I was a resource person yesterday at my undergrad college, helping them in their review of the journalism curriculum. I almost didn’t make it because I was vomiting every food I had that morning. Stomach acids were triggered by the matcha milk tea I made for myself for breakfast.

During my session, I told them that 1) there are no more media outfits that would absorb journalism graduates as the business model of traditional and even new media is in a flux; 2) AI is here to stay and eliminated entry level jobs, just like what our company did by using AI to aggregate and rewrite press releases and got rid of stringers; 3) story telling has levelled up with the use of analytics. People are no longer paying for news because they can get it for free but people will pay for data and that’s how media companies are surviving—they have to turn themselves into data companies so people will pay for the information that they have. Either they must have Pulitzer Prize-level of journalism with resources to spend on long form stories or investigative pieces or sell and package data like what we and our competitors like Bloomberg and Reuters do. It’s not the news that makes money for us—it’s the data. News is just a means to get data.

After my session, I bought a lot of medicines because I think I’m coming down with something. I’m not sure if this is the same thing I got in Singapore or this is a new infection. Pneumonia cases are up, aside from Covid cases.

I slept most of the time today in between editing and replying to emails. I have an interview tomorrow, so I hope I would be functional by the time I do it.

It’s worrisome to learn from our pediatrician that the pediatric wing at St. Luke’s (I assumed it was St. Luke’s) is filled with childhood pneumonia cases. It is everywhere these days, so many kids down with pneumonia.

I’m not sure about this news report (the reporting was unpolished for it to be mainstream media) but the fact that the Chinese government and WHO are having separate press conferences to answer questions about the rising cases of pneumonia in China means it’s already alarming a lot of people.

Now I’m sneezing and blowing my nose. I’m getting groggy but I still have to tidy up in the kitchen.

I should update the twins’ pneumococcal and flu vaccines. I missed the window when their school was supposed to administer these, which was last week. I was in Singapore. 😕 I forgot to turn in the form that says I am availing of the vax for my kids. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Why, Mommy, why?

Ah I had too many things on my mind.

I can’t wait for the holidays so I can just sleep and rest.

Yeah, learned the hard way.

I always gave people the benefit of the doubt, seeing only the bright side of people and dismissing the dark. I always thought that there might be something in their past that made them into that and I should accommodate that part of them because of that past.

Umm, well, that shouldn’t be an excuse for them to be assholes. Selfish, narcissistic people shouldn’t be given a pass just because of their background. It’s condonation of bad behavior, like it’s ok. It’s never ok.

So how to weed out this kind of people? I don’t know. Maybe stay away from people in general?