Alone Diaries: Last Bits of Florence, the Museum Caught Fire

You said my name.

[music] Like it hurt to breathe.

Eyes on the floor.

Hands in your sleeves.

[singing] Half-finished glass.

[music] Ring on the table.

[music] One step to claim. This is my last week in Florence and I already know that I'm going to miss all of this.

Art, the streets, the food.

You cannot skip this [music] one. It was

the home of the Medici family, family that basically founded the entire Renaissance.

[music] And then the fire [music] alarm went off. They told me upstairs caught fire

off. They told me upstairs caught fire because it's too windy.

[music] [music] I have been having Italian non-stop, so today I'm craving avocado toast.

[music] Chit white cup.

Good morning.

Pack of magic. This is the tiniest bus I've ever been on. A little wider and we would not have made it through today.

Same location, three stores side by side [music] and every single one had a queue. The one I got is called the

queue. The one I got is called the paradise. It's with pistachio cream and

paradise. It's with pistachio cream and mozzarella. It is literally paradise

mozzarella. It is literally paradise This downstairs is standing right over there. He's so famous on a Chinese

there. He's so famous on a Chinese social media called the red notes. He

told me that he would even invited to go to China in May and all the best luck.

You said my name.

[music] Like it hurt. This is the cheapest jewelry store in the center and you are paying five times extra [music] the price in other stores. In your sleeves.

Half-finished glass.

[music] Here we have the best view in the city and honestly so easy to get to. We just

walked from the center maybe 20 minutes.

Florence is so tiny just like it's buses.

The view and the atmosphere here it really feels like in the movies.

[music] [cheering] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music]

[music] I'm so so so satisfied with my makeup today. I think I did [music] a great

today. I think I did [music] a great job. Now I'm just going to put on my

job. Now I'm just going to put on my lipstick and apply it on first. Can you

believe it? I bought this on Alibaba.

[music] So cheap.

Next I just need to moisturize my lips.

Try on this color.

I think this was a gift from my cousin. I'm going to be outside

my cousin. I'm going to be outside [music] this whole day. I'm going to the Mark Rothko exhibition. I'm so excited. It's

Rothko exhibition. I'm so excited. It's

once in a generation show because [music] it's uh curated by his son Christopher Rothko and it's [music] in Florence because he had such a strong bond with

Florence and his show is going [music] to be held in three places. Museo di San Marco uh the Biblioteca, the library [music]

and then the Palazzo Strozzi. I'm like

so excited. I'm [music] I know his work is really deep about human emotions and when I think about it I get goosebumps.

[music] So back to the topic, I need to set my makeup so it stays perfectly and this [music] is the NARS

setting powder. So I'm just setting my

setting powder. So I'm just setting my T-zone because it can be quite oily.

It does add a little [music] white shimmer, so I'm going to add back the highlighters on top of my nose.

Okay.

Done.

[music] I am walking towards the Which one we're visiting first? The

library.

[music] [music] [music] [music] The library was designed by Michelangelo to house [music] a Medici collection of over 11,000 manuscripts. To prevent

these priceless [music] manuscripts from being stolen, every single book was physically [music] chained to its designated bench. If you

were a scholar back then, you either came to read the book in person or manually copied [music] it by sitting there. You could not borrow it.

there. You could not borrow it.

And now I'm going to my second stop. Um

it's Museo di San Marco.

[music] [music] What is so special about this place is there are painted [music] frescos in every monk's cell. Not the public rooms.

The private [music] cells. Tiny rooms

where individual monks slept and prayed.

So the monk would wake up and [music] immediately be inside the image. The

idea was that the painting [music] itself was a form of meditation. When I

walked into the room the atmosphere made me want to kneel down and surrender.

[music] I'm not religious myself but this atmosphere is surreal.

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Hey guys, I'm back from the exhibition.

So in the end I got these two postcard.

So I read about Rothko's history [music] before. And I know what he wants to do

before. And I know what he wants to do is to echo with human's deepest emotion.

However, I'm not connecting with most of his work. [music] Oops, my window just

his work. [music] Oops, my window just closed by itself.

I'm back. So, it's like very windy today, so the windows were just moving by itself. So, the work that [music] I

by itself. So, the work that [music] I did connect with is from his early period, and that's why I got this postcard. You can see from this period

postcard. You can see from this period he's still using a lot of colors. They

are brilliant and luminous. And then his work began with yellow, [music] and then it became green, dark blue, red, and then black, and then gray. It

became like darker and darker and more depressive. I think it might has a

depressive. I think it might has a connection with his mental activities during his time when he was creating these arts. I do feel the silence that

these arts. I do feel the silence that people are describing, but for me, it's not a silence that's meditative. It's a

silent [music] where there's nothing happening there. It's not reflecting

happening there. It's not reflecting anything back to me, and that's why I got the second postcard. It's a postcard to remind myself that your work doesn't

have to resonate with everyone, and his work doesn't resonate with me, but he still made [music] it. During his time when he was alive, he was commissioned

to do a lot of work. So, this postcard means like you don't have to create something that everybody likes to be someone.

Just create for the sake of creating and just be yourself. [music] I go to like an art exhibition like this, it's a chance where I can talk to myself. Art

for me is reflecting what's in my mind, [music] and it helped me to self-explore. It was an interesting day.

self-explore. It was an interesting day.

[music] I'm going to go wash my face and do more video editing.

[music] [music] [music] [singing] Hi guys. I'm planning to clean my room

Hi guys. I'm planning to clean my room because it's really messy right now. A

lot of stuff over here, too. And then

I'm heading out to drop off some packages. So, I got these two bags

packages. So, I got these two bags because I wanted a tote bag, but the size difference is a little too big.

This bag is going to devour me. But then

again, like is this too small?

It's so hard. Like can can can you make one in the middle? Like it is this like an everyday bag? This one is cute.

I just need a bag that fit my camera, my phone, and my lipstick. That's it. I

bought it on Farfetch.

[music] [singing] [music] Guys, I bought this eye primer because I finished the NARS one, and I no longer want to use that one

because I think it's not that good. I

still Now, I have like super oily eyelids, so when I don't apply an eye primer, my eyeshadow goes into my eye crease. This is super cute, right? It's

crease. This is super cute, right? It's

very Barbie doll packaging. It looks

like this.

Oh, actually smells like vanilla. It's

also waterproof. I love to see my product hitting the pan like this. I

love it.

And this one.

And this one.

I might repurchase, but depends on if I have new loves. So, I have a new lipstick here. This is a gift from my

lipstick here. This is a gift from my sister. It's from Gisou, honey infused.

sister. It's from Gisou, honey infused.

Smells really nice. Smells like caramel.

I love the color because it's very natural. It's very moisturizing. I think

natural. It's very moisturizing. I think

this is the best color in the collection.

You [music] sat on the counter, [singing] barefoot, chipped paint on your toes, [music] laughing at a movie.

We both forgot how it [music] goes. Your

hoodie on my shoulder [singing] smelled like coffee.

Rain [music] and smoke. You said, "Tell me a secret."

me a secret."