after months of planning, uncertainty, & 18 hours of travel, finally! namaste 🙏🇳🇵

2月ぶりの下北沢. while walking around a corner of the neighborhood we've never been to, we randomly stumbled on this cafe that gave us free scones (i assume cuz it was late and they were closing). i think i like scones a little bit more now. also, moon 🌝

chaos week ended with a nice dinner with a friend. no gzt news to babble over so i got a GOT7 history lesson instead. i think yugyeom is actually my bias..........🫢 anyway look at our bears whose vibes could not be anymore different 🧸

reached a savings milestone after years of faffing about. 1 new years resolution actually done ✅ (the rest are impossible)

both my sister and professor talked about my research being published in an academic journal, so i ended up making a post on linkedin about it too lolll. my first post ever...after how many years of having it?!?

work today

i don't remember how many drinks i had so no hangover is a miracle. just goes to show how important taking the necessary precautions are...

結婚おめでとう〜〜！！💞

change is scary :(

i love yakgwa!!

more snaps because i was too lazy to curate for the rest of the trip. maybe someday. anyway, cheongju, daejeon, and jeonju was fun! excited to try a different city again for next time because now i'm very confident in using interregional transport haha

got so much done today, both according to plan & while randomly wandering around. mastered buses (that are never on time). ate a lot. day 3 was very much a success. 1. 음식의 양, 맛과, 가격 모두 미쳤다ㅋㅋ 2-3. good vibes 4. pretty library. spent too long selecting books that i barely had any time to read oops

대전 → 전주 for day 2 1. legit 전주 비빔밥 🥹 & a crazy amount of free side dishes 2-3. i love these kinds of vibes. glad i decided to stay in 한옥마을 itself 4. 오미자차 (magnolia berry tea) is pretty ok!

was looking at past photos. 🛼 missing @coffeecatarts.bsky.social !! 💞

tf do u mean smashing pumpkins was playing budokan?!

week before vacation is always the slowest

last month i lined up for an udon place at 5am, but this weekend i think i might have to do the same for a bakery..... perhaps i am crazy

pictured: me falling ever deeper into the GOT7 rabbit hole aaahhh

my inability to resist invitations (if i have no specific plans for that time) continues.... I seriously need to learn to plan having no plans/plan stay-at-home days

last day of long weekend was a lot less productive but i took a walk around & even brewed some coffee with my new dripper then followed by 6 hours of supermarket simulator lol

slept til noon, cooked enough for the entire week & washed dishes after, did laundry, cleaned the kitchen & bathroom....long weekends are gr8

nature trip with 2 colleagues 🛶⛩️ fun fun!

バンギャの友達と焼肉食べに行った夜🥩 うっさんカードも作ってくれた🥹ｱﾘｶﾞﾄｳ その後オールナイトカラオケにも行きたかったけど皆明日仕事……絶望……でもまた今度🌼

got an email from my thesis supervisor saying that my paper was accepted to a top ranking scientific journal 💃💃💃 took a while but finally did it 🥳🍾🎉

10 years since i saw andrew live, but the first as jack's mannequin. a fun & beautiful night! got to personally hand him my letter when he went down into the crowd, too. thank you for the music that kept me company as a kid 🥹 little ria, you hung in there.

days like this remind me that yes i really am an extrovert despite everything lol but now my throat is dead and my body feels like it went through a day-long workout zzzz thankfully it's Sunday tmr

DIR EN GREYオフ会初参加！6時間のカラオケ！ whole afternoon of pure dir karaoke with strangers. fun & refreshing✨ 皆はじめましてって感じだけど、楽しかった。ずっとライブやってるみたいな熱い盛り上がりだった🔥🔥🔥 知らん人の前に歌ったことはあるけど、パーティールームのステージ上がって歌うのが初体験✨ やっぱバンドマンの仕事は難しすぎるww また、次のライブまでに夜露死苦🤘

september is gonna be tough financially...yolo'd too hard. but that is what happiness is

chill カフェ巡り saturday. i like finding new spaces where i can draw and/or space out ☕ however i think i'm developing allergies to the busier (& dustier) parts of tokyo lol

literally every day this week is frantic but thankfully found the time to have a nice chat with a colleague. i also like discovering new cafes, but this one made me worry if i was trespassing on private property lol. anyway, my aesthetic cheesecake & oat milk latte✨

the GazettE LIVE TOUR 2025 -HERESY LIMITED- EACH MEMBER'S PRODUCE ACT:1 異演 第三「共喰い」-PRODUCED BY RUKI- Zepp Haneda 本命の前、3列目😭🔥🔥🔥🔥 近くて眩しい、楽しい、激しい、感謝しかない日 ありがとうございました

ちいかわパーク 推しのうさぎ、実際に会えた😭😭😭 ちいちゃんとお揃いのポシェットも見せ合いをした 幸せしかない、可愛すぎる世界!!!!!

🎈🥳 happy birthday to me🎂🎈 uncharacteristically low-key celebration today but i treat myself every other opportunity regardless of the date anyway so i guess it's ok. also gotta 我慢 for my future trips lol

got sent to a work event for the first time & had 10pm coffee with colleagues from a diff department after. bata bata, but good experience. good to know my struggles are not as uncommon as i thought tho lol

my lola is 104 today! wish i could spend time with her soon.

DIR EN GREY TOUR25 THE MORTAL CHAPTER 0 高松festhalle 8.10-11.2025 今回私の最後！ 2日目は奇跡の神番で久々ドセンに挑戦してﾓﾐｸﾁｬ🫠 朔に、私の真上に乗った京くんの手、腕、両足を去年のsukekiyoぶりに触りまくった(支えた)🫢 敏弥さんのタオルもゲット💞いい匂いすぎる😩 高松大好き！！ DIRまたね！

went to disneysea with friends yesterday. 🦆🐠🐙 completely exhausted but the day went by smoother than i thought! the trick to avoiding heatstroke was simply to drink 6 bottles of water & go on the get-super-wet version of aquatopia multiple times throughout the day 🌊

- 朝早く起きて - 鬼滅の映画2回目見に行って(1回目より泣いて) - 感想共有とかでワイワイしながらランチ食べて - DIRのライブ見に行って、いっぱい叫んで飛んで - またワイワイしながらご飯食べて - 焦らずに終電で帰る 最高の土曜日なんだけど??? アンコールしてくれ!!!!! best saturday ever, pls can we do it again 😭

i wish mental health services were easy to get in japan like anything healthcare related in another language already scares me but 🙃

i marathoned 'our unwritten seoul' in 3 days & was tearing up/nearly sobbing at every episode until the very last one lol. gosh the pain & reminding me of life things

good experience, but reality hits. back to the original plan then 🫡 and maybe gotta try better

i don't want my favorite things to end so much that i don't even start it sometimes, but i finally watched kimetsu's hashira training arc (because i'm watching the movie soon ish so i need to catch up). ofc i nearly cried at giyuu's part hdkdjs but ahhhhhhhhhhhh it's so good pls

おかえり✨

from sharing life philosophies in a cab late at night after doing overtime for our first job out of uni, to chasing a hyperactive 3 year old around & googling play places, followed by endless eating literally been at shinjuku every day for the past week but worth it to spend time with dear friends

tgif, what an incredibly long week. but 国宝 was great, yoshizawa ryo's acting was honestly insane 🫢

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体調もメンタルもやばいw 逃げたいw

me on weekdays: this shibal sekkiya life me on weekends: friends 💖 drawing 💖 karaoke 💖 eating out 💖 concert plans 💖

the only good thing from this week: seeing the gazette again 🥺💞