Originally written on April 30, 2012, with the title, “What is Philosophy?”. The author is migrating her works to Medium from other platforms. I stumbled upon a book yesterday entitled, “A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living” by Luc Ferry. As always, it was the cover of…

Originally written on May 6, 2012, with the title, “Of Love and Life”. The author is migrating her works to Medium from other platforms. It is often hard to write about ‘love’ because people always have the tendency to make it emotional. Moreover, when people see you write about ‘love,’…

Originally written on April 15, 2008, with the title, “Ihip- ihip: Meet the Teacher”. The author is migrating her works to Medium from other platforms. April 15, 2008 Tuesday UP College of Music around 9:25 AM It was the first day of my flute lessons. When I was deciding which…

Originally written on April 4, 2012, with the title, “Idealistic Me :)”. The author is migrating her works to Medium from other platforms. i·de·al·ist [ahy-dee-uh-list] noun 1. A person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist. 2. A visionary or…

Some realizations this week about genuine connections: 1. Don’t look for it on social media. I tried being active on IG again for around 1 month but noticed that it seemed to be sucking out my energy. So I ended up deactivating IG once more. …

My work and financial stability in the past nine years were pretty much secure, thanks to academia. University life was all I’ve ever known since undergrad. But starting last year, I started to feel in my gut the need to leave those safe walls. It was a big, scary decision…

These are my thoughts from two sessions on branding in the Makesense Academy incubation program. The first three are lessons from Alexis’ Personal Branding session: 1. Practice writing because writing bleeds through everything. I couldn’t agree more! Two of the most useful courses I took in college were English 10…

I wrote the passage below back in 2018. It still rings true today. “Work is using time and energy to accomplish something that will move society forward. Individually, work allows a person to learn and grow. It is training for a particular task or set of tasks. Work can be…

A member of the Saliksik Group (a Saliksiker!) posted about a webinar on behavioral insights of SMEs in the UK. Having technically no background in the field of behavioral science, I got curious and attended the webinar. It was fascinating! Below are 5 things that I learned. …