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June's Goals

Posted in: 2023 posts | About Writing | Big Goal and Small Goal | blog images | Reading

Oh, hello.

May's 
(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goals:
- Organise my Chrome bookmarks (continued)
- Use a memory notebook
24 days in May... still over 20 days but I can just feel the lack of motivation there *sigh* 

I did some organisation for my Chrome bookmarks... and I realised I don't really need it organised much because I don't use it the same way I did in the past. There were some blogs that I probably bookmarked to reread later. Sadly, most of those blogs are gone now. Ooof should've saved them in my Evernote but I didn't use Evernote that much before so I lost my chance...

Memory notebook was... I've only been recording my meals and surprisingly(?) I actually did it daily so I guess that's completed...? Although I must confess, it didn't happen the way I expected it to be XD

For this month... 

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goal:
Write one chapter

WRITING????? Do I dare?

I already started the chapter so I guess I'm ahead(?) but I seriously need to think of names for the characters lol

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Had a late start at attempting to marathon-read "Heaven's Shadow". Honestly, it's hard because oh gosh.... I'm so uninterested with the story! It feels different from being boring... I don't know, I really just don't care about the story and characters. Isn't that bad...? Whenever it's doing the worldbuilding thing, it's almost like blah blah blah to me. 

Haaaah I'll most probably will skim-read this a lot especially the blah blah blah parts. 

Time: 2023-06-10T22:58:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , About Writing , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Reading


Dragon Lover

Posted in: 2023 posts | About Writing | Food | Interest: Games | Manga | Our Water Woes | Reading | Web Novels

...because I happen to love dragons ⇇ No point lol

What happened today:
  • Actually in a better mood than yesterday... despite lacking sleep. 
  • I like hot milk tea
  • One of the web novels I'm reading today made me cry
  • Finally started playing "The Princess in the Mirror" today. Too distracted with other things so I forgot to check when it came out, but better late than never! This is the English version of the game where the butler is my favourite [romanceable] character, Simian... though he got renamed to Simeon there...
  • Manga discoveries: "The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap" because why not? DRAGONS! There's also "Ryukishi no Okiniiri" but that wasn't today. BONUS - Loving "Hikikomori Reijou wa Hanashi no wakaru Seijuuban" which was from few days ago... No signs of dragon (yet?) but this featured sacred beasts which includes a big grumpy Tsundere bunny XD
  • Realised today that because of the unstable water pressure, I might be able to do laundry in the morning again...!
  • Kind of started writing one of stories I have in mind but since I haven't thought of the characters' names (it's not easy to name characters!) I had to stop lol

Time: 2023-05-31T20:42:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , About Writing , Food , Interest: Games , Manga , Our Water Woes , Reading , Web Novels


Signed

Posted in: 2023 posts | About Writing | Utterly Distracted

Ah, what a distracting day it has been so far.

I am in a better mood(?) though, I think. Hormone hell was awful as usual. Just yesterday, I got inspired to check on my yet-to-be-written story in Evernote. Of course, it still remains unwritten but I added some more details for future-me's reference. I'm quite excited about it.

DHL delivery man came with a package today. Yup, this one needed an electronic signature all right. Complete with a DHL van instead of the usual rider-type(?) ones. I don't always get to sign for mail delivery like that so it's fun~ XD I'm easily amused by tech gadgets



Time: 2023-05-27T22:28:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , About Writing , Utterly Distracted


A Notebook

Posted in: 2022 posts | About Writing | No Mood | The Weather Looks... | Youtube

It's raining outside. Still feeling irritable.

Saw a video where someone tried Virginia Woolf's journaling routine on Youtube (haven't finished watching btw). Haven't been writing stuff in my diary lately but I guess writing ("writing") in my blog is something similar...? (Still think that I should write more in my diary though *sigh*). Kind of reminds me of writing stories again. I want to get better at it but I'm too lazy - definitely not a great combination.

Anyway, also feeling annoyed with some videos in my Watch Later playlist recently so that has made it easier to remove/DNF them.




Fine. Maybe I'll prepare a notebook so that I can write whenever I want. I always give myself that I-want-to-type-it-out reason. If I write manually on a paper, I can't use this reason anymore. I'm going to make myself write some stories.


Time: 2022-09-19T18:03:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2022 posts , About Writing , No Mood , The Weather Looks... , Youtube


Did they read them?

Posted in: 2022 posts | About Writing | Life: Anecdotes | My Dark Side | Youtube

Cleaned up my Youtube Watch Later playlist. Decided to remove some long videos because I don't think I'm going to watch them... later (lol) anymore.

Also did some organisation/cleaning around the house... I can't really do much for long period of time (the dust!) so a little bit of everyday might just work. I mean, it should be better than none. (If only I can apply this to my own room, hmm...)

Writing a story isn't easy but seeing how excited someone who isn't really good at it (IMO) is getting some exposure locally... it makes me want to try doing NaNoWriMo this coming November. Probably not the take I should be getting from a certain video [Mel-chan, it was cringe-worthy (-.-)]... but I'm a half-full, half-empty kind of gal so I refuse to receive only the negative stuff - I will get some positive out if it, even if it's only 1%! 

Time: 2022-09-12T23:35:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2022 posts , About Writing , Life: Anecdotes , My Dark Side , Youtube


Pseudonym

Posted in: 2022 posts | About Blogging | About Writing | blog anniversary | On This Day

Things I almost forgot about today:

Blog anniversary! 
The January one.
February 5th 2005 is when I did my first post in the old blog. Then I moved to a new blog url in 2008 and the first post was made on January 6th. 
Again, for future-me's reference: We started blogging on February 2005. Then in January 2008, we moved to a new url.  

On This Day
Just realised I started this post series(?) last year on Feb 15th, 
I'm trying something new again. 

Digging for my old blog posts on this date today! 

I still have posts before Feb 15th that I can revisit lol

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Probably have seen this coming... this is an On This Day post! 

┏━━━【 Jan 6th in the past 】
┣━「2008」New Home ~a continuation~
┣━━━「2010」Latest Peeves.
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━「2021」面倒くさいことが嫌い

'08
Just one thing to say. 
I like this template. I got it from here. Got some problems at the beginning with the images but I managed to get it right in the end. So far no problem... What I really like is the highlighted links (I've always want that but didn't have time to learn how).
...OMG that template! XD. [You can see a glimpse of it here btw, it's the 2nd one]. Ah loved that template! The site I got it from is dead though. Feels like I want to use it again for another blog.

This template I have now has been in use since February 2009. So... Almost 13 years? Will I use a new one? Probably not going to. It was crazy modifying this one to work for me. It's like an old house in need of repairs and renovations at this moment... but it's staying!
   
'10
*reads post*
Yup, going skip this one XD. It was just me complaining about stuff haha

'21
LOL last year's post...
I don't like troublesome things. 
Nothing has changed, a year later. I still hate troublesome things. My personality is still troublesome. 

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Random thought of the day. 

Been thinking about this one post from last year. December 18th's "I Finished a Book". I just realised days later (after it was posted) that it could mean I finished "writing" a book. Well, I didn't mean to make a clickbaity title like that! 

IF I ever do write a book, I probably will not mention it here (or just mention casually with no further information). I will definitely use a pseudonym! I don't want people to know I write things inspired by them.  

Time: 2022-01-06T14:36:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2022 posts , About Blogging , About Writing , blog anniversary , On This Day


I Will Try

Posted in: 2021 posts | About Writing | blog images | Diana Wynne Jones | Interest: Games | Reading

Saw this at the end of "Charmed Life"... It was an interview with DWJ.
Timely advice after that "Writing Practice" post.
Loved how that Snapseed filter perfectly highlighted the part I want to show XD 

I woke up late again today. It's nothing unusual for me but I missed two game events I'm currently playing *Is this sth like a 1st world problem thing?*... which makes me feel kinda sad these few days. I KNOW. I know I really shouldn't care much but I'm still sad :/

So because of that, I'm going to try to wake up early tomorrow! ..To avoid missing game events er- I mean.. to have a more productive day. And make my sleeping schedule more normal. 

Time: 2021-05-30T18:16:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , About Writing , blog images , Diana Wynne Jones , Interest: Games , Reading


Writing Practice

Posted in: 2021 posts | About Writing | Utterly Distracted

I wrote a story and it was terrible.

Yesterday, Mel-chan suggested a writing prompt session. Each of us found a prompt online and combined it to form the topic/keywords we would use for our story. Picking what to write was fun. 

Starting the story was not fun. I just wrote a sentence and I already hate what I wrote. 

"Names! I want good-sounding and fitting names!"

"I could convey this better in other ways but I don't know how!"

"That's so illogical! That wouldn't happen nowadays!" 

"Then why can't he/she just do this??"

While I write the story, I kept picking out my mistakes or things I'm not comfortable with. Had to remind myself that this is just a simple story... that I don't have to do too much worldbuilding just to get my story going. I want the characters to lead the way. 

"Who are these characters? Do I even like them enough to write a story about them?"

"This part is so lame! But I'll still choose to write it this way..."

Honestly though, it was a good writing practice. 
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who feels like this when I write.

I should do more of these, as practice.

Time: 2021-05-22T13:34:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , About Writing , Utterly Distracted


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