Pssstt…psttt..when A Traveller on Budget starts packing her things…πŸ˜‚

HelloOoooOooooo Everybody!!!!

Ni hao ma?? Its a holiday week!! Whoot whoot!!! πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³

As you know, for Malaysian, we have yearly festival Chinese New Year on upcoming 1st and 2nd February. Then, following our replacement state holiday on 3rd February. So, it’s happened that…we…Malaysian who stayed in Kuala Lumpur going to have 3 days leave..straight from 1-3 February 2022. Whoot!! Whoot!! Wasn’t it awesome?? I love Malaysia coz we have a lot of festival and lots lots of leaaaveesss 😁

Soo, everyone. Since the pandemic still going on, and seems like will never go away, so we were mostly travelling within our states. On this weekend, we going to go “Sekinchan!!!”. So, I’m starting to pack light, coz we just going to stay for a night πŸ˜‚

Just want to share some trick and tips for a light and budget packing. For those who using contact lens, I’m pretty sure you got a lot lot of these right???!! Contact lens casing. When you buy the saline, you will probably get one. I have a lot, so I try to multipurpose the use of it.

I don’t have any allergic to plastic and kinda rough and tough skin, so I can use this way. For those who have a very sensitive skin, it is not advisable to store your skin care like this πŸ˜…

Okay, that’s all for now..tonight I’m going to pack my cloths..and just using my laptop backpack!! Hahaha!! I’m not a lazy traveller..I’m just a minimalist on budget πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜„πŸ˜†πŸ˜…

Till then….see you in next post…

To Be Continue…

Love, Sofia

The empty contact lens casing
Tadaa..Body Gel, Shampoo, Skin Care and Tooth paste πŸ˜„
I kept all inside a small plastic, sealed

My wardrobe cleanup πŸ˜˜

Hi everyone! It’s weekend! Time to enjoy ourself and reward our soul.

I just wanna share some cool items that I bought, helped me in saving my electric consume for my wardrobe. I bought 4 sensor LED magnetic light for my wardrobe. It will turn on when detected movement, and off when no movement. It helps me in finding my things/cloths well, rechargeable and portable LED lights. πŸ₯°

It’s quite long LED light
It comes with magnetic pad, which already have adhesive sticker at the back. I just need to peel it and stick anywhere I want. So easy installation πŸ˜ƒ
At the back of the light has another magnetic pad that already been sticked. I think the magenetic pad is a good item to buy separately and experiment with other stuff, especially for kitchen storage. I will explore it with other things as well, to make room/house more sleek look πŸ₯°
The DC port, and it has option auto-as for auto-on when it sense some movement, auto-off when no movement; and I can turn it on always or off. It has options what I need.
Tadaaa..yess..im bad in installing stuff. I just stick it for a practical practice without thinking its nice to look or not πŸ˜„
How it basically looks like….i still need a lot to declutter…idk how long it will goes..coz its been going for about 3years to declutter my wardrobe. I’m taking it out, slowly and follow my own timeframe πŸ˜‚
How it looks like at the other side πŸ₯°

Okay everyone…idk when I’m gonna install my RGB LED for my whole room. I’m still looking for a better idea on that.

Till then….to be continue….

Love, Sofia

Hey…..psstt…pssttt ☺

Hey everyone…it’s been awhile not updating my blog. Apologize for that, coz busy helping my project manager in some deployment.

So hey, how are you guys? Hope everyone safe from Covid-19. How’s the cases in your country? It’s getting higher here in Malaysia, for the trend of new Covid-19 cases, Omicron. So, we just have to “Kita jaga kita”. Its a slogan been used in Malaysia as translated in english “We took care ourself”. So, everyone, stay safe and don’t forget to wash hands, sanitize accordingly and stay healthy ok? πŸ˜‰

I’d experiment something today. I’d slept so early last night, and woke up so early today. Im feeling so fresh! I think I just want to change slightly of my routine habits, to sleep early and wake up early. I slept at 9.30pm, and woke up at 5.00am. I think it’s a perfect sleeping time for me. So, you got to explore and experiment yourself, which is works for your own body.

I try to change little by little towards minimalist lifestyle. I don’t go for drastic, my body and my mind just can’t accept drastic impact. I need to move slow. Starts by, arranging my wardrobe and now..chanhing my sleeping time. Normally, i will sleep at 11,12 sometimes 1am, wokeup at 6 something in morning and i feel exhausted. I try something new today..sleep at 9.30pm and wake up at 5.00am. It looks okay, lets see for several months if there is any improvement in my living quality.

Just a lil planning, to have some morning walk over the weekend. Let’s start next week or perhaps tomorrow…just to maintain the energy level πŸ˜ƒ

Okay guys, thats all for today. Will post what I’ve done for past few weeks to minimize my wardrobe and keep it minimalized.

Till then…to be continue…

Love, Sofia

Happy New Year 2022 πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³

Hi Everyone!! Happy New Year 2022 to all of you!

This going to be my 1st post in 2022.

My resolution for this Year 2022 is to reduce buying unnecessary things, and recycle whatever that I can recycle. Keep things simple.

Im still struggling on how to minimize my stuff, especially wardrobe. Since I got lot of empty boxes, so I was thinking my 1st project in this Year 2022 is to make DIY undergarments drawer organizer.

Here below are some ideas I’ve been looking through the internet…but I’m going to create my own organizer using things that I have.

Stay tune, guys!! And stay safe!

Happy New Year πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³

I’m wishing you showered with blessed for this year.

To be Continue….

Love, Sofia

Mating or Meeting? πŸ€”

Hello everyone!! How are you doing?

I hope you are all good and safe.

Just want to share with you, I had bought females Betta fish for my existing male Betta fish.

Somehow, they are still wondering what is happening. Are they knowing each other or they were in meeting discussing on who going to be 1st, 2nd and 3rd? πŸ˜ƒ

I don’t know yet, my goal is that all my Betta fishes can get along well together (doesn’t matter male or female), so that I will only have 1 tank to minimize my aquascape πŸ˜ƒ

I’m wishing….wish me all the best, guys πŸ™ƒ

Are they mating or meeting?? πŸ˜ƒ

I will update any news later…till then…to be continue..

Love, Sofia

Hey…Updates for my Aquascape πŸ₯°

Hi Everyone!! I made an arch for my Aquascape. It’s a bit tricky to make it and need patience.

I’m just using materials I have-Aquascape glue and Lava Rocks.

So, I started glue the Lava Rocks together and make an arch, then I’m simply glue to the existing rock base. Enjoy the picture below!! πŸ˜ƒπŸ₯°

I tried to make an arch…with the Aquascape glue…
How it looks like from top
Side view
Front view
Close up!! I love the mini leave plants..gonna buy the big leave and love leave for 2nd box πŸ₯°
Close enough? πŸ˜…
My Arch!! 😍

Guys, I’m now rearranging my mini tank, coz this betta fish poo so much. So, I decided to rearrange the mini tank…stay tune for better aquascape..this is for trial only..☺

Till then, to be continue..

Love, Sofia

The New Hobby!! πŸ₯°

Hi Everyone!! How are you? Hope everything goes well.

Recently, I got a new hobby..it’s Aquascape πŸ˜ƒ

I managed to buy the equipments and tools for over a month. Yes!! You hear it right! Over a month ‘coz I’m collecting the daily free shipping. So, at least I save up on the shipping fee for the new hobby. Weee!! πŸ₯³

So…here you go. Here are things that I bought online for my Basic Aquascape…

All what you need for a basic aquascape equipment and tools πŸ˜ƒ
1. A medium size sand (optional)
2. Lava rocks
3. Small size sand. I’m using Montana sand.
4. Aquatic soil
5. Aquascaping instant glue (optional)
6. Mini grass seed, Purple Reddish leaf seed and Mini leaf seed. I’m using this for the base of my Aquascape πŸ˜ƒ
7. Fertilizer for the plants.
8. Some “Panadol” for the plants.
9. The tools-scraper and tweezers.
10. Last, but not least. Glove!! 😁
So…..mine was a simple Aquascape like this…we shall wait for a week for the seeds to sprout. It needs ton of patience. I keep it for at least a week…so it happened to be like this on the forth day….
After 4th days………..still growing…..

Till then, I will show you the final product.

Stay tune…

Love, Sofia

Hey guys!! It’s finally here πŸ₯³

Hi Everyone! It has been months I’m not updating my blog. I were busy with something, just today I got some times to update my blog. YabedabedoOoo!! πŸ₯³

So, it’s been a month that I’m waiting for my RGB LED light. Finally its here!!

I bought 40m RGB led light for my room! I hope its enough πŸ˜ƒ
The LED comes with remote controller
Testing out some colors. It’s beautiful 😍
White color…

So, overall cost for these 40m RGB LED lights are RM 96.26 😚

I gotta off for 3 days and will be back soon for the installation. Stay tune!!

To be continue….for RGB LED installation at room…

Love, Sofia

Its Saturday…De-Clutter day πŸ˜‡

Hi Everybody!! I hope you have a good vibes today! Its Saturday…Relaxing day..

What my relaxing day will be…is…Decluttering day!! Yeppie πŸ₯³

Today, we going to sort this portion in my wardrobe

Tips On How To Divide Unuse Items πŸ˜ƒ

I have lots of scarf. I don’t use any technique out there, there are tons of decluttering technique, which I find its kind stressful to learn πŸ™ƒ

So, what I did, I just slowly divide it, which I frequently use, and which I seldom use. Those I frequently used, I already hang it on my wardrobe. Just these left to give away, because of it looks like new, so I still keeping if until now.

Here are things that I don’t use anymore, but I still keeping it coz some have sentimental value

I think it’s time to re-visit the scarf back and divide it to which I can donate/sell off, which I still wanna keep. I don’t go drastically wipe away all my things, coz most of my things have sentimental value. Im still fighting to get rid of things that have sentimental value to it. I do it, slowly….but surely. 😁

Let’s divide these first
All of these..Im going to sell/donate. Okay, I love sequence, so I do my things follow the sequence. I will try to sell it first, if don’t have any buyer, then I will donate it to those needed it the most πŸ˜€
Okay, all these are tough to let go..the green and pink I bought when Im traveling to South Korea, the White-Grey and blue I bought when Im traveling to Bali. The light grey is the most comfortable scarf i wore when Im traveling to South Korea. So, I will still keep these scarf and let see if I can get rid of these in future πŸ˜ƒ

So, Everyone…that is how I divide things to declutter my stuff..we only use what we want, we get rid those we don’t. But, I have a problem with sentimental value stuff, and I have tons of sentimental value stuff, that I don’t use and need to get rid of it one day…this is just a portion of my wardrobe..a lot more to go….πŸ₯²

Till then..To be Continue…

Love, Sofia

It’s Time to Plan Out for 2022 πŸ₯³

Hi Everyone!! How are you doing today? I hope you all well.

Its almost end of October 2021, I think it’s a good time to start plan out some plans for 2022. Write it down, what have you achieve this year and what you want to achieve for next year πŸ˜ƒ

THINGS I HAVE ACHIEVED IN 2021

Its been some achievements that I’ve successfully accomplish for 2021…Thank You to the Most Gracious God. Alhamdulillah. So, here I’m listing down things I’ve accomplished in year 2021.

1. Personal Loan and Car Loan Settled

During these pandemic situation, the Malaysia government has implemented Moratorium for the whole Malaysian. These means, they are some freeze activities on the car loan, house loan monthly payment, which soon will extended in future. Means, when the Moratorium for 6months implemented, its automatically for those has car loan or house loan, will be waive for 6months, and it will bring forward to the next 6months future. So, I used these kind of pandemic relief to settle off my personal loan and car loan. Its a big relief, and I do appreciated it πŸ₯°.

2. Bought 2nd Property

So, when pandemic happened, people are losing job, there were more auction houses, developed houses had very less demand, the value of houses reduced below the market value. Economy crush, but Im luckily managed to get a house with zero deposit. Actually, it wasn’t that zero, you still need to pay, but not a lumpsum deposit. Its by installment πŸ˜ƒ but hey, I managed to get my 2nd property during the pandemic.

3. End Toxic Relationship

Well…well…well. This is so much interesting how I get rid of the toxic relationship. It was really not easy to get rid of 16 years relationship. Okay, its my 1st love thing, we had a on/off kind of relationship. We broke up firstly because he got married to his mother’s choice, who is his own cousin. After awhile, get together back when he explains why it happened, okay I accepted at first, twice..or thrice. But, in July 2021, I asked myself. Why do you feel you were likr a second option, not the mai priority. Eventhough he said, he love you more than the wife, but deep inside, I’m still thinking, if that so, why he has 4children with that woman? Guys, when someone said, they love you but yet has so many children with the partner, don’t believe them. Even if you believe, and even it’s real, guys and ladies, you deserved someone better who make you their own priority. Sometimes, you need to hurt your heart so that you soul in a peace. Love your own soul and ask what your soul needs the most, not what it wants. So I asked myself, I found myself as his second choice, he don’t have much time for me like how he used to when he still single. Eventhough, we still do love each other, its time to say Goodbye. When I know its became a toxic is when he didn’t reply my text and when I cried more than I laugh. For me, its better not to neither cry nor laugh rather than cried most of the time. So 17 July 2021, I said goodbye and blocked him. Thank you for the wonderful 16 years. πŸ™‚

4. Managed to Get Higher Pay

Okay, this topic is interesting too. My salary crash on 2018, due to instable politics, its hardly to get job. Until finally, end 2019 I managed to get a job at GSK…until pandemic happen in 2020. By end of 2020, GSK announced to shut down their IT department in Malaysia, migrated to India. Again, a big loss for us, to find a new job during the pandemic situation. Its been told that, its their business strategy and reorganization. I’m one of the impacted staff, but luckily I got a new job before the end date line. So, end of 2020, I shift to a new job, back to insurance industry. Then, until recently..the 2nd wave lockdown in Malaysia, I am managed to get a better salary job. Lockdown implemented in May 2021, then we just recently open the economy back to normal in October 2021. Well, when I do a market survey, Business Analyst, Developer, System analyst etc related to IT is on high demand! Its spree time to find better company and better salary+benefit. Guys, please pray for me to get better salary, better boss and colleague guys. Im praying for you too, to have a good raise, good people and good environment. Amin. So, yes, its kinda high increment..I should say more than 30% in the market. Yay!!! πŸ₯³

THINGS TO ACCOMPLISH IN 2022 ONWARDS

So I made some categories and elaboration on things I want to minimize by end of year 2022…check these out..

1. 100% Financial Freedom

Well, I still have credit card outstanding. Im targeting to zerorize it by end of this year. πŸ₯³

2. Positive Working Environment

Im looking forward for a sustain company where I can grow my career, I hope can get it soon. Amin.

3. Minimizing Wardrobe….Again πŸ™„

Yes, its been 3 years I’m doing this activity, haha. For a person who always have different sizes, its the most tough activities for us. I have M size clothes, L size, XL size and 2XL size. I was thinking, the best way is minimalize my shape and keep only 1 size.

4. Healthy Lifestyle

Yes, from the wardrobe issue, I think I need to start back the healthy lifestyle. Get back to gym or morning walk. πŸ˜ƒ

Till then, To Be Continue…

Love, Sofia