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I miss you quite a lot, Ilyes. Enjoying life after taking a break from work made me feel like I could breathe freely again and was filled with a sense of freedom. Landing in Tokyo with Eunbi was the most surprising part of the trip because it wasn't entirely planned, but I truly enjoyed every moment of it. We went for a walk in the afternoon as the sun prepared to set over the ocean to the west, visited a small, charming shop, stopped at a restaurant to grab a bite, and finished off with a stroll around Tokyo Tower (I actually rode a bike there). It was truly beautiful what I saw with my own eyes, and we continued to explore many other things in the following days. (Oh.. I surely going to buy my siblings something than coming back home with empty hands.)
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The sun isn’t even up properly yet, but the heat is already sitting on my chest like a wet dog. I’ve been driving for two hours with the windows rolled down, letting the salt air and the smell of bruised grass scrub the city off my skin. Loughrey’s Kak Sangah called me three times yesterday to ask if I’d check the scores. “They’re playing the LG, Anna. Top of the ninth, bases loaded!” I didn’t watch it then. I had three spreadsheets open and a cold cup of coffee dying on my sterile desk. So today, I bought a tickets for a minor-league game in a stadium that smells like stale beer, diesel, and sun-baked asphalt. I’m sitting three rows behind the home dugout, eating roasted peanuts and spitting the cracked shells. The scoreboard is missing half its lightbulbs, but every time the bat cracks against the leather, something in my ribs unmoors itself. I pull out my phone and text her a picture of the blinding stadium lights while showing the fact that I did it just right. Don’t you also think the same, Ilyes?
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Today, I, Samniont’s Eunseok, with Kasmadjaya’s Wonbin and Carrasco’s Eunseok started the adventure with a quick stop at the vending machine, carefully deciding which drinks deserved the honour of coming along, because apparently choosing a single button to press was much harder than anyone expected. Drinks in hand, the trip continued to the supermarket, where Eelje’s Sungchan found himself standing in front of the aisles, debating what was actually worth bringing home, while Edurne’s Sohee somehow discovered something interesting at every turn. Halton’s Anton kept the trolley moving, and Roesjad’s Shotaro made sure nothing on the shopping list was left behind. Together, they turned an ordinary grocery run into an afternoon filled with laughter, playful conversations, and little moments that made the day quietly unforgettable.
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Good evening, loves! The midnight air somehow hits cold and it’s all about burnt rubber and citrus vape smoke out from the alleyways. I step out onto the curb looking exactly like a cyberpunk extra; grey denim jacket and metal zippers—boxy-shouldered, stripped of anything soft. It’s a late-nineties junk-store trash meets year-3000 wasteland wear of heavy utility grommets, double-stitched seams and an old reflective strip across the back that catches headlights like a sudden flare, they said. I am nothing more than a girl who supposedly ran away to sneak down the lower decks of some kind of space-station that night. But do you think so, Ilyes? The bass from the venue across the street too, shaking the glass of convenience store windows right up through the rubber soles of my platform sneakers. Another night to gamble under the neon-lit perimeter of late diner, basically. I watch the headlights of passing sedans sweep over the wet asphalt and it seems like nobody’s really worrying about tomorrow morning.
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It's certainly been a while, and I hope you're all doing very well, Ilyes. I was strolling around the streets last weekend to clear my mind before getting back to work. I visited a small restaurant near the river, and the view was beautiful—the kind of beauty I hadn't seen in quite some time. I bought a few drinks as well, and they're safely tucked away in the fridge now. (They tasted really good, honestly.)
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Good evening, my Ilyes~ I’ve arrived on LA safely and I don’t think it’s just a trip of trip; which I found that I should try alot of things here to maximize my exclusive me-time. I woke up earlier today and the air hits right away, it was smelled much more like orange juice and pastries down the hotel’s window! I made my bed and decided to go around while looking past the city, and to fill, to show, to share a little glimpse of my routine today, I headed into a photobooth none other than to capture how-it-looked-like. I thought it was good, don’t you think so? I posted it here just in case anybody might miss it later on, so for a looking back kinda thing... and I do miss my family and my neighbors a little too much. Keep this as a keepsake. ♥
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