A blog for academia and other out of school things.

06/08/2021

BRB!

How are you all? Hope you are all well and safe. 🙂 Happy August, by the way! 🙂 Manila...

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10/07/2021

Other ways in which we can practise self-care.

Spa days? Check. Pampering sessions? Check. Don’t get me wrong, both are good for self-care. But because of the...

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05/05/2021

The 30 Day Challenge || The first five days

Well, hello there. 🙂 I have no excuse, but I hope you’ll understand–the second semester has been crazy busy....

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06/03/2021

My recent stationery haul–aka. I violated my self imposed stationery buying ban

So it’s the start of a new semester, and hopefully, it will be my last semester in the diploma...

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The Weekly Snippet 3: Things I am pretty excited about.

by Layla

Hey, hey, hey, hello! Here we are again! I am writing this while I am on a break from studying. Yes, you read it right. Classes have now started again and I am now a freshman for the Master of Industrial Relations program. It’s so amazing how fast the time has gone since I have applied for graduate school admissions. But at the same...

22/09/2021

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The Weekly Snippet 2: Me and my relationship with period drama

by Layla

At the risk of providing too much information, this girl is PMS-ing right now. And what better cure can a girl have than a glass of cold milk, Lotus Biscoff biscuits, and a night of period drama? There was no pun intended, I promise. I’ve managed to watch two period pieces from HBO–one, a revisioning of a popular television series from Australia, and another,...

15/09/2021

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The Weekly Snippet 1: Hello, good evening, how you’ve been?

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Hi, hope you’re all well and safe. Miss Rona’s still on the rampage, and no one’s safe–vaccine or no. I’m unwinding after a long day at work, listening to people talk on Twitter Spaces (Law School Spaces, if you’re interested), and of course, writing this blog entry. I’m all buzzed up, despite my aching arm. I’ve just finished a six-minute arm workout (2 lbs...

01/09/2021

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Dabbling with Tech, Organization, Productivity, Work

Getting it Done: Using Notion to get productive at work.

A rainy hello from me to you! We’re having another typhoon over here so it’s raining steadily for the past three days now. I hope that wherever you are,...

Academia, Graduate School, Life Lately, Productivity, Something personal

Yes, you can teach this girl new tricks.

NB: This pic was taken a year ago. I haven’t been to the UP Diliman campus since the Enhanced Community Quarantine was announced in March. So yeah, I miss...

Academia, Dabbling with Tech, Graduate School, Productivity

A few of my favourite apps to help me study

Here I am, making an effort to be a little more active in this blog. 🙂 I’m back after preparing and slogging through midterms, and speaking of midterms–a lot...