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For more than a year, I spent my life in the bustling city of Manila. It was an unexpected turn, a sudden move because of family and financial problems. When I stepped out of the bus to be welcomed by my new home, I was both excited and nervous.  Way different from where I came from, Manila was busy and never slept. It was loud and polluted, you could hear a multitude of sounds everywhere, and the atmosphere would make your nose scrunch.  It had tall buildings and giant malls, everything that you couldn't find in Sorsogon. The places were extremely densed too, the city's overpopulation was evident in many ways. You can't ride public transports without going through crowds and crowds of passengers. Lack of enough stock was common in stores too. Days were fast yet slow, busy yet lazy. The people spoke tagalog, along with some casual slangs and idioms I couldn't quite understand until hearing it for the tenth time. They sounded foreign at first, but I quickly got used to t

Here are 30+1 things I want to accomplish before turning 30. 1. Ride a roller coaster 2. Ride a horse 3. Sky dive 4. Paraglide 5. Air balloon riding 6. Travel to the Chocolate hills in Bohol 7. Travel to the Banaue rice terraces in Ifugao 8. Experience life in Australia 9. Ride a cruise ship 10. Travel to Japan 11. Travel to Taiwan 12. Travel to Paris 13. Travel to Iceland 14. Travel to Mexico  15. Eat Murgh Makhani 16. Eat Kung Pao 17. Try archery 18. Try martial arts 19. Learn fluent Spanish 20. Learn fluent Korean 21. Tent camping 22. Build a snowman 23. Experience a spring day 24. Buy as many books as I want 25. Finish university with a psychology major and art minor 26. Meet my favorite music artists; taylor swift, day6, nct, keshi 27. Learn how to swim 28. Learn how to ride a bike 29. Donate to charity 30. Help farmers and fishermen in a way I can 31. Get a dog

  Tokwa , or more widely known as Tofu—a food that holds more than its sweet bland taste to me. This food has a special place in my heart. It holds a beloved memory. A story of its own. Every morning, when I was younger, my uncle, whom was a taho vendor, leaves a cup of taho —a food made of softened tokwa and arnibal, for me before going outside the neighborhood to sell the rest of his taho for the day. Sometimes, when my uncle didn't sell any taho to get some rest, I bought some instead from our neighbors who also made taho for a living. It was a regular routine, like eating lunch or supper. If there was a day I wouldn't consider normal, those were the days when I didn't eat taho. The leftover tokwa from making taho was also something I enjoyed regularly. As frequent as a single time in a week, my grandmother would prepare taho as our dish for lunch and supper. Tokwa was a flexible food, it could absorb almost any flavor and could taste any way you want. My grandmother cou

Philippines, a country situated just beside the Pacific Ocean, is a paradise of it's own. Being an archipelago with over 7 thousand islands, it surely offers a multitude of places that will leave you breathless. Today, I present you my top 5 picks among all the marvelous destinations in the Philippines.

Secondary school can be pretty stressful most of the time. What more if you're under specialized education programs such as STE(Science, Technology, and Engineering) which are significantly harder and require more time tha regular classes? For most special program students, it may feel as though everything has gotten tougher by tenfold once they enter the program. Not to worry, though. As the famous saying goes, ' Kapag may gusto, may paraan'(When there's a will, there's a way).  So if you're one of those supposedly "lucky" students who passed the STE entrance examinations and is willing to survive this formidable system that you'll most likely be spending the rest of your secondary years in, then read on! Here are some tips I've gathered based on my personal experiences as someone who is also currently under the STE program. 1. Attain the Growth mindset. There are two basic types of mindsets; the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. "A f