Exchanging playlists every year has become a tradition for us and it surprised me when he told me we have been doing it since the 8GB flash drive became a thing. What? Playlist Title: Jaz A Decade of Us He says: rightfully titled coz it’s been more than ten years since we met at WCC’s…
Category: Writing etc
Recalibration: Setting my 10-year Goals
The beginning of the year often signals a reset for many people so a number of us are prone to creating resolutions we aim to abide by (at least in the first three months of the year) or goals that we want to achieve. This behavior subjects us to the marketing strategies of journal and…
My 2022, a Retrospective
After rigorously choosing the items I am willing to share in this cyberspace, here is how my 2022 went: On my Focus Time According to Forest App, or to be more accurate, according to how often I remembered to trigger the application as I went with my activities, I had a good amount of focus…
Blogging Prompts (resources and links) that will hopefully help me get out of my mental funk
I’m recovering from a mental slump. As much as it pains me to say, I’m suffering from the divergence of my personal goals from my professional ones. It was easier said than done when I wrote this post on passion and strengths. Getting overwhelmed by a series of projects taught me that I also needed…
Using LinkedIn Learning for 30 Days
These days I’ve been considering taking graduate studies or focusing on continuing development seminars. I have a big passion for writing and would like to study more literature but alas, it doesn’t pay my bills. If I wanted to project my future to be like a renowned writer who only waited for royalties at home,…
One year with iPad Pro M1. Now what?
I’m celebrating my M1’s anniversary. And nope, I didn’t buy it for work. I might have bought my laptop, Acer Nitro 5, to have a better experience working from home, which turned out to be a great investment. However, in M1’s case, I was more ambitious. With this tool, I committed myself to accomplishing the…
Meet The Book Blogger
I got this tag from Ellie Mai Blogs and since her responses fascinated me, I shamelessly decided to provide my answers as well. Rules Nominated bloggers can nominate up to ten other bloggers. Use the same questions from the tag. Who is your all-time favorite book character? Sherlock Holmes? Hermione Granger? Sirius Black? Aragorn? The…
The Book Snob Tag
I saw this tag in The Strawberry Post and thought the questions were fun. As always, I’m pretty late in the game but here we are. 1. Adaptation Snob: Do You Always Read the Book Before You See the Movie? Not always. Whichever comes first is fine. Perhaps it depends on how invested I am…
Studying Python for 30 days with Mimo App
As a human being, learning is a must. Since it’s related to my job and it’s a lot easier to provide requirements when you know what they are looking for, I decided to self-study coding. I’ve been casually studying for two years now. As for the choice of coding language, I started with Scratch, CSS,…
PBN 30-day Book Challenge Day 11: Literary Character You Want to Have Dinner (or Drinks!) with
DISCLAIMER: THE 30-DAY BOOK CHALLENGE IS CREATED BY PROFESSIONAL BOOK NERDS. I’M MERELY RESPONDING TO THEIR PROMPTS FOR MY OWN WRITING CHALLENGE. DISCLAIMER #2 (does this even count as a disclaimer): THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A DECEMBER 30-DAY LONG PROJECT. FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, I WASN’T ABLE TO COMMIT TO THE SCHEDULE. I’M…
The Viter-Ybasco University 