WEEK 20 Life Update / Watchlist (2020)

Assalamualaikum and hello! This is the first trial of making weekly life update in hope that I’ll write more regularly. Since SPM ended last year, I’ve been losing track of time, and adding to this whole quarantine phase it seems like time is untrackable now. My mental health is fluctuating up and down, but thankfully the bookstagram and fandom community has help me keeping my sane. After leading a sedentary life for about 5 months, finally I’m getting a new motivation to make my life more meaningful and also documenting my life journey starting now. Not trying to do anything ‘grand’ or straight up forcing myself to be productive all time. I’ve tried it before and failed miserably. So instead of trying to follow other’s lifestyle, I’m here trying to ‘design’ my own life, as what The Bliss Bean (youtube) suggested.

Life Update

1.      P E N P A L

I received a portrait painted by Zy Masri (@zy_masri) last week, though we’re stranger, but she’s willing to send her paint along with 2 full pages of handwritten letters. This really moved me a lot. She told me about the beauty of spreading kindness to other people, even to strangers, especially during this pandemic situation that has taken a great toll on all of us mentally, physically and financially. And from that moment, the letter inspired me to also write to others too, as writing letter is the only thing I’m good at. Actually my fellow bookstagrammer, @persephtiyareads brings the idea of exchanging letter too before, but I had to postpone it’s quite hard to go to post office during MCO (partial lockdown). But this small yet earnest act also unleashed my good-old hobby of me since I used to exchange letters with others from local book club on Facebook. Bringing back the joy of writing and the little excitement in waiting for the letters. And now that MCO is getting leniency, I finally decided to send the letters before eid.

I must say being a perfectionist making it a lot harder to create a nice aesthetic letter. I took about 3 to 5 hours just for a letter. Though the joy in the process of constructing one makes time passed unnoticeable. I also took the chance to document the process of me penpalling some of the letters!

2.      Y O U T U B E

FINALLY, the motivation to record and edit videos resurfaced back to me after almost half a year of missing out. I recorded myself penpalling and uploaded one video, the very first video of the year :’) I’m now trying to edit more videos, including the footages from last year, and I’m planning on recording some more. Hopefully I’ll get to upload one more before eid.

*My channel is Haeyba <3

3.      R E A D I N G

Sadly, it seems like I’m getting back reading slump right now. Despite having all the free time in hand, my reading slump attack me back huh. Or maybe I’m just too preoccupied with youtube and penpalling. One of my 2020 resolution is to write more book reviews. Hopefully I’ll get to that somehow.

Watchlist

1.      Anne With An E (Netflix / CBC)

One of my junior recommended me to watch Anne With An E, knowing how I love classic story when I posted Little Women movie. AND I’M GREATLY THANKFUL FOR THAT!!! I actually stumbled upon the show years ago when it first started, but somehow I forgot the existence of the show. I was quite skeptical to watch it at first, expecting that it’s going to be a typical story of the little adventures of girls growing up and try to fit in the society. But boy, I was wrong. The story offered MUCH more than that, tackling the sensitive and prominent issues that’s still relevant to nowadays society problems. I had to restrain myself from watching all 3 seasons at one sit since it’s too good that I don’t want it to end early. I’m thinking on writing a full review of the show.

2.      Hospital Playlist (Netflix)

This is the only kdrama I’m watching right now after When The Weather is Fine ended 3 weeks ago. Quite a surprise that I’m only watching one episode of drama per week! I just don’t find other airing dramas to be delectable to watch at the moment. This is a perfect drama for me. I love how subtle and lightweight the story is. I learnt a lot about life from this drama. Every single characters have their own sides of story, it’s not only revolving around the 4 doctor-band squad and that what makes the drama more wholesome and unique. I watched ep 10 yesterday and got a roller coaster of emotions. 2 more episodes to go, I’m not ready to let this drama go :’) Oh and I’m NOT GOING TO SETTLE DOWN if PD-nim decides to troll us with our precious Winter Garden couple !!! Gyeo-ul deserve much more than an unrequited love. *puppy eyes. I’m also wondering how will Ik Jun and Song Hwa’s relationship develop, hopefully this is not a false alarm since it’s SO OBVIOUS.

I guess that’s all for now. Thank you for reading this <3 May the remaining Ramadhan become a become a blessed for us , ameen.