In Love With the Chibird Blog

Yesterday, while I was scrolling through my pinterest account I found this very eye-catching cute drawings with inspiring messages & quotes from “chibird” character. I’m so into those cute little lovely drawings. It’s so sweet and combined well with the quotes. So I decided to share it in my blog today. And of course I have to mention about the user or author of the blog and together with that, you can find more about the blog and the author here at chibird.com .

She did mentioned about the app that she use to draw those lil characters. She only use Photoshop and Bamboo App probably from an iPhone if I’m not mistaken. Well, before I knew about the Bamboo apps, I already have the application installed in my phone. I know about the apps right after @mashable tweeted about the 5 apps that must have in the phone. I learned that the Bamboo apps also available on Android so I go the playstore and download the application right after that. Never comes in mind that the app would produce such a great drawing. A good idea instead. But seriously, I’m bad at drawing. 😂 hands-off. Below is the screen shots of the Bamboo apps in my Android phone; and ignore that awful looking minion drawing. LOL.

What makes me attracted to this chibird blog is how she present the quotes with beautiful drawing and cute characters. Yeap, the messages are truly great and of course it was so inspiring to read all those beautiful words and quotes which went very well with the cute drawing. She also elaborate each picture with the quotes with some thoughts which I think quite wise on her blog. So simple yet very good. I just fell in love with her blog. So I guess you’ll feel the same too after scrolling down her blog. Guaranteed. ;)👍

I always adore spontaneity, cuteness and also good quotes. This blog has it all. Too good to read. Here are some of the drawings i need to share with you guys I obtained from the blog. I hope she’s okay with it since I already mentioned the blog link here. chibird.com. I did sent permission message to her but haven’t got a reply yet. See this and I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. 😄

That’s only some of it. I bet you’ll want more. Just click on her link to check out more of the awesomeness. 😄👍

I wondered what’s her real twitter page. So I browse the chibird account and found some relatable to her i.e using the Chibird as their initial ID. But I found the most verified (not labelled as verified by twitter i mean) or trustable is the one who’s using this twitter username @ChipBoard. I’m not pretty sure if that’s it but I hope so. Whenever I share the pictures of chibird things I’ll always mention the ID and the official Tumblr account on twitter anyway so I wont be blamed to used other copyrighted works. 😁

So… I also would like to promote my twitter 🐦 page as well if you’re interested. Feel free to follow me there. I will always FOLLOW BACK if you ask. Find my username @joannanaa. Cheers. 😘

My Inner Thoughts

“Never compare your journey with someone else’s. It’s not a competition.”

Nowadays, I relentlessly compare myself to other people no matter how many times I reminds myself not to even bother and care about it. It’s hard to convince myself that I am good enough and how lovable I am even if I read a lot about self motivational thoughts or quotes.

A lot of pressure to stack up in nowadays culture that it to say about the habits of being not good enough or not doing best enough are the ghost to the mind. But sometimes, in the midst of the pressure I tend to totally forget about how all the wonderful, enjoyable and unique things about myself. I get stuck in my head and allow my inner critic to completely tear apart my self esteem until I hate myself too much to do anything. But they say, “how you live your life today affects who you are to become tomorrow”. So I need to find some space to let myself breath and putting the positivism first in my daily basis.

The other day, while I was beating myself up over something on the trouble I was going through at the time,  I read some positive comments from some of my blog readers telling me a comforting words and giving me some kind of motivations to keep going. If that simple thoughts was used in the intended context, they’re basically telling me that there’s someone out there that still care or understand my feelings or abandoned thoughts. Such comments are really inspiring and motivating. 🙏

Yeap. And I really need this. I’m awesome and I know it. 😄Lately I’ve been trying so hard to catch myself when I feel like sober or self-depreciating thoughts coming on, I will just let them slip at times. It’s okay to experience it. We’re just human. The solutions will eventually or naturally shape us like today. 🙂 Just enjoy the day and have an awesome life.

I am Back!

I am back. It's time to return.

Been a while since my last update last year. Quite busy with the work. Now I am a freelancer. Doing my own things and breath the air. But everywhere I go,  There’s always a trouble.

There’s always a person trying to bring me down over and over. Sometimes I can’t stand how they make a mess about my life. And all I can do is just watching them downgrading my self esteem. I keep telling myself not to take things too seriously. But it’s a serious problem by the way to talk about my life instead talking about their own.

My dear, time flies. There’s ups and downs in this life. You never know when you’ll be on the bottom. Today you’re on the top, don’t just proud of it. Keep it and stay how long you’ll be there. Pointing finger to people below you and make fun of them isn’t a good idea. Use your brain instead of your mouth. Don’t simply judge people. Reflect yourself through the mirror. Have self conscious. You’re also human.

That Is When I Put My Mask Off..

October 25, Monday 2013

Being with people is so much I can’t quite describe jow complicated my life is. Observing them and sometimes I feels like I’m stuck up with them. Sometimes I feel burdened with their wants and requirements. I feel tired and messed up.. That’s when I love how to be alone. Being away from them. But keep the relationship in a good mood and just go with the flow…

I just wanna be somewhere greener..
And lovely place where I can clear my head.
Away from reality….
I just want to be alone in my own little world.
To pick up any pieces of my shattered hearts.
And to let myself away from those people.
I’m not stuck.. but being me is enough.
I might be smiling a lot.
I might be funny, or even funnier.
But believe me.. every now and then,
whenever I’m alone, it’s such a relief.
Refreshed. And I can finally breath.
Because that’s when I put my mask off..
I am.. I am.. I am..
And I am is enough.
Just walk with God..

October 5, 2013

 

Who I am, really?

I’m not a name nor height, or a weight, or a gender. I’m not an age and I’m not where I’m from.

I’m my favourite books and the songs stuck on my head. I am my thoughts and what I’m eat for breakfast on Saturday morning..

I’m a thousand things but everyone chooses to see the million things I am not.

I am not where I’m from. I AM WHERE I’M GOING. And someone probably would like to go there too.

This is me and my Life. I love it~♥

I Like To be Alone..

A L O N E

Spelled and sounded as alone as the word…

I don’t want to sound depressed, but I’ve just been real bummed out lately I guess. My life isn’t all great, it’s not perfect as can be. I still believe it still has a perfect moments. I throw out my thoughts to express how I’m feeling. 

So far in life, I’ve had a strange relationship with aloneness. I need to be alone a lot, in ways that are complicated and bewildering, I think, to some of the people around me. One thing I love the most about myself is that I’m good at being alone. For me, being alone is something that I am comfortable with. As long as I can close a door, or walk away, or sit by myself, I’m fine.

Being alone has always felt deeply indulgent to me, like a day off or being able to buy whatever you want. I can subsume the need, of course, if I have to, and there’s a part of me that thrives on crowds and bustle and ambient noise. Too much, though, and I get cranky and sad and thoroughly unpleasant. I am a person who needs a lot of space, not the physical sort, but the distance from others kind.

The Reason To Live..

It’s taken me almost twenty-four years to be able to stand here in MY BEING, and be okay with me. To be okay with the fact that I love too much, if there is such a thing. I’m needy sometimes. I talk a lot. To myself, to my doll, to the mirror, to a pillow, to just about anything that will let me. This can be endearing to some, but not many. But it’s ME.

 

I do trust a lot. Immediately. I’m not who makes you earn my trust. I trust until you give me a reason not to. I’m really cheesy and say dorky things and I’m probably one of the worst joke tellers, which isn’t very helpful when you are a comedic actress. I procrastinate and I’ve been doing that since I was a kid.

 

I’m okay with the fact that I am perfectly imperfect. And I’m also okay with the fact that I don’t much.

What I DO know for sure? That even the things I do know, will probably change tomorrow. However, there is a certain truth that I know for sure. One I’ve known since I was a little girl. No matter what direction my life might take, what road or path, whether I’m the next millionaire, or a housewife, teacher, or waitress, whether I’m happily married or living with a house full of cats, I will be OKAY and my life will be beautiful.

Life And The Emotions

Life and the emotions; that was the topic lingering around my mind. Ones cannot escape from the past. Some people still with their past. The different is whether it’s a good or bad past life they have. Me too, as a normal human being, I still live and remembering my life in the past. It was quite horrible for me especially when the bad life in the past surrounds me. It makes me sick.

So then I’m telling myself to not to too over-thinking about my life and just live facing the future. Concentrating the very life I have and just live my life to the fullest. I realized I cannot be like this too often. It may reduce my quality of life and lower my self-esteem at the same time. Living in the past is like visiting and re-visiting history hoping that the past can alter the present, or reminiscing on what might have been, or chewing on plain, old fashion nostalgia. We cannot rewrite history, but we can only learn from it, and MOVE ON. Just keep moving on and on! Even if life keeps knocking us down.

Forgive yourself for the wrong choices that you’ve made in the past. They are not evidence of who you are, they are evidence of who you were.

My Macro Photographing

It’s been a while since I’ve got this hell job and slacks with my blog updating. Well, who cares. I need to find something that makes me happy. Like, maybe its hard but it might have been, I guess. (*´ー`)

To start again on my experiment about “macro photographing” is like back from the basic — again. I have to remember this kind of adjustment, that kind of metering, focusing, lighting and bla bla bla… and most of all, I have to endure the weather, the condition the dangers around and yet, the stability of my trembling hand (hahaha). Though, this experience is quite challenging, but I’m happy in doing it. Because it’s the thing that I love the most, I should know that. Rather than concentrating on my career as a pharmacist, facing different kind of human being, the characters the demands and what-so-ever acts, I’d better holding my camera and see the beauty of God’s creations – the little things that always fascinates me.

Okay, back to the point, these are the freshly taken photos I’ve been experimenting with since this morning with my “borrowed” lenses – to be clear, it’s a macro lenses.

1. First attempt — The little orange buggy ♥. It’s hard to capture an insect (is this ladybug in a group of insect?-pardon me. I’m bad at it. I’m not an entomologist lol). Without the aid of tripod or anything, I’m glad I’ve captured the moment while the ladybug is stand still like that. Well all I can say, it was the hard part. It requires patience.

Originally by me. Strictly Copyrighted.

2. Second attempt — I’ve move to search for a more extreme creatures. Like this spider. It’s a weird kind of spider. First time I’ve ever seen a shiny spider in my life (well, not even a tarantula, I’ve only seen it on TV. Never wanted to see one nor touching the very dangerous animal — like my no. 1 fear, the Mr Snake. L O L). But this lil spider is quite friendly. He gave me a sweet pose. Look at the stare.

Originally by me. Strictly Copyrighted.

Eat For Your Life ♥

I eat anything. I love trying something new around me. Including tasting other types of food that I found I’m interested with. I’m so glad to have a country that is rich with many kind of foods, whether traditionally or non traditionally. I thanks God for being here.

Aside from that, I’m not only a food lover, but I’m a well cooker too. Haha.. I can cook and create something new on my menu. Not to demand, I’m well suited with the sense of knowing what-is-the-ingredients of any dishes I tasted without asking the chef or whatever it is. If I’m too lazy to ask nor googling it out, I will just cook it from what readily available ingredients I have and just simply cook what can be made with those. I’m not a demand persons when it comes to work in a kitchen especially in cooking. What is the utmost important is the kitchen must be clean and not messy when I’m in it doing my cooking things.

My only problem when it comes to prepare a dinner or breakfast is I’m taking time too long to prepare a dish. That’s my weakness. But the outcome, I will make sure my guest or relatives wont regret and make them satisfied.

Today, my menu theme is traditional. Well, depends on what menu you’re preparing. If one of your dishes is traditional, then prepare the whole menu in traditional. What I mean here is not mixed with the modern menu or dishes. That would be weird right if modern and traditional food being mixed up in your meal. If it’s traditional, just prepare it in all traditional.

My slogan in cooking is simple.

The simple it is, The tastier it will be. 🙂

Here is my menu I cooked for our dinner tonight. Just an eye candy for you who reading my blog. 🙂

This is our traditional food. I call it “Pucuk Ubi Keriting Masak Lemak”. I don’t know how to pronounce it in English. So, just stick to that title. The ingredients is simple. I just gain few oz of dried salted fish, few slices of chillies (optional for those who wants it more spicy), coconut milk and of course the “pucuk ubi” as the main ingredient. What is special on this dish is, I don’t use any onion or garlic or ginger. Because, any natural food that is naturally grows doesn’t need that.

Second dish is my father’s favorites. “Spicy and Sour Fish Soup”. I use turmeric and ginger a lot for this to remove the smell of the fish. I also put in the lemongrass which made it rich in aroma. Besides, I also put tomatoes and a lil bit of “asam jawa” to give it a sour taste. I love it too.

This is the appetite booster. In english, they call it a mango salad. But in my language we call it “Ulam Mangga dengan Bubuk”. Bubuk is a name for a thinly dried prawns that I think only can be found in our country, Malaysia. Especially here in Sabah. I highlighted again, in Sabah. We’re rich in seafoods things if you don’t know yet. Just so you know. The ingreadients for this “ulam” is so easy as pie. You just need shallots, mangoes and bubuk. To make it clearly, just see the picture below to see how the dried prawns (bubuk) looks like.

Well..it’s a long post isn’t it? LOL
It’s quite rare for me to post anything nowadays. But since I have some free time now, I have to share something interesting on my blog.