Hello there!
Hope everyone
is doing well. Actually, I ‘ve made a draft for this post since 3 weeks ago,
yet it was hard to find or even make time in the middle of thesis revision and
other stuffs. But here I am.
First thing
first, I’m feeling sorry for those active writers on Tumblr, because since
yesterday, it was banned in my country by our governance because of some
serious reports. I’m not actually an active users on Tumblr, but I have already
used it since I was in Junior High School, not sure it was when I was in grade
8 or 9. Tumblr was like my alternative page besides Twitter or Blogspot to spit
out everything on my mind. Including, those times when I posted none to this
page, usually, I made those short poems, posted photos or thoughts on Tumblr,
something that was longer to be posted in Twitter or too short to make it as a
blogspot posts (for me) or simply I could find someone who would just react to
that. Hehe. I’m not saying I don’t find it here, but…. Yeah.
In short, if I could ever ask the
governance about Tumblr, could you give us (as users and a writers) times a day
or two to grab whatever thoughts or ideas that has been saved but not yet
posted or even save our works that we posted before? Hehe. But then again, you
know if you insist to open your old Tumblr, you know that thing called “VPN”
right? *smirk*
Well, 10 months struggling up
with thesis is not easy as it seems. But yeah, as the roller coaster riding
down the trail, it will be going up as well. And one of those highlights of
doing my thesis is surely about having a good vibe to do it. But now is not the
time to talk about how I did my thesis (maybe later in some other post), but
how to build up my mood and have that good vibe to through my day.
Caution: these stuffs I do, is
literally about me. Since to share is to care, so I hope that it might work for
you as well, but if it’s not, well that’s fine.
Caution number two: I’ve through
days without these things, and days with these things and compared it. And I
feel some of these things I would mention were sooo influencing (at least for
me). So, grab your whatever-you-want-to-eat and read. Have fun!
- Being an Early Bird
It’s hard maybe
for those who just started it. But it’s always worth it. Get up earlier means
you have more time to prepare things. Not only to prepare “things”, but also to
prepare your mood. I am a kind of girl who needs some times to lift up my mood,
it’s like whatever I’m gonna do, it depends on it (I know it’s wrong, but I
need this to enjoy whatever I’m doing). And it felt so different when I woke up
at 5.00am while usually I’ve started my day since 3.00am. I’ll be like…
demotivated, lazy and my biggest guilty pleasure: procrastinate. By then, I
could say I’m screwed.
- Your business to Allah over your business to human
Now, why the
heck I started at 3.00am? Somehow I felt thankful to suffer from insomnia back
then (and now) that somehow make my sleeping hours becomes quite short. I could
sleep 3/4 hours for the whole 24 hours, and it’s enough for me. That somehow, it
forces me to choose either I want to sleep at 9.00pm and wake up at
12.00am/1.00am, or sleep at 12.00am and wake up ant 3.00am. and some other time
I’ve heard a wise advice from a friend of mine, she said, if you want your
business with your friends, relations or else you name it clear or say success,
make sure your business to Allah is already done right before you step out of
your house. From that, she mentioned things the duty as a Muslim we got to
fulfil before we go out like Tahajud, pray Shubuh (including the Sunnah
Rawatib), Dzikr, Tilawah, until Pray Dhuha. And off you go to wherever you want
to.
- Morning Coffee
Am I addicted to
it? I don’t know. Actually, the caffeine in coffee they said could strike away
those sleepy eyes just don’t work for me. But yes, coffee have suggest my brain
that today I’m gonna have so much fun. I don’t have any specific coffee to
drink every morning. If it’s instant coffee in sachet we usually found, it’s
okay. If it’s just simply a cup of kopi tubruk without sugar, I’m gonna be
happy. But if it’s a kopi Arabica Gayo or Arabica Bali Kintamani tubruk,
without sugar, I’m more than happy! It’s bitter, indeed. But I don’t like
sweet. I like the smell of coffee every morning. It always successfully lifts
up my mood.
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| Ngupi apa Ngupi |
- Yes to Unfollow!
Nowadays people
seems like they depend their life to social media. Or to make it smoother….they
always want to connect to each other via social media that makes them update
every-damn-thing to social media. Not smooth enough? Sorry not sorry. Maybe
it’s not just them, maybe I, you ever did it in the past. Updating every single
thing you found. Well, I trying to quit it, and having my real life here with
my friends, even I still work in social media as well. Have you ever asked
yourself? How many times you open your Instagram in a day? Is it once? Twice?
More than 12 times? And have you ever counted how much posts which bring good
impact for you as the audience? Or was it all just a toxic post? I said toxic
because somehow, it could make you feel mad, angry, and jealous or even hate. I
could say, I open my Instagram account too often I can’t even count how many
times, and the only thing I could do to keep my good mood is by unfollowing
account that spread hates or “nirfaeda” posts. I feel that is the only way to
save myself, from arguing on pointless topics, at least. I think social media
now is one of those things that come nearly close to us in daily life, so it’s
important to make it “healthy” for your heart and brain.
- Do more of your hobbies
When things get
hard, I usually separate myself from the world outside my room. And doing my
things. Crocheting or reading, or watching movie or just opening up my Corel
Draw and make whatever I want to make. Not all those kind of hobbies I mention
were actually my passion. But they’re enough for me to just escape from the
real world, take distance, and come back after all.
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| Not an expert tho, but I like crocheting |
- Good playlist good mood
I like old
songs. Or pop songs which were out of date. It was my father who first bought
that The Vanishing Race Album from Air Supply (when he’s young) that I listened
when I was in Junior High School or my mother who liked to listen to Koes Ploes
or Rani who sang Gang Kelinci. From that time, I started to listened to The
Beatles. Their song that I first listened was Let It Be. And after that I
started to like them, until now. Now I listened to them on loop and plus my
dearest Frank Sinatra. You might think that those old songs were just boring.
But what attracts me is their lyric. It sounds so meaningful and timeless, for
me, some of pop songs now just bore me with their meaningless lyric or the
shallow definitions of love just by making love or so. Come on. Even not every
songs sound so, nowadays we just got to be more “picky” to listen to some songs
I guess.
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| Click Time Machine for playlist! and yes brother and sister, I listened to Senja di Batas Kota :)) |
- Make a list of gratitude
To write is to
remember. The more you write, the more you remember. I was kind of depressed
for doing my thesis back then. But then I started to write things I could feel
grateful for. And the result is, I just needed to take another point of view to
see things. It’s hard at first, but it’s the thing to do, and I believe I’ll
get used to it, and as the process went by, I finally feel okay. Feel okay
means you could just let it all go, and you let God handle it because you have
done your best. And after that, you could focus on the other thing. And the
mantra I always keep that in mind “Jangan lupa bahagia”. Don’t forget to be
happy. It’s a simple thing, we often forget. The message is clear. It asked us
to be happy. Because being happy is a choice. Moreover, being happy means you
know and you realize that you’re blessed. Because the ones who don’t were the
one who don’t even realize that maybe there are millions other people who crave
for their positions.
That’s all that.
These things are the most influencing things to help me to get out of the bad
vibes or just lift up my mood after a few trials and errors and even now I
still do the errors. Now let me know, what things that could make your mood
boost up?
Have a good day!
