Night Person, Morning World
INTRO — Nights Make More Sense Than Mornings Some people wake up glowing. I wake up negotiating with gravity. Nights have always been kinder — quieter, cooler, less performative. The…
The Food That Built Us
Let me set the scene. The kitchen is warm in that slow, heavy way — the kind of heat that creeps into your clothes and refuses to leave. The windows…
Half-Packed Thought: The Mirror
— a conversation with Captain Sparrow, somewhere between coffee and truth Morning Static Back in Sweden again.Mom’s in the kitchen brewing coffee that doesn’t taste like ruined tires — side-eye…
Half-Packed Thoughts: Don’t Saw Sawdust – The Best Advice I Ever Got
Grandma’s One-Liner “Don’t try to saw sawdust.”That was my grandmother’s mic drop. No lecture, no sugarcoating—just one image sharp enough to shut down my spirals. The Kitchen Scene She usually…
The Beijing Bikini 北京比基尼
Let me set a scene. It’s August in Beijing and the city is cooking alive. The pavement shimmers like it’s made of molten glass, the buses cough out waves of…
Half-Packed Thoughts: Revenge Freeloading 游客的报复性白嫖
The Scene: Full Buses, Empty Cables It’s peak season in China and the parking lots are stacked with tour buses, engines ticking as they cool. But half the buses don’t…
Pretend Travel: The Weibo Trend That Roasted Travel Influencers
The last thing I searched?“Fake travel trend China.”Not because I wanted to roast it (yet), but because a Bilibili clip popped up of a girl “boarding” a plane with nothing…
What I Love About Where I Live (Hanoi Edition)
It’s 6:47 AM and the city’s already sweating. The woman downstairs is chopping lemongrass like it owes her money. A rooster screams from somewhere that definitely isn’t a farm. My…