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The first exam of this week, Managing International Business. also, took a pic prior to entering the exam hall. The exam is quite challenging and had no high hopes really. I tried my best and it is alright if the result isn't what I expected to be. I just need to try harder and smarter.

one day before finals start. love this cafe's vibe although the service can be slow during rush hour. rereading and skimming the book can be super tough but managed to go through it by pretending ✨️i am the main character✨️.

caffeine + finals

– SHR [Eid mubarak]

Fuel for next paper

10.04.2023

— As if I don't have any paper due in 3 days and presentation on the 11th and 13th. Coffee and movie date with bestie.

I have been busy that I wasn't online anywhere, but yes to literature (books) on keeping me sane.

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Spring

31.03.2023 I confessed I did something reckless to my health (mentally and physically), need to remind myself and you (my fellow reader who work so hard for themselves) to not let yourself be too exhausted doing your academic. :( I spend from 8 pm till 4 am managing individual paper and groupwork paper, and it wasn't healthy to do so. I skipped my suhoor and the morning, I felt so drained mentally that I wanted to cry but your girl had online presentation in the afternoon 2 pm. It wasn't rewarding feeling. Won't do it again.

After the class, I just laid down in bed and read. The reading calms me down a bit and yay, to slowly reaching my book goal.

(MAKE SURE YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, READER, OR ELSE I WOULD MAKE YOUR ICED COFFEE MELTS FASTER OR YOUR HOT DRINKS BECOME COLD FAST. Maybe worse, it spills) 💕

30.03.2023 Spend some time in the uni's library before afternoon class. 🤭 Did a bit of academic reading and leisure read, those two are different type of activities, okay? One gave me hard time and one made me relaxed.

Also the song genre I am into now is Japanese city pop, made me feel nostalgic for someone who wasn't even born in the late 70s or 80s. Current fav is Flyday Chinatown by Yasuha ❤️

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

29.03.2023 Getting these two books because it has been in my wishlist for some time/months. Also, short date (breaking the fast) with my sweetest date ✨️ Reading too many research paper made my brain miss reading idly, in a relax pace, focusing more on enjoyment. This April till first week of May will be the busiest time ever with group presentations, group work papers, tests, and exam.

27.03.2023 Due to having too much things in my hand, I have minor breakdown after Iftar. To cheer me up, I went to a coffee shop and get matcha latte with my sibling. (You can do it, break those massive task into smaller portions and do whenever whatever you can. Slowly surely, you can finish it.)

LOUIS ASTON KNIGHT (detail)

― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

[ text ID: Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. ]

24.03.2023 I'm sorry for the lack of update, my schedule becomes so hectic especially when it's now Ramadhan. Bought new books and won some tropical scented candle.

You need a rest. You need empty moments in which you tolerate your anxiety and circling thoughts until they slow down and stop circling. You need slow, quiet activities that ground you and remind you to accept yourself in spite of huge obstacles and bad thoughts. You need to put solutions out of your mind for now, and engage in activities that have nothing to do with your ego. You need habits that strengthen your patience and focus, but also feel real and not arbitrary. You need to abandon your glorious future and build your imperfect present instead.

Ask Polly: “I’m Lazy, Reckless and Addicted To Social Media. Help!”

21.03.2023 Iced Mocha latte + outfit check. I managed to finished article review, a Canvas discussion and presentation slides for 31st March. Went to eat dinner with my partner at Jollibee.

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

I am going to cafe and pretend to be a main character to do my ✨️assignment+online class✨️

finally back from chicago! would be happy to share insight from my first conference if people are interested :)

20.03.23 preparing an article review on Digital transformation in business specifically about firm innovation and performance. Staying in the library's cafe till lunch then into private study session. Also, going to enjoy my chocolate cake & iced latte.

(Hey reader 💕 I hope you are getting through whatever you are doing. If you haven't drink, get that sweet hydration. If you are thinking to eat, get that delicious food. If you are tired, rest well until you can continue again. You can't do everything at once or for everyone. Just do it for yourself. Take care and be well 🌷🍀)

When I nap in the afternoon.

“"Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.” Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

a letter to students,

because I need it right now. your worth is not your grades. an assignment is not worth sacrificing your mental health. your body, your mind, is the only one of its kind, and it shouldn't be given up for an A that'll get lost to time. because grades will be lost to time, but you won't be. you have so many years ahead of you—and if you look back on yourself now, you want to see someone happy.

yes, it's always nice to do well. yes, what you do now will affect your future.

but what you do now will affect your future. if this is your one chance, go: go live, and laugh, and eat foods that you enjoy, and make friends and fall in love with the world. grades are important, but happiness is more.

all I'm saying is that focus on yourself as much as you do your work. one day you'll look back and be grateful for it.

and most of all, I love you. don't forget that.

<3

18.03.23 – growth, growth, GROWTH

e.e. cummings, from “in time of daffodils(who know” (in 95 Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “In time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow)”]

It's just a random question: are you an Indonesian muslim?

Hello, thanks for dropping by midnighthieves ✨️

I am from Brunei and yes, a muslim.

cats + nature <3

“ᴡʜʏ ᴄᴀᴛs ᴘᴀɪɴᴛ: ᴀ ᴛʜᴇᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ғᴇʟɪɴᴇ ᴀᴇsᴛʜᴇᴛɪᴄs”, 1994. x

17.03.2023 third cup of coffee + suzume's Radwimps ft Toaka. Found gaps in my research paper (literature review and results specifically) during editing and wanting to hit my head because the deadline is on 18.03 (tomorrow) at 10:59 pm.

17 March 2023

Neverending analytical chem notes and Newton's rings from yesterday's physics lab ✨