jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • Two years in and we’re still here

    It’s incredible how the two years have passed, and I’m still here; you are. But I’m still missing a lot of blog posts, and I’m still trying to catch up by writing them one by one. How hard is it to build a habit? But one thing I’ve learned throughout these two years of creating… Read more


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  • The gift of wandering on a work week

    Unlike most people I know, I have the liberty of time at work because we are task-based and not time-based. And this is one of the days when we work and simultaneously be in the moment of being a human, enjoying the place and the people. Spending a few days at Hotel Kimberly for our… Read more


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  • Anger prowls at the door, but we can choose not to

    Arriving home after a grocery run today, I realized I’d got a missing item the packer must have missed putting in my shopping bag. And as I thought it through, the benefit of taking back the item from the store still outweighs the cost of returning to the store to get it. It’s true that… Read more


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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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  • 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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