BMPIL Writing Challenge - What I eat today

BMPIL Writing Challenge - What I eat today

Jun 23, 2021

I was planning to write this yesterday morning but since I'm having the day off, I thought that I can just wait until the day ended and then writes all about it. I forgot. haha.

So let's hope I'll write both yesterday's and today's challenge today. Here is the second topic of "Being More Present in Life Writing Challenge" - what I ate today.

I should've taken pictures, don't I? But it's okay, there's a reason why I keep using stock photos and it is because it easily fits into my blog's aesthetic and not because I'm too lazy.

I was having the day off, so I made a point to cook as I needed to finish whatever was left in the kitchen as much as possible before moving out of this house. I guess my current landlord is suffering some loss as she can't rent the rooms to students anymore and now focusing to rent the place as a whole house instead.

I remember waking up and wanted to drink a simple iced 3in1 coffee. I got Aik Cheong one as I kinda like it when I drink it at this Airbnb we went to before PKP starts again. I haven't bought 3in1 coffee for the longest time. I somehow grew to hate this one taste that I can't exactly pinpoint what but still there are times I simply crave one so I bought this remembering that I liked it well when I drank it there. This was one of those times. Also, I wake up feeling refresh too. Not as groggy as I have complained in my previous post.

I cooked some fries as well and that was my breakfast. I wasn't that hungry so I tidy up around the kitchen and also cooked some rice porridge. I literally just put stuff into the electric pot and leave it to cook. The rice porridge had an egg, sausages, carrots, daun sup and flavoured with ginger and those maggi cukup rasa seasoning. Then I had my so-called breakfast and continue to clean some more stuff in my room and also the bathroom. I took a shower afterward and I make another glass of that iced 3in1 coffee. It was around 2pm that I was decently hungry and ate that porridge. I have some A&W that I decided to just finish it while eating the porridge. It was left in the fridge for so long but I feel too guilty to just throw it away.

Then I went out to check out new places. One of them is at this serviced apartment. I love the idea of living in a service apartment but then I don't like the house. The pool looks so nice though. The other one is a landed two-story house that is so close to my work. I already paid a booking deposit for this one. 

I decided to get grilled corn as I was close by to this place that I always go but the corn was undercooked. It was so disappointing and just sad but I still finish it. On the way back, I have this nagging urge to get some more caffeine and decided to just get an iced Americano from Mcd. It was a Tuesday afternoon but there is still a long line and I think I finished a whole episode of Haikyuu waiting for my turn. I feel like I need to make use of the long waiting so I bought Yuzu Cream Cheese Pie as well. It was my first time eating it. The combination of yuzu and cream cheese is good but my days of eating fried pie have long gone now.

I went back home and ate the pie with the Americano while watching Jujutsu Kaisen. I loved this show so much and purposely watching it slowly cause I know I will hate it when I finish it and need to wait another year for a new season. I fried some more fries and have the leftover porridge as well for dinner. I don't finish the porridge but then my brother made a group video call and I tricked myself into slowly eating it while chatting with them. 

I really did drink three coffee in one day. 

In one day that was my day off.

BMPIL Writing Challenge - How today's morning look like before I went to work

BMPIL Writing Challenge - How today's morning look like before I went to work

Jun 21, 2021

 This is my first day of "Being More Present in Life Writing Challenge".

Since I am currently writing in the morning, I am going to tell you about how yesterday's morning went like. To start off, I actually went to sleep early. It has been forever that I actually feel tired enough to want to go to sleep. I didn't even watch Hotel Artemis halfway through as I got bored and played some games on my phone and felt really sleepy while playing it. I have to tell you guys about the game though. It was this cute shooting puzzle game called Hello BT21 which I stop playing when I change to my current phone. I just forgot about it I guess but I always love this one. It was just the right kind of hard and the characters are so cute. If I failed a stage they will make this disappointing sound and face and it was the cutest thing!

I've been wanting to get better sleep so I bought magnesium. It's a good supplement to help you sleep. It wasn't like I'm having insomnia but it was a bit hard for me to fall asleep and I didn't have much deep sleep too. I've been eating it for about a week now and I realized that I feel so groggy in the morning.  I didn't think it was the supplement because it wasn't supposed to act that fast. It still didn't help me much to actually feel sleepy and want to go to sleep but it was getting so annoying how groggy I feel in the morning. Yet I can't seem to find any other reason that might causing this so I'm taking the supplement earlier before bedtime to see if there's any difference.

I don't wake up super early or whatsoever but I love morning. Waking up feeling fresh and awake is just how I've been doing since forever. I hardly sleep in even on off days. So feeling groggy is so annoying for me. I even make sure to take my allergy medicine or dizziness medicines, the sleepy ones, hours before sleep so that I didn't feel too groggy when I wake up the next morning. 

Wow, this is some detailed explanation about grogginess but it is important!! #lol. It has affected few mornings and even affected my day as I feel sluggish until evening! Plus, it was the challenge pon and I did feel this way for the past mornings.

Anyway, back to "today's morning", I am still feeling groggy but a bit better probably because I went to sleep early. I woke up around 8am. I'm having my menses so I wake up later but this is still quite late because my body usually simply wakes up somewhere around 7.30am. I even forced myself to wake up or else the grogginess will make me fall asleep again. I wake up at 10am the day before for god sake!

I decided to go out and buy some nice fulfilling breakfast and do some grocery shopping. I usually just ate whatever I have at home or just coffee but I thought moving around and a big breakfast would help this grogginess. I ate nasi dagang with Frenche' Roast instant coffee that I added a teaspoon more coffee into it just to feel more awake. It helps a little as I do feel a bit more awake and not so sluggish at work but it is still so annoying because I usually feel activated when I get my morning coffee. 

I'm so into Frenche' Roast cold latte but specifically with HL milk and few cubes of ice. This is truly the invention of the year. The nasi dagang was perfect per usual. Some stupid and self-conscious story though. The two customers before me were speaking in Kelantan dialect with the seller and when it was my turn it went like "nasi dage sa? lauk ike?" and I don't want to sound stupid in Kelantan dialect, not when I'm this groggy, so I make sure to answer "haah, nasi dagang satu lauk ikan". I swear to god the seller look at me like confused or something for a good two seconds. The next customer was also speaking in Kelantan's dialect. How many Kelantanese are here anyway? 

When I went back into my car, I noticed that my tudung sarung's awning crumpled a bit like those kids who can keep the awning nice and perfect cause they were kids. I wonder if the seller actually notices that I was not fully awake.

It was Sunday. I usually have my off days on Sunday but since I'm training new staff, HR asked me to change my off days to weekdays instead. Jokes on them because somehow, this PKP shows an even reduced number of customers on weekends. It's maddening because learning about retail is mainly about how you attend to customers. This is better done by doing! I can't have them be "doing" much if I don't have customers in the first place. 

Since it was Sunday, I decided to simply wear this stripy t-shirt and black pants with a flower print shawl. Should have gone with square scarves actually. I have also defrost the chicken and half-cooked it so I can cook it quicker for dinner. I cooked dinner more often lately since pharmacy has to closed by 8pm. I've been postponing the chicken because I was too lazy to wait to defrost it. I decided to bring my laptop to work so that I can write if I got some free time but I forgot it on the dining table. Found a dead cat on my porch. I think the mother was this cat that we sometimes feed. I guess this is how she repays our kindness? I still didn't buried it. I guess I'll do it tonight. 

I left my porch gate's one side open because I don't feel like closing it and I have this feeling that I would hate to open it when I get back to work today. It was one of those days. It was opened inwards so I didn't really bother anyone. The housing area is gated and guarded so it was safe. But my housemate return to pick up her stuff and decided to close the gate properly so I still have to get out of the car, opened the gate, get into the car back and parked my car. 

Being More Present In Life Writing Challenge

Being More Present In Life Writing Challenge

Jun 19, 2021

Living alone and not being able to hang out with my friends kinda makes me feels detached from life. I went into work, went back home, eat something in between, sleep and repeat. Even sleeping feels surreal. Then during off days - trying my best to gather whatever left in sense of taking care of myself to do my laundry and tidy up around the house. I do make a point to do more cleaning around the house since finishing any cleaning-related task always makes me feel good.

So in the spirit of wanting to actually feel good, I have also been wanting to write random stuff daily just to get my writing's gear moving. Writing makes me feel good. I've always wanted to write random stuffs happening in my life just to get this sense of presence but when I'm actually on my laptop, I just blanked. To help me with that, a writing challenge is surely the best way to go. Not to mention that I also love reading this kind of writing. Sometimes I will do random blog-walking to find these kind of blogs that share their daily lives. This is actually the main reason that makes me stays in the blogging world.

However, since I can never find any decent writing challenge that I like - I'm making one for myself. It's going to be a 30 days challenge and it was meant to be written day by day. No skips whatsoever. Some of the topic will be repeated just to have some sense of comparison.

I'm loving this challenge so much alreadyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Notice - If I'm writing in the morning, then I'll write about the said topic that happened on the previous day. If you want to do this but you're not a working person, just change it to whatever thing you're doing currently. Like if you're just staying at home, just change it to what did you do at home today. The main idea is simply to be more connected to your daily life.

Day 1 - How today's morning looks like before going to work?

Day 2 - What did you eat today? Do you like it?

Day 3 - What did you do at work today?

Day 4 - Three words to describe your current job

Day 5 - My current Netflix's watching list

Day 6 - A detailed explanation of how your night went - by the hour

Day 7 - Your current morning drink

Day 8 - A recap of the last three days outfits

Day 9 - Any fictional characters crush? Discuss!

Day 10 - Phone check! Whatsapp wallpaper, phone's wallpaper and phone's lock-screen. Why did you choose those?

Day 11 - Check your Instagram and tells a recap about 10 latest IG stories from peoples you've followed

Day 12 - Current skincare products used

Day 13 - How today's morning looks like before going to work and compares it with Day 1

Day 14 - Any good thing you've been doing for the environment

Day 15 - How grocery shopping looks like for you?

Day 16 - Shares us three of your most played playlist (either Spotify or Youtube) that you 

Day 17 - Your last day out before PKP restart again

Day 18 - What did you do at work today?

Day 19 - Throwback your academic background - put some insight on how you remember yourself back then

Day 20 - Your favorite desserts/snacks - include favorite shop or brand

Day 21 - All about laundry

Day 22 - Your current monthly bills - DON'T SHARE HOW MUCH IT ACTUALLY COST, just tells what it is

Day 23 - What's in my bag and my car #lol

Day 24 - A recap of the last three days outfits

Day 25 - A short review of the last three movies you've watched

Day 26 - Ten public Twitter's account you've followed - you can choose who you want to tell about and tell us why you followed them

Day 27 - Your favorite singer/band - go madly in love

Day 28 - Hair care!

Day 29 - What did you eat today?

Day 30 - How are you feeling after writing all of these?

Roll On: Me in 5 Words

Roll On: Me in 5 Words

Dec 30, 2016

This is also an entry for a not so writing challenge I am doing (check out the label).

Me in five words is quite challenging. 

"All flawed but deeply awesome"

Gotta have that awesome word. I don't actually understand or realize since when I have been branding myself with the word awesome. 

For real though, some of my friends would refer me to the word awesome as if it is my second name. Not that I am actually that awesome.

Do you have any word you use to brand yourself? 

Roll On: The Not So Writing Challenge

Roll On: The Not So Writing Challenge

Dec 17, 2016

Hey, my last entry was titled as according to this not so writing challenge. It is not really a writing challenge since the questions were meant to be answered quickly, not into an essay. But somehow, I kinda like the idea into making some of the questions into a full entry of my blog. 

The questions are meant to prompt the reader to question their current life stance. It was suppose to be this meditation thingy which you can read more here but for my sake, just treat it as some sort of writing prompt.

1. What are the things that stand between you and complete happiness?

2. What will people say at your funeral?

3. Standing at the gates of heaven, and God asks you “Why should I let you in?” What do you reply?

4. If you lost everything tomorrow, whose arms would you run into to make everything ok?

5. Does this person know how much they mean to you? When was the last time you told them?

6. If you could send a message to the entire world, what would you say in 30 seconds?

7. If you received enough money to never need to work again, what would you spend your time doing?

8. If today was the last day of your life, what would you want to do?

9. What would you change about your life if you knew you would never die?

10. If your entire life was a movie, what title would best fit?

11. How would you describe yourself in 5 words?

12. What are the chances you’ve passed up on that you regret?

13. How do you apply the learning from this regret to your actions today?

14. What would you do differently if you knew that no one was judging you?

15. If you could watch everything that happened in your life until now, would you enjoy it?

16. If you could ask a single person one question, and they had to answer truthfully, who and what would you ask?

17. If you could start over, what would you do differently?

18. When you’re 90 years old, what will matter most to you in the world?

19. Are you holding onto something that you need to let go of? What’s stopping you?

20. Would you break the law to save a loved one?

21. Do you ask enough questions, or are you happily settling for what you know already?

22. How do you celebrate the things you do have in your life?

23. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you have done?

24. When was the last time you tried something new?

25. What were you doing when you last lost track of the time?

26. What is the difference between living and existing?

27. If you had a friend that you spoke to the same way you speak to yourself, how long do you think that person would allow you to be your friend?

28. If you had to teach someone one thing, what would you teach?

29. What makes you smile?

30. What drives you to do better at something?

31. What do you really love to do? Do you do it often? If you answer no, why not?

32. What can you do today that you couldn’t do a year ago? What will you be able to do at this time next year?

33. What is the last thing that you’ve done that’s really worth remembering?

34. What gets you excited and driven to achieve?

35. When was the last time you travelled somewhere new?

36. What do you want most out of life?

37. If karma was coming back to you, would it help or hurt you?

38. If you could go back in time, once, and change a single thing – what would it be?

39. If you had a year left to live, what would you achieve over the next 12 months?

40. If you could ask for one wish, what would it be?

41. What do you “owe” yourself?

42. When you think of your home, what immediately comes to mind?

43. How do you spend the majority of your free time? Why?

44. What did you want to be when you were a kid?

45. What have you done to pursue your dreams lately? How about today?

46. What terrifies you the most?

47. What are you looking forward to?

48. Describe the greatest adventure of your life

49. Where would you like to live? Why haven’t you moved?

50. What have you done that you’re most proud to have achieved?

51. If you dropped everything to pursue your dreams, what would you be risking?

52. What is your greatest strength?

53. What is your greatest weakness?

54. What did your life teach you yesterday?

55. What have you done today to make someone’s life better?

56. Whose life have you had the greatest impact on?

57. What makes you special?

58. How many people do you truly love? What are you doing for them?

59. What bad habits do you want to break?

60. When did you not speak up, when you know you really should have?

61. Describe the next five years of your life, and your plans, in a single sentence

62. If you spend a day watching movies when you should be working a day wasted or well spent?

63. Would your life be better or worse, if you knew the time and place where you would die?

64. What is honor, and does it even matter anymore

65. Would you be a martyr and risk your reputation by standing up for what is right in front of your peers? Or is it better to be pragmatic and do nothing?

66. Could you be persuaded to kill someone? If you answer no, how much money would it take to change your mind?”

67. What would happen if you never wasted another minute of your life, what would that look like?

68. Would you rather have 10 years of excellent health, or 30 years of average health?

69. Is being open-minded a virtue, if it’s causing destructive ideas to spread throughout society?

70. Do you consider yourself the hero or the villain in your story?

71. How much control do you really have over yourself?

72. When did you last push the boundaries of your comfort zone?

73. What have you given up on?

74. Who are you really? Describe yourself without using your name, or any attributes given to you by society and really think. Deep down, who are you?

p/s: I have reached 80k!