Personal blog

Words,
Worlds

A space for books I've devoured, music I can't stop playing, places that changed me, and films that stayed with me.

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Life & what I'm reading right now

Every book, song, journey, and film leaves a mark. This blog is where those marks are recorded — honestly, passionately, and without pretension.

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Books
18
Albums
12
Trips
31
Films

Latest reads

Books

Fiction

The Brothers

Fyodor Dostovyevsky

★★★★★
Memoir

The Places in Between

Rory Stewart

★★★★☆
Fiction

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

★★★★★

On repeat

Music

Post-Rock

Explosions in the Sky

Music that builds mountains out of silence and brings them crashing down in waves of guitar.

Instrumental
Jazz

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis created the blueprint for cool. Every note feels inevitable yet surprising.

Miles Davis · 1959
Electronic

Burial — Untrue

Lonely, beautiful, and utterly unlike anything else. A masterpiece of urban melancholy.

2007 · Essential

Places I've been

Travel

Southeast Asia

Mae Hong Son, Thailand Thailand

Lake, bridges, pine trees, and misty mountains. Mae Hong Son slows you down without asking.

2 days · 2026
Southeast Asia

Bagan, Myanmar Myanmar

Endless pagodas, misty horizons, and centuries of history — Bagan is the kind of place that humbles you with every glance.

3 days · 2019
Southeast Asia

Vientiane, Laos Laos

Mounuments, golden stupas, and Mekong sunsets in Laos' most charming and unhurried capital.

4 days · 2024

On screen

Movies

Drama

The Shawshank Redemption

Hope as a weapon. Every rewatch reveals something new hiding in plain sight.

★★★★★ · 1994
Sci-Fi

Interstellar

Nolan makes the cosmos feel personal. The docking scene alone is worth the entire runtime.

★★★★★ · 2014
Animation

Spirited Away

Miyazaki's masterpiece. A world so complete and strange that reality feels thin by comparison.

★★★★★ · 2001