"Living Each Single Day"

Hi Im back! Actually I want to start writing regularly but the year didn't start off well for me. Sometimes I find that I am falling down the rabbit hole but I am slowly trying to find my way out of it. I had a small bout with a nasty cough. Ok actually, it was pretty bad because I lost my voice at one time, lol. I could barely speak and if I could, it would come out super hoarse.  I realise that I haven't taken much action in my life, like as though all those 'goals and aspirations' just flew out of the window barely two weeks into January. When I had to move on to the next checkpoint to learn more new Spanish words and sentences, there was a test to be done that would not tell you the score, whether you are right or wrong, but it would determine if you get to move on to the next stage. It was hard. I could barely answer the first few questions and I wanted to give up. It was like I knew those words and phrases but I just couldn't make them out. Because I ...

Happy New Year! I have been writing on this blog for years. But my style of writing changes over the years. I still enjoy writing, and write almost every day though nowadays, I mostly write in a journal where I get to decorate the pages and stuffs and I can also share about more things. To be honest, I wouldn't want to read my posts from way back then because it kinda showed my level of immaturity, lol. Sometimes I tried to act smart but well, I didn't think I was, haha. I thought I wanna change my style of writing but I think I just do what I do best. Sharing stories, interesting reads or things I have watched and perhaps, we can learn a thing or two from them. I am no motivational writer but if I can share things that will be useful in our lives, then I wouldn't hesitate. It's still a personal blog overall so come in and just enjoy the read, and hopefully I don't offend anyone in the process. If I do, please do forgive me! Last weekend, I went to ...

It's interesting to get to know how different people lead their lives. Some are doing well in life, some barely coping and there are also some who lead such unbelievable lives, and the envy of many people who can only dream to have even an inch of what they have. Everyone's motivation in life is different. What works well for one family may not be as such for another one. In social media, people mostly try to show their better side, often curated lives and of course they won't show the behind the scenes where they bust their a** hustling, working from one client to another and through late nights. Even if what they perceived to be vlogging a 'day in their life', which is like a video diary of what they do for that day, they may only choose to show perhaps less than half of what they normally do. During this Christmas season, I actually used to enjoy watching this series on Youtube called Vlogmas, a daily or weekly style of vlogging by people who don...

Talk about 'essentialism'..haha...use the lights sparingly Lately, I watched a video about how the book on Essentialism impacted her life when she read the book in the past but when she went to Korea, it kinda went out the window and she started to buy many many things that caught her fancy. So it made her feel guilty because she spent a lot on things. Her husband, on the other hand, was a more careful spender and tried not to buy a lot in Korea. And he can use the same thing for many months, let's say a pair of shoes, until it had holes and instead of buying a new pair, sent those shoes for repair. Someone I followed on IG, had a posting on her shoes, which was the only pair she had been using for the past 2 years. It started to have a hole that got bigger and bigger and the soles were totally worn off that she often slipped. One day, her friend, whom she had been using as a pillar of support like literally, just had enough of her slipping and sliding especially n...

Happy 1st December! So I try to write as regularly as I can..not online though, but most of the time, it's through my journal. Though I have been writing for many years, on and offline, and starting to get a little more regularly recently, I guess it's just my way of telling my personal life stories, as mundane as some days can be. Why? Because I want to have a sense of purpose in life and to feel human with the various emotions like anger, sadness..fair share of disappointment and happiness. To make this life more meaningful with insights and stories I've learnt and to be more reflective. Currently, I am subscribed to three things. At one point, I kinda think that I am overwhelming myself like as if I don't have enough bills to pay, lol. They are monthly subscriptions to a planner kit, a self care kit and Netflix. For the planner kit, I get quite a generous amount of stickers, papers, a pen and some special things that the company owner and designer had come up with....

Last Thursday, I was sick. But I wasn't terribly sick like I could barely stand or walk, well almost. I don't know why the stomach pains I encounter come on every few months and I don't know if this is out of habit of me not eating for several hours a day, longer if it is after 2pm til it's 7 plus in the evening. It's not some kind of fad diet. I can never do one of those keto diets. It can guarantee weight loss, most def, but it's not something that I feel that the body can sustain once you are off this kind of diet. Same goes with extreme exercise routines, not for the overall well being but to lose weight fast. But it's a good start, especially for many people who have been on poor diets due to lifestyle or eating habits which then cause them physical pain even over simple task like say, walking a certain short distance or climbing up the stairs that result in breathlessness that they just keel over. This stomach ache wasn't as bad as the first on...

I've had a series of bad luck recently when it comes to my side income of making handmade cards and mini photo albums. It's not that I am losing customers but more like, losing money not because of I lack customers but rather, these customers lack empathy over someone's hard work, time and effort.  The often situation is that I would have shown them the pics that the cards or mini albums have been done. These are the explosion boxes that take considerable amount of time and effort to make because within the box, there are 8 panels and also two or four of the panels, will have the pull out tab each. That means, it has this mechanism to pull and a series of 4 mini photos will cascade down. I would have shown the picture but I'm currently too upset to even look up for one, lol. As for the mini album, it's a 6 inches and 10 pages picture album done in the style of scrapbooking with photos and decorations. For each page, I have to creatively design the layout and ...