The Work, The Cat, and The Early Day Shake

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My day started early because of the earthquake we felt this morning. I believe it was around 1:05 or 1:06 AM when I suddenly woke up. For some reason, I unconsciously sat up as I felt the shaking and then went back to sleep once it subsided. I can't fully recall why I sat up at that moment, as it almost felt like a dream.

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When I woke up, I immediately saw a message from NDRRMC confirming that an earthquake indeed happened and it's a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that had hit Bogo City again. Knowing they're still recovering from earlier quakes, I couldn't help but say a prayer for them after reading the news.

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me taking a pic of my output...jeez, it kinda looks like a half-face mugshot lol

Since we also felt the shake, our classes shifted to asynchronous again, so most of the time today I’m in front of my cellphone and laptop either answering an activity or test. Some of our teachers required us to write our answers, so it pretty much felt like their face-to-face class because I still need to write the answers on paper. It wasn’t an issue with me, but I thought everything would be submitted in a digital manner, such as answers on a word docu or perhaps on google form. Anyway, more activities came as soon as afternoon started, and also aside from those activities, I’m also finishing the script. Yeah…the script.

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I already shared before how I detested making scripts, especially the ones that are intended for films or plays. But here I am again…diving into the same quicksand I almost drowned before. Ahhhh I’m starting to get dramatic again, perhaps it’s the theme of the script that’s rubbing off on me. Well, I tried to avoid that task yet again I don’t want to regret stuff later, so I decided to give the concept I visualize a shot. I started making the script yesterday, but since I’m pretty much busy until now, I’m still on it…ughh

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Now for the most stressful part of this day—the surprise test! Honestly, it wasn’t really a surprised one because our instructor already warned that there’ll be a test after the reporting. I didn’t expect that today would be the day, so I was pretty much surprised. I thought that the test would just go smoothly, but the moment it started and so was my almost an hour of torment. I don’t know if it’s my internet connection or my phone, but I suddenly get disconnected from the test, which is really stressful. Aside from the crappy connection, I also didn’t understand some of the questions because most of them were out of the scope of what the reporters tackled. Thankfully, I had some stock knowledge from senior high school strand (ABM), so I wasn’t fully a goner.

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Enough with that rant dump, it’s almost 6:00 P.M, when all the chaos dies down. I’m again on my script when suddenly I get the urge to relax a bit. I’m mentally exhausted with all the brain cells I put to work today, so I looked for my furry stress reliever...our cats.

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As usual, they are resting cozily, and there, I stroked their fur. I talked to them a bit, and Luna just stared at me with his bored eyes…the eyes that tell me that he didn’t care a bit. Whether he cares or not, I don’t really mind because I just want someone whom I can vent to.

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I think I’ve bored them with my quite long sharing because later on I find them two sleeping soundly. I hope I can also sleep like that when all this work gets finished…I think that would be all for now everyone. I hope you’re all safe wherever you are—especially my fellow Cebuanos who are in the North.

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Pag-amping mo kanunay diha! Lumalabay ra gud ni... Padayon :)


All the pictures were taken by me, while the first page was edited in Canva.

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Working on a script was really hard but just seeing your cats your stress will fade away because they were cute.💗

Yes! It's quite hard, especially if you have a deadline to catch (︶^︶)...but thankfully, my stress was quite relieved—thanks to our cats.

Totally! Your cats were your best stress reliever.😊