I finally finished the Final Fantasy VII remake this weekend. I played the original years ago but never finished it. At some point, I took a break and just never got back to it. But that did allow me to have a somewhat fresh experience of the remake. I remembered...

 have a tendency to avoid others when I'm not in a great mood. Who wants to burden someone else? But I do wonder if that gives the wrong impression of me. If people only see me in a good mood do they think that's how I always am?

And then I...

Lately, I've had some recurring thoughts that I'm not sure if they're anxiety or genuine. But largely I've realised they mostly stem from the gap between reality and my desired reality. There's a pandemic, of course, there's a gap. But after a year in some ways, the pandemic has become...

Sometimes it's really difficult to stop yourself from saying things in the tone you really want to. Some situations call for being professional or assuming the person is not stupid. So you pick a gentler tone, you hedge your words a bit to give them some room to manoeuvre. You...

For the past few months whenever I've drove into my city, San Fernando, I've been taking the long way out. Not much has changed yet but a huge construction project is in its first stages and I've been driving by every time to see the progress.

Whenever something changes in your...

The time off in these past two weeks was badly needed. Weekends are too short and there's always that feeling that it's over before it began. But this time I actually was able to avoid the dread of looming work for most of it. It felt like an endless vacation...

Compared to most disaster movies this pandemic hasn't been too scary. The threat is invisible and all you're being asked to do is stay in, social distance, and wear a mask. There's no scarcity of resources or need to find shelter. As a disaster movie, it'd be pretty boring.

Still, I...

It's satisfying when a story reveals the answers and it all adds up. Or when you get answers for questions you didn't even have. I recently watched a show that did just that and it contrasted with others that left those reveals for the end and were unsatisfying.

Mass Effect comes...

I went into 2020 with high hopes. 2019 was filled with promise and I probably had unrealistic expectations of the next year but I was excited nonetheless.

At first, I downplayed the virus to myself. It's going to stay in China. To it's going to stay in Asia. It'll be just...