Hello friends!!! How are you today? Happy weekend!!! WoOooooHoooo!!! It’s finally weekend.
Okay guys, I used to have Dolce Gusto Piccolo XS on my workspace desk in office, however due to shifting workplace, I don’t have a place for my Piccolo anymore. 😢 Staying with your parents, meaning your space is very limited to your room only. Living with maximalist, means “Sorry, no space for you!”. Hahaha..so, I have to keep all my Piccolo and ‘his’ babies in my small pantry (small wardrobe).
So, what I did, I kept all my coffee capsules in container to preserve the aroma (I hope so). Next month, I need to do an appropriate setup for my Piccolo in my room 🙂
Hi everyone!! Today’s topic is a bit bizarre to discuss, but yet most of times happening and is an issue for minimalist out there, including me 😄
So, we all know how minimalist characters, we love simple things, and keep things that only really means to us. But hey, how bout if you got no choice to live with those who are maximalist? Well…well…well…you are not alone! I’m living with my parents and my mom is maximalist…😀
I should say, it’s kinda depress to see a lot of unwanted stuffs everywhere in the kitchen, in the living room, in the garden, but yet you just can’t throw it out coz it’s not yours and its your mom’s stuff, plus you are staying in their house. You are not…alone…😂 🤪
Well, you actually really can’t do much, but for me, I will take some my little space, in each of corner in the kitchen especially for my own stuff. My mom, not allow for me to have my whole 1 cupboard, but she just allow me put my things in 1 container at the places. You heard me right, its plural ‘places’. She gave me, one corner in the fridge, 1 corner in the spices, at the other corner for my dry ingredients like my takoyaki flour, bonito flakes and other dry stuff, and another corner for my sauces like honey mustard. To be honest with you, it gimme a lot of headache to find my stuff, so I keep some in my own cupboard, in my room. Like a small cupboard pantry 😃
My Small Cupboard Pantry for dry food packets 😃
This is one of the cupboard or some call wardrobe. But, I have 2 wardrobe, well..I’m living in a family whom all members are maximalist, except my dad and me. So yeah, I have 1 big wardrobe, and 1 small wardrobe. So the big one, as you can find in my other post, is solely only for my clothes, handbag, duvet cover and bedsheets, towel and scarf. And another 1 small cupboard, I keep the sort of unwanted stuff that need to sort, like cables, candles, essential oils that Im barely use, projector, gun glue and sort of stuff. So, I keep one rack for my dry food stuff, like coffee, sauces in packet, jelly packet…etc..
Tadaaa…one of the rack is for my dry food stuffFried Chicken flourKorean spicy sauce for fried chickenVietnam spring roll paperMy fav starbuck espresoand…Raw Jelly..
Haha…well, when you got no choice, built choices on your own 😂 so, another thing I have is, a small minifridge under my desk 😂 Yes, you heard it right..under my desk coz I got very limited space in my room. But soon, when my house completed, I will make it as my serum storage 🙂
My Micro Fridge for some drinks and small treats 🥰
Its very tiny fridge, obviously not for meat or vegie 😂 but for a small can or drinks, or some small treats.. should be okay 😊
Tadaaa….compact micro fridgeTiny fridge has mirror and light with touch sensor
Okay guys, thats all for today..oh yea..by the way, today is Eid-Adha, wishing all Muslims Happy Eid-Adha ❤
Till then, to be continue. I will show you how to make Homemade Takoyaki at home tomorrow..Wee!!! I love takoyaki, I believe most people love it. See u tomorrow!!
Hi everyone!! Hope you doing good. Today remarks 1 year since I left gym and exercises. It is just recently, I notice that I need to start pickup up back my dumbell. Yawww!!!😄
Im afraid, if I reach 40 and then been dignosed with diabetes or hypertension. No way!!! Health is treasure! I want it back. 😀Well, when I’m an auditor before, I frequently having migrain and hypertension. So, I left the job coz I don’t feel its worth it coz impacting my health. Yes, Im a health conscious its just a matter of time to exercise and time to prepare food that I’m struggling with now.
Today, I started squeeze in some time, afterwork before the night shower..to pick up my fav dumbell, switch on the utube video and do 20 minutes (no jump, no lunges, no squad exercise-my body is just not ready yet for those, lets start something simple) 😂 To be honest with you, it only last for 15 minutes. But its okay, lets have a 15 minutes consistency rather than nothing, guys!!! 😃😃😃
Well, after being ‘scam’ with the gym trainer , as a minimalist I think the best is to keep motivated and discipline. To start with, you can guy a pair of fav dumbell (as the weight u comfortable with), and yoga mat.Its not that expensive too, medicine was 😉 my fav dumbell was 4lb (~1.8kg) each. I bought a pair 4lbx2dumbell= 8lb (~3.6kg) 🥰
Switch on utube channel, then there u go. Just slot some 1 hour time in your schedule for exercise. I think the best for me is between 6-7pm. I’ll be off at 6pm, then shower at 7pm.
Guys!! Let’s go on healthy way, being healthy is lifestyle, not sometimes but all the times. Let’s start a long healthy lifestyle and maintain our health. The medicine is very expensive nowadays, we shall take care of our health!! 😇
Hi everyone!! Good morning, hope you have a great weekdays. Weekend is just around the corner, yeppie!!
As a minimalist..or I shall say..towards to the minimalist of living…here are Friday routine. For me, Friday is always a special day, as I assume it as my pre-weekend day..hahaha!! 😄
I woke up today around 6.15a, and straight make my bed. Took a shower and do a prayer. Then, I opened the curtain to allow some fresh air in.
I will need some storage for my blankets..sigh
I switch on my fav soft music on my laptop and speaker swiched on, then I do my laundries. And then, later I make my breakfast “Keropok lekor goreng” and my americano ice..nyummy 😋. For those who don’t know what is “Keropok lekor goreng”, okay this is our tradisional food. It was made mixture of fishes, some flour and lil salt i guess. I bought online and it was my fav snack 🥰
When eastern meet western..Americano and “Keropok Lekor” 😋
Okay, before we start works, lets blogging…so today I gotta learn how to trade guys..I’ve working for a trading company, but never trade before. It wasn’t easy at all guys. But I try to learn using a demo account. Hahaha..it keep my heart beat faster…even with demo account.
Wanna know more bout the trading stuff…stay tune…coz I need to learn the basic stuff first..hahaha….to be continue…
Hey guys!!! Its been awhile. How are u? Hope everything well and sounds. Well, its been a hectic weeks seems we celebrating Raya AidilFitri. If u were here in Malaysia, Malaysian people is really celebrating it for a month, but me..? A week is enough for me 😂 Guess what? I’m back to my normal routines 🥰
Okay, being a minimalist for 4 years, I can say, Im still kinda struggling, but there are some of the things that really works for me to keep clutters away in my room. (Yes, a room for now, coz Im still waiting for my new house to complete by 2025, Yay! 😉)
5 Simple routines that keep clutters away 😇
by Sofia Mustaffa
1. Wash, dry and fold your clothes at least each of 2-3 days.
Try to keep dirty clothes at least 2-3 days, then wash it. Keep 2-3 times laundy for a week. If I’m too busy for the entire week, I will keep it max 6 days, then wash. It will make the drying and folding effort less, if you make it as a routine 😃
2. Swipe your room/house everyday.
My room is very dusty. I do always swipe it on a daily routine. Then, over the weekend I will wipe the floor by hand 😃 I don’t like to step on dusty or greasy floor, and yeah!! I did wipe it with warm damp cloth by hand 🙂
3. Put things back to its place.
For me, this is a very crutial habits to follow. You don’t want clutter, so put things back to its origin place. If u are ready books, after reading put the book back to the rack where u took it from. It’s a simple rule, but very hard to follow on daily routine. Train urself, train ur mind to follow this one rule. To me, its very a good tips to keep my place tidy.
4. Clear your bin at least once a week.
My dustbin is very small. I need to empty it every 2-3 days. Trying to control buying stuff online, because most of the rubbish is the parcel packaging 😃
5. Make the bed, after you got up in every morning.
This is a “hello morning exercise 🙂” Just take 1-2 minutes of your day to make it smooth and tidy.
Okay, i think thats all to share for now..till then..to be continue..
To build a healthy lifestyle needs courage, mental strength, and continuous discipline. It’s not easy, but when u starts, u can go with the flow. Each person has different kind of courage, try to understand yourself what u need the most. For me, all I need is a healthy food intake. It works for me to have beautiful and quality tableware to be used in daily routine 🥰
My fav color for tableware. I just buy 1 complete set for myself. U don’t need much. Buy a beautiful and good quality one for urself, to gain ur interest in preparing ur dish. Make it a hobby to prepare ur dish, so that u will aware what kind of food to put onto the plate.
Well, for me sometimes, I don’t eat the prepared food straight coz of busy schedule. So, I do have separated container for my food 🥰
Its stainless steel container with lid. U can used any kind that suit yourself, as long as its separated container. This because, we need to take into consideration of category food we took. Its recommended to have half fiber (quarter fruit, quarter vegie), quarter protein (chicken/beef/fish/lamb), and quarter carbs (rice/noodle/pasta/bread).My container with lid
Okay, after I prepared my tableware, I need to get incharge and plan out my meals. Try to find some recipes that suit ur calorie intake. Im gonna try calorie counter apps, coz I dont need excess calories. Let’s starts!!!
I’m using LifeSum apps, to calculate necessary calories and gonna start on next Monday. So, there are 2 additional routine I’m gonna add-on, first is to trace my calorie intake, secondly is to add-in 30min exercise on my daily routine. If I can’t make it, I will reduce exercise time to 15min, as long as I can add-in exercise habits on my routine. ☺
I start with apps to count my calorie in and out. My body works this way. 🥰
U can use any free apps. I just use the free apps and didn’t subscribe any apps. I wanna keep my commitment low, so I don’t waste any cents 😃
Okay, till then…I will plan out my short term goal shortly to achieve by end of this year. Not much, but to ensure all achieve by end of this year 😘
I made Hanjuku eggs, not a perfect, but easy to do. Here are some tips on how to make a homemade Hanjuku Eggs.
How to make an easy Hanjuku Eggs (Hard outside and Soft inside)
1. Boils some water on the stove, make sure the water is fully cover the eggs. I used 4 eggs. Don’t put the eggs first, just boil the water alone with medium-high heat.
2. After the water boiled, slower down the heat to slow-medium heat. Set a timer to 3minutes and put the 4eggs inside the boiled water.
3. After 3 minutes, change the position of the eggs. This is to centre the yellow yolk. Roll over all eggs, and set another 3 minutes.
4. Then, switch off the heat and bath the eggs in ice water. Leave it like 3-5 minutes.
5. Then, crack it with spoon. Don’t hit too hard coz the eggs will break apart. Then, you will have..Hanjuku Eggs!!! 🥰
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? 😉
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 😃
Okay guys, thats all for today. Will post what I’ve done for past few weeks to minimize my wardrobe and keep it minimalized.
My Minimalist Lifestyle 