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Homecooked: Pasta Pomodoro

June 12, 2020

My husband says that this Pasta Pomodoro recipe is his favorite among all the dishes I have prepared at home. It makes for a nice light dinner that is easy and requires very little time to prepare. This recipe came about from putting together tips from several cooking blogs and cooking shows. After a couple of tweaks, I've found the…read more

Food

Homecooked: Orange Chicken Recipe

May 22, 2020

I used to have a set of meals that I would sort of rotate regularly every time it was my turn to prepare dinner. It was usually something quick and easy since I got off work at 6pm, which left very little time to prepare. Now that I've been working at home, I have more time to prep our meals,…read more

Food, Health & Beauty, Life

Quarantine Series | Finding Respite Online

April 20, 2020

As the ECQ drags on, we have all had to find ways to pass the time, to be productive, or distract us from the current crisis. I admit, the anxiety has been real in the past few weeks. I often have to actively distract myself when I'm not working. Thank God for the internet. Although we see a lot of…read more

Health & Beauty

Quarantine Series: Playing With Color

April 13, 2020

It's been about a month since I started working from home and quite a few weeks since our local government placed the city under enhanced community quarantine. It's been making me a little stir-crazy especially on quiet workdays so I've tried to find different ways to take my mind off everything that's going on in the world. One of these…read more

Life

Pregnant In The Middle Of An Outbreak

April 10, 2020

We had been trying for about three years. Finally, on January 25, 2020, I broke the news to my husband --- I was finally pregnant! My body had been through a lot with IUI, months of taking Clomifene, which caused painful ovulations (It felt like my uterus was going to burst out of my abdomen, I kid you not), and…read more

Life

A Fair Advantage Against Violence

September 30, 2019

Many of us have read articles and seen the statistics on cases of violence against women in the country and all over the world. In 2018, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime came out with the “Global Study on Homicide: Gender-related Killing of Women and Girls”. It stated that in 2017 alone, about 87,000 women were murdered around the…read more

Life

Powerful In Surrender

August 29, 2019

Powerful. That was the title of the song we flowed to at my last yoga class. Out of the blue, the studio director singled me out and asked, “In one word, tell us what makes you feel powerful.” (Hala revaleda ang show.) That caught me by surprise so I didn’t quite know what to say. I thought about it for…read more

Health & Beauty

Curly Girl Method: How I Learned To Let My Hair Down (Literally)

January 11, 2019

My hair wasn't always curly. It was pretty straight when I was a kid but started to get wavy in high-school, which made my chin-length bob look really weird. Growing it out didn't help. I was simply clueless on how to take care of it. How I envied my classmates whose straight shiny hair bounced when they walked (I'm talking…read more

Health & Beauty

Lena Cup Review and Comparisons

June 24, 2018

I had had my eye on the Lena Cup for quite some time since switching to menstrual cups three years ago. The reviews had been mostly positive, so a few months ago, I finally got one. Having used it for several months now, I have to say that it's no surprise that the brand is found in the top 10…read more

Cebu, Culture

Baby Steps to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle

May 19, 2018

Zero-waste. It's a concept that has been advocated more urgently lately. If you spend enough time on social media, you can't miss all the videos and articles being shared about how single-use plastic and wastefulness are destroying the planet. Our oceans are choked up in such a surreal way that it almost seems like a nightmare. To make matters worse,…read more