Post #1 : Customized Planner

Assalamualaikum and hello visitors..

Two months more counting for New Year 2016. If you going to bookstore or stationery section, you will find a variety of planner size and design. Last year,  I received a 2015 planner from insurance company, it's beautiful with gold cover however I don't used it very well. So this year, I bought this personal size six rings planner.

It's actually one of my wishlist and my birthday present to myself.

Yes, from me to me. Sound a bit pity right..haha..

But for me, if I want something, I will go for it rather than hoping for someone buy it for me.

I like the function that we can easily take out and insert the paper and organized the planner. 

I just receive it last week. 

Now I'm working with the inserts that I personally customized according to my needs for work and personal. It's more to DIY and limited to my skill of arts.

Here some images of my planner, they still in progress. 

Monthly View

Daily

 I just draw a monthly view for quick reference of date and day, quote and leave it blank.
So I can write To Do List, Notes or other important things on that day with unlimited space. That's the great advantages of customized planner

  
Other
 Next is expenses pages for my personal used. 

Since I'm a researcher, student's publication list is one of important criteria to keep track. The process start with preparing the manuscript then submit to conferences or journal. If the article is rejected, you can improvise the article based on reviewer comments and try submit to other conference or journal. After the article is accepted, payment need to be done for publication fee. For conference, the paper will be published after you have presenting the article on the conference's day. It takes about 3 month or even a year for the paper to be appear online and index. At that time, you might be forgot about the article. 

I also keep the list in my computer, this planner will work as backup when I am not at my work space or anything happen that cause data loss.

 Other than work, I also keep list of activities that I participate as committee.

That' all some of my inserts. I will update the DIY full monthly view in my next post.

POST # 2 – 4 Tips to Keep Journaling

      I love to buy diary and it’s kind of addiction with many nice designs but I only write on it daily for maximum 3 month. Then I skip few days and even months. Maybe some of you had experienced the same problem; it’s quite hard to make it as consistent habit. Worries your journal will be abandon like your old diary, here some tips for you and me, since I am also a beginner

1. Find journal tools you love 

Grab any books a pen or pencil, you can start journal immediately.

 I like to use just normal pen black and blue ink and pencil. Most of time I use pencil, and sometimes color pencil for art. My favorite black ball pen is Brilliant; needle tip fine extra smooth from Faster that I bought from Rainbow (stationery store). It cost only RM 0.70 when I first bought it, now the price is RM 0.80. I also recommend it to my friends, and they also love it.

This is the exercise book, A5 size that I used for journaling, RM 2.80 with 200pages.

Here is a page in my journal, trying handwriting lettering. You can see the black ink is very smooth and fine.

And some doodles from my Art Journal.

You can also get nice, pretty books like Moleskins, colorful pen, marker, that you enjoy using it and comfortable when you write. It's all up to your creativity.

2. Get the idea of journaling 

Don’t find perfection in your journal. Journal is not an official report that needs to be neat, clean. Its ok with all the mess you made. Have you heard of “Wreck This Journal”? That journal was made to be destruct. 

Don’t force yourself to fill the journal books

Experiment different style of journaling like collage, sticky notes.

Find Prompts. Prompts are great help to guide you in journaling when you lost ideas.

Collect prompt that you like and put it in your journal as reference later.

Be creative.

Here 10 Ways to get idea for journaling and be more creative

1. Read books, find quotes.

2 .Explore new things, DIY, life hack

3.  Outdoor activities.

4. Challenges yourself.

5. Socialize, volunteer

6. Keep up with trends, fashion, and current issue.

7. Visit exhibitions, museum, and galleries.

8. Get new hobby. Start a project on your hobby.

9. Make a list, goals

10. Entertainment. Listen to music, watch films and theatre

Benefit - Journaling should be enjoyable, exciting, something that heals you, reduce your stress not something that you feel burden to do it. It’s not like diary that has expiry date, use them whenever you want.

3. Do record everything

What are your other hobbies beside journaling? Do you like reading, traveling, cycling, surfing internet? Those are interesting topic you can include in journal.  

For example reading, record the purchase date, price, and where you buy the books. Then write things that give you an impact while reading them such a dialogues, scene, character. If you don’t like the ending; create your own story ending. No one will stop your imaginations  

As you go cycling, suddenly you find beautiful flower, grab that and kept that on your journal. Make your journal as information storage.

Record your daily progress, insight and gratitude. 

I find this video from Robin Sharma really give me motivation to write every day.

4. All in One Journal

Use a single book as journal. This will keep you more focus and help you to finish writing in a whole book. Keep it on your bed; whenever some great idea come, you have placed for brainstorm the main idea. When you at outside, save the point in your Smartphone. This tips can also be apply for gathering idea to write in blog.

Some idea that I get from other blog and website actually is related. I wrote them in Journal and combine the idea of :

1. How to start journaling

2. How to keep journaling

3. Benefit from journaling.

4. How to be creative

and summarize into a simple post.Journal helps you to organize your reference and resources.

Apart from that, I also have other journal that I keep for my collection.

That’s some of simple tips that I find encourage me to keep on journaling. Hope it will work for you as well.

Quote #1

How was your day ? 

• Life is boring if we do the same routine.

• Think of something new, change a bit your routine.

• Set a timing and do your chores before times up. Beat the time.

• Force yourself to do things that you hate or failed to do  like wake up early in morning, cooking, sewing, gardening.

Love your life !!!!!

POST #1 - Journaling

What is a journal?

      In research field, journal is a collection of research article on new research or improvement from the existing one. Journal can be index by Scopus, Web of Science or non index. Research students are encouraged to publish their article on higher Impact Factor (IF) or Quartile from Q1 until Q4, the highest to the lowest. Its quiet hard actually to get publish even in Q4 journal because your work will be review by qualified reviewer that has expertise on specific area. That’s from academic journal view. 

      However journaling itself is free style writing. Journal is like a diary, you can write everything in your head and heart however it doesn't need daily writing. It also looks like a blog but journal is more traditional, written on any type of paper or books .It’s your own collection of life document, without any strict guideline to follow; no one will read or judge your journal and it’s not compulsory to write every day.

In What is a Journal,  you can learn how to write a journal step by step. 

Need some overview how journal look likes? Take a walk here on Pinterest.

My interest in journaling increase when I saw those awesome journal writing and decorations. If  you want to see each page flip inside those gorgeous journal, Youtube is the right place. I subscribed to get some idea from this Youtube channel.

If you also love journaling or have more awesome journaling information, share it with me. I would love to read them. 

                                                                  To be Continued..

Restart posting

Looking back to old post of mine in this blog. Feel like I want to rewrite it all, there's a time when I actively post, post once a year or keep silent for a long time. But when I rethink about it let just keep it as history to track how your writing is making progress, what mistakes and good things you've done. Everyday is a new start. If you failed, try again.Total fail is when you never try or afraid to try.

Why I'm writing in English and not in Malay?
I admit my grammar and vocabulary is wrong here and there, if it's really good then I will be paid as writer. Just kidding, hihi. Actually it is quite easy to write in English since it has less "imbuhan" (word to add to a noun), so you just write the words or noun and the reader can understand your point.

Writing will inspire yourself and others. Let's getting started.

Full day Aidiladha

Assalamualaikum semua..

Selamat hari raya aidiladha 1434H. Ini merupakan kali kedua saya menyambut aidiladha di Johor, bukan bersama keluarga. Walaupun jauh, tapi aktiviti sebelum pergi ke solat sunat raya sama macam saya dekat kampung. Bangun, sapu rumah,kemas rumah,sarapan, dan bersiap untuk ke masjid.

Solat raya kali ini lebih penuh dari tahun lepas,mungkin juga sebab kali ni saya datang lambat sikit..betul2 pukul 8stgh..

kemudian kami bersiap2 untuk ke rumah pensyarah.orang ramai sedang sibuk menyembelih lembu diluar perkarangan masjid..ada 10 ekor semuanya,semua comel2 belaka..ni first time saya tengok lembu kena sembelih,selalu tengok ayam je..

lepas tu kami terus ke rumah dia,makan-makan la..hehe..dah puas makan nasi ayam, nasi impit, lontong dan sembang2..habis la sesi beraya..satu rumah je buat open house..hehe

petangnye pulak kami pergi ke jamuan raya di masjid UTM..first time juga join..sup daging dia memang sedap..panas-panas lagi baru siap. macam banyak nasi dia kan,tapi habis kitorang mkan..terbukti la memang marvelous sup tu..

dah banyak menambah lemak dan kalori,petang beriadah pulak..membakar lemak la kononnye..kesudahannya bergambar..

thanks kepada kawan-kawan yang memeriahkan hari-hari ku..hehe..

selamat hari raya aidiladha semua..

Di bawah langitmu

Orang Malaysia begitukah?

 

Assalamualaikum semua..selamat beristirehat dihujung minggu.. Tapi kenapa terasa macam lagi sibuk dari hari biasa..Dari pagi tadi basuh baju la,sapu rumah, kerja dari pejabat yang tertangguh..Ha,dah dapat jawapannya.._

Tertangguh,Menangguh..

Ni la antara sebab saya suka menulis blog,bila saya tulis,saya berfikir..bila saya berfikir, saya dapat jawapan..bila dapat jawapan, tak jadi la merungut,sebab dah sedar, salah sendiri la kan..haha..

Just nak berkongsi kisah seorang kawan ni..Dia dari Nigeria,duduk sebelah meja saya..Kami biasa-biasa je, tak la rapat sangat..satu hari dia balik dari tapau makanan..sambil dia makan dia tanya saya

translating into malay..

“ Ada undang-undang dekat Malaysia ke yang kamu tak boleh ajar orang lain”

mula-mula saya tak paham juga,yela..tetiba je tanya macam tu..

Saya jawab la, “ mana ada undang-undang macam tu”..

“ Kenapa bila saya tanya semua student melayu atau cina,mereka tak nak tolong..tak nak share knowledge” (lebih kurang macam tu la..lepas tu dia ada mention beberapa situasi yang dia alami"..)..

Nampak macam dia tak puas hati..tapi saya dengar je apa yang dia nak luahkan..kadang-kadang kita hanya nak ada pendengar setia yang sudi nak dengar, bukan minta jalan penyelesaian..

Lepas tu saya tanya pada dia " Antara banyak-banyak benda yang tak baik, apa yang bagusnya tentang Malaysia? ada tak?” saja nak tengok apa jawapannya..

“Dekat malaysia,ada bekalan elektrik yang tetap..kalau di Nigeria kena ada backup power”

Lega juga dengar, sekurang-kurangnya dia tidak menutup mata hati dan mindanya tanpa melihat kebaikan dan kelebihan Malaysia..

Kemudia saya sambung buat kerja,dan dia sambung makan semula..Tetiba dia bersuara lagi..

“Orang malaysia cakap gentle, tak cakap kuat-kuat dan buat bising..ada orang yang cakap saya tengah marah,padahal saya cakap biasa saja..kami biasa cakap kuat-kuat”

Haha..see..dia dah nampak lebih dari satu kelebihan orang Malaysia..bukan la rasa bangga ke apa..cuma, kalau ada keburukan,mesti ada kebaikannya juga..

Dua perkara yang dia akan cakap pasal Malaysia

1. Mereka tak suka berkongsi ilmu.

2.Mereka suka makan dengan lalat..tak tutup makanan..

haha..ini yang saya fikir tentang dua perkara di atas..

1.sebenarnya,bukanlah tak suka kongsi ilmu..cuma kadang-kadang ada orang dia memang malas nak mencari, membaca dan belajar..mereka suka diajar..

macam masa kita mula-mula masuk Universiti juga la..antara perkataan yang selalu dengar “ Di universiti semuanya sendiri,bukan macam di sekolah,semua cikgu bagi, semua ilmu disuapkan”..mesti korang pernah dengar kenyataan tu kan..

memang seronok di ajar dari belajar sendiri..dibimbing..ada benda kita perlu berguru,ada benda yang kita boleh google sendiri..bukan senang menjadi cikgu..

2. Dia tersilap beli makanan dekat tempat yang banyak lalat..itu je kesimpulannya..haha..lalat memang la ada,kalau dia datang kita akan halau..bukan berkongsi dengan lalat..

Apa-apa pun,dia antara salah seorang kawan dari bangsa,agama dan negara yang lain..seronok juga tau apa yang mereka fikirkan pasal kita..

Dah asar pun..jom solat asar dulu..jumpa lagi..