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• March 5, 2024

  Thirty-Nine

  Hey! It’s me. Well, it’s you, but from 2024.  I/We have turned 39. You, my dear 9-year-old self, are at a pivotal stage in life. You just won’t quite comprehend just how pivotal for a few more years. If I remember correctly, you’re somewhat bewildered, right? There’s a lot going on: You moved away from…
• January 8, 2024

  Redemption According to the Flower Crew

  Redemption: 1. the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt; 2. The action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil.  Aight, so boom! An Introduction. Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency is a 2019 K-drama set during the Joseon Era (yes, we’re back to…
• December 24, 2023

  Homage

  We did not expect to find Him here. Here, in the bustle and dust of this humble place called Bethlehem. Surely such a momentous birth, such an arrival, should have taken place elsewhere. But the star has led us precisely to this place.
• August 8, 2023

  Fatherless: A K-drama sermon

  Starring one of my Mkhwenyis-in-rotation Ok Taecyeon (aka Babo[1] aka Mkhwenyi number 3), Secret Royal Inspector and Joy is a 2021 tvN K-drama, with a surprising emotional centre that had me in my feels, mourning with a character I never expected. That sounded cryptic, did it not? An explanation is required, I gather. First, a…
• June 26, 2023

  Keeper

  September 2018. A long weekend was coming up. All four of us (Dad, Mom, Big Sis and I) happened to not be busy or working that weekend. A rare occurrence. Between Dad (always down for driving long distances) and Mom (always ready to go home to visit her father…as long as she didn’t have to…