By Age of the Diary on Apr 15, 2013 in:
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Honesty has become an integral part of my identity and my writing journey, but I realized that being honest about what I feel for other people is something that I have yet to learn. As you can see through my blog, I am not a fan of privacy. When it c...
Now that I’m writing a lot of descriptions, sometimes I get stuck. I look at something, and I’m like, What kind of vocabulary do I need in order to describe this? At that moment, I would wish that I had some sort of reference that I can l...
I blog because I have to express myself. When I write my articles for work, I’m always talking about another subject, so I can’t share my ideas or concerns. Of course I also like it that I’m meeting these people, and I’m being...
By Age of the Diary on Dec 11, 2012 in:
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When I was a kid, most of my classmates started their essays with a quote. I never did that, until one day, I couldn’t think of an intro, so I decided to create my own quote, and I attributed it to JTC (Jasmine T. Cruz). I was hoping that one o...
By Age of the Diary on Dec 3, 2012 in:
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Some artists cut off their ears; others place their head in the oven-I don’t want these things to happen to me, and hopefully it won’t because I’m a happy artist. By artist, of course I mean writer, not visual artist. Although...
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I read a book called Wealth within Your Reach: Pera Mo Palaguin Mo by Francisco J. Colayco. The book mentions a study on people who wrote down their financial plans and those who didn’t. The researchers checked in on these people after 20 ye...