Abyss

Sometimes I feel like I am about to step into an abyss and that’s it for me. No, it’s not suicide I am thinking about. Just letting everything go. Letting it all happen and letting it all pass. I think my life’s been one big sit down affair. I let everything move around me but [...]

Would I?

Would you rather have a four-day work week or be able to work from home? I don’t mind working both ways. When I was still in the corporate world, I kept thinking that a four-day work week would be much better and more efficient for everyone in my department. I was sure there would be [...]

Other than English and Filipino

Are there any other languages you wish you could speak? I wish I can speak Spanish, French, Japanese and Italian. My parents and my dad’s siblings can speak Spanish haltingly. My mom learned it in college while my dad and his siblings learned it from their grandmother. They haven’t taught us younger generation yet but [...]

The beauty of flowers

I am drawn to floral designs. I think the beauty of flowers is something that we are all drawn to. It is universal, having a language of its own. It is in perpetuity. When my mom was still alive, she loved everything floral. Some of her clothes, patterns at home, even on scents… she just [...]

Bipolar?!

I maybe bipolar. I feel extreme emotions from time to time. Too much happiness and too much sadness. There’s also too much anger which I experience like a burst of madness! It’s a gloomy weather since yesterday. I love it! I usually go for sunny days but since yesterday, the gloomy weather brought on a [...]

Party’s over!

What are the warning signs that you should leave a party? When I feel like going out to get some air and I don’t feel like going back inside. Or when I feel my mind drifting to things I could be doing at home or in another place. Or when I feel like staying locked [...]

Along the shore I walk

When we went to Bataan before, we stayed there overnight. I woke up around two in the morning and every one in the neighboring huts were also awake. Not wanting to wake up two uncles snoring in the downstairs eating area, I took my cup of coffee with me to the shore. It was so [...]

Raw Egg, Salt and Rice

When I was younger, whenever there’s nothing to eat and I was hungry, I’d get cooked rice, a raw egg and some salt. I would mix it and eat. It might sound icky to you but the truth was, it’s delicious! I think I grew so big like this even if we didn’t have so [...]

Not a ballerina

Ballet has this pull on me. It seduces me whenever I think of it. As a child I’ve wanted to be a ballerina. But with the tuition fees and basic expenses and there’s five of us, it’s impossible for my parents to afford ballet lessons. When time came that they could afford it already, I [...]

Morning coffee

I have hyperacidity. I shouldn’t even be drinking anything with caffeine in it but I just couldn’t start my morning right with coffee! I am a coffee drinker. I used to drink 6 to 8 cups of coffee a day. It’s now reduced to 2 to 3 cups only. All because of my hyperacidity that [...]

Thing for luggages

My sister and I have this weird thing for luggages. We both feel that if we have good luggages around, it will attract positive energy to it prompting us to travel more. Weird, huh?! But you see, weird as it may seem to you, my sister bought this gorgeous luggage about a year ago. And [...]

Tops

I went to this place two weeks ago. It was on top of a mountain. It’s called Tops. Appropriate, isn’t it? It’s cold there. You can see the city spread out and a person like me can just sit on one of the benches there and just stare at the clouds, at the trees, everywhere! [...]

My mornings

That’s me every single day for the past four years now. As soon as I get up and do my morning rituals, I fix myself a cup of coffee, boot my pc and check emails while I check text messages, missed calls, and other stuff. My morning varies actually. It could start as early as [...]

Old songs

I can work more when there’s music in the background. I think I’ve always been like that because I grew up with music always in the background, the culprit of such habit was my mom. Right now, I am listening to Everything by Lifehouse. My fave of all the songs I love. It can be [...]

My well-being

I am fat. There’s no going around it. I know it. I am not ashamed of being one. I’ve been overweight for the most part of my life and I think I just got used to it. I don’t really like others telling me to lose weight because I already know it. Besides, I doubt [...]