Aug22
I’m lying on my bed right now with my laptop on top of my pillow. Writing this in the name of consistency more than anything else. Consistency is one of my most favorite traits, one that I hope to keep intact as I continue to do the gazillion of things I have to work on every single of week. Since I’ve had the consciousness that work is an important part of life, I always diverse workloads, manifested in my dual roles as a professional. I was at one point a student with a part-time business, a working student, a student with many types of work and today, I’m a worker who’s working a lot in hopes of becoming a student again (for a master’s program). Most of my working life, I had double, triple and sometimes quadruple workloads before me to finish. And fixating myself on the one thing that I think (or feel) I do best is difficult.
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Aug16
“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” this was the title of the book Papa gave me as a gift when I was a teenager. Obviously it wasn’t because am a good-natured, jolly and cheerful extrovert who embraces people as a friend the moment I see them. It was because, I was, well maybe still is, someone who considers human beings a distraction. The act or practice of relating with them, an unnecessary obligation.
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Aug8
A pain in the ass. Yes, some people can be described as that. No wonder a good number of human beings on earth prefer to use people instead of connect with them.
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Aug5
My closest colleague in the office is a graphic designer, my best friend is a 2D/3D animator with a host of other visual design skills, my first real job was an admin person for an arts and entertainment organization and the company I work for has the word in it’s legal name. Not to mention, the person who referred me to this job is a film editor. Heaven knows why, but I am far from being creative nor being artistic, and it was only until I graduated from college that I have realized that artists, media professionals and entertainers are actually productive members of society. Today, I deal with men and women who practice such professions.
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Aug2
I hope and pray that the week ahead will be a fruitful one. Seven days filled with grace, seven days filled with peace and seven days filled with gratefulness. continue reading »
Jul20
How many nights a week have you slept tired but fulfilled?
If you can answer seven nights a week to that question, you're blessed. Not everyone, including myself sometimes, is fortunate to be able to answer affirmative to that one-sentence interrogation. It's because fulfillment is never derived but a person's ability to exist throughout the day, but to live it.
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