Showing posts with label Blogging Challenge 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Challenge 2020. Show all posts

Naririnig mo ba? 


Ipikit mo ang iyong mga mata at makinig ka sa dalisay na simoy ng hangin. 


Tila ba nakauwi na kong muli sa bayan kong Bulacan... Tila ba nasa tumana ako kasama ng aking mga kalaro at nag aabang sa babagsak na mangga... Tila ba paslit akong muli. 


Subalit tayo'y nasa syudad, sa magarbong Maynila, sa tahanan ng mga nagtataasang mga gusali at nag-gagandahang mga imprastraktura. Isa pa, hindi na tayo mga paslit. Tayo'y may mga isip na at nakakaintindi na ng mga nangyayari sa ating paligid. Alam na natin ang tama sa mali. Alam na natin ang dapat at hindi dapat gawin. Kaya na nating tumayo sa sarili nating mga paa at magdesisyon para sa ating mga sarili.


Yun ang akala ko. 


Limang buwan na ang nakararaan mula ng tumigil ang ating mundo. Ipinagbawal na lumabas ng mga tahanan kung hindi naman kailangan. Hindi na tayo pwedeng bumeso sa mga kaibigang nakakasalubong sa daan. Pigil na pigil ang mga taong pwedeng pumunta sa mga paborito nating mga tambayan. Ang pinakamasakit, tila ba lahat ng nakakasalamuha mo ay mga estranghero na hindi mo mamukhaan dahil sa mga takip natin sa mukha. Wala na tayong makitang mga ngiti. Wala na tayong marinig na mga masasayang kwentuhan sa mga restawran. Wala na ang mga patay sinding ilaw na nagliliwanag sa mga buhay panggabi. 


Biglang naubos ang tao sa liwasan. Bihira ang mga kotse sa EDSA. Bawat kanto ay mga nakabantay na sinisipat kung dapat ka bang nasa labas. Alam na ng lahat ang tunay mong pangalan at tirahan sapagkat kailangan ng cedula na nakasabit sa ating mga leeg. Sabi nila, para raw ito sa ating kaligtasan pero bakit natatakot pa rin ako na may mga taong nakakakilala sa akin na hindi ko pinagkatiwalaan ng aking impormasyon? 


Sa pagtigil ng ating mundo ay tumila rin ang pinagkakabuhayan ng karamihan sa atin. Maswerte ang iba na pinauwi lamang ng kumpanya at binigyan ng pagkakataong magtrabaho sa bahay. Maswerte ang iba na maaaring umuwi sa kanilang mga probinsya at malayo sa bagsik ng sakit na ito. Pero paano ang mga kapwa nating nawalan ng pagseserbisyuhan? Paano ang mga walang ipon? Paano ang mga walang ibang alam kung hindi magkalakal sa lansangan? 


Limang buwan na ang nakakaraan mula ng magkaroon ng pandaigdigang pandemya. Hindi lang Maynila, hindi lang Pilipinas kung hindi lahat ng bansa ay apektado. Hindi na kailangang magturuan kung sino ang nauna o kung sino ang pasimuno. Hindi na mahalaga kung ---


Hayan na ulit ang malamig na amihan. 


Sa totoo lang, hindi ko rin alam ang sagot sa tanong mo, kung bakit ko sinasabi to. Ang alam ko lang sa ngayon ay higit na nakasalalay sa atin, tayong bagong henerasyon, ang kinabukasan ng ating mundo. Sa gitna ng isang pandaigdigang pandemya na tila ba ginagawa tayong mga preso sa sarili nating tahanan, tayo ay may kapangyarihan ng makabagong teknolohiya. Tayo ang makakaalam kung paano susulong pataas. Tayo ang makakapuna ng mga tama at mga mali na ginagawa ng ating kapwa. Tayo ang magiging pangunahing alay sa pagsagupa sa panibagong pang araw araw na gawain. Tayong kabataan ang makapagbibigay ng tamang impormasyon sa mga nangangailangan nito. 


Katulad ng mga nakaraang henerasyon, tayo ang mag uugnay sa nakaraan at hinaharap ng ating bayan. Sa atin nakasalalay kung ang nakaraan ng magulo at maduming syudad ay dadalhin natin sa hinaharap. Alam nating may hangganan ang pandemyang ito. Darating ang araw na luluwag rin ang mga tanikala ng takot at hindi na muling kailangan ang ibayong pag iingat. Babalik rin sa nakagawian ang lahat, o di kaya'y magiging pangkaraniwan na lamang ang nangyayari ngayon. 


Sa loob ng limang buwan na pananatali sa aking munting tahanan ay mas nakilala ko ang aking sarili at mga pangangailan. Mas naintindihan ko ang pasikot sikot ng aking isipan. Mas napag-alaman ko rin ang saloobin ng aking mga kaibigan.  Mas nagkaroon ako ng oras na makinig sa haka-haka at katunayan ng ating kapwa.  Mas nabigyang pansin ko ang estado ng ating Inang Bayan. Mas nagkaroon ako ng pakielam. 


Nasa sa atin ang desisyon. Ako? Matagal na akong nakapagdesisyon. 


Ikaw na lamang ang aking hinihintay. 





Vanessa Mallorca or "Mommy Van" is a mommy blogger who focuses on motherhood, marriage, and lifestyle. She has a loving community of nearly 450,000 mothers on her Facebook page, Mommy Van, and about 10,000 in her Facebook group, Mommy Van Mommy Community



She started blogging in 2018. Since then, she has been sharing her breastfeeding journey and helping fellow breastfeeding moms discover what's best for them and their babies. This can be proven by almost 600 reviews of 5 stars on her page, all who are giving thanks that Mommy Van helped them be more comfortable with breastfeeding and motherhood. 




She started with posting about facts and FAQs about breastfeeding in 2018 and branched out to other mommy topics in 2019. She started her blog, Mommy Van PH, the same year as well. 


Reading her blogs and posts, I feel like I am just talking to a friend. Her writing is personable and can be understood easily. She is also able to blend facts and her own experiences seamlessly. You can depend on her to provide you with knowledge based on science and how she was able to use that information for her own family. New mothers (and fathers!) are sure to feel at ease while reading her posts as it will make you feel that you are not alone and there will always be someone who's ready to help you out. 


 Personally, here are my top favorite blog posts of hers. 


1. “Kahit Hindi Mayaman Basta Totoong Nagmamahal” (True love is better than riches)

2. Ano ang Maitutulong mo Bilang Asawa sa Panahong Nakakaranas ng Depresyon ang Iyong Kabiyak? (How can you help your spouse who is going through depression?)

3. Ang Daming Nag-iba Nang Maging Nanay Ako (The changes that come with motherhood)


These posts helped me reflect on becoming a better partner and prepare me for what I can expect should I start planning my own family. Motherhood and starting a family is hard, but having someone like Mommy Van is comforting in my opinion.


Aside from browsing her page and blog, I reached out to her via Facebook and she willingly obliged to a mini-interview via chat, where I got to know her on a more personal level. She is indeed as friendly and down-to-earth as her community says. While I was a bit nervous to chat with her, she completely made me feel at ease and answered my questions gamely. To conclude the chat, I asked her a handful of fast talk questions social distancing style. 





If you are a new parent looking for additional support, I highly recommend checking out and following Mommy Van. You can find her in the links below.





 Last week, I joined a group on Facebook that is focuses on self esteem improvement by means of journal writing. I am a bit late to the party, as this started last May 1st, but I still decided to go and catch up.

Also, i have decided that I'm just going to churn out blog posts whenever I want to. Writing has always been my solace and my escape, and I am going back to it. I am going to make sure I am okay first before I go ahead and try to make things better for others.

This weeks focus is identifying root causes, and the prompt given is:

What does your self esteem and and confidence look like right now? Identify a few areas you feel your self esteem is weak and a few areas where you feel it is strong. Be as detailed as possible. How does your current self esteem benefit you or limit you? 

Right now, May 5th, 2020, my self esteem is pretty much non-existent. Mostly because I am seeing my peers be more successful than I am, and it hurts. Big time.

I feel like I am chasing something that isn't there. Like I am going after something but I don't really know what it is. Success? Fame? Recognition? I don't really know.

Yet, I also know that what I am feeling is valid and that this is normal and that I know that I am going to get over this and be happy and yadda yadda --

Right now it doesn't feel like it.

Right now I feel so unmotivated and incomplete and unsuccessful. Right now I feel like I am nothing, and that I won't ever achieve anything and that everything that I have been working on is going to waste. Right now I can't feel that my other successes are valid. I feel like I am being left out. But I also feel like I don't really have a right to feel like this because I have it so much better than others.

I have a job. I earn from what I love to do. I have a beautiful relationship with the most amazing man in the world. I am reaching milestone after milestone.

But I still feel like I am not enough and that I am incomplete.

I feel like I am not going to complete anything anymore.

So that is how my self esteem and confidence is looking right now. I know this is not good. For me or for my career. It is limiting me from working on the things that I see much potential in. It is limiting my creativity. It is giving me a headache. It is demotivating and debilitating.

I know I can snap out of this, but right now I can't.

So we'll end here.

See you in my next one.

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This was initiated by Kate Joy of www.katejoycoaching.com












Okay.

Hi!

Restarting this blog again because apparently I want my own website and I am definitely going to buy my own domain (Edit: I actually just finalized buying the domain OMG)-- so might as well make use of this wonderful little blog.

So..

Back to basics, I guess?

I'm Nessa, 24, an aspiring blogger living in Bonifacio Global City. I tag myself as "Your Resident Bulakenya in Manila", and honestly, I really want to change it but apparently it has now stuck on me, so here we are. I create beauty and lifestyle content for Instagram, Facebook and Youtube. I also livestream regularly on Shopee, talking about trending and relevant topics in the industry. On this blog, I will also be posting similar content.

But that's about to change now that I actually have my own website!

So yeah. Restart!

I'm Nessa, your resident Bulakenya in Manila!

I just turned 24, and I am slowly being even more passionate about content creation. So, at this point, I am not just into the superficial aspect of content creation but I actually want to figure out how I can improve in this industry and be able to provide information to other content creators down the line.

This blog is going to be the home for that content. Overtime I will do my best to have this as my little one-stop shop of information and inspiration.

You can expect beauty, lifestyle, adulting, woman empowerment, mental health and social media growth posts on this blog.

I know this blog post is a damn raw post at best, but I want it to stay that way. I know I will improve overtime.

Right now I just want everything out of my mind and out into the world.

See you in my next post!

- Nessa




And just like that, the first 30 days of the new decade is DONE. 


My original plan was to have the blog up and running right away this 2020 as believe it or not, I really miss blogging and I wanted to go back to it. #BlogsNotDead!


Yeah.. but of course life doesn't really always go according to plan so here we are. 


Doing a recap for January 2020. 


January 1 - I launched VLONTY, which was put on hold unfortunately as I had to work on something very important which is... 

January 2 - I GOT MY DREAM JOB!

and basically that's what took up my time for the rest of January lol. I had to step up really fast as everything was fast paced -- start date, training, nesting etc


Right now I do feel like I'm kind of getting the groove of it, so I guess we're just about good to go. 


Here's a few more highlights of my January -- sorry I got a bit caught up w/ my major January highlight (I got a job, got a job, got a job :D )


Events (insert picture highlights)
Teami 
Juice Cubi x
Okane 
Co Love 
Scout's Honor


And of course... the generous brands who sent over their products this January


(Include photos)


O.TWO.O 

Charis

Troiaureke
Dr and Co 

Kotex


Celefit


Beauty Care Essentials


LR Presets Hub 
Lipstick Plz


Neatfeat


Some by Mi


Go Glass




It's amazing to still be able to receive PR stuff even though I have been quite silent on social media for like, 5 months now. So, a huge thank you to you guys. Your trust is heartwarming and I'll do my best to create amazing content for you. 


Here's a list of the things I am thankful for this January as well. This is something I would like to do weekly or at least monthly if possible. 


1. I'm thankful that I got my dream job. 
2. I'm thankful that I am healthy despite the recent ashfall and coronavirus


Here are my inspirations for this month, basically the ones who have pushed me to post this blog even if they don't really know it. 








I've been reading their blogs lately and it has inspired me to revive this blog and try to keep it afloat. 


last but not the least, here are my goals for the next month. 


Post a blog at least once a week. 
Drink more water. 
Setup a savings account.


For additional details with regards to the topics here, I will be doing separate blog posts and link them here when I can. 


And that's in for this blog. 


Qui audet adipiscitur.