Jasmine.

Once again, I am faced with juggling several tasks and the clock is ticking super fast. When you are in the same shoe, I bet you’ll pray for clones to do all the other responsibilities and not end up giving half-baked expectations (in any of them). Saturdays and Sundays are supposed to be fun days, [...]

  Blank, empty, white, clean space. I’ve been straining my eyes staring endlessly at my monitor, wondering how to start converting a 500-paged report into a single page file. Overnight. For a while, I thought ‘relaxing” would do the trick. You know the drill: clear the mind, be still, be positive, etcetera etcetera.  It’s not [...]

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.  ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858   Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya”   For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.  Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and cutworm to [...]

Good or bad, there will always be people we will encounter who will  leave an indelible mark in our lives. They are permanent fixtures that had either scarred, burned or made us blissful at one point or another. Somehow, it reminds me that there are no mistakes in the way we live our lives, only [...]

Fresh from last night’s laughing spree (thanks to Vice Ganda and Anne Curtis) and from playing badminton the whole weekend – I felt energized coming to work today. Miraculous, even. Imagine, I came to my office super early.  I was in my desk exactly fifteen minutes before the flag ceremony began! Now, if only I [...]