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Autumn goes too fast

After the blistering summer passes, I feel like time speeds up all of a sudden. I've been in overdrive this past month doing lots of things and being outside every weekend. Especially since Tokyo rained for 34 sad consecutive days in September! This is really the golden time here, when it's finally cooled off to enjoy outdoor activities, and it hasn't gotten too cold yet.

We're also getting more birds out and about, as well as autumn migration. Been seeing and hearing the Brown-eared bulbul everyday, even in the city.

*Squeezed in two more paddleboard outings in October*

I recently had a serendipitous opportunity to work on an illustration with China Airlines and Chef Eric Sze. Eric just released his first cookbook, titled TAIWANESE?, and his restaurant WenWen (Greenpoint, Brooklyn) collaborated with China Airlines to create an exclusive in-flight menu for flights from LAX or Ontario to

Yearning for play

‘Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays.’ I read this article recently and have been thinking about it very much. It really hits me deeply at this specific time of

End of summer

Festivities make summers a little more bearable I've lived my whole life in hot places, but Tokyo summers are HOT. Every year, I feel like July and August are a blur either because I'm indoors a lot more or I'm constantly mildly heat stroked

Autumn goes too fast

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Naminami cocopuff

Illustration for China Airlines x WenWen

Yearning for play

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