"Living Each Single Day"

Eid Mubarak! Selamat Hari Raya to fellow Muslims all over the world! In Singapore, we are still in the midst of the circuit breaker so we are not allowed to go visiting in order to prevent the spread of virus and formation of new clusters. Of course this is expected and many muslim families have turned to technology to celebrate in a different but meaningful way. With zoom, they get to 'visit' extended family members virtually and ask for forgiveness too as it has always been our tradition. Far away in proximity but still close at heart. For my family, we don't get to experience this but just within our family, we just chill with watching tv specials and enjoying home cooked food. I also sent out special greeting to people while also receiving from both Muslim and non Muslim friends, ex colleagues and current colleagues. In the morning, I had some quiet moments listening to the Raya sermon and then practising some watercoloring. I just bought a new watercolour palet...

Sometimes I feel that I am not hard on myself. That I don't really have that much of negative talk simply because I am not pushing myself hard enough. I spend my days quite carelessly with many distractions though at times, I actually force myself to sit down and learn or relearn some things. All this in a bid to stay away from social media or watching reruns or snippets of my favourite dramas. In case you're not aware or haven't read my earlier posts, nowadays I'm so much into Japanese movies that are typically an hour and a half long and its accompanying Manga comics. It's one of those phases that I go through and then forget about until a long time later. This morning, I watched an IG tv of a young Muslim religious teacher who has her own company and due to the Covid-19, had to make use of social media and online workshops in order to continue teaching people and also to keep her company afloat. It is not easy grappling with technology, and suddenly needing to ...

Since last weekend, I had been watching live action manga comics. Some I watched before and watched again while there were new discoveries too though they can be a few years old already. They are in Japanese but fans have been translating them in English for international fans like me. I'm not really into every single thing because I find some are just the writer's wildest imagination ever, in a world we can only fantasise where the most handsome and popular guy or girl, falls hard in love with a mere ordinary human being that people wouldn't pay attention to anyway.  I'm sorry if this is going to bore you but I will try my best to make it a quick and relatable one to real life. In my previous post, I wrote about my little fascination with Manga and how one of them had the characters' features so darn similar to the drawings in the Manga comics. So there was this one character called Misu who was the most aloof guy and basically the IDGAF type but in the end, deci...

Actually, I meant to write this one first but I got caught up writing about my fascination with Live action Manga. Anyway, this post was supposed to be written on Mothers' Day or at least the day after but here goes. So early in the morning, I got a text in one of the WhatsApp group wishing one another a Happy Mother's Day. One of them was saying that this is a bittersweet day for her because her late mum passed away on Mother's Day. But nevertheless, she made the same wish as well. Of course initially I didn't say anything coz I am not a mother so while they continued on with the conversation a little longer, I just dismissed them. However, later on in the evening, I just wished them the same. I wanted to say something more like oh, you're like the chosen ones to be a Mother or being a Mother is a gift for you all but I didn't know how to quite word it, so I just went with the generic Happy Mother's Day to them, lol. When I went to the IG, there were nu...

Last weekend, I got caught up with two Japanese Manga comics online that had been translated into English. I actually watched the live action dramas before the Manga so I didn't have any expectation when I watched them like how some people would start to make the comparison. I actually enjoyed both much. Of course the Manga comics were more detailed in terms of the storyline and then would answer some questions I had in mind why the said characters were like that or do the things they did. It's actually hard to find the English translated ones but maybe cause of the increase in interest by non Native speakers, there were people who would painstakingly do the translations. But then there is another issue of the websites being dodgy with lewd advertisements that were in your face and I always have this fear they would have malware so better don't take the risk. Sometimes it can be a fruitless effort finding the hidden gem but once I got a hold of it, I would get sucked into ...

Hi there So we have entered a  new month which is May and yesterday was a public holiday in Singapore. It was Labour Day but it just felt like any other day, lol..coz I have been working from home since the week before. The only difference is that I don't have to open my work laptop and be logged on. And I also can go out even before 6 pm to buy food that is not the usual norms aka from the nearby mall, lol.  The Circuit Breaker (CB) which was supposed to end on the 04 May but extended to 01 June. So far, the situation has been improving though there are some breakers here and there, and for this week, the digit for local cases has been in a single number for almost every day, although the active testing of the foreign workers in dormitories were still in the hundreds range. On a personal level, I am slowly losing touch with my inner well being. I am feeling lost. This WFH routine, being cooped up at home all day and only going out to buy food and groceries. In other wo...