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Soul Mate: What I Learned from Deepak Chopra

Soul Mate: What I Learned from Deepak Chopra

Soul mates. Strong words for those who are in the quest for true love.  What is a soulmate and how do you find the one? Generally, soul mates need not to be romantically involved with each other. There are people whom you can consider your soul mate. But for me,...

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My Happy Pill

My Happy Pill

After the festivities and hype of the past week, I once find myself alone again with my favorite companion..my laptop. I just realized that I have been missing out so much in life and love just because I chose to take a breather from everything else and concentrated...

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We Can Learn to Love Again

We Can Learn to Love Again

I went through a period of "writer's block" mainly because I was uninspired. Lately, I've been having LSS (last song syndrome) and I think it was something to inspire me to write about something. I used to think that the lyrics of this song was for couples who are...

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To Remember Me

To Remember Me

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital; busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and...

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To Dream New Dreams

To Dream New Dreams

It's always been a habit of mine to regularly assess my life and compare it with the kind of life I had years ago. In short, daydreaming. 🙂 I would always try to check which of my heart's desires have been fulfilled and which I still need to exert more effort to be...

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Beautiful In My Eyes

Beautiful In My Eyes

What is real beauty? How can you gauge someone’s beauty? Is there a sort of like an instrument that would give you a reading on how beautiful you are, much like how you measure Body Mass Index (BMI). Correct me if I’m wrong, but no such thing has ever been invented...

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Cupid, Hit Me One More Time

Cupid, Hit Me One More Time

Photo source: mobileapples.com I'm no Aileen Santos, I'm no relationship expert, and I don't claim to be one. I admit that, after two failed relationships, I really don't know how to start going out and seeing men again, on a different level. The kind of level that...

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On Falling in Love Again

On Falling in Love Again

Photo: youthvector.com I think I'm in love again! (ooh,how I wish!) Is it alright to say that I think I am falling in love again? Or does the word still exist in the vocabulary of women like me? I am 30+ years old, separated from a partner of four years for just a...

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The Irony of Fate

The Irony of Fate

Because I love movies, I will practically watch something that a friend would recommend and tell me that it is a nice movie, in any language, as long as there are subtitles to it, language barrier solved. I recently watched a Russian movie, on YouTube. Just because I...

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No Rewind, No Replay

No Rewind, No Replay

"No rewinding, no replayThe chance we lose todayWill be gone, when it's goneWe'll never be quite as strongNor as young as this againMake them last, make these moments lastRight now."               -Jose Mari Chan, No Rewind, No Replay   I've always loved Jose...

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How I Reinvented Myself

How I Reinvented Myself

Again, with new year comes the resolution to change one's self for the better. But are the changes you are willing to make just skin-deep? Or are you willing to go on a paradigm shift? Reinventing ourselves is one way of trying to preserve ourselves. It is very...

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