Barbie Craze

2025 Recap number 10.

Below was from Miniso. Laik, cumil..bakal saja aku at that point telampau bnyk butul sudah. LOL but that earpiece aku nyasal inda bali.

ada lagi satu earpiece atu I saw di Miri as well as di Singapore, inda jua ku bali. Menyesal.

not my picture

there were also cultery set tapi tin tempat simpan saja yang Barbie printed while the spoon and fork kana engraved Barbie words.

Not my picture

I don't think I bought any Barbie related things from Miniso. I don't think. oh! I did! Masa di KL, kipas!

not my picture. I bought the one yang macam on the right.

So atu saja yang ku bali lah from this collection. Atu pun nasib ada warna favorite. 😊 

Once again, take a picture it'll last longer. Just becoz you like it and want it, it's ok kalau inda baliand just admire from afar 😂

the Polene era

and aku pun terjebak wawawa

So, Polene. Its a brand that aku baru pernah dangar at least taun 2024 when my sister bought her first Polene Cyme. I find the shape very nice. ganya the only thing I don't like was the opening; no zip, just one middled magnet closure. One mishap and all the items inside the bag will be out of the bag.

It wasn't until it became popular among influencers that I thought, 'you know, maybe I can buy one' since ada versi damit. 

So I went and preOrder arah cLondonHighStreet. Tapi by the time ku preOrder atu, harga bag atu naik sudah huhu 💸💸 I ordered in Apr and received it in Jul (coz I chose yg monthly installment).

mine on the left and my sister's on the right.

I also have this one bag from Hermes that I've always like the shape of. I don't know what its call, I just know I could not afford it yet 😄

cumil kan the shape? very corporate. LOL

maybe next time 😝.

Onew's first Season Greetings 2025

2025 recap number 7.

Onew's first season's greetings as a solo artist.

I almost didn't buy the thing but since the theme was Chess/checkers, I couldnt pass on that. 

but once again, I didn't make full use of it. So this will be my first and last season's greetings from solo artist Onew. It's a waste to buy the next one if I'm not gonna use it. Cukup2 lah membali tapi inda pakai.

SHINee under SM also released a 2026 Season Greetings. it reminded me of aespa's 2nd Mini Album.

Almost pre-ordered but I know I'll just have one too many. So I didn't.

*few minutes in* I thought Onew has 2nd Season's Greetings but when I Googled for it, it says 'Jinggu' and I feel like atu bukn it? It did say Season's greetings.

So I research balik arah his personal IG, Onew Griffin's, as well as his company's IG, nada. So, now I'm not sure if it really exist or not. or if it exists only untuk Jinggu membership thingy.

So anyways, I almost preOrdered but like I said, barely use the 2025 ones, so it will be a waste if aku bali jua 2026 atu.

I guess I'm just gonna enjoy them online. Coz as always, 'take apicture, it'll last longer'.

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~

hi I'm back!

hii..I'm back!

Back from belayar ahaha I tried to create scheduled posts for that period but I was too busy before belayar atu and only tebuat one for 16th Feb. 

So here we are..

Ovvy today punya is not scheduled but the following one will be.

brief updates:

1. Today is already the 3rd day of puasa.

2. I'm using a new keyboard woohoo..previously I used the one I bought for office.

3. I finally found where I put my Airpod 4 casings. I was looking for it for at least half a day! 

4. Finally turned on and tried this 'gamers' speaker that I won from finishing 20 hours of online training di opis.

Below are pictures I just took especially for this post:

the speaker. very shiny!

the new keyboard.

a new mouse! pulsar x Demon Slayer. It was on sale and I thought it was a good bargain (alasan saja😂) 
I wanted so much to buy cInosuke punya but his was very bulky in my hand.
In the end, I decided on buying Muichiro's one coz 1. the size feels not bulky in my hand, and 2. the color is the closest to match with the color of my keyboard.

and here are some extras:

my office keyboard. Missing a couple of nobs. Baru jua setaun memakai. the number 2 has always been loose. The Down arrow got loose coz I tend to press that instead of scrolling LOL. and the Letter P patah the connector. Heran ku how but I think it happened that one time i just shoved the keyboard instead my laptop bag coz I was in a hurry wawawa
So, I bought new keycaps. coz ada gamabr dongo and its Mitsuri's color 🤭

tada!! cumil kannn..I just wish there were more greens. Still very cute. 
I love the Onigiri as arrows.

Extra-EXTRA: 

PULSAR x DEMONSLAYER main four characters 💖

I mean, Ani lagi ngam with my new keyboard, kan? but as much as I love Inosuke, that fave kenot fly in my house hold 😖 EVENTHOUGH it will be mostly stayed in my room.

What I can conclude from this post? I'm a very non-tech sevvy person to be having such high tech things 🤣🤣 YES including the mouse. Apparently its a gamer mouse too and I only wanted to have one becoz of Demon Slayer. #consumerism 

Ok, that is it for now. see you on the next post for the continuation of 2025 recaps. bye

Skullpanda x My Little Pony

and every time I said 'My Little Pony', I sang-a-song in my head 'I'm a little teapot, short and snout' 

cue movie Robots, scene cFender cari something lam tong sampah 😆

Ok, i rewatch the scene via Google. Fender was not looking for something, he was actually unscrewing cRodney punya kaki 🤣

anyhoo,

not 2025 recap.

This happened on 6th Feb 2026, when Popmart BN released the Skullpanda x My Little Pony. 

I seldom sibuk2 kan bali new releases on the day itself and kalau kira kan, I wasn't really a fan of Little Pony

BUTT

I had these two that I bought masa zaman2 pandemic. Bought them becoz, satu had a witch hat and deck cards, and the other one ada bilun. I just thought they look cute!

and I thought, it'd be nice if I could get the plush pendant atu, Pony version of them.

This thinking happened on the 5th Feb pasal my colleague was mentioning that her mom probably will join the Queue to buy the blind boxes on the 6th Feb.

I slept on it.

and on actually day, I did ended up joining / bekirim with my colleague's mom.

We did unboxing together andddd

It was secret 1!

What luck!🍀 and I was like, I wondered what secret 2 is. biasa, dapat sudah, masih lagi mncari yang alum dapat atu hmm hahah

I thought, I will check if this plush character ada similar dengan what I already had.

It was until the next day that I found out YES, sama!

I had to use Google to confirm and yes, confirm; the plush and the human version are the same!

Macam I is speechless. What luck banar! I bought it on impulse, not knowing if it'll be the same but if it did, then it'll be nice to gambar side by side. very terImpress ku kadang2 😝 and inda sia2 lah aku jump the trend atu. 🤣

Anyway, this is a sneak peak at how severe my spending on Popmart is just in Feb 2026 alone. Pray for my wallet.

OK, will be back to regular (recap) programme tomorrow.

Bye.

Nasi Katok mayhem! 🍗🍚

2025 recap no. 3

and I realized this was actually pretty recent; happened in November 2025.

My two friends had already experienced "miscommunication" at this eatery before I joined them that one day. 

So, knowing that, I tried communicate better - of what I wanted to order. 

Nasi katok satu but with 2 ayam. 

For nasi katok buyer and my believe, to nasi katok seller as well, this was a pretty common orders. Some people suka nasi nya satu and with dua ayam inside.

When the waiter returned to the kitchen, I thought, everything is ok now.

Then when the food arrived at our table, we just, what?

whats more funny is I didn't want to return them and make a hassle. 

So what did I do?

I finished them.

I mean, like it's hard? 😴😴😴

In conclusion, we didn't go back to that kadai after that. 😂