Dear friends,
I’m so excited — today is the day I get my second AstraZeneca dose! For days, I nervously checked the MySejahtera app to ensure that my appointment has not been changed or wiped out by the app’s many bugs, and it seems that everything is set!
That said, I find myself trying not to look at Twitter (and failing miserably) as everyone’s so angry these days. Heck, I’m angry. For non-Malaysians: Malaysia is facing a constitutional crisis, people are protesting and raging on social media. And it’s hard to look away, wondering what your future will be like as these voices seem to yell: We are f**ked! @#$!
Can a strict information diet help? I spoke to my therapist about my (unsuccessful) attempts at tuning out and she said that it’s just hard to do that because of the urgency and magnitude of the situation.
Simplifying unrest is probably a pipe dream, eh?
Feeling stuck? Yeah, I so get you. I just want that car to move already. To a beach, preferably.
What they said
“Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create
3 reads to inspire
Recommended personal finance blogs in Malaysia — I’m slowly building up my resource section, and this is the first entry! More to come, including a subscribers-only library where I will share ebooks and workbooks.
Work break — sabbatical? Hi-FI-ing auntie is planning a third sabbatical but is worried she will fail yet again. As a person who has failed spectacularly in this area more than once, I feel this.
Reading Too Much Political News Is Bad for Your Well-Being. It can hurt your happiness and relationships, apparently!
What I’m reading
The Simple Life by Rhonda Hertzel. And I’m also slowly reading her blog. It’s going to take some time to complete reading it because she has archives dating way back to 2007! Her journal-like entries about her slow, simple life in rural Australia puts me in a zen, non-hustle space.
What I’m watching
I am absolutely in love with Pad Man. A man in India decides to create a machine that will help women produce cost-effective sanitary pads. Gets ostracised by family and friends as a result. Refuses to sell machine to corporations so that the pads can still be made cheaply and women can earn money making them. “Why earn so much of money?” he says.
He’s definitely a superhero!
Some elements of the movie didn’t work as well — the romance? positively cringe worthy lol — but such a good movie to educate the world about how something we take for granted can have such big impact on a woman’s life.
Internet buzz
It’s really nice to have a non-American perspective on the minimalism lifestyle. This is a video I return to again and again just to get the zen feels.
Journal prompt
Name one thing you can do to simplify your life?