Life Lately Vol. 6 Where Have I Been?

"Life is like riding a bicycle.  

To keep your balance, you must keep moving." 

Albert Einstein

It's been 4 years since I last posted anything in this blog, I even almost lost it, yet somehow I keep holding on to this website. It has a special place in my heart, a lot of memories and emotions have been poured into this website and I'm not ready to give it up just yet. I know I've said it before too (I know I've said it A LOT) but I'm really gonna try to post more this time. I PROMISE.

In the meantime, let me bring you up to speed about what's been going on with my life. 

Proof of Life

 

 

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"  

-Dolly Parton-

It's been almost a year since I last posted here, and we are on the second month of 2022. It still feels weird to me writing 2022, it feels as if we're in 2020 struggling to make sense of COVID19.

And honestly, I think we still are.

Life Lately Vol. 5 Birthday Month

I've just celebrated my birthday last month and of course, Facebook as usual showed me memories of my posts from years back. I noticed that I made wish lists every year. I used to write lists of things that were easy to acquire if I had the money--which I didn't have btw. Ah, simpler times. When you know it's easier to get the things that would make you happy. But why is it, that now that you have all the money to buy those things that used to be difficult for you to get, you crave for the things money can't buy.

Staying Sane With Animal Crossing

3 months left for 2020 and I'm going crazy.

2020 is proving to be the craziest year yet. And I bet that everyone is just done with this year now too (although I don't think that 2021 is gonna be any better). Most of the people I know in the Philippines are just having a bad time and they are forced to stay at home. I guess it isn't as bad here in Japan, but we're not having a good time either. We are just getting used to how life is now--The New Normal--as they call it.

Look at me blabbing about how I hate this year while I'm not even being productive either. My last post was last February which was also about how bad my life has been, not very inspiring I know. Give me a slack, I'm trying. All I've been doing lately is play video games and binge watch on Netflix.

This is probably the first time that you heard read that I play video games. Well it's because I didn't, not until Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released. I didn't have a Nintendo Switch when the game came out and I swear I wanted it so much I even had dreams about it. So one day, I decided to get one.

Life Lately Vol. 4 A New Year Post

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and be courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” –Joshua 1:9

It’s been more than 3 months since I last posted here and I know, I suck, just as much as the start of my 2020 was. I honestly still can’t process that we are just on the second month of this year and so much has happened and most of us are probably on high alert right now because of the Novel Coronavirus. But that’s a post for another day. For now, let me just greet everyone a late happy new year!

Super Typhoon Hagibis: Emergency and Evacuation Procedures (My Personal Experience)

The sky was full of stars when I got home from the shelter. Super typhoon Hagibis has passed and thank, God we're all okay.

News about the super typhoon got out early last week and it was expected to be the strongest typhoon of the century. I didn't care about it that much same as what I usually do when there's one from where I'm from. I'm from a country that is frequently visited by typhoons so it didn't bother me that much. But as we approached the weekend I got paranoid about it. The typhoon was expected to reach Japan last Saturday, and Japan was prepared.

Twenty Five and Learning (A Birthday Thought Post)

"Another year to add to my age. 23 years, still wandering aimlessly in this place called life. Should I be here? Where should I go? What should I do? Questions I always ask myself until now. Juggling between so many things I want to do but still can't find where I should really be, what I'm actually good at. or if there ever is something I'm good at."

This was a post I wrote for my birthday 2 years ago. Why does it feel like time flies by so fast? I am now 25, not feeling lost anymore and I don't feel sorry for being myself and what I have become after 2 years. It has been a long bumpy ride to get where I am today. I have worked hard to get here and all the struggles were worth it.

I still can't believe that I am on my silver year now. I feel so old and so adult (LOL) specially now that I live alone in a foreign country. I feel like I'm an entirely different person now, even my friends say so. A lot of them get surprised to see how strong I've become, how straightforward I talk and how at times I become so apathetic with things I used to be so emotional about. Well, life hit me hard on the chest and made me what I am now. It feels so good to be able to breathe after all that though.

I listed a few things that I've learned in my journey to becoming an adult; which I think applies for everyone. Read through and it just might help you out:

Life Lately Vol. 3 New Life in Japan

Surprise! I now live in Japan. If you read My 2019 Goals blog post, you will know about the "opportunity" I mentioned about on the last part of the post. It is actually about me working in Japan, and now, I'm actually here.

It has now been a month and a day of me living here in Japan. Thankfully, I haven’t been that homesick since I got here (only for that one time I missed my mom’s cooking) which made it less harder being away. It has been a nice month and I am still super happy about getting to live here because it has always been my dream to be able to go to Japan and now I even have a resident card which is even more awesome.

My 2019 Goals

It had been a long 2018 but it seemed to be too short to complete our goals and aspirations for the year. There’s been a lot of setbacks for 2018 and some goals I wasn’t able to accomplish but this new year gives us a chance to reach them and maybe even make ourselves better. 2018 has been an unexpected year for me, I gained a lot of new dear friends and lost some that used to mean a lot. There’s also been great opportunities presented and blessings given. I can say I’ve grown a lot and learned a lot from last year and 2019 is going to be better. As my best friend always says, this is our year, we just need to strive hard and put our hearts into it. That is why I made a list of goals to accomplish this year that will make 2019 MY awesome year.

Life Lately Vol. 2 Family and Friends

AUGUST has been a very busy month for me due to sudden changes with schedule at work. Luckily, I still found time to spend time with my family and friends.

AUGUST 21, 2018 

It’s been months since I last met up with Kate. She was a friend and a former co-teacher at the school I used to work at. She is only free on the weekends (since she’s a teacher) while I never have weekends free. 

Life Lately Vol. 1 Memories and Realizations

Why are memories so important to people?

 I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning lately and discovered that my photo albums were being eaten away by insects (?) so I decided to look for a new photo album to transfer my pictures on. Luckily, I found this cute thrift/novelty shop in Antipolo where I bought this photo album for P200.00. The original price was P250.00 but I had a 20% discount so I got it cheaper. It was perfect for my pictures.