Category: Life Blog
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We Decided To Stay
I realized that people leave, regardless of whether I stay or go.
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Moving Back To The Province
The first few weeks of this decision was hard on me. The first people I’ve told are my closest friends and are the ones who I’m going to miss A LOT.
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On Freshly Roasted Local Coffee
My induction as a Bahay Brewista has been less than a month up to this point. And I am happy to realize that my coffee consumption can be an avenue to support local businesses and local coffee farmers. Philippine Coffee My first conscious venture away from instant coffee was thru drip coffee from a brand…
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Q4 – A Social Media Fast
My Hypothesis The reason why we want to get off social media is because of the insidious way it eats up our time. A minute of scrolling quickly becomes thirty minutes and sometimes more than an hour. We suffer a feeling of guilt because we know we can be doing activities with positive consequences such…
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Happy 33rd
I made an experiment, albeit the results were somewhat obvious or at least expected: I hid my birthday from Facebook, thus disabling the birthday notification on my friends’ Facebooks. As expected, those who greeted me are from my tribe: my nuclear family, the friendships and relationships I nurtured thru the years, and others which are…
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A Union Amidst Global Pandemic
“Love in the time of Corona” the bride said. Around 150 participants cheered as my college org mates tied the knot in an unorthodox (but, I expect, soon to be normal) live-streamed zoom wedding held in California, USA. Living in the time of Covid-19 means holding a traditional church wedding or any communal celebration is…
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Quarantine Habits 2020
Habits, Atomic Habits, books, articles, YouTube videos, and posts on habits. What have you done so far about your habits since CDC Virus Quarantine? Many of us started building habits since childhood. Most habits are formed unconsciously: the time of day you take a shower, brushing your teeth before going to bed, cooking your eggs…
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In Pursuit of Creating
I’ve been in the habit of writing almost daily from April 2018 up until January 2020—albeit for a client. Still, for me it counted as creative output. At the end of January this year, I left that job and a few days following my resignation, I was hospitalized for half a month due to brain…
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