This is about my experience as a one-man librarian (or "solo librarian") in the Philippines. I talk about my first job as a librarian and how I eventually resigned. Time stamps 0:30 My e…
Since 2016, I would post about the previous year every new year to keep track of what I’ve done and what I hope to do in the next. 2021 seemed to pass by so fast. 2020 was the year that changed almo…
Ever since I started this blog, I would post every new year about how the past year has been and what I hope to accomplish in the next. (My new year posts since 2016 is under the ' new year …
I open my Facebook feed, and I am bombarded by many things trying to get my attention. Aside from the usual posts from friends, there's an announcement for another webinar. Someone is trying to s…
I just started a new job at the beginning of March. But two weeks later, the lockdown was declared in my city. At first, the general community quarantine was only for two weeks but extended and exten…
I must say that this quarantine is breaking me down. I have not left the house since March 14, and my city has been on lockdown since March 20. The extended community quarantine will last until t…
In a matter of days, life as we know it changed. There is a calamity, but it's something that we cannot see. Earthquakes, fires, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, wars, and countless disasters ha…
From my trip to Singapore last April 2019 was a year of changes and endings. I finished my thesis for my graduate degree and finally graduated my Master's in Library and Information Science…
I just finished my graduate degree last month. While I'm happy about finishing it, there's the dread. The fear of success - now that I have an MLIS, I feel like there's more expected …
Picture from Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo I turned 26 years old last Sunday. Yet I was in a mall the day before my birthday, eating and enjoying a chocolate-covered vanilla popsicle ice cream, feel…
Let's take a break from the usual articles and talk about life currently. I just came from my university to get my last (and not that great) salary for teaching one subject this semester, afte…
There’s this encounter with a feeling-close relative that still pops up my mind from time to time even if it was a long time ago. Since my mind keeps on replaying thoughts and imagining things I s…
Last June 1-4, I went out of the country for the first time! I went to Hong Kong for three days and two nights. My grand-aunt was planning to go, so I just went along. It was exciting, but after thre…
This has been the busiest summer yet. Along with my library job, I'm also taking two subjects for my Masters degree: Group Dynamics and Reference. There's only two of us enrolled and we'…
After 9 months of unemployment, I finally got a job in the library of my university. It doesn't pay half of what I earned in Manila in my last (and first) job, but I find myself happier. I don…
This was last January 2014. I'm now on notebook # 37 Old note: I was fixing my room since I’m leaving home soon and these are journals from 2008 until now, arranged chronological. Filled w…
For a long time since grade school, I have struggled with intrusive thoughts. Senseless, repeating, often over the mistakes of the past. They are thoughts that can't be shut out no matter how h…
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