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The Miss who blogs about the thoughts in her noisy head

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What comes after the fun of travelling? It is back to reality... as if all the fun and excitement you've had in a faraway place had been a dream you're bound to wake up from. You can't forever be going out of town, taking IG worthy photos, eating fancy foods and marveling over places you can't visit twice. After a few days, you would have to face the usual challenges, go back to your daily routines, take the stress of commuting and start replenishing your pockets. The beach or whatever it is that you've last visited would have to wait again. Sad life, isn't it?? Well, not really. I just visited Hong Kong, spent almost my salary for the whole month for a 4 days trip but I never thought of that as a distant dream nor did I dread going back to what my daily life is. My YOLO moment didn't end in Hong Kong. It is a continuous experience which I am having even now, as I write this. If you really are a "YOLO" person, you would know what I mean. You would never think of an ejoyable experience as a separate thing from reality. Life isn't a burden. You would treasure even the most trivial part of your life and would always find a way to connect to nature even in the busiest section of the city. So, what really comes after the fun of travelling? Well, it is still the excitement of living life with new supplies of the most unique, happy memories you can forever treasure in your heart. 😁 #yolo #travels #hongkong #hkdisneyland #traveling (at Hong Kong Disneyland)

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My job does not call for any creativity. As long as I can think rationally, I would survive my life inside the office. The past 8 years of my life had been a repetitive routine of work-house-sleep-work. There is not much to complain because I earn big after all, but then, if I make a summary of my life, it wouldn't even take me a page to write everything. I'm pretty sure that if the 'young me' would ever see me right now, she would scold me and would definitely be ashamed of calling me her 'older version'. That sucks, really. What's good about life is that I can start anytime. I can start a change whenever I think is appropriate. If I wanna quit my job, I know I can. It is just a matter of choice. The problen is me making the decision and having the determination. This is not the first time that I realized that I needed a change in me. I've had moments where I thought I needed to learn a new language so I started enrolling myself in a basic Japanese course but I eventually got tired so I quit. I bought a sketch pad and a set of drawing pencils to start drawing but I cringed at seeing my first few strokes so I let the sketch pad and the pencils collect dust. I bought a fantasy novel as I used to love reading books when I was still in school but there it goes, together with the sketch pad and the pencils. There are other things which I started but never quite finished. Why? Because midway, I got scared. I got scared that I would forever be learning, that I would never get better and that I would forever be stuck in this cycle. Foolish, right?? I know, but there are some things that you simply can't get out of your head. I wish there would be someone who would be willing to smack my head real hard to wake me to the reality that I can do and finish things. This is me again, trying to be brave to start all over, to let go of past failures, to learn from it and to have the strength to keep moving forward. First of all, let me get 100% confidence. I CAN DO THIS!!

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It's the christmas season!! Yey!! I must admit that I am no longer as excited as I was before when I was a kid. I mean, when you get old, Christmas is no longer equivalent to putting socks out for Santa to place gifts. It is no longer about singing Christmas carols from house to house until your pocket gets full with coins or candies. Putting on the Christmas,decor can be more tiresome than exciting. Work also comes first so you don't expect everyone to be present at the Christmas table. I miss that 'little me' where my Christmas wishes could be as simple as being able to celebrate with everyone happily. As you grow old, you realize that life is really demanding so you start wishing about getting more money, paying the bills on time, buying a new car or that new gadget in the market. I can't turn back time and it would be foolish of me to really wish to be a kid once more. This Christmas season though, I wanna experience things that will make a kid happy. I wanna see genuine smiles at the Christmas table. I wanna exchange gifts with everyone while remembering not the gifts but the joy it brings. I wanna say 'Merry Christmas' as we all think about Jesus, the real birthday celebrant. If I can be as simple as that, I'm sure that this is going to be my best Christmas ever. #christmas #christmaswishes #christmastree #christmaslights (at SM Megamall EDSA)

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Who else is craving for these? ❤❤ #maki #spicytunamaki #yummy

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We are meant to run our own show. We may sometimes feel like losing control and being a mere character in somebody else's story without realizing that they, too, are just acting supporting roles in our life. How we make our own story 'amazing' depends not on controlling life but reigning over our own character. A protagonist can either be a supporting role or an antagonist in another story. Whichever you are becomes part of your own tale. #amazingshow #life (at Amazing Show)

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Me on a Quarter-life Crisis??

I don’t feel like I am myself these past few months. I try to be as jolly and optimistic as possible, laughing with friends, listening to my favorite music while on the road, watching some k-drama with my mother and trying to be a little nicer to my siblings but I still don’t feel like things are making sense. Everything I do, including those that I used to love before seems pointless and boring. When I think of what I want to do or anything that could possibly make me happy and satisfied, my mind goes blank. If staring in space is deadly, I am surely dead by now.

I thought that my mental health was in serious jeopardy. Being the old me who’s normally cheerful and positive, I know that it’s not healthy to feel nothing. I even considered once asking for medical help for fear that my present condition would bring me to end my life someday.

That was when I started reading articles online to see if there’s anybody out there who’s experiencing the same thing as I am and to somehow feel normal again. You know, finding out that you’re not alone helps ease the pain. That was when I learned about Quarter Life Crisis.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw how the signs of a Quarter Life Crisis fits me. Frustration. Depression. Anger. The feeling of being left behind and not being good enough. The need to run away with no escape routes. The realization of being stuck. That’s me, exactly in the present year, the 25th of my life.

Things are not going easy. I am honestly struggling but I know that this is just one stage in life that I have to pass through with flying colors. This article helps: http://personaltao.com/teachings/midlife-crisis/quarter_life_crisis/quarter-life-crisis-signs/ .  Done with adolescence and now this one, I am confident that with the right mindset and consistent pace, I’ll be the person I define myself. And so, I say to you and to my present self... “You watch out! You’ll soon be calling me a successful woman living her life in the happiest way.”

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Last Saturday, April 29, 2017, to be exact, me and my #goodvibes friends went to Yexel museum in Manila Ocean Park. It is a famous toy museum in the metro owned by Yexel Sebastian. This is the third branch as far as I've read with the biggest branch, I guess, in Las Piñas. It is not difficult to say that it is the biggest as according to my friend, Wikipedia, its four-storey building houses over 10,000 toys and 300 life-sized cartoons. Talk about overwhelming, right?? Well, we went to the small version of Yexel museum in Manila Ocean Park. We bought our ticket from Metrodeal. You can't blame us since the deal was so tempting. It is 80% off. The regular price is 500PHP but we got it for 99PHP. I can say that spending 100.00 was worth it but honestly, the regular price of 500.00 would be way too pricey for the place. There's the famous throne replica from Game of Thrones and the life-sized statue of Ironman and Darth Vader with his "minions" 😂 but hey, there's also the real minions on display and the scary Gollum from Lord of the Rings. The displays would surely make the inner child in you come out. So, if you are looking for a quick go-to place to kill your boredom, I recommend that you try it too. You can bundle it with the rest of Manila Ocean Park's attraction or you can buy it solo or in Metrodeal. C'mon, suit yourself. You're big enough.

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Life gets boring and meaningless when you never try to change perspectives. Everything is ordinary unless you make it extraordinary. The only limit is your imagination. #flowers #randomthoughts

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I just finished reading Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die which I postponed for more than a year. I’ve been seeing this book in the store and I know, even without reading it that it’s a nice book simply because it’s made by Paulo Coelho. I never thought though that reading it in the right time of my life would create such an impact. Well, I am a yuppie (young professional) where things are starting to be repetitive and boring. What made this book appealing is the fact that Veronika, the main character, decided to commit suicide not because of depression, insecurity or problems but because of life’s repetitiveness. Everything is going well and as expected. Living reached its peak where it became pointless. I felt like I am about to reach that stage as well and so, I’ve decided to read the book till the very end to find out how she made her way out if she ever did.

The book is not your typical suicide story which focuses on the past or a future which could never be. On the contrary, it talks about living in the present, the price that you have to pay to be normal and the unusual freedom of being crazy. The laws and complicated rules that we humans, whether as individuals or as a society, created were well described in the book in the eyes of an ex-mental patient. Funny that it could never be more accurate.

If there really is something that we must learn in life, it is exactly as the quote above: “Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live differently.”