It has been a while since my last post and I'm not even sure if anyone still on Life Journal. But for the sake of the record, I shall write about this.

They say everyone has a big crash in life, and mine just happened a few days before my 31st birthday. Spent my birthday in a hospital located not even in my own country (it’s in Philippines). Not ( Read more... )

After a month resting at home, my ankle recovered about 80%. I still can't squat both feet at the same time and coming down hill still incurs pain around the ankle, it's way better than 2 weeks ago. Gaining back your mobility and agility feels wonderful, if you had been in the past involved in any accidents that left you immobile, you'd understand ( Read more... )

Since I sprained my left ankle 2 weeks ago, there is little thing I can do. I found out yesterday that my right calf feels more muscular than the left ones, flabby. Funny thing is when I met up with fellow hiking mates for dinner, one of them actually slimmed down. So evidently, we’re not hiking for the sake of staying in shape since we consume ( Read more... )

So I went to my dream concert and the experience of it was superb, beyond any words to describe. The concert was held in Taiwan, a 4-and-half-hour flight away from my home country. When I was contemplating on whether to make this trip or not, my friend’s timely vacation at Taiwan helped me decide it. I was leaving it to fate; if my friend could ( Read more... )

I always think that instead of a clean, modernistic, sophisticated country, I’m attracted to places that are messy, heterogeneous, or worse, licentious. That’s where I ended my 2016 in. Pattaya might be one of those places with its ill repute of being the capital of sex tourism. This is not a place for conservative, for you see every now and then a ( Read more... )

And here is another end of year ( Read more... )

I quit my last job as Production Planner recently and became an English-to-Japanese technical translator at a new company. My resignation notice was short, fewer than a month (old company requires two-month notice), since the new company was eager to have me on-board as it was going through a merger transition which would soon have a headcount ( Read more... )

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I felt accomplished. That’s the feeling I went to bed with yesterday night. A holiday replacement on weekday indeed does wonder for working people. I got all my planned errands done: made a blood donation, renewed my soon-to-expire ATM card and credit cards, and sent my bike to automobile repair shop to get a thorough checkup. Also I finally ( Read more... )

I stare at the blank word document and wonder what I should write. I told myself to write more but with each passing day and year, I find myself doing the opposite. Maybe everything is in my mind, maybe most things are trivial or trite to write about. Words in speech are indeed powerful tool but they’re also double-edged swords. Now I tend to act ( Read more... )