update things
Hello! I’m sorry that not only is this newsletter late, but also that I completely forgot last week. Usually when I miss newsletters these days, it’s because I don’t have the spoons, or the time. I wasn’t particularly lacking in either the last two weeks (it was minimal, but it wasn’t at the level where writing would be impossible) but somehow, I just… lost track of time? So I guess this week I’m going to share a bit of what I’ve been up to.
I’m getting back into postcarding, as I’ve said in the last newsletter I wrote, and I guess last week was when I started receiving mail. And I was spending a lot of my time replying to mail, sending the stuff I wanted to, and posting my collection on Instagram, usually at night. Two nights ago I was up til 2am writing postcards? And then suffered at the office when I was trying to write a catalog intro and a sugoroku game while my mind is so fuzzy and unable to think of anything other than sleep.
The weekend my deltiology newsletter came out, I went out with Daphne to the Zhongshan Building which I’ve never been to before, and to Chinatown which was my high school hang out. I loved the idea of the Zhongshan Building and the community there, although I wish that it’s a project that could be replicated in other places in KL / Malaysia as well. I also wish that there are more indie bookstores or stationery stores there because I wanted books or postcards, ha.
Chinatown is so very different now, it’s basically nothing like the place I used to hang out at in my teens. It felt weird, but also nice, I guess. I’ve actually never been to REXKL which was fun to walk around in, especially with the Flower Market going on. It’s kind of a shame that they have a BookXcess instead of a nicer bookstore, but there’s also a used bookstore there, so yay.
I haven’t been reading as much this month. I want to say it’s because I’ve been spending my downtime writing postcards, but honestly I read in the train/bus rather than at home. It’s just that half of the time, I’ve been scrolling instagram looking at postcard accounts. I also spent longer than usual reading this book about Star Trek because I kept taking screenshots and sharing them with Patricia, and/or reading side articles online related to what I was reading about, before going back to the book. Patricia and I even started to watch The Original Series, because the book made me want to watch all of Star Trek. It’s funny that I like Star Trek a lot but I’ve never watched ANY of the series completely, or in any kind of order? I’ve seen random episodes of TOS as a kid, and bits and pieces of almost all the movies, and I’ve seen many random episodes of Enterprise and some TNG because if any happened to be showing after school I would watch them. But I’m pretty sure I’ve never watched DS9 or Voyager and now I want to watch them all.
This one day, I saw a tweet by Catherynne M. Valente where she said that it’s weird how Livejournal still exists, and that if we wanted, we could all just… go back. I can’t find the tweet back to link to it because I don’t know how to find tweets, but this really hit me because I tend to always go back to LJ no matter what, so what is it about Livejournal that is somehow still so much more preferable to IG/Twitter/Wordpress/etc.? (Let’s not mention FB la, that one is the absolute worst place on the internet.)
I ended up going back to reopen my Dreamwidth account, making the fanfic private so that I can link non-fic people to it. It’s like LJ, but it’s not currently owned by a sus Russian company so that makes it better? I remember that I was in the process of moving posts from LJ to DW so I might still do that, as well as add new updates, from time to time.
I might be trying to watch as many of the Netflix Marvel shows as I can today, because they’re leaving Netflix at the end of the month. Next week, maybe I’ll be sharing my February reading wrap-up!
Stay safe!