Do not pass go

Defying continents of distance, technology is allowing me to spend time with the people who mean the most.

And I cannot be anything less than grateful.

So, even a simple round of Star Wars Monopoly becomes a precious moment.

And I am so incredibly thankful for it.

[In the photo: 'A New Hope', 40th anniversary, Star Wars Monopoly]

Self love

Snowy white outside.

First working meeting in days.

I needed a powerful, yet comfy, and with a touch of eighties feeling outfit.

HerUniverse never disappoints.

And it's TanoTuesday.

Pangeek

Pangeek: spending the afternoon playing Star Wars Squadrons wearing an Avengers Endgame dress.

Christmas 2.0

Today I woke up, and, totally unexpectedly, Vanda sent me this Razer beauty.

Not just the insanely cool Base Station Chroma, which I'm so eager to try with Star Wars Squadrons, but also the Kitty Krakens ears.

THANK YOU!!!

I am not a "gamer" (or... maybe am I?), but I love these very green, very stylish, very snake-y tech products by Razer.

I recently changed the swollen battery of my Razer Blade Stealth, true, as I showed in my stories, but, besides that, in these two years, I was never disappointed.

Wearing your spoiler

Enjoying the vacation so incredibly much, I must thank Shappu for all the hours spent so far ranting about Rebels, and (re)watching The Clone Wars.

[And playing Squadrons.

But this is another story]

You know you are not a good friend when you forget to remove a super spoiler-y season seven t-shirt just before starting the last four episodes.

Sooooooorry!!

Chibi Kanera

I finally received these absolutely adorable Maxxmerch pins, featuring many of my favorite Star Wars characters.

I initially wanted to buy just this "Kanera" pair, but then they were all so cute that I couldn't stop to Hera and Kanan alone.

I will share them in multiple posts (I feel already guilty in placing Hera in the second photo) because the details truly deserve attention.

As usual, not formally a pin collector here, but I start having an embarrassing quantity of Star Wars pins for denying to be. 

萬事如意

When I was a kid, my grandmother used to scold me, repeating that I was 'ambitious', implying that was a terrible thing to be.

As a 'good girl' a was supposed to be modest, quiet, and always ready to happily set for the smaller piece of cake, the uglier cookie, the unpopular toy.

So, I was trained to graciously automatically self inflict the worst crab on the table.

[And, yes, this is a citation from a wonderful book by Amy Tan, then a brilliant movie starring Ming-Na Wen - 'our' Fennec Ming-Na Wen- which I absolutely suggest to everyone: The Joy Luck Club, 喜福會].

What that many people often misjudge about the generation of women used to gladly accept 'whatever is left', is that this does not imply that we think we deserve less than others, or that we lack in intentions or 'ambition'.

It is not for a sense of inferiority that guides our choices, but the awareness that we can handle it, no matter what life throws at us.

Fundamentally, we consider ourselves stronger, so that our focus and tenacity can make up for the initial disadvantage.

Ambition, ultimately, is not at all the antithesis of being (or try to be) kind, compassionate, selfless. We can be all that, and, at the same time, knowing that we deserve whatever we crave, that we are able to achieve it.

Even when we start from the lower ranks, even when we knowingly accept the disadvantage.

So, unfortunately for my grandmother, I don't think that I stopped, not even a second in my life, to be 'ambitious'.

Or, a Slytherin, someone would say.

am·bi·tion

/amˈbiSH(ə)n/

"A strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work."