We live in a time where human connection is unlimited and humanity feels rationed. You can reach anyone instantly. You can speak to strangers across continents without leaving your chair. You can watch lives unfold in real time, tragedies, celebrations, confessions, meltdowns, all neatly packaged for your feed. And yet something essential is missing. Not access. Not information. Humanity. Connection
Category: Coping
I walked into McDonald’s expecting the same old deal. Greasy comfort. Predictable regret. Fries that taste like childhood and bad decisions. What I did not expect was to open the bag and think, what bullshit is this, dafuq with this. The fries came first. No red container. No proud cardboard spine holding them upright like they mattered. Just a paper
We are not ready for what’s coming, and we still think we’re fine… … and yet we do not realize how much we are f*cked. Not mildly inconvenienced. Not challenged. Effed in the quiet, structural way that only becomes obvious when it is already irreversible. In the Philippines, flooding has been downgraded from crisis to background noise. It is something
Learning should not be cruel. But it should never be padded. I withdrew. Not with anger. Not with a manifesto. Just with the quiet certainty that staying would be dishonest. I enrolled in the local tech courses because I needed structure. Real structure. The kind that forces discipline when motivation runs dry. I am paying out of pocket. I am
The world does not pause for your pain; it keeps moving, and the only choice left to you is whether to move with it or be left behind. The world does not pause. It does not clear its throat and say, sorry about that. It does not look back to check if you are ready. It does not care if
Progress is quiet. It looks like finished work, closed phases, and the discipline to move on without applause. It’s Been a While It’s been a while since I wrote something here. Yes, I’ve been busy. Busy in the unglamorous way. The way that does not photograph well and does not come with motivational captions. The kind of busy that does
Introduction: When Priorities Make No Sense Some policymakers wake up every morning, sip their overpriced coffee, stare at a collapsing health care system, and say, with a straight face, that what the nation truly needs is more theology. Not nurses. Not doctors. Not respiratory therapists. Not lab techs. Theology. Because nothing solves a seven-hour wait in the emergency room quite
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, officially Public Law 119-21, is now the law of the land. Yes, an actual law. Not a press release. Not a rumor. Not a congressional hallucination. You can even admire its full text on Congress.gov. The President signed it on July 4, 2025, which feels appropriate for a law that declares independence from unlimited
There is a reason I Dreamed a Dream hits Filipinos harder than a typhoon advisory. It is a song built on hope, cracked open by reality, and left standing in the rubble. If that does not sound like the national emotional template, I do not know what does. When Fantine sings about losing the life she once believed in, she
Every time a company invents a new title, a sysadmin silently restarts a server and saves the day. The Circus of Titles Tech companies cannot stop naming things. They treat job titles like collectible NFTs, shiny, pointless, and rapidly depreciating. Every quarter, a new species is born. “AI Whisperer.” “Innovation Evangelist.” “Prompt Engineer.” “Vision Architect.” “Chief Happiness Alchemist.” Nobody even