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I'm configuring and changing things around my blog bit by bit, first is how I've noticed that I put life as a tag in my previous posts and the result is I had tagged it with almost every post... It goes to show what's up around here, and I mostly talk about things that are happening around me. I'm slowly going through every previous post with a new tagging system. Hope for the best, again, it's…
It feels strange that social media has made it so friendships don't really end . It's weird how we had a falling out, but we're still Instagram mutuals. We used to pull all-nighters when we were younger, then years later, when I find out you have a kid, it is through my Facebook feed. (A rhyme?!!) I know a thing or twenty things about losing friends. The oldest one I can think of is back when…
My notes on the book Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated to English by Lin King. I discovered this book by stumbling upon the list of winners of the 2026 International Booker Prize . Before reading, I got wind of the information that all chapters of the book are named after local Taiwanese dishes. I have travelled to Taiwan back in April and will come back again later this year. It…
My July was filled to the brim as back to back weekends had me celebrating my loved ones' birthdays and going out with r. Me and r celebrated our eightieth month together. It was also around this time around some six years ago, that we first started getting to know each other officially 1 . I know this because I have a date in my head of when I first invited her over. She brought take out and…
Me and r had the longest bus ride of our lives (literally) this weekend to Sagada . It is another unforgettable trip and even now I am overcome with the feeling that it was too short and I miss the town already. Sunday, when we took our last few moments looking at the town from the bus window, I was thinking about how we have work the next morning. As me and r, stubborn as we are, did not file any…
A kind reminder to myself that I can turn my brain off. I have realized I can never really stop my thoughts but I can opt out of listening to them. The context is I have a lot of free time lately and the days just go to show that in order to stay true to the promises I keep to myself, I have to shut off my brain and just act. Hesitation is dangerous! I've been spending time with r and family and…
Made more changes in the apartment, so much so it deserves its own changelog. The sunlight now dance in my eyes, beautifully and rightly so, whenever it is working hours because we've relocated the desk to the opposite wall. We have space now, it is for the perfect sofa that we are still looking for. Side note, I should read out loud more :D
It's been a while since I put my name, email and phone number on form fields for more times than I can count in a day. This only means one thing... and that is I am now actively looking for another job. The last time I did this, with this sort of aggression, was before I got the job that I'm in right now - which didn't last very long, because I was a fresh graduate then and I found a company that…
How do you decide what to eat on every meal every day? I've been thinking about this. I figure everyone has different answers. It also depends if you do this yourself or someone cooks for you every day. So what do you or they do? What is the system like? If you don't know, it's time to be curious. If they have any system or none at all. I do the meal-planning in our home. I treat it as a chore the…
It happened! They brought me back to work in the office! In June I only had to go once a week and unfortunately the pass that we have to do this... expired. They cite it's because of compliance because of the heavy auditing/monitoring that needs to be done in our line of work. Man but I had just been so reliant on my mornings when I had time to go to the gym before my shift and everything else on…