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My first solo international trip to Perth, Australia
15–22 minutesI want to share with you my experience as a Filipino delegate at the International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES) 2019 in Perth, Australia, which I initially posted on my previous blog and accessible here. Before we continue with the story, I want to take you back to when my thesis adviser, Dr.…
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I was taught that reading books could take me to places I’d never been. And it sure did! I even traveled to imagined worlds that felt real, like the real ones I’d only read about. Blogging here for almost six years now, I never thought my words could travel so far over the internet—50 countries…
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Dear reader from the future, I am writing this in my 30s, reminiscing about my young self, aged 10. Looking back, I remember how I’ve always been in my head, dreaming about what kind of adult I would become, and how my life would turn out. I had questions like: Will I never be able…
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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 The main reason I kept coming back to this single post, which remains unpublished, was…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…