Twenty Seven

Thanks to Baros United Fam!

Hello, man, I am officially no longer able to call myself someone in his mid-twenties, but now I am someone in his late twenties hahaha. Officially 27 today and whew I feel old! Funny how I used to tell myself that I don't want to feel old on my birthdays anymore because well, we are all growing old. Nothing can stop time for moving forward, and nothing can stop us from growing too.

But well, I hope I become wiser as I get older. I don't really know what to feel anymore after each birthday. I just wish for great health and more wisdom. And of course, as always, to be more mindful at all times. I no longer wish for happiness. Mindfulness is way cooler than that haha.

Anyway today was just another ordinary day. Thankful for the dinner (or lunch for me) that my family organised at my uncle's cafe to celebrate my uncle's belated and my birthday! And thank you to everyone for your wishes, presents and everything else. Appreciate it so much :D

I don't know how to put turning 27 into words. Life feels weird to me these days. 

Nevertheless, here's to surviving another revolution around the sun on this weird and beautiful world.

Mood. Where art thou

I'm gonna be honest with you, I find it harder and harder to make myself blog haha. Ever since the Lebaran holiday I guess! I am addicted to resting now. I used to put Saturday as my blogging and journaling day, along with music playing on the record player, or the trusty laptop. Now, I don't even journal on Saturdays haha. I pushed it to Sunday, or if I have the mood and drive, it's done on Saturday. I turn Saturday into music nights now. I just play records and chill. Like literally.

I don't even surf the web, I don't read articles. It's quite a blissful experience to be honest. I love how I become more rested at the end of each session. And yeah, after every session, I lost all my feels to blog, journal and so on. I wouldn't say it's a bad thing, of course. Everyone deserves a break.

I definitely won't neglect this blog tho, that's for sure. I think I'm gonna stick to the 100 posts a year.

I think I need to go back to 2014 maybe, where I dedicate a day to just blog. And I should go back to making lists of the posts I want to write. Or back to dedicating monthly special posts, like music, food etc. Well I'm gonna blog more often in July. It's a favourite month of the year anyway.

Okay I'm gonna head to bed now. I am pretty excited for this week. Kind of been waiting for this week to come for months now so yep. You have a great week too! And a splendid other half of July.

Buzz

Haven't been blogging here again, for quite a long time, well the past week has been really happening. Thus the title of this post: I feel like my mind has been buzzing here and there throughout the week hah. Anyway yeah here I am, let me give you a bit of an update. Or lots of it.

To begin with, my dad had a fall last Saturday night. It was quite serious that my brother and I had to bring him to the hospital as he needed some stitching. He also did an X-Ray but thankfully everything is normal. He just had a slight fracture on his nose but it's not of a huge concern. After he got stitched up, we went back home at 4:30 AM. I'm just glad everything went smoothly and nothing serious (except for the stitch) happened to him. And he's recovering well now, with his wound drying nicely.

And then on Tuesday, I fell sick by catching the flu bug. I think I got it from my dad who was having flu and sore throat on last weekend. On Monday night (Tuesday dawn), I began to sneeze a lot and felt slightly feverish. I went to spam some chamomile but when I woke up on Tuesday, I began having chills and my nose were runny. And on Tuesday evening, I had a fever. 

Then on Thursday I woke up with a very itchy throat. Urghh, just when I thought I had recovered from my flu with the fever and runny nose gone, my throat decided to betray me haha. Was feeling better yesterday on Friday but today, I woke up with chills again. Gosh, dear virus please make up your mind. Feeling okay now, just that I still have the occasional itchy throat. And random coughing fits.

I always don't like it when I'm having a fever cause I know there's nothing I can take to heal it. Apart from drinking water, resting and chamomile really helps for me. I actually drank like 5 cups of chamomile from Thursday - today! Well from my improving condition (except for today), I think there is something about chamomile really haha. Please give it a try! But yeah whenever I have a fever I always subconsciously go into "panic" mode, constantly asking myself if it will go down or not.

Alright, I hope this is just a bad start of a Jubilant July. Few things are happening in this favourite month of the year for me. I think we know why haha. Okay I hope that you're going to have a Jubilant July too! Take care and I will see you soon alright. I have a few posts coming up weeee.

Daydreamer

Right, it's that time of the month again where I will share the great music of May! Sorry but I'm kinda rushing so once again, this is just a list of music that I discovered alright :)

Great Music of  June:

- Favela Presents: A Thousand Fibres by Favela ft various artists

- A Different Kind of Human by Aurora (album)

- MTV by Rosemary Fairweather

- Cotton Candy by Rosemary Fairweather

- Good Thing by Henry Nowhere

- Calling Me by Midnight Mystery

- Burned by Work Drugs 

- My Dude by Litany

- Hurts by Tahiti 80

- Captain of Your Sinking Ship by Kommode

Song of the month: Carve My by Favela ft Nick Brewer

I discovered so many songs this month! Thanks once again to Spotify radio and playlists haha. I love the discoveries of this month because they are very varied! From electronic, to pop and Indie pop.

But as mentioned in my previous post, FPATF takes the award this month!

Alrighty just a really short post cause as usual, the end of the month is a very busy time for me! Pretty excited for July, it's somehow my favourite month of the year. Also my favourite lunar month. Also a few great albums that I've been anticipating are released next month woohoo. I hope June has been treating you well. 6 more months to go to 2020, 6 more superb months for us! :)

Carve Me

My favourite lyrics from Carve Me, ft Nick Brewer

Favela released a collaborative album back on the 30th of May called A Thousand Fibres and man, it's another beautiful album from him! To my the title of the album is very fitting. This album, or I mean the songs of this album, are like a thousand emotional fibres woven into a warm cozy blanket that envelopes the heart. As usual the album is one hell of an emotional ride! Congratulations to Favela and all the artists involved in this album for the phenomenal album!

Even though the album was released in May, I'm gonna put it in the June's list since it's on the last day haha. And I've been enjoying listening to this album during the holiday.

I really enjoyed the whole album in general but some songs stood out for me. They are Carve Me, Rusks and Wine, You Say, Sparrow and Fool Again. Especially Carve Me, which is a song that really made me emotional and empowered at the same time after listening to it!

Favela has been one of my favourite artists/songwriter that I discovered in the past few years. And he's definitely inside my top 10 favourite musician list of my life. I discovered him back in 2015, and it was a purely serendipitous and grateful discovery that I made! I remember back in 2015 I used to listen to Soundcloud to discover new music. And one fateful night, Favela's Easy Yoke played on shuffle in Soundcloud and wow I just fell in love with it right away.

After a few searches on YouTube, I discovered his social media pages and also his bandcamp! Which I bought Easy Yoke at. Now his Bandcamp page is no longer active. And his old materials are actually amazing too! I wish he will release it on Spotify one day.

Year after year we've been blessed with his incredible music. From Future Vision EP, English Letters EP in 2017, his debut album Community last year, and now FPATF. I seriously hope that he won't stop making music. Because his music is incredible. And I really think he's a talented songwriter as well. He really touched words and turn them into magic. Magic that touches your heart!

And his music in general is just so melancholic and emotional. Like for example his song Nevermore My Temples Leave is truly one of a kind in this world. I always feel weirdly emotional whenever I listen to it. It gave me a feeling I've never felt before when I listened to it for the first time. A personal favourite for me is Medals. Because I relate to that song a lot. Confession: I also cried to that song a lot. It's emotional and it always made me feel sad about the world. And its functions.

Alright that's all from me now. This is a special post dedicated to one of my favourite musicians ever, Favela! I hope you give his new album a listen because it's incredible. And his other music too mwahaha. Alright see you again. Take care and have a great week ahead :)

Left Behind

I am seriously in deep shit for not blogging here haha. See I told you, blogging more often during the holiday isn't gonna happen! But nevertheless I have my reasons for that too. 

Anyway yes the holiday is over and we're all back to work for almost 2 weeks now. Here are some quick updated to my life mwahaha. Reasons for not writing is... Well I actually really had a great break during the holiday. I was literally doing nothing. I spent most of the night just surfing the web, watching YouTube videos, listening to music, and not forgetting, journaling of course! Thus that's why I didn't blog, I spent most of the nights doing nothing. And it's fantastic.

Also I am now officially an uncle to four kiddos now! My 2nd sister gave birth to her son last Thursday and I'm so happy for her and my brother in law! Well although now I feel more pressurised because everyone has been asking me when's my turn *rolls eyes* hahaha. I'm single AF so don't expect me to be with anyone, let alone have kids HAHAHA. But yes, my new nephew is a healthy boy!

And yeah that's all for the updates I guess... I might be sharing some of the poems and posts I wrote on my journal here. Also I promised you a post dedicated to Favela and that's coming soon!

Alright that's all for me now. I will see you soon.

Holiday Syndrome

Hello hello, I know I'm a day late but just wanna wish Eid Mubarak to all Muslims around the world! I hope you had a blissful month of Ramadhan and a wonderful Eid celebration with your loved ones :) This year Eid coincides with my grandfather's 27th death anniversary so we were doing the prayers yesterday. My aunts and uncle came over as usual and it was a pretty chill and quiet day.

Somehow the first day of Eid seems like the quietest day of the year at home hah. 

Anyway I've been enjoying the past 3 days of holiday here. I am suffering from what I like to call the Holiday Syndrome. I wouldn't say it's a problem, it's a good thing actually haha. I'd like to call it a syndrome where you feel that you're obliged not to do anything even though you may have things to be done, and could be done haha. But seriously though, not doing anything is an act of bliss these days.

Not only that my shop is closed for Eid, so I don't have to do the daily sales report, but yeah I just had a great time not doing anything! Haha. Besides the going out during the day activities of course. Like after dinner, I would wash the dishes, went back to my room and do nothing! Scroll through Instagram, watch YouTube videos, and lay around my bed. It was wonderful haha.

I wanted to journal/blog but meh I don't feel like doing so. Like I just wanna do nothing haha.

I would say it's an act of bliss because on other days, I feel like I'm just preoccupied to do things. To think about things and so on. And it's wonderful not being needed to do such heh. But usually things will go back to normal slowly as the holiday nears the end. But if you enjoy every day, doing things you want to do, and things your heart wants to do, you won't feel bad that the holiday is coming to an end.

It's all about being present I guess.

Okay that's all from me now. I have 2 more posts in mind that I will write soon. In the meantime, let me suffer my holiday syndrome as much as I can hahaha. Hope you're doing well.