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iOS Notes from 2020

I can’t help but laugh with some of the notes I took for that year. 🤭 Per usual, you can find my notes for the other years when you click on the tag at the bottom of this blog post.

2020

01/26

Cottons of Clouds ☁️

I don’t think I’ve ever been this impressed with clouds before. It felt like I was stepping inside a museum and the sculptures were made of white like cotton, familiar and warm. It felt like the mountains of Guilin, tall and huge and overwhelming. I have never seen the wonders of glaciers but I reckon the feeling will be the same.

Who would have thought plane rides are like museum visits? Good job, 🌎 world!

02/07 had to google translate the image

Sheena to universe: Who wrote this? And what does it mean? 😲

And who is Junichi Hamada??

02/25

Finding Love Again

Maybe you don’t have to get hurt all the time. Not this time. If it’s too good to be true, it’s probably about time. Maybe you’ve been hurt too many times already that this is the universe’s way of paying you back.

03/07

Navid’s phone and wallet are in his backpack. 😆

03/28

r/showerthoughts There would probably be a movie about this someday called Social Distancing. Or maybe a book?

The story could be either of the ff:

  • About how it changed what we choose to eat.
  • About how gaming entertainment moved to esports.
  • About how no one believed the doctor who warned everyone.
  • About how everyone coped with isolation #stayhome (highly likely to become a rom-com). A few scenes would be people playing music in balconies, courtship using drones, community engagement, hospital romance.
  • About frontliners (a documentary)
  • About how the world was not prepared of a pandemic.
  • About how it could all have been plotted by a super country to make a bill passed into a law by making a House of Cards level conspiracy.
  • About how all countries tightened borders after everything.
  • About how we all started to wear masks as a necessity. (yep, just like in the movies)
  • The cure.

04/13

Another Idea

Prison with a view across an R&D lot for architectures and urban planners — but there is a catch — each one may only put up their design and environment for a specific amount of time.

This way, you look out the window and you see different parts of the neighborhood just how it should be just that you cannot touch it physically.

06/03

Working is a cycle of helping.

08/02

Swipe to type. Dope

11/21

Growing Up

I’ve learned to stay away from drunk friends, to let them take their time to sober up a little so that they become manageable. I’ve had sad, bad and embarrassing episodes in the past while trying to help or console? drunk friends.

So I’ve learned not to force them to puke, not to hug them, not to insist on offering your shoulder, to not overthink what they may be thinking for acting this way, to never question yourself if you’ve done enough.

12/26

Jerantut remains a favorite. We discovered this place in one of our Raya in KL. The place is owned by a wonderful family. I wish you could hear the recording of the river at night.

12/29

Learning arabic letters with one of my best people, Amr.

12/30

Thoughts 💭

What is this constant feeling of uncertainty? Is it triggered by something? Someone? An event? A need failed to fulfill? Is it a fleeting moment? A phase? A part of the process? If so, why is it recurring and why does it feel like it’s never-ending?

I cannot stay this way forever, I should at least find a cure so I stop hurting other people with my indifference- my highs and my lows. They all deserve someone better and someone with less baggage.

They would always say “I’ve got baggage too!” but it’s not the same as mine. Mine I carry like a chip in the shoulder. A metal screwed inside your bones 🦴 waiting to cause pain in the onset of something I cannot even control. Or can I?

I am so unfair. And selfish. No one deserves this indecisiveness and indifference. Am I destined to live alone? To be alone? 😐