March Wrap Up.

Seeing people post their list of monthly favourites on here gives me SUCH early internet nostalgia. So here’s mine - Things I loved in March 2025.

1. Twin Peaks

Beginning of this month I suffered from a random fever which lasted, I kid you not, 3 days. So, what better show to binge-watch high on painkillers than Twin Peaks?

This show is everything Riverdale wanted to be, but never even came close to.

Twin Peaks feels eerie and strange; campy and dark; but nonetheless oddly comforting. Especially the soundtrack, which I’m listening to as I’m writing this :)

Next time you’re in the mood to romanticise your life, I HIGHLY encourage you to go on a walk with Twin Peaks music in your headphones. It’s my new favourite thing to do. There’s SO much more to say about this show, but I’ll save my takes for now (you best believe I’m making an entire youtube deep-dive on it hehe).

2. Ethel Cain

Ethel Cain and Twin Peaks exist in the same universe to me. They just go together. For years my answer to the question “Who’s an artist you HAVE to see live before you die?” has been Ethel Cain. Well yes!

AND GUESS WHO GOT TICKETS TO THE TOUR SHE JUST ANNOUNCED!

I’m literally counting the days.

If you’ve never listened to her, here's some songs I think you should get into: “Family Tree”, “Vacillator” and “Punish”. The vibes are dark, ethereal, somber and overall incredibly slow. Think 7 minute songs, 80 beats per minute.

I love it so much.

3. Lao Gan Ma (老干妈)

I think I’m addicted to Lao Gan Ma, or their crispy chilli oil more specifically. If you keep up with my youtube food videos, you’ll know I put this stuff on anything and everything these days. It’s getting to a point where I think I need to stop, or at least slow down my consumption, a little bit. It has to be the MSG that’s in there, it is SO delicious. Love love love.

4. Being Spontaneous & Social

I’m pretty good at living a more introverted, quiet life. I work from home most of the time, I do my little daily tasks on my own, plus my thoughts and daydreams can keep me entertained for hours on end.

If I don’t pay attention however, this routine of solitude can slowly but steadily destroy my mental state. Before I know it I’ll have fallen deep into a depression pit, which I then need to claw my way out of first.

I stupidly forget sometimes that being with people, seeing my friends, interacting with strangers, GIVES me energy. So, I’ve been trying to prioritise that more. Thanks to my job, I live a pretty flexible life. I definitely have the privilege to make time and move things around in order to prioritise people more. Even if that means doing nothing together, just existing in the same vicinity for a bit. It’s so, so good for me. Being social makes me feel incredibly present - I tend to spiral way more when I’m alone for too long.

I want to say that yes, this March, I’ve lived up to that intention. I’ve been asking people to hang out a lot more, I’ve been planning group activities (a clothing swap is happening at mine this weekend hehe), the other day I spent hours on the phone with a friend who's travelling Asia right now; and last week I went on a spontaneous trip to Barcelona with two girls I met one time 3 years ago. It was a chaotic trip to say the least, but SO much fun. I want to bring that energy into April as well.

5. Homemade Oat Bars

Most of March I spent testing the recipes for my recent oat bar youtube video. So naturally, these bars have been the number one contender in my current diet. They’re the perfect snack. I’ve almost run out, so just this morning I made a batch of berry crumble breakfast bars?? Delectable. The recipe for those berry bars will be on my youtube channel next week!!

5. Deleting Tiktok (regularly)

Using my phone less is something I desperately want to do more of. It’s made a little more difficult however, with social media (more specifically Youtube and Instagram) being my job. Tiktok I rarely ever post on myself though, I only consume. A lot.

For starters, I love this app dearly. Reels and shorts will NEVER even come close to the perfection that is the Tiktok algorithm. It knows me too well, making me incredibly addicted and eventually quite miserable.

So I started doing this simple thing. I deleted the app from my phone. Wow.

And now if I’m ever REALLY craving brain-rot time, and I TRULY have nothing better to do, I jump through the hoops of re-downloading the app, regenerating a password and re-proving that I’m human. All these steps are super inconvenient and irritating by the way and sometimes that is enough to make me give up on scrolling entirely.

But let’s say I make it through all the passwords. In this case I’ll put on a 10 to 30 minute timer, and fully allow myself to enjoy the giggles and memes and comment sections. I review the videos my friends handpicked for me, I send them a few ones I like. And I leave. Deleting the app again. When this whole process started I would end up me re-downloading the app once or twice a day. Now tough, I can’t even remember the last time I went on there. 10 days ago? 2 weeks?

Sis, I’m dead as a Chile.

6. Purito Seoul Wonder Releaf Centella Serum

Here’s a little beauty favourite. And yes, Tiktok did make me buy this. It’s a soothing serum that supposedly help with redness on the face. So far my skin has been really liking this stuff. I wouldn’t say 100% of the redness goes away immediately, but there is a noticeable difference. Plus it just feels incredibly hydrating. My skin is more on the sensitive and dry side, so I need all the moisture I can get.

7. Wearing My Dad Hat

This is a pretty big deal for me as I’m someone who used to never wear caps. Ever. This March however, I’ve finally gotten my mindset to shift from “everybody can tell I don’t normally wear hats" to “what my outfit desperately needs is a hat”.

It also makes me feel safe and protected. No cap. (i had to lol)

That is it for this month! I wish I had a book to recommend as well, but - alas - gay fan fiction over on Ao3 has a tight grip on me yet again. I want to read the new hunger games book soon though! Have a wonderful rest to your week!

Mina