Nicholette's Blogs
Thoughts, Travels, and Things in Between
I'm Nic, a writer, storyteller, and student of the craft based in the UAE. I majored in linguistics and literature in college, preparing myself for a lifelong career in the academe, only to retire from teaching a year and a half later. Now I live and breathe creativity, perfecting my craft as a writer and editor, pursuing my master's degree in development communication, and blogging part-time about my travels, thoughts and things in between.
Last month, I fulfilled my dream of visiting the Vatican. This came not-so-close on the heels of my 2022 pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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In 2015, I posted a 4-part blog series called “Illuminative Ilocos” which went on to appear on the website of the travel agency
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“Check your privilege!” gained traction on social media at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns when “the newly emergent dichotomy between the information rich and the information poor” (A. Flor, 2009) instantly became apparent by a person’s social media feed.
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I distinctly remember the first time I asserted my first grown-up decision.
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After more than a week of working from home, I’m now struggling to pry myself away from my laptop after official office hours.
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Is it just me, or is there really something about finding out that people from hundreds of years ago shared our morbid fascination for drama and scandal?
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About a month ago, I was catching up with a friend online (the only COVID-19-proof way of catching up with friends these days), and she asked me if I was still blogging.
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By now, more than half of this year has been disrupted by a pandemic I purposely chose not to write about… until now.
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Previously, in Part 1 of my Larger-than-Life Luxor series, I blogged about our almost 1-hour ordeal to secure round trip sleeping train tickets at Cairo’s Watania ticket office.