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crimsonblackrose · 2 years

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1, 30?

1. what song makes you feel better? This one is tough. It depends on my mood. Right now I’ve been enjoying this song (and really the whole album):

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30. what reminds you of home (doesn’t have to mean house… just things that remind you of the feeling of home)? Oh so many things. Star filled skies and the sounds of trains in the distance, corn that grows too high and standing on a porch watching storms roll in. The feeling of pussy-willow buds and lambs ears and prickly weeds. Weeping willows, daffodils, and the unexpected blooms of iris. The heavy scent of snowballs, honeysuckle, and lilac/ Barn swallows and the purr of cats. Watching caterpillars and rolly pollys, looking for mantis, walking through spiderwebs and the morning dew. Pie, pancakes with secret ingredients, kitchen witches and corned beef and hash. Tadpoles, snails, crawdads and goldfish, waterlilies and cats tails. Mint, clover and columbines. Morning mist and thick fog, waking up to frost, standing on metal grates as the heat blew through. Singing "My Favorite Things” in the car until we get lost, chocolate malts and diet pepsi, wind socks and the warmth of popcorn seeping through the bag while you hold it before the movie starts.

Deep dish pizza, listening to the trains rattle past, city lights and the occasional smell of chocolate. Parties to use up leftover food, zombie readings, slippery ice covered sidewalks, fireworks in the summer, getting donuts at three am after dancing all night, and sitting in the park in summer on a picnic blanket watching movies with friends. Board games that last over 6 hours, curling up on couches and the floor to watch movies. Opera sung in the stairwells, musical recitals and plays. The smell of fresh paint and carpet cleaner. Tea parties and burlesque. The morning rush waiting for elevators, the never ending spiral back down during fire drills. The smell of books, ink and paper. Making paper cranes and origami stars, butcher block, glue and scissors. Bohemian Rhapsody sung as a group spontaneously while waiting for the trains, penguin waddles huddled for warmth and to not fall on the ice while trying to cross the street.

Yellow ginkgo trees, persimmons, sweet potatoes and roasted chestnuts, pancakes filled with brown sugar and pine nuts that are too hot to eat right away, cherry blossoms and silver grass, long train rides and quiet taxi rides into the night. honey cookies and tea, paper dixie cups full of instant coffee, stirred with the yellow coffee packet. Mountains and a flooded river, golden bowls filled with milky alcohol, shot glasses, metal tongs and scissors flipping meat over and being alone in a large group, a tiny crab picked up on the mudflats in a cup that gets forgotten at a noribang. Let it Be, picked because I don’t have to ever sing it alone. Snails in the bathroom, spiders under the door, wasps in the stairwell, bats in the school, peacocks and chickens wandering the playground. Waiting in the cold for a taxi after the last train, or standing in the snow waiting for the bus. Milk tea and mochi donuts. Demands for candy. Pizza with sweet potatoes on it, ice cream, fried chicken and pickled radish. A warm floor.

#mumblings #asks #long posts #thank you!#the song one threw me for a bit because I was thinking about it too hard

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amintensai · 7 years

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I feel like back to dancing but today we went to karaoke( noribang) 🎤 my favorite place to sing!! ✨ #korea #busan #karaoke #music #sing #カラオケ #노래방 #24jan (at Busan, South Korea)

#karaoke #busan #music #sing #노래방 #24jan #カラオケ #korea

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thewilythylacine · 6 years

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I suspect I would be overdressed at this establishment. The things you see on your way to the movies. #karaoke #noribang #hadang #mokpo #onlyinkorea #nightphotography #nightlife #southkorea🇰🇷

#southkorea🇰🇷#noribang #mokpo #nightphotography #nightlife #karaoke #onlyinkorea #hadang

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alexaugustus · 8 years

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I don't how your Sunday is but my last official night in #korea is fucking epic. #homenoribang #gramgram #drunkasfuck #noribang (at Jincheon)

#drunkasfuck #homenoribang #korea #gramgram #noribang

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crimsonblackrose · 7 years

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The days leading up to the end of the year tend to be pretty reflective and stressful. I usually try to dig up whatever resolutions I made, or goals and I feel discouraged because I don’t feel like I accomplished them, or that I’m where I want to be. I find myself being pretty pessimistic about the past year. I usually think of all the things I had wanted to do and didn’t get a chance to, or hadn’t even found time to attempt.

I didn’t bake with my rice cooker, I spent this time last year living out of moving boxes with a coworker in a semi-awkward but less awkward than expected living arrangement as our housing was remodeled, which was insanely stressful. I spent my birthday last year having to figure out how to bring my mattress back into my apartment from where the construction workers had shoved it behind the giant old school TV that I couldn’t move, which is still living in my laundry room because there’s no way I can bring it back in my apartment by myself, and I kinda don’t want to. The rice cooker is living out there too and I doubt I’ll bring it back in when microwavable minute rice is so much faster than my hour long rice cooker. So that’s a goal from my original Korea to-do list that I don’t think will be ever be realized.

My last years’ new years resolution also just said “learn more Korean”. Which I suppose I accomplished but I also had hoped my Korean would get way better, that I’d be able to ask my coworkers how they were doing in Korean and talk with them more. But while I did study a little, I didn’t as much as I had hoped. I’m not where I wanted to be, but I’m better than where I was, and I just have to accept that and be proud of the progress I have made.

I also really wanted to write more and when the year ended I felt like I had nothing to show for it. But I’ve been going through my journal and even though it doesn’t feel like it I’ve done a lot of writing. I finished a rough draft of a novel and started a writing internship. I’ve also been doing a ton of editing and beta-reading for friends.

If I look at my resolutions and goals I realize I did kind of accomplish them in the simplest sense, but despite writing things like “write” or “learn more Korean” behind that I had meant a much loftier goal that I didn’t accomplish. But when I look at how the years gone I’ve realized I’ve forgotten everything I did and really I’ve done better than I feel like I’ve done. Even though it feels like this year went both fast and also as slow as quicksand.

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