Good words I found today at my favorite blog, Proudduck (proudduck.com)

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Good words I found today at my favorite blog, Proudduck (proudduck.com)

Some things are predictable.
Like this Monday morning, all travel providers (to Bandung) in my city for morning travel are most likely to be full-booked. Long weekend, more people go home. Tickets are selling fast. With that prediction, we need to book our seat earlier than usual or we won’t get a seat in a desirable schedule.
If you know you need to go to Bandung from my city, Bekasi, for work and arrive there before 10 a.m., then travel schedule after 6 a.m. won’t work. Knowing that, I can book a seat in last Monday when other people have not made their booking yet.
#becauseineedtowrite
If I like your blog and you like mine, there’s a chance we can be a good friend.
#introvert
“You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
– Jony Ive
Hi all, how’s your Monday?
I really want to write but it’s already my bedtime and I have work tomorrow and I need to get good amount of sleep. So, yeah, I do hope I can make time tomorrow to write one or two things.
Why did I have so much in my mind?
Why did I get angry easily these days? (i.e. angry to Angkot drivers who dropped me off before I reached my office because they wanted to change their route and I was the only passenger)
Where did my money go?
Those were questions that I just started to realize this week. And I needed to solve them as soon as possible. Fortunately, I always know that writing in my private journal can provide help for me. I spent some time at night to write them out. And I realized my mistake: I did not write.
I did not write my private journal. That’s why I had so much in my mind because I kept them only in my mind. I kept not only about things in my minds, but also my emotions which I had to let out :p
I did not write my financial journal. Well, I have written my financial journal since January this year, but I did not make the report (for myself), did not pay attention to my budget, and did not write every purchase I made. I thought with just writing down big purchases, it would be ok, while, in fact, that is not OK because I also made many small purchases which if accumulated will be as significant as the big purchases. In short, I did not appreciate my money. Then, I made some refinements on how I manage my money. Started from August, I write my financial journal more carefully. I even make the report with a graph in it. And it feels so good to see the graph does not go downward in a steep line haha. 😀
This started from the MJ logo I created before for the 99designs contest. I used the leaves and font and created this logo. I am happy with the result 😀


I tried to join a design contest in 99designs some weeks ago. The contest brief was this:
MJ
Target audience: mostly females,
Product: beauty product (exfoliating wash cloth and bath bombs for now) I would like a design I can use for various beauty products
Cosmetics & Beauty
Based on the brief, I created two logos:




I didn’t win this contest, but I got 3 stars for each design. I think it’s a good start haha.
“Please write something so this domain won’t be useless” – note to myself.
HAHA. What should I write?
Actually, there’re many things going on in my mind, but I don’t know how to write them. Like this morning, how I envy my brother who has done something for years which is playing games. I envy his consistency. What things that I have done for more than 5 or maybe 3 years? hmm… sadly, it’s hard to answer that question 🙁 Well, this blogging thing is one thing that I enjoy for a long time (more than 5 years) but now my post number is decreasing each month. And swimming also an activity that I enjoy for years. But again, I do not do those two things as often as before because I have work etc etc.
Sigh! I know that’s such an excuse! this all because I do not manage my time and energy well. This week, I planned to go swimming today, but yeah since I just arrived from Bekasi yesterday morning and then I felt so tired and I woke up late and I still had things to do and that’s how I canceled my swimming plan 🙁
I hope I have more time and energy to do things I love (Wow this remind me with the “2016 Annual Letter” on Bill Gates’ blog ). I also do hope I have more things that I’d love to do for the next 5, 10 years and so on.