f e m

• Molly · (English) "sea of bitterness; beloved"
• Ariadne · (Greek) "most holy"
• Gwen · (Welsh) "white, blessed"
• Dorothy Ora · (English) "gift of god”
• Sabine · (French, Latin) "a Sabine"

m a s c

• Clifton Clif · (Old English) "settlement by a cliff"
• Truman · (Middle English) "trusty man"
• Dacre · (English) "trickling stream"
• Ulysses · (Latin, Greek) "to hate, wrathful"
• Ira · (Hebrew) "watchful"
• Tiberius · (Latin) "of the Tiber"
• René · (French, Latin) "born again"

Names that bring to mind the edge of autumn that falls into winter

• Bernina
• Hildi
• Idunn
• Maksym
• Walter
• Vanja / Vanya
• Josephine
• Yul
• Norman
• Ottessa

• Ambrose — (English, Latin, Greek) "immortal"
• Anatole — (French, Greek) "sunrise"
• Boris — (Bulgar) "snow leopard"
• Daria — (Latin, Greek, Persian) "possessing goodness"
• Inanna — (Sumerian) "lady of the heavens"
• Maxima — (Latin) "greatest"
• Tassilo — (West Germanic) "glittering as the day"
• Thora — (Norse) "thunder"
• Veronika — (Latin, Greek) "bringer of victory"
• Yaroslav — (Slavic) "fierce and glorious"
• Zafeiris — (Greek) "sapphire"

f e m

• Đan Vy
• Diệu Hoa — "mysterious, exquisite flower"
• Hoa Lài — "jasmine"
• Phượng Vĩ — "poinciana"
• Thảo Nhi — "loyal, honour to family" + "little one"

m a s c

• Tuệ — "bright, intelligent"
• Vương — "king"
• Xuân — "spring"
• Thế — "era, time, generation"

a c a d e m i c

• make the dean's list
• no more late nights (except for quizzes & exam weeks)
• no waiting until the night before
• passion! project!
• begin emailing for research
• check all email accounts each morning

l i f e s t y l e

• wash my face, do skincare every morning and night
  • sunscreen, dammit
• shower earlier
• cut nails every fortnight
• correct my posture
• take vitamins regularly
• wear my retainer every night
• lower screen time
• drink more water — less sugar, get back to a reusable water ...

u n i

• white board
• dry-erase markers

c l o t h e s

• tennis shoes
  • new balances in an unexpected colour
• casual dresses
• pleated maxi skirt
• sweater vest
• long sleeve maxi dress
• going-out tops
• boots
• slingbacks
• denim jacket
• overalls
• a nice hat
• a nice cap

m a k e u p

m e d i u m / h i g h - f o c u s

• what hurts now is like spring rain./ new age 2hrs rp
• what it feels like waking up to rain at 3 am 1hr
• february 22, 2001 - a liminal playlist 45min
• music to make your brain shut up 1hr
• music to wake up with the sunrise 45min
• 내가 사랑한 나카무라 유리코의 음악 45min
• you study to prepare for the upcoming exam | dark academia 3,5hrs
• 나의 말러 플레이리스트 (mahler's slow movements) 2hrs
• reading romance (classical + instrumental) 30min
• a life of eternal swimming / relaxing ambient music 1hr
• 봄비를 기다렸던 고궁 박물관 직원, 가사 없는 음악 40min
• 집중하려 들었다가 힐링까지되는...35min

"Learning how to fall teaches you how to land. And learning to land gives you the courage to jump higher." — Michelle Yeoh

"If you would like to master your destiny, you must first master yourself." — Unknown

Indescribable moments & trivial items that bring me something a little bit like joy.

• french onion soup
• painting
• stop-motion films
• the smell of a roux cooking
• almost used-up rosin ( especially the ones with deep bow notches)
• figs
• playground swings on a chilly day
• playing a clear-speaking harmonic
• sleeves with thumb holes
• Iceland
• botanical gardens
• croissants aux amandes
• climbing towering trees
• paint chips from the hardware shop

"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"So rapidly do our dreams travel on imagination's wings..." — Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Our memory is a more perfect would than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." — Guy de Maupassant, "Suicides", Le Gaulois

"His love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered." — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..." — John Milton, Paradise Lost

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince translated by Katherine Woods

"There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trappe...__Donna Tartt,__ The Secret History