{Writer's Workshop} 10 Tips for Myself

According to archives on my blog (my 1st), I've been blogging since 2005. That means I've been here for about 6 years. Gosh!! Quite a long time. But yet.. I feel that I haven't done much in writing. Specially writing in English :(

So.. after 6 years.. Tips which I can tell to myself are........

1. Just Write it Down! Don't think to much. Well.. you may write it as draft 1st in ur computer (or maybe in a piece of paper), if you still wanna make correction. But please.. don't forget to push that  'Publish Post' button.

2. Make a simple but unique name for your blog and make it sound international. I mean if you wanna have blogging friends from around the globe.

3. Just play with color and make your blog interesting. Not only for your readers but for yourself. Who know.. colorful blog might boost you to write more. 

4. To lazy to write?!?!? Then grab your camera, take a shot, give some caption and voila!! You have one post.

5. Go Blog-walking!

6. Leave comments. Wait. Don't just a comment. Leave a real comment. Who knows..maybe the owner of that blog will pay a visit to your blog too.

7. Follow a good blog and learn from them.

8. JOIN Writing Prompts as soon as possible so you have lots of idea. Don't be like me who's late in joining MamaKat.

9. Don't be greedy. Start with 1 blog but post with commitment instead of having several abandoned blog.

10. Start NOW.. and don't tell anyone you talked about in ur blog ;)

Happy Blogging ^__^

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{Writers Workshop} My Simple Things

My simple things that ease my day, brighten my gloomy mood, and make me feel alive.

Hang Out with Mommy

Playing with my yarn n crafting

Read with a cup of coffee on my hand (pic from here)

making affair with rain ;)

Big 20 of Year 2011

Hi!!
This will be my 1st writing prompt on this BRAND NEW YEAR!!

Hmm.. since it's a common thing to make resolution in new year, so I choose prompt No. 4) A list of 20 ideas to make this your best year yet.

This past few years I learn to make realistic resolution or plan for the whole 12 month. I mean, I don't wanna always stop in the middle of present year just because I get bored or desperate with my own unrealistic (to high on expectation) resolution.

So.. let see what I got in mind to make this year my best year yet.

Start my day with gratitude to Allah, God the Almighty. 

After all, for all these years, HE already give me a lot. A Super mom, supporting best friend, air to    breathe, shining sun, and many more.  And I can only return all HIS kindness with my gratitude. 

Read (recite) The Holy Qur'an more often. 

Because it's my guidance to life my live better and with it, hopefully I can know my God better. 

Try to accept and love myself better.

If my family and friends can accept me just the way I am, why can't I? Why do I questioning myself??

Fill my mind with positive thinking

Try to have positive feeling each and every day

Spend much time with family and friends

Who knows.. maybe this year will be the last time I could hang out and spend time with them.

Write! Write! Write!

Try to write more often, every where. Blog, diary, or just on a piece of toilet tissue. Write all down and make my own history.

Read and read again.

Broaden my world, my view with lots of books. Let my mind travel to the past, to fairy land, to the future. With books.

Let my finger dance.

Crocheting more often. My plan for this year is to crochet wearable for adult, not just for baby like last year.

 Try another crafting.

I'm quite good in crocheting, but so lame in knitting. So it's about time to upgrading my knitting lesson. 

Move on!!

Can't forget the past coz it will always be part of me. But its time to move on and write down new story. Make peace with my past.  

Be spontaneous

Sometimes its good to go out and just try to do something out of my habit. Who knows.. maybe it will do something good.

Saving 

Gosh!! never really good at this. But have to try it harder this year. CHAYO!!!

Pretend that its the 1st time

Daily routine at work can make me bored to death. So my plan is to pretend that it's my 1st time. 1st time drafting a letter, 1st time calling insurance agent, 1st time handling complaint. All 1st experience always fun even sometimes bring tears when it happened.

 

 Love mother nature

Earth and mother nature is getting older and older, while they carry a lot of thing on their old shoulder. So let show them some love. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

A Healthy Life

Start to love my body. Begin with feeding myself with more veggie and fruit. Try to reduce my coffee  & snack addict. Eating for life and not Life for eating.

 Sleep Well

 

Learn How to Cook

My late grandma, my mom, they all a very good cook. Me? Well.. I can bake cake or cookies, but cooking??? Hmm.. looks like its time for me to learn how to do it.

 

Gift! Gift! and more Gift!

I always loveeeee gift. It doesn't matter whether is was fancy or cheap or handmade. I just love it!! So this year.. I wanna share some gift for my friends n family. Not a B'day gift. Its just my way to say thanks for being there for me.

Last but not least... Enjoy Every Single Moment

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Before I Met Internet

I'm really not in the mood today. So I just stop working for a while and start wandering around looking at old writing prompts on Mama Kat's Blog.  And finally decided to work on this prompt 'What did you do before we had the internet?'

I wanna write about it since for this past few weeks there's no internet connection at home. We just moved and still busy with unpacking. So no chatting or browsing or gaming or blogging during the night and weekend. And its more like bye bye internet -for a while I hope-.

How funny that technology called internet could change my life. I mean.. I remember that I used to write a letter to my friend, or sending cards to my relative. And now after internet was born, I use ym to talk to my best friend, sending virtual cards on Eid for my relatives. I know it's quicker, cheaper, but yet sometimes I feel that there's personal touch in it. 

Looking for new job?? Well I don't have to buy Saturday and Sunday  newspaper which full of job advertisement. Now I just click here and there and voila... lots of job ads appear.  Just sign in into this job ads site and every time I found interesting job, with just simple click, they can have my CV  in very very short time. No more paper, no more sending by airmail.

But for me one thing never change. I prefer reading a real book  made of paper, which -sometimes-  had the same weight with newborn baby :D instead of e-book. I enjoy put it on my bag every where I go, reading it anywhere, every time I got a chance. Bus station, platform, just anywhere. Pstt.. sometimes I read on bathroom to >.<

Coffee?!? Bring it on !!

I can't remember the exact time I started to drink coffee. But I do believe that I got that habit from my Eyang (Nana) and my Dad. Both of them are coffee freak. My Nana is an active person. Very active. But if she didn't drink coffee in the morning like she used to on her daily basis, that means she's not feeling well. 

Anyway.. I drink coffee because......

1. Like I said above.. My Nana n My Dad introduce me to coffee.

2. I like how if smells while its brewing. I even bought coffee flavor for my burner. 

3. It helps me through the day. Honestly with a fussy Mrs. Boss like mine, you'll need coffee a lot.

4. I like coffee. I even love coffee. But for black coffee, I prefer local coffee  (like this one) better than instant coffee like Nescafe. But I do like nescafe WITH creamer or milk.

5. I like to go to traditional market, buy coffee bean and asked them to milled it. Loveeee the smell.

6. Somehow.. I like to hold that warm cup while watching rain. 

7. Definitely Love the taste. 

8. Hot or cold, Black or with creamer, they all taste yummi.

9. Loyal companion through the night when my college task piling :D, when I had a bad day, when I need 'me' time.

10. Oh well.. lets just say that I'm addicted to it. 

I Confess that....

I'm scared to start another relation with a man after what I had in the past. Not just because it was so hurtful before but also because I still in a shadow of my parents broken marriage. I mean what if I end up the same like their marriage? Like my mom who's left behind with two kids.  And if it's happened,  I wonder will I survive??

You see...it took a lot of courage when I started that relation. And when it finally end, I feel like there's no other chance for me. Although in some point I realize that it wasn't my fault. I mean.. I'm not the one who lied. And now.. I still try to convince myself that there's no guarantee that what happened to my parents will happen to me. I'm still try to convince that there's a man out there that really there for me and its just a matter of time before we finally meet.

This post is for:

My Sunshine

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can not see the shadow” 

– Helen Keller -

I wish I could to that. Not able to see shadows over me, dark clouds over my head. But yet in most of my life, I saw them into various shape. From my parents divorce, loosing a job, loosing a house that i called home for 25 years, and many more. Sometimes I wonder when will these things end? When will I found peace for myself. 

But yet, I still life and not gone crazy like i think i would with all those shadows which i called problems. I can laugh and even laughing all those old time problems. Which by the way i never think i could do.

And all of that happens because i finally realize I'm only human. It doesn't matter how hard  I tried to solved or fixed things, to change my life, to have the certain situation I want, I just couldn't do that. Not if ALLAH didn't allow me to. 

Hey.. I'm not that religious. I just finally realize that I can only do my best and leave the rest to HIM coz HE know what best for me. Besides, HE never left me alone. HE appears and shows HIS existence through my mom's love, through my best friend who accept me just the way I am. 

And you know what.. every time I try to count all misery, dark clouds, shadows, problems or what ever it was, HIS blessed and gift are lot more than that. The air I breath for free, the chance to wake up healthy every morning, to see the sun shining, the rain falls, all of that are HIS gift for me. 

So what can I do other than be grateful and stay think positive.

And when ever i down and felt that HIS being unfair... i just remember this verse from Holy Qur'an:

'Then which of the favors Of your Lord will ye deny?' (55:13)

My Prompt Choice:

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can not see the shadow” – Helen Keller
In what ways are you able to stay positive about something that sometimes brings you down?

Someday..

I finally step into that room for the first time. My mouth was open and I'm in total shock. It was amazing, just like I ever want. I never realized that, He -my future hubby- will remember every single thing I've said about working room, my own sanctuary.

From the rainbow colored rug I want with some huge pillow on it. Heyy!! He also got me a Huge Pooh Pillow. It's surprising you know, since he always that pooh is only for kids and not adult :D

The HUGE wooden shelf against the wall.  Now I can arrange all my yarn based on their color. Just like how they arrange at my fav. crafting store. He also provide me with bookshelf for my crafting book.

got pic from knitculture.com

And heyy!! I still have a corner for my desk, wire shelf for all buttons, ribbon, needles, beads, and other stash;  my sewing machine, my mannequin, another shelf for my left over yarn (this one made from rattan)

totally in love with this, just like what i see @ lamgarden.com

GOSH!!! it's really heaven on earth for me. Totally really absolutely LOVE this room!!! Can't hardly wait to start crafting here. Someday.. ^_^

If I Could..

stop time for 24 hour, I will search for a big tree and just lay down watching the sky and feel the air. Let the sun shine over me, feels the wind. 

I might sound silly, but with all the chaotic things in my life, from office work, bad romance, financial issues, and many other. I never really had a moment for my self. No, in fact I feel like I never really absob everything. One problem solved, then another problems came up.

So if could stop time for 24 hours.. i just wanna do and think nothing.