Life as I know it.
♡ every day, because I wake up and I’m okay, I’m here, I’m alive♡ friends and family these past two weeks—I may have only replied a curt “thank you” to your messages, but I am deeply grateful for each one♡ spending 5 days with my favorite not-so little person, who is growing up to be such a delightful human with so…
Grateful for everything that was and looking forward to more to be thankful for in the coming year. Happy 2019, y’all!
♡ being back in the kitchen with yummy (we made buko pandan cake and chocolate chip blondies last month) ♡ going on a road trip with some lovely people and getting away from the city for a little bit ♡ finishing another book about the inner workings of a company (has anybody thought about fictionalizing the veryyy interesting world of local…
♡ finishing four new books in the past month ♡ getting to write for the future of young pinays campaign by edukasyon.ph x investing in women ♡ having my aura read by a complete stranger ♡ lots of new music ♡ catching up with friends—impromptu and otherwise ♡ crying over broadway musicals (#wicked15 and that brilliant boy who sang with sara…
♡ making progress on a project we’ve been working on since late may ♡ spending time away from the city with friends I can talk to for hours on end ♡ finishing a good tv series (so far, really liked: atypical season 2 and american vandal seasons 1 and 2) ♡ finally releasing our newsletter into the wild (subscribe if you want to read…
words from mae’s “Our Love is a Painted Picture” A year ago, today, I left my 12-year job in digital publishing, where I was working for a website I considered my life’s work. I lived and breathed our website for the better part of that decade. That meant the brand was basically my lifeblood. When I was suddenly without a…
♡ one month of peter kavinsky, lol (week 4 going strong, and I have not run out of things to watch or read about noah centineo hahaha) ♡ the thrill of having someone thank you for something you wrote about them—never gets old ♡ feeling kilig about a song, a movie, a story (lots to obsess about this past month!) ♡…
♡ finding time to reconnect with old friends and realizing that some things are bigger than past hurts ♡ snagging a hot-ticket item online ♡ going on an elyu food trip—even if it’s just through writing about it ♡ booking a writing gig that’s close to my heart ♡ finishing up a consultancy and learning a thing or two from…
♡ revisiting my favorite albums because of that modern-day chain letter in the form of facebook tagging (only one of the people I tagged continued the tagging haha) ♡ going back to sgd coffee and areté ♡ getting my pink bubble wrap pouch with new mascara 😛 ♡ making intergalactic cupcakes for a mystical gathering ♡ making a mess in…
♡ making chocolate chip cookies even in this heat ♡ finding old photos in the digital wormhole that is photobucket ♡ spending an afternoon with friends in new places ♡ the p2p that saves me from having to spend P400 on a ride going home from makati O_o ♡ friends you can drag to your rdo so you can attend…