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Market Love: For the Love of Food, Vintage, Creativity, and Bargains

posted in City Escape, Creativity, Uncategorized, Ventures by lazylykee on

I’ve always been a fan of the show Flea Market Flip. More than the thrill of a good bargain, I always fancy how they turn things around: old to new, useless to purposeful, trash to treasure, ugly to beautiful, rusty to sassy.

Imagine my simple joy when I came here to London and realized there are plenty of flea markets to goggle my eyes with. When I shared a photo of it with my sister who, like me, is also interested in these, she was also amazed saying it’s a “legit” flea market. Back in the Philippines, we have bazaars and she was my partner-in-crime when we traded a few times.

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Respark Challenge 2018: Reflections and Learnings

posted in Productivity, Thoughts, Ventures by lazylykee on

Monologue to self: You created this blog to share thoughts on productivity but a year had gone now, you only had one productivity post. You’re indeed lazy.

Respark Challenge 2018 is a short mini course by Arriane Serafico of The Purposeful Creative. It’s a 5-day challenge wherein the participants called “resparkers” follow an everyday prompt, simple things that can be done for about 15 minutes or less to avoid excuses of being busy or having no time to do it. Continue reading “Respark Challenge 2018: Reflections and Learnings” →

Good Art Ain’t Cheap: Dissecting Never Not Love You from an Amateur Freelance Graphic Artist’s View

posted in Career, Creativity, Dream, graphic design, Life Lessons, Productivity, Thoughts, Ventures by lazylykee on

Disclaimer 1: No, this post is not a critique of the art as seen in the movie or of the movie in general. I don’t even know what point I am making in creating this post. Probably, to see the worth of freelancers. Or this might just be a random rambling.

Disclaimer 2: I guess I can call myself a freelance graphic artist because I earn from making digital art, so yeah.  I’m just speaking from an amateur’s point of view. So, if there is anything I’ve said about the freelance graphic design world that was in any way not true or partly untrue, then, please, enlighten me.

Watched Never Not Love You. Triggered by a scene where Joanne’s father sort of devalued Gio’s being a freelance graphic designer, living on just gigs. Had a conversation just recently explaining what exactly I am doing working as a freelancer currently. Piece these all together and here’s what I came up with. Continue reading “Good Art Ain’t Cheap: Dissecting Never Not Love You from an Amateur Freelance Graphic Artist’s View” →

3 Benefits of Being a Transcriptionist

posted in Career, Dream, Life Lessons, Productivity, Ventures by lazylykee on

A transcriptionist, or a transcriber, is someone who listens to an audio and types whatever is being said. And no, you’re not typing while listening to a live call unlike what most people who asked me what type of job is it thinks. It’s a recorded audio. I think it’s a simple job, you listen, you type. Done.

I like being a transcriptionist because I think it’s a lazy job, and I have plenty of lazy days. But before any transcriber/transcriptionist reacts negatively to this, it’s just my thought, but of course, you know the truth about this type of work. It’s lazy but it’s strenuous—in the mind, eyes and fingers. Continue reading “3 Benefits of Being a Transcriptionist” →

The Entire History of My Blogging

posted in Dream, Life Lessons, Productivity, Thoughts, Ventures by lazylykee on

After years, I opened my Blogger blog again, not this one, but my very first personal blog. I guess I owe it to my subscription to Arriane Serafico‘s newsletter. No, that’s not an affiliate link you got there. I genuinely want to share the benefits of following her.

That particular newsletter is about the New Year. We usually write resolutions over and over and get depressed about not achieving our goals the previous year. What she encouraged to better do is to start with looking back at your 2017 wins.

I thought, then, aside from my longest long-term travel (just almost a month), creating this website last year was one of my top wins. Humans my age were buying gadgets, buying houses, creating families and babies. For my 27th birthday, I gifted myself a domain and started my blog. Continue reading “The Entire History of My Blogging” →

Tips For Bazaar First Time Sellers

posted in Creativity, Iloilo, Piggy Penguin, Productivity, Ventures by lazylykee on

“Kasadya gali mag-bazaar.” I overheard someone from a nearby booth said when we joined another bazaar event a few days ago. They were, I assume, a group of friends selling their preloved items. Yes, I agree it’s fun especially with a few bloopers along the way but with the fun comes some strategic (lol) planning, physical exertion and marketing among the other things to consider.

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BAZAAR-ing: Productivity Sesh With My Sis and other realizations

posted in Iloilo, Life Lessons, Productivity, Thoughts, Ventures by lazylykee on

My sister and I, we admit within ourselves that we are true blue hoarders. We think it’s one of the reasons why our mother would always scold us having a “forest” as a bedroom, or at times a “garbage dump” bedroom. We have an impulse to buy unnecessary stuff and have issues of letting go… of material stuff.

And so, garage sales and bazaars appealed to us because of the opportunity to make money out of our bad habit. The first time we joined an event was four years ago, I think. I was still working as an English tutor for Koreans. I happened to see a tarpaulin for a garage sale and despite hesitation every now and then, I eventually inquired and had my co-teachers join in with me. Continue reading “BAZAAR-ing: Productivity Sesh With My Sis and other realizations” →