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Cybersecurity Basics 101

I’m not here to scare you, but let's admit it, our data is already somewhere else we are not aware of, one way or the other. If you're a huge customer of everything online (social media, online banking, online shopping, etc.), most likely your data you give to these companies had been compromised and/or being sold or shared somewhere else. I am not a cybersecurity expert, just someone that is “chronically online”. I have read somewhere that there are possibilities or theories that in order for some online companies be able to provide free or cheap products while still not going bankrupt, they may have done something unethical; sell some customer data on the down low, in which other companies buy, especially telemarketers who are looking for people to sell products on, or worse, scammers looking for potential paydays. Others also may have use it to open dummy financial accounts under your name without your knowledge or consent Keep in mind that these are all allegedly, and obvio...

Constant Social Anxiety and Wanting to Belong: How I navigate life as an awkward being

  Whether we like it or not, we all got our weaknesses. They say, “life will be too easy if we are all created perfect”, so it is quite a natural thing to have difficulties and challenges as we navigate life, let alone a world made of uncertainties. After all, we are not made perfect, but rather made to be beautiful and capable of achieving great things. One thing about me is that I am a huge ball of anxiety. I get nervous and freaked out all the time over the simplest things. In fact, this post is inspired by a recent interaction; Me taking hours to send a message to my professor because I’m overthink things so much. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been always a smart and kind person as well as a good student with great potential, but I don’t know why it’s like a heavy task to just do basic human tasks, especially interacting with people. There’s also a constant habit of people-pleasing; pouring my all to anything and anyone else but myself. Some people may say that I am wasting my poten...

A Writer Writing about Writer's Block

I am a writer, and our enemy #1 has always been writer's block. In fact, it's always been haunting me before and during writing this post. Questions like "what should I write" or "how can I put a certain idea into words?" keeps on running through my mind. Sometimes, I have an idea so big yet so fast, I barely can chase them as I am a very slow writer. I admit. A lot has happened to me along the 23 years of my existence. But man, it all felt like a trippy, dizzy, blurry fever dream. I barely did recall everything specifically, as if it was all a colorful abstract painting, barely gets anything at surface level, but is also remarkable the more you look more deeper than the lines and colors. It was so much that I can write a 50 chapter novel about it, but at the same time, is so void empty that I can barely write a simple poem verse. But a few things are sure, it was a blast and I went unexpectedly different in different stages of my life. As I would like to re...