Books
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Reading a novel, watching a movie
Reading a novel pushes your mind to imagine things based on how you interpret the words of its author. But seeing its interpretation in a motion picture makes the story more alive. It’s a bonus to see it in the movie just as you imagined. All the better when your mind is opened to new Read more
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Chapter 6 from Station Eleven
After watching a replay of a book reading at the Urgent Optimists, I really find the book Station Eleven riveting. It even hits differently now that I am reading it two years into the pandemic. Though the pandemic in the novel is much worse that what we went through, I still find Chapter 6 (An Read more
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I’m still learning how to speak and write
Being a kid is both exciting and challenging. Exciting because you know there’s so much ahead of you. Challenging because there are still so many things that you have to understand and learn. When I was still in grade school, you’d usually see me writing about things I’d like to talk about in my notebooks. Read more
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What I learned about life after spending 19 years in school (eBook)
It has been my childhood dream to publish a book. I can remember how I used to obsess about publishing when I was still in high school. But back then, I understand how challenging it would be for me, coming from a small city in a developing country. Publishing isn’t like what I used to Read more
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The Adventures of Captain Horn
A bit of a backstory This is the book notes that started all the book notes I made. Wrote this around February in 2018, and for the first time, this draft finally gets a glimpse of what’s outside my computer folders. The time I poured into writing this now gets a chance to show off Read more
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