Life
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Short audio ang gaining trust
If you’ve had enough of quick messages that doesn’t often require deep thinking (because you can unsend it anyway), you might like to explore sending short audio messages. And what’s fascinating about them is that they can actually hear what you mean. With transactions that can be easily exchanged online, it becomes difficult to trust… Read more
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The cosmos of Genesis 1
Recently I’ve been consuming content about how today’s science view the cosmos, which makes me think about the cosmos of Genesis 1 (from the Hebrew Bible) and how they follow a similar pattern of how everything started from wild and waste. Then there was order and life. From Genesis 1, here’s how life on earth… Read more
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Writing down the dates
If you are a regular kind of person like me, then you start to forget the dates of memorable events, although the emotions linger. We remember the stories behind an object we received from an event but often find ourselves grappling for the exact date (or at least the year) of when it happened. It… Read more
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Wanting to stay the same way
At work, we’ve been trained to be flexible enough with changes, nothing personal. And if the change makes things easier for everyone involved, especially those with higher stakes, then change sounds like the most rational way to go. But not everyone has the same mind about how things should go. While others quickly move on… Read more
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The friendships we unexpectedly create
Maybe you lament how futile it is to make friends only to part ways later once your engagement with them (in the form of studies, work, or something else entirely) is done. You may be thinking, “What’s the point?“ Is it really worth fostering friendships in engagements you know would only last while it is… Read more
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Having snacks over Cebu
My power systems instructor during undergraduate studies used to tell us about what our future would look like. He said that a time will come when some of us will have breakfast in one city, lunch over another, and dinner in another. I really wondered how it would be, and was excited if that would… Read more
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Pamamanhikan and the Filipino family tradition
If you’ve never heard about pamamanhikan before, it’s a word that describes a Filipino tradition where a groom-to-be goes to the bride-to-be’s house and asks her family for her hand in marriage. Then his family sponsors the food that would be shared among those who attended the pamamanhikan (family members only or with extended relatives)… Read more
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