Growing up in a family of doctors, I didn’t make a big deal out of healthcare. Both my parents and now my sister, despite being heroes of our land, especially during the pandemic, never acted like they were what they were when at home. Hence, my healthcare mindset was not…
I thought I found my purpose, but then I found out about something that cancels out everything that I’ve been looking forward to and working on for the past nine months. I’m feeling heavy. My life has changed in many ways since my father began fighting cancer, to his eventual…
This blog is my first attempt at overcoming writer’s block and bringing ease and flow to my writing. I don’t exactly know why it happened. When I started The Pop Blog, I was excited. Everything seemed to flow with ease. My ideas–features, reviews, reflections, just everything, came to me like…
I have to say that I’m one of those very few pandemic extremists and snobs. I have been very strict with myself and my family since the COVID-19 pandemic hit my city. And it’s no surprise because I’m living with three medical frontliners, but despite the three of them being…
Despite saying goodbye to my radical sensibilities in 2018, it was during this year that I have truly learned to be pragmatic. I believe being one is a great way to balance out my thoughts and perception of the world. Sometimes, however, I still miss having strong political opinions. Being…
Never in the entire course of history have we ever discussed more distractions than today. We are living in an era of distractions, and it just keeps getting worse by the day. In this blog post, I’ll write about my top 5 distractions and how I deal with them. I…
Welcome to my first Good Vibrations series of blogs. This time, I’ll be sharing why you should count your blessings. Last year, I blogged about promising to do 5 things that would serve as a motivation for my life in general. These five are very simple, but (quite frankly,) difficult…
This is the blog diary wherein I am proclaiming to myself, whether someone gets to read this or not, that I will be consistently doing meaningful stuff that will improve my motivation not just in work, but in life in general. If that rings a bell, then maybe you can…
Hi everyone! If you’ve been reading my blog, I’ve always repeated writing about my experiences this year–being socially-aware and how I overcame the struggle, the greatest adversity I’ve experienced in my life, and also about the things I’m thankful for. I have always mentioned that joining the Davao Bloggers Society…