its finally the end of 2016. on 31st december, we can see influx of people reflecting on their year, and making new resolutions. 2016 is a roller coaster year; brexit and trump election in worldwide scale, prominent figures leaving the world, heart-breaking inhuman cases around the world, so much of it that we just wish 2016 will be over and hoping 2017 will be new ray of hope.
i say, my year was pretty so-so. this was the year i discovered new passion, having major breakdown couple of times, making new friends, binge-ing lots of anime etc etc. so im just gonna list out 6 major things i think im proud of myself achieving!
1.travelling
after having my first travelling experience to melbourne, i have this hunger to travel around. i dont care where the places are, just that i want to be able to see the world, the culture, the people. i went and bought a bus ticket to johor impromptu just to have a 2-day gastronomic experiences, went to penang with muna and ety searching for street art. first time driving as far as cameron highland during semester break with ira, nure' and lia. then driving 2 hours to melaka just to see mina although most of the time we were stuck in jam because of the holiday season haha. sometimes, even places that we have gone countless time give different kind of experiences each time we go there.
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| street art in jb |
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| lavender garden in cameron |
2.passion for makeup
ok personally, this started as a personal mission of trying hard enough so that i wont ever need a mua if i ever doing major event in my life (thinking of wedding but idk when is the wedding hahahaha). if you know me from highschool, you will know that i never put anything on my face, not even a cleanser. yes i regret my skin back then habis legam weh kena sunburn but then i slowly got introduced to makeup i think during my third sem because of my roomate ira. i think the first lipstick i ever tried was her's and i was like eyyyy kinda prettylah this colour and whoops, everything is a history. there was time i went on makeup spree that my wallet hurt, but as time went by i learn to prioritize that i dont really need expensive makeup, just need to be able to do a proper one even with just few products. makeup also makes me link up with many people. im not saying i just talk about makeup with these people but most of the time they are willing enough to dengar i membebel pasal makeup that i am grateful for having these people around hehe shoutout to teha, dini, and hani!
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| my first eyeshadow palette! |
3.learning lettering
this is one of major turnpoint for me. i was in a slump, having really bad thoughts for few months. then i think i saw reyna posting her lettering and i was so in awe i asked her how did she do it. then i asked about where to buy water brushes and ta-da here i am, still pretty mediocre haha. i think im pretty much more comfortable in using brush pen than water brush, so im thinking of enrolling in a day watercolour workshop to work my hand around it. i really wanted to be able to make my own greeting card so that i dont have to buy from shop.
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| one of my earliest watercolouring |
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| then i started using brush pen |
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4.meeting counsellor
ah, a dreaded topic for me. one day, i decided, im not going to let myself self-destruct so i went to the counsellor office. it was a very....helpful time i guess. i cant remember what i said to the counsellor, i just remember there was a lot of crying from my part haha. we did communicate through ws after that but after time, i just didnt have the heart to reply to her. idk, i feel some of the things i talked to her werent that significant for me to consider it as problems so i just feel idiot most of the time that i feel like she was thinking im an idiot maybe but idk. i keep overthinking what people is thinking of me that finally i ceased my interaction with her. not her fault tho. just me and my overtly overdrive brain thinking the worse of a situation.
5.losing weight
ending with a bang! i lost total of 9kg in one year ok i know its not much but hey thats quite an achievement for me (5kg in semester 6 and 4kg in semester 7). it started after i keep having knee pain on my left leg so one of my friend, a physiotherapist said that the first step i needed to take in order to reduce the pain is to lose some weight. idk how to diet and im lazy to exercise so during semester 6, i didnt take any rice and all the sugary stuff.but then on semester 7, i joined this program called mission slimpossible, an fyp project under zafirah where they wanna see how the intervention of weekly exercises and regulating food intakes can help in reducing weight. and i manage to learn how to properly do my diet and im also now able to do exercises without feeling i wanna die haha. i even manage to jog now compared to how i live before.
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| jogging on the last day of 2016 :) |
