Love on the brain

I was at the gym that day then I heard this jazzy song and Rihanna's voice and I immediately searched for this song using my phone. 

Wow I didn't know bad girl Riri had this song, it was 5 years ago. 

So jazzy so soulful and her signature vocals and range is just so perfect. It kinda reminds me of Amy Winehouse though. And this song is on repeat the whole of last weekend. 

I just can't get enough

Must be love on the brain.

Pulled neck muscle

I pulled my shoulders/neck muscle while I doing heavy shoulders weights on Thursday at the gym.

Urgh I hate it when I'm training for IPPT and then something happens to my body and I have to stop training for a week. I will lose all the gains I had for the past few days and lose stamina a little bit and I have to re-train all my muscles again argh. 

Now I need to postpone my IPPT for another month. 

Hermes MBS

We saw there was a Hermes booth outside MBS so we went there to chill.

In the end we had free grapefruit juice, donuts and free Hermes magazine haha. Cheap thrill but it makes me want to buy my Hermes sneakers even more.

So we had Roberta's pizza for snacks and went shopping for Saint Laurent City backpack.

I want to get a backpack for work and weekends but I haven't found one that I like. So far only this city backpack is basic enough but I'm still thinking about it. 

I still like my LV aerogram backpack :/

Candle making

I've been obsessed with candles since Covid and now I have to burn a candle every night to set the mood or help me sleep. So I have been buying my Diptyques and Hush candles online or on Carousell. I have always been wanted to find a scent that's close to the Muji Sleeping blend which I had used for my diffuser last time but Muji doesn't sell scented candles. 

So I decided to make my own. 

I went to youtube, learnt how to make candles, bought supplies online, sent to Wei Ling's house and we started. Also, we bought glass containers from daiso which is more worth it. To start with, I chose to make the simple lavender candle which is the norm. She's making lemongrass.

1. Measure the wax

2. Melt the wax in a double boiler

3. Add in essential oil (I only use 100% pure essential oil)

4. Set the wick and pour the wax in

5. Wait for candle to cure for a week

And then after a week

Voila! Homemade Lavender candle. Bye Bye Hush Candle I can make my own now. 

I can't believe it is so easy and convenient. In the long run this is much cheaper than buying, and I can customise my own scent. 

Next, I need to figure out the Diptyque Baies scent and also do my Muji sleeping scent.

revamp wardrobe

I looked through my wardrobe and found some of my clothes are actually 20 years old hahaha. I bought them in secondary school and they still fit me well, it either shows I have great taste in clothes to last me 20 years, or I bought oversized clothes last time so I can actually fit into them now. 

I was thinking, I need to revamp my wardrobe and stop buying unnecessary clothes - like those halfway there kinda clothes. I only need to focus on a few good ones and the rest can go. Either on carousell or donated somewhere. I've been clothes-hogging since forever coz it's so hard to throw away clothes when they still look ok, and I still love my spidermans :/

Ok wardrobe change: stop wasting money on unnecessary clothes, focus on good ones only.

Be better

I'm really concerned about the way I spend money nowadays so I read a lot of my previous posts and realised I keeping saying I am spending a lot lol. And I blog a lot about spending and reminding myself to save, it's annoying lol. I have like 9439271 posts to remind myself not to spend.

So on spending, this weekend I learnt that people have different standards of spending. Like Eric can spend 2.5k without thinking. Wei Ling can spend on anything without thinking. I just can't. I have things I want to buy, but I need to prioritize saving up first. 

I like this LV backpack and this pair of LV sneakers. I have the ability and the money to buy them, but I don't think it's worth to get a backpack for 3.5k or a pair of sneakers for 1.4k. Also they are not priority although it's nice to have them. Sigh.

At gym today it suddenly dawned on me that I also need to frequently remind myself to be disciplined about gym and lose those fats. So my motto for this year is simply: Be Better.

Being good is not enough, I gotta be better. Like saving 65% of my income is not enough, I gotta do 70% this year. Working out with the same old weights is not enough, I need to increase my intensity like doing heavier or doing cardio after weights. I need to be better. Like Shuri said in Black Panther, just because it works doesn't mean it can't be improved.