Her Little Loves 26

August seems to be slipping away in the blink of an eye. I wish there were a way to pause 2025, even just for a moment—I’m still catching up with July. How is September already upon us next week? I am bewildered that there’s only four months left of this year before we are starting a brand new year, again. This month will always be a somber month for me and it’s the month when my dad passed three years ago and also his birth month.

Nonetheless, here’s a collection of all the little things I’m fond of, at the moment:

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01. My brother treated me to three new fantasy books and I’m over the moon. I picked up ‘The Book of Azrael’ by Amber V. Nicole, ‘Once Upon a Broken Heart’ by Stephanie Garber and ‘A Court of Thorn and Roses’ by Sarah J. Maas.

02. Rekindling my relationship with Dubuyo’s sundubu-jjigae which is why I had it twice this month. It’s literally my number one comfort food. The broth, the side dishes, yums.

03. I avoided drinking hot tea every day because I wanted to cut on unnecessary sugar, but since my mother-in-law gave me a bottle of stevia, I’ve been drinking tea as often as I can. Just a drop of it is sufficient to sweeten my tea and it’s zero calorie!

04. I finalised my wardrobe and study table cum bookshelf designs with my husband as his company will be fabricating them. I’m so excited for the end result.

05. What a great month to be a Swiftie as we will be getting her 12th album in October AND our girl is getting married!

06. Butter cream latte from Pociato Coffee is my absolute favourite as of now. My husband’s friend owns the café and their pizzas are the best so far.

07. After finishing Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros and having the worst reading slump ever (Xaden Riorson, I pledge my fictional love to you), I finally got out of it with the help of Katherine Center’s The Bodyguard book. I finished it in 12 hours. It is that good.

08. I got a new mug! I always have a designated mug I use for tea and the past five mugs I owned were all broken either by me or by other people. So I got this pretty one from Objet last week.

09. The Summer I Turned Pretty. Need I say more? Team Conrad 4ever. I watched the eighth episode yesterday and oh my god the cliffhanger is killing me. If you read the book there’s only one or two scenes left but we have three more episodes of the tv shows so we’re going in blind now.

10. I will be going on a staycation with my friends in a week so I got myself some new clothes. I probably shouldn’t be buying more clothes when I’m in the process of packing and moving out but I can’t help it. I needed new outfits.

11. I’m really happy with my skincare routine now. This blog needs an updated one because what do you mean my last skincare routine post was published five years ago?!

12. One of my girls got engaged last weekend and I’m so happy for her!