Studio Ghibli

Finally~!

I finally get to watch more Studio Ghibli movies.

The first was Spirited Away.

my first and I love.

and second, The Secret World of Arrietty.

Saoirse voiced Arrietty. I like this one. it reminds me of Thumbelina.

Third, Kiki's Delivery Services.

I really wanted to like this one but I can't. 

Fourth, Howl's Moving Castle

becoming my second fav.

and Fifth, My Neighbor Totoro.

erm. Totoro's noise is unsettling. I don't care if he supposed to be cuddly and ish.

I think I heard Dakota Fanning voice in the female character lead voice. for the Eng dub btw. I haven't bothered to Google to confirm.

Yes, I watched them in English dub. you know how lazy I can get with watching anything with English sub.
Although, I'm re-watching Howl's Moving Castle in its original dub with English subs. I just wanted to know how different the feels going to be. So far, I'm impressed. but in my opinion, the Japanese dialogue makes more sense?

I think at some point, I'm reading too much into these movies. and judged too hard. These are beloved by many and I'm being critical. dam. I need to chill. am I the only one yg need to take a breather and broaden my mind before watching anything coz If I don't, I become so salty? Just me?

Anyway, what I like to focus on a lot to was the graphics, the designs, the feels in these movies. They are very exaggerated but it fits? am I explaining this right? pokoknya, I love the colors! its 2D but it felt real? I don't know how else to express it. its just cool. I enjoyed that part in all the movies.

and from there, I felt motivated to write again.

That's one of the reason why I wanted to share this; I just wanted to share that I'm motivated to write my story again. 
I haven't properly start the 'writing' part but I'm getting clearer things on what I want my storyline to be like. In my head. 
All thanks to these movies. Each one of them has different environment/world and the way they were laid out in the movie helped me laid out my own. It's refreshing and I can't wait to share my first chapter on AsianFanfics.Com. All I need to do now is to just start writing. LOL


What other movie from Studio Ghibli I should watch next?


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my BuJo Mar & Apr Theme

I thought I've shared my March 'cover' theme. rupanya not yet.

here they are.

March

April

again, these are inspired by AmandaRachLee's. 

The March one was pretty easy and I was so happy with my color theme. I also love the idea of using only four pages for the spread. I mean, for me lah ah. Since I only wanted to do the cover, calender, mood and habit trackers. 

April was a bit challenging. It took me two nights to finish. The first night I was stressing out and was being so meticulous. Then on the second night, I just 'wing it!'. and I thought to myself, "if only I 'wing it' kemarin I could've finished earlier" lol.

That's the thing about doing this 'BoJu' theme thing; it made me wanna push myself into doing something that I thought I can't do. 

For example, I can't really draw or sketch and when I try, I always ended up stressing about it. but the next thing I do (if I really wanted to do some drawing), I told myself to calm down and just draw. and that usually do the trick! I usually ended up with better drawing/sketch than I expected. 

but too bad I don't listen to my own advise. LOL

ah well.

I wonder what's Amanda's May theme gonna be.

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Starry Night

Suho released his 1st mini album, Self-Portrait, on 30th Mar 2020.

and it made remember why I appreciate his vocal. Please be reminded that he was in musical theater production before. To me, being in a musical theater production proves you have a vocal prowess.

anyhoo, 

in his album, there's a song with the title Starry Night.

I'm freaking out becoz I was starting with my Pretty Little Liars again, the first book from the fourth and final arch, Crushed, and I just finished the chapter (spoiler alert!!) where Aria stole the Starry night painting. like! *GASPPPPPPP what a coincident!

but after that I was like, "nyeh"

ANOTHER coincidence! I had my music playing on my phone at that time and the next few song after Suho's Starry Night was BoA's Starry Night. and I thought, "Whats with SM and Starry Night eh?"

and then much much later, 
came Onew's 밤과 별의 노래 (Starry Night), from SM Station released, a duet with Lee Jin Ah.

like, whaaaaaaaaa

hahaha I don't know I'm making such a big deal out of this but I guess I'm a true 00s kid who grew up watching MTV. There was once a set where they played 3 videos back to back becoz all three videos have one thing in common. eg: Laundry machine place. and this is exactly what I'm doing right now: 3 songs with similar title. all under SM Ent. LOL

but I was mostly excited about that crazy coincidence between Suho's Starry Night and PrettyLittleLiar's Crushed.

to end, here's the three song mentioned:

Suho - Starry night



BoA - Starry Night



Onew and Lee Jin Ah - 밤과 별의 노래 (Starry Night)




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my favorite color

Hi!

proper greetings this time. 👋🏼

took me a while to start this one coz I was checking whether I have made this kind of post before or not. but couldn't find anything on it. So, here we are.

...30 years laterr...
I found the post. I mentioned my 3 favorite color in here. I'm afraid I'm gonna contradict myself about how Purple isn't Male-related LOL.

My favorite color. hmm 🤔 It goes from liking Lime Green, to Colors, to Purple, to Orange, then to Mint, then anything Pastel, then Yellow. I mean, I don't know how people can have just one favorite color.

The reason why I have so many is becoz, back in high school, I remembered feeling very envy with other friends; they be buying cute items from this Knic Knac shop with their favorite color and i couldn't buy any coz they didn't have that cute thing in my favorite color, Lime Green. Apparently, Green isn't a color for a girl?
I think from that moment on, I try looking for my next favorite color, you know, just in case the no.1 color isn't available.
WHO MADE THE RULE TO ONLY BUY SOMETHING IN YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? AND KALAU NADA YOUR FAVORITE COLOR, YOU KENOT BUY? WHO?!

but that was before. I'm all grown up now and have a shopping problem. BHAHAHAAHA

sigh

anyway, my favorite colors. Lets discuss.

Pink

90s Power Ranger. Pink Ranger. Kimberly. oh how I love pink ranger! but I have to mengalah with my cousin, and ended up liking Yellow Ranger. coz she the other female ranger.
Then fast forward to high school. oh how I hate pink. coz a classmate was sooo minat Pink that everything she owned was pink. argh. but I guess I was just jealous LOL coz I wasn't 'supported' to buy whatever I want.
That was then. Now I like pink. in pastel. coz its prettier. rose gold is another shade of pink and is prettier.

Light / Lime Green

ok. this one is funny. I only like it coz I was following my sister. this is also during my highshool period. I remember she had all her stationery and books' wrap in that Lime Green color. and I was following everything she did. coz I always want to be my sister. *cue Ashlee Simpson - Shadow. LOL I think I was in that Lime Green phase during Form 5, Lower and Upper Six.
I stopped liking it tho.
but now I'm accepting it again.
coz

NCT!

Purple

This was when I began understanding that favorite color is supposed to be your own. and I remember thinking, what can I buy that represent Harry Potter? This was before the existent of Pottermore and its House Sorting. At that time I, as everybody else's too I'm sure, a Gryffindor, which is red but I don't want that to be my favorite color, so I rack my brain and came up with purple coz in book 1, Dumbledore was wearing a Purple robe.
LOL
still one of my favorite color now but the only reason i avoided it, if I can help it is becoz I don't like seeing one color in my wardrobe.

Orange

Onew. I wasn't able to buy official merchandise and I was looking for things that I can relate to Onew. and he was one of the MC on a show and his 'jacket' was orange color (other MCs were wearing diffent color from each other too). so orange.
I seldom choose this color nowadays.

Mint

SHINee World. Official merchandises are expensive as fuck. Suho mentioned recently, "capitalism". dam right it is. anyway, Instead of crying over that official SHINee phone case I can't afford, I ended up buying one that is just SHINee color.
still my favorite now. Its funny, coz this color is associated with 'aesthetic' stationery color for some reason. hence, easier to get my hands on. 👍🏼

Yellow

Now, this is from Pottermore. I was sorted once before (not Pottermore) into Ravenclaw but that was before I started picking colors that have some relation to my favorite things. Ravenclaw is blue by the way. So, Pottermore sorted me into Hufflepuff. My initial feeling was 'so I'm not a Gryffindor worthy' but soon after I'm like HASHTAG HOUSEPRIDE BITCHESSS! lol again, official merchandises are expensive as fucckkk and instead of stressing over that, I bought color that associates with my house color. Yellow.
THANK GOD for primark and online seller! #youthemvp
come to think of it, I once choose yellow coz Onew wore yellow jacket twice. Yes, i'm that crazy. hahaha

Peach 🍑

this is definitely becoz of that Ice Peach tea drink. I don't know what Peach the fruit real color is. I don't think it as pink as the emoji indicates. but I like that color. I think this is the pink that makes me like pink again. Then, I bought the Too Faced Sweet Peach Pallette. then that Nivea Delicious Drop Peach&Vanilla flavor lipbalm. then Jaehyun.

BONUS:

Red

*cue Taylor Swift - Red
LOL this one is the most random. I only ever pick this color when I'm buying gadget or its accessories. I know it started with that Sony Ericson w760 Walkman I once had. It wasn't entirely red but it accent was. I bought my sony viao, back then, in red coz it matched with my phone. I wanted to buy a red car just so it matched my phone and laptop. I didn't get to tho.
Now, I owned red laptop and a red car. but really, not becoz its my favorite. I can't put this color in my favorite list actually. Red color is more sentimental to me. My dad used to have a red car. Hmm.. I think that is why. That second last sentence, honestly, just pop up to the top of my head. huh



There ya go. What's behind the color that I pick.
but if you see me picking up color that is not in this list, its becoz its the only nice color that I can pick. Why my color not being there stop me from picking it up/ buying the thing, right? If you needed it, you just gonna deal with the color choices the kadai provides. 😜

What's your color story?

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Sepot lokal katanya

So, I came across a post on my explore page; someone video-ing in a car and showing a place I know well. being the curious cat that I am, I went and clicked on it.

I can't share the video here tho. not relevant. I just want to share my thoughts on another post; an IGTV post.

Anyway, after understanding the video post (the person, a male, owner of an online shop, showing people thru that video, di mana his physical shop is) I went on and browse his IG and I came across an IGTV post he made.
In that post, he was thanking people for their patient and understanding. Apparently his previous IG kena hacked and the one I came across with is his new one. In that video, he also said something along the line "mungkin ada hikmahnya" upon mentioning losing his 32k followers from his previous IG.

He said maybe 'hikmah'nya;

•  He found out who his real friends are - coz he asked his friends to help promote his new IG. some did. some didn't. "Kawan jenis apa tu cematu atu?"
•  "apa ada 32k followers?" He said. He also mentioned something about not getting the same amount of likes as the amount of followers he had.
•  He mentioned about 60% of his sale come from online sales. What he wanted for this new IG is followers who are buyers. not follow 'saja2' or 'stalker' or 'haters'.

Why am I even talking about this, I hear you ask?

Well...not my problem but I'm gonna speak my mind anyway.

1.  I applaud him for calling out his 'fake' friend but I feel like for someone like him, an owner of a business shouldn't be calling out people like that on his business IG post.
2.  I don't think number of likes on your IG post matter unless you want to know what people like or don't.
3.  Regarding him wanting only 'buyers' as his followers. This is the one point that triggered me the most. He want only buyers yg follow ia? maybe ada urg sebulan sekali membali beg (he sale mostly bag) but I dun think the same 1000 followers buy a bag every month.

Continuing from point no. 3.

with the way the IG algorithm is doing, I think he shouldn't be saying things like 'I only want buyers' to follow him. I mean, I didn't follow his previous IG shop but I still see his post thanks to IG algorithm thing. Buyers or not buyers, any follower is a good thing. You know how sometime you see a post, clicked on it, and found out, a friend that you follow actually liked that post and you understood why you are seeing that post in the first place? yeah. To me, that's like a free promo. and isn't that good for business? 

He mentioned the number of likes doesn't match his number of followers. but! does the same 1000 accounts like each photo he posted every time? 

All I'm saying, any type of followers matter. any amount of likes matter. I just don't like the way he dismissed them.

another point, not everyone yang follow a shopping account is there to buy. Some times, people follow to dream. Maybe they can't afford it yet. Maybe it took them longer to be able to afford it. so you dismissing your 'non-buyer' followers would hurt their feelings and you just lose a potential customer.

Yeah, you must be thinking, "Sorang jua saja. No big deal". you are wrong. 

I didn't even follow you before but from the way you were posting that, I can't look at your pretty bags without feeling judged by you and I don't think that's a nice feeling to have when you shop. LOL

I am, in no mean, an expert dalam dunia business but as someone yg work in a business environment, public presentation is important. Nothing is personal in Business. even when it is personal. "Business as usual" is the term.

Sigh. 

I think I bought a bag from his shop dulu. a harrod handbag. I think its the same shop at his first physical shop. I think lah ah..nama atu kan sama. I could be wrong tho.

Anyway,

I know this seems petty and irrelevant. ESPECIALLY I didn't even follow his previous account and I came across his new one by accident. and just that one time!

haahahah

I guess its becoz, I really don't like it when business account complaint so much about their customer. Fussy customer this. Fussy customer that. Dah lumrah business jual beli cematu, kan cemana tah lagi? Kalau kan komplen, arah personal IG. 

Not very nice lehh. Not very professional to be complaining about your customer in your business account. the word business alone made you feel like you have to be proper, no?

I unfollow/blocked some local and non-local business punya account just becoz they posted ONE post about some 'fussy' customer. I even blocked the one yg i never follow coz for some reason their post keep popping up and I hate seeing their face on my explore page. LOL.

Point is! BE PROFESSIONAL! Business account is for business. even if its the business customer yang 'testing', be graceful about it. Yeah, some times its nice to call people out (example, like that one influencer who requested to stay at a Dublin hotel for free) but come on. How to 'support local' like this? Aku balum follow but he already calling me out for not going to be a 'buyer' follower? 

ah well. I hope he learned to be more 'graceful' or 'classy' when it comes to customer related subject. better yet, delete that IGTV post. You can go about telling people about your new account without bringing other people down.

🤷‍♀️

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