Nana Lin

Made of Sunday morning, hot tea, and a book.

[nana-lin]

A love letter to myself

Please,

I will still top up that reksadana after each paycheck even tho I only want to check out shopee everytime I feel like crying.

I will let you eat indomie telor for breakfast, it's better than chugging nescafe and eat at 3 pm when you barely function

I will make time for you to watch your favorite shows, and stalk your favorite c-actor. I know it is hard to study new language on the weekend, which is why i am so proud of you for keep going on.

I promise to eat good food to fuel you.

And let you have nice things when you want it.

Sometimes you are angry at the whole world. Sometimes I will let you be.

I promise you second, 112nd, and thousands of chance. It is your first life.

If no one offers sweet words to soothe your heart, I will write you thousands of this letter.

Be patient and kind, especially to yourself.

[quotemadness]

“Little by little, one travels far.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[nana-lin]

In the garden of my home

In the garden of my home

I planted basil seeds and tended then with care

They grow tall and fragrant, and has given me much joy

But in the soil, as always, wild grass sprung and found way

So i unplucked them

I remembered the time when wild grass sprung and tried to rooted its way

In the garden of my heart

I admired its strong will, telling me it belonged there

I knew it did not but i let it stayed a while

Because human tend to give meanings to something meaningless

Glad i plucked it out because like the garden of my home

The garden of my heart that i tend with my most care has grown

Strong, tall, fragrant, colorful

Everything intentional needs you to take time to take care of it

[aspoonfuloflanguage-deactivated]

I find that YouTube is one of the best ways to practise listening skills, so I decided to share a few Mandarin YouTubers who I enjoy watching. Feel free to add on!

Vlogs/Cooking/Beauty/Misc.

Amanda Tastes

Xinshidandan 信誓蛋蛋

Stopkiddinstudio

Rainie Tian

Oh Emma

Hithere街访

I’m Charlie

Learning Chinese:

Twins Chinese

Chinese Zero to Hero

Yoyo Chinese

[quotefeeling]

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”

— Frederick Buechner

[nana-lin]

silence

I told you over and over

I hate my hometown

And you see me with your eyes and you never ask why

And thankfully you never did

How am I suppose to tell you all the pain I do not want to face?

Without having your heart broken

This is why I love you

Because when I hurt you don’t shoo them away

You told me it will get better

But we don’t know when

And then you sit with me in silent

While your eyes, your eyes, also hold sorrow

You are hurting when I am hurting

And I have never been loved like that

And even though someone offers me a thousand of beautiful poetries,

Or lyrics to multiple song, or melody of the sad piano

I will always choose your silence

[the-final-sentence]

“Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it’s necessary to talk about trees.”

— Adrienne Rich, from “What Kind of Times Are These”

[twolaneswide]

yesterday was 🔥

[adambenhall]

Thetford Forest - 21.04.2019

[autumncozy]

By white_strawberries

[jawnkeets]

oxford is looking very autumnal 🍂

[archae-heart-deactivated2021012]

to live in a world where sunbeams exist…wow

[globewander]

[neurorlagy]

Cambridge, Nov 4 2017

[i-wrotethisforme]

I woke up to an “I miss you” text sent at 2:42

And I didn’t need to look up the number to know it was from you

But I know you haven’t seen the pictures I’ve posted since you blocked my page

And I haven’t run into any of your friends since late May

So what is it this time that made you miss me?

Was it my makeup remover under your sink

Or was it a stronger than usual drink

I always knew you’d realize once the appeal of being single faded

And you ran out of temporary distractions to play with

That something was missing from the life of your dreams

I just didn’t know what it’d take for you to realize it was me

So was it the ice cream I left in your freezer

My tee shirt I didn’t want to leave there

Or that one too many glass of tequila

[turnnoffyourmind]

Sanctuary

National Park Torres del Paine, Magallanes & Antártica Chilena.

[maryboxer]