Year: 2012

  • When I am sad I just think: I am loved.

    When I am sad I just think: I am loved.

    This month I feel like I have leveled-up as a person. So much happened. I’ve tried closing some lose ends with some people and while not all of it went smoothly as I’d hoped it would be, I’m still glad I took that chance. Just trying to stand up for myself this time made a…

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  • Everything is a humbling experience

    Everything is a humbling experience

    If I can’t be thankful for anything, I can be thankful for that. :)  Today: I don’t want to take my friends for granted. I want to thank them for so many things, and I don’t want to make them wait too long to hear how much I love them and how much I appreciate…

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  • One of those evenings

    One of those evenings

    C was telling me about his shoot over the weekend and I remembered when he texted me that he was jealous of Magno because he gets “recharged” by Paoie’s real hugs since she was also at the shoot.  Then I remembered him asking me last Friday if A is okay because she asked about me…

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  • Buying into the commercialized Valentine’s

    Buying into the commercialized Valentine’s

    What do couples do on Valentine’s Day? How does it feel like to have a guy surprise you with things? Yesterday was the first time I had a “date” for Valentine’s. C made my first Valentine’s day with him (or, with any guy for that matter) special enough. Woke up to a touching letter/email C…

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  • In which they said I had to rate myself

    In which they said I had to rate myself

    I have a friend who, when applying for a job with foreign employers (Singaporean, actually), was asked to rate her skills from 1-5. She didn’t want to say 5 — it seemed too high as if saying you have no other room for learning because you’re reached maximum best already. She settled for a 3,…

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  • The pressure of global competition

    The pressure of global competition

    I have recently read the article “We the restless” by Fatima Avila and it speaks very closely of how I feel: Restless. I wish to tread a path similar to Fatima: have 2 years of work experience in my country, take graduate studies abroad while traveling a lot and then eventually work with an international and…

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  • Trust yourself a little more

    Trust yourself a little more

    Recently I’ve found this great little place called “You the User.” In one of the posts entitled, “Touch,” she talks about trusting our own feelings because at one point, after we start out, little voices of doubt would creep in our mind telling us we are wrong. Every time we are disappointed or experience setbacks in…

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  • Gym: quite the new, fun thing

    Gym: quite the new, fun thing

    I have learned to what!? Go to the gym? Hell yeah! I’ve just recently started to understand how this whole business of trying to get slimmer (or a little more toned) is definitely more fun when you’re doing it with somebody: a gym-buddy, jog-buddy, whathaveyou. The last time I tried to do anything remotely similar…

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  • Second chances

    Second chances

    January has had a couple of ups and downs for me but it seems like things are turning out well again! I’ve recently met with some people to team up with on a project. One of them dropped me a short email with a very brief description of what their idea is about, and without…

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