Personal
In Feeling July
I think this hypothesis is supported mostly by experiences rather than scientific research: people change. No one stays the same forever. While we consider the big palpable changes terrifying, we ten…
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Travel
An Unplanned Road Trip
I like to think that there are certain things in life you ought to leave to chance, like when you set your heart on something but your gut tells you otherwise, or when you stop depending on the inter…
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Random Newsletter
Hard Launching My New Lifestyle Blog!!!
I still can't believe that I have been posting on this blog for almost five years now. For me, this blog has been a good online friend whom I talk about book reviews and some personal thoughts wi…
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Wrap-Up
A Non-Fiction June and Its Wrap Up
June turned out to be a non-fiction month for me—who would have thought? Instead of picking up something that had been long perched on my reading list, I went to the library and finished the two book…
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Self-Help
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig: A Short Review
"Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky…
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Personal
12 Things I’ve Learned This Year So Far
Some things are meant to be in your life for a lifetime; some are meant to only be there for a while; while some are just not meant to be—that is life for us.
Believe it or not, it is now June. Half o…
Reading
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, An Eye-Opener
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things…
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Wrap-Up
May and Its Small Progress Reading-Wise
After a month of not reading, I am finally back with another wrap-up. However small, reading is still reading. I must say it's good progress, reading-wise.
1. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (Plea…
Romance Comedy
Unexpectedly Finished The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
I must say that writing another post, meaning finishing yet another book for the month, is quite unexpected. After more than a month of being in a slump, I now crown The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie …
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Reading
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo: A Closure I Needed
I wasn’t sure before but now I am: I was in a reading slump for almost two months. It took me a month—I repeat, a month—to finish Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. Last night was the first time I fin…
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Personal
Changes in the Shape of a Different Aesthetic and Soft-Baked Cookies
If there is something constant about life, it must be the changes that envelop every aspect of our life.
I’m not a big fan of something too constant, but changes sometimes terrify me. Having a very dy…
Personal
Called Out
“Quick, quick, tell me something awful, Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy.”
- I Hate It Here, Taylor Swift
Personal
Metaphorically Written While Literally Pissed
I was adrift in an ocean once. It was all dark I could barely see the moon. Water pushed and pulled like I was a new shiny toy in the careless hands of a toddler. I waited for any boat to pass, for a…
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