Answering Random Question – August 2021
I haven't posted anything since January 2021. So, I made an IG story to ask people to ask me. So,
Q1: Mcm mana ko stay motivated - D
You will die. And you won't know when, where and how. Aku selalu fikir, akan banyak benda yang aku menyesal bila mati, welp, macam time yang aku tak optimizekan utk be happy and buat benda yang beneficial utk aku, badan aku and orang lain yang layak.
Aku tahu time-time pandemik ni akan buat orang terperam kat rumah, WFH, overloaded dengan kerja office + kerja2 housewife kalau dah married, tapi kau kena ingat, time won't wait. Dia tak tunggu kau sedih ke, depressed ke, dia jalan terus. So, do something. Be productive, hobi yg beneficial ke, workout ke utk kesihtan, belajar skills baru ke, masak ke. Aku tengok drama/movie jugak, tapi aku limit masa. Dapat apa je layan drama non-stop? Tapi medical knowledge tengok drama medical korea useful jugaklah.
As for how I stay motivated to cycle for kilometers daily, sebabnya;
- Basikal aku mahal (bagi aku, maybe murah to others) kalau dibiarkan tak guna
- Aku nak maintain berat aku
- Aku nak bakar calories supaya aku boleh makan lagi
Q2: What is Time - L
By the passage of time! Surely humanity is in grave loss, except those who have faith, do good, and urge each other to the truth, and urge each other to perseverance. < This is literally the answer from Quran on what is time. I know you're Christian, but still okay right just to read this, I read Bible too.
But for me, time is a privilege. Scientifically relative too. Eg, when my week is busy with the workload the week feels fast, when I'm doing happy things, the time feels fast. But whenever I'm crying alone in the shower it feels slow. When people are suffering, the time moves slow, that's why some people can't wait for the suffering to end and commit suicide.
As proper humans, we must use our privilege properly lah so that it will be a good investment for us. The returns for time investment will be good memories, health, experiences that we can cherish later on when the privilege expiring during our dying time.
Q3: Any artist that inspired you? - NZ
Hmmm, because I'm not too serious about any type of art (eg. sketching, illustration, digital drawing, animation), I don't have a proper artist that I idolize, lol. But as for inspiration to draw/illustrate something, they mostly came from Twitter, Ig. BUT actually as a highly competitive/easily feels challenged individual (lol), whenever I see my circle, close friends do something productive, I have the urge to challenge myself to do the same too.
MOST importantly, while getting inspiration from others we need to establish and be proud and love our own art style so that we won't be too affected by the Impostor Syndrome.
Q4: Can u suggest any good flat lay ref/tips to explore? - NZ
Flat lay is very important to present any hand-drawn art. I'm not a good flat layer too but these are my basic guide to flat lay.
- Set the mood/theme (I want to look raw, messy table with artwork as the main attention... I want to flex my expensive stuff, my pen itself is RM1.5K... I want to showcase my coffee stuff with minimal bg, kononnya.)
- Start with a clean background. Clean your desk, remove any item unrelated to your theme/mood.
- Pick and position the main center of attraction (eg. sketchbook... or Macbook heh)
- Now put your props, pen, pencil, aesthetic items
- Take the picture with any camera with GRID guideline on. I use Samsung Note and i turned on the grid guide, it also have the center flat indicator.
- As for reference, can use these two: PEXEL, UNSPLASH.
Q5: Any investment? - IS
Good and also an important question for adulting properly. What our traditional parents didn't teach us, by 20's we should start investing our extra money, by 30's we should already have a passive income somewhere, by mid 40's our debts should be settled. Of course, rezeki lain-lain but then these are the good benchmark for our financial management.
I'm not the type that hustle (used to, circa 2014-2017) for money, and I live a relax, do-what-I-want type of life.
2011 with Tabung Haji, I started my investment after SPM - using the money I earned from working part-time in pasar malam selling banana & tapai ubi). I don't know where did I get this idea, but I somehow know that 'duit boleh beranak' more with Tabung Haji. I use my duit raya and part-time salary to fund this. RM100-200 every year (lol). Since 2020, I allocate RM100 every month.
2014 - I opened a normal ASNB saving because I heard from the newspaper you can win a car lol. I funded this with the pasar malam and my internship money. Pasar malam salary was RM1K per month, RM500 went into ASNB every month.
2015 - I discovered the joy of collecting 1 Gram Gold Bar bar from a Public Gold, (influenced by my lil bro who is richer than me as I wrote this). I stopped my pasar malam part-time and was working as a part-time UI/UX & graphic designer in Bangsar, with the sad salary of RM100 per day (minus EPF), I managed to buy 1 bar per month. I discontinue collecting this after like 15 bars of gold because of the risk of storing this at home, lol. But yeah, I can liquify it whenever I don't have enough cash.
2016 - My first real job after graduating was with an MNC company, so I was a bit rich last time, I started investing in Bitcoin before it was cool. Nowadays I only keep in RM100-200 whenever the value looks stable - buy low, sell high technique. But now I just hodl them and same as gold, I can liquify it whenever I don't have enough cash. I use LUNO app as the crypto wallet, and here's my referral cod, pfft.
2017 - I opened an ASNB Financing account, the cheapest one, RM277+ monthly commitment just to stay in trend, lol. It was all over my Twitter and Facebook back then.
2019 - I started using the robo-investment apps Wahed Invest and Raiz. Wahed is where I deposit monthly RM100 because I don't know how to play with stock market and just let the shariah-compliant AI do it for me. So far the return is okay lah according to your portfolio (my one is aggressive - 18%+ returns), better than ASNB. While Raiz is where I link my spending debit card and it will take the small changes, RM0.10 - RM1 from every spending I made and invest it back with Permodalan Nasional Berhad. Raiz return is a bit so-so (conservative portfolio, 4.35% returns lol). But money is money.
I think, that's all. Happy Weekend.