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Love of my life.

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5 more minutes… most people mistake me for lazy but i know i just like feeling things deeper, taking it slowly, doing things surely, waiting if anything else good is going to happen before i go, taking awhile to live in the moment. I can do things fast but i'll be forgetting all about it as fast. So, i guess to me happiness is liking where i am in that moment, wherever life may take me. And now i have a little boy to bring along side me, I am so excited to re-do everything i did and see the world again, now through my son's eyes. Can't wait to grow with you, J1, but for now i'll take these 5 more minutes to hold your little hands and watch your toothless smiles in slow motion… if I can. I can't wait to do everything with you and watch you grow but at the same time I like where we are right now… just me writing a blog to remember by at 3am while you (7.5 mo), fast asleep beside me, our big bed on the floor in our little "J1" room at the restaurant- this takes me back when we were just kids living in the attic of our restaurant in the same block as where we are now, with my brother and my sister, my mom and dad… i used to be the baby and now i'm the mama. your mama.

Shit, this is going to take my whole life to take care of you? aight, i'll take all the extra 5 minutes i can get, whatever. i love you, my sweet baby. i love you endlessly.

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Hello everyone! Here’s a life update. It’s been a while since I last opened tumblr. If you could see my last post in November 2016, it was captioned “I’m working on it.” and I believe I was talking about this blog, myself, and what I am about. In the last 5 years I have grown mentally, emotionally and aesthetically. Haha- I have gotten to know myself over and over as I unfold more pages in my book, even though I was always so cautious about my style and aesthetics, mainly because I know I still didn’t know hot to show it, I couldn’t find the right words that would fit my storytelling, or paint the right picture to express who I am as a person, as a writer... as an artist. Took me a while but I finally found my tune, my appeal changed but I love how I turned out, I can confidently say that this is who I am and I won’t change any bit of it, anymore!

 Back in 2016, I was studying Digital Arts and Design in Malayan Colleges Laguna. I was an artist wanna-be, struggling to understand who I was and what was my purpose. Today, graduated Digital Arts and Design in November 2017, currently taking my second degree at The University of the Philippines, Diliman, getting my Bachelor’s in Fine Arts. I can finally say that I am an artist- Hello.

  I founded a brand/organization called Anak Alon where we advocate and spread environmental awareness, we organize fund raising events, beach clean-ups, workshops for kids, outreach programs, sell eco-friendly merchandise and products, brand clothing, and feature local businesses, artists, local tourists and non-tourist spots for our news outlet, Coron Today and I started my own printing business and transferred here in Coron from Laguna, Sta. Rosa. 

 In 2020, when the pandemic hit, I had to stop schooling and came home to Coron, finally. I couldn’t attend online classes because we live on a remote area with little-to-no reception at all. Anyway, it was a much needed break for me. I was overwhelmed with keeping up with work, trying to earn money while full-time studying, right after getting into businesses after just graduating.

 It’s 2022, two years into the pandemic and I’m still in Coron! I am running our family business that I now own, The Old House Restaurant. This is where i found out about my passion in cooking, aside from cooking at home. This is the business that provided for our family for almost 20 years! Now i’m just trying to get it back up, earn from it a little, learn everything and just take it slowly.

 I’ve met so many new people during my new stay back home. I’ve made new beautiful friends, acquaintances and awesome girlfriends who love and support me in everything that i do and go through, absolute heaven sent!

 I just want to take this chance to look back, see how far I’ve come, how well I’ve been, how much I’ve grown and just to be grateful for the good parts.

 I can’t wait to share more about my new life. 

Thanks for taking the time to read! 

I hope you have an amazing life!

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I’m working on it.

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I wanna contribute to the choas.

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Safe place.

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L ST

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I want to start vlogging.

Currently learning and overthinking about it. haha I’ve been wanting to do it since 6th grade and now I think I’m finally doing it!

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Musikamalayan Song Writing Competition 2015

Finale Night performance.

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Musikamalayan Song Writing Competition 2015

This was during our music video shoot with my friends, Yeung, Von and Arne at the Malayan Colleges Laguna Parking Lot.

Photo by John Hernandez 2015

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As much as i enjoy photography, I also enjoy when my friends turn me into a muse for their portraits. These photos are treasure to me! 

Malayan Colleges Laguna, Track Field

Photo by John Hernandez 2015

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Baby quails, Sony Alpha 77. Practicing photography during term-break.

September 2014, Coron, Palawan.

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This is the first ever photo that I have taken from my Sony Alpha 77, June 2014 for my photography class, Digital Arts and Design. 

Malayan Colleges Laguna

North Cay Ely, Born August 2013.