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When Careers Move On

Yeonwoo and Taeha are members to be missed I was supposed to go back this December with this blog. It took this news to pull me back to writing for this blog. But now, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) came, an enhanced community quarantine goes on, and now I found myself back on this blog once more. I know this is so late already. But I better let this out. Wash your hands and  always  keep safe. --- I t shocked me, and the many fans of Kpop girlgroup Momoland, for sure, when MLD Entertainment announced that former members Yeonwoo and Taeha would leave the group. In a statement released by MLD Entertainment last November, it was revealed that the two "are about to make a new start by leaving the team". "Both TAEHA and YEONWOO have thought deeply about their career path for a long time and upon having enough time for their thoughts, have had much conversation with the company," MLD Entertainment said. Kim Taeha, who served as the group's ma...

Dispatch from Home No. 1: Quarantine Necessitates Routine

I've been mostly writing Dispatches from my home. But this time, when the coronavirus disease (or COVID-19) caused an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Luzon in order to curb the spread of the disease, hence "flatten the curve", I find it fit to chronicle how life has been since I'm confined at home. Here is my first quarantine dispatch from home. ---  Prior to the quarantine, I was expecting to go to the office on a Tuesday. But come Monday afternoon, CNN Philippines reported that according to the presidential spokesman the President will announced an Enhanced Community Quarantine over Luzon. At around minutes before 8pm, the President finally confirmed it—Luzon's on ECQ. Life won't be the same again. Not just for me, but for everyone. As I thought it over how life will go on for the next days until, hopefully, at the end of this quarantine the curve is flattened, I realized a few things.