Category: Blog
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Where was I?Living lifeTrying toMake sense ofThe motionEmotionTransitionI need to breatheOh, let me thinkFor onceOh, pleaseLet me drownIn the noiseOf the screenFeeding meInformationOverloadMake me stopScroll and ScrollDeeper stillDown and downThe rabbit holeWhere was I?Living lifeMaybe INeed to writeCreate, consume?Here we goNot again
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My first solo international trip to Perth, Australia
15–22 minutesI want to share with you my experience as a Filipino delegate at the International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES) 2019 in Perth, Australia, which I initially posted on my previous blog and accessible here. Before we continue with the story, I want to take you back to when my thesis adviser, Dr.…
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I was taught that reading books could take me to places I’d never been. And it sure did! I even traveled to imagined worlds that felt real, like the real ones I’d only read about. Blogging here for almost six years now, I never thought my words could travel so far over the internet—50 countries…
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Create or consume
1–2 minutesMy digital consumption habits often get unhealthy, and I’m already drowning before I notice it. I often find myself looking at my watch and already 30 minutes have gone by since I told myself, “This would be enough for today.” I can feel my brain screaming whenever I put down my phone for the night.…
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I’ve been working on a series of tasks over time, and some days I really find it hard to work on them, even when I am staring at my list. Accomplishing them sounds easy enough, especially when all that’s left is to actually work on them instead of letting each task suspend like a mere…
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It’s funny how I suddenly received the Perfectionist badge from WordPress after doing more than 100 revisions to a blog post I started writing in November 2025. I hadn’t realized that I’ve already gone through more than a hundred revisions. The main reason I kept coming back to this single post, which remains unpublished, was…
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The first few chapters of Katabasis felt like walking through an unfamiliar terrain; I wasn’t sure I’d find my footing. But I did. And after four days of reading in broken intervals, I finished it. My friend Amira recommended it to me last year, after I’d finished her 1st book recommendation in dark academia: Ninth…