Thursday, June 18, 2026

An hour of Russian lit to make my own problems look small

 

Getting in an hour of Russian literature before sleep.

This is my special treat for sticking to my routine and studying early this morning. Honestly, it’s a struggle against my own patience, and I mostly just find myself staring blankly at the screen having a full-on existential crisis about whether to keep going or pretend I never started oh, and the imposter syndrome definitely creeps in.

So I just laugh at my own downfall.










Wednesday, June 17, 2026

My Russian era

 


My first Russian song

My first time singing along to a Russian song without getting tongue-tied. Actually, scratch that, my mouth definitely got confused a few times, but I kept going anyway till I finally ate up the pronunciation. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐




Ive signed away my soul to the Russian language

I’ve been learning Russian from 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM using a 50/10 Pomodoro split, mostly so I can actually stretch haha. Then I take a 3-hour recess and just binge Russian videos from 4 to 8.

Then it's lights out.

I don't bother with dinner unless I'm actually hungry. Or who knows, maybe I'm just roleplaying as my favorite Buddhist monk who only eats twice a day. 🀍





Thursday, June 11, 2026

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

(γ……´ ˘ `)♡

 


Hello! It’s been 6 days since I last wrote. So today, I just wanted to share a quote I came across years ago. It didn’t really mean much to me back then, but now it’s pretty much my north star. 

“Nelson Mandela once said, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.’”

 

 

 

Also, here are some songs I enjoy listening to, one is in Korean, one in Bahasa Indonesia, and one in Khmer. 🀍








Wednesday, June 3, 2026

way past my bedtime

 


I’m really feeling the pressure to the point where I kind of want to cry a little bit, but there's no way I'm throwing in the towel, kase hulog na hulog na talaga ako sa kanya, which is why I'm still up organizing all these vocab notes.

 

Pang-isang daang beses ko na yatang pinakinggan 'to haha (◦Λ‰ ˘ Λ‰◦)~




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