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dear fam, please try to understand if ever i make a decision that in the surface looks dumb. please be gentle if i jump from one dream to another. i am not aimless. i am in search for a place where i should rest my soul.

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Okay, so I have this "want" to become a chef. I realized I like cooking few years ago but didn't see it as something i should pursue as I was doing marketing + social media as a full time job for 8 years!

this year, my life turned 360. My partner of almost 8 years left me. I'm in a foreign country.

And i feel like this is the right time to kickstart that new career. but fam don't agree. you see, i'm already 30. i should look for stability and not chase dreams.

so where to?

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Discovering new song daily.

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what i don’t like about cleaning: it frees up my brain. and when i’m not thinking about work and deadlines, i ruminate about the past that i’ve been trying to get away from. sometimes i catch myself before i sink too deep. but this afternoon as i was about to clean the cooktop, it was too late to pull myself out and so i dropped the cloth and walked out. came back to this (photo) which reminded me of the tasks and responsibilities i left unfinished because i let my thoughts overpower me.

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Hello, world

Resuscitated this account to make way for these words. So, bonsoir!

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No textbooks, no problem. School uses a Bible to improve the reading skills and memory retention of its pupils. Read full story here.

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For four years, a contractor abandoned an unfinished school building over a funding dispute. This is one of the videos I created for CheckMySchool. Follow this link to watch full video.

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Al-hamdu lil-lāh! Humbled to have met Principal Nacob of Guntong Elementary School in North Cotabato. A true advocate for education, he believes that it can give children in poor communities a fighting chance for a better future. I hope with this video Principal Nacob’s efforts and the struggles of public schools in remote communities won’t go unnoticed.

This is one of the videos I created for CheckMySchool. Follow this link to watch the full video.

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He starts work at 5 AM, surveying the 30-seater bus. There are three passengers– all asleep. Almost empty buses don’t make good money. 

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women and their wigs

This is a draft layout for the book Harnessing Hope: the Madrigal story in Bikol.

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She learned weaving from her mother. “It will help raise a family,” she said. And she was right.

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This dried fish sells for about $50/kilo.

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A Bikol-based NGO created a program to teach farmers sustainable farming.