Blog Every Day in November 2015 #BEDN Day 4: Photography

I love photography and I take pictures like everyday. I used to take a lot of pictures using my DSLR but not anymore and that is sad. I think I need to get back with my DSLR to rekindle the long lost relationship I have with it. Now, all of my pictures were taken using by my iPhone 5S and I personally think that iPhone's camera is so dope. That's one of the reason why I use iPhone and if I'm gonna get myself a new iPhone in the future, I would probably get the one with more memory space cos 16GB is very annoying and I kept getting warning that I'm about to ran out of space!

Here are some photos that I took using both of my DSLR and iPhone, I'm not a pro or a photographer so please do enjoy some of the photos that were taken by yours truly here! 

This was taken using my DSLR like a few years ago! I look so huge in that picture!! #nofilter #nophotoshop #raw

This was also taken using my DSLR like about a month ago. I must say I love the color of the sky in this picture, it's when the sun about to set. #nofilter #nophotoshop #raw

This was taken using my iPhone. I took this picture when Fay, Michelle and I were hanging out at Jesselton Point after our island trip. The sun was setting, so romantic! #nofilter

This was taken during our island trip in October using my iPhone. I just love the color of the water here, it's so turquoise blue! Just like the color of the sea in Hawaii. I'm going to make a different post for our island trip in the future! Michelle and Fay have already posted blog post about it where you can read them at Fay's & Michelle's. #nofilter

I used to be a huge photography enthusiast but it has lessen down over the years. It was quite sad that I don't use my DSLR quite often and I just put it away. I guess I should take up some time to use it again. 

Au revoir,

Jess

Blog Every Day in November 2015 #BEDN Day 3: Food Glorious Food

I'm quite behind in posting for this #BEDN challenge cos some personal things had bugged me so much that I was so pissed and I didn't even have the feeling to blog for the past few days. I hope I can keep up with the challenge and posting updates on time after this. *fingers crossed* So here goes...

To some, food is probably just a part of necessities in life whereby you consume to live and that's it. For me, that's not the case. I have a passion for food so much that if you see my body, you will understand how passionate I am! :D I am such a foodie and I'm willing to try anything new but I would say that I am not too keen to the weird and exotic food. I don't even dare to eat them cos I know that I will puke it out immediately. 

 I was quite ecstatic knowing that for Day 3 #BEDN challenge is to blog about food, oh so glorious food! I immediately began composing my blog post inside my head like should I blog about my faves or should I share about my recent foodie adventure like trying out new food that I recently did with my friends or why not all? Even doing that has made me salivating. 

The past few months, I've been trying to live healthier and I've been making healthy choices in terms of what goes into my belly. I learned that healthier meals are delicious and I won't feel guilty if I ate more of it cos I know they are healthy. So these are some of my favourite go-to healthy meals that I absolutely love, which are salads with lots of veggies with sesame dressing! I hate to have mayonnaise or any mayo-based dressings cos they are super unhealthy and contains a lot of fat! 

Bought this packed salad at Pick n Pay Lintas before heading home from university, I thought I won't feel full but in fact, it's the total opposite. It was very fulfilling even though the portion was quite small.

I used to hate oat but I am fond if it now! I try to eat it every day for breakfast because it made me full the whole day and also for its health benefits. Do you know consuming oat daily can save you from heart and high cholesterol problems? Think about it...

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Quite recently, I started to have sweet tooth and there will be times that I crave for sweet desserts. I never liked sweet stuff before but I guess my taste palette is evolving and I enjoyed devouring sweet eats once in awhile but not those overly sweet too death that you just can't stop drinking water after every bite cos that could lead to hyperactivity. 

I must say I love this Green Tea Bingsu at Nunpat! It's not overly sweet and I love the green tea powder and the red bean balls! And I don't really feel guilty about indulging myself with this dessert cos it's GREEN TEA!! The portion is super big so you will need some assistants to finish this 1 big bowl of bingsu!

Coffee and cakes, great combination! 

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When it comes to food, I can't never leave my Asian/Chinese delicacy. Being Asian, I love Asian dish so much; not because I have it every single day, but because it means comfort for me.

My love for Dim Sum is no joke! Before I depart for my healthy eating journey, I can finish 10 servings of Dim Sum easily! But now, 2 serving is enough for me. AHHHH I'm craving for some now!!! The 1st picture was taken at my usual Dim Sum place at Evergreen Restaurant in Donggongon, it is probably the cheapest place for Dim Sum. I mean there are no other places that sell 5 serving for RM11.00. The 2nd picture was taken at this popular Dim Sum place near CKS Millennium, couldn't recall the name of the restaurant and the Dim Sum sold there are a bit pricey. Per serving cos about RM3.00++. 

I must say I miss Sarawak's Mee Kolok and the Laksa Sarawak! Food there are super cheap! These 2 bowls of noodles only cost me RM6.00! No way in hell you could get food this cheap in Sabah!

Looking at these pictures sure is making me hungry!!! 

Au revoir,

Jess

Blog Every Day in November 2015 #BEDN Day 2: Love Mondays

Mondays and I don't really have a good relationship cos it means that the weekend has ended and I need to face reality. It's not that I hate Mondays nor reality, don't get me wrong but as a normal human being, weekends to me are my haven. I get to do more relaxing and life isn't as hectic as during the weekdays, I'm sure everybody agrees to this.

Knowing that I don't personally love Mondays and after having sooo many cups of coffee, I would say today is probably my most productive Monday and I am proud of myself. I did so many errands that I don't even have time to have a proper lunch. Actually I was at the university the whole day to catch up with my research supervisor on things that I need to do prior to my convocation and I lost track of time to even get myself a good lunch. After meeting up with my supervisor, I then went to pay up my convocation fee. That too take a long time as there were so many students waiting in line to pay for theirs as well and that is the only time that I wasted doing nothing, well not exactly nothing cos I was texting too that time. But beside texting, I get to do some pondering and I get to recall on so many things, good and bad that I have to go through to get to where I am today,  finally completing my thesis and actually waiting in line to pay for my convocation fees. 

I'm not going to deny that without the grace from the Heavenly Father that He has blessed me, the abundance of supports that I have received from my family and close friends and also not forgetting the support that my ex has given me during the earlier part of my master degree journey and also the heartbreak and major bullshits that he has put me through upon completing my thesis and my research defense, I don't think I will be able to make it through to today. 

All in all, although I don't particularly love Mondays, it doesn't mean that I hate it to the point that I don't want Mondays to exist cos it's good to have those things that helps you to wake up from your constant procrastination and face the reality of the world.

au revoir,

Jess

Blog Every Day in November 2015 #BEDN Day 1: Something New About Yourself

It has been such a long time since my last post! So many things has happened during those times, you can't even imagine and one of those events that happened is actually a very unfortunate one. I would say that this particular event has demotivated me to live a normal life as a human being and this unfortunate event has changed my relationship status from being in a relationship to newly single and strong (as my bffs Michelle and Fay suggested my new status). I have shared this story on my Dayre briefly and I'm planning to share the full story here on my personal blog but I'll be doing it slowly, probably in 1 whole post or more, we'll see.

I'm still struggling to find exact words to portray on how I truly feel about this life changing experience and truthfully going through day by day knowing that your 5 years of relationship ended because the ex has fallen in love with another girl is really hard for me to accept even we have broken up for over 2 months or so. Like I said, this whole thing has been a life changing experience because I have been in a relationship with a guy that I used to love for 5 years and we have a 'routine' that we do every single, now I have to ditch that 'routine' and creating a new routine ain't fun at all. People said that adopting to new changes is hard and I can really relate to this saying cos I find it so hard to gather myself up, pick up pieces of my broken heart and adopt to a new life that I'm in right now, which is singlehood. 

Putting negativity aside, Im embracing this new life and although I am pretty sure that I'm gonna relapse and will have my sad moments, I know I'll make it through this whirlwind that I'm in. I hope that this BEDN challenge will allow me to distract myself from dwelling too much into the past and just have fun blogging.

Now blogwalking time! 

au revoir,

Jess