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Q1
What is the biggest block you personally experience when it comes to self-love? What hidden need is trying to be heard?
I don't know many things, especially about life and living and how to live. I used to know how to study and work, and do both at the same time. I feel far away from that person now, but closer to a human being, and yet I still don ( Read more... ) -
Too solitary
One time, the person I thought of as my best friend tearfully/stonily called me the night of a bonfire at Ateneo, in Katipunan where I waited, alone. She told me she and her boyfriend had broken up ( Read more... ) -
Ketut Liyer
I don't know why I booked the flight to Bali. Maybe it was because I had a new credit card, maybe because I just got payment for a job done long ago, maybe because I was burning out. For whatever reason, I did go to Bali, and for another reason, I went to see Ketut Liyer ( Read more... ) -
Grand Slam
I'm possibly rapid cycling and this is is just one stage of this whole thing, but I'm actually not, and hopefully this isn't just a stage of my life ( Read more... ) -
The counterfactual
In impact evaluation, we determine the impact of an intervention by observing variables among individuals with similar characteristics that received treatment and did not receive treatment. In science and psychology, those that did not receive treatment are the control group. In economics, they are the counterfactual.
I've been thinking in terms of ( Read more... ) -
I'm beat
I'm not even done with finals yet and I'm beat. I'm tired to the point that I just don't want to do anything, for just a day, for a weekend, maybe. By doing nothing I mean not having to think about doing anything; I don't want to think that I should be working, that I should be studying, that I should be doing something substantial with my brain so ( Read more... ) -
On another note
Sometime in 2012 when I was reading Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind, John Nash's biography and the basis for the film that I will watch for the nth time tonight, I think I decided I wanted to be like him in the way that he was a solitary genius, friendless throughout his life, just a walking brain of mathematics and economics. And this is the part ( Read more... ) -
Everyone is an expert
I think it's fucking hilarious when transportation-related woes suddenly make everyone an expert; suddenly everyone is an engineer, a policymaker, an adviser. The government should do this, and do that. They should limit cars to half the roads. It's bloody entertaining how road rage (anger on the road, in general now) transforms people into fucking ( Read more... ) -
Things I hate
- People on their phones and devices at a restaurant, or bar, or anywhere they're with other people. If you're just going to be staring at your phone while you're with me, I shouldn't have gone out with you at all. If you have someone more important to talk to than me, the person across you, well, I have more important things to study than the dinner ( Read more... )
