When people told you that “your drawing looks childish and cartoonish” and I’d say go ahead and post that masterpiece because you do you.
not a food blog
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A Friendly Visit (2020)
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Morning walk (February 1, 2020)
filed under: The Firmansyahs in a NutshellHey! After days of non-update, here I am.
Anyway, sometimes I got pings or questions from my friends or relatives when they are going to visit Kuala Lumpur for the first time:
“Do you have any recommendations for places we can go?”
Most of times, I usually refer them to popular guides and places; such as Twin Towers, KL Tower, Genting Highland (I’m actually not super familiar with this place apart that this place is a resort), Batu Caves, and our ever-increasing number of malls.
However, I usually suggest them to look some parks, especially if they prefer outdoor activities. KL provides quite amount of parks, and it seems they are actively working on preserving their old heritage area and promoting more on their historical and nature aspect.
One of the parks is Taman Tasik Titiwangsa (Titiwangsa Lake Gardens), a park which newly refurbished and reopened to the public, used to be a tin mine — and the lake used to be the lake commonly found in mines (AFAIK, another lake from old mine which repurposed as public places is the one in Sunway Lagoon.)
It was really nice; the sun was clear at that day and the kids enjoying the walk (quite a rare occasion because the eldest usually go, “too much heat, too much grass, too much sun, too much sky, too much air…” with the youngest one copying her brother, “too much! Sun! Sky! Too much! Hot! CAKWAWAT! (“Cakwawat”. When a 3-year old combining the word “cockroach” and “kecoak” (Indonesian word for “cockroach”), resulted in entirely new word which she liberally use for virtually every single bug possible.)) The bike lane is bit small, considering how crowded the park could be, but the whole experience has been nothing but lovely.
With the Twins at the background 
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Cleaning v. Exercising (Sport)
filed under: Writings and General Commentariestags: blubsI decided to re-up my Bloglovin’ account and visited the app which garnered dusts on my phone and I found this article from The Apartment Therapy.
“Okay, so the study was conducted by Mr. Clean (along with market research company Ipsos), which naturally wants us to like cleaning so we’ll keep buying magic erasers in bulk. Still, the results are interesting.
The study, called the “Joy of Cleaning,” included a sample of 62 people between the ages of 25 and 45. In order to be part of the experiment at all, everyone had to have a neutral-to-positive attitude toward cleaning.”
I’m glad they mentioned who’s who behind the research and what kind of certain traits needed on the sample; so to say the research totally neutral would be a bit incorrect, but I got that.
Me myself have a positive tendency to cleaning; sure, I let dirty laundries on the floor once in a while. However, the article/research might explains why I always prefer cleaning to exercising.
I’ve been trying to do simple exercising lately, namely yoga because I can do that at home. But even for a really simple bedtime/relaxation yoga would prove challenging to me.
But cleaning, I do like cleaning. There was a day where I spent my early morning tidying the house, changing the bedsheets, doing laundry, then doing my usual daily Support work. Instead of feeling tired or sluggish, I feel quite energized. I’m glad about this, though. I like to clean, and hopefully this can be a good reminder and motivation for me to move more.
Nindya’s quick blurbs
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A month too late, but I just stumbled upon IKEA France’s Tiktok video, hinting a possible collab with Animal Crossing. Unfortunately, no further information about this other than IGN picked up this news when the video was posted.
