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crabstar love for crabtree

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ok…so i got a list of items not to buy for the next few months or throughout the whole year even.
so please, add on these. crabtree and evelyn hand lotions. i just cant help it, they were on sale from gmarket. but i really love the product. not too sticky when applied and smells definitely nice. of course, serves its purpose. whats more with my long hours in an air conditioned office, the humid weather and not to say the dry skins and cuticles i always have. (sedapkan hati..)

another brand would be l’occitane. but i must. i must close one eye on that for the time being.

so seri…when are you going to stop buying stuffs?

confessions of the sleepy beauty

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I have a confession to make. I love to sleep. I need my sleep. I cannot function without enough sleep. But the problem is, i also have difficulty waking up early. For as long as i know i had been this way.

Although i was quite amazed that during my secondary years, morning session school. Managed to wake up at 5.45 am and be ready by 6.20 to catch the feeder bus. But of course i will sleep in the bus at any opportunity, meaning i must get a seat everytime. I feel the day had already gone wrong if i didnt get my journey nap. of course, taking any chances at school to just close my eyes. erkk…

Same thing when i got a job as a kindergarten assistant teacher.

And when i went to university. I try to avoid morning classes or if there were no other choice for a specific subject, well, i make sure i dont have classes till late afternoon because i would want to go back to my mahallah as early possible to get a noon nap.

Please understand that throughout this sleeping ordeal, it means i will wake up for subuh prayer and then i will go back to sleep for sure.

That’s where the problem is. It is not good to sleep after subuh prayer and i just cant help it. And for the longest time i succumbed to it.

I tried to change. I did. Its either by sleeping in early, i tried to stay awake after subuh either by reading the quran, the ma’tsurat or reading other books. But then i cant function because my brain believed i was deprived of sleep. And these acts ceased to be habits.

And then…i stumbled on productive muslim website. I enjoyed reading the articles, their infographics, the short entertaining videos with a message and i even joined in one their web seminar. Bit by bit, i tried to put in their tips to my life. And as you might have noticed from my recent posts, i am trying to make life more productive and enjoyable.

And as fate has it, abu productive was invited to give talks in singapore and i had the chance to attend them. Out of all the points which was shared, one really struck me. They suggested sleepyti.me to check what is our sleep cycle, the right time to sleep and the right time to wake up. Its like a revelation to me! Hehe.

A person will have a unique sleep cycle, and need about 3-4 cycles per night for a good rest. You are supposed to be able to wake up refreshed with the right timing.

So now i am regularly checking my sleep cycle. Trying to understand my sleeping time. But alas, its been difficult and haywired these days because i will be sleeping say at 10.30 and my first sleep cycle will end at abt 12.30, i will really be awakened but then i will have to force myself back to sleep because i dont function with 2 hrs of sleep. No. but these nights, i will be waking up at odd hours! I will be observing my self throughout the day and see how my body and brain work with a certain amount of sleep.

I didnt know it is not that simple. Of course, to develop a new sleeping habit will take time. I am determined.

So your sleepy beauty here wants to make a change. I pray that i can stay motivated and achieved my goal of waking up earlier than subuh, get to prepare breakfast for my husband and stay awake till my night bedtime.
(but heh, a 15 min power nap if i am desperate during lunch)…

Till the next post!

pilates newbie

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First it was sewing, now its pilates. Its nice to be learning something new. Hopefully this is easy enough and motivating for someone who is ultimately laaazy to do any form of exercise with the forever excuse of pain inflicted legs.

Ow yes, cycling ongoing still. The only sport i will do.

seri the seamstress

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and so i did it! i signed up for the sewing class!! burnt a hole in my pocket a bit but i guess its worth it. i am so excited to start class next friday.  and my goal is to finish class by May perhaps and who knows i might just make my own raya dress!! weee i am so so excited!

and life seems a bit more…well, life! and heh, the name kinda rhymes, seri the seamstress..

january had been fun so far and already its february, it really is going fast nowadays. i was just discussing with my teachers yesterday that out of sudden we have so many things to achieve and do already. no more dilly dallying. and so have decided to have a meeting with teachers every thursday so we can be updated every week on our pending items. time is really precious.

i am glad i do no teaching this year…which i really hope this will stay as it is for the rest of the year!

by right i have many things to say. but to keep it short: productive muslim series in singapore was great. the guy was really awesome and inspiring. what do i know, the website i had been following, useful posters i had been using for classes, and the person behind it was here!! and having a real discussion with him and his wife. and i was even more humbled when during one of his talks with the youth, he asked for my opinion of how he as the speaker was doing. my goodness. brother, you were doing just great. its our students who are not responding. but really, im touched that he thinks my opinion matters. alhamdulillah. hope productive muslim will continue to be successful and be a great  speaker and motivator for the muslim youth.  awesome and humble guy. he should come down again and give more talks.

and i settled all my pme (performance management evaluation) with the teachers and the youth officer. and this time around i had been better in delivering it and more confident. i was a bit soft previous years and doesnt really know how to conduct an evaluation, but i think i improved a bit and it was so much better to actually be discussing it. things are more clearer and the teachers are also clearer with the expectations and they understand better why a rating was given as such.

i was invited to an fgd one of the days with the colleagues from ace centres and that was another discussion which all of us were really honest and really let out our opinion and grievances of the system. our stand was especially the recognition for our teachers in terms of salary and training. enough of paying them degree holders pittance. they must be recognised as all those recognition that even maids and cleaners are getting.  me being where i am, i really dont care how much they are paying me because really it doesnt help at all, but i care for the teachers and what they are getting is just ridiculous. its not ten years ago when you can live with that kind of pay.

sorry, this is supposed to be a light happy post. haha. but really it has been all discussions for me this week.

must be this three 0 thing.

on the playlist.. Mojo. this band might just revive my interest to msian bands again.

ataris

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ohh there you go…my teenage years bands suddenly coming up relived… i found out from a small column in the straits times’ life section that there was The Ataris gig right here in singapore!! zaman biler seh the ataris!! but i had loved them.

here’s to ataris, you’ve been missed

note: wanted to put up their Beautiful Mistake, but i cant find a decent video of them from youtube. (and you thought you can get everything from the tube)

notenote: and following Finch in facebook, their page is recently alive with updates..could it be?? will they ever come to this red dot?

interval

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rest. what is rest to me?

rest is when i get to read a great engaging full of life book, with a mug of hot chocolate by the bedside table

rest is when i get to sew even though it was simply altering dresses

rest is when i get to do amateur pretty scrapbooking projects

rest is when i get to do the things above listening to some cool songs

rest is when (not yet, soon) i get to do some gardening

rest is when i get to watch a movie i loved on repeat

rest is when i get to watch awesome anime or dramas i love

rest is when i get to blog, happy stuffs. 😉

But someone said Rest is when my right feet enters Jannah. Allahumma salli alaa sayyidina Muhammad.

Lord, forgive me.

i need you now

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dont know what is up with me and this song. it was popular awhile ago, but i couldnt care less. but been playing this song in my mind for a few days and everytime i listen to this song, i miss my husband more. haha.

and watching the video, where at the end the singers met their partners, i always imagined it was me and husband. merepek kan. haha, apa2 ajelah seri ni :p

built to last

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i love my husband.

i want to do so much more to show him i care and love him.

his health, his well being, his clothes, the food he eats, his spiritual needs.

i dont know what i would do without him. its only been a few years of knowing and living with him. but i have grown so dependant on him and my life revolved around him. i couldnt live without him.

he takes great care of me.

oh definitely there are imperfections between us, but that’s what made us perfect for one another.

whatever may come. i will be with him.

this was built to last. amiin.