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Swim With Your Dreams

It started as a curiosity. The thought of swimming with whale sharks consumed my imagination for weeks. It thrilled my gypsy soul. But I feared for my life, I mean are they really harmless? What if something goes wrong, can the people save me? What if I get eaten by the whale sharks? They're even bigger than boats you know. Yeah, don't tell...

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BREAKTHROUGH

From breakdown to breakthrough

One minute life is flying perfectly on all cylinders. The next moment, I'm all alone in my room, laying on the floor empty of hope and full of anxiety. It just felt like life was crashing down and I had an incredibly hard time coping with stress. I didn't know how to move forward. I was too uninspired to try, too dispirited to...

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LIFE

Today Is Good

I was walking around this morning, trying to get a head start on some things. I decided to stop and grab a quick coffee. So I'm standing in line, the door opens, two gentlemen walk in and stand in line right behind me. They started chatting back and forth and basically one of them starts talking about how he's had a rough morning,...

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TRAVEL

The Drenched Humor of Baguio City, Philippines

Raindrops resonated over the panoramic view of Igorot stairs as the sun was slowly peeking through the clouded mountains. Breathing in buoyant cold Baguio air, I stood on the balcony of our hotel contemplating whether to grab a quick breakfast or go back inside our room and cocoon myself in between soft feather-like-pillows. My tummy growled and prevailed so I went off for...

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FOMO

GOMO TO END FOMO

The greatest fear is fear itself, Franklin Roosevelt said. In this fast paced digitalized world we are cocooned in this 21st century, I wonder what a person may fear. Of course we all know what FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) means, right? - it is the familiar rise of anxiety in your chest when you log in to your most cherished form of...

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LIFE

Do we really know if we are making the right decision?

Actually we don't. Because there is no right or wrong decisions. In the same regard, there is no right or wrong feelings, or thoughts, or success, or dreams. See, we all are different. We have our own set of values in life. Your definition of happiness is not the same to mine. You might equate happiness to achievements, and for me it is...

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STYLE

How to wear the same clothes in different occasions

Before this summer style post goes totally irrelevant, (well not really since it seems that summer is forever here in the Philippines, aside from rainy days of course.) let me share one of my summer #ootds.  One useful tip I learned from our Fashion Styling class at FIP (Fashion Institute of the Philippines) was how to properly mix and match different pieces to come...

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