Doodle : How to Help You Boost Your Energy

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When you need to focus for long hours at work, school or university, you need energy to stay productive. Sometimes I take a fastest way out and drink a tin of coffee to stay focus on a job - I'm not proud of this, so I did some reading on how to help me find other ways to recharge my energy at work. Here are some tips on boosting your energy I collected over several blogs and articles :

Stay awake, earthlings! :D

Doodle : Finding Inspiration

I read an article by Leo Babauta from ZenHabits on Finding Inspiration and took a visual note on it. Here :

Ignore some misspells :D

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My ways of finding inspiration :

1. Surrounding

This is by what I see, what I experience, small incidents, items on my desk, random ideas and such.

2. Blog walking

Famous way to feel inspired is by seeing other people doing so well in finding theirs. I use bloglovin+ to follow blog's updates.

3. StumbleUpon

4. Comic & Graphic Novel

I took a pleasure in buying other people's artwork, in stories, in comics, in painting, etc. Sometimes I secretly buy a graphic novel and hide it. Huhaha. 

5. Quotation

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Travel : Cameron Highland 2

Advises to Share from this Journey :

1. Bring a lot of socks if you plan to walk a LOT. 
You should change your socks daily. One pair of socks = One day. And extra another one pair of socks for nightwear when you go to sleep because it can be a little cold up there.  

2. Bring a bottle of water while trekking
Especially when you go to Mossy Forest or walk up to the top of Brinchang Mountain. We cheated, we took a car ride up to the top of the mountain :D

3. Bring thick sweater
For small person like me, my fats weren't enough to keep me warm at night because it was so cold! But it is quite warm in daylight.

4. Some farms are closed on Tuesday
And some farms are closed on any random days except on weekend :(

5. Must go places :
Mossy Forest
Strawberry Farm
Rose Centre
Boh Plantation

6. Wear shoes
If you plan to walk a lot, then wear shoes or at least comfortable sandals. Slippers is not recommended *for no specific reason, I don't really like slippers.

7. Robinson Waterfalls is literally dead
Although it is still listed in the Cameron Highlands map as one of the place to visit, I think it is not really a place to enjoy anymore.

8. Get ready for hours of dizzy road ride
I didn't enjoy those time while we were going up and down the hill. I was a little dizzy and tired *even though I was only a passenger, imagine being the one who drives the car.

9. Plan Ahead
You should buy the map they sell at the hotel or any farms. I think it is RM 4.90, if I was not mistaken. You can get the whole list, contacts of the places to visit. Useful item.

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Lesson 1 : Search for Happiness

It's still new year and I'm aiming for 25 books to read by the end of 2012. I'm putting reading slot for my daily routine, in hope of giving some chances to reading once again - no matter how occupied I am with works. 

I just finished reading Jodi Picoult's - Sing You Home last night, after keeping those last 2 chapters for a month. Now, I'm currently reading Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord.

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Taken points from his book, I'm going to share his findings :

Lesson 1 :

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

I think it's obvious, when we keep on comparing our lives with others, our achievements, money, fame, houses, phones, cars, and all those things - we will feel less fortunate in life. Sometimes it is hard to remember that we have to be thankful all the time. And comparing yourself with others will only make us feel bad. 

Creating happiness should be personal. You don't have to share it with others if you don't feel like it. Because it's different and subjective for each people. It can't be measured. So, stop comparing. 

If you feel happy living in a small flat being surrounded by all your action figures and comics, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it. It's your way of being happy.

If you feel happy spending hours every night watching Korean dramas, then it's okay.

If you feel happy learning foreign language without any specific reason other than improving your knowledge on languages, then be it! 

Ignore those people that say : you are not living your life. As long as you are happy, then that's good enough. Don't spoil it by comparing it with anyone else.

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Travel : Bandung 3 : The Art

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There were arts everywhere! Hotels, streets, airports, malls, walls etc. It's obvious that they appreciate arts much better than us. I was quite shocked to see everything seems to have some artistic values. Meeting local artist was a bonus for me too. 

I had limited time to really explore this side of Bandung. Most places I went to was either malls or one particular place each day. Hope to really explore Bandung one day. The place was quite busy. *had problem to cross the road due to crazy drivers! 

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Travel : Bandung 2 : The Food

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The foods were nice & heavy. I guess that's one thing I didn't like being in a tour. We just had to finish up everything on the table. I'm not used to eating a LOT of foods for days. 

PS : Eat carefully. I'm the only one affected by the food. The only thing that differs between what they ate & what I ate was just Hot Latte from J'Co with empty stomach. So, don't drink Hot Latte when you are hungry, even if you are having mild fever, haha, lesson learned.

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Travel : Bandung

Hey, I'm back!

It was a short 5 days trip to Bandung with my family. The twelve of us went from the busy city of Bandung to a far journey in Bogor. Despite some problems occurred along our journey, we had such fun and joy together. 

I've learned several lesson along the way. 

What's important in every journey are the lessons learned & experiences, yes ? 

10 Things that I've learned :

1. Don't trust people too easy, being innocent will only make you be the victim. 

Lesson learned. I was cheated at Tangkuban Perahu in buying thing that I don't want to buy just because I was persuaded over & over again. In fact, we were all cheated. *on the first day! Days after, we didn't even look twice in saying "no" to the street sellers. 

2. It's all about tolerance.

When you are in a group, you decide for a group. You can't act selfish, you must learn to tolerate. You must understand that being in a group means every plans and decisions are for the welfare of everyone.

3. Money talks a LOT.

Money can buy happiness. Can buy respect & status. Can buy things, foods, any items & services. 

People do anything for money. But my little heart doubts the sincerity in every nice things along the way. It might not look like a big deal, but I keep having my doubts.

4. Eat carefully!
Okay, I had an awful diarrhea on the last day, and mild fever. Food poisoning for sure. I've been in and out from the toilet so many times in one whole day and I was shivering all the time. They left me at the hotel while they went out to go for another shopping spree on the last day. Hmph..

5. Bring thick sweater and socks , bring wear sandals *in the plane.
Air Asia didn't provide any blanket for our ride, and for me with mild fever, it was quite uncomfortable. The seat is small, you can't even lower down the seat much, imagine having to sleep in odd sitting position. Imagine a 9 hours ride to Paris!

6. Free WiFi is quite hard to find.
I had to sit in the Lobby before breakfast or late night after we finished our tour, so there wasn't any updates much. For an internet junkie like me, it was quite a desperation to find free Wifi, unconsciously searching but it wasn't that bad.

7. You need to pay for everything.
So bring your umbrella, tissue, water, plastic, iron! Be ready.
You can bring 2 clothes, 1 jeans and 1 sleeping cloth are enough. Buy other clothes while you are there, quite cheap :D

8. Buy local number, it is much much cheaper.
Don't use your number, you can just buy local numbers at the airport, or anywhere. It helps a LOT! You can communicate easier between your group members especially when you went separate ways.

9. Don't wait! 
We missed the biggest ride in TransStudio because we wanted to keep it to the last. But it rained badly afterwards :D And yes, you should go on weekdays, it is much cheaper and there wasn't many people as rumored. We didn't even have to queue, it's like our own private cool playground. Super awesome experience. We played on the same water ride several times in a row. Taking turn to change places each time.

10. After a joyous holiday, back to reality.
Work work work! :D

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Photos will be posted soon :D