Blog
This is a collection of stories and daily musings.
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What makes a day long?
Waking up early to catch up with the earliest boat trip to an island may sound exhausting until you are outside and watching the sun as it rises from the other half of the world. It’s easy to be sluggish the entire day, especially when you are hyperaware about being in the same place until… Read more
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Doing research and what it means to create an impact
Working behind desks and lit screens feels productive, mainly when you’ve accomplished the tasks you’ve set for the day. And when the research project is finally done, and the results are public, what comes after for a researcher? What does a researcher do anyway? Being one, I’d say that a researcher looks for answers to… Read more
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Getting to know each other at the dining table
Many things could happen when you are sharing a meal with a person, much more with a group of people you only met that day. Can you please pass the soy sauce? And a witty remark from the song playing in the background could make the entire group laugh. As the mood lightens up when… Read more
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Finding a resto and first impressions
When you are somewhere else for the first time, I think that where you eat first could make a lot of your first impression about the place. And if you have tried local cuisine and are satisfied with what you paid for, you’d feel at home even if you just got there. I’m amazed by… Read more
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Information war
It’s not just about entertainment out there on the internet. There’s also a battlefield. I learned more about it when I read Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers and wrote my thoughts about it here (on my previous website). And in light of spreading fake news… Read more
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What hard times make people do
“Perhaps the most lasting damage (referring to the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1942) was to the social fabric: years of scarcity had led many Filipinos to pilfer food and cut ethical corners in order to eat. Corruption had become a way of life for many. A new eyesore afflicted Manila, as squatter shanties… Read more
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“Flash sale”
I was duped. I bought an item I’ve been thinking about for some time now, a portable WiFi. Because these days, access to the internet is everything and you’d be missing so much at work while working away from the office if you won’t get a good one. Perhaps that’s what’s missing about the goodbye… Read more
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