Category: personal

From a corporate employee, I have turned myself into a freelance writer/online worker/ self-employed individual. I’m still at loss when answering forms that asks for Occupation because I still can’t believe that yes, even when it doesn’t feel like it, this is my occupation (at least for now). I’ve been tempted to write non-practicing telecoms professional. I would love to romanticize how the whole decision-making process went, how years of imagining finally became reality, and how it felt to finally

Today marks the sixth month that I’ve been out. Out of my old loop, out of a regular job generating steady income, out of my previous routine. I thought of writing this post to remember this day and to tell the story of how the past six months have been. To say that it is bittersweet is an understatement. To romanticize the experience would be to lie. The digital nomad, location-independent, strike anywhere life is not all unicorns and rainbows

A few weeks ago, I felt like dark clouds were settling in and that I was starting to get stuck in a serious rut. Life seems to be going nowhere, and unfortunately, I do not have any fight within me to beat it. It got me thinking why I never felt that way when I was on the road. What is it about traveling that makes your serotonin shoot up through the ceiling and allow you to see the world

I remember writing in 2012 that I welcome 2013 with anticipation for all the things that it might bring. And it did bring things in little waves. For one, I seem to have abandoned this space, with posts less than half the number of entries last year. I could blame it on writer’s block, but the truth is, I simply did not find the time to spew something out. I spent the first 3 months of 2013 holed up in