All right everyone, let's mosey.

first beach trip after two years of isolation and i honestly feel like a brand new person

In the grander scheme of things, these might feel all so insignificant given how physically, emotionally, and mentally taxing this year has been, but I think it bears merit to acknowledge that whatever we’re going through—though it may be of different circumstances—we’re still allowed to celebrate even the tiniest of comforts and the smallest of wins. That should be okay. Because I am grateful that my heart is a muscle capable to stretch and make room for more kindness. I am grateful for surviving. I am grateful for now.

Nostalgia never looked so warm and pretty.

Punta Sebaring, Balabac, Palawan

Some Balabac snaps back from March BC (before COVID). It’s so strange how this all feels like a lifetime ago. I feel like these photos are memories of someone else; the girl I was, I could no longer recognize.

Koh Phangan, Thailand

Wat Arun, Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand

I’ve been doing such a poor job of keeping this photoblog alive since everything goes to Instagram these days. I’d like to think its convenience is what keeps me there, but there’s also something so dangerously infectious being on that app all the time and being so obsessed with curating your feed that I’ve completely forgotten about the hundreds of unprocessed photos gathering dust on my hard drive. Anyway. Here’s a photo from Krabi, Thailand, taken in July 2019 - an example that I have tons of other overdue photos waiting to have a home in this space.

wouldn’t trade coron for anything else tbh

Long overdue March 2019 photo dump because I have neglected this blog for far too long.

Storm’s end

The first two days in the island have been riddled by thunderstorms. At some point, we tried waiting for the storm to pass, but in the end, we had to brave through it to get to our destination. I feel like there’s a metaphor in there somewhere that I could relate to the disaster that was 2018, but that’s a story for another time.

Starting 2019 in Siargao only proves that I will always and forever be an island girl.

Also, I should learn how to post photos of myself here more often without eventually feeling guilty, lol

I’m just a girl, standing in front of this neighbourhood, asking it to adopt her.