Hoping for a middle ground

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It’s been two years since our last normal week in the office before it was initially declared that we’ll be having a 30-day community quarantine in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19. 

Since then, I have never set foot in the office except at times when I’d pass by and see the towering RCBC Plaza along Ayala and Gil Puyat Avenue from afar.

It was truly a blessing when I was one of the people from our team first selected to work from home—starting on March 27, 2020, which was a Friday. I never thought then it will last this long, so like everyone else, I took it as some sort of a “break” or a “vacation”. I may have bought a new laptop for me to use but I never bothered about getting myself settled in the hopes that all will be temporary.

All That “Sugar Daddy”-talk

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The beginning of the year overwhelmed me with bills and other money worries and it got too much that I was already having anxiety attacks because of it. 

Before y’all get judgy on me, I’m not really bad in my finances. I usually spend within my means, not into buying things that are branded or expensive and I don’t borrow money from other people (see, when I was younger, I borrowed money from a relative and when I wasn’t able to pay on time she went and told our other relatives about it so that became a lesson to me not to do it again). 

But, yeah, I guess no matter how good you are in handling money matters, there will always be a time that bills would come one after the other and then another and another. Things like this can stress just about anyone and I know I’m not alone in this.  

Across the Multiverse

(SPOILERS AHEAD: I know not everyone has watched ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ because of the recent COVID surge so let this be a warning not to proceed further if you’re still planning to watch it.)

I reserved my ticket for the first day of showing (January 8) of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ when Ayala Cinemas started pre-selling by the last week of December 2021. This was already delayed because foreign movies had to give way to local films because of the Metro Manila Film Festival.