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An Ardent Love for New Age Music

An Ardent Love for New Age Music

Last week was a frenzy for me. The disadvantage of having multiple jobs is that when everything has to demand more of your time at exactly the same moment,time management skills would not be of much help. As much as I don't want to, I have to decline a job offer which...

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Hate.Forgive.Love.

Hate.Forgive.Love.

How do you begin to forgive the people who gave you countless nights of psychological and emotional torture? How can you forgive people who are not even sorry about what they did? I still choke every time I say the Lord's Prayer and get to the part "as we forgive...

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Dreams Do Come True

Dreams Do Come True

We dream big dreams, but then there are also things that we wanted to do, but never really thought of doing it because it isn't really a dream as big as the rest. These are things that we wish we could do, but do not really worked so hard for it, but the longing is in...

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The Subtle Beauty in Battle Scars

The Subtle Beauty in Battle Scars

“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”  ― Linda Hogan Battle scars. These words hit me big time when I saw on the news recently about how women are trying to change the concept of...

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Seeing Through the Mask

Seeing Through the Mask

I always thought that when you become a mother or a wife for that matter, you should put your family's needs above or before yours always. Meaning, you have to take the backseat and you put your dreams for yourself on hold. I thought that dreaming for yourself was in...

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Matters of the Heart

Matters of the Heart

"Only when you listen with both head and heart and listen to what you feel to be honest and true will you have a clear sense of complete sense of real direction in life."- Sonia Choquette Very strong and inspiring words from an inspiring woman. Today, I feel as empty...

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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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To Ink or Not to Ink

To Ink or Not to Ink

Once in a while, it is quite refreshing to immerse yourself. In a world different from your own.  You get a fresh perspective of it. You grow. And somehow develop a fondness for it. As my title suggest, I am blogging about my immersion in the world of...

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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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Echoes of Our Hearts Revisited

Echoes of Our Hearts Revisited

I am not a sweet talker and I don't believe much in PDA's . Call me a prude, but I believe that certain PDA's that maybe normal to some is more appropriate done in private. But I can be mushy, yes, don't be surprised, but only during hormonal changes. And tonight,...

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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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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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