Random Strife

Photo by Garel BIDI SINDA on Pexels.com Trying to write after not reading in a long time, is like fetching water from a dried up well. Continue reading Fetching From an Empty Well

Photo by HONG SON on Pexels.com I sometimes find myself staring into nothing. For some strange twist of fate, a result of the different choices I made in the past, my life is running, not just in hard mode, but in extremely difficult mode. I don’t know how to get out of this situation, but I know I have to keep struggling. Life is all about struggles… yes, but sometimes I wish my struggles…

Photo by Andre Furtado on Pexels.com The air was cold, the sky gloomy,My heart sank in my chest.Like a stab to the heart, reality hit me.Rushed out, the memories suppressed. Confused and in pain, I reminisce,Where was the truth, and where’s the lie?I felt used and completely abused;The misery and how I wanted to die.The life and years that I have wasted,The dreams with you are dead and gone.The…

Photo by lil artsy on Pexels.com I’m glad I wrote down my struggles and hardships in the past years, because my brain forgot. I look at my current situation now, how my entire life is in shambles because of how I jumped in what I believed was a good financial decision at the time, and think that there is a possibility that this was all planned out as a sort of punishment for me for the…

Be Careful of Your Sources

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Last Friday, we got a bit of an alarming inquiry from my wife’s sister.

“I heard there were positive cases from tests where your husband works?”

Hold up. What?!

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As if One Crisis Was Not Enough

Hello everyone. How are you all doing in these trying times?

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Things are slowly settling here in the Philippines. It would seem that by next week, strict quarantine controls will only be limited to a select few areas. Our city will probably go back to normal next week – well, at least the so called “new normal,” at the very least.

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An Amusing Turn of Stats Event

I know this is nothing to be completely happy about – it just means that my blog – which has usually been flying under the radar, must have caught the eyes of a bunch of spambots.

Since I have new comments in my notifications, I guess I should be thankful that the Spam filter is working as it should be.

But still, it’s funny, and I got a good chuckle out of it. Look at how my blog has performed…

I may be decades from being of retirement age, yet the current condition where we are encouraged to stay at home made me think…

Is this what retirement is like?

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I am usually uncomfortable showing work-in-progress things, but this is essential for my point. Hahaha…

As part of my return to visual media, I have been re-sharpening my photo-editing skills. There are a lot one can learn from the internet now. It also helps when you follow a handful of photographers and film makers on youtube.

In any case, above is a photo of a bunch of benches after a light…