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2020-05-14
Embracing New Normal on Extension Delivery
Our experience in delivering our extension services to clients -
2020-07-20
Covid-19 Diary
The story shares my personal experience of the pandemic and it is important because it demonstrates a reaction at the face of adversity. -
2020-05-29
COVID-19 Musings
These are my blog posts as I mused upon the COVID-19 pandemic. From when the virus started spreading, to quarantine thoughts, to looking at it in the context as an environmentalist, and dealing with the new normal. -
2020-04-13
The Barricades of Cubao
Last Friday night, an ambulance silently entered our street in Cubao. Although its red and blue lights were spinning, its siren was turned off. In the silence of that Good Friday night, two residents from the building two lots away from where we lived were brought inside the ambulance. As quickly as it appeared, the ambulance left our street. Yesterday morning, as the world celebrated Easter Sunday, the barricades on the streets of our neighborhood were reinforced. Men and women assigned by the Barangay served as guards, checking the identity of every person who wanted to enter the streets. With vehicles banned from passing through the streets, I had to walk several blocks from our residence to the Barangay Hall to get a Quarantine Pass. It was needed to allow me to buy food and maintenance medicines. Last night, we were told that one of the residents that were taken by the ambulance last Friday night had tested positive for COVID-19. Stricter measures would be implemented. This, it seems, will be our new normal. -
2020-04-30
After the coronavirus pandemic, the world can’t go back to business as usual
My letter to the editor in the South China Morning Post (in HK). Am originally from the Philippines now based in HK. How the world and life needs to change to adapt to the new post-Covid19 normal. -
2020-03-21
Plague Journal, Day 8: The Circle of disease tightens
The Girlfriend's friend enters the hospital with lung problems, awaits test results; also, her colleague is a possible Covid-19 vector. The Girlfriend experiences tension with her mother in a nursing home, her children at her apartment. Meanwhile, my mother adjusts to her new isolation. -
2020-04-06
20,19,18
It is a video I made myself. Compared my ins stories in the past two years with a film of me washing my hands this year, it is my translation about how life has been changed by the pandemic. -
2020-05-23
First time in the outside
Shelter in place has been lifted. This photograph is the first time my children have been allowed in public with masks. We went to a local bakery "Famous Creations" for cupcakes. The boys (Levi and Canyon) were excited to see strangers and choose a treat. As we were there several other families arrived but stayed far apart from each-other. -
04/05/2020
Life at home during the Coronavirus isolation. People are finding that they have a lot of time on their hands--especially at first. Then a "new normal" set in and people became busier.
During the beginning of the shelter at home order, people were trying to figure out what to do with their time. #homelife, #isolation, #shelterathome, #naps, #eating #ASU #HST580 -
05/18/2020
Back to Normal? [DUPLICATE OF "No More Different, Please"]
Today felt like a dream come true. I got to go back into an actual lap pool and swim a workout for the first time in two-three months. This doesn’t mean that one kid got to swim. This means that the Rec Center opened which is a big step at least in my life for things going back to normal. This means that I can try to salvage all of the work I have done in this one sport. The coronavirus has definitely changed how I look at everything now. I feel just so thankful and excited to be walking into a pool deck when sometimes I would even be so annoyed to go to swim practice because I knew it would be so hard and tough. I know that from now on I will be so happy even when I go into a test set where you go until you break and can’t make the base. I will be so happy to even be able to go to school and have swim practice right after which is really weird considering that even in kindergarten I would go to school and have swim practice right after. #LSMS #NSD -
05/18/2020
Make sure you have your phone, keys, wallet, and all of this stuff too
This is the new normal. During this time of uncertainty, it can't hurt to go a little overboard with the caution. -
04/29/2020
The Virus Series #30: Waiting
The focus of this piece is the human waiting on the threshold/doorway. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. For time to move forward, for the pandemic to lessen, for the 'new normal' to begin. Stillness in the time of chaos. *Original text in "Date:" 4/29/2020 in lockdown/quarantine -
2020-05-15
The New Normal?
Everyday feels the same. I am so bored and tired. My sleep schedule is messed up. I have absolutely zero motivation left to work out because I won’t even have a swim meet until I become a teenager. The highlight of my day was definitely going to Ross. So much has changed though. You can only have a certain number of people in the store, so the workers count everyone and make some people wait outside until someone inside is done shopping. Most of the people are wearing masks and when workers come in, they have to sanitize and get their temperature checked. On top of that everyone is pushed to social distance as there are arrows on the ground guiding you. Lastly, when you check out you and the cashier are separated by a thick clear sheet of plastic. -
2020-05-04
Perspectives
Different views from social distancing -
2020-04-20
A New Normal
Thoughts on a a new normal -
03/24/2020
"Amid uncertainty around COVID-19, architects adjust to a new normal"
Article on American Institute of Architects website discussing effects of COVID-19 on work.