Day 10 of 365 grateful days project.


"I'm grateful to have developed a fondness of cats, after spending my 30 years of life not getting used to one."


Not sure why I should be grateful of that, but the fact that we enjoy the existence of one more living creature in this world makes us look at the world better, too. And it feels warmer and more like home.

This cute kitty was one of the three little kittens that lived in Adi Assri Cottages where we were staying during our last vacation. If we weren't going snorkelling or swimming at the pool, we would be playing with the kitties. This female little cat in particular loved Vincent. She loved climbing through his chest and stayed there begging for his attention. :P

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11:01 am

Day 9 of 365 grateful days project.


"I'm grateful to have met a company owner today to discuss the possibility of me designing a magazine ad for them."


It's been a while since I did a paid designing project for a client, so I'm terribly excited for this project! There are mixed feelings of anxiety, excitement and love of what I will be doing. However, the deadline is within 2 weeks; which is fine for the act of graphic designing itself, but very tight for building the concept of the design I like and most importantly THEY like. The possible concepts have even leaked into my dreams!


Anyway, I hope to get it in time. I have to make it simple, yet communicating loudly. Isn't it funny how hard it is to think simple with our so-very complicated mind?

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12:35 am

Day 8 of 365 grateful days project.


"I'm grateful to have at least 1 nice photo from the underwater shots Vincent took when we went snorkeling."


I had the disposable underwater film developed today. And though I did expect to have 27 nice photos coming out of it, I guess one nice photo is still good enough than nothing at all. Nobody had told me that the disposable camera sucked in quality; and if only my stupid toenail wasn't broken that I would be strong enough to snorkel myself without having to hold on Vincent's hand, I wouldn't give the camera to him. He said that he couldn't see the viewfinder well with snorkel on. I think he was just not used to it. But he did take some great shots if only the camera's quality is a bit better.


I tried to play a little bit on Photoshop but it's hard. However, in small resolution, the result doesn't look that bad. And at least now I get to have an underwater photo to put on my Facebook profile picture. Hahaha...


Here goes...

Me

Me and Vincent

Menjangan sea garden

School of fish

Next time, I'll just buy this waterproof DSLR case for my camera. It'd save a lot of money because I'd be using digital camera; and the quality will be so much improved too! Can't wait for our next snorkeling trip!

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7:26 am

Day 7 of 365 grateful days project.


"I'm grateful for being back home; to my normal bed, to the TV, to Mc Donald's, and to snuggling with the kitty."


Don't get me wrong. Menjangan was awesome. I've seen one of the best sea gardens, my first school of fish, several blue starfish, some tiny clown fish, a sea cucumber (great colours but feels weird to touch) and other fishes I could normally see only on National Geographic or Animal Planet. 

And on the land, I saw a beautiful stag; which sparked a debate between me and Vincent as he insisted that the term deer was only to describe the female one. I told him that I believed that "deer" was a neutral term; with doe as the female deer and stag as the male one. But of course, being us, this debate was dragged into half an hour one with Vincent googling on his iPhone as we were posing in front of the Ganesh statue. 

And it appeared that in French there are two terms only: the male deer (referred to stag in English) and the female deer (referred to deer in English, instead of doe).


Back to the main point of this post, it feels good to be home. No matter how nice it is the place you are visiting, nothing is nicer to be in the very place you are most comfortable being in, the one that you call home.

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6:03 pm

Day 6 of 365 grateful days project.



"I'm grateful for not doing anything; just enjoying the lovely sea, swimming with the fishes, admiring the coral reefs, applying sun block on my skin, eating seafood, laughing with Vincent, dipping in salty water, being on an uninhabited island surrounded by deer...."


Life is great.

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6:46 am

Day 5 of 365 grateful days project..

"I'm grateful that we are leaving today for Menjangan Island for a short 3-day trip to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary."

It has been ages since I had a vacation the last time and it has also been more than a year that Vincent and I took a vacation together. I'm close to being burnt out by the piles of projects I'm doing now and I can really use this vacation to rejuvenate my body and mind.

YAYYYY!!!

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7:03 am

Day 4 of 365 grateful days project..


"I'm grateful to have a great boyfriend who I have been with for 3 years exactly today." 


It hasn't always been rainbows and butterflies all the time, but it has been the longest and the best moments I've ever shared with someone. I love you, mon chéri.

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7:58 am