Dec 19, 2024
So in love with OJ’s engagement ring. Fits my sweater as well for the holiday season 🥰
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So in love with OJ’s engagement ring. Fits my sweater as well for the holiday season 🥰
Been a lefty lately 😅💍
Me: *showing a clip of a 5 ft alligator found in the body of an 18 ft Burmese python* ohmygod look at this!!! *cringe*
O: yan yung recurring theme ng Attack on Titan that. That the world is cruel.
Me: I would just like to live in that part of the world na full of rainbows and butterflies lang and it's warm and cozy and full of sweet things. Not this! It's so dark and evil!
O: that's just part of it. Pero di naman yan evil. I really think what is natural cannot be evil. Like a lion eating a dear, or storms and hurricanes. They are naturally occurring. But they are not evil.
Me: How about humans? Ang nature ba nila is really not evil?
O: mm. not necessarily. Humans are inherently not evil. But they have evil tendencies. It's up to them if they want to act on those urges. But they are not naturally evil.
A bit of life update from your girl traversing her thirties
Just thought of putting some thoughts I have now that we're reaching 25% of 2023. Could you believe it? We're already a quarter in! Time flies a lot faster now. And it's not just relative. I've read somewhere that time is a bit faster now compared to a century ago or something. But don't quote me on that.
I've been busy studying while balancing it with work. I'm still preparing myself to get that Solutions Architect certification I've been planning last year ever since I get my CCP badge. But along the way, I got a wee bit distracted and did some side quests and got myself two more AWS certificates and another one for data engineering. lol
There are two (or three) more of these that I'm also planning to get but boy it's been very tedious since they have separate exams that I also need to pass. So studying for my SA-CO3 exam, then studying side by side for the technology certs eats up a lot of my time. I spend a lot of my free time reading whitepapers and listening to Cantril's SA course.
Then I also did a side quest since I'm undergoing a bit of a role redefinition at my job (which I am very excited about. Also the main reason why I'm working hard studying for these courses) so I'm doing short Coursera courses as well. Things are very exciting indeed!
And on top of that, I'm also squeezing in some time to take my yellow belt in lean six sigma. Hoping to get it before the end of the first half of this year.
So yeah life is pretty exciting and a bit overwhelming lately. The good kind of overwhelming. I've watered down my target books this year to 20 so I can focus on my studies but it's there. I'll still do a couple of book reviews.
Speaking of books, I was telling OJ a few days ago about my fondness for my kindle. If you've heard our conversation midway, you'd think I was talking about a specific person in such an intimate way. But I recalled saying something like:
me: If I would personify my kindle, she's that low-maintenance friend.
O: uh huh...
me: yah! like you can not talk to her for months and she won't get mad at you because she knows that you're both cool with it. And when you do catch up, you can bring her to a small coffee shop and just chat throughout the day and you'll be sure you'll still have a blast.
O: because she's interesting and has lots of stories to tell?
me: yah! and she's literally low maintenance. You don't need to bring a lot of money to hang out with her since you're not going out to shop. You're just there to chat and laugh all day long. Unlike iPad where you know you have to get dressed and be all put together since she's gonna bring you somewhere fancy or you're going to take photos and stuff. Don't get me wrong! Ipad is a great friend as well but she has a lot of things going on. You need to worry about her not getting scratched up, and her battery life. Unlike kindle! You can leave kindle for two weeks and her battery life is still great! I love her so much
O: you seem very passionate about this.
me: You think so?
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Also on a different note, I still have a life outside. I just watched Harry Styles live and I had a blast! I also went to a Korean actor's fan meeting and had so much fun!
We really do like our Pepper Lunch
To the first of many. Took this video to celebrate your hard work, love. Maybe 5 or 10 years from now, we can look back at this video and see how bare and empty it was. But it was the start of our dreams coming true.
My boyfriend, coming from a trip to Australia last Saturday, flew his ass on a whim to come and see me this Monday and decided he wants to come home with me back to our province. He also gave me this beautiful anniversary gift. I feel so spoiled! 🥺