Just a ranting about life, minimalism, gardening, kitchen, food, deco

Sometimes the things you see is not that only, there can be a stories behind it. Example, received a present from someone you believe that hardly gives you anything. Well, apparently the person do not give the present just out of curiosity, but because there is this hidden messages behind it. Maybe the giver wants you to accompany him or her to some place. The giver might not say it directly or maybe a week later or maybe a month later, but the good deed that the person has bestowed upon you should be replied by agreeing to his or her wishes. By this way if you reject it, you will be haunted by the feeling of guilty. In my case, ohh... i do not know what to explain. I do not even know who to trust. What you see is not exactly what that is. But it is ok, it is all in the past now. Now it is new beginning for me... A new place and a new experiences awaiting me.... yes.. It is like I never encounter new places and new experiences, the experiences doesn't scare me, but I kind felt ...

Do you like buying things online? I thought I have passed that stage, and yet it coming at the full force. It happen beginning two weeks ago, where I was looking for a camera and it so hard to find the one that I satisfied. The cost of finding that is nearly 100, because I have to ask my neighbour to accompany me as I'm not familiar with the place. Of course I have to treat her to nice meal after accompany me, right? But the journey produce no result, so what I did was, I open the laptop and looking through the internet for a good camera. I search and read here and there diligently. Finally I've come to my conclusion and bought this camera. The weird thing is that when I compare the price here and oversea, it cheaper to buy oversea. Well, free postage too. I bought it from ebay. So, now I'm a proud owner of Canon s95. Still learning about it, and but as for now I am very satisfied.  This morning, again I make another purchasing. Kind ironic since I said to myself to be...

In my quest to find how to be rich, to be financially independent, to be able to settel my loans fast, I discover, no magic formula, except that I found this harsh word that is FRUGALITY.  I have to live frugally in order to achieve my financial goals. That's goes my dreams to do so many things if I want to achieve my financial goals. It makes me felt very sad and burden. As much as I wan to do and have so many things, I have to delay it until I really stable. Thinking back, the loans that I have now already burdensome to me, I cannot adding more debts.  Then, the other important matter is discipline. It takes a lot of discipline to achieved my goals. But my questions is, should I sacrifice to the extent of making me feels miserable, as long as I follow this rule? Like example, I have a problem with housemate, so I decided to stay alone, and I know I save money more if I share, but it will make me miserable as my previous experiences has taught me very bitter experiences. ...

It is something like this, would you put price on the things you do? I heard a saying there is nothing free in this world, so, based on this saying, isn’t it means that I also have to put price on the things that I do? But thinking back, it cannot be done that way. Not everything can be measure with price. But being too nice is also can be backfire. Let say, you do free of charge for everything you do for this one person, let say that this person is your best friend, and suddenly that person stab you in the back, would you feel hurt and start to questioned back your help to that person? Maybe people with strong heart will say, past is past, just let go, still, the experience will taught you something. Build a defence mechanism so, when something happen your heart will not feel too hurt.  I’ve been in this situation, and somehow I felt necessary. It is not wrong to be really sincere, but it just when people start taking advantage of that sinc...

Something to share... I got this from an email, but I do not know who is the writer... Real happiness lies in making others happy ---- This is amazing, he died of pancreatic cancer in 2008, but wrote a book The last lecture before then, one of the bestsellers in 2007. What a legacy to leave behind In a letter to his wife Jai and his children, Dylan, Logan , and Chloe, he wrote this beautiful "guide to a better life" for his wife and children to follow.May you be blessed by his insight. POINTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE Personality: 1. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 2. Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment 3. Don't overdo; keep your limits 4. Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does 5. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip 6. Dream more while you are awake 7. Envy is a waste of time. You ...

Once I kind a person just get through whatever is in my mind. I do what I want. Now, at the age of 28, I realized, I can’t be that. I need to have a plan, a plan where I want to be and where I do not want to go. As I found out, it will be hard and very windy. I discovered actually, as much as I hate it, I need to have discipline. Why plan? Because then you know what to execute and what not to do. You think before you act. It doesn’t mean it will restrict what you want to do, instead it will give ways. It just, you do pro and cons of the actions that you are going to take. In work, I always plan, but not in life, rarely… but then I found out, even in life I have to do it. Plan is easy, but to execute is hard. But once I’ve plan something, I discovered the good and bad of the decision I’m going to take. Like today, I’ve found out so many truth about my life. Like, where I will be in few years if I do not learn to manage my money well. I alos just found out that it will take me an...

Some will cry, some will talk about it, some will hold it in their heart and many more. But when you are hurt, many things are happen in the heart and that’s when we do either something stupid or something intelligent and for me, this is when I always ended up doing really foolish things and say unnecessary words that make me feel regret later on. Not good, really not good. Hurt is something unavoidable. Sometimes, even a simple thing can trigger bad feeling. Maybe during that time, it was a bad time, and somebody say a wrong thing at the wrong time, and I could be angry, usually a very minimal angry, but that time I blew out of proportion…. Been there? I have… I learn to face this kind of thing is to be prepared, that is by not putting high hope on anything. Even to put high hope on myself seems burden, what more to other people, who I expect to do something to me, and if that person aren’t, I will feel hurt. Next is acceptance. Accept that th...