Giving everyone in the living room of our villa a goodbye hug was sentimental. Once again, I was carrying my heavy full-packed 70L backpack because I was going again. But only this time, I was going back home. I didn’t know how much to feel about. My emotions were all mixed-up and even though I …
After getting home from our quick trip to Abu Dhabi, I dashed out again to meet my friends. So I took the metro to Nakheel Station and walked all the way going to Emirate’s Golf Club where a posh free festival to fill up on food truck grub was happening. There we had a proper …
This is story of that one event that changed my life forever. It might probably wasn’t much but this is a very personal story that I will be dividing into three separate blogs. For starters, let me take you back in 2019 when I was still living in United Arab Emirates.
“Happy New Year, everyone!” I greeted my co-workers in advance then I hit send before I logged off of work. It was 6:30 in the morning as I started pedaling my bike to meet with three of my friends: Edmon, Daniel, and David, and began cycling from Quezon City to Savano Park to meet a …
There was one evening from one of my travels where I met with newfound friends in a lovely local pub to catch up on each other’s island activities. We sat on a bamboo chair, ordered a Greek pizza, a bucket of beers, and started talking. Halfway through the night, I thought something bizarre about the …
It was two in the morning in the middle of the third bottle of whiskey with my tipsy friends and we were all swimming in the state of drunkenness that was just full of euphoria. You know that vibe when you just start vibing with each other?
When I was contemplating about how my life’s gonna turn out to be when I ended my career in the Philippines as a Starbucks Barista last year, one option that I’d love to consider is to be a yoga teacher in Ubud, Bali. But I don’t know jack shit about it except only for the …
A bicycle ride at the beginning of more or less a hundred kilometers can excite or scare the hell out of you. But either of the two, all long-distance cycling begins with a single pedal stroke. And I will start this blog by quoting John F. Kennedy: Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding …
“Meet me at Burjuman Station.” My friend, Kevin, messaged me. I think I was only just a week fresh in Dubai by the time. And I was somewhere along downtown for a job interview before noon and as soon as it was finished, I rushed down towards the nearest metro station until I reached the …