LOVE FOR BEGINNERS // 情書


The Letters

In which the memory of elephants, truer with every passing year, is but a record of affection — every laugh and every tear.


Letter No. 1: Fresh strawberries & vanilla Häagen-Dazs

Letter No. 2: Lines

Letter No. 3: Taxi ride

Letter No. 4: Arrivals

Letter No. 5: Departures

Letter No. 6: Breath of life

Letter No. 7: Eating out

Letter No. 8: Eating in

Letter No. 9: A home shouldn’t be silent

Letter No. 10: Mandarin

Letter No. 11: Waking and washing

Letter No. 12: Breakfast in bed

Letter No. 13: Birthday boy

Letter No. 14: Beauty and the beast

Letter No. 15: Apartment, alone

Letter No. 16: You dream of durians

Letter No. 17: You taste like tong sui

Letter No. 18: The stars are us

Letter No. 19: When we wake…

Letter No. 20: A smile that explodes

Letter No. 21: All the colours of the rainbow

Letter No. 22: Song for a pair of songbirds

Letter No. 23: Faces

Letter No. 24: Where have all the hours gone?

Letter No. 25: The far side of forever

Letter No. 26: A tale of two Oktoberfests

Letter No. 27: I’m not here

Letter No. 28: All you need is love

Letter No. 29: Beauty mark

Letter No. 30: Knocked out

Letter No. 31: Walk

Letter No. 32: Still November

Letter No. 33: The golden brew

Letter No. 34: Untitled

Letter No. 35: We are children

Letter No. 36: All through the night

Letter No. 37: Kopi-O kaw

Letter No. 38: Dusk till dawn

Letter No. 39: A love letter in seven days

Letter No. 40: Morsels

Letter No. 41: Humanly

Letter No. 42: 50 first movie dates

Letter No. 43: Fragile

Letter No. 44: Sunshine

Letter No. 45: The grass is greener

Letter No. 46: How we met

Letter No. 47: A new leaf

Letter No. 48: A Chinese Valentine

Letter No. 49: Raise it up

Letter No. 50: Saturday night

Letter No. 51: The Devil’s birthday

Letter No. 52: Always return

Letter No. 53: Angkoo kueh

Letter No. 54: Happiness is a warm bun

Letter No. 55: Your heavenly nuts

Letter No. 56: Bed

Letter No. 57: Like tea for tai-tais

Letter No. 58: Bowl me over

Letter No. 59: Winter dumplings

Letter No. 60: A very good year

Letter No. 61: This is love

Letter No. 62: The smallest things

Letter No. 63: Dancing, the night is blind

Letter No. 64: Mummies and pterodactyls

Letter No. 65: A garden of our own

Letter No. 66: Sweet pussy willow

Letter No. 67: ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’

Letter No. 68: My four faces

Letter No. 69: Lost in (Google) translation

Letter No. 70: Reunion

Letter No. 71: Japanese curry

Letter No. 72: When you laugh in bed

Letter No. 73: As you please

Letter No. 74: Three years

Letter No. 75: Tonkatsu

Letter No. 76: Baskin Robbins dreams

Letter No. 77: This is happiness

Letter No. 78: Slow days

Letter No. 79: My beautiful love story

Letter No. 80: Good fortune

Letter No. 81: The Love Song

Letter No. 82: Chicken soup

Letter No. 83: The Zen of road rage

Letter No. 84: Ginkgo barley beancurd

Letter No. 85: More now than before

Letter No. 86: Getaway

Letter No. 87: It’s time.

Letter No. 88: It’s you.

Letter No. 89: Water runs deep

Letter No. 90: Ritual

Letter No. 91: Pineapple tarts

Letter No. 92: Paradise

Letter No. 93: Fresh pussy willow

Letter No. 94: First date

Letter No. 95: Memories for sale

Letter No. 96: Abalone and mushrooms

Letter No. 97: Birthday wish

Letter No. 98: Coming home

Letter No. 99: The storm

Letter No. 100: Signal to silence

Letter No. 101: Paper pineapples

Letter No. 102: Klutz

Letter No. 103: Retirement

Letter No. 104: The eighty-percent-ionist

Letter No. 105: Spending time

Letter No. 106: In the mailbox

Letter No. 107: Paparazzi

Letter No. 108: Eat, eat, eat

Letter No. 109: The orange Moleskine

Letter No. 110: Close to you

Letter No. 111: Horny

Letter No. 112: Someone like you

Letter No. 113: This is life

Letter No. 114: Like stars

Letter No. 115: Balding

Letter No. 116: These small hours

Letter No. 117: Listen

Letter No. 118: Towel boys

Letter No. 119: Pause

Letter No. 120: Appetite

Letter No. 121: Routines

Letter No. 122: It’s Sunday

Letter No. 123: The week is long

Letter No. 124: The leaf

Letter No. 125: A different light at night

Letter No. 126: Desire

Letter No. 127: Bubbles

Letter No. 128: It’s going to rain

Letter No. 129: The hotel room

Letter No. 130: All fools

Letter No. 131: Chicken rice

Letter No. 132: Happy

Letter No. 133: Old men

Letter No. 134: Wednesday

Letter No. 135: Snooze

Letter No. 136: Two bowls of ramen

Letter No. 137: Bread

Letter No. 138: Two plates of rice

Letter No. 139: Clean

Letter No. 140: Dulce de leche

Letter No. 141: Coffee beans

Letter No. 142: Instead

Letter No. 143: Lazybones

Letter No. 144: The missing photograph

Letter No. 145: Sit-ups and Thai omelettes

Letter No. 146: Washing dishes

Letter No. 147: Mahatma Gandhi

Letter No. 148: Not Nigella’s kitchen

Letter No. 149: Panna cotta

Letter No. 150: Running on fumes

Letter No. 151: Back from Bangkok

Letter No. 152: Nose job

Letter No. 153: A pretty nurse is like…

Letter No. 154: Angel

Letter No. 155: Ice-cream

Letter No. 156: Teatime

Letter No. 157: Tiramisu

Letter No. 158: Green tea

Letter No. 159: Tranquility

Letter No. 160: Feel like cooking tonight

Letter No. 161: Ikea

Letter No. 162: Dinner conversations

Letter No. 163: Coverage

Letter No. 164: Two missing pieces

Letter No. 165: Punch drunk baby love

Letter No. 166: Laundry day

Letter No. 167: Prometheus

Letter No. 168: Tennis match

Letter No. 169: Mr. Toesies

Letter No. 170: Sparkle

Letter No. 171: Birthday

Letter No. 172: Shaking the Dalai Lama’s hand

Letter No. 173: Nightmare

Letter No. 174: Fragrance

Letter No. 175: Nothing is happening

Letter No. 176: Flowers in a room

Letter No. 177: The cat and the cockroach

Letter No. 178: Cinema

Letter No. 179: Warmth

Letter No. 180: Duck leg confit

Letter No. 181: Camera

Letter No. 182: Meals without thrills

Letter No. 183: The end of the day

Letter No. 184: Tummy trouble

Letter No. 185: Brushing teeth

Letter No. 186: Sunset

Letter No. 187: Songs

Letter No. 188: Daichow

Letter No. 189: Hot romance

Letter No. 190: Soup

Letter No. 191: Bourne again

Letter No. 192: This beautiful world

Letter No. 193: The cane

Letter No. 194: Another Chinese Valentine

Letter No. 195: Surprise me

Letter No. 196: Move

Letter No. 197: Manja

Letter No. 198: Porridge

Letter No. 199: Like a zombie film

Letter No. 200: In nature

Letter No. 201: The most beautiful words

Letter No. 202: Soda

Letter No. 203: In my room

Letter No. 204: “De quoi avons nous l’air?”

Letter No. 205: Keep the lights on

Letter No. 206: Take it

Letter No. 207: It’s only Tuesday

Letter No. 208: Spider lilies

Letter No. 209: “that others may not see as golden”

Letter No. 210: Black cloud

Letter No. 211: “Now the waves murmur”

Letter No. 212: “Like we just invented love”

Letter No. 213: “The sun set behind his eyes”

Letter No. 214: “And we make it up as we go along”

Letter No. 215: The speed of light

Letter No. 216: “I will think no less of you.”

Letter No. 217: Superman

Letter No. 218: “what’s happened to that dream”

Letter No. 219: Flying

Letter No. 220: Sugar

Letter No. 221: Surrounded

Letter No. 222: Minimal

Letter No. 223: “As if we had fresh lives”

Letter No. 224: A kiss in court

Letter No. 225: Oh Paris!

Letter No. 226: “This we have now”

Letter No. 227: Joy is a song in the city

Letter No. 228: “thinking's just like not thinking”

Letter No. 229: Karma

Letter No. 230: “laugh awhile, I can make your heart feel”

Letter No. 231: Used to anything

Letter No. 232: “Love makin’, heart breakin’, soul shakin’…”

Letter No. 233: Kopitiam

Letter No. 234: The well

Letter No. 235: Dark chocolate

Letter No. 236: “I caught your hands under our table”

Letter No. 237: The daily dose

Letter No. 238: Panama Geisha

Letter No. 239: A room of our own

Letter No. 240: A Christmas tree

Letter No. 241: Another Christmas tree

Letter No. 242: The Christmas tree

Letter No. 243: “And I love you without measure”

Letter No. 244: The end of the world

Letter No. 245: I’ll be home for Christmas

Letter No. 246: A pair of hobbits

Letter No. 247: Dream hope love imagine

Letter No. 248: Congee for Mr. Grumpy

Letter No. 249: Missing pieces

Letter No. 250: Pork trotters and cappuccinos

Letter No. 251: A boy who wanted to go to Peru

Letter No. 252: The apartment and the tower

Letter No. 253: The tower and the apartment

Letter No. 254: What you get instead of romance

Letter No. 255: 臘味飯

Letter No. 256: “…and Company.”

Letter No. 257: Lavender milk

Letter No. 258: Acid

Letter No. 259: Looking up

Letter No. 260: Never ask why

Letter No. 261: A working day

Letter No. 262: The air that I breathe

Letter No. 263: Bottled green tea, hot

Letter No. 264: Washi crane

Letter No. 265: Sapporo summer

Letter No. 266: Partner in crime

Letter No. 267: Lost and found

Letter No. 268: Fox tales

Letter No. 269: Let’s ride!

Letter No. 270: Anywhere is here

Letter No. 271: Rituals

Letter No. 272: “I’ll sail ships for you”

Letter No. 273: Vipers

Letter No. 274: Nekisse

Letter No. 275: “…but there is nothing else…”

Letter No. 276: Lavender butter cake

Letter No. 277: Mothermotherland

Letter No. 278: Impersonations

Letter No. 279: The hottest weight

Letter No. 280: “Fearless on my breath”

Letter No. 281: Staycation

Letter No. 282: Smitten

Letter No. 283: Cantonese fried rice

Letter No. 284: “Baby, I Love Your Way”

Letter No. 285: Iced coffee

Letter No. 286: A little prayer

Letter No. 287: “Picked all my weeds but kept the flowers”

Letter No. 288: “a happy glass of champagne”

Letter No. 289: Jack-o’-lantern

Letter No. 290: Witches and velociraptors

Letter No. 291: The bench

Letter No. 292: “Look to the stars”

Letter No. 293: Red eggs

Letter No. 294: The right direction

Letter No. 295: A joyful Sunday of revelations

Letter No. 296: Six

Letter No. 297: Animal antics

Letter No. 298: Another working day

Letter No. 299: We are each other’s temple

Letter No. 300: The boy in the café

Letter No. 301: Sleepless beauty

Letter No. 302: Caterpillar

Letter No. 303: Books for your birthday

Letter No. 304: Walkabout

Letter No. 305: Arcade

Letter No. 306: “Goodnight, baby.”

Letter No. 307: Nothing is better than this

Letter No. 308: Wordlessly

Letter No. 309: Snow in Stockholm

Letter No. 310: It’s raining

Letter No. 311: “it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back”

Letter No. 312: Advice

Letter No. 313: “to the end of the line”

Letter No. 314: “Living is easy with eyes closed”

Letter No. 315: A love letter in seven years

Letter No. 316: The darkest spell

Letter No. 317: Words

Letter No. 318: Petai

Letter No. 319: The first thing

Letter No. 320: Monolithic

Letter No. 321: “Because the night”

Letter No. 322: A is for acar

Letter No. 323: “…in the fullness of time.”

Letter No. 324: Nothing is…

Letter No. 325: Bear

Letter No. 326: “This day will not come around again.”

Letter No. 327: Deconstruction

Letter No. 328: “It’s like you’re my mirror”

Letter No. 329: Race

Letter No. 330: Albatross

Letter No. 331: “I still think they’re flowers”

Letter No. 332: Let it snow

Letter No. 333: “There is a light that never goes out”

Letter No. 334: Fireworks

Letter No. 335: “Who we were isn’t lost before we were us”

Letter No. 336: Lavender

Letter No. 337: Wild grass

Letter No. 338: “There is now.”

Letter No. 339: Lavender pouches

Letter No. 340: “Of course you’ll have regrets…”

Letter No. 341: Every minute counts

Letter No. 342: Ramen and ice-cream

Letter No. 343: Hair

Letter No. 344: Oh what a day! What a lovely, lovely day!

Letter No. 345: “Don’t let yourself go”

Letter No. 346: Kindness

Letter No. 347: The bed hug

Letter No. 348: Garlic

Letter No. 349: “I said it first!”

Letter No. 350: Mooncake

Letter No. 351: “How was your day, dear?”

Letter No. 352: Lunch date

Letter No. 353: “When we were young”

Letter No. 354: Tend to your soul

Letter No. 355: “Mine had music in it”

Letter No. 356: You tell me you’re getting fatter

Letter No. 357: The sweetest years

Letter No. 358: What love is

Letter No. 359: Bitter and sweet

Letter No. 360: The Valentine’s Day Grinch

Letter No. 361: Mushroom soup

Letter No. 362: A picture of you

Letter No. 363: “Running up that hill”

Letter No. 364: Som tum serenade

Letter No. 365: Gratitude

Letter No. 366: Closing the gap

Letter No. 367: Antarctica, or On your 40th birthday

Letter No. 368: Late the day

Letter No. 369: Making adjustments

Letter No. 370: Observant

Letter No. 371: The 4-hour secret

Letter No. 372: Unblossomed

Letter No. 373: “press them like fresh flowers into my memory”

Letter No. 374: Your ring

Letter No. 375: Rainbows

Letter No. 376: The gravity of son-in-law eggs

Letter No. 377: Anchor

Letter No. 378: “With your face sketched on it twice”

Letter No. 379: Enough

Letter No. 380: Welcome

Letter No. 381: Trinity

Letter No. 382: Secret feast

Letter No. 383: The way

Letter No. 384: Energy

Letter No. 385: The last week of March

Letter No. 386: Light and dark

Letter No. 387: Snake skin

Letter No. 388: Coffee for the Buddha

Letter No. 389: 家鄉

Letter No. 390: Paint it red

Letter No. 391: Grow old

Letter No. 392: New is now

Letter No. 393: The Rama VIII Bridge

Letter No. 394: Succour

Letter No. 395: Walking in the rain

Letter No. 396: A home should be tidy and messy

Letter No. 397: Safe and sound

Letter No. 398: Is this a love song?

Letter No. 399: Halloween

Letter No. 400: Eternal summer

Letter No. 401: Work is work

Letter No. 402: Let us be gentle with each other

Letter No. 403: Fruits and flowers, linen and silk

Letter No. 404: Learning from lard

Letter No. 405: Make the bed

Letter No. 406: Just one thing

Letter No. 407: Almost summer

Letter No. 408: Fool’s day

Letter No. 409: Never cold

Letter No. 410: Falls apart

Letter No. 411: Happy feet

Letter No. 412: A cotton garden in the sky

Letter No. 413: The world

Letter No. 414: The washroom

Letter No. 415: Pain au chocolat

Letter No. 416: Lemon and lime

Letter No. 417: Gerberas

Letter No. 418: Another name for rust

Letter No. 419: Happy together

Letter No. 420: Crêpes

Letter No. 421: Clouds

Letter No. 422: Old men

Letter No. 423: Being single

Letter No. 424: Winter date

Letter No. 425: Mirror

Letter No. 426: Be yourself

Letter No. 427: Five years ago

Letter No. 428: Chap Goh Mei

Letter No. 429: Clandestine

Letter No. 430: Valentine’s Eve

Letter No. 431: Old rice

Letter No. 432: No other, no better

Letter No. 433: Quarantine

Letter No. 434: Practice makes perfect

Letter No. 435: Stay in place

Letter No. 436: Congee, the right way

Letter No. 437: ตัววุ่นวาย

Letter No. 438: Details make all the difference

Letter No. 439: Curry for dinner

Letter No. 440: Haircut

Letter No. 441: You are the Peking duck of my heart

Letter No. 442: Canon in D

Letter No. 443: A holiday

Letter No. 444: Another gift

Letter No. 445: Pistachios

Letter No. 446: Guide

Letter No. 447: Sunbird

Letter No. 448: Where we are

Letter No. 449: Our garden

Letter No. 450: These flowers are love letters

Letter No. 451: We are not alone

Letter No. 452: Family

Letter No. 453: 1,000 stars (Part 1)

Letter No. 454: 1,000 stars (Part 2)

Letter No. 455: An early summer

Letter No. 456: Strawberry daifuku

Letter No. 457: Steps

Letter No. 458: The week and the month

Letter No. 459: Prayer

Letter No. 460: I take you

Letter No. 461: Little dragon

Letter No. 462: Groceries

Letter No. 463: English lessons

Letter No. 464: A walk in Sukhumvit

Letter No. 465: Peanut butter crunch

Letter No. 466: White wings

Letter No. 467: Surrender

Letter No. 468: The things we do together

Letter No. 469: Crabs and robots

Letter No. 470: Any time, anytime

Letter No. 471: Thank you

Letter No. 472: Coffee and crêpes

Letter No. 473: Fuchsia

Letter No. 474: My heart of hearts

Letter No. 475: Jewel

Letter No. 476: “What are you having today?”

Letter No. 477: Mooncake sunset

Letter No. 478: Where do butterflies sleep?

Letter No. 479: Froggy

Letter No. 480: Beloved

Letter No. 481: Thundercats

Letter No. 482: Geography lessons

Letter No. 483: Tablecloth

Letter No. 484: Dessert

Letter No. 485: The sound of your voice

Letter No. 486: Destiny

Letter No. 487: Harvest

Letter No. 488: Pink-necked green pigeons

Letter No. 489: A sorta anniversary

Letter No. 490: Back in Bangkok

Letter No. 491: Cherimoya

Letter No. 492: “I told sunset about you…”

Letter No. 493: Blue

Letter No. 494: “I told sunrise about you…”

Letter No. 495: Numbers

Letter No. 496: Solstice

Letter No. 497: Rainbow Mountain

Letter No. 498: Suwulluladam

Letter No. 499: The years have never been kinder

Letter No. 500: Anniversaries

Letter No. 501: Time for a time

Letter No. 502: Homecoming

Letter No. 503: Restoration

Letter No. 504: Deer and antelopes

Letter No. 505: A love letter in seven and seven years

Letter No. 506: Our clouds

Letter No. 507: You make me want to be a better man

Letter No. 508: Soulmates

Letter No. 509: 45 Ways…

Letter No. 510: Our precious days

Letter No. 511: The weather

Letter No. 512: Silly boys

Letter No. 513: Amazing

Letter No. 514: Sabbatical

Letter No. 515: Cheerleader

Letter No. 516: Older

Letter No. 517: Cherry magic

Letter No. 518: Cardio

Letter No. 519: Bands

Letter No. 520: Everything, everything

Letter No. 521: Eight

Letter No. 522: We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day

Letter No. 523: You are my bravest star

Letter No. 524: Mayongchit

Letter No. 525: This I know to be true

Letter No. 526: Crazy weather

Letter No. 527: You are

Letter No. 528: Waking up

Letter No. 529: Rooted

Letter No. 530: Bak kut teh

Letter No. 531: Multiverse

Letter No. 532: Chrysler

Letter No. 533: Only fools

Letter No. 534: Saint Etoile

Letter No. 535: A house of our own

Letter No. 536: Finally

Letter No. 537: Rain

Letter No. 538: Long weekend

Letter No. 539: Side by side

Letter No. 540: Timeless

Letter No. 541: Nine Muses

Letter No. 542: The day after…

Letter No. 543: Sweet sixteen

Letter No. 544: Best days

Letter No. 545: Doughnuts

Letter No. 546: Gardening

Letter No. 547: Coffee, eggs, oats

Letter No. 548: Cosmos

Letter No. 549: Liquid diamond

Letter No. 550: Patience





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