Category: Blog
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Some foods please the eyes but aren’t appealing to the taste. So much for buying this food, thinking it tastes as good as it looks. Others don’t look as good as they could have been, but once it gets in your mouth, you’d want to have more of it. Like the boring pork barbecue I…
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Isn’t it easy to commit to things that are not yet happening? Say, for example, blocking a schedule in the future. When people ask you if you’re willing to commit to X amount of time 6 months from now, you could quickly respond with a yes, especially when your planner says you’re still free by…
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We use money as a medium of exchange or a measure of value. And without money, we wonder how we could move forward in our day-to-day activities. So it may seem that money is everything. Because if you have money, you have autonomy on where it goes and what to do with your life (unless…
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Does it ever scare you to try something new? Not that I travel a lot, but on occasions that I do, I try to read the road signs just in case I have to travel through that route again. And most of the time, I really have to travel mainly on the same streets, doing…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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