Blog
This is a collection of stories and daily musings.
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From curator to creator
After months of catching up at work, it is a relief to get a footing finally. But it isn’t as phenomenal as when you’ve gone beyond parroting and created stuff you can call your own, such as writing this blog post. But don’t all babies start as copycats? Perhaps, what I want to become is… Read more
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Good deals
You’ll never know what’s offered at the market when you don’t go out and see what’s out there. And after almost two months of looking for a space conducive to a work-from-home setup, I realized that it takes a conscious decision to stick to the budget while choosing a liveable space you’d enjoy spending your… Read more
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On playing mobile games
I grew up playing digital games in the 2000s up until high school. Some games I used to play are Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and Sims. I don’t just spend an hour or two playing these games. I play for hours and even in unfavorable conditions like traveling — you might even tag me as a… Read more
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Nope, get out
I first met the work of Jordan Peele through his comedy sketches with Keegan-Michael Key in Key & Peele. Since I enjoyed his sketches, I jumped right into Peele’s movies when I finally had access to some of them. And both movies did not disappoint! Like Nope, Get Out subtly exposes the realities of racism.… Read more
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Building a home from scratch
I wondered why adults are so fond of going to the hardware and department stores, but now that I am almost three decades older with a bit of cash to spare, I understand why. They are not particularly looking around stuff just because it is fun. They are there because they want to find that… Read more
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Are you doing it just because you can or because you should?
Playing scrabble looks easy. All you need to do is find actual words out of your tiles, place them on the board, build it on top of other words on the board, and count your score. And yes, putting them in spaces with special bonuses is a plus! However, playing it as a Gen Y… Read more
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What do you get from face to face engagements?
When my boyfriend skipped an after-event party at work because he was still jet-lagged, our previous boss but now a family friend commented how it was impolite of him to do so. But given his circumstance, understandable. So the next opportunity came for him to make amends. Not that he was guilty about his demeanor… Read more
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