It's me, Kath | Kaye | Kai

Months ago, a friend convinced me to check out the survival show, Universe League . Wherein a Filipino contestant, JL , has been giving outstanding performances—wowing his fellow trainees and the directors of the show. Eventually, earning the number one spot to debut in the upcoming K-Pop group, AHOF . Through this show, I rediscovered my love for K-Pop music and production, something I had set aside for the past 5 years. Thanks to Universe League, I found myself crawling back to listening to  WayV, where its members Ten and Yang Yang are the directors of JL's Team, Rhythm, and RIIZE , whose song "Siren" was performed excellently by the trainees during the first round. Rediscovering K-Pop Rediscovering K-Pop made me remember the days when no one around you can comprehend how a person can listen to a song in a language they don't understand.  Also, those were the days on how one can easily connect or have a conversation with someone whose also into K-Pop. Therefore,...

Exactly 5 Days before we enter another year, 2025! ~ Time flies by so fast, indeed! Personally, 2024 has been quite a long year and it didn't start well for me, literally.  A rocky start to 2024 I kicked off 2024 battling a bad cold, and I suspect that must have been COVID. And pretty much every month, I get sick for a week or two. Not to mention, I have admitted myself to the hospital's Emergency Room (ER) several times this year already.  Not only that, but 2024 is also the year when all age-related health issues started to manifest as expected for someone in their early 30s.  It's not giving, bruh. No cap. This year has also been a year of cutting off ties with people who are energy vampires, be it friends or family. The second I sense insincerity, negativity, and unnecessary drama, I close my doors immediately. I have no energy for that,  for real .  Apart from that, generally, this year has been a year of self-recovery.  A journey of Self-Recovery I fi...

Christmas is literally just around the corner, everyone is panic buying gifts-  Oh yes, panic is the term as the malls nowadays are crazily packed.  Companies are holding holiday and year-end parties everywhere and photos of friends and /or family reunions posted all over social media.  And here I am, all alone in my humble abode. Pondering what I'll do for the holidays next week as I have decided since Christmas last year that I will not spend my holidays back in Iloilo.  It's a bittersweet feeling to be honest.  I am missing my fellow Alto ladies in the choir for Simbang Gabi*, the nine-day series of pre-dawn masses in the Philippines, is a cherished tradition I deeply miss back in my hometown.  Waking up early in the morning [around 2AM] for the 4:30 AM Mass for 9 days, afterwards, enjoy our sumptuous breakfast provided by some charitable folks in our town, and spend time to catch-up with fellow choir members in the plaza until the sun fully rises....

Can you believe it? It's already December! How time flies by and how a lot can happen in a short time! On the current events side, let alone for the past 24-48 hours of December 3rd, the Taal Volcano erupted leading to an ashfall alert, to celebrities allegedly being a part of an investment scam, to South Korea declaring emergency Martial Law, biggest celebrity cheating scandal posted with receipts, and South Korean parliament voted to lift Martial Law after 4 hours. Crazy, I know. Amid the global chaos, my little corner of the world is crazy in a good way. I finally purchased my own laptop after nearly a decade since my last Toshiba.  Surprisingly, my down payment for this was only a thousand and five hundred Philippine pesos (PhP) and a monthly payment of two thousand and three hundred PhP for 15 months, and I'm thankful for my Home Credit; it truly saved me a lot.  Now, I can access useful and entertaining sites such as Canva, Netflix, and all without getting anxious on bei...

I'm letting you go for all I felt seeing you now is loathe your perfect little lie as if you were a beau I had second-guessed it was only for a show Like this artwork, you were never true not a real stroke of a brush nor even a real hue your insincerity should have been my cue to bid you adieu as it's been long overdue I'm letting you go just as I rid your artwork As seeing traces of you made me irk Unbelievably, I almost fell for a broke Heaven knows, you are a joke As this forged sun sets and the real sun rises Dear universe made me more wise I  will not be blinded twice nor I will ever be deafened by your lies Truly, meeting you was NEVER NICE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I wrote this poem last 12.12.2022 at 02:51 AM. Modified some words as I was typing. I wrote this poem as I was disposing the "printed digital art" that I bought from this jerk- ...

Yearning for a part of me- travelling One of the many things that I have always wanted to do again was to have international solo-travel at least once in a year.  My last international travel was way back in 2018, to Taiwan. The following year, I wasn't able to do so as I left work and returned to my hometown. It was a difficult period. Not only that, I lost my old passport and had to go through inconveniences to get a new one.  Last but not the least, 2020 onwards- the pandemic, we all know what happened, everything in the world stopped; that includes travelling for leisure. Years of not travelling left a void within me. It was something that I always looked forward to yearly- my motivation to grind at work. It was my happiness, as I had always known that I am meant to explore the world. I missed immersing myself into the crowd of locals and understand their daily lives; savor new flavors enhancing my palate and idea of good food.  I yearned learning a place's history an...