Author: Princess Ichigo

I make comics and dreams.

I’m going through some adjustment with my medications due to side effects and it is really affecting me mentally. (⌯˃̶᷄ ﹏ ˂̶᷄⌯)ﾟ  The entire week has felt really grim and dark, and I have neglected everything at home and get by with just the bare minimum. (´Д｀。)

The house is a total nightmare and mess, but luckily my sister is around to help out. (*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡ Words can’t describe how much I appreciates her every little help that I could barely fit on my plate.

I’m kinda sad today because I felt like I went to work with my heart left at home. ☆⌒(> _ <) Then early morning I had a patient who spent over 30 minutes complaining about her life and how unfairly she has been treated by everyone in her life— which was totally irrelevant with the problem that the consultation was about. Not to mention this person had THREE separate consultations in the last 7 days and the appointment today was completely unnecessary! Can’t really stop her; but I really felt so mentally exhausted listening to her. (╥﹏╥) I tried offering solution, or offering to mediate the situation but to no avail.

Anyhow the rest of the day was just be barely getting by.

Continue reading “Today I am so sad, but tomorrow is a new day.” →

GUYYYYYSSSS you wont believe how dumb I was... am… I was trying to change the domain of my blog from www.octoberfly.blog to www.octoberfly.co.uk; because… the first link is going to expire in a few months time, while I own the second link up until 2027 (yes I stupidly paid a lot of money for it).

Then the next thing I know is my entire site disappeared (ノ ゜Д゜)ノ ︵ ┻━┻

It took 2 days for me to figure out how to restore it – and another 4 days to figure out how to safely change my blog domain link ಗಾ ﹏ ಗಾ

SO YES GUYS; THIS BLOG IS NO LONGER octoberfly.blog! The official link is now back to octoberfly.co.uk.

Happy new year to all of you loyal readers out there! Truth to be spoken… I actually am not very excited about this year. We didn’t count down or anything, just went on with our daily lives. Just another year.

Maybe the winter is getting to me, I do feel quite down. Particularly listening to BBC radio news every morning to work, listening to the suffering of people all over the world: Ukraine, Afghanistan, and many more… (｡╯︵╰｡) . Then tuning in to local news, the news of nurses having to walk out of their duty to strike for fair pay, railway workers striking for fair pay, and then the postal workers as well! There are also emails sent to us about balloting doctors for a strike too as our pay is no longer up to date with the current inflation. ╥﹏╥

To be honest, we’re quite skint at the moment. But then I see some of my other colleague who struggle to put food on the table for 7 of their children… Who am I to complain?

I’m also not a huge fan of the ‘WOKE’ community really. Why are they so offended about everything? WHY IS EVERYONE SO EASILY OFFENDED THESE DAYS? (੭ ˃̣̣̥ ㅂ˂̣̣̥)੭ु You can’t even laugh at something without being judged. Or comment the obvious. There may be a white elephant in the room; Σ(°△°|||)︴but don’t talk about it!!! Σ(°△°|||)︴ Σ(°△°|||)︴Σ(°△°|||)︴Σ(°△°|||)︴Σ(°△°|||)︴ Σ(°△°|||)︴ Σ(°△°|||)︴ Σ(°△°|||)︴ No one talks about it.  You can’t call a fat person fat anymore without being called out for fat-shaming. People defending obesity with their lives; literally with their lives. You can’t complain about how life-saving resources from the NHS are being used for gender reassignment surgery, or bariatric surgery, or cosmetic surgery.; because you get chastised.

I don’t know. There’s just so many things wrong with the world these days. Has the world always been like this? Or am I just now grown old, jaded and pessimistic about everything? (ಥ﹏ಥ)

May be an image of 2 people, people standing, christmas tree and indoor

We accidentally killed our 6ft Christmas tree summer this year. Perhaps the word ‘accident’ is a weeeeee bit misleading… We actually cold-blooded left it in the hot sun in extreme thirst to die. ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ)

Erm, don’t look at me…. look at him *points at Mojuju* ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

So this year I ordered a 80-100cm tree for Christmas which was cheap (for a reason)………. and we ended up with a dwarf Christmas tree (๑♡⌓♡๑). Sigh… Christmas trees…  can never get it right……. Well at least with this tree we can slowly grow it every year (PLEASE MOJUJU STOP TORTURING THE POOR PLANTS) with the children! By the time they are 20 years old we would probably have to plant the tree down in the ground for it’s size….. ♡ ～(‘▽^人) Yes but first, we need to keep it alive……. ༼ ಢ_ಢ ༽

Another thing we can never seem to ‘get it right’ is parenting.

Ever wished that being a new parent comes with an IKEA instruction book? I did, I still do. Sometimes being a parent (I’m not even a new parent anymore) really is challenging. We never know if the next thing we do will turn our kids into a psychopathic serial killer. Did Jeffry Dahmer’s parents knew??? Where did they even go wrong?

A lot of us take the parent role as an educator. We are to educate and to teach our innocent young spawns the right and wrong; the good and bad; actions and consequences. Afterall, if not us, who would teach them all these right?

But have you ever looked at your child as a teacher?

Instead of taking the role as an educator and teacher, step back and look at your children; what can you learn from them? I can tell you in my personal experiences, my children has taught me more valuable lessons than any self-improvement or self-help book can ever provide.

I remember the joy in Lil’Tuesday’s face when she was self aware in the bath, splashing the water in the tub. Oh that simple joy of discovering water! When was the last time I splashed some water and simply appreciate the sensation of water? I remember the look on Mr.Monday’s face when I dared him to run under the pouring rain. He was so ‘frighten’ of the rain, and he was avoiding it like a plague. The confused look he had when I stood in the rain and got myself wet, with him joining and screaming in delight later.

But one major lesson I’ve learnt from Mr. Monday these past few weeks was forgiveness.

Continue reading “Parenting is more about learning than teaching.” →

ABBA Drag Bottomless Brunch - Bristol

I recently attended a Christmas brunch with my colleagues. Apparently it was meant for a drag queen ABBA brunch with bottomless drinks.

NGL it was a bit of a ripoff…. the food was in tiny proportion; some of the bread were still frozen — feel so sorry for my colleague (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞. The bottomless part was also a little dodgy. You still got to pay for the prosecco, and although there were a long list of cocktails, only 3 were served and they don’t top up for you immediately….

Oh well, there’s no free lunch in the world isn’t it?

Other than that, everything was great. Good company, great people, lots of boogie and dancing. The drag queens are lovely and so confident; I love it! I also think I need some makeup tutorial from them lol.

I woke up with left shoulder pain from all the waving and hands up action…………… (๑♡⌓♡๑) It’s so embarrassing considering I’m not even the oldest person in the group and I should be way fitter than that. I also felt tipsy really quickly (눈_눈) and my colleague was like…. “There is literally no alcohol in this!” ༼ ಢ_ಢ ༽ Well I’m not used to taking alcohol so even just a diluted pint of cocktail makes me woozy sob sob.

I finally recovered from my long covid from October and guess what? I’m ill AGAIN

Last night during midnight I had sudden pains all over my body. I was rigoring too and definitely had fever. I didn’t manage to get much sleep because of the pains and tried to ask Mojuju to take Lil’Tuesday at 6.30am. His groggy ass was so difficult to get hold off lol. ༼ง=ಠ益ಠ=༽ง

Luckily I am on annual leave today anyway and had an appointment with my doctor regarding some results. She checked me over and I was NEWSing at 5. Luckily my chest is clear although it’s unsure why my sats is a little on the low side. The myalgia is 10/10 and although I’m contraindicated for ibuprofen I had to take it anyway as my insanely high fever wasn’t settling with just paracetamol.

I AM SO TIRED. Bless my sister though for baby sitting Mr.Monday today for me while I slept through the day. She also cooked for me; which was lovely but I just had zero appetite. Thanks to her I had a little bit of sleep… except Chibi kept coming and disturbing my sleep because she wants me to cuddle her while I sleep! That wouldn’t be a problem usually if I didn’t have backpains all over……….

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To celebrate the appointment of Anwar as our 10th prime minister, I am going to blog! (Actually to celebrate the construction of my new computer too. My monitor just arrived today; I’ll blog all about this the next time!)

There is nothing sadder than Malaysian politics and those who see no fault in it. Barisan Nasional our right-winged party ruled for a booming 61 years before being defeated by the opposition party in 2018. I’d like to comment though, that in that 61 years, we can never be sure about whether they were any corruption by the organisation hosting the election event. Traditionally when the oppositional votes are being counted and leading, there will be a massive blackout in the area; and when the power supply comes back, votes for BN would suddenly spike up!!! Funny enough, it happened in so many states that everyone started being suspicious about it, especially during the rise of social media era. In 2018, citizens volunteer to guard the buildings used for vote counting to prevent any potential foul play in the counting of votes. And due to the fruit of the hardwork of the citizens of Malaysia, Barisan Nasional faced it’s first defeat, bringing down our 6th prime minister who has had multiple corruption allegations: Najib Razak.

Continue reading “After a long wait… Anwar Ibrahim is finally the PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA!!!” →

Hi all! How have all of you been? I have again lost my password lol and now can only blog from my phone……

My laptop GPU also died. I had to literally resuscitate the laptop as it wouldn’t power up!! So I had to like…. Discharge the entire laptop and pray it chooses the backup GPU to start it.

I realised that laptop prices are HORRIBLY expensive nowadays… And once a single component is fried, you essentially got to throw the whole thing since they are soldered to the motherboard.

So here I am, switching from laptop to desktop. I asked a good friend of mine to build me one and he’s going to do it for me this weekend. The only trouble is that I also need a monitor…. Keyboard…. Ugh… And space. BUT! It will be worth it in the long run!

My sister has also arrived from our home country to us! I’m so thrilled to have her around. I was absent the entire time during her teenage years…. And although we can’t turn back time, at least we are together now! A part of home, is now with me :’)

I also got my first COVID infection after bragging to everyone that I have never had covid yet…. I think I got it from my workplace. Sadly….. And since then I’ve been ill. VERY ILL. It’s been almost a month so you’d think that I’d recover by now but no……. No chance. My oxygen saturation now floats between 95 and 97. But I don’t wanna get admitted T. T SO BREATHE IN DEEP PRINCESS ICHIGO. HANG IN THERE T.T T. T T. T T. T

Totally mind blown. An absolute masterpiece that hasn’t been produced for years.

For those who haven’t been able to watch this, it’s now included in Amazon Prime for free!! I really want to review this movie WITHOUT SPOILER but its just too good that I can’t resist. So spoiler alert!

Continue reading “Everything Everywhere all at once 2022 review (with spoilers)” →

I’m meaning to blog 2 days ago after seeing a massive rainbow on the way home from work. But I didn’t. Because I was too busy trying to bake mooncakes for Mr. Monday.

Yesterday I saw a small rainbow as the radio was reporting about deterioration of the Queen’s health. Sadly, a great loss to the country, she rested in peace yesterday.

Continue reading “God save the Queen” →
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