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Quarantine Chronicles – Day X

written by Gail Sotelo

So, this wasn’t my original idea for today’s entry, but I’m feeling too jetlagged to write the article I had in mind and give it the respect it deserves.

Yes, I’m jetlagged for the first time since… 2019…? And not for the reasons I had back then, which were usually something work-related or a full-fledged vacation – likely involving booze.

Seriously though, after the lengthy, whirlwind, emotional rollercoaster trip that was our visit to long-lost family halfway around the world, I’m feeling the exhaustion (of the good kind). However, today isn’t about our SoCal adventure… I want to keep it short and light (so I could get back to that kdrama I’m marathoning, lol) and talk about the drinks I’m daydreaming about.

Why daydreaming? Well, we’re still stuck in the hotel for our Philippine government mandated 5-day quarantine, with another day to get the results of our COVID test… And unfortunately, the hotel’s food and drink options are severely limited. Much as I’d like to ring up a few of my supplier friends (yes, I use “ring up,” I can’t imagine myself saying “hit up”) to get something delivered, there’s a PHP10,000 fine and a restart of the 5-day quarantine if I did that.

#sendhelp

So after making a mental note on all the things I want to eat once we get out of here – mostly Korean and Japanese food because a) With nothing better to do I’m doing Japanese and Korean Netflix marathons, and b) Apparently some parts of the US don’t import meats that they could replicate for economic and health purposes, so we are dying for proper wagyu and Korean beef – one of my friends Nina said that they were also waiting for my mental notes on what I’d like to drink.

So, here’s a list of the drinks I’d like to have the moment we get out of here:

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Quarantine Chronicles – Day X was last modified: March 2nd, 2021 by Gail Sotelo
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2020 – A Discovery

written by Gail Sotelo

I obviously haven’t written in a while (duh)… but I have my reasons.

Obviously the first reason is the fact that it’s 2020. I’m quite positive that I’m not alone in feeling that year has been one of the worst we’ve seen in recent history… It started with a volcano spewing ash, to this horrible pandemic that has killed about 1.7 million people (as of writing), crippled economies (deliberately or otherwise… Thanks, alcohol ban), uncovered just how ill-prepared several governments are on how to respond to a crisis on a scale like this, and even exposed the level of selfishness, callousness, apathy, and violence several people are capable of having.

All these reasons have effectively turned me off from writing anything down and immortalizing 2020 – complete with corresponding time/date stamps – on my site.

Then I realized, it’s not fair to simply write 2020 off as the fiery ball of crap (#notsorry) that it has become… because for me, it has been a year of discovery.

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2020 – A Discovery was last modified: December 23rd, 2020 by Gail Sotelo
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