One of the things I am so grateful I get to do again is dancing. It was one of the many activities I have always wanted to pursue as a hobby but was too shy to do. Since this year has been about me getting in control of my life, I have started dancing again. No matter how shy I am, I did it, ...
Probably the cafe I go to the most lately is the Evil Twins Coffee. Trendy, cool, and chill are probably the words I’d describe this little cafe. New to the streets of Wellington, Evil Twins Coffee understood that they’re in the most competitive cities for coffee. Home of the coffee snobs, I ...
Life is fickle. Last year I was drowning in the “I don’t knows” and the ”whys” trying to survive every day, reminding myself that life is good and that I am lucky to have what I had: a house, a job, a university degree, a family. The past two years emphasized how vulnerable we all are. If we were ...
The speech I wrote was revised from the Manifesto of a Filipino Creative. It is spoken in Tagalog, the national dialect of the Philippines. For context, it is spoken and written for fellow Filipino creatives and the youth who wants to explore the world of creativity. The basis of the manifesto is ...
One of the privileges of migrating to a different country later in life is being able to experience and embrace life as a local in places lived. I am one of the first generation immigrant, with my immediate family, to New Zealand from the Philippines in 2007. I was 17 then. I had enough years to ...
Making this year count by making success to achieve the only goal for the year.