Final week of Puasa 2026

Morning lovely people,

scheduled post but not a recap. Life update. sorta...

its the 25th day of puasa already and I know from the moment aku terskip creating schedule posts during my Singapore trip that I will be missing a few more. and that made me almost start neglecting this blog again.

Why? coz I feel like I fail. Fail in posting the same amount of posts in February as I did back in January and now it's impossible to naikkan the number of posts for March as we are already half way thru the month. Failing again. 

But I told myself, I can't be quitting every time I break a streak (aka making scheduled post daily). It's ok to not post daily when time is limited or when I simply can't make time to compose a post. It's ok. let's treat it as taking a break from writing instead. It's ok. time puasa tah lagi. Yang tani simply don't have time kan buat barang lain; tidur aher (ani salah sendiri lol) lapas tu kan bangun sahur lagi, lapas tu kan kraja lagi. balik kraja sudah pukul berapa. sungkai. lapas to, repeat. No time man. 

Priorities change buat masa ani and I think I need to learn to not be so hard on myself. 

after this post, I might missed a few more posts but I'll to get back to it after puasa / during raya.

my Bob 💖

Juwapapeteried

- Juwapaperterie purchases - 

a local shop owned by a fried of mine - newly found friends during the pandemic. We share the love of talking about Brunei history 😉

2025 was the year where I was obsessing over Lollipop charms and the one she brought in was the exact shapes that I like so I bought a few.

and then she started a rope keycharm rings recently and I bought a couple.

cumil kan? I love my color choice!

Kadang2 you wanted more but 1. mesti stick to your budget, 2. banyak2 keychain, lapas tu inda tau dmana lagi kan put 😝

I mean I did managed to control my buying impulses from her shop but when I browsed Temu, I can't stop myself and start thinking what I want her to create for me LOL. 

Tapi yang banarnya, most of the time, I only suka looking at them pretty keychains; the charms, the beads combo, the color combo, the works.  That is why semua yang di temu i add in cart remain in the cart; I just can't justify buying them plus even if aku just 'bali saja', I wouldn't know dmana lagi kan gantung. 🤷‍♀️

besides, I have so many keychains that I have accumulated over the years; from my travels, souvenirs from orang lain punya travel, alum lagi the one yang aku bali sendiri. Aku lagi yang payah-payahan kan let go barang. like dam. They could last me a life time if I'm not careful 

or maybe, just maybe, I have a problem..💃

Anyway, sharing this here so that maybe you can go and check out my friends cute shop.

You can find her on IG juwapapeterie

#littletrinketsofhappiness

My first ever Shabab Planner and PlannerAna

and possibly my last 🤣

I preordered the Shabab Planner from Anafeebn in Nov 2024. ETA was delayed until Jan 2025.

the inside of this planner is very full of colors; mine is more of earth colors. Each month, ada Goals prompt, Monthly Check-In, Religious tracker (Fasting, sunat prayers, all good deeds etc), Monthly reflections, and weekly at the bottom of the page, ada Drink Water tracker.

all sound so good right? only issue was I didn't reach for this planner at all. I just didn't feel like opening it. Kan cakap I didn't like it, inda jua. I actually enjoyed the prompts. I guess it was just not my thing. 

I did try treating it as a junk journal instead. Nah, didn't work either.

So, by end of 2025, I barely touched the thing. Ovvy, I have to let it go.

Yang cali nya, with that experienced, I went and joined preorder with Anafee again - for Planner Ana on 3rd Oct 2025 and received the planner set by end of Oct 2025.

SO pretty in real life.

as of drafting this post (4th Feb), plannernya inda bepakai, calendernya masih inda prop open, only the Planning Chart saja pakai properly.

My solution for the planner was to bawa saja ke opis to use there since opis did not provide us with 2026 planner for the first time ever! I feel the planner will be of use there amin! sayang yo bali and inda fill in. Kan dated planner ani bukan dapat pakai for next time.

As for the calender, I think I'm gonna have it open somewhere other than my study table coz I already have one there (my fav calender from Brunei Press).

Point of this story is that please jangan bali lagi for next year! Please! the 2026 one was actuallly my third time buying them. the first time was for 2024. Atu sama jua tu, inda berapa bepakai.

So yeah, for next year, bali tah sja Planning Chart nya. Hopefully ada kana jual just that. Paling-paling pun , ada set combo yang hanya jual Planning Chart and Planner (for office use, just in case no planner provided again for 2027).

Stationery Market

I am glad I came across Juwapapeterie coz without her, I wouldn't know there was a Stationery community here in Brunei.

I know I went to a few in 2025 but I'm gonna share the first one I went to for 2025.

Ok, first picture. It says Hobby Market 3.0 not 'Stationery'. Inda sama but same vibe, kalau hobby nya stationery, termasuk lah jua dalam market ani coz Stationery related seller also joined this event. Please keep that in mind so that inda terconfuse.

as always, taking a picture coz it will last longer.

Done by Jen. I bought some of this collection. Third time buying from this creator.

my purchases that day

to date, still don't know what to to with these charms LOL masa bali atu, I only thought, "ada tah nanti tu" 🤭

Most times, I ended up buying too much stickers from these events. pasal atu paling affordable ($1 for 10pcs). ahahah mind you, banyak items yang kana jual ani 'beharga'. Handmade are understable lah ahh..and most times I can justify the pricing and bought a few. 

But other times, you know barang yang kana jual atu you also can get from Shein/Temu/Aliexpress and seeing those things kana jual dengan mahalnya membuat kan you wonder, support local or bali sendiri? you know.. I'm only talking about seller yang resale barang yang the bought from somewhere else ni ahh..not handmade seller..

I do still bali from reseller coz I learned from the Pandemic that yeah maybe bali online murah but that would take a while to arrive to you, and if you bali now from this local seller with this price you will get it in your hands right away. 

So that's how my brain goes when supporting locals. Nothing personal. Becoz its our money as a consumer and we have rights to not buy things that are out of our budget or ridiculously priced. that. is. all.

2025 Cover Page Theme

2025 recap number 4

I dont think I was creating many this year too.

and I was right. I only made 2;

January

February

I was really proud of my Feb theme; Baymax x Cookies. best combo ever. too bad i didn't fill in the trackers. coz that would be awesome - kinda like drizzling frosting on the cookies.

We are now in Feb 2026 and I have not created any cover page yet thus far. I wanted to but I guess, I need to clear my head first and to do that I need to clear my entire room. I have cleared a section and I still have 3 sections to go. The progress is a bit slow this time around but I guess, a progress is still a progress.

Besides, I am compensating the monthly cover page theme with posting on my blog again. I am happy with this progress coz I have posted a lot. 

I also started on a new journal this year and I have fill in a few entries. #Progress

One step at a time. I'm doing what I can with the time I had left. No need to rush and cramped everything all in one go. Chill~