manila hotel is actually really charming. had a nice cup of warm milk at the lobby.




‘filipino french toast’ at ucc cafe: a tasty balance of custard-dipped pandesal topped with salty-sweet longganisa


tonkatsu at tsukiji

was very graciously gifted with a beautiful pair of simple white shoes at tretorn’s opening last week.

i’ve always wanted the perfect pair of canvas shoes. the kind i’d imagine sofia coppola would wear. unconsciously i think i even tried to model this after the shot of converse sneakers in marie antoinette:


well, vaguely.

rock lobster linguine



have become re-obsessed (not an actual word) with ‘dress me like a clown’ by margot & the nuclear so and so’s.
last.fm says i’ve listened to it, oh, ONLY ABOUT 90 TIMES, but somehow i’d forgotten all about it until now.
