I don’t know with you guys, but being quarantined for me means more busy than usual! So it’s been 6.5 months up until today that I have to work from home due to this pandemic. The first 2 months wash harsh, though. It’s tough, as we need to adjust everything. Suddenly, we were over worked. It seems like there’s no limit during office work. Also, there are a lot of things the we need to stop doing. We don’t know how to exercise outside. We stop meeting friends and loved ones. My insomnia relapsed, I couldn’t sleep for couple of weeks. Everything feels like a false hope and I was lost.
I remember it was the mid week of May. It had been 2 months of quarantine. I started writing every day. 1 page per day. About anything that came up to my mind every time I started writing. Every day, 5 mins before starting working, I write. Every time I write, my mind is getting clearer. Instantaneously I can control my emotions. No more panic attack, less insomnia and anxiety. Then, I started making plan.
I wrote all of my plans. Everything I would do in this given times. Then a lot of ideas came up. Some are new, some are the old ideas that had been sitting in my mind since long long ago but I just came with a lot of excuses for not doing that. Once I’m enriched with many ideas, I feel like I have a new purpose all of a sudden. Tbh, the idea list is quite ambitious. After a thorough thinking, I short it with things that I always love to do. So, I’ll feel like I’m doing it without being forced. The idea is, once I ticked most of the things from my list (although it starts with things I love), I’ll be more encouraged to do the others. I’m kind of proud of my self now that it’s 8 out of 16 things that has been done and became new habits of mine during quarantine. There are :
- Learn to cook more new recipes
- Write more (blog or handwriting)
- Activate (and actively writing on) my blog
- Read a lot of books
- Learn how to paint/sketch
- Create new IG content (again, visit @coretoan for these contents! :D)
- Exercise more
- Learn new language and practice everyday.
So, as today’s topic is about writing my day, I’ll reveal my day to day schedule to accommodate all of those things. I woke up around 6.15 to prepare breakfast for Abang. Mostly I go to sleep again around 8.00-9.00, then start working by 9.30. Before I join the challenge, I set 5-10 mins before working to write on my diary. I always make a hard stop for lunch on 12.00-13.00 that I usually use it to watch 1 ep of series as well :D. I’ll continue to work until 17.00 when it’s my hard stop time so I can have 30-45 minutes exercise. After showering and light dinner, before I continue to finish up a bit of work, I write on my blog. I’ll turn off my laptop around 21.00 and set aside my phone. It’s time for reading and language learning! I spare 1 hour to learn and 1-2 hours to read before I go to sleep around 00.00. I learn new recipes and how to sketch mostly on weekend. Every Tuesday & Friday, I also have 1 hour Japanese course. Here’s the result from 1 month attempt of Japanese course. Shout out to my bestfriend Ayu, who has been a great sensei for me!
わたしのまいにち
わたしはいつも６じ３０ぷんにおきます。朝ごはんはサンドイッチかぎはんをりゅりします。ときどきごぜん８じからごぜん９じまでまたねます。９じ３０ぷんからごご５じまでいえではたらきます。それからうんどうします。火曜日と金曜日は１じかんにほんごのべんきょうをします。ばんごはんはめったにたべません。
まいにち１じかんほんをよみます。土曜日とにちようびはたらきません。まいばんは ブログ をかきます。まいしゅうにちようびはえをかくとをべんきょうしています。
This is one of my homework this week. Writing on my daily activity looks like!
Sounds tiring and boring? Surprisingly not. Sometimes I took 30 mins break from working time to read couple of pages. Or sometimes instead of reading book, I do coloring. My workout menu always varies. Sometimes, it’s just a rest day and I spend the night just talking to Abang. I share my activities and learning in social media to fulfill my extrovert needs. Yes, I found a purpose. Not about to do many things, not about to show other people that you can do may stuffs, or not to be seemed like I’m thriving by doing these things. My purpose is only how to stay sane and happy. So I set my own limit, I set my own pace. Again, it’s all back to ourselves.
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