Blog

Notes

Slower writing about the things that don't quite fit in a CV, the cross-cultural moments, the learning out loud, and the quiet observations I keep coming back to.

Reflections

There Are No Secret Claude Codes (But These Shortcuts Save Me Hours)

There are no magic words. Here are the AI shortcuts I actually use for marketing and project work, with the exact prompt to paste in for each.

Reflections

What Instagram and LinkedIn's Latest Updates Tell Us About Where Social Media Is Going

What the newest platform features quietly tell us about where social media is heading, and what actually matters for small brands.

Reflections

I Sounded Like AI Before AI Existed

What my old IELTS essays taught me about writing captions people actually trust.

Reflections

What Frieren is teaching me about presence

A slow meditation on grief, attention, and the small spells we cast on the people we love.

Reflections

Where I came from, where I stand

On the quiet of being new somewhere, and the slow work of building a sense of belonging out of small things.

Reflections

What Norway taught me about saying no

On Erin Meyer's Culture Map, the gap between high-context and low-context cultures, and learning that directness can be its own kind of warmth.

Daily life

Learning to love moving

I was not an athletic child. Then Norway happened to me, and something I did not expect started to shift.

Elsewhere

Four countries in, still figuring out what home means.

Notes from a Filipina who's lived in Thailand, the Netherlands, and Norway. The shape of home keeps changing.

Transition

Five years teaching, then everything else.

Why a teacher ended up in marketing, and what carried over. (Spoiler: more than I expected.)