The Syndrome

One thing I have noticed when I am almost approaching… Shark Week – is how my will to do anything plummets to the ground along with my mental strength and self-confidence. I feel like a delicate flower in that instance that is also ready to throw grenades at anyone laughing too loud. It is a… Continue reading The Syndrome

The Treadmill

A treadmill is a machine you find in a gym. You press a few buttons and this conveyor belt-like-thing rotates and you have to walk/jog/run so that you don’t fall. I recently got onto a treadmill. Not for the first time, but for the first time in a long time. It was moving, I was… Continue reading The Treadmill

Part 1: Bragging Rights, Your Brand

"Porsche" is pronounced: POOR-SHA "Louis Vuitton" is pronounced: LOO-EE-VWEE-TAHN But you knew that right? So tell me this, if people can learn how to pronounce any of the above, then what’s stopping them from pronouncing your VERY ethnic name, correctly? If you carry yourself like a brand, you will be respected and recognized as such.… Continue reading Part 1: Bragging Rights, Your Brand

The Honeymoon Phase: If and When

I feel life is divided into two categories. When something happens and If something happens. Despite of this obvious fact, both chances bring forward uncertainty. Giving us anxiety. Now, I am very… not worrisome per se… but I seem to “dwell” on the outcomes of certain things. After the honeymoon phase, the stage where anything… Continue reading The Honeymoon Phase: If and When

Suggested for You

You know whenever you scroll on Facebook and you find a random post that has you wondering which one of your “friends” posted it, and it is simply entitled “suggested for you”? The weirdest part is when the post has NOTHING to do with your interests, but because your trends have created this pattern that… Continue reading Suggested for You

Dear Us,

I was in doubt of who I was and what I had to offer for the longest time. It was hard to open up to anybody because well, the society I grew up in did not make time for sensitive matters. If you are not studying, then you are working. My self-insecurity drove me to… Continue reading Dear Us,

“We Messed Up huh?”

Ever have that feeling where you examine the happenings in your life and the only person to blame is you?I am not even being hard on myself, but there are times when I just KNEW it was me with the problem.And all I could do was look at myself in the mirror and confess that… Continue reading “We Messed Up huh?”

[Insert Name Here]

Our name does not necessarily single us out from the crowd because there can be 2000 other people with the same name in the same area as you. A bit of an exaggeration, but not unlikely.  A name is just an arrangement of letters that someone saw fit to call you by. Well, at least that is… Continue reading [Insert Name Here]