2020 Year-in-Review

Let's end the year already!

Unpopular Opinion: Stop Being Productive

"It’s tough enough to be productive in the best of times let alone when we’re in a global crisis." - Chris Bailey, Author of Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction. The notion that we have so much time available these days is wonderful, but the truth is, it's the opposite…

We Are Currently Living In The History Of Tomorrow

To My Future Children,   Today, March 24, 2020, marks my 11th day of being under home quarantine. While I am in the comfort of my unit here in the metro, my present worries revolve on aspects of finding water refilling stations and online groceries around the area. Work is fine since we are doing…

Exhibit A – Top Searches

I accidentally clicked the Stats tab here in WordPress and became interested in the "Search Terms" section of the page. If you're a blogger, you will find here words and phrases that were looked up in Google and other engines that eventually landed on one of your articles. I found out that since I started…

Freedom Is Not For Our Advantage

Imagine me lying on my bed in reversed position last night while scrolling Facebook feeds. My feet were resting up high, leaning on the top portion of the bed frame, thinking that it’s effective in maintaining regular flow of blood and will prevent me from experiencing cramps while sleeping, which occurs most of the time…

Is nCov the real virus?

While heading back home after the National Business Conference I attended at Hilton Hotel this week, I finally saw the outside world following the announcement that there is already a confirmed novel Coronavirus patient here in the Philippines. I passed through BGC and recognized that the scare is real as evident by all the commuters…

Grabe January

As we all noticed by now, it's just the first month of the year yet many things have already happened. January is so damn tiring that seems like it has already overtaken all the pain we've suffered from the entire past year. As a result, "Grabe January" is one of the top trending topics in…

There is No Such Thing as Meaningless Hardship

Seems like it’s been quite some time nowThat you are not in a good condition.Things happened in one aspect of your lifeThat feels like you are trapped in a certain situation.One day, you are overthinking;The next day, you do not want to contemplate about anything.From the stage of partially denying,You jumped onto and stayed on…

Playing the Infinite Game in 2020

Since end of 2019, I've been reading posts here and there about year-in-review and all these 2020 life goals and objectives in order to get some motivation to write. But like the most part of 2019, I still find it hard to share something and pour my heart out here. I did some assessment to…

Siargao 2019

Typing words... deleting. It's been a cycle for hours now. I want to share my birthday trip this year but I can't seem to find the right way of doing it. I thought of telling stories, of describing how Siargao is different from other islands in the Philippines, of what tourists can do and what…