#clementine hartford

[alexracheltravel]

Island Paradise

We awoke to our first island resort. While we only had a brief stay in Koh Samui, that didn't make it any less beautiful. We enjoyed breakfast beside the beach, sipping coffee and dipping our toes into the yellow sand. Stray dogs walked beside our table. Signs told us deliberately not to feed them. We've seen a lot of wild/strays on our trip in each country we've visited.

Although we were staying in the Gulf of Thailand, our plan was not to stay on the larger island of Koh Samui, but on the more remote, secluded island of Koh Tao. The only way to get there is by ferry. We purposely checked into a hotel in Koh Samui because of its proximity to the ferry. The ferry was smooth and quick. We traversed 60km in an hour and a half, including stops. The television screens on the ferry advertised tourism in Thailand. Some of our favorites included:

-A influencer-style travelogue of a couple (westerners, possibly Australians) who spent two days in Bangkok and then in Phuket. We noticed they omitted jet-lag, getting sick, and financial concerns. We were also pretty sure they were actors. Not even a real couple.

-Some sort of "discover Thailand" series of commercials, stylized in movie commercials. The first imagined discovering Thailand as a sci-fi/horror film. It did not make us want to visit Thailand, but they were innovative.

At last, we arrived at Koh Tao, where we will ring in the new year! Our resort, Jamahkiri, is incredible. It is at the top of a hill on the south end of the island, overlooking an inlet called "Shark Bay." We have our own villa with an incredible living room with multiple couches, dining room, and full kitchen with doors that completely open onto our private deck with private infinity pool overlooking the ocean. One of the more beautiful views we could have asked for. 

We ordered an easy room service, Alex got a spicy green curry and Rachel got laarb and both got a coconut cocktail. We spent the day relaxing in our pool, reading in our covered outdoor couches, and generally relaxing. Rachel booked an in room massage for tomorrow and we both decided to call it a night early, but kept our shades open so we could see the stars from our floor to ceiling windows. 

As we reflect on 2022, which, aside from this trip, was not the best year, we decided to talk about the things we did love from this year. So, instead of our usual conversation, we decided to think about some of our favorite things from 2022. Read our rankings of our End of Year Best lists:

Movies/TV

A

1- Inu-Oh

2- Mad God

3- Cha Cha Real Smooth

4- Cyberpunk 2099

5- Neptune Frost

R

1- Severance S1

2- Heartstoppers S1

3- Sex Education S4

4- Sex Lives of College Girls S2

5- The Rings of Power S1

Books

A

1- Dilla Time

2- Life Ceremony 

3- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

4- Shuna's Journey 

5- It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World that Made Him

R

1- Hook, Line, and Sinker

2- Princess Trap

3- Get a Life, Chloe Brown

4- Heart stoppers v4

5- From Blood and Ash

Albums

A

1- Kumoyo Island - Kikagaku Moyo

2- Renaissance - Beyonce

3- Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam - The Comet is Coming

4- Motomami - Rosalia

R

1- Renaissance - Beyonce

2- Harry's House - Harry Styles

3- Special - Lizzo

Food/Meals

Note: for fairness we're not including any meals from this trip. We'll do a final ranking of our favorite Honeytrip meals next week!

A

1- whole roasted cauliflower from Zohara in West Hartford

2- vegan burrito at Ursula 

3- pan seared soup dumplings f om Dumplings House in SF

4- An epic reast at Skewers by Miriam with Lyndsi, Alon, Leo and Vicki

5- Turkey Ramen made by Mr. Alex Moser (probably the best thing he's cooked this yr)

R

1- Pan-seared soup dumplings from Dumpling House in SF

2- whole roasted cauliflower from Zohara in West Hartford

3- turkey ramen made by Mr. Alex Moser 

4- Strawberry White Chocolate Layer Cake - Clementine

5- New Year's Charcuterie Board Upstate (might have been 12/31 but who's counting)

Honorable Mention: Dairy-free Boursin (shout out to Wine Squad for this epic discovery)

Happy new year, family and friends. Onward to year 2566 B.E.!

[jcpitcrs]

fresh off a plane from new york, usa it’s jupiter beck. he’s a junior majoring in literature at collège alpin. you might know him from his parents, they’re the writers of a best-seller children story book collection, the adventures of molly brown. the 21 year old scorpio bears a strange resemblance to timothee chalamet. around collège alpin they’re known as the raconteur. it helps that they’re very mesmerizing and intelligent, but they’ve been known to be proud and conceited. you’ll recognize them in the halls by the smell of tobacco, ink stains and stylish coats. listen out for all these things that i’ve done by the killers playing in their room. [ clementine, 20, gmt -6 ] * book club.

hello again!! this is clementine, bringing my second kid. again i’m just gonna leave some important things in the bullet points so feel free to like this and soon enough you’ll have me in your messages ready to plot something fun :) i really really love this muse and i hope you’ll too, i think he can be really interesting to plot with <3

jupiter, strange name as that one is, is the only son of the beck family.

his dad is from hartford, conneticut where he lived a humble life until his parents discovered he was a really talented writer. around the age of eighteen they bought him a ticket to new york and paid his rent for a few months. he tried his luck selling $2 dollar short-stories nearby the metro station. then, one day he met the woman who would become his future wife, who happened to buy a story from him. they fell in love instantly. she came from a family of lawyers who wanted her to study something “more financially secure” than anything that had to do with the arts but she ran away with this man and together they started writing a storybook collection, following the adventures of a little 8-year-old english girl named molly brown. these stories became really popular and they built an empire. now, they have expanded to merchandise, comics and it is even rumored they have an upcoming molly brown movie.

after finishing high school in NYC, jupiter’s parents motivated him to study abroad so that he could get to know some other cultures and experience different ways of living. his dad tells him that a good writer is someone who has been through a lot.

ever since he was little he was really interested in all things related to culture. his mother would tell him peculiar bed-time stories such as greek and roman mythology ones. (he was actually named jupiter after the roman god, who was previously known as zeus for the greeks). 

thanks to this and to the mere fact that his parents are both writers and readers, he has always had different interests than his classmates.

he is bisexual and you’ll find that he is really flirty with a lot of people so.... bear w him.

in the list of his favorite writers you’ll find: haruki murakami, f. scott fitzgerald, gabriel garcía marquez and milan kundera.

as you can see he enjoys the narrative/novel part of the literature more than anything, that’s why i labeled him as a raconteur. he writes stories and has written a few short novels too.

he is not really close to his parents because they have pushed him away. he feels like he’s an intruder to their relationship and that they would be better off without him. so, with that and the fact that he’s an only child in mind, he is very used to being lonely.

in spite of this last point, he is really talkative and likes to meet a lot of people. he’s a total extrovert so being social is not the problem. i would say the problem is to find someone who really grabs his attention.

when he finds someone who does tho, he can be a little obsessive. he is stubborn as hell so if he likes someone he’ll do whatever he can to be with that person at least once.

he is really stylish and loves to look good. he is a fashionista tbh.

he tw: drinks a lot and he tw: uses drugs sometimes so in case that pops out in a thread i’ll make sure to put it under the read more section.

[mercury-paradoxica]

part ten!! the remaining students of AHSG, plus now some students with a more celestial theme to them! names in the captions!!

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