<p>Hello everyone.</p>
<p>This week’s been a busy one so far, and next week is shaping up to be just as busy, so I probably won’t be able to return to writing until early February.</p>
<p>Makiroll has only been around since 2020 but I started writing way earlier, from the simple <a href="https://www.blogger.com/about/?bpli=1">Blogger</a> blog I set up in late 2006 to my 3-year Multiply habit, and eventually <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151222161146/https://makiroll.net/the-requisite-first-post-8253c9110ed4?gi=bc207e3986da">a Medium blog named “The Makiroll”</a> in 2015. I was able to save much of my writing from 2008 to 2014 and from a brief return to blogging in February 2018, and to make this site less lonely while I worked on new content two years ago, I’ve re-posted a few of them here.</p>
<p>Since I’ll probably be too preoccupied to write for a while, I’ve decided to feature more old writing and backdate the ones I previously re-posted. If you have the patience, sit back, relax, and enjoy musings and rants from when my greatest concerns were getting out of college and adjusting to adulthood:</p>
<h2 id="uncertaintyhttpsmakirollnetuncertainty"><a href="https://makiroll.net/uncertainty">Uncertainty.</a></h2>
<p><em>21 October 2008, from an old blog</em></p>
<p>Being the immature control freak that I was 14 years ago, the concept of uncertainty itself unsettled me. This essay documents part of the thought process that led me to learn to plan my life around it.</p>
<h2 id="hownottoapproachgirlshttpsmakirollnethownottoapproachgirls"><a href="https://makiroll.net/how-not-to-approach-girls">How not to approach girls.</a></h2>
<p><em>20 September 2009, from an old blog</em></p>
<p>Not something I’m proud of, definitely, but I find it amusing and others might, too.</p>
<h2 id="typhoonsfacebookandpanichttpsmakirollnettyphoonsfacebookandpanic"><a href="https://makiroll.net/typhoons-facebook-and-panic">Typhoons, Facebook, and panic.</a></h2>
<p><em>22 October 2009, from an old blog</em></p>
<p>The onslaught of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana#Philippines">Typhoon Ondoy (a.k.a. Ketsana)</a> brought flooding to much of Metro Manila and nearby provinces, turning riverside communities into murky seas littered with debris. I didn’t have the mobility to head to a volunteer center to help pack relief goods, so I settled for being an armchair Good Samaritan by sharing valuable information and flagging one fake news post after another.</p>
<h2 id="sablayhttpsmakirollnetsablay"><a href="https://makiroll.net/sablay">Sablay.</a></h2>
<p><em>17 April 2011, from Facebook</em></p>
<p>The alternative title for this one is “The graduation speech that wasn’t.”</p>
<h2 id="akonahttpsmakirollnetakona"><a href="https://makiroll.net/ako-na">Ako na.</a></h2>
<p><em>23 July 2011, from Facebook</em></p>
<p>I’m rarely sentimental, but a strange dream left me wondering how much I could care for someone.</p>
<h2 id="notquitethereyethttpsmakirollnetnotquitethereyet"><a href="https://makiroll.net/not-quite-there-yet">Not quite there yet.</a></h2>
<p><em>12 September 2012, from Facebook</em></p>
<p>Before I became a software engineer, I was a librarian. After <a href="https://twitter.com/y4it/status/245343193208594432">a speaking engagement</a> one fine Tuesday morning, I began to reflect on being part of the library profession and my desire to be a different kind of librarian. First in a series of posts on librarianship.</p>
<h2 id="mandatehttpsmakirollnetmandate"><a href="https://makiroll.net/mandate">Mandate.</a></h2>
<p><em>Unpublished (date-stamped 19 May 2013)</em></p>
<p>This was the supposed follow up to “Sablay,” but ended up in the depths of my archives as I contemplated leaving librarianship to pursue a career in technology.</p>
<h2 id="makinglibrarianshipawesomehttpsmakirollnetmakinglibrarianshipawesome"><a href="https://makiroll.net/making-librarianship-awesome">Making librarianship awesome.</a></h2>
<p><em>30 November 2014, from Facebook</em></p>
<p>This was pretty much my final word on librarianship, written months into my new career journey as a software engineer. Much of it was rambling about my frustrations as a librarian and why I thought I’d never measure up because my aspirations were out of line with those befitting of a librarian. The rest is history.</p>
<h2 id="tenthousandhttpsmakirollnettenthousand"><a href="https://makiroll.net/ten-thousand">Ten thousand.</a></h2>
<p><em>21 February 2018, from Facebook and</em> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151222161146/https://makiroll.net/the-requisite-first-post-8253c9110ed4?gi=bc207e3986da"><em>“The Makiroll” on Medium</em></a></p>
<p>Shifting gears from librarianship to faith this time. A love letter to God, basically, on my birthday.</p>
<h2 id="foriknowtheplansihaveforyouhttpsmakirollnetforiknowtheplansihaveforyou"><a href="https://makiroll.net/for-i-know-the-plans-i-have-for-you">For I know the plans I have for you.</a></h2>
<p><em>24 February 2018, from</em> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151222161146/https://makiroll.net/the-requisite-first-post-8253c9110ed4?gi=bc207e3986da"><em>“The Makiroll” on Medium</em></a></p>
<p>This is another one of those rare instances where I don’t write about technology or anything that frustrates me. I normally only share faith testimonies in church or with loved ones, but I think this one deserves a spot on the public Internet.</p>
<p>That’s it for now. As always, thanks for stopping by.</p>

nostalgia

Throwback Tuesday