Personal Thoughts

Back to Blogging…Again

I’m back. Again. I don’t know how many times I’ve said those two words insofar as my blogging is concerned. Nevertheless, this current return to blogging comes in the heels of a year-long sabbatical, an unplanned one at that. When I started blogging again before the first trimester of 2020 ended, I was coming off a five-year (or was it more?) break from blogging. I told myself I would not waste the opportunity, that I will be a better blogger. So, what happened?

Blogging – A Forgotten Hobby?

Life happened. I decided to open a small online business, and I got sidetracked with its goings-on that I forgot about blogging. In fact, my last blog post prior to this one was dated 19 June 2020! So this latest blog is seven days short of my last post’s anniversary.

By the time I remembered that I revived this hobby, the domain had expired, and I had to go through the process to get started again. So this time, I do not promise anything, but I will be taking blogging one day at a time.

At this point, I feel that I need an outlet – to vent, to share, anything! I need some semblance of normalcy in my life, and I need some reprieve from my two jobs. Yes, you read that right – I have two jobs. Yay me! I work as a virtual assistant for a realtor based in Arizona, and I also work as a writer for a businessman based in Canada. The jobs are polar opposites, I tell you. However, I am not complaining. I enjoy both positions, but sometimes, things can get a little bit too much, you know?

Blogging – My Outlet

Hence, I need someplace where I can talk about what a crappy day I am having or how the article I was working on was extremely challenging. I also need a place where I can share my excitement over my latest thrift find or food discovery. So, here I am. Special mention to a friend I am fond of for “reminding” me that once a blogger, always a blogger.

I don’t want to say I’m back for good, I don’t want to spoil my comeback. However, I promise to be more active here. I missed this world. I missed this reality of my life. Besides, I still owe you guys a story on why my life drastically changed before 2018 ended.

So, join me in this crazy ride, as this will be one heck of it.

12 June 2021 0 comment

Personal Thoughts COVID-19 Current Events Shopping

Grocery Shopping in the Time of COVID 19

written by Sunshine May

Grocery shopping in the time of COVID 19 is like sprint running. That is probably the most fitting description I can think of. The last time I went for a “regular” grocery run was March 15, before the lockdown. However, since the implementation of the nationwide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) here in the Philippines, I have only gone out for groceries twice – once in April and once in this month. However, I have gone out of the house to a nearby mini-mart to make quick supplies runs (mostly to replenish some stocks) over the course of the

two and a half months we’ve been holed up in the house.

Both times I went to the grocery, I went with my sister-in-law so we can split the list between us. With two carts between us, we can go down the list faster so we didn’t have to linger in the store. The practice allows us to cut down the time we spend outside the house and exposed to possible infection. This picture below sums up how our monthly grocery shopping looks like.

New Normal in the time of COVID 19?

24 May 2020 0 comment

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Life in the Time of COVID-19

written by Sunshine May

COVID-19. Just that term is enough to get you questioning how 2020 has been to you, personally, so far. I have seen an abundance of posts on Facebook and Twitter from people badly wishing for a re-do. They jokingly ask where the reset button is for 2020, since nothing good has panned out a quarter into the new year.

January

Where I live, a volcanic eruption occurred about two weeks into January. That eruption caused tremendous damage, there were lives lost, homes devastated, and places almost erased from the map. The ensuing ash fall was deemed of epic proportions with people living in cities miles away from the actual area feeling the effects.

Oh, and five days before January ended, I literally woke up to one of the most shockingly devastating news ever – Kobe Bryant’s apparent death due to a helicopter crash along with his 12-year-old daughter Gianna. It was heartbreaking. I am just a fan, but I couldn’t help the tears falling from my eyes. My heart broke for those left behind and for those who perished in that fateful crash.

20 March 2020 0 comment

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Random Tuesday Thoughts on COVID-19

written by Sunshine May

COVID-19 outbreak. It’s slowly getting out of hand, like a scene from a movie. What is happening to the world? Why are we on the brink of living in fear? Will the rest of 2020 be like this? I was pondering over these questions last night. I couldn’t help it. On March 15, I rushed to do some groceries and bought enough to last for weeks because apparently, the National Capital Region (NCR) will be placed under a 30-day lockdown starting that evening.

The lockdown was supposedly to limit the movement of people in the NCR, seeing as how its population is too dense, and contain the spread of the Corona Virus or COVID-19, which has begun to wreak havoc in different parts of the world. It was supposed to be just NCR under lockdown, but on March 16, the president expanded the reach of the lockdown to include the entire island of Luzon. The term used was “enhanced community quarantine” (ECQ), and people were strictly prohibited from going out of their homes unless they are essential workers. Social/physical distancing is being promoted.

17 March 2020 0 comment

Personal Thoughts Music

Hate Mondays? Science Has the Answer

written by Sunshine May

“Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays…I wanna shoot the whole day down.” No, those words aren’t originally mine, but I can honestly say I share the sentiments. Those words are actually from the chorus of the song “I Don’t Like Mondays”, sung by UK band The Boomtown Rats and released in 1979.

Apparently, the song was inspired by an actual shooting incident that took place outside the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California on January 29 of the same year. The assailant was 16-year-old Brenda Spencer who opened fire 30 rounds of ammunition from a .22-caliber rifle, which was a gift from her father.

16 March 2020 0 comment

Personal Thoughts

10 Things I Love and Hate about Myself

written by Sunshine May

Have you seen “10 Things I Hate about You”? It’s an almost 21-year-old movie that starred Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. Its plot wasn’t unique, as it was a modern retelling of a Shakespearean classic, “The Taming of the Shrew”. Don’t worry, though. This post will not delve into the details of the movie. No; this isn’t a movie review (I’ll probably save the reviews for later posts).

I just had to touch that movie because the list that Stiles’ character read out loud as a poem towards the end of the movie paved the way for her to reveal her true feelings for Ledger’s character. And, as you would have guessed, it sealed the deal for them, with them reconciling with a kiss. My point? Lists are important, people!

14 March 2020 0 comment