2026, in search of Happiness. If it means enjoying every little trinkets and stationery on the daily, then so be it. Coz temporary happiness, is still happiness.
I've always been love with novelties style keychains and always feel like I had to have them all. I am no even kidding. The first time I earned my own money, I remember continously buying keychains eventhough I only have 1 car key and 1 house key. Imagine buying 2 to 3 keychains a month and then every month. Imagine bila tah kan ku pakai tu? Especially keychains are the one thing you don't really like changing every other day 😹
So, XIMI shop happened. Their keychain collections are to die for. At the time of these pictures taken, I was obessing over fake food items. So when I saw XIMI had a huge collection of fake food keychains, I almost lost it aahaha but luckily, aku sadar that I am not made of money and I have enough keychains to last me a lifetime. thus, as the great Marinda Sanchez once said, "Take a picture. It will last longer!"
I mean, I shared di IG plang sudah. eheh but the sharing on this blog must continue~~
I don't think I was in dillema for September's theme; I did some research, nothing was catching my eyes. and when Amanda's posted her video, I thought, yeah, let's recreate her September theme.
it's easy and soooo me! I mean, I grew up in the era when internet was just starting so this theme is a tad bit nostalgic.
put my own little twist to it, with my picture. coz September IS my birth month. and color scheme is love 💜💜💜
I started this page last month.
Data Balance. I mean, look at the amount of time I spent on the internet! 😅
I think it's a good addition.
oh I should mention, its been a year since I started this BuJo theme thing! yay! can't believe I have been doing this for a year. as in, a year doing a cover theme for the month. I used to just write words and paste some pictures whenever necessary.
One good thing doing this? Helps finishing my countless number of unused journals/notebooks. When starting this, I have used two journals/notebooks. 😝
Glad this one finished in the first few days of August, unlike my July's. I actually search for ideas a week before July ends. coz I don't want what happened in July, happened again in August.
I came across two themes on youtube that I thought would be easy for me to follow or recreate;
1. F.R.I.E.N.D.S. by Temi Danso Art
I feel like this one is noice. Umbrella and tri-color. also FRIENDS.
2. Kites by SheDoodles
this one terlalu simple. I mean, just drew kites. but the color a bit dull? I know I can change them to fit my feel.
I keep going back and forth with this two themes. I wanted to start the 'base' even before August started but I keep putting it off. I guess I was waiting for Amanda's theme.
3. Studio Ghibli by AmandaRachLee
I mean, I'm no artist. I can try but I also don't want to stress about it. and also, if you read too much into her videos, I can't really relate. I don't grow up with Ghibli's movies. I only started watching them last year with Spirited Away and I was 31. So, no. I can't relate. it's still a beautiful theme and I wish I have the guts to pursue recreating it but no.
that was when I decided to go with the Umbrella theme by Temi. I tried to 'fully' recreate her theme but like I mentioned, I don't want to stress so I improvised. It'd still be umbrella and I enjoy her color scheme too. I just have to change it up a little. also, Brunei is in rainy season now. it's fitting.
look how vibrant! I start preparing on the night of 4th Aug and began to finish them on the 5th Aug.
I even made a little video. which I hope I can share here. (plis internet, be good).
I tried to video my July theme as well but I made a huge mistake with that one. so I discarded them. not gonna dwell too much on that mistake and move on.
Can you believe that its already August? you would think the pandemic slowed down the time. I guess not.
Hope everything is well with you and your family. stay healthy and safe, everyone.
Hi guys. its that time again. BuJo theme time. It took me awhile to settle with a theme. as you know, I followed AmandaRachLee's theme since August 2019 and this month she was doing Animal Crossing related theme. and I was like, umm..hmm 🤔..nope. LOL I have nothing against that game honestly. I just don't.
One, I don't have switch.
Two, obviously, I don't play it.
Third, Amanda made it into flower theme so its not entirely Animal Crossing -esque ? I made a flower theme for Feb 2020 and the size of the flowers were similar too and I don't feel like repeating a theme. So..
So, yeah. I was taking my time deciding what to do. I even browse (endah tak endah tho) her channel to check if there was a theme I can follow. She did make the same suggestion; if you don't want to do the Animal Crossing theme, you can check out her other Plan With Me videos. I began thinking of a theme the moment she posted her May Plan With Me, that was like a week before May actually began. So, a week plus? took me a week plus to finally decide with a theme. I finally decided with this theme; her June 2018 theme.
I almost follow her color scheme, but I thought, lets not. and after some thoughts, I went with light/lime green color scheme. Why?? becoz. NCT comebacks!! ok, NCT Dream comeback with Reload was 29th April but I don't care, still included lol. NCT 127 will be on 19th May, and WayV as well but date not yet disclosed. There are also those VLive Beyond LIVE thing going on (an online live concert thing). SuperM (26th Apr), WayV (3th May), NCT Dream (10th May), and NCT 127 (17th May). I just thought the color fits. 💚💚
I also include Mint color, coz SHINee 12th Anniversary on 25th May and Taemin is in SuperM. 💟
As for the theme, well, I miss Japan. alot. and seeing as we won't be going anywhere anytime soon, I thought, it's not gonna hurt to dream a little. (I was wrong, my heart ached a lot more 💔. Thanks, logic). Here's a scanned copy of my masterpieces!
I tried making a video while making the Mood Tracker. coz as I was tracing the pencil outline, I thought, "why did I do this to myself?" 😆
it took me a whole weekend to finish this theme. I'm the type to over-think and over-analyze shit so, I feel like its best to not do this continuously. 😋 I did the draft first and then I took a break (a very long one) before finishing with the coloring. Best outcome. 👍 Now, half way thru the month, I am wondering what theme I should do for June. I think I'm having a little inspiration from Amanda's May 2020 theme. Since she was doing a theme from her favorite game, maybe I should do a theme base on my fav game; LINE Play. I mean, there are some fancy little trinkets I could use/draw/trace as accent. We'll see. Who knows, maybe I like her June theme and just follow that. . . .
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. 😜
hi guys. funny seeing me posting in the afternoon. I woke up early today, I guess when you're as old as I am, waking up early by nature is the norm. I needed to pack some things for storage but of course I procrastinated for hours. By 10am baru tah ku get up from bed and started the packing. it didn't take long tho, by 11am, I took a shower and prepared my stuff for my journal. which brings us to our blog titled today! Plan With Me inspired by AmandaRachLee first video I watched from her was actually the one with How to Calligraphy tutorial. at that time, I didn't really understand how youtube works. I only subscribed to her last year and since then I've been watching her do her Plan With Me series. As far as I know, up until (maybe) two years ago, I only ever know one type of journaling; pouring my heart out in a book. So, I only ever enjoyed Amanda's videos thinking I'm never gonna do what she was doing coz I feel like her style is more for people who needs to organize their life. I am not saying I'm organized, you dam well know I am not. LOL besides, what the cook am I supposed to organize, I don't have an hectic life. but last August, I was like, "Let's follow Amanda" coz she was doing the 80s theme and it was mostly patterns, I thought it will be easy enough for me to follow. I know Amanda's do a Calendar for the month, Mood Tracker, Habit Tracker, weekly spread, sometimes Brain Dump, and sometimes Playlist. Initially, I made it so complicated in my head. thinking about what use is it to me to be doing a calendar, weekly spread, brain dump, etc? then I thought, the journal I'm going to use is still very private and I just wanted to add colors into it (not that I don't already have pasted pictures in it), soo I said to myself, 'let's just do the cover, the quotes, habit and mood tracker, and playlist'. and that what's I've been doing for three months. Here's a look at my recreations:
August 2019: The 80s
the pastel tho. also, I have most of the colors Amanda was using. I felt 'included' or 'fit in' for once. LOL
I somehow skipped September. Even I don't know what happened in September.
October 2019: Ornaments.
Yeah, don't ask.
November 2019: Coffee and Tea.
definitely my favorite. LOVE the color scheme.
For the first two months, as you can see, I missed 'filling in' my trackers. I guess I forgot. You see, I don't really write on a daily basis anymore so obviously when i don't write, I don't open the journal, and when i don't open the journal, I don't fill in. That is why, for November, i decided to set an alarm to remind me to fill in my trackers. Also, please ignore the previous Mood Trackers. I can't figured out how I was feeling most of the time, especially when i only fill in once every two weeks. I mostly choose neutral to take the easy way out. LOL Henceforth! for November, I'm gonna write down what ever or how ever many moods I have for the day. Yes, I have a lot of mood in one day. i don't know how you can just have one. unless people are doing an 'overall' mood. I don't think I can 'overall' my mood. Lemme try and adjust with this November entry first. See how it goes. As for the Habit Trackers, this is the trickier part. I went from having 9 Habits, to 6 Habits, to 4 Habits. obviously from experience, I realized, i don't have many habits. Unless you consider 'Procrastinating', 'Sleep', or 'Daydreaming' as a habit. Well i think it is, just, I prefer not to glorified those habits. I add my own spread, Book Read. I only done two so far. both I have shared in previous post but I'm going to share the second one here.
These two Playlists didn't ikut any theme. I made them when I feel like it.
Yes, it looks like I only listened to certain songs for months and months at a time.
I'm that unchanging.
also, NCT-Jaehyun!! is love!!
And that is all I have for now. Maybe i'll update on another post when I have made more. So, what do i gained from doing this 'Planning'? well
it makes me more excited to open my journal; both to write or to try and 'scrapbook-ing'
it gives me something to do
it helps me occupied; especially the Book Read part. I may not be writing in my journal but at least, I'm filling in my time with reading and not stuck on my phone most of the time.
Of course, it's not for organizing or managing my time this thing that I'm doing. I've done that during work hours, I'm not gonna do that after work hour too. Now, question of the post: Do you do any journal entry? if yes, what kind? if no, would you like to try the above type of journal? Let me know in the comment. Until next time, ciao~ . . .
Hi guys. In light of the previous post with NCT light sticks, I thought I will share with you the rest of SM's artists official light stick. why? Just becoz. Also, I think they're pretty and I want to own all of them. Disclaimer: this post is only for OFFICIAL LIGHTSTICKS! I understand that everybody have many many lightsticks for their many many concerts thus far.
First of
BoA
Released date: 19th Dec 2018
AFTER 18 YEARS SINCE HER DEBUT!
Secondly
TVXQ
Released date: 20th Apr 2018
Third
Super Junior
Released date: 7th December 2017
Fourth
Girls' Generation
Released date: 6th October 2018
Fifth
SHINee
Released date: 27th May 2018
Sixth
f(x)
Released date:
Seventh
EXO
Released date: first verison 7th Oct 2015, second version 2nd July 2016
Eighth
Red Velvet
Released date: 25th Jul 2018
Ninth
NCT
Released date: 7th May 2018
SOOOO! SM is fcuking bias! EXO got 2 versions?! and BoA, their GODDESS? only got hers after 18 years since debut?! FU SM! but also thank you. Especially for SHINee's light stick. Fans said SM only managed to come up with awesome design is becoz SM had to complete with Japanese concerts' light sticks. hahahah and let's us all laugh once again in regards to f(x)'s non-existent promo.
also SM also made official electrical fan:
and I noticed that the electrical fan doesn't have BoA's, there's f(x) instead! yayy! that purple/lilac color cought my eyes! Anyways, whose your favorite among these awesome lightstick? mine is obviously SHINee's. Red Velvet's dimsum lightstick comes second. I have the need to mention this; Taeyeon said GG's lightstick looks like tooth. LOL! Ok, that is all I have for this post. Until next post, Jaane~ . . .
