The Quiet Notes

Make the Most Out of Your Blog

I have always loved writing, and so when blogging was "invented", I was glad because it became a medium for us "wannabe writers" to practice our craft. Personally, I started blogging just for the sole purpose of writing, of putting my thoughts into words, and most...

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Drama Culture: The Emotional Filipino

Life is a big soap opera, in the eyes of the Filipinos, so to speak. It's so amazing to find a non-Filipino fall in love with my country. ( I mean, there are plenty of my fellow Filipinos who have fallen out of love with our country.) I stumbled upon Nathan Allen's...

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

I am so excited with the upcoming movie X-Men: Days of Future Past. But I have someone who is more excited than me. My son! He is just four years old but you bet he could name all the characters. I am amazed at how he does it, but I guess watching too much of it would...

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Carrie, Oh Carrie !

I had the opportunity to watch SATC 2 on tv and I realized how much I missed the characters. My favorite character of course is Carrie, but I find Samantha's sex life juicier.  I remember a friend of mine got so obsessed and related so much to the movie that she...

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The Many Faces of Lent: Finding The Good in Good Friday

Lent is a very big celebration for us Catholic Christians because this is the commemoration of the passion of Jesus, His death and resurrection. Throughout the Philippines, we may have different ways of celebrating or commemorating Lent, but the message is still the...

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The Many Faces of Lent: Finding The Good in Good Friday

Lent is a very big celebration for us Catholic Christians because this is the commemoration of the passion of Jesus, His death and resurrection. Throughout the Philippines, we may have different ways of celebrating or commemorating Lent, but the message is still the...

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To Forgive Is To Be Free

In connection to my previous post about letting go, I think that one of the ways that we can let go is to forgive. I have written so much about forgiveness, because I believe, based on my personal experience, that unless we forgive, we lose too much. But forgiving is...

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The Fear of Letting Go

Lent is over. So I am back to blogging. But what I would like to blog about are my experiences in attending the life-changing Let Go Recollection which I religiously attended for three days.  If everything else in our life is not going in the direction that we...

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Just Wear the Dress (Bringing Out the Eve in Me)

One of my frustrations is being a fashionista, that is, in the sense of always trying to go with what’s “in” in the fashion industry.  I have tried to be one, at some point, but I really thought and felt deep down, that it really wasn’t me. I just didn’t have the...

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I also write for women rebuilding on their own, at She Thrives Solo.

I also write for people wanting to get out of a toxic relationship, at Keep the Narc Away.

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