Convenience and comfortability

Convenience but to what expense? Environmental degradation, scarcity of our resources, putting millions of lives at risk from calamities and immense discomfort from the urban heat island effect due to bad urban planning, too much concrete roads and infrastructures with minimal vegetation.

Often times, we neglect all of these because we only care about ourselves and our so-called "comfort". As long as things are easy for us, we don't care about anything else. :'( 💔

10 years of Earth Hour special

I went out of our house to cherish God’s wonders at night during Earth Hour. The cold winds, the starry night, the song of the insects, and the silence of the plants – they made me realize that we have so much beauty in the world already but we chose to separate ourselves from it with the “comforts of our home”. It is so lovely to caress nature’s beauty, especially at night to the point that we don’t need to stay indoors to watch television, turn on the lights and the A/C or fans to be comforted or to be entertained. There are so much to explore every single day in the circle of life if we only bothered to care. There are so much in this world (which we disconnected ourselves) left to be discovered, and yet we chose those rectangular boxes of light showing pictures and videos “for entertainment”.

Try to go out, especially at night, and only feel the entirety of nature coming onto you. Overwhelm yourself with its greatness, with its marvelous beauty and complexity, and how much “science” it took to explain even the simplest thing in it. Our natural environment is worth your attention because it is LIFE itself.

Less Facebook Usage Challenge with Mirza

I'm challenged to lessen my Facebook usage by spending the time I use for fb on different things like studying, researching and working. Mirza should be using his extra time to exercise.

Did you miss me?

I had been inactive in this blog for years.

A lot has changed and how I wished I blogged it all while I was going through:

• Spiritual mentorship
• Valentine's Debut celebration of my niece
• Experiencing Pope Francis in the Philippines
• New-found friends and squad + my struggles with them
• Most celebrated birthday (19th)
• My separations from my best friend, "sister" cashier lady, and mentor: The people who helped me through college
• Advocacy life: Ups and downs, several trials and studying
• Separations from other dormmates and having new ones who are artists
• Dealing with house renovations - professionally
• Schizophrenic attacks of my sister and how I handled the situation as an adult
• Struggles in school
• Meeting someone who's freakishly like my other half in terms of how similar our interests are
• Having more girls in the squad + how they stay in my room because Wi-Fi (32mbps)
• Diagnosed with depression
• Lone adventures
• Opportunities
• Turning point

I definitely missed blogging. Every time, at the back of my mind, especially when I'm out, I have a blog in my head. If only it can automatically update this blog without me opening my laptop and typing it, that'd be great because whenever I'm out, I'm lost in thoughts and I feel so alive with my creative juices and hopeless romanticism (which I don't like publicizing - this is the first) that I wish I can input with a laptop but bring laptops while outside is inconvenient. I like how the typing feels like in the keyboard so I rarely blog through my phone.

That's all for now. I would like to talk about my "Turning Point" but it's 1:30am now and I can feel my body failing to function already except my hands. My brain wants to rest as well.

Young Sustainable Impact 2018

I'm a bit bitter that I'm not yet eligible for any opportunities this year, and then this one is something I can participate in IF I KNEW ABOUT IT EARLIER so I'm fired up to try applying next year.

Link for the past event here.