Pauline's blog

So far, my February is eventful. Baguio trip On February 7-8, Friday and Saturday, I went to Baguio with my sister and her boyfriend. It was cold and we enjoyed it a lot. We went to different places and we love the nature sceneries.  I wore long sleeves shirt and a thick jacket, skirt and a thick stockings, and rubber shoes. We arrived at Baguio at dawn, only my hands are cold because I wore warmly. The first destination is Lion's den. Then we went to strawberry farm and we had breakfast there. I ate longganisa, rice, and vegetable salad topped with strawberry jam. The lettuce tastes weird with strawberry jam since I haven't tried that before, but I finished my food nevertheless. We didn't pick strawberries in the farm since it was so expensive, we just admired the view and the flowers.  After that we went to Stone Kingdom, it was so tiring because of a lot of stairs. We took a lot of pictures up to the top, and admired the view.  Then we went to The Mansion and Wright Pa...

I thought of retiring early, like in my 40s, but I immediately discarded my thoughts. First of all, I don't earn a high income. Also, I live in a third world country. I have no house, no car, no assets, no properties (aside from my trinkets). I can save a lot now since I live in my parents house and I don't spend money too much. But it's not enough. I will soon buy a house and a car and build a family. It's a pipe dream.  I'm really grateful for my job, I don't get stressed much and I can do a lot of other things since I work from home. But there are some fears that I can't help but think, like, what if I got laid off? What if this company fires me and I don't have any backup? What if no one will hire me anymore? I know that my savings is not enough to sustain me because of inflation and I still need to work until 65, but I can't help but think about what would happen to me in the future. I don't want to be a burden to anyone and I want to help o...

I had my job interview today. I hope I'll get this job because it's remote work and if I got this job, I hope I'm compensated well and the workload is not that heavy. I have planned leaves on March 24-27 already, I don't know what will happen. We'll see, they have technical interview as well I hope I can do it. I like my current job but I don't know how long I'll last. Last Saturday, we went to walk and jog with my churchmates, I record mine on Strava and I had 6k+ steps 4km. Then on the afternoon we went to Landmark to buy some clothes.  On Sunday, nothing much happens, I just napped after church. I just rested soooo well (like I have so much to do) Today, I ate my sister's banana cake, it's so good, like store bought cake. She can bake well. I think it's not too late to plot my yearly goals, so here it is: 1. Less socmed screen time 2. Certifications 3. Save money Regards, Pauline

Weekend is approaching again! I hope I'll have a great weekend.  For my weekly R.E.P.O.R.T Reading, Eating, Playing, Obsessing, Recommending, Treating Reading - Madonna in a Fur Coat; Never Let Me Go I still haven't finish the first book yet, I'm just starting another book. It's the book my coworker lent me, we swapped books, I lent her The Idiot by Elif Batuman. So far I'm enjoying it. I hope I'll finish the books before the month ends. Eating - Indomie Mi Goreng If I'm forbidden to eat different types of noodles and I only have one type of ramen to choose to eat in my entire life, I would definitely choose this ramen. The spiciness is just right for me; I like Buldak ramen as well, but it's too spicy for me. I like to eat spicy foods but I can't handle it that much. Playing - IV of Spades songs I miss them and their songs are really top tier. They're my TOTGA. I have new TOTGA: New Jeans. Why do good artists disappear right away? They still hav...

Saturday We woke up early to jog, I really don't like waking up early on weekends but my sister insisted. I think it's good for my health since I don't walk/jog that much. The place is good, I saw a lot of athletes and other people jogging, and I saw rainbow twice since it's sunny but raining very lightly (English is not my first language I'm so sorry, umaambon ). We we got home, I ate sopas for breakfast. In the afternoon, we went on my friends' place with my mother and churchmates for Bible Study. On our way home, we went to thrift shop and I bought many plushies, including Hachiware and Usagi. I also got Moomin and Rilakkuma. It's so tiring to find a good treasure in a mountain full of plushies with strangers competing for it, my arms ached. I'm just sad that I haven't found Chiikawa since I found its two friends but I hope I get my hands on it someday. I think I'm good at manifesting so I'll just think about it 24/7.  Sunday In the morni...

I like watching movies except slasher/horror/thriller films. I would only watch thriller or suspense if I'm with other people and they chose to watch the movie. I don't like bloods and ghosts. I would never suggest it whenever we are choosing what to watch, but it depends on the situation. Last year, we decided to watch MMFF on January 1. Back then, we haven't discovered yet that we can buy online tickets, so we stand in line for a long time because there's so many people! The film that we want to watch, which is  Firefly,  already started while we were on a long long queue, so I suggested that we should watch  Mallari instead. I never expected it to be ghosts/supernatural and I thought it would just be thriller and murders, so I didn't enjoy it that much. I don't like jumpscares. I can tolerate watching slasher films more -- I was able to finish  Pearl (2022)  last year when it was put on Netflix. What I wasn't able to do is to watch it in one go, of cours...