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  • All These Things # 3

    Can you believe we’re almost at the end of September? Can you believe we’re actually in September, and it’s been officially Christmas season in the Philippines for several weeks now? This year is just zipping by, and while I am excited for a lot of things later this year (BTS concerts, hello!), I also kind…

  • All These Things # 2

    When 2026 started, I told myself I’d focus on One Big Thing every month (or for a certain time period) before I move on to the next Big Thing. So January, I had some family things, plus Meah’s book release, February was Kilig Cafe, March was my birthday, April was somehow filled with an unbelievable…

  • All These Things # 1

    How is it the last week of October already? I used to do this random series in another blog called All These Things, taken from a Stephen Speaks (the 2002-2003 version of the group) song that I liked. The series usually covered random updates like how I did it in this post, and since I’m no…

  • That December Night

    In the Keep the Faith universe, Faith returned from her mission trip around the end of November, so she spent her first Christmas as a single person after five years back in Manila. In the first act of the book, she meets Nico, and it was around this time of December where he calls her French Fries for…

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    So it’s Singles’ Day…

    …and I had no idea that this “holiday” existed. I only found out about this through Metrodeals in an email: “11–11 Singles’ Day Supersale Preview” and I thought it was a joke. Like how did Metrodeal know this about me? A little research and Wikipedia gave me this: Chinese Singles’ Day or Guanggun Jie (Chinese: 光棍节; pinyin: Guānggùn Jié; Wade–Giles: Kuang-kun chieh; literally: “bare…

  • Iloilo-Tripping with Nico

    So last February was the 24th Singles for Christ International Conference (SFC ICON) in Iloilo, and as always, I was excited for it in more ways than one. Of course I was always excited about our annual conference, which is always my first vacation for the year, but I was more excited about it because…