Author: camille
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in LiveMother and father.
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My world feels good again
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in LiveI’ve been making new friends. I’ve been meeting good people. Better people. Hopefully making better friends. I feel thankful every time I am treated nice by somebody, or when someone listens to me, smiles at me, is just plain good to me. It makes me feel that I won’t have to be so trapped in
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When I am sad I just think: I am loved.
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in LiveThis 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
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in LiveIf 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
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in LiveC 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
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in LiveWhat 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
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in PonderI 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
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in PonderI 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
