Wishing for Staycation at Singapore | Hi Assalamualaikum. Today I would like to talk about staycation. Most of us must be missing traveling right. Because of the situation we had nowadays, we are restricted from traveling and have to postpone whatever plan we have. As of right now, we can’t go anywhere. Stuck within our district and cannot cross between states. How I envy our neighbouring country, Singapore. They can travel within their country and here I want to give a suggestion to our neighbour, Singaporean to relax and have fun holidays by having staycation in their own country.

What is a staycation? According to Oxford Languages, staycation is a holiday spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions. What are the benefits of staycation? There are many benefits of staycation such as time saving and easy on the wallet, no planning required, more quality time with loved ones and rediscovering your own city. What I mean by time saving and easy on the wallet is we can save our time and cost more than we do a vacation. We spend a lot of money on flight tickets, transportation and accommodation especially when we travel abroad that takes hours to arrive. 

Staycation will make you an expert in your own country. You can decide either to stay in your house and make a lot of memorable activities together with your family. Or find an affordable accommodation to spend your time with your loved ones. You can do a lot of activities with your family at your favourite place. I guess everyone has a signature place where you and your family love to spend time together. Because I do. My father always brings us to a family restaurant to have lunch or dinner when we have free time. It feels great because we can bond our relationships deeper. But if your favourite activities are bringing your families to vacation or staying in a proper accommodation, Just pick a hotel near your favourite place and there you go. Hehe.

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I know a few famous landmarks in Singapore. One of the popular landmarks is Merlion Park. One of the benefits of staycation is we can rediscover our country and learn about the history of landmarks itself. So, Merlion is a mythical creature that’s half fish and half lion. The Merlion combines two elements of Singapore’s identity. Its body symbolises the fishing villages of Singapore’s past. While its lion head is a symbol of Singapura. It's become one of the attractions for tourists to come by at Merlion Park. 

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Singapore is also famous for its physical attraction themed park, Universal Studio Singapore (USS). There are 24 attractions in this park that consists of 7 different themed zones. Each one of the themed zones has its own unique features that attracts people from different ages including me. The seven themed zones are Hollywood, New York, Sci-Fi City, Ancient Egypt, The Lost World, Far Far Away and Madagascar. Because I am a fan of cartoons and anime, I will choose Far Far Away. I live my childhood memories by watching Shrek and their friends. I also love seeing Madagascar, unfortunately this themed zone will be closed. But you guys don’t have to worry because there is more additional themed zone that will be replacing Madagascar. You want to know? Ba na na, Bananana. It’s a Minion (2021) and Super Nintendo World (2025). 

If you are planning to come and have fun at Universal Studio Singapore, I suggest checking out Hotel 81 Dickson. Hotel 81 Dickson is near to Universal Studio Singapore with a lot of facilities including public transportation, MRT. This hotel serves a 24 hour front desk and security. Besides, you can find a supermarket, salon, ATM, gift shops and laundry in the hotel. You also can express check-in and check-out if you are in a hurry. This hotel is a disabled access friendly and has free WIFI. There is also accessible halal food and mosque for Muslim people nearby. There are two rooms provided in here; Standard Double and Superior Double. 

I hope you guys in Singapore are having a great and wonderful staycation. Take a lot of pictures and make it a memorable one. Wish me to arrive in Singapore soon. So, lots of LOVE. Have fun.

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PREPARATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY | Hi, Assalamualaikum. Like I promise yesterday, I am going to continue the preparation for weight loss. Where are we? Last year was a difficult year for all of us. Pandemic Covid-19 hit us badly. So, I am going to tell you what happened to my journey from the beginning of January. In the beginning, I didn't focus on any exercise due to family reasons. After that, I slowly learned how to control my food intake. I started to learn control food portion by using a quarter, a quarter and half diet. I will tell more about this kind of diet later. By the way, I am not consistent in this food control. Still struggling.

A GRATEFUL MOMENT IN MY LIFE | Hi, Assalamualaikum. In everyday life, we have various moments that are meant to keep or to throw it away. We go through all of the moments since we were born to this world. There are many emotions that we can express for the whole life that we have been lived such as happiness, sadness, madness, grateful, hates, loves and many more. So, today I am so grateful to be born in this world.

PREPARATION FOR WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY | Hi, Assalamualaikum. We meet again. I want to talk about a little bit of introduction on why I want to lose some weight. Actually, after a long of hiatus and a temporary lockdown that happened to Malaysia started March 2020. A lot of things changed including my weight. People always labelled me as someone that will never gain weight even though I ate a lot of food. Besides, maybe my physical appearance didn't show that I am gaining a few kilograms after eating. I love to eat chickens and sweet things especially chocolates. But that was when I was still a teenager. Where body metabolism still higher. 

I started gaining weight after I have a job. When you learn that you have money to buy foods that you love so much. Not just that, your company always make food banquet every time we had celebrations. But at the same time, I didn't feel the difference in weight because of my job scope as a sales assistant. An assistant that going around in the kids' department. I have to handle many stocks and treats customer that come by. So, the body process balances because of my active movements. That's before I got an offer letter to work in a government. 

Now, I have worked in high school as a lab assistant for 2 years already. Many unexpected things happened here. When I was reported myself in the first year of 2019, the teachers are kind and friendly especially when inviting you to a food banquet. I can't count how many times these school teachers hold food banquets. The banquets that been hold was supposed to celebrate occasions such as Teachers Day, Chinese New Year, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Farewell Event and for fun. 

But even worse, my weight starts to gain drastically every time school holidays appear. Why? To save the costs of spending money on outside foods. My seniors have decided to cooks at schools. Cooks homemade food. How I missed my mom badly when eating homemade foods. They have planned the menu for every day of the school holidays. But if the menu got hold because of certain issues. They will put the menu list in the cart like a shopping cart. Many foods still on the queue until now. So, I try to put on my little old clothes. Oh nooo. I can't fit in anymore. Long sigh.

Because of that, I started to find a way to lose some weight. At least to get normal BMI. I bought a yoga mat, a set of the resistance band, workout gloves and a digital weighing scales. Moreover, I subscribed a healthy fitness application on the iPad to give me motivations in losing weight. Hahaha. However, I am a lone ranger. Where my motivation easily comes and go. By the end of 2019, I list my resolutions that I want to commit in 2020. I have the list of resolutions right here. So, what happened in the year 2020? I'll continue this story in the next part.

Thank you for reading. <3

Lots of Love,
Mardhiyyah Rosli

TWENTY-TWENTYONE RESOLUTIONS | Hi. Assalamualaikum. Long time no see. Since the last post, I got a little busy with work. And struggling to manage time correctly with the situations that our country is facing currently. Due to other factors also, I am trying my best in this new year to up my personal skills including be positive and confident in front of people. I have struggled with this kind of problems since I was a kid. I always try to avoid the presentation task by doing the paperwork. So, this personal skill has become one of my resolutions.

I am trying to find a better way to express myself in POSITIVE thinking. I don't want to stay in NEGATIVE overthinking like before. I try a lot of things to be more productive including journaling. My passion for writing something even on a piece of paper is like curing my boredom. I love to spend myself on writing even though for daily gratitude. I try to collect and reading what types of the journal that I can create for myself. To create these journals, I bought many stationery supplies from Shopee and Tesco. Some of the stationery supplies that I used the most is Faber Castell Click X5 Blue/Black Pen, Coloured Gel Pen, Staedtler Fineliner Pen, Highlighter, Dual Brush Colour Pen and several notebooks.

These notebooks kept my things such as yearly planner, finances, work, household chores, weight loss journey and the important one; agama class. To be more productive and changing to a new person with a better personality. This was the first step to success.

Furthermore, I  have decided to control my food intake and do a little bit of workout seriously. Why? I admitted that I ate a lot this few years by attending many banquets held in school. My weight is gained and my BMI is a little distracted. So, to make it back to the right way. I am correcting my daily routine by adding up workout time and food taken accordingly. Besides, I am going to record my weight loss journey in here Lovely Sunshine to remind me how struggling it is to lose weight. The challenge to lose weight start now. Fighting!

Alhamdulillah. I have passed my job trial when I received my confirmation letter in September 2020. I am officially a government worker as a lab assistant in a high school. This year will have a job rotation between lab assistant to feel the different environment in every form level. As everyone knows, Kuala Lumpur is one of the states that are announced as MCO states. I have been notified by my boss to work from home until 20th January 2021. After that, I am going to work by taking turns to help another lab assistant that handling Form 5 students. So, wish me for the best in work.

There is one more additional resolution to my unaccomplished resolves. I started to involved in business side income after the end of my studies. I started as a dropship of Nurraysa since July 2017. The journey is upside down. The sales of the product are unexpected. Sometimes, you got a buyer. Sometimes, you just need to push an effort more to attract customers. There is an accomplishment in my sales last year due to MCO and HQ Promotional Item. I decided to upgrade my rank from dropship to an agent. Yes. The struggling in business is real. From the moment, I upgraded myself. I give the oath to try my best in business. It failed though. Because I have spent too many to support myself. I get back and try to go slowly no rush in business. There is an improvement in my sales. But still, need to give more effort in it. So, this year is the year that I am going to manage my time in helping myself and others out there.

Lastly, the resolution that I am going to commit this year 2021 is Lovely Sunshine. Its really hard to balance your time with the blog, side income and your main work. Not just that, my unstable emotion these days make it worse. Yeah, personal is hard to keep it in and its affect your surroundings a lot. Last year is my downfall that I am struggling to keep. I still love this blog and love to write like before. The best part is I got my laptop back. I hope this laptop can keep me consistent in writing more posts in the future. For now, I am going to concentrate on healthy and beauty niche because I am trying to heal my skincare problem. But still Lovely Sunshine is a lifestyle blog. So, that's all the 2021 resolutions that I want and will commit to change myself to a better person.

Thank you so much for reading this post. <3

Love,
Mardhiyyah Rosli