HeLL-oOooooOoooo everybody!!! How R yoOoouuu?? HoOoopeee everyone sounds and safe. 😘
Okay, today topic…is…let’s virtually design the minimalist house, virtually!! Hahaha..yes. Virtually, coz it’s seems loOooong way to goOoooOooo for my 2nd home to be completed, target to be complete by 2nd half of 2025 🥺
Let’s check this out….all these furniture I search by using actual shopping platform that available in Malaysia 😃🥰❤
The entrance
Entrance should be, as simple as possible and have multiple functions on each items.
The key holder. I want a simple holder like this, where I can hang keys and have some little space to put things. The shoe bench, where I can store my shoes, and socks under the seat. It has a seat on top, where I can sit and wear my socks and shoes.The console table and room divider on the same furniture. Okay, my console table will be as simple as this, where I can put 1 bowl, or tray to keep my wallet from going outside. At same time, can be a divider between the entrance and living room. Giving lil privacy to the living room 🥰
The Living Room
I will keep it as simple as possible, as my house will be small…
A long sofa, either 3 or 4 seaters, and leather materials as its easy to wash n maintain, plus not easily to get smell 😃A lazy chair, where I can relax, which kinda match with my main sofa…The TV, speaker and cabinet. I will have a simple cabinet, but yet elegant which match with the dining storage later. Mounted TV and some simple speaker will be great.A very simple carpet, I dont like too many design n colors which will make me vomit.A simple wall decoration…hanging in middle of the living room..Irregular coffee table…😃And some simple side table, where there is a storage that I can keep my throws and blankets 🥰
The Dining Room
A very simple dining room too…😘
Okay, I dont need a very big dining room. A simple dining table of four like this, which gimme flexibility to seat on, either normal chair, or bench like this..Okay, on the table, I would love to keep salt and pepper like this kind of shapes. Simple and elegant shapes. Under the dining table set, I will have this bamboo carpet. I can’t step on cool floor, so I will love it to have some kind of carpet to feel cozy 🙂Okay, I will have my coffee machine on top of this kind of storage table. I like it to be thin, and yet have some storage where I can keep my toaster, my blender or fruit juice machine. This storage will be located against the wall near to my dining table.On top of the dining storage cabinet, I will have a big mirror like this, to give “some space” for the small apartment 😃A lovely coffee machine 😍 I definitely will need this. I dont really like the normal powder coffee, I love the fresh grinded coffee. Coffee lover in the house ❤
The Kitchen
For kitchen, a simple kitchen cabinet, without handles. Handles can trap dust, so the handle-less cabinet will be a furrrpecct match for me.
Steel cutting board. I used to love wooden cutting board, but after I saw how mould it can be from my mom’s house, I don’t want it now 😂😅 This can function for flour kneading too..A sink, where I can have multiple function. Can use to wash vegetables and fruits like this.Induction stove, as I think Im a person who can easily set a fire at home. Haha. Plus, most of my pot will be a cute pot, which will get burn easily the bottom if i use normal stove with fire. LolOf course, a carpet every space in the house. I can’t have a sticky floor 😃Okay, the bin. I will have covered bin something like this. Not too big, and not too small where I can throw it on a daily basis.
The bedroom
For bedroom, I will love to have some space on the wall where can act as my side table. I need to minimize the furniture and design it smartly, as my bedroom will be very small 😂
A smart wall which act as my side table, and as my bed’s header too. I will keep my clock alarm here 😃My bed’s frame will be really simple like this, but not my mattress, pillow and duvet. Hahaha..those fabric need to be chosen very carefully, need to be very comfortable and nice to see 😃 I will have separate post for those fabrics. LolOkay, I don’t really like bed’s header, coz it doesn’t serve any kind of purpose. I just need, some space of the wall, to put my alarm and this kind of pillow as my bed’s header. 😃😃😃Last, but not least…my wardrobe which has function as a big mirror as well. So, i don’t need any other space for my full body mirror.Against the masterbedroom’s big window, I will have this bench where I can sit on top, and have some storage underneath 🥰Okay, another an unusual things i would love to have in my room is, the fireplace simulation. It can be my sleeping light and perhaps I could find some item which has function as my humidifer as well. Its a good idea, but let’s see if this is also a humidifer or not. If yes, then its a great buy which serve 2 functions at once. 😃
The bathroom
I really love big mirrors. So, in the bathroom I will find this kind of furniture. It can be mirror, storage and can hang face towel as well. 🥰Shower…shower…shower….i really love shower, compared to bath tub. Bath tub is good, but not all the time. Shower is on the go, and kinda like a rain for me. A big showet head is awesome, and of course with water heater. I like it to be black and matte, as the normal silver can easily rusted.The shower floor, I will love to have wooden floor like this, so it won’t be that slippery.
Okay, that’s all for now…other things like mattress, pillow, throw, lamp nights, swicthes, curtain etc not cover in this post. I’m gonna have a separate topics on that 😃😀🙂
Hi everyone! Good Friday, everyone! How are you, guys? Hope you are all well and sound.
We are entering October in 2022 now, just 3 months left before we enter 2023. How are you feeling about it? Feeling Excited? Nervous? Happy? Or Sad? Well…well…well..let’s check ourselves goals, either is it has been achieved? Or not yet to achieve? Or Partially achieve?
Well, I have “unlock” some items in 2022. Alhamdulillah. Just, to loose weight goal is still pending. Hahahahaha 😂
Looking back at my post in October 2021 with title “It’s Time to Plan Out for 2022 🥳”, I have achieved some of the things. Weehuu!! 🥳🥳🥳
1. 100% Financial Freedom
Okay, I almost have Financial Freedom, but unfortunately my credit card pile up again. It seems impossible to live without credit card these days because everything goes cashless. I tried to open up a better account for this purpose in 2023, to replace credit card and use more debit card.
First thing, is to settle off the credit card. Secondly, to open an account with debit card about 10k. Then, after that only will have savings in other investment account. Let’s see, this was my plan to get rid of credit card as I want to be free from giving extra money to banks. LOL
2. Positive working environment
Alhamdulillah, I have found a very good company to work with positive people around, and I can built my career. Thank you for Almighty Allah SWT for this opportunity. 🥰❤😘
3. Minimizing wardrobe
Alhamdulillah, I had finalized my wardrobe cleanup and keep only necessary clothes. I still keep my other clothes, but in the box. When I got time, I wanna take picture and sell it off. The money received, I will pay off Credit Card, and if got some extra, I will save in my Debit Card accounts.
4. Healthy lifestyle
Hurmm, this kinda tough as I live with my family. Hahahaha, it will be easy if I live alone, but I try to stay and keep a healthy lifestyle. Next month, November, I try to slot in hiking activities back into my schedule. Wohooo!!! I can’t wait for it..🥳
5. Additional goal for 2023: To achieve weight goal 55kgs.
I’m adding another one……To achieve goal weight 55kg. 😂 sounds impossible, but determination kills all impossibilities. 😀
Frankly speaking, I hate most of cardio exercises. Its really a boring exercise for me. I love lift weight so much. But hey, I need to keep it aside first..perhaps to focus on bodycombat more for now, at least. 😃
6. Additional achievement in 2022 😃
Hey, guess what? I met my true soulmate. Haha. Let’s see how things going on..😜
Okay, thats all for now…enjoy this view…..its about to start work!! Let’s work hard and smartly, don’t work hard and blindly, Guys!! Cheers!! ❤
Hey guys!! Whatsapp?? Whatsapp??? Been a long time I didn’t update my blog. How are you feeling? It’s October 2022 already, how time flies so fast…in 3months, we going to enter 2023 😀
I got nothing much to share, been busy for pass few weeks. Just want to share my dream home. I love loft and open concept design, with minimalist look. It will be just purrfect for me 🥰
So, here we go….
I always wanted a loft studio kind of house, which has minimal element. I don’t need too much space, which easier to create clutters and hardly to maintain. Its simple, no much drama for clean up. 😃😇
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Insya Allah, one day I will have it. Okay, that’s all my post for now. I don’t really have much to share 🙂
Hello everyone!!! It’s been awhile I’m away from blog! Haha..so, here we go. Let’s start with financial planning for year 2023..hahaahaha..yes…for 2023!! Let’s plan for future! LOL
Okay, I’d checked on whatever resource I have, google, youtube…etc. So, I found the rules 50:30:20. It’s kinda interesting to check on. So, I made some calculation and hey yaa!!! I managed to get more savings! Yay!!! Way to go…minimalist lifestyle 🥳🥳
Monthly Budget follow rules 50:30:20 …
For rules 50:30:20, this is the percentage that you need to allocate your monthly income. There are 3 categories, the 50% should be the Fixed Expenses that you will need to pay such as bills, rental, car, internet, tuition fee etc (compulsory to pay). For the 30% of your salary should go to Variable Expenses that you have options not to spend such as eating outside, movie, theme park, present, etc. The remaining 20% should go to your Future Plans such as emergency savings or any possible investment. Well, after the calculation, I had found out that my Fixed Expenses is 54%(slightly higher because I included insurance with investment under this category 😄), my Variable Expenses is 18%(I dont have much things to buy, just lil bit entertainment like movie/eating outside) and for Future plans I have 28% 😃. I think this is good enough. As a minimalist, I always conscious on what to buy so that I don’t waste my money for clutters 😃
Okay, how do I calculate all of these? Haha..im using a simple ratio calculation 😜
Let’s take example, income salary RM2000 and to follow rules 50:30:20 (%).
In this example, when you calculate all your bills (plus other compulsory to pay) and it total up for example RM 900. So, a simple ratio (900/2000) x 100 = 45%. So for those who has salary RM2000, how to calculate is to manage the Fixed Expenses below RM 1000, RM 600 for Variable Expenses and RM 400 for Future plans. 😃
Where to store your monthly receipts for Tax Relief ?
Okay, I usually save in cloud, so easier to trace it. So, Im using Google Drive most of the times. Perhaps, you can have some other storage as well like One Drive. It is not really advisable to store in phone, as Phone can easily spoil then you will need to factory reset and all will be gone.
Okay, next I’m gonna explore how to diversify the savings and investments..till then..to be continue…
Hey guys!! I made some modification on previous dumpling. Well, nothing much changes, just on the the folding method, and cooking method 😃
So, previous dumpling was, I’m using the whole piece of skin. I’d found out its too big to chew. So, now I modified it by folding it into 2, then cut it into two. Sorry, forgot to take the picture. So, it happened to look like this…😀
Folding Gyoza 😃
Okay, let me cut a paper to show you how to fold it…sorry guys! I forgot to snap the pictures 😅
1. Imagine this is the skin..Im using paper for a demo 😄2. Fold it into half.3. Then, you cut it into two.
4. Okay, here is the part. Firstly, secure with water to glue the side of the cone. Then, you fill the meat. Lastly, secure the curve side with water to glue it. 5. When you glue the 1st side, it will looks something like this. Fill the filling inside, then glue the curve part. 😃6. You will get something like this.7. Lastly, tap tap all the sides. You don’t need water for this, or it will be too sticky. Just ensure no air bubble in the filling, or else it will pop out when you boil it later 🙂
Cooking method ☺
Okay, you can steam, you can boil, you can deep fry. But I choose to boil first, then stir fry my gyoza with olive oil 😂
Normally, gyoza you will fry the bottom, then add on some water for steaming. But hey, I wanna make my ownself. My own way. My Gyoza, My Rules. Hahahaha 😆
1. Boil Gyoza: okay, I pour water into my pot and let it boil first. Then I put my Gyoza inside, not too long. Just as long as my Gyoza floating, it consider done. Then, I filter the water using net. 2. Stir fry: okay you clean all messy water, let it dry first and put on lil bit of olive oil. Well, like what I said, its my gyoza and its my rule. I wanna use olive oil 😃. Hahaha. So, I put lil bit of olive oil, then let it fry lil bit. Then, switch to other side..then..wallaaa!! 🥰Final product: tadaaa!!! I ate with soy sauce mixed with sesame oil. Itadakimasu!!! 🥰
Okay, that’s all the modification done. I think this gonna be my fav dumpling ❤
Hey guys!!!! How are you doing?? Hope you are all good and sounds. So, today I’m gonna share how I make my easy dumplings. Its been few days back Im craving for dumplings. You know, nowadays when you buy food from restaurant, you will get a tasteless, expensive and vegie dumpling (eventhough you are actually bought beef/lamb dumpling), its all vegie you gonna taste (less meat, lots of vegie) 😂
So, here we go..a simple dumpling from Sofia 😃
1. Firstly, you gotta buy meat. It depends on you what kind of meat you wanna use. I’m using beef meat here 😋2. Then, you need to chop garlic, onion, chives, salt, grind black pepper, and some marinated sauce.
Marinated Sauce…
Okay, you got a loooooot of options for marinated sauce. Some love to add salt and black pepper only, some love to add soy sauce, some love to add chilli sauce. Choose whatever you love, in the end it’s yourself who gonna eat it. So, Im using teriyaki sauce, lil japanese sweet sauce and lil bit of sesame oil. I’m creating my own designated dumplings okeyh!! Hahahaha 😂❤ There is no right or wrong about it 😉
My Japanese sweet soy sauceMy teriyaki sauceMy sesame oil..3. When you chopped everything and pour in lil of your fav marinated sauce, keep it in chiller for overnight. I don’t put in freezer, coz the taste might lil bit different. Keep in a cool chiller, in between the normal chiller and freezer. Next day, you can stir fry the meat, or can put straight to the dumpling skin. Im just being lazy, I just put it on the dumpling skin and steam it 😃4. For dumpling skin, you can make from scratch, but Im too lazy to do that. So I bought the ready made dumpling skin. You can find it in pastry section in market. So, you pick one piece, then place the meat at the centre like this.5. The art of dumplings is how to fold it 🥲 This part is not easy, Im just doing the most simplest ways. You can find a lot of youtube videos on how to fold dumplings and find your fav one ☺6. Okay to steam the dumpling, if you have white thin cloth, you can put it to the bottom of dumplings. This is to avoid torn dumplings. I don’t have that, so I just put in the steamer. If you got better idea, do let me know 😀7. My cute steamer…I can steam, can boil, can cook rice..Its small and cute 🥰8. Tadaaa!!!!! Here my dumplings!!!! Yummy 😋. You can put it in container storage and keep it in chiller.
My fav style to eat dumplings with noodles and seaweed soups 🥰
Dumpling with noodles and sweet sauceThe inside..😋Dumpling with seaweed soup
The lonely nights……reminds me of our old memories……
Each days and nights….I taste the pain….alone..without anyone by my side.
Your days and nights…..are always with someone…..who love you dearly….your lonely days always cheer by your friends and families…sometimes it just hurt me…the pain i need to lust each of my breath….
I vow to myself…..will never let you in again…NEVER.
My love to you has died….the moment when.. You Chose Her over Me.
Hi everyone. Have you ever feel frustrated in your entire life? Have you ever feel like a bigger loser in your life? Have you ever feel so down that you barely do your routines? Have you ever think to vanish from this life? I’m sure all of us has this kind of feelings, at least once in our life.
Have you ever feel that, there is a time you had chosen the right path, then in the end it turns into opposite side? Have you ever think that you had made a right choice, in the end, it ends up to be the most nightmare choice in your whole life? Have you ever feels like that, even once, or twice or thrice in your whole life?
It’s either you win or you loose. Have you ever holding tight to it, hoping it won’t go, but finally you need to let it go, and watching it ends? Have you ever feel guilty when it ends? Or have you ever feel satisfy when it ends?
Have you ever think of the consequences of your choice? Have you ever have any doubt on your choices? I’m just feeling floating in the air…
Heyyy everybody!!! How are you doing? Hope you are all fine. 🙂
So, it’s been a month that I’m preparing myself to lift weight again. I started with slow cardio such as belly dance and other slow dance, frequency 3-4 x per day. Then after 2 weeks, Im adding some slow body combat exercise. You will need to know how comfortable your body to add-on the exercises. If you think it’s too intense, try to use slow video and lesser the frequency. So, for me it took me 2 weeks to start my bodycombat exercise (not to intense).
Before that, I have my own equipment for my exercises as below. I have:
A pair 5.0kg plates
A pair 2.5kg plates
A pair 2.0kg plates
A pair 1.75kg plates
A pair 4lb dumbell
Barbell
Step
Small ball – unsure how many grams..i quess about 300gram.
Below are my plan to kick start lifting weight again.
My schedule for month 1:
1st & 2nd weeks – slow cardio (ie: belly dance, slow zumba dance etc) with frequency 3-4x per week, for 30min session.
3rd weeks – replacing cardio with slow bodycombat with frequency 3-4x per week, for 30min session.
4th weeks – adding bodypump with frequency 1-2x per week, for 45min session. [Bodycombat cardio 3-4x + Bodypump 1-2x].
My schedule for month 2:
5th weeks – to reduce Bodycombat cardio 2-3x, Bodypump 1-2x and adding Yoga 1-2x, but to increase the duration from 45min to 1hour.
6th – 8th weeks – to maintain, and keep up 6x healthy meals and snacks. By this 6th weeks, I usually will try to keep an eye on my calorie intake – check on my next post on food preparing 😉
My schedule for month 3:
9th – 10th weeks – to fix 7-8 hours daily sleep, prep meals and to continue exercise.
11th – 12th weeks – repeat and adding some more weight for strength.
Okay guys, I think that’s all I can think off right now. See you later in next post regarding the prep meal, you’ll 😉
My Minimalist Lifestyle 