A Chapter a Day Keeps the Doctor Away (And Yes, It’s Self-Care Too!)

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Weaving Our Stories: HABI Opens the Search for the Country’s Best Piña and Abaca Masterpieces

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[Hostel Review] Fun Inn Taipei, Taiwan

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BIR Registration for Freelance Writers and Other Non-Licensed Professionals (2021)

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Beauty and Fashion

Blast from the Past: Steampunk

By on February 21, 2012

I have a fascination with Steampunk items. Maybe it was influence from anime or games but I don’t know when I started to take a liking.

What is Steampunk anyway?

In three short words: Victorian science fiction, where Victorian references to a time period and an aesthetic: the industrialized 19th century.

To me, it’s more than brass, gears and watchparts. I regard each piece as art. Take a look at some pieces that I like:

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Inspiration

A Tale of a Working Student to a Full Time Freelancer & VA

By on February 18, 2012

There was only one institution that I wanted to go to for college, but aside from the fact that I didn’t make it on the quota, my family thought it was very far. I was ready to apply for another course, even if I didn’t specify one but they really didn’t want me to. Geez, it was like 15mins away without traffic, add it to the things that they exaggerate.

Reluctantly I enrolled to the school, which was walking distance from our house and costs more than my choice, but I took the course that I wanted too. Not nursing, not any course that my relatives took.

Slowly, changes happened and life became difficult. It was not because of my course load nor my list of Computer Science core subjects that I am encountering for the first time.

It’s because I can’t afford to study anymore.

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Demi Days

The Song That Gave Me The Answers I Needed To Hear :)

By on January 8, 2012

I admit, I’m in the state of confusion in a certain part of my life. That is, aside from being very busy and battling with colds that I’m not able to update my blog. I use all my time to work, watch NCIS episodes when I’m resting and sleep.

I turn to music too, when I want to focus on what I am doing or when I’m thinking about things. Or when I want to find answers. In another search of a beautiful song to add in my list, I stumbled upon Jason Mraz: “I Won’t Give Up“.

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