Otherworldly

I’ve probably mentioned this a lot in my blog posts or just to myself in general, but oftentimes I wonder what has changed in my life, or what’s new and I’m always left with the “same old, same old” initial answer. Then I give it more thought and I realize, so much has changed.

2014 has been a very interesting start for me. 2013 ended with new-found friends who have started becoming so dear to me, only to find out that one of them is leaving for good by the start of February. I wish her the best of luck and life, but I am saddened because I am also “physically” losing a good friend who I have grown to love in the consecutive weeks we all hung out in December.

I’m excited for what the rest of 2014 will bring. I used to always be apprehensive when a year starts, but this year I will try my best to just finally go with the flow. Let my fears become a part of me. Things doesn’t have to always go smoothly. I need to accept that there are many things I can’t control. I’ve decided to also take a small step in becoming more personal with this blog.

To end the note, Happy New Year of the Wooden Horse!

Hi. It’s been a while since I’ve written here. What made me finally write? I just paid for another year of domain name registration literally 3 minutes ago. I figured, I must write something right?

Last entry was October 13, 2013. Fortunately and unfortunately.. October, November and December were the craziest months of last year. The earthquake (and a BAJILLION of aftershocks) in Cebu, traveling back to Indonesia to attend my college best friend’s wedding, visit my dad, and bestest friends, second families and reunite with everyone, the #SuperTyphoon that shook not only the country, but also the world, my hometown getting hit badly, our ancestral home completely damaged, countless of relief efforts to help rebuild our town, traveling weekend after weekend just to help those in need, gathering donations and pledges (thank you generous people!) to further up the relief efforts, getting rewarded with a very colorful December, reuniting with old friends, gaining new best friends, and SO many events that made it such a crazy month. My December was the cherry on top to such a colorful year. Too blessed to be stressed.

That was a handful for a paragraph. I figured if I tried to enumerate each and every event I’d probably stop in the middle and click “Save Draft” and never come back to it again, like so many posts sitting on my drafts folder!

Here we are, on to 2014. It can only get better from here. Happy happy new year!

I’ve been going to yoga classes religiously for about almost 3 months now. I try my best to do it weekly, sometimes twice a week and my most so far has been three days in a row. To sum it up, it is something I have been really enjoying as opposed to doing them at home. I have always been shy to go to a class so I relied on YouTube practice, and unfortunately it didn’t really get me anywhere. So I decided to suck it up and finally attend a class! With the peak of my PCOS diagnosis, I decided it was time to up the physical game if I didn’t want to take pills (in which I want to avoid as much as possible).

One thing that surprised me the most with yoga is that I sweat like crazy. Normally when I work out, or when I do cardio classes or when it’s hot it’s I get the usual human sweat levels but when I do yoga it gets multiplied by a thousand. It’s crazy. Sweat literally drips on the mat whether I do it in class with an instructor or when I do my home asanas.

I can’t do a lot of difficult poses yet. My crow pose is probably a quarter of a breath, my forward fold still sucks, and I attempted to do a couple of head stands but fell the other way around on my ass but it’s all good. It’s the journey that I am totally enjoying and once I finally find the core of my balance, I will get there. It makes me look forward to more practices and this is something I want to incorporate to my every day life, hopefully time permits. The best thing is that, there is now yoga in the office (HALLELUJAH) twice a week! It couldn’t have come at a better time.

I am definitely looking forward to improving my wellbeing. Being a generally anxious person, that’s something I’m working towards minimizing and practicing more towards living in the now. Needless to say, I am super excited to know where my yoga journey takes me!