Little Things 163 : 2014

Another year almost reaching the end. It flew like a hummingbird, silencing the air between its soft vibrating wings. I learned a lot of things throughout the walking days, I experienced so many pain and joy, transitions and phases, regrets and hopes.  I mourned for so long. Over decisions and false hopes, plans and misguided goals, most importantly, over blindness in obsession to create...

Shop : CreativeUnited.my

Now anyone interested in buying exclusive printed arts, totebag, pillow, wall clock, button badges, t-shirts by me, or by any other featured artists, you can visit CreativeUnited at Ground Floor, KL Tower, Kuala Lumpur.  I went there yesterday to check out the little shop. It is located at the far end of the Ground Floor near ATM machines. A small and vibrant looking with colourful...

Event : Running Events 2014 *final update*

* NOTE : By far, this is one post with overload pictures of me -  I'm sorry for this narcissistic post,  this is for my personal yearly running record and yes,  I record things on my blog :F * 1. Run for Life, UPM - 8th March 2014, 8 km Great morning view, first run after 3 months hiatus, overload students :D  It was rather a normal running activity. I guess after...

Books : 2014

Stephen King said : Read, read, read. ”If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write.” He published over 55 novels, 6 non-fictions and more than 200 short stories. *But I only read 2 of his books - hew hew hew.  * Yeay for reading more than 40 books this year ! This is the complete book list. I've been wanting to read more books than previous-previous...

Movie : Tony Takitani

Tony Takitani is a short story by Haruki Murakami in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - a short story compilation. It's one of my favorites. Most of all his short stories are very light and almost easy to forget - but I couldn't forget this one. The truth is, I still want something from Murakami after the last book I read written by him several weeks ago. So I googled his name with films. Other than...

Little Things 162 : Flu & Mini Chocolates

I'm having a really bad flu and it's been 4 awful days. I am supposed to start ferret-sitting Minka yesterday *boss is going on a 2 weeks holiday. But because of the bad flu, she said she'll let other colleague keeps her first. I've been excited for weeks =.=' So I drink hot green teas and took Vitamin C daily, ate chicken soup, ate Panadol Soluble last night that tasted like weird isotonic...

Plant Project : Little Seedlings

Planting Journal : While hundreds of little seedlings grow every day, there will be little deaths as well among the fragile ones. I have to accept that not every little thing can survive growing up, even in a very well-cared environment.  I try to accept that little deaths are normal in this gardening cycle and to not be overly emotional because among all that did not survived, there...

Little Stories 84 : BBW2014

I lied. I went to the Big Bad Wolf last week with him. When people asked, sometimes I said I did and sometimes I answered, "I haven't". This lie, I can't fully understand why.  I did went there last weekend until midnight. I did walked through thousands of graphic novels, fictions, literature, travel and cookery sections. I did bought those Feb's Monocle and several cooking books, and...

Excerpt 11 : Jim Carrey's Secret to Life

I've seen his speech before this, I've shared the link in this blog too, and someone created a beautiful video out of it. Enjoy; ❤ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post...

Little House 2 : The Second Month

The only furnitures I bought after 2 months at my new home are a wooden table and 2 mini wooden side-tables from IKEA. That costed around RM200+ total. Other than that are all old wooden furnitures from ma and collected wooden things all around.  Old furnitures were painted oil-based white paint so they seem a bit acceptably decent. I keep on buying cheap brushes from Kedai RM 2 and Mr.DIY because...

Little Things 161 : Hello Girly, you.

People who know me personally would probably know how much tomboyish I can be, for certain things. Like how much I hate weddings, dress-ups, make-ups, girly-pinky stuffs, glitters, shiny things, high heels, shoppings, girl-talks, and such.  At 27, I still wear jeans, converse and sling bag.  People at the office might notice my repetitive checkered shirts for as long as they know...

Excerpt 10 : Emotional Excess & Writing

From Anais Nin on why we need emotional excess in writing & creativity : You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and...

Plant Project : Death and Updates

Planting journal : I am not happy because I've killed all petunia's sprouts. It seems like their soft fragile stem rotted and not even one sprout manage to grow tall much longer. Too much water. While all carnation sprouts are doing quite well with the same amount of water. Too bad I read about petunia's watering technique a day later before the mass killing T^T  And I'm thanking the internet...

Little Things 160 : Social Media

A liberating feeling when I finally deleted my Grooveshark, Twitter and Tumblr, cleaned up my Bloglovin' list from forgotten, deleted, boring blogs and leave only blogs that matter and I actually want to read. The real Facebook account has been deactivated for almost a year with no regret, only leaving the fake one that I'm using for the office's use.  What I keep on updating for public...

Plant Project : Seeds

Every time I go to places that sell seeds, I'll buy 1-2 types of them. By now I've planted okra, alyssum, coriander, chinese celery, aloe vera, mini wisteria, gingko biloba, petunia, carnation, persimmon, mini red maple, and chilies. Every glass bottles and egg containers are used as planting place.  I've come to visit every nursery in my area, buy mixture of soils and pots, tell almost...

Illustrations : Autumn Leaves & Anniversary

Old Bamboo tablet still working fine, this Macbook keep on blacking out while completing this illustration. No more time for random meaningless doodles, the heart sticks to purposes and reasons - anti-climax-party-pooper :(  * Things I learned while being a designer at TRP : You can teach yourself anything, with efforts, time, research and a will to learn. You don't know,...

Little Things 159 : Society

This excerpt was taken from the book I'm currently reading : Cloud Atlas. If you watch the movie, this is the conversation between Zachry (Tom Hanks) and Meronym (Halle Berry) in the future version where the civilized world is already destroyed and the Civilization is trying to find a new land hence, why she stayed with the valleyman in the first place. Savage and civilized - What's the naked...

Plant Project : Bendi Seeds

As for the last week's continuation on this post, where I posted about my shopping spree at MAHA, I also posted an image of those Bendi seeds in recycled egg carton. I didn't expect much on the first few days, but 2 days after I planted them, they sprouted their first leaf.  * Their growth is alarmingly fast. In just several days, they got as high as 5 inches. Not sure whether that...

Book : Hard-boiled Wonderland & End of the World

I finished reading the book last week - after a week. I finally found Murakami's book that I really like and would recommend if anyone wants to try any of his book *before this I found it hard to recommend his book because I was worried people won't like his odd writing, pace and mood. But this time, I really enjoyed the story. Almost all of his books are bringing different style : for example,...