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(Edit: I have changed my theme! Considering the fact that I haven’t been posting a lot of images, I thought it would be better to switch to a theme that doesn’t require a featured image.)

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A day well-spent with good company and quality dark chocolate ice-cream that I unfortunately was too stuffed to finish 😦 

Also went to NLB to chill – I haven’t stepped inside a public library for the longest time and it was nice to spend my afternoon away in a relaxing environment. I went down the aisles and randomly picked up The Rape of Nanking, which detailed the brutal, gruesome and inhumane atrocities the Japanese had committed in post-Imperialist China during WW2. It was sickening to read accounts of men being buried alive, soaked in gasoline and fire, and of being used as bayonet targets. Women of all ages were raped and mutilated, and eventually faced the same fate as their male counterparts. I couldn’t bring myself to linger over these details for a half a second longer because the mental images were vividly terrifying.

But the book had its tender moments too. A Nazi officer by the name of John Rabe established a Safety Zone in the midst of all the terror that was happening all around Nanking. He identified himself as a Nazi only because he supported the socialist ideals the party purported. He didn’t, however, agree to the extermination of the Jews, Soviets or anyone who wasn’t an Aryan.

John Rabe relied on his status as a German Nazi officer to offer aid to the Chinese, which is obviously courageous and highly commendable of him.

(Wow I can’t believe I’m actually writing this much about a book I didn’t even read from cover to cover.)

Other highlights of the day include watching Victor unwittingly entering an arcade thinking there was another exit (and being silly enough to follow him HAHAHA), meeting Shihui for dinner and mistaking the number “22” for “5”.

It’s been a tough week but I’m happy to have met everyone I wanted to meet today 🙂 kinda wishing today could have lasted longer…

Tentative plans for tomorrow and then ughhhhh it’s Monday again. Dreading a week of pitching, media follow-ups, MM, prepping media kits and media valuation reports. I think imma crash and burn the next weekend.

… Today has been an incredibly good day but I feel like I’m going to be forcefully dragged back into reality come tomorrow evening 😦