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Good Morning Beautiful People! And may all the lads and ladies are having an awesome Monday today! Well, it is almost the end of September and although I am a bit wary that the month will end and still I have a lot of things left undone,life is good.  So today, I am hoping that you are up and bubbling over the hustle of a busy Monday. Well, to some, Monday is probably one of...

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As soon as the first day of September came,  I found myself humming to the tune of Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and I thought, bhoy must be a sad sad September for someone to wait that long to get out of bed. Of course, we all deserve that occasional stay in bed-kind of a lazy day from time to time. But wanting to stay in bed because we feel like the...

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Recently, I fell in love with the minimalist lifestyle. It was even before I knew that there is a community of people who chose to live a simple, uncomplicated, clutter free lifestyle. Well, I have always love collecting things bags, clothes, shoes, makeup, books, school supplies and all sorts of things down to a collection of a dozen or more needles. Although it wasn't really the expensive kind I collect, I still ended up spending...

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In this new age of social influencers it seemed that the world around us has so much more to offer making us feel the need to acquire what we thought are essential.  We have the notion that we need more to have a happier fulfilling lives. Two days ago, we were hanging out at the mall. Husband would get his usual cup of tea and I would walk around looking for something "I need". It is...

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...a poem of self love... As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”. As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready...

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"Have nothing in your house/life that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris Everyday as I learn about living simple and minimalist I realized that decluttering objects in your life is not the only key to find that calm and purposeful living. It also includes downsizing emotional and mental excess so one can make room for a meaningful existence. So last week I started to downsize on...

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If there is one thing I noticed about myself is that over the past years I have become the best disciple of an excessive and obsessive lifestyle. Well I did become a collector and a conformist to materialism at some point in my life and who isn't. right? But every day as I learn the process of becoming less and less attached to things and how society sells  the notion of spending more is equal...

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Hey beautiful people! today I am going to challenge myself on a shopping ban since the month of September just started, and so far I have only bought myself a Mildliner Marker which is totally non-essential and obviously bought on an impulse. The thing is, I have a weakness for school supplies and although I have already gotten rid of an impulse to shop for makeup, clothes, bags and shoes school supplies always gets through...

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I have finally come to the moment when I finally decided to come out with my cancer story. I have been casually blogging and vlogging about it but I didn't really come to the terms of finally putting it together in one single post. It's been a year now since I was diagnosed with Endometrial Cancer stage II. I was preliminary diagnosed with stage III. So, I had to do 6 cycles of chemotherapy and...

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After all life is a but a series of parody... I have finally come to the moment when I finally decided to come out with my cancer story. I have been casually blogging and vlogging about it but I didn't really come to the terms of finally putting it together in one single post. It's been a year now since I was diagnosed with Endometrial Cancer stage II. I was preliminary diagnosed with stage III....

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