"Living Each Single Day"

Here's a pictorial recaps on what I had been up to recently in December. We are officially on the last day of 2020. Many of us are hopeful for a better 2021. I also feel that we are entering 2021 with renewed goals amidst the chaos that the pandemic brought upon this world that affected everyone. Many of us started to feel demotivated and also frustrated because we experienced things that we didn't think that we would go through in our lives.  But you know what. Let us look forward to a great year ahead. We enter 2021 with a richer yet different kind of experience. There were many hard lessons learnt along the way. It might have been chaotic but 2020 was full of meaning too. Last week, I made personalised bookmarks for leaving colleagues. I didn't write any personal notes to them because I didn't really get along well with them. They were on a 2 year stint with our branch so they needed to gain work experience as much as possible before returning to schools. I used my l...

 Hi there Mask wearing is compulsory and part of the new normal Recently, I wrote a whole blogpost in draft but there was some worldwide power outage and I was not able to save and now it's gone, lol. So there is some delay in posting up a new post. I actually have a written draft but I think I wanna write about a completely different thing. so we are barely two weeks into 2021 and for most of us, 2020 had been one heck of a ride. There are also people who gained from the whole pandemic fiasco by starting new businesses but some started out of necessity. Basically we need to be in survival mode even if the odds are against us because we still need to live as life goes on, pandemic or not. I have also tried to make changes in my life by knowing what are important and what are not. Sometimes it takes a life changing event to happen before we become more self aware and take the necessary baby steps to make our life better. It's not a process that takes a day to accomplish but can ...

Hi there Thank you for being here, lol. I don't know if people still read blogs but if you are here reading my humble blog, once again thanks! I just can't let go of this blog after so many years and then I just want to continue writing here, even if it's just once a week. So it is somewhat like a weekly blog. I have been following up a Master Consistency class and there are 20 parts to it. The one I am following the class from, she's not a qualified life coach, but she has amassed so much knowledge as she is an avid reader and based on her personal experiences which she found helpful to share so we can all benefit. I am not done with the classes yet as it is still on-going and even though each module is in bite sized pieces, it is pretty extensive and you can learn quite a lot from it. Anyway, I deal with inconsistency all the time but I think that most of us are quite like that too. Or maybe it's just me, haha. I know that there are people who follow a certain rou...

Every December I will have minor plans, mainly shopping but this year will be different because I need to save more money. And as in my last post, I don't get additional bonus on top of the 13th month bonus so there is no way I can be careless but to be more prudent. But this month, we will receive $100 Re-discovery vouchers that will help us to subsidise some fees off local attractions and hotel stays. Can't travel yet? Be a tourist in your country! In a way, this is also helping our economy to slowly recover because the travel industry will not be recovering anytime soon so we don't have tourists coming in to bring in the revenue. One of the earlier plans we had was the BTS pop up store. It was free but we need to book in advance and they are only opened for booking on Wednesday, i think? We missed the first round so we had to book for the following week. Anyway, I looked at the prices of the merchandise online and my goodness, so expensive. I used to listen to a lot of K...

This year passed by pretty fast because almost everyday seemed like a survival ever since end of March when things start to turn for the worst due to Covid 19. People didn't think that it would turn the whole world upside down and until this day, the pandemic causes ripples in almost every major countries and cities. And then we have to get used to the new norm and experiencing the after effects of the pandemic which includes a worsening economy. That said, this year I didn't get the mid year bonus which was sorta expected and though I am in a stable job, I sympathise with those who lost their sources of income. You can say that I am still lucky in some ways despite not getting the mid year bonus and the government stepped in to help us a lot, by giving us cash incentives to help us tide over. Even those that are in the affluent groups are affected as many businesses are affected and many people retrenched, whatever their income brackets were, so they aimed to help as many of u...

One of my guilty pleasures which I don't really share with others because it's rather embarrassing, is that I enjoy reading webtoons, manga and watching anime. It's not an extensive hobby like I am not so deeply passionate about it like some people do. But why I say it's embarrassing because well, some are trashy novels where the plot lines are basically the writer's wildest fantasies in comic forms, lol. However, as trashy as some can be, in between there can those be riveting plot lines or chapters that hinge on suspense that make you want to read the next chapter to know what happens next. There are those that I really liked the storylines that are just worth reading because they are so good. And just like the popular social media Tik Tok, it can be....time consuming. Like I pretty much understand when some people posted online saying they finished the whole manga or anime series, that can span into 80 plus chapters including side chapters or seasons, in one day....

A tall and handsome...red velvet ice cream Sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough or work hard enough to achieve what I want out of life. Or it gets tiring when things don't go as planned or the results that I get were not fast enough. I know this is not something new that I write about but just like the tides, our life pretty much goes up and down too, especially when we get overwhelmed or we start to compare ourselves with others and seeing how we lack so far behind. So yesterday, I bought two different types of food. One was a packet or rice with dishes and another one is a noodle dish, which I originally wanted to get but the lady prepared the rice instead. But I still wanted to eat noodles so I bought noodles too. But then she added chilli and I actually do not like chilli in my food. It's complicated lol. Anyway, I ended up eating the packet of rice instead but the dishes were so meh, I didn't feel like I had a good meal. I still had to eat so I somehow forced my...

Smile and radiate with happiness What does happiness mean to us? Recently I came across a recent poll on IG simply asking how happy are you. The results were of course a mixture but I just found more were leaning on being unhappy. It was understandable because they stated their unhappiness were due to the unfortunate events in their lives such as the loss of a loved one, job, miscarriage, their former love of their life getting married and so on. If such an event unfold followed by another and another, then we also start to question if we will ever be happy. We also question our faith as we dive deeper into a depressing state especially when we put in so much effort only to be met with little to no results or developments. Simply put, we may start to lose hope in ourselves and on a spiritual note, that God doesn't love us. I also start to question myself if life is really worth living especially when I have to bear the hardships myself. Getting through each day was pretty hard beca...

Cat and mouse game Happy November! We are down to the last two months. Seriously this year is such a roller coaster ride and whether we like it or not, all of us are affected by Covid-19 virus one way or another. But going beyond this pandemic, there are also many other things that happen, in our personal or professional life, that make us ponder and think hard about how we have been living our lives all this time. Like at some point, we all wanna change. It's a wake up call for most of us too.  For me, I've such a wreck when it comes to spiritual living like I know very little knowledge. And also in trying to be productive each day like I struggle big times. But for many of us, at some point in life, we all wanna change for the better.  We find ourselves in situations that we never thought we would be in and perhaps, after some self reflection, there is some goodness to it if we chose to see it in a more positive light.  It can be wanting to be more physically fit, ...

One of the things that I enjoy in life is eating ice cream like the picture you see above. I know it's sweet and all but I particularly liked dark and rich chocolate flavour and is willing to pay $5 for it, coming from someone who is calculative over money, lol.  It tastes so good and I typically eat it, not all the time, but usually when I get stressed out by life in general. Somehow within that short period of time, I forget about the stress I'm having from various factors. Working out can also help me to forget temporarily but I dunno, I feel even more stressed when I have to carry out moves which are kinda torturous for me. Every person handles stress differently. My mind tend to calm down a bit as I self reflect and think about what was the big fuss all about especially when I'm stressing out over things that aren't even a big deal in the first place. So eating the ice cream can help to build my spirit up a little, especially when things get a little mundane or hec...

The view from the top in a cable car Actually, I never really thought of writing on this topic because so far, I am doing pretty well in mental health or at least coping. But recently, I listened and read about other people's mental health issues and how common and serious they have become. As more people log on to social media, seeing other people leading their lives and being cyber bullied by strangers, many things start to play on our minds and all the negative talk can start. We start to disbelief in ourselves.  Everyday is a challenge and there are days when it can be harder to get through. It takes willpower to be strong facing these challenges especially when there are little to no changes or the news just could not have gotten any worse. I have experienced dark periods in my life before and it's not easy to just simply get over it. Feelings of being a failure and then coupled with the lack of moral support or keeping the problems to myself until it blew up and my famil...

me self reflecting on life Last week, I was quite a mess in regards to managing my life. I felt a little out of grasp because I guess I tend to focus my energy more on things that don't add meaning to my life. However, I still enjoy those moments but it was a little bit on the excessive. But it's not all the way down the rabbit hole for me. I still manage to achieve some things such as attending a free live webinar on spiritual course where I managed to sit through for one and a half hour without wanting to quit.  In terms of fitness, I did not manage to work out at least 3 times in that week and that one time I didn't do it was because of the webinar that fell around the same time I normally do the workout. However, not to give an excuse as I could have planned to do earlier or after. But no. I take it as full 'break', lol. And I haven't been eating well for quite a long time because I gave myself too many excuses that it's ok to eat that stick of fishball,...