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I'm in the mood to keep upgrading my room decor, table set up, or just my general room aesthetics in general to better suit my activities and tastes. Haha. I'm really loving my new table from IKEA - it's so wide and I like having space to put my things now. Now... I just need a proper foot rest for my feet HAHAHA. Short legs always make me fold my legs when I sit, and I realize it tends to be a habit now. Like... I even fold my legs when I'm at my boyfriend's house eating dinner. At this point I think they're all used to it LOL but I might have just appeared rude last time HAHAHAH *cringes*

What can I do to take better care of myself eh?

Personally I do want to meal prep again so I know what foods and how much I'm nourishing my body with, but  it's not plausible with the work from home stint still going on. It will definitely come back into action once I'm back to the field permanently haha, or if I get another job lol.

I've been exercising quite regularly the past 2 months... until I received my COVID jab. It made me tired and lazy and my arm is still sore... But I'm thankful I decided to do a programme with Hsuen as my accountability partner. So last night I actually managed to drag myself through Day 6 - which happens to be a stretch. Just what I needed to get my workout back in action hehe.

My sleep schedule has also been on point recently... I think I did mention how bad my sleep schedule was in a few blog posts.. but with just a few days of resuming my alarms (all 6 of em) an additional morning calls from le boyfie - I can say that I'm back to being an early riser HAHAHA. It was easier than expected LOL.

I also want to read more to keep my mind active! Yesterday I started reading "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. I told myself to read at least 1 chapter a day, considering how short each chapters are. It's going well so far :) I wanted to read a non-fiction this month, as I've only been actively drowning myself in fiction for the past few months hahaha.

Lastly, I do want to explore my creativity to take care of my heart and soul. I don't want to let my passions die. I don't want it to become another "regret" in the future. So I want to be able to do things now,.. even if it's a little "ugly" or lacking in social media standards. I hope I keep it up though :) If I ever finish something, I might just post a flipthrough video HAHAHA.

And, to constantly talk to people daily :) I find myself slightly happier if I talk to people outside of the few I talk to daily. It's nice to be social!!

Hehe. Take care!!

Hello hello!

I'm actually... pretty tired today. I wasn't expecting my IKEA parcels to arrive so early in the morning. My sister and I ordered a table (for me), a bookshelf (for her), and a kitchen storage shelf (for mom). Guess who went into bob the builder mode the entire morning? Hahaha.

But thanks to that I now have a more spacious work space and a better sitting posture. My previous table wasn't very stable, and it wasn't wide enough to reach my bed (yes i sit on my bed, I don't have space for a table AND a chair hahah! So now that my table actually reaches my bed I can sit comfortable without hunching. Lol.

Now... back to today's journal prompt.

This is one place that has been forever sitting on my travel list, if COVID didn't happen and cause national borders to shut down, I would have travelled to ---> Japan!!!

It's my number one MUST VISIT DESTINATION. Like... I want to travel to almost every district and explore what they have to offer. Also for the sakura season and maybe some snow (that Malaysia obviously does not have), and festivals and gah - disney world and super mario world and more more more!!! Sometimes I wonder if it'll end up becoming a pipe dream lol. But I do want to make it happen within the next 5 years.

Another place I'd want to travel to would be Sabah and Sarawak! (Don't look at me like that!) Malaysia has it's own beautiful place to visit too! It's only hella expensive to travel there because we have to cross different air spaces as compared to travelling to Thailand, etc. But we all know that Sabah is the hidden Maldives of Malaysia hehehe. And I'm not all that willing to spend 5 digits worth of money for something similar and so near to me.

Also Australia! I've so many relatives there hahaha. I'd be nice to visit them while visiting the country as well. I went there once before, but it was for a dodgeball competition and since I was tight on my budget, I didn't really get to travel around much. This time I'd like to make it worth my time and money to go there! 

At the top of my head, those few locations are where I'd see myself travelling within the next 5 years. I do hope the borderes open up safely and everyone gets their vaccine done so we can travel with ease and feel protected at the same time. I wouldn't travel if the cases and infections rates are still high obviously... and I have no idea how well the airplanes are being maintained when not used for flying. I hope when they're back in action there won't be any casualties from... you know... being not taken care of or not being actively used etc.

I also just realized that this is journal prompt #27 out of 30 prompts in the series! You can refer here for the whole prompt list if you're interested to do it yourself. I'm actually quite happy I decided to do this, I get to write more, release my pent up thoughts and emotions, and discover some new things about myself.

Well, that's all for today! See ya!

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Two posts in one day HAHA this reminds me of old times where I'd spam a number of blog posts in a single day because I'd be so bored to do anything else aside from taking pictures and posting em with some cheesy captions or paragraphs HAHAHA.

So what hobbies would I like to try?

Geez. So similar to the previous post.

I really want to take watercolour painting more seriously. I really envy people who can produce such beautiful art when the brush touches the paper... also why I like to binge on time-lapse videos sometimes haha. I know it takes a lot of practise, but I always expect myself to produce good quality art all the time huhu. Such is the life of being influenced by social media :(

I also want to try journaling! That feeling of recording thoughts in pen and paper is very different from typing on a blog like this. I find that I can lash out all my emotions easier when I'm writing, be it angry writing or sad writing or happy writing. You get what I mean? Like angrily pressing your pen onto the paper when you're angry, writing super fast when you're excited and trying to not cry when penning painful thoughts, sometimes writing things down has it's way to make you feel better.

What other hobbies do I want to try?

At this point of time that's the only two things weighing on my mind hahaha. I wonder if I'll be able to get the ball rolling soon... I do have the supplies at hand.

But trying to do thing without having to "earn money" or "receiving likes" and etc...does make it difficult. The standards that society drives into you at this point in life... can be so scary. To the point that it makes one scared to even try.

Well...I'm still trying to lay off the after effects of the vaccine. I've pretty much only ingested liquids today (soups, sago desserts, more soup, etc) HAHAHA. Even water feels less than tasteless to me right now. It's like my body is just craving mgs and salt... if you get what I mean?

Hahaha good night!

Hello hello!

Sorry I skipped updating this yesterday. I took my vaccine jab in the morning and experienced chills and fevers from noon until night. I chucked a panadol and proceeded to enter the sleep of cold and chills -> hot and sweat -> headache / migrane -> more sweating -> nausea -> toilet visits -> looking for 100+ -> and more!!! I just woke up feeling so lembik and layu and just generally very weak and tired. Even while typing this I just want to go back to sleep...

But here's a few things that I'd love to learn: