Muji

I got the chance to go to Muji located at Bonifacio High Street earlier today. I had always want to have a Kikki.k store here in the Philippines but I think having Muji here is better since the store does not limit its offerings to just stationery, desk accessories, files and folders and storage boxes. Do not forget the limited but warm colours there are of their wide range of products which simply adds to Muji’s signature minimal look and style.

Stepping in the store literally made me want to fill our whole place with their “no-brand quality goods”. Just a side note, it felt weird for me to call their products Muji branded since the products per se are not branded which is very much conflicting. Anyway, I had already produced a homey image of what our place would look like if I would ever have the sanity to go for it.

There were a lot of things that I would love to buy and take home from Muji. Aside from the fact that I am inclined to the art of organizing and that Muji is literally a heaven for the organizing junkies, the prices of the products are very reasonable.

Well let us see. I simply fell in love with their pulp board box shelves.

Their clear acrylic cases also caught my eye (specifically the jewelry box).

 

These reused yarn socks are so soft and very eye candy.

Let us not forget the carton boxes! They have these carton boxes stack in the bottom shelf where the storage boxes are located. We bought a pack containing 5 to-be-assembled boxes for just P485.

Not only had I enjoyed assembling the boxes but our magazines and folders are pleasantly stacked now in the corner of our room. Our counter is almost clutter-free now!

Next project will be surely this one.

 

We had a lot of things to organize still that’s why I shall come back for you Muji!

Record Keeper

I have always been into organizing my stuffs for as long as I can remember. I can still commit to memory the first instance when I had known I am gifted with the love for organizing. It was a stormy weekday afternoon back then. Classes were cancelled because of the storm and a seemingly good idea suddenly popped into my head.

Well, I am a booklover and I had this extensive collection of young adult novels stacked in a corner of my room. Whenever I had finished a newly bought book, it is innate custom for me to bring it ASAP with me to my school and share it with my classmates who may want to read those. I am very generous about it. I want to share what I had read and I want it more if I can have a conversation about it with people. It lightens me up when I see my books propped up in front of classmates’ faces during break time. It makes me smile when I can see that almost a quarter of the class is reading my books!

But my classmates back then seemed to ill use that generosity. There will be some who will return my books with the cover and pages creased. There will be some who will lend those to their friends without my knowing. And there will be some who will not return those at all.

I deplored it! So much that I want to stop bringing my books to class after that.

But I thought of a better solution than just stop bringing my books to class. It was just unfair for those people who borrowed and took extra care of those. I do not want them to be implicated with someone else’s wrong doing and I do not want to strip from them the privilege that I was offering. That’s why it was on that same faithful day, while the wind and rain are working together that I had decided to make a complete list of my books in an Excel worksheet. One that could literally surpass the poorly made and manually written log book in our school library.

After hours of organizing and sorting out, I had produced a worksheet of my liking. It went something like this:

No one had ever run from this anymore! I have a strong evidence with me which could back up my claim. And not only that, it became easier to track down people who had borrowed my treasured books. Other than this, I had also put numbers on the back of those as to free myself from further boredom and I had also imprinted my name in big, bold letters in the side of all my books to serve as another solid proof that the book is really mine.

Pure OCness you might say, but I call it prudence. =)

The Plan

I had always imagined, after graduating, that I will be working in a laboratory or in a plant of a multinational company or in any place close to what I have been educated with, for that matter. It never occurred to me that I will grow so far from that dream really, but do not get me wrong, I am more than thankful to be standing in this point in my life where I am happy doing what I am doing.

I never really felt this rush that I am feeling right now. I do not know if it is still too early to say that I am happy to be here, but as of this moment I am. It amazes me that I never run out of energy and enthusiasm to fit both in my day or in my life. It amazes me that I could balance both. It amazes me that I am willingly balancing both and learning their somewhat correlated art as hard as I can without any tinge of regret and negative forcing.

Maybe this is what it feels like to rush in through life with a plan. The plan is obviously giving me enough motivation and overflowing reasons to just go for it as opposed to triggering in my mind the build up of much hated excuses while I sit around the corner, doing nothing and just hoping for the best to come into my life. The plan is giving me a purpose as I know that I will not be aimlessly traversing this path. I know that I have a reason to be here. I know why I am doing this. I simply am sure that I will reach the peak of my dreams someday, if not soon.

I just hope that when the time comes that life becomes hard, when all the world will ever give me towards the pursuit of my dreams are brick walls too insurmountable to handle, I will be able to have that courage to shrug the mightiness of the wall off and continue to fight until I get what I want and dream for in my life.

Today, as I walk again out of our door to do my current responsibilities, I just want to utter to God to arm me the right attitude and tool for me to go about the tasks at hand and to let me be just what the people around me need the most.

Also, thank you so much for everything. =)