Living in The Sun

 As a commitment to myself to just create and do things as it is, I challenged myself to make a ‘fun’ album for this year. This 2020 year, where everything I never imagined happens is happening (in a bad way, what else is there) A quick reminder to a quote that I really love and resonates with me really deep, sculpted to the deepest wall of my heart.  “ You are not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn’t have to be original, in other words; it also doesn’t have to be important .“ - Elizabeth Gilbert And as I reduced my passive consumption towards medium like twitter and Instagram and all that time-and-brain-sucking activity, I increase my intentional leisure activity. Following the tips from ‘Digital minimalism’ book that I read while doing my ‘no twitter challenge’, I made my version of a seasonal leisure plan. Basically a plan about things I want to do to fill up my time so that it is not filled up with negative activities. And creating things is ba

I uninstalled Twitter 4 weeks ago.  Photo by  🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum  on  Unsplash My relationship with Twitter is always on and off. I’ve spent like 2 years without it after making an account, delete the account and then making a new one, got a little bit more active and then spent 5 years without Twitter, and then I use that account again for small little fun here and there, after I started to work. So working (and commuting) took all my time and energy, I just don’t have enough energy and time to reserve for other hobby and I just wanted some quick entertainment and then became more active on Twitter. And yes those are excuses, anyway recently it got worsen. Hoho A few months ago, I realized I spend a lot of time on Twitter, around 3-4 hours a day. Yes. That is crazy. Most of it will happen before I go to bed, and then I scroll and scroll and scroll. Just endless scrolling. It is crazy how much I spent my time there. On Twitter, I feel like I can’t differentiate learning

One day I stumbled upon a video recommendation about reading a book on my Youtube feed. Being an obedient youtube audience that respects and trusts their algorithm, I watched the video. Then a bunch of his videos gets recommended on my Youtube feed, not gonna complain, because those are interesting ones. He mostly talks about reading, taking notes, enjoy reading, etc. Then his video about slow reading came up. The video was really nice, because it is about embracing reading slowly to enjoy the process of reading, and it is better to have consistency, and more tips from him. It just makes me reflected on how I read these days compared to how I read when I was younger.  I remember reading a lot of books in my childhood. My parents also always talk about me being quiet and just reading a book even when our relatives came (Idk maybe I kinda tried to avoid them by reading lol it's just me). I read a lot of fiction, I still remember the shape of the book in my childhood, they have neat i

Since December 2019, I made my own not-to-buy list.  I made this after getting tired of making decisions over and over again whether I should buy something, or if some items tempt me to buy and then I will have this constant conversation and negotiation with myself, when I know the decision would be ‘don’t buy that’.  The other reason is also when I tidying up my room and declutter some items i do not use, I somehow..always ended up throwing away the same things. I also noticed that I have too many of the same items. So then I decided to make my own not-to-buy list, to prevent future me to buy this things that I will not use or i will hate or I already have, and to prevent me constantly questioning whether I should buy an item or not when i know my conclusion will be the same. Nail polish I always had nail polish, and but i just don’t use them that often before they started to thickened and hard and can’t be used. But whenever i see ‘my color’ in nail polish, i just had the urge to ha

These are the songs I listened a lot during this corona thingy. No particular reason, I just found myself repeating these songs again and again and again.  Oh wonder - Dust Surl - Hot air balloon The black skirts - Island Yoon ji young feat. Car, the garden - A will Stella Jang - Reality blue George - Boat Car, the garden - Home sweet home Day6 - Zombie Sultan of the disco - Shining road Lucy - Flowering 40 - Dream, sweet dream Chevy & Park bird - If i could ride a bike Kevin oh - Lover Paul kim - Quarantine Lee hi - Holo Rothy - Stars Dept - August feat kuro The black skirts - Love is all

 So, since last November I tried to challenge myself with ‘no spend month’ or ‘no buy month’. The challenge is basically to not spend any money on other things except for basic necessities like food, transportation.  It was an attempt to save money for my travelling plans and just a challenge in general, cause I love random challenge, i’m just that competitive for random things. Anyway, so it’s been 9 months since I start this challenge, aaaand..the truth is I don’t know I’m not sure if I succeed or not in this challenge, so I’m just going to list all the spendings outside my basic necessities to see if i’m doing well on this challenge. November : No buy month December : I bought a sticker book and a diary for 2020 (which is pretty useless now, hah hah, too many feels every day because of this corona thingy and my diary can’t handle it) January : No buy month February : Bought lampit for my bedroom, and My Day 3rd kit (I genuinely thought this year is gonna be awesome, I was going to d

Hello my blog. It’s been a long time since the last time i updated here. As you know, everyone’s been struggling because of the pandemic, but fortunately my family is still in a good condition.  Actually i didn’t plan to write a blog today, my to-do today was doing an online course i enrolled lol. BUT BUT BUT I bought new keyboard yesterday, the logitech K380 in pink color. IT HAS ARRIVED JUST NOW and it is soooooo prettyyyyy..so i want to do something with it, that’s why i’m typing with it now for this post lololol.  This quarantine thingy make me spent more money than I used to spend tho, for many reasons.  Anyway.  Last night DAY6 posted some of their Gravity tour videos for a ‘Midnight Concert’ on Youtube which was nice! Everyone should watch their live performance, it is crazily good..The audio quality was top notch and the video...omg I’m dying here. I should buy the DVD when it is out. But I don’t have any DVD player, no DVD drive on my laptop, I don’t want to spend money for an

Tahun ini gw emang niatin benerin mempergunakan waktu, karena gw sempet shock banget pas liat screen time..bisa sampe 4 jam di twitter doang sehari, kalo lagi gak ngapa2in bisa sampe 6-7 jam..itu super shocking sih padahal di twitter kan cuma consuming doang. Jadi gw batesin screen time, pake timernya, jadi twitter cuma boleh 2 jam sehari, trus instagram cuma 20 menit, whatsapp cuma 30 menit. Gw juga batesin untuk tidur malemnya, kalo sebelumnya gw normal tidur jam 1 jam 2, gw batesin screen time cuma sampe jam 11, maksimal gak tidur jam 11.30an. Karena terbatasnya gw di twitter, gw jadi punya banyak waktu untuk dipakai kan. Untuk ngelamun paling gak akan ngambil banyak waktu, jadi masih banyak sisanya...apalagi pulang kantor sampe jam 11 malem (walau kerasa bentar banget sebenernya, udah terbiasa sama waktu malam yang panjang) Akhirnya gw niatin baca buku. Jadi abis bengong, baca buku, mau tidur, baca buku, weekend, baca buku. Saking baca melulu, sebuah prestasi adalah sampe deti

Tahun 2020 ini Gw punya tema yang akan dijalani "Be courageous" Untuk gw yang lebih berani. Berani mencoba, berani melakukan yang diinginkan, berani speak up, berani action, berani jujur, berani mewujudkan impian, berani. Kalo diliat-liat emang masih mirip-mirip aja sama tahun-tahun lalu dengan wording yang beda. Tapi gw rasa pas untuk tahun ini adalah bener-bener 'Be courageous', bisa mencakup untuk mengatasi semua keragu-raguan gw, untuk mendorong gw lebih......sedap.  Yes, to a year full of fun things, laughter, challenges, happiness, everything...and I will face it all with courage! Here's a pic from 2018, salah satu momen terbimbang dalam hidup gw (bener2 bolak balik karena bingung mau naik sendiri apa enggak beneran) dan akhirnya keberanian membuat gw melewati jembatan ini untuk naik keatas gunung yang saljunya udah sepaha. Jadi foto ini menggambarkan tema tahun ini banget 'Be Courageous!' Di depan tuh bener-bener gak ad