525,600 minutes,5,000 moments so dear.25,600 minutes,How do you measure a year? If there’s something I’ve learned over the past three years, it’s that life is short. You could be laughing with someone dear and they’ll be gone the next month. You could’ve ignored someone not knowing it would be the last chance you could’ve interacted. […]
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 The pandemic took a toll on most, if not all, of us. Over a short period, I’ve witnessed a lot of events I didn’t imagine happening in my lifetime. Seeing the economy crash and businesses close down, witnessing how the prices of commodities skyrocketed, having a relative pass away without being capable […]
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 […]