Highlights of 2016

Another year has passed and it is time to look back at all that has happened this past 2016. This blog has always been more than just an avenue for me to share my thoughts and let my creative juices flow. In a way, it's also been a diary where I write about the ups and the downs of my life. The year...

Baking Chocolate Chip Cookies

Christmas is a time of sharing and happiness and one thing that makes me happy that I would like to share with you is my favourite recipe for chocolate chip cookies! I have gone through a couple recipes and I have found this one that personally just works. You get warm and chewy cookies...

Christmas Playlist

It's finally December! I cannot believe that we are already in our last month of 2016 already. While it is cliché to say this, the year has been such a roller-coaster ride. There have been several ups and downs, but I am extremely excited for a very huge up in my life this year -- CHRISTMAS. Christmas...

Zambales 2016

Last October, I went on an trip to Zambales with my block as part of our fieldwork for our Social Science class. We were to research on the Aeta community in the resettlement areas of Zambales and how their lives have been changed by the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo explosion. It was honestly so...

17 Things About Being 17

A few weeks ago, I turned seventeen and to be quite honest, not much has changed (except for the fact that I'm much closer to turning eighteen). But, a lot can and does change over time, and so I wanted to look back at my life and see for myself just how much I've changed in the past year. So, here are seventeen things about being in this oddly awkward age of seventeen: 1. You suddenly enjoy...

When I'm Not Feeling It

There are just some days when I'm not feeling it. Days when I don't really feel 100% about what I do and sometimes, myself. Days when the smallest things get to me. Days when the music I listen to doesn't feel the same way anymore. Days when I feel so disconnected from the people that I am close to. Days when I would say no to doing something I would normally be on board with. Days when life feels...

Japan: Day 3

On our third day in Japan, my family and I visited two famous attractions in Osaka: Osaka Castle and the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Our agenda for the day was to visit the castle only, but we decided that morning that we would spend...