Spending My Day In This Quarantine

“For someone who is very used to living alone and staying indoors, being alone in my own apartment during this community quarantine has been a lot of things but sad."

Ever since the community quarantine started last March 15, I've been writing things that I do in a day on an hourly basis. I want to share how I'm able to cope up to this crisis and how I manage to avoid the stress that goes with living alone, being far from family and friends, and having to stop working with bills that needed to be paid.

Most of the time, I sleep during the day and spend the night cooking, eating, reading books, writing, and watching Netflix and YouTube. I just find it more comfortable to be awake during the night as I know that others are just sleeping that's why it's very peaceful and silent and not be stressed by the eerie silence of the day because I'm asleep. Below are the things that I've been doing that moment I wake up until I sleep. I grouped them according to the time of the day that I've been doing them.

Writing at 0400AM. I woke up at around 0200AM but decided to just stay in bed and browse Instagram until around 0330AM. Lately, I've been hooked to interior designs of some homes featured on Instagram's search page. Seeing a lot of organized and beautiful interiors has been giving me a sense of internal peace amidst this extended quarantine.

I'm currently having a cup of hot chocolate since I ran out of coffee yesterday. I'm just going to catch-up with the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to, especially off-grid and design channels. And around six o'clock later, I'll take a bath and dive into some books that I plan to finish before this quarantine ends.

Writing at 0500AM. I woke up to a message in my badminton group chat regarding donations given to a private hospital being confiscated by policemen and tagging those donations with the name of certain senator and re-donating it to the same hospital. Like what the fuck! Seriously?

I woke up around 0400AM today but decided to just stay in bed for another hour. I slept around 0700PM last night and woke up around 1100PM and slept again after 30 minutes. I'm currently nursing a slight headache that I hope to go away once I'm done with the cup of hot chocolate and biscuits that I just prepared.

I only had two meals yesterday and the last meal was around 0200PM. I just didn't want to eat, I still have some stocks in my cupboard though. I'll hang my laundry around 0630AM later after taking a bath. After that, just some more simple activities to kill time before I go to the grocery store around 1200PM to stock up on some supplies.

Writing at 0600AM. It's my first time ever hanging out in the communal rooftop of my apartment building at this hour and having my laptop with me to type away and read away anything that I want. So here I am, having my morning coffee while witnessing the sun to rise way above the aluminum roofs of my neighbors.

It's Black Saturday and still another day of this quarantine so nothing special is going on in the neighboring streets. I have nothing special planned for today aside from attempting to go outside, withdraw some cash, and buy some essentials for my pantry. The word here is "attempting" because I really don't want to go out.

Writing at 0700AM. I haven't been gone to bed since I woke up around 0500PM yesterday. I just came back from the rooftop of my apartment after spending an hour there watching the sunrise for the first time in this quarantine. I spent my night working on the wall design and room assignment of my dream permaculture home. I finished it already, a two-story home with a basement and rooftop. I decided to remove the third floor since the rooms in the second and third can be combined in just one floor without compromising their respective areas.

This is where I'm going to cut the first part of my notes, since from 0800AM to 0100PM I have no entries at all. It's because it's either I'm doing the plans that I have for the day or I'm sleeping.