Diversion

Moving forward, as I write this post I am in constant thinking of what to do in the coming days while in quarantine.

ANXIOUS

I deactivated my Facebook account for a good two months last year or so I think. Unsure of how many months but I really did. This was when the onset of a stricter lockdown in the metro was happening. The consumption of news via television and my mobile phone have dawned in me three months …

Looking Back

I took this photo after attending the Sunday mass with my mother and brothers. It was my first time to visit Manila Cathedral after a few years of staying in the city. Never has it come up to me to go and experience its grandeur and rich history. Two days before Sunday I suggested to …

One Week Later

Two weeks ago, I was holed up in my apartment. My skeleton workforce duty was extended to two weeks and I was not assigned any work from home tasks so I was only using my time for my online foreign language course and some readings for the upcoming audit of our office. I felt like …

Day 1: Quarantine

Last July, after three whole months of not seeing my office and work station I was finally given a work schedule. We are on a skeletal work duty. We are divided into two teams to report on site and observe minimum health protocols. Wear your face masks. Wear your face shields. Observe social and physical …

Breathing

The year is 2020 and days, weeks and months are pushing towards end of the year, almost. The month is July. I am sitting in my bunk bed. Spotify ringing in my ear enveloping this well of emotions turn into words transcending from my mind down to my fingertips. Pressing these keys with letters feels …

Threshold

This waiting game is getting me sucked in this paranoia of oblivion. The what if's are just at bay. I am not flipping out. There's this part of me that keeps on saying that something is beginning, something is changing. Over the past weeks, counting the days, being oblivious of time trying to let my …