rainy days & daydreams

“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it.” ~ Haruki Murakami

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Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Marvin J. Ashton

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Canva-Fusion Manila's design team worked on a poster series project based on the company's core philosophies. I am tasked to illustrate the idea of “giving away your Lego.” This is actually based on an article about scaling startups, from Google designer Molly Graham, who said, “The best metaphor I have for scaling is building one of those huge, complex towers out of Legos,” she says. “At first, everyone’s excited. Scaling a team is a privilege. Being inside a company that’s a rocket ship is really cool. There are so many Legos! You could build anything. At the beginning, as you start to scale, everyone has so many Legos to choose from — they’re doing 10 jobs — and they’re all part of building something important.” 

“If you personally want to grow as fast as your company, you have to give away your job every couple months.” 

I literally experienced this just recently while working in Canva. It's greatly overwhelming yet equally exciting to have my role as a designer change so quickly – and I find it as an incredible opportunity for me to keep growing and learning in a remarkably fast-paced design industry. The past nine months in my job has been a wild, wonderful whirlwind of events, and I'm always looking forward to what's going to happen next.

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We are always at the centre of our own stories. And sometimes it is hard to believe that we are not at the centre of other people's. But I love the truth that you can walk past a person, with your own story, your own life so big in your mind and at the same time be a simple passer-by in someone else's. A walk-on part.

Rachel Joyce

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Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Every Last One, Anna Quindlen

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Here’s a rare outfit post.

Dressing nicely once in a while always makes me feel a lot more confident about myself. Funny how I love colors and that it’s practically my job to play around with different color palettes – yet you will almost always just see me wearing blacks, whites, and neutrals. And I like it that way.

(I miss writing and blogging! Must make it a point to make time to write; hopefully this is a start.)

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“The world had scaled itself into endless inches of possibility.” - Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things #vscocam #vsco #nature #travel #Hakone #Japan #mountain #winter #candyminimal (at Mt. Fuji)

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Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can.

Bob Seger 

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京都市，日本

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