Goddess, I Am.

Freelance writing online is a dangerous business. There’s always the risk of meeting spurious ‘clients’ who might do a runner after you’ve delivered your end of the bargain. What these people don’t understand is writing isn’t as easy as it sounds, especially really good writing. We put in the time and the effort for painstaking research just so we can make our clients happy, so it’s definitely unfair to be left uncompensated without so much as a ‘buh-bye’. That hurts. That hurts a lot. Continue Reading »

Right now I have about a gazillion things going on, and I think I’m dangerously close to reaching my absolute threshold. I was somehow coerced into taking a full-time job that was only supposed to be a part-time one to begin with, and I suffer through a horrendous commute every day that takes up a lot of my time. I also have a full-time online job, as well as a variety of sundry freelance gigs. Along with a friend of mine, I’m getting ready to launch a little business venture. I also have a full-time relationship that I just can’t ignore. My stress levels are sky high right now. I’m always exhausted and half hungry. I can’t even remember the last time when I had a good night’s sleep! Continue Reading »

My new job has me helping kids write their college application essays for US universities. These are rich kids with hefty trust funds, yes, but they’re also kids who want to make something out of their lives. It’s fun helping them write their essays because their lives are so incredibly colorful and interesting. Most of them are still about to start their senior year in high school, but they’ve already accomplished so many things that most adults will never be able to achieve in their lifetimes. It made me think about myself in high school and what I was up to, which was pretty much no good. Here’s how my college essays would’ve looked like if I had the same opportunities as they do. Continue Reading »

No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth yet again, and I do intend to write something meaningful soon-ish. For the moment, however, this girl is very, very busy and very, very tired, so this sort of cursory update will have to do for now. Continue Reading »

It’s not a secret that I’m not particularly fond of Thais, even if I do live in their country. In fact, I’ve written a derogatory thing or two about them in the past after having observed (and been involved in) some rather unpleasant situations with these people. Continue Reading »

I’ve never been particularly good at relationships. I like to think of myself as relationship-challenged, though really, I’m just dysfunctional. Continue Reading »

We’re looking at a long weekend starting tomorrow here in the Land of (Fake) Smiles. Truth be told, that doesn’t really affect me in the least. After all, my days are pretty much the same every day – a constant holiday or work day, depending on how you look at it. But at least, the boyfriend gets a few much-needed days off. Continue Reading »

For the past day or so, that salmon-colored, rectangular-ish thing somewhere near the top of my dashboard that’s telling me to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 has been bugging me incessantly. I visited my control panel at my host’s to see if there’s a way for them to upgrade the damned thing themselves, but the latest version they had available was still Wordpress 2.5.1. I figured I’d wait a few days because I didn’t really know how to go about it myself. Continue Reading »

Here’s one for laughs. This is the fancy schmancy marble marker of our fancy schmancy condo’s fancy schmancy club house. Continue Reading »

When you love someone, you deify him. To what degree is relative to the extent of your passion. Nevertheless, to you he becomes a god, giving him the power to lord it over you should he so choose. For the most part, a good man wouldn’t – at least, not consciously or maliciously. But almost inevitably, he will, as men are wont to do upon attaining the esteemed status of pseudo-godship - all because he is loved. Continue Reading »