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New Project Alert: Hand-bound Journals

While I continue to learn the art of bookbinding, a million other projects start peppering my mind. One that particularly sparks joy is making a personalized journal. For my father’s, sister’s and cousin’s birthdays this year, I made them all their very own hand-bound, hardbound journals! After making a little prototype from a tutorial online, I made my first hardbound notebook for the boyfie.…

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Discovering Book Rebinding: How I Revived My Old Books

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I Want a Simple and Boring Life

I’ve just finished doing my laundry and my 3rd session of Yoga this week and I’m all sweaty and tired, but in a really, really good way! I’m typing this while still sitting on my mat with my legs all stretched out down to the last fiber. Oh how good it feels to be achy in all the right places! They say, it’s the little things in life that really make you feel good inside, isn’t it? For me, at…

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Why Turning 35 Made Me Rethink Parenthood

In about a month, I’ll be turning 35 years old. Of course, in my mind, I’m eternally stuck at 30. I guess 30 is my 18 or my 25. It’s the age I stopped growing old and stopped counting. 30 is the first time I traveled solo. 30 made me feel like I’m still in my twenties but with money. 30 is the most confident I had ever been in my life, but at 35, I’m starting to feel like I’m going to regress to…

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Working While Traveling: Lessons Learned from a Workation Experience

Before jumping into the remote work revolution bandwagon, I have to admit, I’ve been blinded by the pros of the working from anywhere, having less work boundaries and unlimited possibilities. Yes, both of those may ring true, however, it comes with a lot of cons too which I learned from years of doing research——reading a lot on it, engaging with freelancers and finally being one myself now. On…

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Exploring Slow Living: Documentaries, Movies, and Books

I don’t know a lot of people who share the same desperation I have for a slow life except for my boyfriend, a friend I constantly talk to these days and a bunch of online strangers in a Reddit sub I’m subscribed to. My boyfriend lived in a farm. LOL. But setting aside all the memes and controversies now infamously associated with that line, he really did and he has always dreamed of leaving the…

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400 Hours at Work: A Key Takeaway from Layers of Disappointments

Today marks my 400th hour at work. Nope, I didn’t wait for this day to commemorate a milestone, but since I found out, it seems fit to do so now. I was checking our tracker for something else when I saw that I worked at least 177 hours, but when I checked that was for this month alone. In total, it’s a little over 400 hours. Looking back, I can see the way I’ve used and abused my eyes, ears and…

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Unplanned Road-Trip: Rediscovering Bacolod's Treasures and Unexpected Moments

15 minutes after I got off work last Saturday morning, my brother arrived to pick me up then my boyfriend for a spontaneous trip to Bacolod for the long weekend. I’ve always wanted to go back to Dumaguete but got outnumbered by these two whose minds were set on going on a food crawl in Bacolod. So at 8:30am on a Saturday, we headed to the port taking us all back to the island of Manokan…

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1st Book of 2024: A Rapid Review of "Happiness for Beginners" by Katherine Center

Minus the days that I’d get distracted watching “Breaking Bad” or “Superstore” or would curl up in anxiety in bed, I can confidently say that I finished the book in about a week or less. I can’t remember how many days exactly, but I’m including this one in my very few unputdownables list, which means, it couldn’t have gone over 7 days. It’s been a while since I last felt this giddy about a…

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Unlearning and Re-learning

I have been playing around Procreate (again). I downloaded the app eons ago, but I never really gotten down and dirty with it til now 😏 because I didn’t have a pen to fully maximize its features. Of course, I could’ve just used my fingers, but who knows how that’s gonna pan out. Luckily, I found an alternative a couple of years back called Sketchbook. I have a stylus pen that came with my former…

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The Sunday Currently, Volume 19

Happy Sunday! And no pun intended but it really is a great 🌞-day today, following a very gloomy, chaotic and traumatic week, thanks to Carina. In case you wanna know, this is a SIDDATHORNTON BLOG LINK UP. This series ended in 2014 yet a lot of people still continued doing this on their respective blogs. I was #76 on the list of blog links and will post my 18th TSC today as proof of life. lol. C…

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Working from Home: Redefining Monday Motivation

I used to dread Mondays, and Sundays even because of how different my life was before. I’m happy to say that those manic Mondays have long been gone replaced by Friday madness for a couple of months now. lol. This isn’t to say that life has been perfect since I switched jobs. We probably can’t really have it all, as they say, but what I’m happy about my life now is I’m able to choose my battles,…

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Life Lately / Officially WFH!

Working from home? Feel like sharing it with me?

I am happy. I don’t know for how long, but I know I truly am. God knows how long I’ve waited and how hard I’ve prayed for this. He might have even granted me this just to get me off His back, and for that, I am glad. Thank you pooooo!! On Monday, I spent an entire day (half day finalizing my docs) registering as a freelancer, but I didn’t mind losing sleep and working the whole night after…

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Thought Vomit 1 | Faces on a Milk Carton

I was trying hard to fall asleep during our lunch break, but I couldn’t so I laid in my cozy bed in the dark, with my mind doing what it does best when idle—-though vomit! Just when I thought I could rest for a bit, a random thought just popped out of nowhere. It was about the news I saw last night on a 16-year-old teenage girl being forced into sex by an older guy who apparently she was in a…

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Lion city

Singapore was a huge revelation for me and my heart was instantly stolen by it, not only by the advances in their quality of life and technology but also by the discipline that put them there. photos taken in April 2023 | processed and scanned by The Grain House Film Lab, Cebu in April 2024

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KEEB WARRIOR

If you lurk around TikTok long enough, you’ll either learn a new skill or two and develop an instant hobby or get influenced to buy stuff you never thought you needed before, but now suddenly do. So here I am thinking of upgrading from my boyfriend’s membrane RAKK keyboard, which on its own is already an upgrade from my beat up laptop keyboard–to a newer, more compact and customize-able…

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Feeling Accomplished in a Tiny Way

With the terribly scorching heat indices we’ve been suffering in the past weeks in the Philippines, it can be so easy to feel exhausted, drained and in some cases **ehem** hot-tempered. They say before you get a HEAT STROKE, you have most likely been through HEAT CRAMPS and HEAT EXHAUSTION first, but for the past 2 weeks, I honestly believe that I’ve skipped the cramps and went straight to…