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Life Lately: On Staying, Leaving, and Finding New Beginnings

I vowed to blog at least twice a month this year, but it’s been incredibly hectic that I didn’t have time at all. I swear I wanted to, but there were too many movements the past few months that I could barely sit down to blog about everything. Can you believe we’re already on the second quarter of the year?!?

January felt so long, February seemed so short, and I feel like we skipped March and it’s suddenly April. But when I looked back at the first few months of 2018, I realized that so many things happened. Though I have fully embraced being a homebody, some major life events actually took place. [Read more…]

Annyong, 2017. Annyong, 2018.

2017 came and went, and I only managed to blog nine times. Can you believe it? I couldn’t even post at least once a month.

I started writing a post on the last day of the year, but I didn’t even finish it before my mind drifted off elsewhere. It wasn’t my best blogging year. And to be honest, it wasn’t the best year in general.

I tried a couple of times to keep the blog active, but soon enough, I ended up not posting anything for months at a time. There was rarely anything particularly exciting or something I felt the urge to write about. I didn’t want to talk about work nor did I have the energy to write about it. There were days when I felt like nothing’s really working for me, but I pulled through anyway. [Read more…]

Life Lately: On Reading, Staying In, and Trying Things for the First Time

Life Lately - August

Hello, dear readers. It’s been months since my last update and I have no excuse! I have photos ready to upload but they’re sitting on my phone waiting for months to be uploaded. My South Korea photos are basically begging to be posted. Hopefully, I’ll get to do it by next month once I get my lazy ass out of bed.

I have so many stories to tell, and so little time to tell it. I don’t want to use work as an excuse, but after work I just like resting and reading books and watching shows and shutting down my brain. I don’t want to do anything that would require me to think. Thinking what to have for dinner is the only thinking I want to do. I hope you understand.

These past few months, I’m spending more time indoors and less time being on the road. I do miss traveling, but I also enjoy wasting weekends in bed and just reading. And you know what else? I spent the last few months pondering about where I want to go and how I want to go there. It’s still confusing now, but I do hope that in the next few months, I’ll figure out what I want to do with my life. I’m not getting any younger and working with fresh grads reminds me this everyday.

Honestly, the time I was away from the blog wasn’t so bad at all. I just wish I could blog all about it in detail. I spent a lot of time reading books and binge-watching TV shows (not Kdramas!). Somewhere in between, I tried a couple of things for the first time.

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Life Lately: On Productivity or the Lack Thereof

When I started this blog, I wanted to document my misadventures as a professional. But I soon realized that I don’t really want to talk about work here. But lately I feel like all I do is work, and yet, I still don’t feel productive because I haven’t been updating my blog as often as I hoped.

I swore to blog at least twice a month, but look at February being updateless! March is a better month though, because if this post manages to leave the Drafts folder, then this will be my third post this month. *fist pump* Aside from my random trip to Taiwan in January, I haven’t been traveling at all. It makes me sad, but I’m saving up for something big this April. I hope it pushes through because I’ve been praying and hoping for years now.

So what have I been up to lately? Not much. [Read more…]

From 2016 to 2017: On Being Braver, Tougher, and Punnier

hiking mt. pundaquitIt was still 2016 when I started writing this post. But as usual, life happened. Procrastination happened. And alas, I completely forgot about it. I put it off for awhile and I ended up taking days to finish this post. It’s a perfectly apt way to round up 2016, my worst blogging year since I started in 2010, as it reflected my writing pattern.

I’d love to say something profound, and I’d even want to brag how I ended the previous year with a bang. But I spent the last two days of 2016 binge watching Gilmore Girls, in bed in my pajamas, something I have done every other weekend last year. Do I regret it? Definitely not.

I didn’t even do half of what I said I would do in 2016, but I ended up doing some unexpected things. It wasn’t a bad year. Though it’s not the best, it’s stupid not to be thankful for all the blessings and opportunities the year opened for me. Though there were times that I almost digressed back to my old self and questioned whether my actions are symptoms of depression (apparently not!), I grew up a little and realized that trudging on is better than wallowing. Besides, you can’t possibly go through quarter life crisis twice!

Despite all the memes saying it was the worst and in spite of all the crying, shouting, and delivering lame jokes everyday, 2016 wasn’t that bad. [Read more…]

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