chronicles of a millennial.
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Things I have never done:
1. Working for a big corporate. Before I went to college, I already found myself in early days of tech in ride-hailing era of Grab and Uber opening their operations in Jakarta, out of small hotel rooms. Then shifted to fintech, and insurtech, then proptech, everything techie, but none of which was a large corporation…
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On picking the wrong sports.
How many rigorous sports does a person, an ambitious one, should stick to exactly? mumbled I. Came into this sports club with a friend, dragged out of bed, not a single sip of coffee on my way here. Just wanted to sweat and push the YOLO out of me. I looked around and these guys…
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these universes they talk;
I had the absolute worst shin splint one evening it became unbearable. Was it that from the shoes I wore or running like an idiot too fast on that basketball court earlier that day. The excruciating pain got the best of me I was then brought to see the doctor the following day. Just weird…
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A decade reminisced, reinventing still.
surreal to say, but boy was I turning twenty-fucking-nine just a few weeks back. Had a damn good run into my roaring twenties regardless. And nothing more I’d enjoy more doing than writing a flash recap of different lives I’d lived here, coz now we’re turning into spectators of our own and you feel like…
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Limerence on San Junipero.
dammit, loathed I. Feet all wet, fresh off of the boat with these luggages I could barely carry anymore. The endless flights and transfers and taxi and boat and taxi again and uh can’t remember but I’m here now.
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Un-Living the Residue.
Diving into 2023, head first. Never am I not so taken aback to early days of covid. Because since then, how much life had changed for me, perhaps like everyone else. and for the past 12 months that had gone super fast, I recognize some residue of last year like those hyper vivid memories of…
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Heartbreak Express.
It’s a heartbreak-bound one, but we hopped on anyway. There I was, after stealing a few glimpses, full-on struck off the gate, at you, the almighty energy, awakening every lust there was. We boarded with zero hesitation. And it’s just pure game on along these carriages. Choo choo, off we went.
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Full Circle.
It’s Monday and I’m well thanks for asking. Meow. Through a series of anxiety-fueled weekends I have been working, I can practically breathe now on my freed up Monday morning. The second half of year, and I seem to have experienced several epiphanies, a few of which:
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[editing] A day off – Healed?
A quarter ago, life at work was peaking, I found myself struggling to navigate life around work and life, and love, to the extent I was taken to see a shrink. I was suddenly handed a million things at once and taking up too much of my personal bandwidth.
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An Antidote to Delayed Grief.
[let’s just keep this as WIP until the antidote works] So, I have not been feeling like quite myself for some time now but as it grew stronger and my life took a few dramatic turns recently, the needs are demanding to be met, to pour out these emotions here, both the already processed and…
Muhammad Carlos 