Money, Money! Does it Rule? **10/31/2021** **Faced with the blank page, my finger won't move. I could not make myself think of ideas. It's an ocassional trouble I always work hard to fight off.** ***It's hard to focus because there is my biggest distraction: my*** *****phone********.*** This device is also the thing I use to blog, and at the same time, an accessory to my procrastination. I heaved a sigh as I tied to gather and associate stuff that I may write. It was vain.…
Random Thoughts about Life **11/01/2021** *We just gotta make it work. There is no stopping when you want results. Sometimes, it's exhausting, but you gotta go on. There are always temptations to give it all up, but you gotta walk, run, and fly as long as you can.* ***That's life.*** We don't have a choice whether to be born in this world or not. Just one day, we are raised into this chaotic place. We don't have a say when it comes to growing older, or dying young. We don't…
Start Small, and Continue to Grow **11/02/2021** **A million dollar starts with a cent. Just like how a massive fire comes from a little smoke. So yes, you may not notice it, but every tiny efforts you make, can bring about an immense success you do not expect.** ***I recently monitored my daily expenses again.*** My, I noticed how irresponsible I've become with my daily expenses, to be specific, my allowance every two weeks. Before the two weeks end, I become short on…
Music and Me **11/03/2021** Traveling home, a phone and earphones are the best combination of comfort for me. I can be immersed in a song, as long as I just listen to it intently, more so, if I close my eyes. https://unsplash.com/photos/8e0EHPUx3Mo ***Music is another world I love to stay in, aside from reading land.*** My friends know it already, I can't accommodate after work small talks, especially when commuting back to home, because my playlist is always ready. Just…
Sloth, short for.. Internet. **11/04/2021** **Among all of the pet peeves I can remember,** ****slow internet connection**** **is the strongest one. Nothing rivals it, so far**. ***You can make me stay with the person I hate for a whole day, or have me do math problems, which I absolutely don't like, for hours. But give me a slow internet connection, I can be a walking monster within a minute.*** Nothing sucks more than waiting for at least SIX HOURS to download a 200MB…
Dear Diary, I Feel Thankful. **11/05/2021** The storm's over, or at least, I claim it to be. I am over that era, and moving on the next chapter, hopefully a fruitful, and fun-filled one. ***I am over this specific crisis of my life.*** October has been a roller coaster of emotions and troubles for me, as I fought with lots of anxieties, fears, and even illnesses. I even wondered at some point, when will this all end? I am writing this one after talking to God. In my prayer,…
The Architect's Ring **11/07/2021** It all started in college. I knew I was always at the top. I slept three hours at most, because what I just did was to study, and study. I want to just excel in it, and always get that number one. Until a rank stealer came. ***I still felt okay when I forgot the answer to that one question in exams.*** Little did I know, the anxiety I had, really meant something. That's because you had the perfect score. I was fuming mad. I never…
Papers, Prayers, and Little BCH Milestones **11/08/2021** It's because I prayed for a productive day ever since I started this morning. There maybe times I felt a bit lethargic, but that's roughly less than 5% of what happened today. ***I reconciled some accounts, continued unfinished tasks, and dealt with new papers today at work***. I am thankful I've got enough activities for the day. You know me, at work, I like busy,.as long as I know the work well. For doing very…
Food for the Tummy, and for the Soul. **11/09/2021** **It was a good dream I dreamt, but a familiar scent woke me up. I opened my eyes with a smile, knowing my favorite cook came today. She did not break her promise months ago to visit me.** The air was filled with the aroma of garlic being sautéed into melting butter. I greeted **Chef Paula** a good morning, and I saw her beautiful smile again. She's like a second mom to me, and she prefers it when I call her Nanay Paula.…
Dear Diary, Self-Evaluation Time! **11/10/2021** Lots of changes happened in this week alone. There are those that I did not like, but there are effects of it which I consider not that bad. Our time with phone is now limited due to new regulations at work, and it's okay for me, because I know it'd boost the productivity at work. When the day ends though, I just find myself sleeping because I suddenly feel all the exhaustion dropping on me in that time, so I could not write…
What A Good Day looks like.. **11/11/2021** It was a busy, yet happy day today. It's really the best when started right. It seemed like everything is happening according to how it should. There were still situations unpleasant, but it did not win over the good things. First thing in the morning after a short prayer, I visited **read.cash**, interacted with lots of articles, and published an article as well. Right after that, I promoted it into my **noise.cash** account, and…
Finding Balance in Contentment **11/12/2021** It's in the nature of people to always aspire for more. To want more, achieve more—it never stops. We are never contented, that's the right way to describe it. There is actually nothing wrong with the desire for constant improvement, further accomplishments, and the goal to always be better than before. But sometimes, this lack of contentment may put us into risk of our happiness being stolen. In our continuous desire for more,…
Dear Diary, I ain't fond of Alarms. **11/13/2021** I am not a morning person. I am not friends with my alarm, and I always end up disliking any song I choose as an alarm, even it was a favorite song of mine in the beginning. Sounds funny, but it's true. So I am not setting my favorite songs as alarm now, because I may end up not liking any songs at all. I set an alarm to wake up at 5:30 a.m. today, because I failed to write an article last night. And I ended up using the…
Time, A Limited Resource **11/14/2021** **The thing with time is, it flows continuously, but never comes back. Unless you're a time traveler or a deity of some sort, time is nowhere within our control.** **We could only manage our priorities, not time.** So whether we are able to squeeze in lots of productive activities within the same 24 hours all of us have, or just let it fly without doing anything worthy, depends on us. I am guilty of always mismanaging my priorities.…
Early New Year's Resolution Ideas **11/15/2021** I am aware 2022 is still more than a month to come. Yet, I could not keep myself from thinking of the things I'd like to start as a habit, starting next year. In short, I am in the mood to create some of my New Year's resolutions. ***I am one of those people who can't ever accomplish their resolutions perfectly.*** I've always added *"Exercise everyday"* to the list, for example, but I end up not fulfilling it on some days.…
Forgiveness ain't Easy, but... **11/16/2021** It's indeed difficult to live life in anger. Some people come into our lives to hurt us, disrespect us, and we never receive our deserved apology. It's hard to look these people in the eye, and try to smile. It's almost impossible forgive someone who does not even acknowledge his/her mistake. I remember a recent story. **Annie** went to the house of **Ricky**, because he has not been paying his debt for weeks. No one expected…
Where am I? | Pt. 2 **11/19/2021** There is not a single voice I can hear. Not a single thing I could see. Everything's so dark and silent. Oh, I hear my own heartbeat. I feel the warmth of my own breathing. Yet, the complete silence is deafening me. https://verdemagazine.com/trigger-warnings-self-regulation-on-media-offers-support It's cold. It's scary. My body's weak due to terror. Waking up in an unfamiliar place is surely a heck of an experience. I wished that it was all…
Alphabet Diary, (literally). **11/20/2021** Let me start by being honest. It took me many minutes before I got to write something on this blank sheet of draft. I am out of formal ideas to publish tonight, so allow me to do *my thing,* my comfort zone: random blogging, or free-writing, whatever suits it more. ****A****lmost thirty minutes before nine in the evening, and yet, again, *as always, as if this suffering won't end,* the neighbor blasts their speakers of loud and…
Alphabet Diary (literally) | Pt. 2 **10/21/2021** Ain't it funny? How there are people who want to leave this world so badly, while there are those that give their everything just to live another day? There is someone who resorts to many activities in order to perish as early as possible. There is a child who never ceases to ask, to plead for another day, even just another hour to still exist in this world. We are all in the same world, yet we have different ultimate…
This One's for YOU. **11/22/2021** The tune sings and invades your dream. It must be a good dream, but the alarm interrupts it. Yes that's the purpose of the alarm, to interrupt our sleep. Because we gotta work, work, work! You open your eyes, and get the urge to sleep again. I know that feeling very, very well. The eyes wanna get what it wants—more sleep. But have you got more time? No? Then don't give the eyes what it wants. You should've slept earlier then. Set an earlier…
Alphabet Diary (literally) | Pt. 3 **11/24/2021** A friend is going faraway, that is the news I heard today. This made me realize that we are really entering the real sense of adulthood. I felt a bit sad, a bit scared, a bit of other things. ***We planned to meet tomorrow***, to do some catching up, before she settles papers to travel to Australia this week, or the next. I really adore this girl, and now that I have heard she's going far away, I could not help but suddenly…
Freewriting while finding Motivation **11/25/2021** It's an attempt to write something out of an empty mind. I have shared some sides of me through my blogs all this time, and let me tell you about another one. I have seen a meme in Instagram earlier this afternoon. This goes along the line of: ***"I could post ten*** *****stories***** ***(referring to Facebook or IG stories feature) for a day, and then disappear for the next two months."*** This one really made me laugh…
Earth After Dark: Encounter Just a little flashback in the previous part: *Ely checked through the kitchen area discreetly as soon as she heard evidences of movements. She made sure to not make any noise, so she could catch the possible "thief" of her food supplies. Her attempt was in vain, for there was suddenly no sign of presence in the now messed up kitchen.* *She tried calling desperately, to no avail. When she gave up, and was about to walk away, she heard some sounds…
Dear Diary, Thoughts and Those Dear to Me **11/30/2021** Appearance-wise, I don't like what I am seeing in the mirror these days. Performance-wise, I know I did pretty bad. Consistency failed, lost streaks, missed days. Everything's ugly, and I am just trying hard to stay enthusiastic now. Even sometimes, I am losing hope. ***Don't get me wrong, I am not sad. I am actually grateful. I just can't stop wondering why things are meant to be this way sometimes.*** I am talking…
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