My weekends for the past few months have always been same, which always at home (because of Corona!) 🤪 However, I enjoy my weekend because there are many things I can do. Watching series while lying down, listening music while singing out loud ~ and playing games while eating delicious food 🙈 The point is, I'm trying to enjoy my weekend, wishing that it won't pass quickly hahaha. And, on this weekend, I wanna tell you the simple things I do at home 😍

First, of course eat 😆✌ As usual, my daily menu is clean food, but with a little extra main dish called Swedish Meatball! 😋 So, from yesterday I told my household assistant that I wanna eat Swedish Meatball with mushroom sauce, and after browsing the recipe on Cookpad, I found the recipe that I thought was right 😍 Thankfully after I tried, it was reallyyyy delicious!

By the way, my clean food normally boiled broccoli, boiled carrots, roasted potatoes plus boiled chicken breast (and grilled a bit with Olive Oil and Oregano) 😆 ---- For me, clean food suits my tongue best. At most, if I want a bit spicy, I usually use blackpepper or Boncabe chilli powder 🙈 hehehe.


Oh, not to forget, I'm happy ~ because I got a package from Lia The Dreamer via PO BOX 😍 Waw! When I found out that the package had landed, I immediately asked my assistant to take it and it's homemade soap 😆 Me likeeey! Lia knows I like homemade soap (I don't remember whether I wrote about this or not) 🙈 And the funny thing is, the soap Lia sent has a bunny on it 🐰 Thank you so much Lia, I hope your luck will run smoothly and I wish you happy 💕

Besides that, I spent my weekend time to play an old school gameboy with my man 🤣 At first, I just wanna play Super Mario ~ In the past, my hobby was playing Super Mario to the end! 😬 However, it was quite difficult to find the original Super Mario game like the one I played, until I saw the gameboy recommended by my friend that she bought for her son 🙈 ---- With excited, she said, "There are many games! And pretty much all of old school games are available. Such as Super Mario, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, 1942, even CIRCUUUUS CHARLIE, too." 😱

I right away open TOKOPEDIA. And you know what? The price is only USD 5 😂 I can't believe it! It's cheap. For some reason, I worried, I can't play. But, since my friend gave a recommendation and she said the gameboy lasts until now... I decided to take it and waiting with hope.

Finally, three days later my gameboy came 🥳 Me and my man were immediately scrambling because wanna play it first, though we are from different countries, but we played same game! 🤣 Suddenly I Feel nostalgic, and we ended up showing off to each other, I told him, "I finished Super Mario in two days!" --- he said, "I can jump high to the flag and get 5000 points. Can you?" -- then I answered, "Eittts, in the past, my coins were millions!" 🤪 hahahahahaha.

Anyhow, back to gameboy which I bought at a low price, I could say that I agree with my friend, because the gameboy is seriously good, and in the package we bought, we will get two joysticks, so we can play together. Moreover, we are given a TV connector so we can play in a big screen. OMG! This is crazy, hahahaa. I can't imagine, in the past, my parents bought Nitendo which was quite expensive, and the tapes were many! Even I don't know how much it was 😶 But now, I can play all those games only from gameboy with the price around USD 5. What the.... 🤣

Over all, I'm satisfied and I'm playing it until now 🙈 Maybe the weakness of this gameboy is we can not save the game, or am I the one who doesn't know how to save it? 🤣 Ahh, nevertheless, the most important thing is I'm happy! 😁 No wonder my friend was willing to buy this gameboy for her son, because my friend didn't want her son play cellphones, so she bought this gameboy which in fact the screen is good for kid's eyes and the games are kids friendly, plus of course this gameboy successfully bring back our good memories 😍 -- that's all for my weekend 😆

How about you, guys? I wish you enjoy your weekend as much as I do! 💕

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First, I wanna say thank you very much to everyone who sent me emails, whether to talk about personal matters, ask questions or giving support. Seriously, it means a lot, though sometimes I can't reply quickly or accidentally skip the email (I'm sorry), however I really appreciate all of your sweet emails! 😍 Nowadays, I can get 5-10 emails a day with many kind of topics, and I try to use it as my writing material, so when someone asks similiar topic, I can link this post 😁

Let's listen Power of the Dream : Celine Dion while reading 😍

Now, I'm interested to talk about one question sent by a friend related to PURPOSE. Hehee. This friend (in her long email) tells me about her life as a blogger who's looking job from her blog and some problems she had. Then she asked me, what is my goal in creating a blog? 😆 From that question, I began to think about my goal when I first started my blog ~ and it made me checked my old post to see if my goals remain the same or have changed 😂

And well, after thinking about it, I realized, my goal was pretty simple (I've wrote it several times), which is to record my travel memories 😂 In the past, my blog was filled with my travel stories to various countries, and in addition, there were THOUGHTS and RANDOM STORIES, while now, my travel posts became an additional posts (LOL!) 🤪 --- and in the past, I intended to record my travel memories so I can share it to my circle (I don't have any thoughts on blogwalk, yet) so that my friends, family, partners etc., who don't have time to travel at least can take virtual trips with me. That's why, my original plan was to write travel posts from the closest country (SEA) 🙈

However, in the process, I became bored, "Why this travel trips around SEA still many? When will I write about Australia, NZ or Europe?" hahahahaha 😅 -- and that bored feeling made me lazy to edit tens of thousands photos I have. I was fed up every time I saw the travel photo folders 🥴 Which ended up influenced my decision to write much more about THOUGHT / MOONLIGHT / RANDOM STORIES and several other labels for crazy reason, because when I write about that topics, I didn't need to go through the photo editing process for hours 🤣

Unexpectedly, my personal life slash not-so-important stories have many readers who made my travel writing became marginalized hahahahahahaha 🤪 -- Yeah, I keep checking the number of comments and page views and the fact is... my travel posts have lower numbers compare to my personal life posts 🙈 ---- Since then, my goals have changed a bit, I started to think that we can tell about parts of our lives and share perspectives, so both of us can learn from experience.

I learned a lot from the comments you guys gave. So, my purpose as a blogger now is to learn. I want to learn about life directly from your experiences, because I believe that experience is the best teacher in lives. While we can't experience all the things in this world, we should learn from experiences shared by others ~ 😍 And that's the reasons why my Paid Guest Post #1 themed was THOUGHTS. Because I know, there will be a lot of knowledge that you guys can share 💕


I have financial privilege, so I admit, I'm not solely focused on make money from blog, that's why my blog is categorized as a fun blog. But, I don't deny that I accept offers which I think are priced according to my standards. So, I've never thought that you guys who write blogs to make money are not blogger, because in my opinion, as long as you have blog and write on blog, means you are a blogger 😁 Maybe your priorities are different but nothing wrong with that, though I hope, if possible, there will be a personal post (organic, eh?) so readers can enjoy your blog evenmore.

Anyways, about the question, "Am I doing right as a blogger?" - I can't answer at length, maybe other friends can. Hehee. On a short note, I can only answer, we as person always doing right on our own version, just like Mr. Anton ever said in one of his posts, being a blogger doesn't have connection with right and wrong, so, let's just write and if that kind of topics (personal life, jobs, advertising, etc.,) are what we like, then do it 😉 I'm sure, we have our right version, so, just keep going til we reach our goals 😍 -- my advice for you is to make goals, especially if you think that blog is a part of your work which need a clear purpose 😁

I personally have a lot of goals, one of them is to finish my travels journey, to other specific goals for example recruit more Paid Writers every month, open more labels than existing ones, write more experiences and learn more from others. Plus, I have goal related to blog world so that the blog can be equal to other platforms (Youtube / Instagram) in terms of ratecard 😁 I wish, my friends who write ads can be paid over than USD 100 / article *I can dream first, right?* 🤣


I don't know in the future my purpose will change, or will I stop forever? But instead of worrying about it, I tend to enjoy my present time, what has been presented in front of me, and live it with joy 😍 Because I'm a typical person who always tries to enjoy the life I have, including blogging, my principle is, if I still doing it, means I like it and I'll keep doing until it's no longer enjoyable 😂

For the last, being happy comes from within, so don't expect from outside or around us. It would be better if you are happy when blogging, don't let writing blogs turn into a burden. Apart from blogging is part of a job or not, wish you can enjoy. Even in any job, there will be times where the job is a burden, still, you need to find your own purpose to make you keep moving forward.

As Roy T. Bennett said, "If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there." 😉 ---- I hope the efforts that you give in developing your blog can produce a good result. Each of us has different timing, when we see other friends succeed first, don't give up. Keep giving your best and let God care the rest. Hehehehe. Himnaera! 💕

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Yesterday, one of my friends asked, "What should I do to minimize miscommunication?" Well, we need to know that miscommunication often occur because, first, we do not want to (or cannot) be a good listener. Second, we have too many assumptions and, third, we are not focus on the things that we should do or the tasks that we got 😁 whereas in my opinion, in every aspect of this world, from working to friendship and relationships, communication is important ~

Unfortunately, there are many instances where we don't really understand about the things that being said or the tasks that we got because of the 3 points above. And in fact (it often happens), we told them, "Yes, I understand." even though we don't really understand, that's why we ended up makes such a mistake 😅 So, if you asked how to minimize miscommunication? The answer is by learning to listen. And the main thing is not only listen but also understand.

Albeit, we still confused, then don't make our own assumptions. Better ask, "Oh, is this what you mean?" --- instead of quiet 😆 Because it's okay to ask, if we really don't understand, rather than pretending to understand but after that, we keep making mistakes because the communication is missing 😁 That's why, in healthy communication, it would be best to stay away from personal assumptions ~ Ask and ask. And focus to check again our conversation with them.

On a side note, assumption is dangerous 😉 Not only in working area, but in many areas, I think assumption is dangerous because it can cause miscommunication and it will make us think ill of each other without reasons. And then? Work becomes uncomfortable, and if it happens on our friendship, we will end up hating each other 🙈 The worse case is.... if it happens in relationship, the possibility to break up will be higher. Can you imagine?

As the saying goes, "If you feel embarrassed to ask the road, you will lost your ways." -- And my mate said, "Too much assumptions, will causing miscommunication." 🤪 In the end, Although it's hard, it would be better to try. And if still fails, at least we have tried our best 😁 and hopefully, we can having a good communication with whoever we are talking to.

Just like Paul J. Meyer said,


Which means, communication is a KEY if we want to succeed in our careers and personal lives. Please don't be discouraged. Keep trying to give our best for every communication that we have, so that someday there will be no miscommunication between us and the people we care 😄💓

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