Tag: personal

  • Talfahrt: Tumbling down the first quarter of 2025

    Talfahrt: Tumbling down the first quarter of 2025

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    We are nearing the end of March 2025. And since January 31, 2025, things have been going downhill for me. Literally. Figuratively – in almost all sense of imagination possible. I thought 2025 would be a redemption year for me, but it seems more like another filler episode in the grand scheme of things. But…

  • The 2024 Year End Special

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    Wow, it actually feels like it’s just been yesterday when I wrote my last year end special. Yet here we are again. We will take a look back at what has been, things that I was able to accomplish as per what I have outlined for the year, and possible room for improvement. The year…

  • Three Cheers For Five Years. With a twist.

    Three Cheers For Five Years. With a twist.

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    Many have doubted that the day would come. But the day is here and now. The day where I call quits on that fairytale I kept in my mind all this time, a narrative that has overstayed its welcome. I tried to find a way back in March, but it eventually came to its timely…

  • Going For 30 Plus 3

    Going For 30 Plus 3

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    [It’s merely hours before my birthday now. I can’t contain my boredness of welcoming my 33rd birthday.] And here I am, continuing the post well into July. The ways you feel at any given time is really just a matter of perspective. My initial intro for this post was anything but positive. I asked myself,…

  • Navigating Modernization in the Philippines: Lessons from Camotes Island

    Navigating Modernization in the Philippines: Lessons from Camotes Island

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    My recent visit to Camotes Island, located off the coast of Cebu in the Philippines, offered profound insights into how contentment and tradition can coexist with gradual modernization. This experience serves as a microcosm for broader discussions about development across the Philippines, a nation characterized by its diverse landscapes and cultures, yet united by similar…

  • Mistaken Identities: Who am I, and what do I want?

    Mistaken Identities: Who am I, and what do I want?

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    Ever since my mother’s asking of me to return to Davao in September of this year… ever since I did as she asked and started working from the city of Davao for a while… Things have been quite shaky and unsatisfying for me. I am not sure anymore, what I want… or who I am…

  • Beyond Resolutions: Concrete Actions

    Beyond Resolutions: Concrete Actions

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    We write the 2nd of January, 2024. I am within the confines of my new office based job in the form of being a German Speaking Staff for an Australian/German client via 611 Ma-a. No phones and nothing to do yet, I seek shelter in Google Keep to write these thoughts away. The spacebar is…

  • Run Free Dr. Tommy

    Run Free Dr. Tommy

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    I have always had some level of interest and love for cats. This has grown in multitudes thanks to my previous relationship, however. We started out with one cat, named Queen Cat Now, and from there, the merry family has grown and grown. I would consider myself quite a cat dad by now. Since we…

  • Between Wants and Needs: A Story of Simplicity and Greed

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    There isn’t much I enjoy anymore, if anything at all. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s the truth. As my age keeps piling on, it feels like the hours in a day have been ticking on faster and faster. Georg Kevin Paquet, September 22, 2023, at 2:00AM It is not that life has…

  • Wie läuft es in Cebu?

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    This is an article that was started in May 2023 and is written in German. This is incomplete. However, I just want the heck to get this out of the way and published. Wir schreiben den 18.5. Jahr 2023.Ich bin jetzt so ungefähr seit zwei Monaten hier in Cebu. Lesen über diese Entscheidung von hier…

  • When the birthday hits differently

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    We write the 13th of June, 2022. Another year, another birthday. But this one hits a lot differently. (I started out the day really promising, writing that first line early in the morning. Here I am at 3PM adding this to it, haha) (and here I am adding stuff again at 4:30PM) Anyways, today has…

  • State of Germansion 2021

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    We write the 7th of September, 2021. A year and then some has passed since the last time I have published an article about the State of the Germansion. Since my previous writing, a few things have changed – actually a lot has changed over time – but more or less things have settled somewhat.…