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Top Songs 2023

Top 23 Most Played Songs of 2023

2023 has been my busiest travel year. So busy, in fact, that while I’m supposed to write about them, I honestly don’t know where to begin. I can’t even find time to think and come up with a good intro for this article. So without further ado, here are the 23 tracks that I listened…

Top Songs 2022

Top 22 Most Played Songs of 2022

Travel is back! And that means my relationship with my phone’s music applications (both Spotify and Apple Music) has been rekindled. That also means I’m back to counting down the songs that I listened to the most while on the road this year. So here it goes!

Taylor Swift Album Covers

Best Part of Each Taylor Swift Album

Because I was bored, I re-listened to Taylor Swift’s discography on the flight back to Manila. I first liked her as an artist in 2012, when she released RED. I wasn’t a fan then, but it made me more open to 1989, which eventually turned me into a Swiftie.

Top 21 Most Played Songs of 2021

At the end of every year, it had been customary on this blog that I publish the top songs that I listened to during the travel. That is, until last year, when the word “travel” was completely obliterated from my calendar, and to a certain extent, my overall mindset. Overcome by a nagging fear of…

Reconnecting with Mimi

Soooo I re-listened to Mariah Carey’s entire discography (because whyyyy notttt?!), and I can definitively say that these four are my favorite albums (in order):

Top 19 Songs I Listened to During Travel in 2019

Year after year, when I travel, I listen to music less and less. I don’t know if it’s terrific or terrible. Unlike the past years, I seem to no longer enjoy constantly and actively seeking new releases. If anything, I often find myself playing tracks from decades ago.

Top 10 Songs I Listened to During Travel in 2018

I was humming a completely different tune before my flight to Australia, but upon the recommendation of a friend, I watched The Greatest Showman onboard. The musical’s soundtrack got stuck in my head for several days since the flight. In fact, while we were in Brisbane, my friends and I would randomly burst into song,…

Out of a Black Hole

FUKUOKA, 2018. Finally finished the screenplay for a horror film that I had been writing for days. And I feel relieved. I am a huge horror fan, but I realized this: It’s one thing to watch a horror movie; to write it is another. It didn’t feel good to be constantly imagining demons, spirits and…