Resuming Bullet Journalling; I Plan: 18 March 2022

In the name of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful.

I gave up on Bullet Journalling after doing it for a year. I started in 2019. Tried to continue in 2020 but dropped the ball. Tried to continue it again in 2021 but failed yet again.

Well, it might be a little late to continue bullet journalling this year but, heh, why not? Since the years for 2020-2021 were never completed, beginning in the month of April for this year seems fitting enough. These kinds of things can probably drive perfectionists crazy but I am not perfect and I am broken so whatever comes out of me remains imperfect and broken.

Anyway, let us have a little review of what my 2020-2021 bujo (short for bullet journal) looks like.

On the spine, we have 2020 written on it. I will need to add on the years 2021 and 2022.

So this is how the cover looks like. I will need to add on 2022 to it.Looks like I will have to write it in an even smaller font. Haha!

I pasted the key symbols of a typical bullet journal here to remind myself how a bujo works in case I forget. I mean, I only did one full year of bujo and most of the entries were done on a catch-up. So to date, I do not really have that pure bujo experience.

Why waste a good pic? That is me in all of my honourable glory at my old workplace.

My 2020 cover! Right about now, you would have already established that I have nooooo sense of artistic talent whatsoever.

And on top of that, my handwriting is simply atrocious. You can see that I added on 2021 to the incomplete 2020. So I will have to add 2022 below the incomplete 2021.

Ha! Can I just stop being weird? I don’t even know who that lady is anymore. Really seems like a lifetime ago. Now, I am goalless, dreamless, focusless, and affirmless. I do not even know if I used the correct words. Just kidding. We have already understood that I do have goals, dreams, focus, and…well, maybe I do need more affirmations.

I kinda like how this looks but I acknowledge I lack the finesse to make this look really good.

I tried to make a spread that shows the different designs for each month but clearly I dropped the ball halfway. Also, I was only able to enrich my little mind by a little bit through reading four physical books from the library. Sad. No wonder I am still not smart.

Hmm. I should probably print out some 2020 photos to fill these pages.

I was trying so hard to use various art tools here. Water colour, colour pencils, markers, pens, and shiny pens. Epic failure.

Clearly, I have not been doing any house chores since 2020. Sighs.

I just realised that this is like a very kiddy version of Blue Lagoon. Embarrassing.

Ooh, my first ever Batam trip! With my husband to boot! After COVID-19 had hit mostly China the month before but have not overcome Indonesia and Singapore! Fond memories.

My art is worse than a child’s. I honestly think it is because I lack practice and that I just got lazy and decided to rush my art.

OMG. First meeting and jam ever with now drummer, Teck, and pianist/guitarist, Shike. What a ball. I cannot believe our friendship has only been two years. It feels like we have been playing music since forever.

Yes. I just got incredibly lazy and it does not help when I lack energy and time to do this shit.

Wow. I still remember that last day of operations in my old workplace. We all had to close down due to the first strong wave of COVID-19. Our very first nationwide lockdown. And yet, I simply did no house chores during the entirety of the lockdown. The irony.

At this point, I am pretty sure I had given up but I still forced myself to create something. Because something is better than nothing.

Haha! Forced annual leave (ANL). I really held a grudge there. But it was better than not having money to eat. A lot of people lost their jobs due to the lockdown. 😦

Yeah, even when I tried to continue in the following year, it just was not happening for me.

Ah. The studio project. It was a huge accomplishment.

What is design? Who the hell has time for designing nice layouts in their bujos? Why was I so busy?! Oh, the tasks were actually a few just that they took up a lot of time and wanted to squeeze in the prayer timings because, you know, I have a problem with not praying on time. Yes, you read that correctly. Present tense; I still have the problem.

If you were to do a psychoanalysis on me, I think it is pretty safe to say, I am quite mental.

I could probably wish all of these July birthday babies a Happy Birthday in one email. LOL.

And so this was the last page of my condemned bujo.

The reason why I want to get back into it is mostly because I want to have more content on this blog firstly and secondly, I need a lot of practice with my art. I have zero art skills and talent but we all have to start somewhere if we get very interested in learning it, do we not? I think doing this is a perfect opportunity to not only finish an incomplete book but to train myself to finish things I had once set out to do.

For tonight, since I am pretty pooped from doing deliveries throughout the week, I have added in 2022. Let us put a stop to this madness!

I was pleasantly surprised that this pen still works after 3 years. It helped me to write on the cover of my dotted journal. The finishing is not fantastic due to the surface of my book but I am a peasant so I have to make do with what I have. It cost $1.60 at Popular bookstore back then.

Alright, in my next bujo development blog post next week, I will share how I set up my 2022 cover and future log. Stay tuned!

And Allah is Al-Qaabid, The Withholder. – MM

Author: Metropolitan Muslimah

Born 1989. Female. Metropolitan Muslimah. Songstress. Teacher in the Early Childhood Care and Education sector in Singapore. Gooner since the signing of Mesut Özil on 2 September 2013. We won two back-to-back FA Cups since. Made my first trip to the Emirates on 10 May 2015 followed by my first home game against Swansea City on 11 May 2015, which we lost 0-1. View all posts by Metropolitan Muslimah

2 thoughts on “Resuming Bullet Journalling; I Plan: 18 March 2022”

Stuart Danker says:

27th Mar 2022 at 6:54 am

Well hello, neighbour across the Causeway! I love your daily logs. I myself journal long entries and that’s about it, so seeing something so minimalist for daily logs is refreshing. Anyway, thanks for sharing!

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1. Metropolitan Muslimah says:
  
  29th Mar 2022 at 5:43 pm
  
  Hello, there! Thank you for checking out my blog and my post. Long journal entries are awesome! Sometimes, you just kinda need to pen your thoughts down to see them more clearly. They can be both therapeutic and cathartic as well.
  
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