Author: TM

2 min readSpring has officially started on Friday but somehow the weather still hasn’t picked up and the temperature is still winter-like. Last week alone, we had two winter storms. I had to brave through blowing snow and sub-zero conditions just to get to work. There is a reason they call Canada the Great White North, the…

2 min readI haven’t been as fully committed to writing as I thought I would when I started this blog. In between work and study and procrastination, I just couldn’t find the will to pen my thoughts. It is kind of a bummer since putting my thoughts in writing can be cathartic for me. Inasmuch as I…

< 1 min readI have always been a sucker for chance encounters. Those that happen on days where everything is mundane, and where you really are not expecting anything. All of a sudden, some stranger walks up to you, starts a conversation and turns your day a little bit less dreary than it usually is. I’ve had a…

2 min readLast year, while I was on an audit fieldwork in Alabang, I met a very nice, refined old lady. To this day, the conversation I had with her is still the best I have had with a stranger. It was lunch, I was alone waiting for my food to be served. She just finished placing…