What A Relief!

What A Relief!

By Keziah

I kind of like to be alone for a while. When I was living at home with my parents, I longed for an illimitable time, when, I could be alone. I can only imagine it. ENDLESS. Times with no worries. Time with me. An indefinite my alone time.

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Ways to Overcome Shyness

Ways to Overcome Shyness

BY KEZIAH

All of us have been hit by this certain trait one way or another. Whether we are in grade school, in junior high, high school and well along college years even upon employment. Now you are full grown there are all kinds of dilemma hindering you from shying away for the things you love to do and accomplish.

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5 Things to Do On The Day You Feel Less Productive

5 Things to Do On The Day You Feel Less Productive

By Keziah

If you are like me and the day goes by so quick and you thought to yourself, “WHAT DID I DO?” No, it has is nothing to do with superpowers speeding up towards the end of the day but, “what did I do besides watching TV or painting nails and procrastinating?” It happens. You haven’t resolved begrudgingly the non-effort of your unproductive day.

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The Infinite Days I Let You Go

The Infinite Days I Let You Go

By Keziah

“LOVE” is a hard to define word when you soulfully feel it. By means of that you advocate, of course strongly feel about it, and breathe it. I am not talking of love for family or love for neighbors and friends. I am talking about the love that is hard to define because the very “thought of him” cripples you. And there it is…the amore love towards the opposite.

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Pots N Pans Cooking #1| Soto Ayam Indonesian Soup

Pots N Pans Cooking #1| Soto Ayam Indonesian Soup

BY KEZIAH

Here is a soup from a recipe I made. Soto Ayam or chicken soup. Since I did not have any chicken quarters, I used turkey legs instead substituted for this soup that I made. I did not only sauté the sauce from the packet but I sauté also the rest of the ingredients together with the sauce. That is how it is going to be broken down on this recipe.

Ingredients:

Soto Ayam Indonesian Soup Mix

2 Turkey Legs

Bean sprouts

2 Garlic Cloves

2 Tomatoes

3 Small Asian limes

1 Onion

1 Carrot

What to do?:

Boil turkey legs on the pot while seasoned it with salt. Cook about 30-45 minutes until it is soft enough to debone.

Let it cool, then debone. Set aside.

Slice tomatoes, chop onion. Cut in half small Asian limes, Peel carrot and slice diagonally into thin slices. Wash bean sprouts thoroughly.

In a pan, sauté garlic, onion and half amount of tomatoes. 1-2 minutes.

Mix in shredded turkey, carrot slices and simmer with Indonesian Soup Mix.

Lastly, mix in bean sprouts.

Assemble in big bowl contents in the pan and pour in broth.

Garnish with boiled egg and fried shallots. 

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Blog Content Inspiration

Blog Content Inspiration

By Keziah

“I hope you understand self. I may have procrastinated to write an article or altogether stopped completely but I assure you I will have more ideas.” You say to yourself excusing. It has been 4 days or even a week that you can’t have the nerve in you the inspiration or just even looking at Pinterest on your browser you can’t and do not know how to search for inspiration. It is like your brain freeze. And the more you do that you suddenly can’t concentrate or worry too much you won’t have the same impact of a good article to write. You have been immobilized, beaten, and cornered. Not exactly, you just have a writer’s block.

Sound familiar? As a blogger, it is necessary to write ideas in a notebook. Stash it! Write it down and save your excess ideas for a rainy day. I should religiously do this! I have a habit one day I am full of ideas to write and then the next day I scrape ideas or I give excuses to myself from writing about my ideas.

3 Things You Can Do to Eliminate That Problem:

Practice Writing

Even as you start contemplating the daunting task for the launch of your blog while you learn of the specks of a little HTML or how to format your blog or site as I did by myself (not quite fully but still give credit to myself), do a little "journaling" on the side. Practice coming up with a topic that is not relevant to anything could be sort of just random and “speak” by writing on a piece of paper. After all a blog is a platform to be able to talk to readers and be conversational. Engage conversation with your readers.

Take Photos for Posting Article

I refer this one to be essential. It is like killing two birds with one stone. Suppose you are nowhere can come up with ideas or look for one. You might try this method. While Photography is relaxing, it gives you a plan of action and see inspiration. The capture that you have will make you plan for you next article. If you are an artistic person and do not see the obvious but go in depth to let the photographs speak, you might find that a lot of these photographs you take can match the subject.

Have Time 

As busy as we all are when you just starting your own blog have time to do it. Plan. Set goal as to what you can accomplish within that time frame of day. Be consistent. Work on skills that does not put you always on the ranks of trial and error. Have time to research what others are doing wrong while starting their own blog.

A blog is like public speaking. If you are hesitant or not up to it your readers can feel what effort you put in to it. As for one speaker who publicly speaks he says, “I use to have butterflies while I publicly speak now I can see that those butterflies improved and they are all in formation”.

What are more things that you can add to this list? Please by all means share them in the comment below and link you article.

Thank you for your time.

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YOU Deserve a Friend

YOU Deserve a Friend

By Keziah

In having a wisdom with life in general, that first time you savor into a vanilla ice cream topped with Reese’s peanut butter and chocolate pretzels and salted caramel, the time when you got your lash extensions done, the time you went shopping for art supplies that you wished a friend was there to help you pick favorites and to be your art buddy because I like sharing in a whole lot of ways. Since I grow antsy and want to be a sharer of something, I mean everything, of my whole shenanigans I have grown accustomed to the thought of finding a close friend. Although I think that it is sometimes too far fetched.

I never had a friend, nay- a single CLOSE friend who can empathize with me and can understand and me as well to HER.  I want a friend who can tell me things I would not have known otherwise. Has knowledge of what’s good to eat in the city. LOL at some of my not so funny jokes without me thinking of, “does she really think the joke was funny?” I just want to seize the moment of laughter laugh at non-funny statements without giving meaning to it. Or say, “Should I say it?”

I need a friend just a single friend who I can take runs with. Like running errands. Go to a bookstore. Shop at a thrift store with. Window shopping at the mall. Get our makeup done at Sephora's. I can call her anytime and just leap a plan to go to a nail shop and then change where we’re going in an instant to go at a restaurant instead, without hesitating and not get angry and frustrated with each other but patient. Not taking it on with each other next time to who cancelled and change but laugh at it like there’s no tomorrow. Or really go to a nail shop just for example and not complaining about her manicure or pedicure or how the lady treated her because there is no perfect scenario and next time get another person to work on your mani/pedi. Just not mention how bad it is and seize the moment to have fun laugh about it. JUST GOOD VIBES!

I need a friend who I can sit down and reminisce of the past wholesome memories and say, “Remember the time when….?”  

How about you? Do you have a certain need for a friend that you really want to have? As you noticed I did not mention anything negative but try to ascertain and discover how good a friendship is on a positive note. The perks of being there when you need them the most starts out from how good and pleasant a friendship could be. And that is the foundation to keep it better in the years to come. Who knows you may be privileged to be her maid of honor, her confidant throughout those years and love for both never fades in a knit of a web that binds the two souls more than a friend but also a real sister.

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Poem Tuesday: Medley

Poem Tuesday: Medley

By Keziah

I am a hopeless romantic. I like sad stories with happy ending, I like poems of heartbreak, inspiration, love, romance and encouragement. Positive vibes for me to deliver what others thought of juvenile antics and immaturity. Something that can move me the way nobody can move me to cry, and emotionally turmoiled, feeling intense feeling for, and speechless. Even though I am an adult starting out as a kid I like to think that life and love is a duo of “a neat little package I hold in my hands” (hashtag-#). Uhuhuhum…before you giggle or feel a little bit cloud 9 I know for a fact that you have it in you too that’s is why you smile and can relate to what I’m saying.

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For Love To Grow

For Love to Grow

BY KEZIAH

Ever since I was a child I have been surrounded by happy examples of what a TRUE relationship that LASTS between to opposite gender could be. I longed for then and now to have a piece of my heart belong to someone else and he as well to mine that we both can cherish and love.

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September 2017 Favorites

September 2017 Favorites

By Keziah

I love beauty products and tools. If I am stranded and the only things that are somewhat of a use to get a rescue are beauty products I’m down. Well, I am over exaggerating a little bit. My illustration doesn’t even make sense. But tell me though what beauty products and beauty tools can get to your rescue when you are having a beauty dilemma? Is your answer a compact mirror? A lipstick? Or the well-known magic tape as popularized by celebrities in big events? Nevertheless, all of us have a GO-TO tool and faves when it comes to beauty products and tools and cosmetics. Whether tools for enhancing beauty (does this really works?) to novelty stuff in an array of products that are right at your disposal. All you need to do is find out what is best and what works for you by trying out and purchasing. And of course, to read up some reviews can’t hurt.

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