Daily Cup #3_Recent Stuff

Would you look at that? I was only on my 2nd daily cup and I already missed few days of it. I missed 3 days to be exact. So now, I'm thinking of just making this post a vast update on what have been happening in my life. I'm not using then as excuses for my missing my own promise. I mean, it's not like I expect anyone to read this anyway, but I just want to write it. I'm rambling. Let's just get a move on, shall we?

About 3 months ago my sister and I went to dentist. I didn't have any problem, my sister did. She had been in pain so she needed to see a dentist. She was required to do blood test and did an x-ray. From the x-ray it turned out that the area which caused her pain was because of improper teeth position. I am sure I'm making mistakes here when I speak about medical things. I really don't know what I'm doing. Please bear it with me. Alright.

Do you know that when you go into certain age, you grow 2 sets of new teeth at the bottom part. Each pair is on your left bottom and your right bottom. That means your adult teeth is complete with the number of 32 teeth. The thing is, I didn't grow those 2 pairs of new adult teeth ever. I count number of my teeth quite often and it is still at 28 not 32. I remember some of my friends experienced that back when we were still in high school. Some people grow them in their early 20's. It was a painful process, that much I know as well. Even to most people, it tends to create issues. My sister is one of the unfortunate people. Basically her new teeth didn't grow properly in the right position and they had to be taken out through surgery. She had to wait for few months until the hospital informed her about the schedule one day before the procedure taking place. 

On July 27th she got a text from the hospital said that she had to be at the hospital on July 28th at 9 am local time. She has 2 children, so someone else needed to take care of them. That someone being yours truly. I was the person who most likely could ask for a day-off from work easily. There wasn't much to do at office in the first place. There was no special project or anything that made can't leave a day. My supervisor was kind enough to allow me to take a day-off. So I took care of 2 toddlers for 24 hours! What an experience! Thankfully, everything went well. The kids didn't throw any tantrum. They ate and slept well, only missing an afternoon nap but it was fine. I could even deal with "toilet business", if you know what I mean. I also cleaned the house as best as I could, did the dishes, tidied things up here and there. It was all very tiring, but I am so glad that I could help.

Thanks for reading this. Have a great day. ☺

Daily Cup #2_Fundamental Points of View

If you read some of my earliest post or what I called them "doing well for myself" series, then you'd knew most of my personal struggles. Before I go deeper I need to say few things. They're mostly for my own state of clarity. I just need to calm myself down. So here it goes. First and foremost, I have no means to complain about my situation. I don't blame anyone and I don't blame myself for the situation that I'm in right now. When I'm bringing up my past, it is for the sake of learning. Second of all, I don't mean to compare, in a bad way, or insult anyone; when I'm bringing up other people's situation. I'll say this repeatedly, they are all for my learning process. It's all I can manage for now; rambling at no one in particular, pouring my brains out on a page no one would probably read or find like ever. Well, I prefer to do something than nothing. It's hard to keep being optimistic all the time. There are many moments when we can't rely on another things to distract us from facing our problems head-on. Alright then, that was a long enough opening lines I believe. Let's get right into it, shall we?

I grew up in a religious environment in my family. My parents and all the adults practiced the Islamic religion including all the life values. It's imbued inside of me and my siblings. As time goes on and my understanding increases, I am grateful that I am easy to feel grateful. Makes sense enough? Here are few examples. I believe the basic life purpose as human is not to live or to survive until death comes. I believe life is for doing good deed; starting from doing good for ourselves, for family, for others closest to you, and the good expands. So it's "doing" good as in tangible actions, not "be" good as in just theoretical. To be able to do good, we must educate ourselves. We study holy Qur'an, learn from experts, seeking for guidance. We also must keep our faith strong and have solid strong foundation.

In reference to do tangible action, as in action that can be seen with our eyes; we must acknowledge things in front of us. Basic human needs. That's the whole thing. We live, we have needs. As our lives change so do our needs. Not to mention the impacts of media and technology development. Years ago we barely what internet is, and now we can't live without it. I know I speak a lot when I start to mention things from philosophical point of views. 

In my live right now, I see that I have so many privileges. I call them privileges as in privileges for me compared to those who aren't as fortunate as me. I live in a house. I sleep on a bed. I have food in the kitchen. I have endless supply of water. I have a vehicle to go places. I have a motorcycle. I have access to entertainment like music and movies. I can afford to shop once in a while or enjoy culinary. The people who I meet on daily basis are all nice people whether it's family, neighbors, colleagues, supervisors. I never have to go to bed hungry on an empty stomach. I have blanket to warm me on cold days, electrical fan to cool me on hot days. I can sleep all day during holiday if I want to. All is great!

However, human had been blessed with brain and common sense. We have willingness. We have a drive. I am not against feeling unsatisfied because that's okay, as long as we understand why we feel unsatisfied and then we do something about it. So, not just being shallow, unsatisfied, and blaming everything else around us; that is not okay. 

I said on the previous post on Daily Cup series that my brother had recently bought a house. So for now, that becomes one of my drive, my priority. I want to help financially because the house needs to be renovated before it's deemed "proper" to live in. As of now, there are visible water pipes from the front of the house and they go inside across the living room until kitchen area. A pipe outside a wall across the inside of the house. A visible pipe. Do I make myself clear? That's got to be big safety hazard. One example of issues that need to be fixed. There's this ugly wallpaper in some parts of the house plus weird color paint. There are a lot to be dealt. Those who ever bought or built a house I am sure will understand that it cost a lot. Not just stopping on house renovations, we are going to need to add more necessities; maybe buying some new furniture, do some lighting treatment, curtains, re-design the interior to suit us. The list goes on and on. 

My brother is an engineer with some other set of skills. He's good at graphic design. He can design anything from logos, flyers, posters, printed garments, and more. Last time I met him, 2 days ago from the time I was writing this, he said that recently he was trying out to dive into real estate construction. At the company where he works, oftentimes he deals with projects like building new industry plants or utility reparation. So he's the one who deals with off-site partners. He meets and works with people from outside of his company. Because of that, he had an idea to get more network and cooperation from those resources. My brother is very brave. He's not afraid to do whatever it takes. At the same time, he's also not one of those people who's arrogant. He's very generous and always there to help, especially to family. 

That's all I have for now. There were some scattered thoughts here and there about my views. There are still many of whose which I'm definitely will be sharing later on. I hope it's useful to whoever you are who had stumbled upon this page. 

Thanks for reading this. Have a great day. ☺

Daily Cup #1_New series_Intro

I'm thinking of challenging myself to make daily posts. I'm going to start slow by setting up for 7-days of everyday writing. That is the 1st phase.

As I mentioned repeatedly everywhere, as in my journals or maybe somewhere in my older posts which I don't remember, I love to write because it clears up my thoughts. However, my action hasn't reflected my saying, you know. To put it simply, I must and need to do more instead of just mentioning it or talking about it. This time hopefully my action will carry through my intention.

It's always easier to write about real things we've experienced. At least that's what suggested in most of "beginner writer's tips" we found everywhere. So, that's how I'm going to start. I'd like to share what happens recently in my family. It might be random, have no correlation whatsoever in-between paragraph or any parts of my writing; but oh well, I'll just roll with whatever pops out on top of my head.

Guess what? I'm turning 30 in less than a month! Crazy, right? My birthday is on August 23rd. Real story, I've had been dreading about turning 30 since the middle of last year on 2021. Ever since I started to work again on May 2018 until now, so now I'm still working on the longest job I've ever taken; my life has been only about working and helping out my family. I went back to the same ideal as when I worked outside of my hometown when I was a fresh graduate. The difference is on the "helping my family" part. See, because I live with my family, I can be more hands-on and not just helping in terms of financial. It is normal for me, I mean like sometimes family members live together in a house but there might be one or two of them who are like not really "living" together with family, if that made sense. For me, it's not a problem. I give credits to my parents who had engraved a custom thought in my brain and hopefully my siblings too about "do good for others especially for family without asking for anything in returns". I get that it can't be applied the same way as others and each person's situation is different. But, the main idea holds. When you live with your family, it's always better to find ways that you can help others out. It starts with taking care of your belongings and your space first, which I know that's what we were taught as kids mostly, it's basically about making good habit; then it'll expand to more general areas. 

As long as each and every single one member in a family has good understanding and communication with one another, any problems or issues would be less likely to become something major. 

Here's an example. I've had heard many stories of inharmonious lives on family, how the members don't respect and communicate well with one another, how there's always a grudge among family, how they don't get along, always bad-mouthing behind one another's backs, hurt one another in many forms not just physically. Some has worse story than the others. They were so hard for me to listen to but hearing them made me feel more grateful with the family I have. Although clearly I don't mean this to show-off or compare my family with anyone's family. When a friend of mine shares something personal or family-related, I keep my focus on what said friend's stories without referencing or saying something in returns related to my family. Plus I only give out my takes if I am asked to or if I really think they're worth to be said, in that case I always ask permission first to said friend. That's what I do. Still, no offense to those who do things differently than I do, to each their own.

Here's what it is like in my family regarding those kinds of situation. There many people in my family. By family I mean my direct family whom I interact with in day to day basis. There are my mom and my step-dad, my 5 younger siblings, finally my toddler nephew and niece. I think I might want to write more about each member separately like one post per member of family. For now, it's just going to be general stuff. As far as I know and based on my point of views, I can say that there's no bad "energy" within family. Sure we clash once in a while, we have differences; but it has never been up to become something hurtful. We banter with each other, we're blunt about one another's habits like things we like and we don't like. We express our views, our opinions. No one suppress or forces the others. I believe we have a good communication and proper tolerance. Those were our keys to maintain the harmony. We embrace the diversity and try to balance everything out. Every single thing we do is for the sake of being good and helping the others. However, please do underline here that it doesn't just happen out of nowhere. It took great effort as a team, always will be. 

I said I'm going to bring recent event happened in my family but I haven't mentioned anything about that yet. Alright, here we go.

Recently, my 25-year old brother bought a house. He was eligible for bank's house loan with his job as an engineer at one local industry. There was a house for sale at the same district as our current rented house. The location is very well-worth it, so my brother did everything he could to get the house. We're planning to do renovations before we move in. The new house is primarily bought for our mom and her kids. I am in questionable position because currently I live with my 28-year old sister and her 2 children because her husband works overseas in Malaysia. So I am not sure if I am considered one of the new comers in the new house. But, I'm helping out still any way I can financially and everything else. 

it's as clear as crystal that my monthly salary doesn't cover all the bills and it won't be if i don't get another source of income. I am struggling so bad. I admit I'm still lost and clueless at this point. So, back again, writing all of these for now is my way of clearing my mind, using my times better by creating something. I will share more about this struggle particular on my next daily cup. 

Thanks for reading this. Have a great day. ☺

Types of Parliamentary Debate

Generally when people think of the word "debate", they will think that it is like normal conversation but with different opinions. They believe that it is more like banter of views and thoughts, throw out one argument after another argument. Lastly, they would imagine that the situation where debate takes place must be chaotic like yelling at each other. Those are not wrong though. Debate is essentially an act where there are two parties or more have different point of views. It happens in meetings, discussions, or simply in our daily regular conversation. However, "parliamentary debate" isn't quite like normal casual every day debate. There are specific rules that must be obliged by all the parties involved.

There are 3 types of parliamentary debate. Before I elaborate each type, I need to mention that parliamentary debate is not similar as petty debate or coachman debate or even like presidential debate we have in Indonesia. Parliamentary debate has more specific rules to follow and that depends on each type.

1. Australian and Asian Parliamentary

In Australian and Asian Parliamentary debate, there are two teams competing each other for every rounds. One team is usually called positive team or affirmative team or government team or proposition team. While the other one called negative team or opposition team. The other way to say "team" for example in "positive team" is "positive side of the house". So the team itself was like "side of the house". "The house" is common term to use. It generally means the side that the team is in, positive side of the house of negative side of the house. Each team consists of 3 speakers. There are first speaker, second speaker, and third speaker. 

This is the illustration of Australian and Asian Parliamentary

Source: slideplayer.com

Reply speaker is either 1st or 2nd speaker from each team. The 3rd speaker may not be the reply speaker.

Here's the link if you would like more explanation regarding this form of debate. I could explain them myself but I doubt it will be different. Australasian Parliamentary English Debate

The differences between Australian and Asian parliamentary are In Australian Parliamentary there are no POI at all, meanwhile in Asian the opponent can give POI or Point of Information during speech. For example when the speaker from affirmative team delivers the speech, any member in opposition house can stand up and say "Point, Ma'am!" or "Point, Sir!" It can also be "POI, Ma'am!" or "POI, Sir!" There are no exact way to ask for POI. We can be creative like "To help you case, Ma'am!" POI can be anything. It can be questions or statements or clarification, but it can only be delivered in maximum 20 seconds. So whoever stated their POI must do it quickly. POIs can only be given during minute 2 until minute 7. 

The duration for each substantive speaker (1st until 3rd speaker, except reply speaker) is minimum 5 minutes and maximum 8 minutes  20 seconds. For reply speaker the speaking duration is minimum 3 minutes and maximum 5 minutes 20 seconds. If any speaker do not stop speaking after pass the maximum time, then anything he/she says beyond maximum duration will be penalized. 

2. British Parliamentary 

This type of debate is more complicated yet more fun and interesting. The rule of the speaker regarding speech duration is same as Australian and Asian Parliamentary. There are also 2 sides of the house like in Australasian. But, each side will then divided again into 2 sides. Here's the illustration.

Here's the suggested material regarding BP debate British Parliamentary Debate (BP)

How Parliamentary Debate Can Make One Speak English Faster

General Overview of Parliamentary Debate.

According to Cambridge English Dictionary, debate is a serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part. It is a competition in which teams of people, often students, discuss a subject and the team that is judged to make the best arguments wins. Cambridge Dictionary - English - Debate Meanwhile parliamentary debate referred to an academic debate event. The most well-known world wide debate events are World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) and European Universities Debating Championship (EUDC). 

Some countries have their own national level events, in Indonesia especially there is National Universities English Debate Championship (NUEDC) held annually. The winners of NUEDC are to be sent off to WUDC to represent Indonesia with full accommodation provided by the national ministry of education. Participants of NUEDC are consist of representative from different regions all around the nation. Prior to the national event, there is regional event where university students of their respective region can enroll and they must pass to semifinal round so that they can join at the national event. Both regional and national level of NUEDC are accommodated by Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. There is the same type of tournament meant specifically only for polytechnic students called National Polytechnic English Olympics (NPEO). Other famous national level competitions are Java Open Varsity English Debate (JOVED) and Indonesia Varsity English Debate (IVED). Java regions might have the most number of events compared to the rest area in Indonesia.

Do you have to participate any competition when you join an English debating club?

The answer is no, you don't have to. However, having just regular practices might not affect your English skills that much rather than participating in a competition. Coaches mostly will have different method of practice between regular trainings and pre-competition trainings or what we used to call it intensive trainings. Moreover, being in a competitive environment will expose you and motivate you more. You will meet many other debaters, adjudicators, coaches, and those can increase your knowledge plus improve your skills. It's a whole another level of practice by itself. When you just stay inside your club and not competing, you'd only get regular practice. Not that it doesn't help you because it does, but the impact won't be as significant as competing.

How debate makes for easier and faster English speaking skill?

Disclaimer: The following contents are written based on my personal experiences. They represent general activities of English debate from training until competition, but they also might not be exactly the same with what another debaters had went through or are going through. If there are some points that you find not true then they are just matters of different personal background, environment, and experiences. Nothing is absolute here, so no need to get stressed on deciding which one is right or wrong. Just take these points as they are, they are aimed to share and inform. Who knows? You might learn something new and be able to apply them accordingly to your situation. 

1. Experiencing consistent English environment

Debate is one of the forms of public speaking, meaning that you are definitely going to stand up, take the center stage, and speak English in front of other people. There are your team mates, your team opponent, your adjudicators, chair person, time keeper, and another audiences who are in the room. The entire training process are all led to what and how you speak when it's your turn. The goals are to be able to deliver your speech the best you can. 

Training is crucial. Even when you already have experiences before, once you're participating in another event, you need to keep practicing. If you have a coach or a senior at your club, the training method would be depend on said coach or senior. If you don't have a coach, it doesn't mean you can't have training. You can still practice together among your club members or your team mates. Training is all about your commitment. It's no pain no gain, literally. Do you like to sing? Or maybe you're an athlete? Or you have a certain hobby? How much times do you spend on those activities? It's the same as debate training or any other forms of English public speaking.

Next, what do we do exactly during training? Many things. Sometimes we do brainstorming on a topic, do speeches, have simulation, spar with other teams, do team bonding exercise, even watch movies/videos, and many more. The one similar thing is that all of those are done using English. I'd say 80% of one training session, whatever it is that we do, we do that in English, 80% using English. It's the same as when we are in the middle of a competition. 

That is why we keep having exposure on English, we dive ourselves into an English environment consistently.  

2. Get used to think in English

Think before speak. To be able to deliver a good and convincing speech, we must think on what we're going to speak, as in the content of our speech as well as some strategies that we come up with that can help us during our speech. Everything comes from inside our brain. We think all the time. Our brain is like doing constant exercise. Now because the final outcome is English speech, and our brain picks up that we need to speak in English, so unknowingly we are getting used to think in English. Do you like to think out loud? Or talk to yourselves? Or just really think of anything? Those would be done in English when you get used to speak in English. 

Of course it takes time. It's different with one person and another. At first we might still do translating from Bahasa to English and vice versa, but as long as you keep on going forward, you will get there eventually. 

3. Get rid of "fear" of speaking English anytime anywhere

Next step once you are able to think in English, believe it or not, you'll no longer experience those "fears" that you used to be associated English with. Anytime there's an opportunity to speak in English you'd be easily switch it on and speak, just like that. It's not only in debate setting or training or competition. Another examples are job interview, class presentation, courses, and more. This works for other languages too. As far as speaking in public goes, whatever the language is, whenever the time comes, you will have no problem to speak. 

Learning English Language through English Debate

This is a story that I submitted in an English anthology book titled "A Kick-start with English". It is unedited and I took out the biography part because it has my personal contact there. The book itself is about all writers' unforgettable moments with English language. I hope you enjoy my story.

Basically, I’m going to tell you about my “Unforgettable Time with English”. To be honest, it is not my first time telling or in this case writing about English. I had so many great experiences and wonderful memories when it comes to this particular language. I think I’d like to start with the very beginning.

I was interested in English since junior high because I thought it was very important that I could do well in it. It's a multinational language used by many countries if not all countries in the world. Since junior high I liked everything in English, like literally everything, from music, movie, books, and many more. My high interest on the subject made it easier for me to get through the lesson. I found it fairly easy for me to understand what the teacher in class taught us. It made the learning process run smoothly. I enjoyed it very much, including every projects and exams given to us, I did all of them happily. I was also fortunate to have great teachers back then. I graduated junior high with nearly perfect score on English subject during final exam. I only did one question wrong. Bottom line, I was majorly driven to be excellent in English.

The shortcoming about learning English back in junior high is that I was only good on the paper. I don’t mean to brag or be ungrateful but I felt like getting high scores was the only highest achievement I could get. It might be because I didn’t have enough self-confidence to showcase myself that I was capable. I was still shy to speak out during classes. I was a quite kid. I just sat down, listened, did tasks and exams, received my scores, and done. So, I was active but like silently. The thing is there was no space like English club or something where any student could take part of and involved more. A few times the school would enter English contests like speech, news reading, or story telling; but they always picked out a student who stood out in class, student who was loud and straightforward, had more self-confidence and didn’t shy away from speaking in public. Basically, I didn’t get my chance but it was okay because eventually I got exactly what I expected and more.

In high school I purposely chose an extracurricular activity related to English with hope that I could learn more about it. There was an English debate club, keyword debate. So don’t imagine it to be like English extra course when you sit in a class, learn vocabularies, grammars, and such; it wasn’t like that. We learned the “debate”, straightaway right up from the start. That was the focus of the club. The language just happened to be English. People got mixed up about that. Most of the applicants only attended the first week of the meeting and then they left because it wasn't what they expected. I found the club to be enjoyable very much. In my year I was one of the three students who stuck it out from the beginning until the end of high school, not to mention I was the only girl since the other two were boys. So from more than 50 students at first then became 3 students at last.

I was an active debater from high school throughout college. I started from newbie to senior, from small regional level competitions to national level. Sadly, I never made it to international level.

A little side note about debate, I’m making it as brief as I can. It was one of the optional extra-curricular activity in my high school but in college it was more like a club. The activity was pretty much same in both high school and college. We did regular training twice in a week, each meeting was only about 2-3 hours. When there were upcoming competitions we would do intensive trainings, it could be every day meetings from a week before the day sometimes more than a week before the day. The hours for intensive training were also longer for each meeting compared to regular trainings. One more thing, we always had a coach to train us. It was highly important to have someone with more expertise.

Long story short, I went from participant to a champion and best speaker, from a newbie to a senior. Then I became a coach when I taught the newbies in my college and the students who joined debate club in my high school. During my senior year of college beside coaching, I got invited as adjudicator for high school to university level of competitions. I traveled to places in Indonesia on different time zones. I went to Palembang, Semarang, Tual, and Bali.

My debating career helped so much in how I communicate in English. You know, debate is basically like public speaking in English I think. I know some people who are good in English but when it comes to speaking or conversing, they tend to get tongue-tied. It is a common problem for lots of people, isn’t it? When they know in their head what they are supposed to say but the words just don’t come out of their mouth. Another example when in the middle of conversation, they understand very well what other people are saying but it is hard to respond back.

Many of job interviews use English. I got hired on my first job before my college graduation ceremony. The company was based on Cikarang, West Java. The director did the interview by himself. He picked me because beside my capability on chemical engineering major, I was also fluent in English. It was a priority since the person who got hired then would be sent out to Thailand for 2 weeks training, all costs were fully paid off. I was ecstatic! A fresh graduate young-adult woman who never went out of city by herself before, then travelled alone to other province by train for 24 hours, then after just 1 week settled in a new place she then got sent out to another country for 2 weeks. Anyway, I went to Thailand with my boss which was my first time ever travelling abroad, but he stayed only 2 days then went back first. So, I went back to Indonesia after 2 weeks in Thailand by myself. How could that not be an unforgettable experience? My times in Thailand even it was short, it still filled with so many great memories. They are all just unforgettable.

My second job was in an electronic manufacturing company. Again, my English ability was one of the reason I got hired and then promoted. In this position I assisted in all activities that needed to be done in English. It was like an office job in a sense. I did translation on files and emails. I became translator in direct meetings, conference calls, and short phone calls. I acted as liaison officer when there were visitors or auditors from abroad. On top of all of those things, I still had my own main duties which I had to fulfill by myself.

For me personally, English and debate are two things that I can’t separate ever. They have always been connected to each other. My intention in learning English led me to debate and with debate I got better in English which then led me to my jobs. I consider English is my second language now. I'm confident enough to say that I'm more than just capable in it. I can read, talk, and write in English. I even think in English, but with my over-thinking tendencies, I figured I had to do something about it. That’s why I’m here right now. I’m pouring what’s in my head into words for others to read. I’m still new at this and still learning which are okay. Everything needs time and process, so I can only keep going and wish for the best.

A Day in the Life #dailyactivities #randomday

Telling a story about what we do in daily basis seems like an easy task but making the story seamlessly effortless, interesting, clear, and easy to follow, that's the challenge. I saw how people tend to be complicated when they got asked to tell about their daily routine. Let's be honest most of the time telling about daily activities is boring both for the speaker or story teller and the audience or the listener. 

This is my attempt to practice telling about my daily activities in hopes that when an opportunity comes my way in the future and I have to tell someone or other people verbally, be it in a class setting or simple conversation, I'd be ready. 

My activities are different from day to day. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Let me walk you through my typical daily routine. 

I'm the first child in my family and I have 5 siblings. I live with my parents and 3 of my siblings, 2 of them are still in school. There's my sister who's in senior high school and there's my brother who's still in elementary school. When my sister goes to school, she rides with me. So we leave the house together, I take her to her school first then I go to work. My sister's school is quite far from our house. We need to leave before 6 o'clock so she won't be late. Ever since pandemic, she doesn't go to school every day. So the reason I explained that situation is because whether or not I take my sister to school, it affects on what time I need to wake up. I try to wake up early every day no matter what. If I need to take my sister to her school I'd wake up at 4 am, but if I don't take her to school I wake up at 5 am.

Breakfast also happens differently from day to day. My family typically doesn't eat breakfast together at the same time. My mom is in charge to decide what we eat every time. She works as a teacher in a private elementary school. When she goes to work, she needs to arrive before 6:30 am. When that happens, breakfast will be whatever is in the kitchen at the moment. Sometimes she plans ahead of time what to cook. She buys groceries a day prior then starts cooking at 5 am. For me, I don't usually eat breakfast at home. I'd rather pack up the food and eat in my office. I have breakfast around 8 am, not before that because my tummy doesn't feel so good if I eat early. 

I work in the office from 7:30 am until 3:30 pm. I have lunch around 12 am. When working hour is over, I pack up my stuff and go home. Sometimes I go straight to home after work, the other times I have to do some errands on my way back home such as shopping for house necessities, withdrawing cash from ATM, paying some bills, buying stationary for my sister, or stopping by gas station to fill up my tank. It's different every day really. 

When I arrive at home the first thing I must do is sanitizing because I work at the hospital. After I park my motorcycle, I take off my shoes and put them outside of the house properly, then I go inside, put down my bag, grab my towel and fresh clothes, go straight into the bathroom to get cleaned up. So I take a bath right after I arrive at home. 

During late afternoon until dusk I take a rest. Sometimes I nap or just lie down and relax. But on Monday and Wednesday I do online tutoring for a student where I teach Math. 

I have dinner around 7 pm. Evening is my me-time. I like to read, write, watching movies or series. Sometimes I play with my niece and nephew, they're toddlers. Time goes by when I do something I like. I can manage to stop whatever I'm doing before it's late and get ready to sleep. But sometimes I just enjoy it very much that results me going to sleep late. I try my best to get to sleep before 11 pm. Luckily, no matter what time I sleep in the evening, I can always wake up early in the morning easily.