Hello hello, welcome back to this month's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Hope everyone has been staying warm and safe (more safe than warm if you're on the west coast, wishing you warmth now is bad form). This was maybe the least social month of my life. I hung out with people in person very little and I didn't venture outside my apartmen...

Hello hello, welcome to the final Sunday Chillin' of 2024! It's been a wild year, hope everyone is relaxing and recuperating during this holiday season. This year felt strangely both very fast and quite slow for me. I feel like there was a lot of stuff packed into the year, but it all happened so rapidly that I didn't have much time or...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Fall time is just around the corner (the best time of the year!), but I hope everyone had a great summer in the meantime! I recently subscribed to the print edition of The Financial Times and it's been a great experience, far more enjoyable than I could have ever gues...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Hope everyone is enjoying themselves in the throes of summer :) Good golly it's been a while since my last newsletter! The passage of time is relentless but I suppose a whole lot has happened in the last 3 months of my absence. Some life updates for you all: 1. I fini...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! It's been a while, hope everyone has been well. Well, the time has finally come, my dear friends. After a year and a half at Stanford, I officially finish my program this Friday. This period of my life passed by in the blink of an eye, faster than any other for shore....

Hello hello, welcome to the first Sunday Chillin' of 2024! Hope everyone is enjoying the year so far, it's passing by quick! To celebrate the rainy days that California has been experiencing over the last couple of weeks, here are some slower chill songs that sound nice over God's Heavenly Perspirations. I've had these on repeat genera...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week’s edition of Sunday Chillin’! This is the final one of 2023, and on the final day no less, how auspicious. Hope everyone is staying warm and healthy during this holiday season! As we close out the year, I just wanted to thank you all for reading and following along throughout the last 12 months. A...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! It's been a while but hope everyone is staying warm and comfortable this holiday season. I haven't sent one of these out for over a month now (the longest gap so far this year!) but do not fret, I have not stopped listening to music. Below are 6 songs that I've been p...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! It's still so warm here in South Bay, global warming is truly hip and happenin' right now. Last week, I was in SF grabbing lunch with some friends at Bottega, a nice little Italian restaurant in the Mission. I wouldn't necessarily say the food blew me away, but what D...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Hope everyone is chugging along swimmingly. Fall time is my favorite time of the year and we are right on the precipice. Here are some songs that are nice to listen to while the leaves plummet gently with screams of terror towards the ground. [1] I thought the fourth ...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! It's been a while, I'm sure you were all checking your inboxes frantically for the last 3 weeks. Worry not, for I have returned. I spent the last couple of weeks traveling through Spain and Portugal with my brother and my college roommate. During our time there we vis...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Lots of wild stuff going on all over the world, hope everyone is staying happy and healthy. I've recently been listening nonstop to Fujii Kaze, a new Japanese artist who fuses old-timey beats and lyrics with unique melodies and modern production. I've had his songs on...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Can you believe it's already August? Time marches on relentlessly. This week comprises some of the Chinese songs I've found over the years. Hope you enjoy! 誰愛誰 - Dizzy Dizzo ft. E.SO Spotify | YouTube Flavor - Khalil Fong ft. Zion.T, Crush Spotify | YouTube Sleep Away...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! I'm back home for a bit and getting to experience the magic of the midwestern thunderstorm. What a treat! This week's songs are all by the artist ZHU. His style is characterized by a very electronic dance/trance-based sound with heavily filtered vocals, deep synthy 80...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Hope everyone is doing well, wherever you are in the big wide world. Imagine that there are 1000 cars in a line stuck in standstill traffic on the highway. Now something happens at the very front of the line and the first car starts to move. If every driver after the ...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! The End? Well, there's been a bit of a change of plans, folks. Normally, this was supposed to be the second week of the Genre Exploration series, but that has been nixed. I regret to inform those of you who were looking forward to a newsletter about France that, much ...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! I'm down in LA for the summer and I'm really looking forward to all of the shenanigans. This is the first installment of the second Genre Exploration series. Hope you enjoy! History Again? I've recently been having a lot of conversations with friends about the loss of...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! My window here has a perfect view to a play area for dogs so every evening I get to see a bunch of dogs running around excitedly. I hope you too have a view like that on the daily. The Journey Continues We have finally returned to an actual music-focused newsletter th...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! We are now more than halfway through 2023, feel old yet? Not Great Something that I feel quite strongly about is that plastic is one of the worst discoveries humanity has ever made and should be avoided at all costs. I don't tend to mention this to many people because...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! All the semester system students are enjoying summer now, but we still have like a month to go. Is there anything more tragic? (yes) The Folly of Notifications I suppose that there are two extremes of how you could feasibly live your life in this digital age: 1. Put y...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Sunset is officially after 8pm now, isn't that crazy? Also how is it already May...time marches onward without sympathy. America's Folly Spend enough time around me and I'm sure to talk your ear off about my least-favorite aspect of American culture. That's right, you...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Apparently plants do actually make sounds when they're dehydrated or being harvested. Think of that next time you murder some broccoli. Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall This is the first week in a long time that I felt like I was really living in the moment. I'm someone wh...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Lots of fun things coming up in the next few weeks and months, hope everyone is excited for The Proper Tilting of the Earth™. Just A Good Time The last few weeks have left me in an abnormally good mood. I'm always in a pretty good mood in general, but the combination ...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Some beautiful days in the Bay Area this past week, hope everyone is enjoying the outdoors wherever you may be in the Big Wide World. The Harsh Reality I'm going to say something that you won't hear too often online: cooking is hard. Even with literally millions of vi...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Apologies for missing last week, I was on a roadtrip and got delayed before I could post on Sunday night. As payment, I've included a photo of the milky way that I took on this trip at the end of the newsletter. Hope you like it! Slow Down When I was in high school an...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Springtime is upon us, I hope you're all feeling Youthful as the days lengthen. Friends and Flourishes When I was in middle school and high school, I had a lot of hobbies that involved hand dexterity. Somehow I found the idea of continuous, fluid motion of an external...

Hello hello, welcome back to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! The winter quarter is finally over and boy am I glad. Hope everyone is preparing to emerge from their hibernation. Small Part Of A Big Whole I find the concept of doing things at scale to be really fascinating. What I'm referring to is the idea that when systems get l...

Hello hello, welcome to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Apparently the storm system passing through the western seaboard is called the Pineapple Express. Who comes up with these things? And where can I sign up for this job? The Expanse I've said this sentence approximately 47 times since moving back to the west coast, but it be...

Hello hello, welcome to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! Although I do love the rain, it would be nice to see the sun more these days. Hope everyone is staying dry, warm, and safe. Quantity vs. Quality I recently came across a study conducted by a professor at the University of Florida that attempted to answer the age-old questi...

Hello hello! Welcome to this week's edition of Sunday Chillin'! A blustery week in the 100-acre-wood here but I have Survived. Hope everyone has been staying warm and healthy! Dark Sky I've been thinking about pollution a lot recently, but not the pollution you might be imagining. I'm talking about light pollution, which is the brighte...