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The week went by in a flash. I was focused on just a few things this week, and although they're still a work in progress, I think it was a productive week overall! 🥹 ✨ Projects -- Started working on the video for this month's cover The next cover won't be on my channel, so I'm putting in more effort than usual into the video. 🤣 My self-imposed deadline is this weekend because I have something else I want to work on after that has a hard deadline. I think I'm less than 50% d

It's March already?! When I think about the things I've done since January, I suppose it's believable that we're already in my birthday month. 🤔 Anyway, I'm glad that February wrapped up nicely! ✨ Projects -- Published my cover of Lanternoid by suisoh! But nothing beats suisoh's vocals. 💜💜💜 I love this song so much. It's been on my project list for a long time, but kept getting delayed because of changes to the plan. But some time in November last year, I received an appe

Considering that I was planning to chill out and enjoy the festive season, it turned out to be a rather tiring week. 🤔 All good though! Did a lot of things, so much so that taking photos/ screenshots often slipped my mind. 🙃 The good kind of busy, I guess! 🥹 ✨ IRL -- Lunar New Year festivities! My OOTD on New Year's Day! Was quite happy with my eye makeup. 💖 Met up with my parents on the eve of the Lunar New Year (Monday) for "reunion" dinner. 💜 As far as I know, the tra

Are you winning, son?! I have no idea. You tell me. 🤔 ✨ Gaming -- Cleared FFXIV Patch 7.4 Savage Raid tier, finished Disco Elysium, and played the Super Money Ball Festival in Sonic Racing! 🎉 Firstly, I have to admit: I didn't believe that my static would clear M12S during our 2nd session of the week. But by the magic of friendship (I mean, call-outs, DPS carries, and potions), we cleared the moment we scraped through the last major mechanic. Was too focused on taking the

The weekend went by way too fast -- I was unwell on Saturday and slept through most of the day, and was out and about the whole of Sunday. 🥺 I don't have much to share for the week because I spent pretty much the whole week doing spring cleaning (I'm not done yet! 🙃). Tried to snap a picture for the main things I did though! ✨ IRL -- Spring cleaning part 1! One might think that a new house wouldn't have any spring cleaning to do, but they'll be sorely mistaken! I didn't hav

Oh boy. Let's start with the highlight of the week? ✨ New Cover -- Uploaded by cover of Sing My Pleasure from Vivy - Fluorite Eye's Song-, the anime! I even managed to complete it by the end of January, as I had hoped! 🥹 But where's the cover? Why were there no updates on my channel and socials? 🤔 If Sony Music Entertainment Japan is kind, the video will be visible. It was bound to happen eventually: My video was completely blocked by a copyright claim. 🙃 Initially I had u

I went into last week determined to bring my morale back up, and it turned out to be a pretty productive week! There were highs and lows, but I feel back to normal and motivated to do some good work! 🥹 ✨ New Cover -- Ari published our short cover of The Last Frontier by AZKi and Hoshimachi Suisei! I would have never done a song like this if not for Ari's request. 💜🥹 I've written about my friendship with Ari before , so I will refrain from being a broken record. She asked i

I'm back to normal I think! This past week felt really long because I was focused on only doing what I wanted to. Was still really tired for the first half of the week, but I tried to keep looking forward. It wasn't a productive week, but I wouldn't have gotten through the week if not for... ✨ Gaming -- Started aiming for achievements in Sonic Racing, started Disco Elysium, and spent the rest of my evenings on FFXIV Savage Raids The banter between the 2 characters I use sound

The week turned out to be quite a disaster, leaving me really drained. I didn't want to write a post today because I can't find the words to describe my feelings. Had a small breakdown on Sunday night, but it was cut short because I needed to move on. But I didn't want to let the photos and screenshots go to waste, so I'll let them do the talking. Stopped at the finale because I ran out of time. Would need to wait for the friends who want watch the ending because they've gone

Wanted to start the new year with a new blog title! Not that anything needed to be changed, but 2026 has a high potential to be a challenging year for me, so I wanted to start on the right foot! 🥹 I decided to go with "Contrails" because that is what these weekly reflections feel like -- the memories dissipate quickly unless I put in effort to take pictures along the way, and stop every Monday to relive them in my mind. The faster I move forward, the more often my memory get

It's the last stretch of 2025! Looking back, it's been such an eventful year with lots of changes. Although it's still 2025 today, I'll consider 2025 over so that I can give 2026 an early start! 💖 But first, a recap of my last week of December 2025! ✨ Projects -- Finally released my cover of blindfolded by Against The Current! I love this song and illustration of Mimi so much! I'm happy that it's finally out for the world to see! This cover took so long to cook! But I'm glad

I just got back from Malaysia a few hours ago! The things I did earlier in the week feel so long ago, but I'll try my best to recap because it was a good week! ✨ Projects -- Ari published our cover of Kunio Matsuzaki's rendition of Jingle Bells When Ari first shared this song with Yuraia and me, I jokingly said that I'll assign lyrics to the piece for Ari to make a vocal and piano cover of. But it slipped my mind, and we didn't discuss it any further. After a period of silenc

I'm strangely physically and emotionally drained today, so I'm listening to Close in the Distance from FFXIV on loop to get through this blog post. ✨ Gaming -- Continued Lost Judgment, tried House Flipper and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds! Some time mid-week I realized that the next FFXIV Raid Tier starts on 16 Dec, so I won't have as many evenings to binge on Lost Judgment or Baldur's Gate 3 for a while. So I picked my battles and played Lost Judgement for several evenings. But

So many things happened this week, and I got to do so many different things! ✨ Gaming -- Played lots of BG3, some MonHunWilds, rushed a D4DJ event, checked on cats, and ended the week with Lost Judgment! Spent most of the week playing Baldur's Gate 3 because my partner was enjoying Star Ocean 2 whilst hoping that I would wait for him before starting on Lost Judgment. 🙃 But who's complaining? I learned that I can use Photo Mode in cut scenes. I want to try taking more pretty

I was down with sore throat/ sinusitis almost the whole week. 🥺 Likely caught it from my partner cause he was unwell last weekend. Maybe I should've practiced safe distancing instead of stuffing my face into his shirt for snuggles. 🤣🤣🤣 Oh well! He took about 3-4 days to recover, but it's day 6 for me and my nasopharynx is still burning. 🙃 Now that I think about it, would it have been worse if I liked kisses?!?!?!?!? 😱😱😱 Or maybe I would have just fallen ill faster, I

What a week! It feels so strange being reminded every Monday that just a week ago, I was in a totally different head space. 🤔 Let's talk about it! 💜 ✨ Projects -- Finally finished the karaoke medley I've been working on! And I have a full body rig now! 🥹 It's done and dusted! 🥹 This project was finalized only recently, but the plan had been sitting in my project list since the start of the year. 💀 There were so many iterations of it. Maybe I'll list them here, just in ca

I was determined to make good progress with my next music project, so I tried to stay focused on the goals of the week! ✨ Projects -- Recorded vocals, edited, timed, mixed, and... I'm happy that I managed to chip away at the tasks across the week, working late into several nights and even on the weekends. Feels good knowing that the music file is now sent off for mastering, and I can work on the next list of tasks! Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm happier about completing tasks

November means it is time to work really hard so that I can wind down by mid-December! 🤔 So I started the week with a plan! But several curve balls came my way and I didn't complete what I had set out to do. 🙃 Even so, the week turned out to be much better than expected! 🥹 ✨ Touching grass -- Went for an eye check up I'll cut to the chase: The doctor figured that the symptom I was feeling (a darkened area in my right eye's vision) should go away by itself after about 6 to

Oh no, I don't have many pictures to share! 🥺 But it's okay! I had a rather pleasant week regardless! 🎵 ✨ Gaming -- Played various games... and then there was RV There Yet? Sadly I don't have many screenshots this week, so I'll be brief! Went back to normal Don't Starve Together as Walter and still died a bunch. 🤔 I feel like I'm getting better but at the same time, it still feels like a struggle. The moment I'm stuck having to deal with a boss fight by myself, I'm left wi

Lately I've been wondering which of my covers is my favorite. Based on channel statistics, I guess most people like my cover of Datte the most. But my favorite is actually TORINOKO CITY. Published 11 Dec 2022. I first heard this song while playing Project Diva Mega Mix. Even though the game did not put much emphasis on the lyrics, I realized that something about the composition and choice of words sparked some emotional response in me. So I checked out the lyrics and was imme