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結構雨降ってたのに、

結構人いっぱいいた。

進水式マニアこんなに隠れてたんやな。

SUSANOOという名前の船で

エタノールとかを運ぶケミカルタンカーらしい。

イギリス国歌も流れたから船会社は英国籍なんかな。

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Right place, right time — Nagasaki, Suwa Shrine

We were just passing through Suwa Shrine, steps still catching our breath from the climb, when time seemed to slow. The light shifted. The air grew still.

And then she appeared — the bride — wrapped in a golden kimono that shimmered like sunlight caught on silk. Every thread seemed to whisper its own story. Behind her, shrine maidens in white and red moved like a gentle breeze, their presence quiet and graceful, as if the shrine itself had breathed them into being.

We hadn’t planned to see a wedding. But there it was — unfolding before us like a scene from a dream. No fanfare, no crowd, just a soft stillness and the sound of footsteps on stone.

A moment of tradition, beauty, and timing. One of those quiet gifts that travel sometimes offers — when you're in the right place, at just the right time.

—Emmy

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Tried Champon (ちゃんぽん) in Nagasaki — the city where it all began!

Champon is a local noodle dish with roots in the late 1800s, originally created to serve hearty, affordable meals to Chinese students studying in Nagasaki. It's a fusion of Chinese-style cooking with a Japanese twist, and it's been warming bellies ever since.

The broth is light but flavourful, almost creamy, and it’s packed with a generous mix of meats, seafood, and vegetables. It’s not heavy like ramen — more delicate, but still super satisfying. A real comfort dish, especially when it’s made fresh.

Definitely worth a try when in Nagasaki — both for the taste and the history in every bowl.

—Emmy

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Hydrangeas near Sangenjaya Station, Tokyo

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readings: essays, articles & short stories pt. 2

the winter of civilisation

fruits we'll never taste, languages we'll never hear: the need for needless complexity

emily dickinson and the creative solitude of space

the lost art of looking at nature

the bowl, the ram and the folded map: navigating the complicated world

ada limón on preparing the body for a reopened world

before it was 'bittersweet', nostalgia was seen as a parasite

why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine

the fig leaf, benjamin shane evans

cat pianos, sound-houses, and other imaginary musical instruments

of shark moves, shell shocks, and trash landings on the moon

as bright as a feather — ostriches, home dyeing, and the global plume trade

getting ahead, jonas karlsson

do these florida dolphins have a language?

the form of a demon and the heart of a person: kitagawa utamaro's prints of yamauba and kintarō (ca. 1800)

who needs ai text-generation when there's erasmus of rotterdam

when memories from fiction become part of who you are

how do transgender people remember their earlier selves?

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Porta Nigra (Black Gate), ancient Roman later turned into a church, which was mostly removed from the original gate. But a lot of the church decorations still survive.

Trier, Germany

March 9, 2025

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Sunday, the 8th of June 2025

A most comfortable morning: fresh, sweet strawberries and a flowery cuppa for breakfast, while reading a few pages of Pride and Prejudice. My shift at the coffeehouse wasn't nearly as nice. The guests were as friendly and kind as always but I worked with a bad tempered colleague who finds fault in everything. Nothing worth dwelling on, though. The afternoon and evening I spent doing laundry, napping with the dog, and preparing food. I was in quite a bit of pain but I'm sure it'll be gone soon. Much quicker than the nervousness I feel now, as I am possibly forming a new friendship, or so I hope?

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Lusatian Sorb (Wend) Girl from East Germany.

"The Sorbs are descendants of Slavic tribes who lived north of the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. Around 1,500 years ago, some of these tribes migrated to Lusatia, a historical region sometimes called Sorbia that straddled eastern Germany, western Poland and the northern tip of the Czech Republic. Over time, European empires and nations have come and gone, but the Sorbs have remained – a Slavic-speaking ethnic minority existing inside modern-day Germany." - BBC

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i bought a couple czech poetry volumes that i haven't had a chance to read yet but that will change on the weekend!

Friday, the 6th of June 2025

Last night, I was feeling heavy-headed and was relieved when my roommate suggested to have an early dinner. Together, we went out for groceries and combined our fatigue-induced stupidity to make at least one proper dish. Courgette tartes with a nectarine salad on the side it was! We had a good chat, and while he went back to work, I went straight to bed and slept soundly through the night. Again, I began the day reading and in all honesty had to drag myself out of bed and into class. The class itself was as interesting and intense as always - I always come out tired but content. The professor is truly fantastic: supportive, smart, and witty. She helps me regain the joy of daring to make mistakes when learning to speak a language. Nevertheless, I'm quite fatigued now, and hope to get some general housekeeping stuff off the table before driving back to the countryside to be reunited with the dog.

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pre-therapy reading, writing, lounging🪞

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first of june

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In Northern Syria, 2.5 million people are living in a stateless, feminist, religiously tolerant, anti-capitalist society of their own creation. They call their territory Rojava, and they defend it fiercely. They’re at war with the extremist group ISIS, and they’re doing better than anyone in the world expected — least of all the Western powers who seek to treat them as pawns.

It’s a complicated situation, but we in the rest of the world have much to learn from the Rojava revolution. To that end, we offer this long-form introduction to the history and the present struggle of the Kurdish people.

Long live the Rojava revolution!

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Some Chinese and Japanese, it's been a while since it's been here!

But I keep learning it - 113 days in YuSpeak and 163 in Hello Chinese! Still really basic stuff and training, but honestly, I sadly don't really have enough time for that... tho, turned out, japanese is really easy to write in notebooks with big boxes! That's kinda cool!~