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【camera eats first - diary of all the food I ate during my time on earth plus my ☁️thoughts】 IG: @melon.foodie

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Oh hey Tumblr, it has been a while.

Do you know today’s the 21st year of the 21st century - the 100th day?

It is okay to still wonder how they are even if it is no longer your place to ask.

Sometimes, the one you love the most, is the one who left your life for reasons you can’t understand or don’t want to understand.

It’s okay to still wonder how they are even if they hurt you. It’s okay to want the best for them. It’s okay to sometimes wish you still had access to them enough to ask if they’re okay.

Other times, this is why you hold on to them even though you know it’s time to let go.

Will they be okay without me?

Will I be okay without them?

Are two questions you find yourself asking because you don’t want to lose access to this person when it’s all said and done.

But remember, it’s okay to still love them and put yourself first.

Often times, when you love someone; you will always care about them and want to make sure they’re okay. And that’s okay.

Remind yourself it’s okay to let go, and it’s okay to still wonder how they are.

Just remember to ask yourself the same question, too. How are you?

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Earl grey cupcakes.

Home baked by Forest Cake

https://instagram.com/forestcake22?igshid=15ypy0u5ktt1y

☁️thought of the day: mental health

Yesterday was World Mental Health Day.

Mental Health is something not spoken about as often as it should be, but slowly and surely the stigma around mental health is being broken down.

You wouldn’t have been able to tell from my social media platforms, but I suffer with anxiety and PTSD. Some people know, some don’t and it’s not something I’ve ever tried to hide, but it’s also not something I used to speak about a lot. You probably wouldn’t be able to tell if you saw me in real life and you may not have been able to tell even if we had a chat! Over the years I’ve gotten pretty good at hiding behind the happy face you see and when people ask how I am, my immediate response is ‘great’ followed by a quick change of topic... I don’t like talking about my mental health. It often seems so insignificant compared to what other people may be facing! And that thinking right there, is the problem! I always felt like there were so many people MORE stressed, MORE worried or MORE something than me and that talking about my problems was selfish! I ended up just listening and trying to help others rather than looking after myself. I’ve ended up with everything bottled up in my head playing on repeat... I’ve battled to focus, sleep and be present when I’m with those I love! And then I spoke about it and I feel SO much better ✨ So bottom line, if you’re having a tough time, SPEAK UP! Have coffee with a friend, chat to your mum/dad, speak to your partner, call someone, send me a DM or, if you want your problem to be yours and no one else’s, call Lifeline on 131114 💕 And don’t forget to be kind to yourself, you matter and so do your feelings.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Confit duck leg with sautéed speck, shallot, peas and beurre blanc

📍Bistro Guillaume, Perth

☁️thought of the day: when you focus on the good, the good gets better

What are you grateful for? Ask yourself this everyday. I believe it’s pretty impossible to not be grateful for something.

There are millions of reasons and things to be grateful for. You just need to shift your perspective and change your view. Don’t look at what you’re missing, look at what you already have. Don’t look for what’s gone, look forward to what’s coming. Don’t look at the past, look at your present.

It’s all about what you focus on and give attention to. The more you focus on the good things in your life, the more you seem to find. You will attract more of it and you will start to realise that you can create all of it.

May you change your views today and focus on the goodness of yourself and this world.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Pan-fried pork & cabbage dumplings.

📍Little China Girl, Northbridge

☁️thought of the day: moving on

Everything takes time.

Healing takes time. It’s during this time that you learn the most.

Know that nothing in this world will last forever - that includes your pain. When we lose something or someone; we gain a whole lot of insights and wisdom. We see why it had to happen and where to go from here and these things don’t just come. Something had to leave for it to come. Trust your process and take your time.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Tiramisu croffle.

📍Cafe Guilty Pleasure, Northbridge

☁️thought of the day: “When you focus on the good, the good gets better” ✨💕

Stay in your lane and there’ll be no traffic. I am sure we all get tired of caring so much about other people’s opinions, about how they live, how much more they have, etc. I know I did.. it controlled my life and I kept myself trapped in my own prison cell by always trying to please others before pleasing myself.

By always trying to get confirmation from others before confirming with myself. By trusting other people more than I trusted myself. I was so fixated on comparing my life with other people’s lives that I was so unhappy with everything about myself. I hated the way I looked because I would always think that other people looked better. And you know, there will always be someone who’s gonna be better than you at something.. but if you always look at that then you’ll always see and think how much you lack.

Instead, you gotta start looking at YOU. Focus on YOU. Please YOU. Worry about your own opinions of YOU. Stop comparing your life with others and looking at what you lack and start seeing what you have and what you’re gifted with instead. The more you focus on what you have.. the more you end up having. Fill your cup up and just make sure YOU are happy before anybody else! 🥺✨😍❤️💕

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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The new craze - yoghurt drinks.

📍Cony’s Yogurt & Rice, Perth

☁️thought of the day: “accept first, then heal”

To start off with, the past has been a terrible place for many who always kept dreaming of a peaceful life with a lil dollop of happiness, away from all the chaos, away from all the pain, away from all the miserable times.

With songs and friends being companions to keep our minds distracted, we often forget to accept all the miserable times we have had, accepting the past no matter how it turned out to be.

There is no need to drag your past into everything, there is no need to relate our present with the older times. We all have had made mistakes, we all have broken our hearts.

The only time we have is now, I hope you start accepting you the way you are, and things will fall into its place.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Black tiramisu.

📍Nobibi, Perth

☁️ thought of the day: “there’s always a tomorrow to look forward to, so let’s keep going”

In life there are so many struggles. Some people give their best in everything, still remain unlucky. Whether it is trying to fit properly in friend's circle by developing the habits they got or trying to find a job or the personal matters revolving around the relationship issues with family or close ones.

I know that you're sick of going through this. I know how it feels to be rejected every single time when you want to keep trying. The rejection fades away from your motivation. To live and to hope for things to get better. Life is uncertain on many things. Sometimes you get what you may not deserve, you go through hell for something that wasn't your fault.

I know how it feels to keep trying with a dead soul inside hoping somewhere something works out well for you. But like they say, a small spark could bring fire. Dear, I want to say I believe you will come back stronger, in the mean time, keep trying. Even if you've got no hope left, let’s continue to give your best in everything.

In life you got to accept failures too, keep trying to push ahead, and one day you will turn fortunes in your favour. That day you will feel proud to have gone through a tough time and achieved something in life and you'll realise the value of it as it hasn't come to you so easily.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Woolen yarn icecream.

📍Nobibi, Perth

☁️thought of the day: “when hope turns into expectations”

Sometimes you are just tired of seeing things go wrong. Sometimes you are in a position of not able to accept reality. Sometimes you trust the wrong ones. And sometimes you give up too easily. There are a lot running on your mind, there are things that make you conscious about life when you are able to find peace.

Dear, just calm down. Things can never go perfect. You learn from mistakes. You learn that next time, you don't take decisions in a hurry. It's okay to have a bad day or a bad period unless you give up trying.

We can hope for things to be better but when this hope turns into expectations, you are allowing yourself to be hurt. We all go through a stressful period and sometimes we panic before we could even breathe properly.

I hope that you keep trying, I hope you get through this. It's just another phase, it too shall pass.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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The Carnival.

📍Pitcher & Iron, Subiaco

☁️thought of the day: “stay kind, not everyone hurts”

You come across people with different personalities. People with different qualities, different habits and different vibes. We got to understand not everyone gets connected to you at the same level. Be gentle to yourself. Be kind. No matter how others treat you, remain kind. It's an attractive quality you need to wear in yourself.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Rosewater pistachio donut.

📍Mary Street Bakery, West Leederville

☁️thought of the day: “to heal and to rise”

Life is unexpected. Be it the things how it was five or more years ago; the people whom you loved and spend time dreaming of a life with them; the people whom you are friends with, no more being by your side. When the day passes by, your hearts start to feel numb. Sometimes being upset or sad with no specific reasons hitting you. And sometimes it may take just a song to bring everything you had gone through.

Over time all we do is to hope and keep hoping for the things to have an end or to just slow down the series of bad situations you go through. A pain in the smile you wear and it keeps eating you up and drain your energy.

But slowly in time, we must all realise that time is not permanent and so is the pain. We are just losing ourselves thinking about the people who hurt us. There is the life you're blessed with and it's okay to let go the things that are stopping you to move forward.

This is where you begin your life, this is where you start loving yourself. No turning back to painful memories, and no having regrets. Replace them with yourself, and the beginning is near.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Haw flakes soft serve.

📍Hanabing, Perth

☁️thought of the day: “trust time”

When life puts you down, all we are left with is to hope, hope for the things that didn't go our way and to continue to have faith in the universe and to believe in yourself when nobody does. You are dealing with a lot of pain and that is alright, difficult times will seize you, but what will make you different is your attitude towards the problem; and how well do you adapt to the circumstances you have fallen into. Eventually, everything happens for a reason, things will fall into place, if not now, later with time, everything heals. Trust.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Second visit.

📍Kumo Kumo (Perth)

☁️ thought of the day: “as long as you are trying, that’s enough”

Silence is empty and sometimes heavy. There are always these thoughts running at the back of your mind when you are on the verge of giving up. My dear, I just want to say that it is okay to have a bad time, you can't feel the best/perfect everyday. As long as you are trying, that is enough for today. We are all broken in our own ways, trying to heal from what broke us, and someday we are going to get over it. So until then, we keep trying.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Snoopy cappuccinos.

📍Charlie Brown Cafe, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

☁️thought of the day: “believe in you”

When you keep pushing yourself back on the thoughts of people judging you, the focus always shifts from where you want to be as if your life revolves around the people near you.

You are the person who creates your life. So with every moment you keep doubting yourself based on what other people thought of you and others’ opinions, you are going to end up getting consumed by their thoughts.

The truth is, only a few people actually care about your goals and dreams. They will always stick around and support you even during your bad days.

People are going to talk anyway but make sure that your regret doesn't kill you in the end. My dear, believe in yourself, you got this. If not anyone else, I believe in you.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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Icecream cone & pancakes for breakfast — HUGE YES PLEASE.

📍Atlas Food & Coffee, West Perth

☁️ thought of the day: “time can break and heal you too”

Each and everyone of us is trying to move on in life, learning to leave behind some painful memories that hurt us in every possible way.

Every day, every little thing we do reminds us of them because of the memories and time we shared with them.

We have a short period of life, there is no point in clinging onto the pain, ruining our present and creating a life full of regrets.

The least we can do is being true to ourselves, accepting the fact that they no longer feel the same for you. And by putting your heart and soul in taking a first step forward to move away from the pain you are going through.

Take a break from things that constantly remind you of them, because by always thinking about it takes you back to the past full of memories and hurts you even more, so keep yourself busy by trying to do something effective because, nobody but only you can help yourself out.

Every failure, rejection, betrayal should be the reason for you to come back stronger in life by working on your goals and achieving them.

Stay strong, we can do this together.

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weekend ready.

📍Brown Spoon Cafe, Victoria Park, Perth

☁️ thought of the day: “bad times break us, life teaches us to move on”

We all have bad days in our life. There are times when every bad situation hits altogether at once and we remain hurt not knowing what would be the needed actions that should be taken during that particular instant of time.

You need to accept that it is fine to have bad times, it is fine to go through pain but it is not if you are willing to give up so early, you aren't born to impress everybody, you need to love yourself, have faith, believe in your capabilities, be confident to tackle every situation.

Be optimistic, learn to see the brighter things from failure, it is okay to cry for a while but not for a lifetime. Stay strong, we can do this together.

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At the cutest cafe 🐼

📍Panda & Co, Perth

☁️ thought of the day:

Life may be too hard and depressing at times but don't think it's an end to everything. Time heals everything, you need to have patience and look at life through a better perspective.

You may not receive everything that you wish for but at least you can put efforts to start a process of something.

Eventually things will work out if you have the will power, determination and the right attitude which matters the most to come out of any bad situation.

I hope that you receive the best in life, you may fall a thousand times but it's a long journey, you are more than this and you will survive the bad days too.

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First post dedicated to kumo kumo soufflé pancakes — uji matcha, black sugar boba & crème brûlée 😋😋 Felt like I was on cloud nine in every bite I took! Soft, light & fluffy ya name it.

what to expect on this page: drooling food pictures & daily ☁️ thoughts

🥞PS. Can’t believed I’m back on tumblr again (on a new page) since my first tumblr page was created almost 10+ years ago back when I was in my high school years :’)