Feminism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

One afternoon, Juno asked me what feminism is. And I, with all pride (thinking that he might have been seeing my posts) answered enthusiastically but was taken aback when he followed it up with “Is it bad?” A question like this is thought-provoking, for sure. In my observation, the word feminism is sometimes loosely used…

The Pros and Cons of Being Single

Last year, during the extent of the quarantine days, I found myself gushing over rom-coms and love stories (I'm blaming it all on Netflix LOL). It has been a couple of years since I've been single, and I'm kinda used to it. But for some reason, the pandemic had me emotional and contemplative of my…

To blog or not to blog? How to answer the question (and anything else we want to do in life)

During the last few days of 2020, I felt the urge of shutting myself out from social media and from being a public figure altogether. This included closing down my blogsite http://www.miss-mars.com and discontinuing my plans to vlog for #MondayswithMissMars. I have set my mind into it that I was prepared not being able to…

C’est la vie!

I didn't know I could obsess over Paris even more after watching Emily in Paris at Netflix.

Are you enough?

With all the free time we have on our hands during this quarantine period, it’s so easy to be looking at someone else’s life, and at the same time, so hard not to be comparing it to our own. For the past few months, I have come across moments like these when I just couldn’t…