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Waking up

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I remember the horror I felt. I was strapped into a hospital bed and made ready for the vaccine. The doctor, with his white lab coat, grabbed the vial and plunged the syringe into it. Laying down, the lights were blinding, and my vision was full of whites. “This is just a booster”, exclaimed my mind while my hands tried to be free. The weird thing was, “how come I would be injected in my left middle toe?”   I calmed myself down until I felt the syringe deep into my toe. The liquid might have done something to my system. I was shaking uncontrollably and was hyperventilating. At one point, I was there panicking with short heavy breaths. “This could be my last”, I resigned to the fact. “When I wake up in the morning, love…” There goes my alarm! Whoo! The relief! It was just a dream. I slowly got up and said a little prayer. At that moment, I was enveloped with gratefulness. Waking up is always a miracle. Sometimes when you feel like your current life’s chapter becomes dragging

The most valuable reject

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I’m no stranger to rejections. Rejections are something that I must go through to grow. There are rejections coming from personal relations where the first cut is always the deepest. Rejections start during childhood – when my only friend got a new best friend or when my group realizes they don’t need me anymore. It could also be the time when my playmates decide to kick me out of the game. As I grow, rejections evolve into something more. It hides in the face of my ultimate crush finally getting his first girlfriend. It manifests in the relationships I almost had. Rejection is also when, no matter how hard I try to patch things up with someone, things just don’t work as they are supposed to.   And then, there’s rejection coming from my professional experience. I’ve probably had countless interviews that I failed to pass. For what reason? I have no idea. I’ve done the good and the bad when it comes to interviews. Good is when I scan and browse the company’s website. Read about

Thinking thongs

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Invest in experiences, they said. I just think that this does not only apply to having grand holidays or trying out culinary masterpieces. It also applies to the most basic, most mundane, and most ordinary ways we conduct our business. For me, it happened to be the intimates. For the grand scheme of superlatives, I would say “conservative”, not plain (because plain means dull and empty and I am neither of those.) I have a rather conservative approach to the things that I’d usually go for. I normally go for the safe fashion. Plain white Ts paired with jeans and a reliable pair of sneakers. Of course, it stretches to common underwear. The type of which you’d mistake it for your grandma’s. But for the first time, I have tread on a rather adventurous style. I have tried thongs! Never in my wildest dreams, did I spend a minute wondering how I would look in it. I tried wearing thongs for curiosity. I found it funny, bare bum and all. But thongs, I quite realized offer a different vibe. For o