapparent,but the art is not a number. it is not how many…

  • I found a piece of paper and coloured it blue. There. I held a small part of the sky. I told my friend that it was mine but it could be hers too; I would share.

  • lost and found, in and out, love and i play hide and seek climax builds, subsides again- is she who i should really seek? i’ve emptied my cupboard and looked beneath the floor tiles, dismantled my life trying to earn this token i eagerly seek.

  • To be so unfettered, almost disconnected from the world’s thoughts, Yet deeply rooted in emotions andRich in comfort and meaningIs beyond me.To make my own story without waiting for destiny to Painstakingly pen down a predictable arc,Terrifies me andTo still deny convention, defy odds, all in the span ofThree hours,Is wildly improbable.I cannot be a…

  • Bright and blinding, I hold a
Star in my hand.
Bold and believing, I dare myself 
To peel layers of the star’s secrets.

  • walk in a straight line, head tall, shoulders back,
this is the last time you’ll march,
make it count. an announcer’s words hung hazily in the air,
claps and hoots and chitter-chatter faded into the background,
and i could only hear