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Don’t live in a casket
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries, avoiding all entanglements; [...]
The fun in Quiz Nights
“How did you know that?” I couldn’t believe Ruel knew about Skunk Anansie or had memorized practically all the sets in TV sitcoms. “Life of a potato couch”, he casually said. To give him more credit, Ruel’s one of the smartest, wisest guys I know. Ever since he joined our Wednesday Bible study for Professionals, [...]
A lament
“Let not our longing slay our appetite for living” – Jim Eliot. Today is one of those days when I feel my heart grieve the heaviest, for many unanswered questions. Questions only a single girl like me can ask; questions I cannot ask friends because I know I will not hear the answer I’m looking [...]
Life at a blink of an eye
I’ll use the first sentence from a friend’s email which greeted me today, “Life is happening at an incredible rate of warp speed, I hear it going on, people running all around, a blur of busyness and purpose….” It’s my first day today since I left work, something I’ve been looking forward to since last [...]
Uncertainties
Nothing unsettles us more than uncertainties. The uncertainty of the future, of what is to become of our dreams, of what lies ahead. I admit: I am unsettled. For the first time in a long, long time, I’m suddenly faced with so many uncertanties and it’s very crippling. Do I leave my work? Will I [...]
Retrospection
What I like from all the travels I do for work is that at the end of the day, when I’m just alone in my hotel room, I can read or write in peace and quiet. It’s something I don’t get to do often despite the regularity of my writing. Ironic, I know. Most of [...]
Calm before the storm
“Without this, there’s no Korea. There’s no masters. There’s no ‘future abroad’. This is my make or break.” I said all that in 3 seconds, a preview of the storm that was my heart. Or in my heart. I knew for certain that I’ve been dreaming up to this point, and yet have not clearly [...]
Chivalry in the mountains
Mountain climbing is one of those sports that are not gender-specific. There are many such sports that are not partial to gender. Like swimming. Or basketball (Think NBA and WNBA). Gymnastics (although I admit, a lot of men are still uneasy and methinks it’s the tights). And tennis, to name a few. There are only [...]
Babysitting diaries
Last Sunday, we went to Velasquez Park to babysit our cute inaanak, Han and Ike :-) We found ourselves being kids again, sliding, swinging, crawling through holes. We should cherish a happy childhood :-)
Confessions of a Single
It was probably the most honest question I’ve been asked by anyone lately. And I tried to answer it with the same vulnerable honesty. Why was I single? Why have I been single for the longest time? Was it, as my guy friend asked me last night, because I “choose to be single?” or “nagkataon [...]
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