Update & 2015 In Music

I haven't sat down to write a blog post in so long, I feel quite guilty. I've simply been away because I've been focusing on other things - mainly trying to teach myself as much Japanese and Korean as I can before semester starts at the end of February. And with my attention elsewhere, my motivation for blogging has become virtually non-existent. Maybe that will change as I find inspiration, but for now, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

One thing I have been wanting to do is share my 2015 playlist that I made at the end of last year. I like collating all the songs I listened to most in the year because they hold so many memories and feelings in them. So for anyone that's still hanging around this dusty old place, here's some tunes:

Part 1

1. What Kind of Man - Florence + the Machine // 2. Mother & Father - Broods // 3. Gooey - Glass Animals // 4. 1998 - Chet Faker //  5. XO - Beyoncé // 6. I'm A Fantastic Wreck - Montaigne // 7. Good Intention Paving Company - Joanna Newsom // 8. Wolf - First Aid Kit // 9. L.A.F - Broods // 10. Elastic Heart - Sia // 11. Uma Thurman - Fall Out Boy // 12. Down in the Dumps - Walk the Moon // 13. On My Mind - Ellie Goulding // 14. Can't Stop Dancin' - Becky G // 15. Falling - HAIM // 16. Novocaine - Fall Out Boy

Part 2

17. Roll Deep (ft. Jung Il Hoon) - Hyuna // 18. Lightsaber - EXO // 19. Catch Me If You Can - Girls' Generation // 20. Bang Bang Bang - BIGBANG // 21. Dumb Dumb - Red Velvet // 22. Pick Me Up - Perfume // 23. Love Me Right - EXO // 24. I Am The Best - 2NE1 // 25. Shake It - Sistar // 26. Little Apple (with Chopstick Brothers) - T-ara // 27. History - EXO-K

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I hope you're all having a good 2016 so far (I can't believe January is almost over oh man). Till next time!

xx

Projects for a New Year

Every time a new year rolls around I'm filled with the irresistible urge to start something new. Being the crazy perfectionist I am, it just feels like the most appropriate time. I'm the kind of person who makes New Year's resolutions that I never end up keeping or start some project or another that I never end up finishing. But this year, I'm determined, is going to be different. (I've probably said that every year since I was thirteen but never mind).

 One of my favourite things is keeping books or handwritten journals that are tangible and seem a lot more permanent that anything I can keep on my MacBook (despite the fact that my handwriting is a bit off being "neat"). So I've bought a couple of things that I hope will help me achieve my goals for this year, and I'd like to share them!

Goals Journal

I picked this up as a very rare impulse buy from kikki.K (also check out the Live Bright Collection which is beautiful) because I think I'm a person with a hell of a lot of goals. This book really encourages you to think about your 'dream life' and the person you want to become, whether it be in a year or three or maybe even a decade. I'm always thinking about what the future could hold (or rather what I want it to hold), so it only seemed smart to have a place to write it down and organise it. Maybe I'll actually achieve some of my New Year's resolutions this year. It's also really damn cute so if you like the look of it, go and grab one! You can start it at any month of the year you choose.

Q&A a Day

Proof that things like this aren't just for the New Year, I nabbed this beauty in mid-July last year and started using it straight away. It contains a page for each day of the year and a question, with room for five answers over five years. It doesn't matter when you start, you'll get the same amount out of it! So I guess in a sense this is a project I'm continuing into the New Year, but hey, it still counts. I'm very interested in the possibility of being able to look back in a few years time and see what I was thinking on a particular day. The questions aren't difficult at all, so it's easy enough to get into a routine of writing a couple of lines each night before bed. I haven't failed yet, which is saying something.

I picked this up from Books Kinokuniya in Sydney, but I've also seen it available on Amazon and such.

Let me know if you're doing any little things like this for 2015!

xx

A New Volume in a Never Ending Series

 So, friends, it's 2015! We're as far from 2000 as we are close to 2030. Terrifying.

 As my first thing of 2015, I'd like to introduce you to my new blog! Some of you will know that I've tried blogging before, but my attempts have had a lifespan of about three months tops. I feel like in the past I've put a little to much pressure on myself to create something SPECTACULAR that it just didn't end up making me happy and it didn't even end up sounding like me. So this time I'm just just gonna be pretty relaxed about it. If I don't have any post plans? No big deal. If I post something that's a little wimpy and only a paragraph long? Worse things have happened. I'm just gonna create something that I'd like to read, and maybe other people will like to read it too.

 One of the reasons I'm here in the first place is that 2014 was a bit of a blast. A lot of stuff changed. It's nice to look back at a year and think "yeah, for the most part, that was pretty great". I graduated high school at the end of 2013, so the year following was bound to be a big one. I started university, got a whole lot of new interests, made new friends, and overall just learnt to feel pretty good about myself. I feel like I'm on something that resembles a path now, instead of just standing in the middle of some crazy life intersection.

 I hope that 2015 continues the fun that I had last year. Maybe it'll top it. Who knows? But I intend to put some of it here. I'll be studying and writing and growing, it'll be nice.

 Let me know your general feelings about 2014, and some of what you hope to achieve in 2015!

 xx