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6 July 2019
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
All the boba and bingsu in this world can't fight my fav SNOWFLAKE:Taiwanese Dessert Secrets (MALAYSIA)
Assalamualaikum & Hi!
It's been a while since I wrote here, I did but it's all kept in my draft, incomplete. But this one must go first. I'm turning 28! 2 more years till 30 & that's scary. There's nothing I should be scared of, yet in my heart there's still a lot of uncertainties about unknown future. Recently I just learned about the AI & explored ChatGPT & Bard by Google, so I asked them to share with me famous life quotes I should know as 28 years old. Here you go!
By 28, I've experienced the highest highs & the lowest lows but still wondering a lot on life. The most important thing is taking care of yourself as no you means no life. & life is actually a journey not destination, age is just a number, and I have a world of opportunities ahead of me. I should embrace each day and live it to the fullest!
Please pray that I will be at ease & peace, have enough & sufficient rezeki & most of all, will be blessed by Allah in everything for the rest of my life in shaa Allah.
28 & still young,
Adlina
Assalamualaikum & Hi!
As a person who have a lot in mind, went through overthinking phase & always multitasking, it's actually hard for me to actually to finish what I should be doing.
I don't know how it works, but I can focus to finish my to do list in the amount of time I needed.
There's one time while studying, I said to myself, "Open your heart, you need to do this". Then it worked! I remembered by heart of what I was reading. So I experimented on other situations as well, like in doing sales. "Just open your heart, talk about this to the doctors" & it went smoothly. I am still trying in other situations but so far all of it works. But everytime I was focusing on something I said, "Clear your mind, open your heart".
The mind game is real. & of course need to add number 3) Endless prayers - from yourself & everybody. I've read somewhere we need to have faith that our prayers will be answered, & despite knowing a lot of things are impossible, I'm training myself to completely trust my prayers will be 100% answered, in shaa Allah. With Ramadan coming soon, let's pray a lot more.
It's not getting easier, but I'm being more efficient, slowlyy but surely. In January I was definitely super miserable but by March a lot of things seems to be much better.
Till then,
Adlina.
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
[Saw this on my note, I think I wanna keep it here]
23:25, Mon 27 Feb 2023
For the past few days, I had experienced a lot of things that made me realized I have more than I wanted, better than what I expected.
Like last week, I went to the annual dinner of the company I worked at. I had few deep conversations, which showed me that if I went through the paths I planned for, it definitely will end up much worst. Allah made it easy for me to go there & went home safely. Despite being brave, I did feel scared to go everywhere on my own.
Today, I was clueless about a lot of things at work, but Allah send me people to help me understand better. After working hours, my sister, brother in law & their little cute baby came. We had dinner at a nice restaurant with good food & affordable price. & we were led to the mosque. The baby behaved, I could read the Quran & we stayed from Maghrib till Isyak. It was nice having quality time within 3 hours. Then they sent me home. I had this thought while I was in shower.
I was blessed beyond measure. Life didn't turned out the way I expected it to be, but better in ways I never imagined. Of course I had dreams I wished to come true, but Allah always knows best.
Last week when I called my mom, we had a lengthy conversation about life & she said, "Someday you'll know why things happened the way they did. One day when you're older you'll say, 'Ah, that's why Allah has planned my life the way it is, right now'". With everything I had went through, I already have a lot of 'Ah, that's why!'.
There were still days, when there'll problems arised, & my heart just felt I couldn't take anymore. But what He puts me through, was everything I could deal with.
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
Today I came through the statement from one of my favourite authors, Mr James Clear;
I've been on some highs & lows, but mostly being stagnant. Also was trying to figure out a lot of things. & trying to minimize planning to focus more on just doing it, taking step by step, one at a time.
The perfect day came when you least expect it to happen, & from the continuous efforts you've put through high & low. & it was today for me. Some things I've been pushing through just happened work out now, & I've got answers to many uncertainties.
So people, baby steps, take that slowly & increase the pace over time.
Ps: add in a lot of prayers tooooo, it magically gave me so so much peace to my heart.
Till then,
Adlina.
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
January memories - sadly to say no matter how much i tried to be positive, this month i was sad, angry, & exhausted the most. I already hit max of my stretch limit & positivity bank level depleted (takmau go further, & thinking why I keep signing up for a lot of hard things 😭). It was so hard that I couldn't feel anything at all except during certain times twice - I felt so peaceful on the train when I travelled & when I went to the market with Abah.
Despite that, a lot happy memories happened:
- went to Tulus concert
- went to two nice 4 stars hotel for staycation (Perdana Hotel the besttttt!) with the siblings who came to watch Harimau Malaya
- met big family & Abah's friends since smolll.
- removed my wisdom tooth & still alive!
- balik kampung once despite being so extremely super duper crazy busy.
There's still a lot blessings in my sorrow. Alhamdulillah. I'll try to be better.
Anyway, everyday I was struggling to go out from my misery & hecticness.
What I do was;
- remove all the distractions: IG, FB, Twitter & even LinkedIn. I uninstalled all of them. I kept making it hard for me to access these platforms. Cus when I consumed nothing, my mind will only have nothing to digest so I won't be distracted. But I came back, on certain days like long weekends.
- tracked everything down. Although not as effective as I wanted it to be, it worked.
- no multitasking. I didn't watch Netflix while eating, I didn't listen or read anything when I was commuting, I didn't open Spotify while having shower - I stayed in every moment, making it short & then moved on to other things.
- at some point I could no more contain my worries, miseries & anxieties. I just have to get all them done. So I just did it, & found that doing it layer by layer, one by one helped a lot. Likeee a loootttt.
- being with my family. That motivated me more than I imagined. They always told me not to give up & keep going, so I did.
- listened to Al Quran & its meaning. Life in the world is just temporary, it will end sooner or later. So listening to how I shouldn't worry much about worldly life but also focus on afterlife as well made me less worried.
- Cried. As much as I want. As long as I could. Until I felt better. Until I didn't want to cry anymore. Until I realized crying won't do any good except waking up & finished whatever troubling me.
I survived my longest, toughest, hardest January. Alhamdulillah, the pain of going out from there is undescribable, even worse than heartbreak. Even by just remembering it brought tears to my eyes.
I never thought I'd be this sad for not being able to figure things out on my own. But I never knew I could get out of it too. Pray a lot. Pray that God will let you go through this. I didn't believe I could, but I did. I had so much on my plate & kept filling more, until I didn't have capacity to finish all. But with Allah's grace you can do it. Pray, & make effort comes in combo.
May Allah ease February too 🥰
Till then,
Adlina
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
2022 in summary;
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
I started December with finishing 5 seasons of Ghost Whisperer, it was really a great show! I went for groceries shopping & prep my meal, for days when don't feel like buying or cooking but want to eat at home. It usually lasted for quite some time.
On first weekend, I went to Penang because I wanted to go to my high school friend's wedding. I visited my mom's family too & spent some time with my grandmother. Then, I went to Ipoh & Sungkai with my brother because he had wedding to attend too. It's a great time spending time only with my brother. Never thought I'd do that. I went back to Kedah for a while to see my niece.
This month also I started to buy my company shares, with hope it will grow aminnnn. I was busy calculating the tax things & looking for all the receipts of everything I bought. I calculated my spendings this year because I wanted to see my money went. It was as expected but certain things really surprised me! So I bought a budget planner for 2023 because I wanted to track where I actually spent my money before it went away & cut unnecessary things.
Had lunch dates with the team & the Gen Z gang before closing. I was scolded by my boss as well for wanting to go more when I should put a stop to my work - that made me cried lol. Watched Enola Holmes 1 & 2 - why nobody told me it was sooo amazingly goood?!
During the holiday breaks, my family & I went to celebrate Tuwa's birthday & had great lunch at Grand Canyon. My teeth decided to make me suffered in pain again, so I went to government clinic but I really need to remove this teeth so I booked an appointment with my favourite beautiful doctor because I couldn't say no to her.
Then I went to Penang with the whole family. We ate dinner at Padang Brown, had the best soy milk ever!
Of course after that, I have to go back to KL again to start hustle as usual. Really thankful for December ❤️
Till then,
Adlina.
Assalamualaikum & Hi,
It's already the end of October, which also flew pretty fast for me but a lot of things started to slow down for me. 4 weeks just ended in an instant for me.
Week 1:
After the lasik surgery, I went back to Kedah with Mama & Mahirah because I got 1 week medical leave. On the third day, my eyes stopped flowing with tears, so on the fourth day I started working again since it's the beginning of the month but I did it at a slower pace.
On Thursday night, I went back to KL because I have appointment with my doctor. I arrived at Hentian Duta at 6am thus I randomly decided to go to Masjid Wilayah.
It was the best decision I've made because I felt so calm being there; prayed Subuh with the Imam, then I read Al Quran until 8am. Thank you Allah for bringing me here.
Then I went to see the doctor for eye checkup. It was for a short while only & around 10am I was already done. To kill time, I went back the nearest mall because Mama wanted some fruits from there. I took bus to go back to Kedah at 12pm.
Once I arrived home, we celebrated October babies' birthdays - we ate Baskin Robbin cake for the first time!
I spend the rest of the weekend with my family; going out for breakfast & went to kenduri together.
Week 2:
I went to training of corporate culture & it was nice because it taught us different kind of ways to think. I also did groceries shopping, & ready a chapter of the book I needed to present the following week. I spend the weekend resting at home
Week 3:
I had my presentation, which was scary haha but it turned out to be a great discussion session. I love amazing sessions like this! We also had Isaac's farewell, everyone was so sad to let him go but he's going for better things so we're so happy for him. Then I went back to Kedah. I attended so many kenduri that weekend until my blood smelled like air sirap 😆
Week 4:
I went to the mall with my family during Deepavali - we ate sushii, shopping & played bowling together for the first time ever! On the way back we bought "burger bakaq" which was so good & instead of using coal, they used coconut coir. I continued WFH for the rest of the week trying to push through my sales, but they were certain things I couldn't hit because many things were out of stock. I started reading a book too, & then I went back to KL to start a new month.
Things were moving pretty fast, & I travelled a lot in October. Before going into November, I wished to clean up & reorganize everything in my life before going into 2023 in two months. We can do this girl, everything starts, NOW!
Ps: I've been keeping this in my draft for quite some time sorryyyy
Till then,
Adlina