Category: Blog
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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 The main reason I kept coming back to this single post, which remains unpublished, was…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…
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I patted myself on my back, yelling “Congratulations” out into the open, as if celebrating with a team. Celebrations in remote work feel lonely and empty, even when the group chats are loud with celebratory notifications. We were always crunching the hours to beat the deadline—shuffling between data gathering and writing, between data analysis and…
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While I was still living in Metro Manila, I kept myself abreast of the latest news and even spent hours binge-watching Senate hearings, or making them white noise as I worked at home (and sometimes in the lab too), as if they were television dramas. The governing powers just feel so close in the metro,…
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When I was in the metro, enjoying the things I haven’t tried at home—because there weren’t shops that offer them before—made me long for the day when I could share them with my family, especially my sister. Now that I’m back home—and local businesses are getting bolder and more creative with their products post-pandemic, just…