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.
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.
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!!!
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.
Day 3 of 365 grateful days project.

"I'm grateful for my kitty, Mouche, and how she fills in when the loneliness strikes in."

I'm pretty sure she is grateful, too, for having me and Vincent to take care of her and love her. She might not be the cutest cat in the world and her introvert-ness is ridiculous, but we can see that she trusts us and is happy to be with us.
These are the Easter eggs I designed last month.
It pictures the days when we are old.
Left to right: Me, Vincent and Mouche.
Day 2 of 365 grateful days project.


"I'm grateful for the projects I'm working on this year."

They are the things I like doing: photography, writing about designs/photography/photoshop (see my articles in ZoomPSD.com), copywriting and translating for hotels (not exactly fun but it makes nice income) and above all, with all those I am still able to maintain my social and personal life. Yes, life is great!
I've been feeling very blessed lately. Everything (well, almost) works out well and that plays a significant role in keeping my mood and happiness level high. So I'm thinking to have this 365 grateful days project, where I should write down (or type down) here what makes me happy or blessed today.

From the various 365 days projects that people do, be it photography, handycrafts, etc. I see that people find significant progress within themselves or their skills. Me, I just don't trust myself to be able to be that discipline. My interests keep fluctuating and it's very hard sometimes to just focus on one thing for a few hours, leave alone the whole year. But I'm willing to try. Though my first try wouldn't be on photography since it can easily turn me down just to think that I have to transfer the photos from the camera to the computer every day, fuss and get confused where I put the card reader the last time, then do a slight editing to the photo I'm going to post. So I'll just stick to the simple one line grateful project. I figure by the end of the project, I can be more discipline and used to post a blog every day and most importantly, be more positive in seeing things in life. Even in the darkest days, there should be one good thing to be grateful about. And this one good thing is often missed and clouded by the unfortunate event we might be dealing with. If only we can just see it and be grateful about it, pretty sure the day won't feel that heavy.

So my first grateful day is:

"I'm grateful that I find a way to make me realise that I should be grateful of my life every day."