Gdyeh doma? Where's my home?

My apartment building, in Ulitsa Titova (Titova Street). I live on the top floor.
see the laundry hanging? I handwash (no washing machine)no matter how tired I am or how cold it is.
my flat in Novosibirsk

I work so I can travel and meet a lot of people.
I’ve had a brief insane period where I tried to pretend I could be a researcher, and it was a disaster. I stayed at the office everyday, surfing the net and reading magazines as research materials for the book I was drafting for my then-employer. Suffice to say, the claustrophobia of staying within the walls of my cubicle proved to be too much for me.

So I left to work in Russia. I went to Siberia, the hinterlands of the giant Russian Federation and just up the northern borders of Kazakhstan and Mongolia’s mountainous region. How did a media and communications person like me end up in what seems to be the middle of nowhere of planet earth? It was probably rebellion from the suffocating confines of my yuppie Manila life, and the exhaustion from the nauseating corrupt politics deeply embedded in Philippine society. I was disillusioned, tired, and cynical—I needed to get out.

And indeed I left the Philippines for the last place on earth any twenty-something city girl (even if the city is in a 3rd world country) would choose to relocate—The capital of SIberia in the former Soviet Union: Novosibirsk.