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for those who celebrate christmas, i hope you had, as park shinhye says: a lovely day~~ i don’t celebrate, but i had a blast reading about what my friends were up to~ while washing the dishes for breakfast, i spotted the same five squirrels again. atp, they’re family! it’s so cute watching them chase each other around. any name suggestions!??!? :>

this might be random, but washing dishes put me in a sort of flow state. maybe i’m a little germaphobic… (this is the same person who sometimes refuses to eat out or have school lunches because of “dirty culinary”), but like jacob two-two, i wash it twice. i don’t know if it was ever a habit, or maybe it’s just that once isn’t enough when you notice tiny specs and faint stains. just a thought.

yesterday, my older sib brought me a night snack. i wasn’t super hungry, so i got the kids’ menu. it came with a little bug toy (i forgot the name of it, it was weird tho.. will update if i remember), and while my older sibs watched tv (i think it was vinland saga?), i took a bite of the burger. and uh… why does the ketchup taste like strawberry jam??? too sweet and tangy for me; heinz will always be king. the boneless chicken, though, 10/10 as always.

now, enough about food. maybe it’s because the year is ending, but i’ve been feeling sentimental while looking at this site. usually, i’m never fully satisfied with what i create; i’m hard on myself, thanks university brain and all that academic stuff. even if it’s genuinely good, it rarely feels good enough. but this time? for the first time in a while, it really does.

there’s this word my mum hates me saying (cuz i say it all the time lol) and it's: wabi-sabi. in traditional japanese aesthetics, it’s the acceptance of impermanence and imperfection. beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.” it’s everywhere in japanese art. my older sib who worked at a japanese franchise had a higher-up who always talked about it.

back to the dishes: i noticed something. the pots n pans are new, but the pot still had burnt stains from lunch, and a bowl had a tiny chip (not my fault… ahem). i panicked, tried to fix it, but it wouldn’t come off. same thing with this site, rewindnote. i used to try to make it “perfect,” but honestly, i like it more a little imperfect. functional and makes me happy. i chose the name because i jot down random "imperfect" notes i can rewind back to later (as long as i can still host it, of course). makes sense, mhmm... impermanence. wabi-sabi indeed.

shoot, i wrote too much. maybe one of my new year’s resolutions should be less blabbering (jkjk). but embracing imperfections will def be on that list. anyway, i can't find the tv remote so i’ll go look for that. talk to you guys soon~

edit: oh, the little bug toy i got is a uang!!

Labels: 2025年12月, entries