2026 Life Update: A Busy but Promising Year Ahead
2026 Life Update: A Busy But Promising Year Ahead Why 2026 Already Feels So Fast This 2026 life update already feels like the year is flying by. How is it that we’re nearly 4 months in when January was actually yesterday?🤨 This whole time concept will forever baffle me. I’m also getting the sense that […]
Beyond Delicious Chinese Food In Daegu
Beyond Delicious Chinese Food in Daegu Oh, what a yummy way to start off the year! A friend and I actually stumbled across this restaurant, Duckle (덕클 대구 삼덕점), in Daegu after my nail appointment. The seriously delectable smell from the outside had us derailing our plans and floating toward the entrance like one […]
The Final 12 of 42 Books I’ve Read In 2025
The Final 13 of 42 Books I’ve Read In 2025 And just like that 2025 is coming to a close🥲. My reading goal for this year was at least four books a month, which should have given me a total of 48 books for the year; alas, life is unpredictable. Nevertheless, I’m still pretty dang […]
How to Apply for a Japanese Visa from Korea as a South African
How South Africans Can Apply For A Japanese Visa As Residents In Korea (or as a South African resident) 🇯🇵 🇿🇦 Over the summer holidays I spent 4 days in Japan with my fiancé and learnt a lot about the visa application process. I feel it is now my duty to share it all with […]
September Book Reviews; I Who Have Never Known Men, Tender Is The Flesh, Heart Lamp and Dream Count
September Book Reviews Heart Lamp, I Who Have Never Known Men, Dream Count and Tender Is The Flesh Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq Short stories, domestic fiction, Indian class and caste I’m not one to often read a book’s synopsis. I prefer starting with a completely blank mental-canvas especially if it’s been recommended to me […]
July Book Reviews; The Edge of Water, 8 Lives Of A Century-Old Trickster, Book Lovers and Yellowface
July Book Reviews: Book Lovers, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, The Edge of Water and Yellowface Book Lovers by Emily Henry Hallmark romance Book Lovers was…not it. I’m so sad that I spent money on this one and annoyed at the online reviews that told me this was worth the read! As much as […]
June Book Reviews The Book Thief, The Silent Patient, The Women and The Cabinet
June Book Reviews The Book Thief, The Silent Patient, The Women and The Cabinet The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Historical fiction (WWII), Nazi Germany, family, coming-of-age, loss and grief I never was one to be all that interested in history, particularly war related history. However, The Safekeep peaked my curiosity in WWII. So finally […]
A Fun Summer Activity in Busan: Make Your Own Perfume!
A Fun Summer Activity in Busan: Make Your Own Perfume! With summer holidays just around the corner, many of us are either planning trips or looking for fun, local experiences to splurge on 😋. If you’re heading to Busan or already living there, here’s one unique activity I absolutely recommend: fragrance making! Why Busan in […]
May Book Reviews: White Chrysanthemum, The Safekeep, Conversations with Friends and The Lovely Bones
May Book Reviews White Chrysanthemum, The Safekeep, Conversations with Friends and The Lovely Bones White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht Korea-Japan historical fiction (comfort women), coming-of-age, family, drama, emotionally intense I couldn’t put this book down—not because it was easy to read, but because it was impossible to look away. From the moment we’re […]
Harry Potter In Concert in Seoul: watching the movie while a live orchestra does the scoring
I don’t quite know when this became a thing but I remember seeing some reels of people watching Disney movies in a theatre with a live orchestra. That seemed pretty damn cool. But when I saw this ad on a bus in Seoul🥹 my heart kinda skipped a beat. The Harry Potter film series has […]
