Our new dining table is my thesis nook. I’ve taken a monopoly of it since the day it was delivered to our house. I find that I am more productive when I am working downstairs, in this area. And I foresee that this will be the setup until the end of the school year or until I finish my thesis, whichever comes first.
It’s hard to juggle teaching and getting an MS degree. The teaching part, I can handle. It’s the thesis-ing that’s been really agonizing for the past year. I have no idea how I managed to do it with such ease when I was an undergraduate. (Then again, looking back, that wasn’t my best work despite the grade I got.)
I’ve done a few things to motivate myself so I can finally get down to brass tacks and do this… but not to much avail. For instance, I got myself a netbook last April just so I could dedicate one computer to my thesis. But that didn’t work out so well as I found it to be quite a task to type on a small keyboard. The netbook’s proven useful (especially when I travel), just not very much when I’m writing.
But this, I know, is just the right motivation to keep me going… the perfect push so I can finally get my research done on time:
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Posted by Aldo on 2 January 2012 @ 3:10am
(Part One here)
We enjoyed our first visit to the café on April 14, 2008 that we found ourselves back three days later. And the day after too. So yeah, in a span of one week we had found a new favorite place. It was that easy.
But little did we know that this tiny coffee shop would be our permanent hangout after two years. Though “hangout” seems quite pedestrian a term considering the genuine attachment we’ve formed with the place and the people there. Candy does a good job putting into words why Café Antonio is the place one can escape to. (Why of course! She won the café’s blog competition last week and if you were there, your table must have been served a bowl of chips, on her!) The second and third prize blog entries are featured on Café Antonio’s website and they, too, give fine reasons why this place is truly something.
I guess the simple, general reason why people love Café Antonio is that it feels like home. Yeah, it’s slightly cliché but it’s an answer that will hopefully be expanded on in this entry. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write about the place since it opened in 2008 but haven’t come around to doing so till now! But now is also an opportune time to write about the café considering that it just turned two last week!
In writing this entry, I was particularly inspired by the article Reasons to Love NY published on New York Magazine. As with any special place, there must be several reasons why people are drawn to it, why people keep coming back. So, with the help of my friends, I have put together an exhaustive — though still incomplete — list of the reasons to love Café Antonio:
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Posted by Aldo on 19 April 2010 @ 11:54pm
