And my cats got so stressed

My cats hid under my bed. Photo by CallMeCreation.com

My cats went nuts and got so stressed when my sis in law and my nephew arrived at the apartment with me. They ran to my room and hid under my bed. I had been coaxing them to come out from hiding for hours.

They’re not budging. Photo by CallMeCreation.com

And it’s 3:38 in the morning and they’re still there. And I’m still effing alive.

How are they going to deal with the move next month if they’re so scared like this when there are going to be other people (movers) around?


Finally was able to make the cats go. After my SIL and nephew quieted down, I saw that they were moving towards the edge of the bed. I knew then that they were already plotting their escape. I left the door slightly ajar and when Sushi felt that my guests were asleep, she sped away towards freedom. Kimchi, on the other hand, took her time and went sniffing around my guests’ bags, sniffed around the bed, peeked at the sleeping people on my bed, then felt her way out quietly.

That was 4 am.

I’m so groggy now, trying to finish an edit.


This is my current speed in Quezon City

This was my speed yesterday at my house.

Now you see why I keep pushing Converge to fix it? Because I know that upload speeds can go beyond 300Mbps. Something is really wrong with their settings in my new location. 🙄

See? The upload speed is even faster than my DL speed 😑

I cannot have slow upload when I conduct a lot of Zoom interviews and I have a several regular weekly calls.


I will be very busy in the next few days leading to my departure for Singapore since I would be moderating two panel discussions during our conference/s. Meeting with the panelists, outlining the flow of the panel discussions…I need to keep my notes on hand.

I have no room to buy new clothes for this event since I’m on a super tipid mode now as I just issued a check for my waterworks and did bank transfers/cash payment for my laundry area construction.

Anyway, I need to brush up on some topics and read so many materials so I would not look stupid and uninformed, especially on the political and regulatory front in Southeast Asia.

I had been moderating conferences in the past so I’m picking up again that duty.

Moderating a panel discussion about public finance, asking questions from the Dept of Finance secretary in 2018. A year or two prior to this, I also moderated a panel discussion in a conference hosted by a sister company.

Doing this is not easy since you have to have more than superficial knowledge about the topic to be able to ask intelligent questions and draw out valuable insights. Otherwise, people would have just wasted their time listening to the discussion.

I have my hands full next week.