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It's literally so funny that cardan exiled his newly wedded wife (slash former enemy with yummy tension) WITHOUT EVEN TELLING HER THE PLAN OF THE LOOPHOLE IN HIS DECREE 🤣

Dude was so surprised when Jude didn't come home, writing letters begging her to come back all while without thinking that maybe Jude didn't figure out the loophole hahshshah

God, I love cardan, he's so silly, I need more silly men in fiction like cardan 😭

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Hello!

and welcome to my mess of a blog!

You can call me Ayli, the person running this blog. I may or may not disappear from time to time due to me forgetting that I even have a Tumblr account but I'll come back. Well, eventually, anyways. So do note that I'm not regularly active on Tumblr.

This blog serves as an outlet for me to talk about whatever that comes to mind like my thoughts regarding issues, experiences of life, or grievances that I have nowhere else to toward to. Of course, I have many other interests and hobbies like playing games in general, reading novels, drawing, writing etc but I'm still deciding whether to open up a secondary blog for those lmao but we'll see. I might just share all of those here if I'm lazy.

You'll also notice that sometimes I switch between using Malay or English in my sentences so be aware of that but don't be afraid to ask me if you need me to translate! I quite enjoy translating in most situations.

Remember to be kind and tolerant. I will not tolerate hateful behaviour in any of my posts regardless of whether it is here or anywhere else. You will be blocked if I deem you detrimental to my own peace of mind.

Thank you for even reading through this introductory post. Take care and best wishes to you, whoever you are.

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Tom Yum Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Tom Yam)

It's been a while since I posted here so the first thing I'm posting is a recipe lmaooo. Since the Notes app in my phone is getting too messy for my liking, I guess sharing the recipes here wouldn't hurt plus I get to ensure the recipes I used are never lost and forgotten (by me lah sebab I jenis senang lupa). This recipe is adapted from Marion's Kitchen Tom Yum Fried Rice so go to the link in case my wording here gets confusing plus to refer to any number change. I tweaked a few parts because I found them to be tedious but I'll explain more on that in later parts. Here we go!

Ingredients serves: 2-3

3 cups day-old cold rice

neutral oil

any choice of protein

1 egg

a few slices of galangal

1 lemongrass (bruised, cut into big pieces)

2-3 lime leaves (chopped)

1 small onion (diced)

1 tomato (diced/sliced)

1 tbsp nam prik pao/tom yum paste

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp soy sauce

a pinch of sugar

a squeeze of lime juice

Steps

Pound a few slices of galangal to a paste before adding the chillies to the paste. Pound the mix until fine.

Heat some vegetable oil in a large frying pan. Add the galangal + chillies paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and diced onions. Stir fry for 20 seconds or until onions turn translucent.

Add protein of choice (chicken, prawn etc.) to the pan and stir until cooked.

Add egg and let it set before breaking up the egg to chunks, similar to scrambled eggs. You can omit the egg here if you want, I usually omit it if I want pair the fried rice with a fried egg but heck, do both if you want haha!

Add tomato and sauce condiments; nam prik pao, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, and lime juice. Mix well all ingredients in pan. I like to make sure the tomato have been cooked soft.

Add the day-old rice and stir fry everything until rice is evenly coated.

Turn off heat and serve.

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what are your thoughts on ‘skinny shaming’?

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No marriage required.

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reblogging for my own mental health since i’m going to a new university this october

how to feel good about yourself when school is kicking your ass.

School’s tough, and when you’re getting hours of study and homework dumped on you every class, it’s easy to feel swamped, and it’s even worse when you feel like you’re not making progress anywhere else either. These things have seriously helped me with my mental and physical well-being, hopefully they can help you too!

1. Get the Forest App.  It’s $3 on the app-store, and trust me its $3 well spent. i use this app pretty much whenever I shouldn’t be using my phone. in class, studying, working out, not only does it make sure i stay off my phone, it feels really good to look back on all the time I’ve spent focused throughout the week. 

2. If you’re gonna waste time, do it properly.  Limit the time you spend scrolling social media to 10 minutes. I can’t count how many times I’ve been on Instagram explore page and suddenly an hour has gone past. This makes you feel crap. If you’re gonna waste time, do it in a way that can be measured. watch a tv show, ted talk, or youtube. make a social media post. It’ll make you feel like you’re spending your time doing something and that’s good in it’s own way.

3. Clean your room.  Feeling ridiculously overwhelmed? Clean your room. I don’t care how much work you need to do, or how soon it’s due. If you’re stressed you wont get anything worthwhile done. So clean your room, make your bed, vacuum the floor. It’ll calm you down and make you feel better about yourself. I promise.

4. Leave the junk food to the weekends. I know, everybody says it. But if you’re eating crap 24/7, it’s going to drag you down. I hate the idea of diets, they’re designed for failure and then you feel even worse, but trying to avoid junk from monday to friday helps a lot with your general perception of yourself. 

5. Work out. Another cliche! But they’re cliche’s because they work. I don’t care how often you work out or how much you do, just make sure you do it regularly and do enough to feel tired but good about yourself after woulds. it makes a difference. trust me.

6. Do a skin care routine & use face masks If you dont have a skin care routine, you need one. Not a fancy one by any means (some of us are uni students, I know) just a cetaphill cleanser and moisturiser day and night (with any creams / other products you may use) does the trick. It helps maintain routine and feel refreshed. Facemasks will help you feel like a self care goddess, even if they’re $2.

7. Burn candles & paint your nails Get a few cheap candels (just make sure they wont give you a headache) and burn them whilst you listen to music and paint your nails, its incredibly relaxing and makes you feel like you’re really taking care of yourself.

8. Have a hobby Last one! Learn something completely outside of school. Cooking, art, writing, photography, even if you suck, find something you enjoy and do it, you need a break from everything around you. 

These things have honestly helped turn my esteem and habits around these past years, it wont happen over night but just remembering to do these things every now and then will help you feel better, I promise. 

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identity

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Support

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i found this on instagram and i feel emotional to how i hope this will be me one day.

suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

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map of the soul 7 // favourite tracks’ posters

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concept

a beaded curtain, but instead of beads they’re worms on strings

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I love this cat so much. (via billispeaks)

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Billi speaks. (via billispeaks)

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What if there was an apocalypse but some people were really really in denial and optimistic and thinking everything will be back to normal soon?

Like they’d be foraging through the ruins of New York for supplies, shooting raiders in the face and saying “Man, this recession is really bad, huh?”

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I looked up Separation Anxiety Disorder and phewwww I sure do hope that ain’t me cuz suddenly I can’t read ✨

Ever since my friend told she suspected herself to have adhd, I have been trying to read up on it so I can understand better but as I read the symptoms more, it just strikes me how I could relate to some of it like

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Ever since my friend told she suspected herself to have adhd, I have been trying to read up on it so I can understand better but as I read the symptoms more, it just strikes me how I could relate to some of it like