Jan 29, 2026

Today was finally the last day I would work on-site for the month. This day wasn't supposed to happen as I had originally planned to work on-site last week, but whatever. My friends seemed to even want me to work from home today, but I just got to complete this day and get it over with.

Thankfully, commute was fine and perfectly normal.

For the rest of the day, it was actually quite fun in the office. I spent it with coworkers. I saw a coworker that I haven't seen since December of last year, and he and I were immediately joking like usual. It was actually super fun. I had lunch with them and I got Pepper Lunch for the hell of it. It was hard carrying the tray back to the table, too! But I was able to have lunch with them, laugh, share jokes and stories, whatnot.

We grabbed some drinks at CHAGEE and I got that new peace milk tea drink that they had. It was 169 Pesos or something, so it was worth it. My coworker also gave me the thermal bag for the 2 drinks we ordered, so that was cool. We went back in the office and I continued to work on my tasks for a long while. In the afternoon, I had a short break to grab some Starbucks with another coworker. He told me about his past trips to Japan and he seemed interested to go to Korea, and I told him some of the basics of getting a visa.

After that, he said that I'll visit Korea at the time when the cherry blossoms will bloom.

I was completed shocked! Oo nga noh. I will see cherry blossoms for the first time ever in my life. Holy shit. I didn't even plan on seeing the cherry blossoms, but apparently now I will. Holy crap! What followed was that I was even more excited for my trip because I wanted to see the cherry blossoms so bad as it's also a new experience for me.

We then went back to the office and I continued on my work. I had a small merienda session with one coworker and we immediately went back to the office, and I went home early for the day because I had a meeting and I planned to work my remaining hours at home.

I eventually got home while the sun was still out, so that was nice. I just relaxed but eventually did some work and attended my meeting per usual. After that, things were pretty chill. Someone eventually woke up and we started messaging on Discord after a while.

Also I found enough time to think to myself and sit with my thoughts about the future and the way I've been feeling these past few months. I was able to finally write that blog post I've been thinking of since Tuesday.