525,600 minutes, Rent measured and sang that. That’s how a year passes – just like that. One morning you’re laughing with someone, and by nightfall, they’re no longer there. The past few years have blurred like that. Time moved forward, but it didn’t feel like growth, not really. It felt like shedding. Losing. Watching thinks […]
February marks my first year in Baguio. I left Manila to live in Baguio during the pandemic. I can still remember parking my car inside the garage of my first home in the City of Pines as my dog Yakult hastily run towards the open gate of Easter Road to Bokawkan. Alongside cars and trucks, […]
Ground Zero I still remember it clearly like it was just yesterday. I was driving from Commune Cafe, one of our partner kitchens for Frontline Feeders Philippines, to Makati Medical Center to bring meals for COVID-19 frontliners and responders. It was just a short 3 km drive from Poblacion to Legazpi Village but in between […]
The breaking point It’s strange to look back now, knowing how far we’ve come, but I still remember that feeling like it just happened yesterday – that quiet, personal breaking point. The pandemic changed everything. For all of us. Over a short span of time, I witnessed things I never thought I’d see in my […]
My journey of being an entrepreneur started 7 years ago when I decided to leave my corporate job and set up a boutique ad agency. Without any investors, we worked our asses off to be able to have enough funds to start it up. Ultimately, we were swindled by our CEO. All of our monies […]