Monthly-ish Personal Update (Jul 2020)
An update on the not-so-new job, Write of Passage, and Coaching Project.
Topic
Life Updates
A collection of 19 issues
Decade in Review: 2010-2019
2010
I am a junior in the University of the Philippines. I am fighting to maintain my
magna cum laude standing.
Someone tags me in this photo. I realize that, holy shit, I am fat.
Holy shit. I am fat.2011
My uncle treats me and my sister to a
Being misunderstood is the price of an interesting life
I attended our high school year reunion (10 years!).
It magnified my chronic problem of answering two simple questions: What do you do? And what have you been up to?
I’m currently Research Director, managing global operations, of a New York-based tech startup called OnFrontiers. Before that, I did
Reminiscing a four-year friendship with Sebastian Marshall
I’m rereading Ikigai
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006M9T8NI/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title] which I
bought four years ago, in 2013. At that time, it was a major decision to spend
$9.77 to buy an ebook on Amazon.
I remember buying a Kindle so I could
Be a woman who wrestles
I was on a 2-month North America speaking tour. We were in Boulder in Colorado, and I was the only female speaker. During Q&A, a young woman asked me,
How do you overcome biases against women in business?
My response was that it’s not something I think
What sitting taught me about work: notes from a Vipassana course
I completed my first 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course last Sunday, May 22, 2016.
Upon returning, people asked me how the course was. I have never had a harder time responding to this question. Now that I’ve reflected on it, this is my response — why it’s tough to
Break the opponent's balance before you attack
WRESTLING – I will be competing in my first takedown challenge in April 30. I
have been thinking a lot about tactics. Which takedowns should I own and
practice? Should I focus on offense or defense? (Offense) Should I train to be
powerful, flexible, or nimble?
These seemed to be the
The day I got it in my head to join the Olympics
Jimmy Angana [http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Jimmy_Angana] – the #1
freestyle wrestler in the Philippines today – was laughing at me, pulling me up,
and cajoling me to stand up and fight.
Albert Balde – then-president of the Wrestling Association of the Philippines –
was at the edges of the mat,
My life from birth to 23
It’s been my goal to publish something everyday.
I like the idea of using a blog as a self-invention tool. But I’m so stuck on
the mindset that it’s a self-promotion tool… That I never publish anything I
don’t think be useful to you.
But I