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A Report

■ Drink: Peppermint Tea

The format for this [BGSG] post will change this year so... I should at least make a report for last month's in this post.

The goals from 2023's December:

Big Goal:
Make progress with GR Reading Challenge (continued)

Small Goal:
Deal with Chrome tabs (continued)

We can just skip the small goal, which is basically untouched (unchallenged?) the whole month lol

I managed to complete my reading challenge but... at what cost? XD

Well, the cons include

---I don't remember much what I've read

---there isn't much time to digest what I've read (which might be best for books that I don't really enjoy, but the opposite for the ones I do enjoy)

---I was anxious(?) all the time

Pros

---I finally read some of the books I kept putting off reading

---learnt that sometimes pushing myself to just read is the answer. This is usually what makes a procrastinator like me moves.

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Some updates on life (which is not much really lol)

I found an alternative way to watch "7th Time Loop" anime *sigh* but I was very salty about it all the time since the last post. Yeah, pretty much as expected, I ended up getting obsessed with obtaining what I want.
Last Boss Queen Vol 4 - I guess Gil isn't a hidden character (but I don't think Pride remembers the games much anyway so she might miss someone) as it's said that she met all five love interests in this volume. Prince Cedric was... he didn't make a good first impression to me but I don't really hate him.. and yet that doesn't mean I like him (as of now). You know, he reminds me of my early experiences with some oresama characters from otome games. Hmm.. it's a strange feeling. I used to like the character developments of such characters but I guess I've grown out of it now...?
I finally updated my so-called reading journal that I abandoned for months lol~~~ It's more of a quotes journal at this point... but anyway! I realised I've been using it since 2021! That's... crazy. I'll still use it this year for quotes but I have a separate reading journal I found on Shopee that I'm trying this year. Since I'm not going to be blogging daily, I thought it should be okay for keeping my thoughts on the book because the journal I found has a review section.
Youtube - It's a me problem (because it's related to my voice fetish aka attraction to nice-sounding voices :P) but I haven't been enjoying some videos on Youtube lately. I don't know why some voices make me cringe so much. And some have such an annoying melody to the way they speak that I just DNF the video in the end... It seems like I'm more sensitive to this recently that I started wondering how I survived living this long without encountering people with very annoying voices (there is that one person with quack-sounding voice back in school but we weren't in the same class/circle so I was spared from listening to them daily)

Yeah, this makes me sound very mean about people's voices, I'm probably am... but I don't make a fuss of it in public at least (although this blog is an exception, I guess, since it is open to public). It's one of the TMI facts about me that you unfortunately now know about XD

I don't really have a specific big and small goal now so I'm not including them in this post today... I am interested in making a list of goals that I know I won't achieve 75% of them though XD. It will be more of a throwaway list of goals so it might get interesting...

Time: 2024-01-12T21:40:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Last Boss Queen , 2024 posts , Anime , Big Goal and Small Goal , My Dark Side , Need to Get This Out of My Chest , Reading , Youtube

December's Goals

Yes, I'm still here...!

November's

Big Goal:
Make progress with GR Reading Challenge

Small Goal:
Deal with Chrome tabs (continued)

If we go by the 11 books aim, I definitely failed that XD... but as I said it doesn't need to be rigid, I guess I did make some progress with the reading challenge.

Chrome tabs... *sigh*

It's just the same goals for this month---

Big Goal:

Make progress with GR Reading Challenge (continued)

Small Goal:

Deal with Chrome tabs (continued)

I most probably will change this post series(?) for next year. It might be a 3-month per post (so at least one big goal and one small goal every 3 months) or/and every time I feel like it.

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It finally arrived~

The version I got is this one

Time: 2023-12-10T18:04:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Books , Goodreads , Online Shopping Bag , Reading

November's Goals

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...still here!

October's

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goal:
Deal with Chrome tabs (continued)

Oof, 21 days~ I guess it is time to archive this goal after over a year. For this blog, at least. I would still keep track after this. Just maybe with a lenient goal or something.

Unfortunately, the same thing happened to the small goal lol... I'll extend again to this month just because I don' feel like like looking for a new small goal :P

Similarly...

Big Goal:

Make progress with GR Reading Challenge

Small Goal:

Deal with Chrome tabs (continued)

I actually added another 15 to my original goal of 50 books this year so... I brought this to myself haha. I'm behind 11 books so I was thinking something like 11 books per month until December.. but it doesn't need to be that rigid~

Don't know where this confidence comes from but I think I can do it...

Time: 2023-11-11T22:57:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Goodreads , Reading

October's Goals

I'm here!
Ooh I'm actually a bit early than usual for once haha

September's

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goal:
Deal with Chrome tabs

22 days... I also just realised it has been 22 days since June lol. Maybe it's time to archive this goal? I started tracking from last year's September. So archiving it after a year seems like a nice way to conclude(?) this very big goal. [Oh yeah, notice that I changed it to 4 days a week? I figured it shouldn't be a problem as long as it's over 20 days...]

Barely done anything for my small goal so I'm going to continue the same goal this month.

That means this month's goals will be the same with last month's...

(Very) Big Goal:

Wake up early

Small Goal:

Deal with Chrome tabs (continued)

I usually add another goal when it's continued from last month but I'm not going to do that this time. I just don't wanna do it :P

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Lol... totally haven't finished reading "The Homeward Bounders"~~~ I'll try to do that today but no promises~

Time: 2023-10-09T20:50:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , No Mood , Reading , Utterly Distracted

September's Goals

Posted in: # 7th Time Loop | 2023 posts | Big Goal and Small Goal | My Fangirl Side | Reading

I just finished reading Volume 4 of "7th Time Loop".... ahhhhh

August's

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goals:
-Update books in my StoryGraph account
-Finish any two physical books from the "Currently Reading" page

22/31. Ooof.

I completed both my small goals last month. Finished adding read books on Storygraph in two days (I think that's the fastest lol). The two books from my "Currently Reading" page are the remaining two books from the jar. Finished reading "Midnight in Austenland" first (Aug 15th). The second book "The Mum Who'd Had Enough" was finished on Aug 20th.

For this month~

(Very) Big Goal:

Wake up early

Small Goal:

Deal with Chrome tabs

I guess it's time to deal with those tabs... It's over 100 tabs at this moment :P. I won't aim high. I just want to get it under 100 tabs. That's all.

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Ahhh I'm feeling kind of sad after finishing Volume 4! Really, really loving the development in Rishe and Arnold's relationship (Urrrgggh I LOVE THEM!!!! I want them to be happy~~~! Please be happy!).

...haaah so it's time for the web novel, huh. I'm guessing we'll be "meeting" people from Rishe's 6th life next.

Speaking of her lives... I finally have a complete list of what she became in her past lives (it was fun gathering them!). ~~I'm putting the list here for my own satisfaction lol~~

Rishe's Lives

[Reveal Spoilers]

Merchant
Apothecary
Alchemist
Maid
Hunter (Mercernary)
Knight
Future Crown Princess of Galkhein [Current Life]

Time: 2023-09-11T23:55:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # 7th Time Loop , 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , My Fangirl Side , Reading

August's Goals

Honestly, I almost forgot about this due to my excitement yesterday haha (I really finished Volume 8 in one day~ Go me!)

July's

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goal:
Finish reading "Heaven's Shadow" & "The Trouble with Mr. Darcy"

22 days~ Haaah... fortunately still over 20 days...

Also, I completed my small goal successfully... Finished reading "The Trouble with Mr Darcy" on July 16th. "Heaven's Shadow" was finished on July 26th. This goal came with an inevitable consequence *sigh*. I've put a stop to picking new books from the jar every two weeks. I'm not going to read any new physical books anymore except for books I know I'll enjoy (for now, Saint and 7th Loop light novels)... so that means no randomly-picked reads.

This month's goals will be...

(Very) Big Goal:

Wake up early

Small Goals:

-Update books in my StoryGraph account

-Finish any two physical books from the "Currently Reading" page

I don't really need to but I want to see my reading stats on StoryGraph so I'm going to only add books I've read there. I added another small goal because I'm pretty sure I would only complete half of each of these two :P

Time: 2023-08-10T21:45:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Sei and Albert , 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Reading , StoryGraph

July's Goals

Time for this again~!

June's

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goal:
Write one chapter

Down to 22 days... yeah, kinda expected that.

And... I did write a chapter, but is it a complete chapter? I don't think so. I guess I'll consider this goal half-completed.

This month...

(Very) Big Goal:

Wake up early

Small Goal:

Finish reading "Heaven's Shadow" & "The Trouble with Mr. Darcy"

Yeah.... Honestly, I'm like starting(?) this goals with low energy this month. Feels like I've misplaced my motivation and I'm not sure if I want to go find it again. Oh well.

New season for anime though... maybe that'll perk me up. And SAFT returns for second cour (time to suffer again~)

Time: 2023-07-10T22:54:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Anime , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , No Mood , Reading

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

May's Goals

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This month's report!... (which is for last month)

April's

(Very) Big Goal:
Wake up early

Small Goals:
- Organise my Chrome bookmarks (continued)
- Organise my reading jars

25 days for April~ Less one day from the month before. I'm guessing this will be the trend from now on... at least it's still over 20 days.

I barely made any changes for my Chrome bookmarks last month so I that's going to get an extension too in May!

My reading jars are ready~ It was kind of last minute though but at least I completed that goal~

This months' goals...

(Very) Big Goal:

Wake up early

Small Goals:

- Organise my Chrome bookmarks (continued)

- Use a memory notebook

The others are just the usual goals but what the heck is a memory notebook, you ask? Hmmm... you know... it's something I just thought of today (lol) but it's just a habit I want to get into because of my crazy sleeping time recently. I just called it that because that's what I'm using the notebook for but apparently it's a real thing (like for rehab for those with brain injuries etc). Well, I don't have such injuries but... lack of sleep has made my brain a bit slow so I want to make use of one to help my brain to function properly. Actually, I also got a bit inspiration from JetPens' latest video about journaling when you have no time... that's not the main thing here although I might try to write something in my diary later. Anyway, yeah, that's my second small goal this month~

Let's do our best this month!

Time: 2023-05-09T22:14:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Forty Winks and More

April's Goals

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It's time for this again~

March's

(Very) Big goal:
Wake up early

Small goals:
- Deal with my to-watch/currently watching list (Alien and Predator movies)
- Organise my Chrome bookmarks

26 days in March~ Started getting in a phase where I don't want to get out of bed mid to end March. Sigh.

My small goal involving Alien and Predator movies went very well. Although I can't say the same for the chrome bookmarks thing so I think I'll extend that one to this month too.

So this month it will be these...

(Very) Big Goal:

Wake up early

Small Goals:

- Organise my Chrome bookmarks (continued)

- Organise my reading jars

I want to update the title of books in Pick-A-New-Book jar and maybe (MAYBE!) finally make that TBR jar. Not sure if I'm going to remove all short stories from the jar but I most probably will just do as I mentioned before - don't make it a part of the jar because they take longer than 2 weeks for me to read (*SIGH*) and can cause reading slumps (again, for me).

Time: 2023-04-10T23:10:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Reading

March's Goals

It's time for the monthly report!

February's

(Very) Big goal:
Wake up early

Small goals:
- Deal with my to-watch/currently watching list
- Draw Pakho Chau

25 days in February! Although I must mention that... it's partially due to my sleeping problems that I "woke up" early for some days *sigh*...

Can't say that I made more progress compared to last month's in dealing with my watchlist *sigh*... I drew Pakho Chau though! Or someone who looks like him anyway :P... Honestly, I'm not satisfied with what I drew so I've been sulking (lol) about it and haven't return to it (or draw a new one). But I still count it as a completed goal!

Since I'm not expecting March to be a good month for me, I want goals (ooh can you guess?) that are very light and manageable (hopefully).

(Very) Big goal:

Wake up early

Small goals:

- Deal with my to-watch/currently watching list (Alien and Predator movies)

- Organise my Chrome bookmarks

Yeah... so continuing again for another month but with a focus on the Alien and Predator movies. [Ah, very light indeed.]

Time: 2023-03-09T15:54:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Art Stuff , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Forty Winks and More , No Mood

February's Goals

Oooh I'm actually early for this month :P

January's

(Very) Big goal:
Wake up early

Small goal:
Deal with my to-watch/currently watching list

Big goal achieved in January (25 days!) even though I have a day less than last year's December...

I feel like I finished most of the movies I was watching in January (and unfortunately started more new ones lol) so I will consider the small goal completed. I would like to continue for another month since it's such a fun goal XD

So goals this month will be the same as last month's with an extra:

(Very) Big goal:

Wake up early

Small goals:

- Deal with my to-watch/currently watching list

- Draw Pakho Chau

Randomly added that last one to make myself do it this month (or at least attempt to do it) XD... He still haunts me... (I guess it's my own fault since I keep re-watching that performance but his expression was soooo good - I LOVE IT SO MUCH)

Time: 2023-02-08T22:37:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , Art Stuff , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Interest: TV , Netflix

January's Goals

Okay... let's get this done before I procrastinate again.

December's

(Very) Big goal:
Wake up early

Small goals:
- Re-organise my bookshelf
-- Finish 31 books in December
-- Post daily in December

Happy to report that big goal is a success again last month (^_^). 26 days~!

As mentioned before, I gave up on my small goal. I just don't care anymore lol

So last month's small goal is uncompleted. I did manage to post daily in December though (it's a miracle! XD) though I won't count that in... I finished 16 books in December, very far from my aim but that's like the highest amount of books I read in a month in 2022. It's not a done small goal but still pretty amazing, for me anyway XD

This month's goals...

As usual -

(Very) Big goal:

Wake up early

Small goal:
Deal with my to-watch/currently watching list

Hah! I chose a fun one this month haha... Unfortunately this one might be a vague one. I don't really have a number to aim. I just want to like clean up my to-watch/currently watching list. To watch (or continue watching) or remove from list. That kind of thing. Only movies though because they're easier to deal with.

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I'm finally at the last episode of "Call Me by Fire" (S2)!!!

I think I have my fill of reality TV shows for now. I'm this close to rolling my eyes in annoyance and saying mean things. I can see from the creators' angle that it's more interesting to do some of the things but... I'm starting to cringe at how gimmicky some of them were. Maybe I'm just being my usual unfeeling self :P

Anyway, on the more positive stuff:

Alec's tribe is full of wholesome members~ I can't.. I just love seeing Pakho Chau ~~fanboying over him lol~~ getting closer to him like a vice class monitor. Alec was very strict in the beginning so I'm glad that his tribe members saw beyond that. Loved that he got to recruit Shin and Will Pan... These two are just too funny XD
Vanness is... still interesting. He actually has a very lovely and infectious smile. I might check his songs out on Spotify later because man... watching him in the show really improved my impression of him after all these years. Jerry Yan was in the first season but I don't know if I want to go through another season of this *sigh*
Finally, a mention of Wuji and Wuji LOL

Time: 2023-01-10T23:59:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Call Me By Fire , 2023 posts , Big Goal and Small Goal , blog images , Interest: TV , My Fangirl Side , Netflix , 蘇有朋