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Short day trip to Annemasse

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All Brunei workers at Brunei Mission were given a 3-day Eid-Ul Fitri holiday starting from Sunday, 30th March in Geneva (a day earlier than in Brunei). I was happy that happened because I could enjoy the day with Mr. Hubby while my daughter at school 🙂

The plan was to have lunch at a ramen restaurant near the Swiss border between Switzerland and France called Yatta Ramen in Annemasse, France, after the gym. Maybe after that, we could take a look around.  Besides buying groceries at Carrefour, which is usually cheaper than buying in Switzerland, I can say that there isn’t much to see there. Due to the many road constructions taking place there, our exploration or small walk was limited.

Yatta Ramen, Annemasse

According to the restaurant manager, the construction will continue until next year because they want to build a tramway track from Geneva to that location. I guess that would be convenient for us. Perhaps after that, there will be more intriguing shops and restaurants, especially halal ones.

I only managed to capture a place that would be my next target to go here next time.

Bar à Chats

I have a fondness for cats, so I would be thrilled to go here. They seemed to have an affordable and tasty dish to try.

St. Joseph Church

We went home by train. If you already have a yearly pass, you only pay less than Sfr. 2 for a one-way ticket.

Annemasse Train Station

Winter and the Christmas Market

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I hadn’t fully embraced the cool and rainy of the fall season yet winter was already here. I really didn’t expect it to come this sooner.

On 4/12/2023 morning the street was blanketed with snow.

The magical Christmas Market, ‘Chrismas at the Quay’ in Geneva opened from 16th November until 24th December 2023. We spent time seeing the market right after her therapy. What I remember is they usually held the venue in Bastian Park and two years ago, I think in Jardin Anglais but this year they changed next to Hotel D’Angleterre.

There were so many food trucks and kiosks but we didn’t venture into the food that night. We only bought Churros as our late snacks.

Since we are Muslims and we don’t celebrate the beautiful day that leaves me wondering what is your favorite part of Christmas? Would love to know that in the comment 🙂

Zermatt Trip (19.07.23)

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The view of the mountain during the summer.

A visit to Zermatt for the second time. Our visit this time is during the summer.

Taxi Snow Cab

I mostly saw these taxis bringing the hotel guests to the place they want to stay. Due to the narrow paths and hotels located on the mountain, small automobiles are the only way to access them.

Crowded during summer

We got ‘directed’ by this young lady to McDonald by surprise. We didn’t even know she able to recognize the restaurant. It could be that her breakfast didn’t satisfy her hunger or that we often give her a Happy Meal. Lol. Her favorite meal is always two topper buns and chips to munch on. Other habit – she always has sundae and the barbecue sauce dip on the side to lick and stir 😀 She’s an autistic so we just let her do that as she please. On our first visit few years ago, she had a meltdown when we unintentionally disrupted her meal. So we did not want that to happen again. Lol.

Nyawa ni❤

Oh, it’s the last time she had to wear that hat. Her father accidentally threw it away🙄

So excited to see the horse! Next time I want to ride this 🙂

To end our trip before we’re going back, we bought slushies there to quench our thirst and cool down the summer heat.

Fill your free time this summer by reading my webtoon romance story here.

Jagged Heart on Webtoon

Webtoon Schedule Trial

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Allow me to take a breath into the beautiful Monday morning air and gather all the right energy before continuing to write today’s post.

*inhale*

*exhale*

Ok, let’s continue 🙂

Hey there! Happy Monday!

So today I just want to share with you a little bit of my knowledge the process of making a Webtoon. But first you need to do this.

Planning your task. I need to follow a plan in order to do this. So I planned out what task I should do on each day in a week and allowed myself to take one day rest away from work so that I can be ‘human’ again. I have to follow this schedule because I don’t want to suffer from burnout because it happened last time I did my comic strip. I pushed myself to publish 2 comics in a week, but it had an impact on my body and my mental health. I remembered at that time I didn’t find enjoyment in drawing hence I discontinued making them and just deleted the whole comic from Webtoon.

This time, I want to do things properly. Although last week was a trial, I managed to release a new episode just in time for bedtime. New episode 4 read here.

This is my original schedule I had planned for the past two weeks.

The planned-out schedule last week.

But as I have gone through the work, I realized it wasn’t what I thought it’d be. I completely forgot that I had a second page to draw from episode 5. Episode 4 that already posted yesterday (you can read here) has been already in hand (I made one week in advance). I did this so that I won’t be too busy juggling between my Webtoon work and also do things in my real life (being a parent and a mom). Besides being busy doing this comic, I also have to clean, cook for the family and send my daughter to her therapy. And this is what it turned out; the realistic things happened last week.

Mon – Script/storyboard/proofread
Tue– sketch/typeset
Wed– sketch/lineart
Thu– lineart/flats
Fri– flats/shading
Sat– shading/background
Sun– shading/review/draft//fix typeset/schedule new episode/publish new episode

Some of the scenes of Jagged Heart on Webtoon.

Last night was a bit of a mess. If I didn’t forget about the second page, fix all the typeset and fix the spacing between each panel that close together, I wouldn’t be so nervous and feeling a little bit panicky race against the time… but to my relief I managed to do it on time. Yipeee! 🙂 No more, I make the same mistakes. Huhu.

P/s: You can copy my original schedule as your guidance. And read my Webtoon comic and subscribe to it if you aren’t already. Thank you!

Read my Webtoon comic here.

Not a Multitasker but Here Are The Videos

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Happy Tuesday lovelies!

I have been busy over the last few days, updating my vlog and producing another Etsy product for the summer season to the publishing process of my webtoon. The main reason is to sort everything out once and for all so that my brain is not cluttered. I came to realize being a stay-at-home mom and not working anymore thought my brain and body can cope with being a multitasker like I used to be when I was still working 8 years ago. I didn’t expect to have the same belief that I was capable of doing it and that I could handle things like a super-mom. I have so much respect for those who could raise children so dearly and do their jobs and housework at the same time. But in all seriousness, how do you handle things to perfection? Kindly share the recipe. I’m desperately in need of advice T.T

Excuse me for today’s vent. This is the me sharing with you guys a bit of my life stories and today as well, I share with you another throwback vlogs when we were in London 2018. If you like to watch them, remember to subscribe to the channel. Thank you 🙂

Continuation of Day 2
My latest vlog update 🙂