Stress Shopping

So that one hour spent on ZARA's website turned out like this:

Before y'all think I'm crazy... Those 4 boxes contained stuff for Banana, Ash & I.

And before Daddy & Mummy freaks out upon reading this, I'm returning 3/4 of the stuff I bought.

I tell you, stress or depression is very costly to my bank account.

Thankfully my stress is ending tomorrow, insyAllah. Let's just hope I don't enter depression after my last (& frankly, most scared of) paper. Aminnnnnn..

Aisya's Logic 101

My logic while studying:

Ash: Have you eaten lunch?

Me: No..

Ash: Do you wanna eat lunch?

Me: I don't deserve lunch. I haven't studied..

However I am totally worthy to spend an hour on ZARA's website.. :p

Shrimpy

"I am  a little Princess Poopyhead, here is my bum and here is my poopy-head. When you give me potato, hear me shout, push me over and my bubble rolls back"

The Poopyhead song courtesy of Raema a.k.a as Le Shrimp/Shrimpy.

Seriously, the things I get when Raema gets a hold on my laptop -_____-'



 

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Domestic Goddess (or not).

I admit, I haven't been cooking. In my second year of studies I would say I was quite rajin to try out recipes and make proper Malay dishes (I need my belacan intake once in awhile okay!). But come third year, I just couldn't be bothered. My excuse was, "We don't have chilli!", which is a legit (legit is a word Banana!) excuse because what is Malay dishes without chilli?!

But now that I need to be saving my money for all my wants for 2014, I can't afford to eat out so much so back to the kitchen Aisya goes.. Again, there wasn't any chilli in the kitchen, but there was chicken and a pack of Brahim's Ayam Masak Cili Api.. "Just add water & chicken!" it says.. Added chicken and water Aisya did... And it turned out like yellow soup! -_______- Thankfully the spices Daddy bought for me since September was still in abundance so I added in more kunyit and a little bit of kurma spices (I was desperate okay! There wasn't even onions for me to add in!) to thicken the "soup". Turned out edible so phew! (Plus I did not give Banana food poisoning a day before our paper, so double phew!)

Me: "Add water & chicken".. Even that I can't do it right! -__-'

Ash & Banana: Well you did add in like what, 5 cubes of chicken and that's all? It's not your fault, we just didn't have enough ingredients!

They were so sweet trying to make me feel less like a loser really.

So yesterday after my second paper, we decided to go out and get groceries/essential needs. Also it was a great excuse to procrastinate and soak up the English weather, literally.. It was raining and then suddenly so sunny.. Nothing like the English weather really!

How to Take Photo with the Grocery-Bags-Stealer 101. I swear, the weirdo just came up to me suddenly and started taking the bags off my hand.. I was like, "Whaaaaaat are you doing? o.O I can carry them myself, thank you very much.."

Yes, for Ash, Primark stuff are "essential needs".. #notjudgingatall #whoarewekidding #sheboughtbikinis #totallyjudging :p

After walking all around city centre for about an hour or two, we still needed a few more stuff from Tesco but since Banana & I needed to pray we decided to go home and put down the stuff we've got first. After that it was too warm and we got too lazy to go out, so we decided to get our Tesco stuff delivered instead. It's fuhreeezing outside okay! We walked around the city for that long with ice cream in our shopping bag, we got home, it was still frozen! As Banana said, "It's time to start wearing two layers of gloves again". Damn right she is! I was already wearing two layers of socks and two layers of sweater/jacket.

Right anyways, back to our Tesco story.. Our "few more stuff" totalled up to 66 items in the shopping basket :p It's winter, bears hibernate, well so do we. At least now we can cook and we'll have enough ingredients, insyAllah.

But if all else fails, we always have these:

Banana & I punya bag of chips. Oh yeah, and the container on top of the Aldo box & in the Aldo box itself is full of more "Just add chicken and water" Brahim/Adabi/Alif instant dishes packets.

Our ice-cream drawer in the freezer. What flavour do you want? We've got lychee, black sesame, green tea, mint, vanilla and cookies & cream.

And Banana's pride and joy,

Our Maggi closet. :")

Seriously, trained domestic goddesses are us! Okay, maybe not..

Judging by the amount of instant noodles :p

Second paper today! #letsdothis! Bismillahirrahmanirrahim..

Also 1 day short of 2 weeks til our post exams trip! :D

Moo

Banana is right. If there's anything that melts my heart, it's when a bad boy turns good because of love.

"You can just see it in her eyes whenever she hears about a bad boy turning good, her eyes just lights up"

And then they start tearing and well, whatever happens, Raema said I'm a pretty crier! <- Reason why I cry in public like nobody's business -___-'

But anyways, if you've not watch the latest episode of HIMYM, move away from here. But God, Barney Stinson. I love you.

My heart, has turned into mush. :""""""""")

I've said it once, I'll say it again: The only, ONLY reason why I watch HIMYM is because of Barney & Robin and to watch them end up together. Everybody else in the show are just Moos. Moo as in, a Moo point.

You said it Jo! Make sense eh? :p

Now the next time someone tells you something irrelevant, you just put a cow's face. Like this:

Occasionally if you're a little bit hardworking, you can put the word "point" behind so people don't think you're calling them a cow or something..

10 extra points for you on Aisya's Favourite Person Game if you guessed correctly the last sentence ;)

2014 Wishlist v2.0

2014 is the year Aisya Amin will be forever broke.

The World: "Let's go eat outside"

Me: "Can't. No money"

TW: "Let's go shopping"

M: "Would love to, but cannot. Saving money"

TW: "Let's go rob a bank?"

M: "Jom, how do you suggest we do it?"

Hehehe, iKid. But I don't mind donations! 0:)

Why? Well, let's check my To-Do List in 2014  (so far) shall we?

• Graduate. Ya Allah, please please please let me graduate in 2014.


• Get a room make-over because hell you're no longer leaving in Malaysia for short periods of time anymore Aisya Amin.

• Get a new phone. Also, dear current phone, I love you, please stop lagging and don't die on me.


• Get a rose-gold watch you've been wanting since last year.

• Get the Sheffield watch before you (insyAllah) graduate.

(Just because she's wearing the watch I want with the heels I have :p)

• Get the all-black with gold rims watch because it's an all-black-gold-rim watch (something I've wanted for myself for a really, really, really long time. Black-strap-gold-rim-white-face watch just isn't the same okay!)

If you translate all of that, it'll look like this:

1. Study your ass off woman! It's 7.20AM, why are you blogging instead of cramming information for your Corporate Finance exams this Thursday?!


2. Save money, save money, save moneyyyyyy! Also, Hello IKEA's catalogue.


3. Let's wait til the price for iPhone 5S drops. But also, moneyhhhhh.


4. Money yet again.


5. Hi, anybody wanna get me a graduation gift? No? Okay :( Money...


6. You are not a leprechaun so there's no pot of gold for you so, SAVE MORE MONEY = Don't spend a pence other than for groceries (Don't worry Mummy, I'll eat.) after this.

Please, let me get a lot of duit raya this year.. Aminnnnnn.

Okay, okay, I'll go & get started on my first agenda. Toodlio! xx

CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED! Today is the first day of exams! :O

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Can you tell that Banana really despises exams? 

Our First Travel Tale

For the longest time, Banana, Shrimpy & I been talking about going away for a trip together. There were talks about Greece and it had to happen last Easter, but instead the two of them ended up in Malaysia while I spend 1/3 of that holiday in London and the rest in Sheffield. Speaking of Greece, Banana is not happy about it..

Banana: Out of eeeeeeverything that your Tumblr stalkers remember/know about, they forgot about "Princess Poopyhead". I am genuinely upset about that.

See, I made a vow that if we don't go to Greece for Easter break, people can call me Princess Poopyhead. Nobody did.

Anyways, moving on, as I mentioned before, we finalised our post-exams get-away!

B: We're fiiiiiinally going on a trip together!

M: Does this mean I'm no longer Poopyhead? :D

S: No Aisya, you'll forever be Poopyhead.

Oh well, I honestly don't mind the name.

So we were really excited about our first trip, and the place that we're going right. We made the bookings for accommodation, transports and tickets all in under an hour probably. THAT excited. Went back to studying after we were done with all that and then Ash told us she's coming along too. So we had to make a new booking for her..

B: Outbound journey, 3rd of Feb. Right?

M: Right! :D

B: Okay.. Return on the 6th of February right? Hrmm, weird.. This ticket is £10 more expensive than ours..

M: Right! Price increased kot after a few hours?

B: *checks our ticket* ...... MARCH. MARCH?! WHY DOES OUR TICKET SAYS WE'RE RETURNING ON THE 6TH OF MARCH?! O.O

M: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

So apparently Banana booked our return ticket a month later than it should be..

M: Kk, don't panic. It's still early, maybe we can change it.

B: *check tickets condition* NON REFUNDABLE. NON EXCHANGEABLE!!!!!

M: ........

So what option do we have but to buy a new ticket for the 6th of February right? So we checked. And because we only want a single journey ticket (w/o returns) the costs £75!!!! (Our "original" ticket price was £45).

B: ... Bloody hell. I'm gonna have to live like a pauper after this.. You guys can't pay me back, it's my mistake.. I will never get my churros anymore after this.. I can't buy anything at the gift shop...

M: It's okay.. I'll share my churros with you and buy you half a gift at the gift shop k?

Do I not deserve the bestfriend of the year award or what?! I wanted to share with her half of my churros okay.. Warm churros in a cold weather.. Who's willing to share?! :p

Okay back to our story.. Banana was being really dramatic, going all "Now I can't buy the watch I want anymore..." "That was my last Tesco shopping for another month.." and yadaa yadaa yadaa while I was being my useless useful self trying to make her laugh by going "Heyyyyy, look at it this way.. Now we have our first travel tale! :D & The journey hasn't even started yet! :D"

(Not it's not like I didn't feel the pain of money going out because I didn't have to pay her back okay.. I was planning to pay her back, but wasn't going to tell her because I know she wouldn't have accepted it.. So I was planning to spend all that money at the gift shop for her. Again, bestfriend of the year!)

Anyways, we tried purchasing the correct ticket.. Unfortunately, because all the transactions were made using Banana's card in one night, her bank thought she's been spending too much in a night and decided to block her from using her card for the day.. (I swear, normally you'd hate this kind of thing happening to you.. But by far, we were most grateful for this..)

So we thought okay, we'll buy them tomorrow morning and call the train company first thing in the morning with hopes that we can still change our tickets because it's still way too early before the traveling period!

& Banana did call them at 8.01AM (they open at 8AM).. ANDDDDDDDDDD... WE GOT TO CHANGE OUR TICKETS AND ONLY HAD TO PAY THE PRICE DIFFERENCE OF £10 EACH PERSON! :D :D :D :D :D

Alhamdulillahhhhhhhhh!

B: I GET TO HAVE CHURROS AGAIN! :D

Priorities.. -________-'

So yeahhh, that's the story of our first travel tales...

Oh as for where we're going..

Can you guess? v(^.^)v

True Friendship

True friendship right there! True takde-kerja-lain too.

Hehehe, exams in 3 days...

Chant: God Will Never Put You Through Something You Can't Handle

This morning wasn't an easy morning for me to get up. I just got back from Malaysia, I had a tiring journey followed by an emotional night, I woke up not only greeted by the cold but also the oh-so-painful first day of period pain. My body felt empty. As if I had no energy at all to even lift a finger. All I wanted was to stay in bed for as long as I can and just, pardon me for the lack of a better word, "die" on my bed for the day. But of course, God has other plans for me, no way He will allow that to happen given that my first paper is in 4 days..

What did God sent me?

A nice, small, little red spot on my newly changed sheets.... -_______________________-"

So I got up. I got up thinking, "God won't put me through something I can handle. He knows I can get up and handle this little red thing and get on with my day.. Okayyyyyy, fiiineeeee, I'll get up...". & I did. I cleaned the sheets and I moved on from my "I don't wanna do anything"-ness and proceeded to bug Banana. By the end of the day I did some of my reading, got some groceries, changed my sheets after doing laundry and I finalised my post-exam travel plans. It may not be as productive as it should have, but considering all I wanted to do in the morning was to sleep my day away, I think it was a huge turn of events.

So here's a little reminder to whosever still reading & not yet grossed out by the TMI shared: God will never ever put you through to something He knows you can't handle.

If you're having a bad day or a bad time, take a deep breath, a tell yourself over and over again: It's okayyyyy, God will never put you through something you can't handle. God gave me this means He knows I can deal with this and because He knows I can, He believes I can, it means I CAN. I have every power, every energy, every thing needed in me to go through this.

So pull yourself up/get up, you wipe the tears of your face (or in my case you throw away your duvet and Piboo as far as possible), and you deal with the unpleasant thing you have to deal with (in my case it involved taking the sheets off and doing laundry). I mean, GOD, He who created everything in this world, believes in you. If that does not makes you feel empowered, I have no idea what else will.

Semut

Here's the thing about me, when it comes down to insects, I normally scream at the top of my lungs and call someone nearest to me to either A. Get the insect out of my sight or/and then B. Kill it. However, when it comes to ants (semut), it's just a reflex for me to kill it when I see it.

One night while I was about to sleep, (since I sleep in Kookie's room, I sleep on the floor) I saw this semut on the mattress carrying something and it looked lost,

K: Ayong (my nickname, because my brother couldn't pronounce Along properly when he was a kid), buat apa tuh?

M: Tengok semut nih. Dia tengah bawak food. It looks lost, it's going around in circle. I don't think it knows how to get down from here.

K: Kita selalu tak tahan kalau nampak semut, sure nak bunuh.

M: Kita pun. Tapi this one kasi chance, sebab dia tengah bawak food. Come semut, let me help you down. *tries to help semut down* Oh nooooo, it fell and now it lost dia punya food tadi.. I'm sorry semut!!!!

K: ....

M: Kesian semut kan.. Dah lah kecik, everything must look so big and scary to them kan. Cuba imagine, one day you're randomly walking trying to find food to eat, and then suddenly something crushes you.

K: Aduuuuhhhhhhhh!

M: Sure sakit kan? :( Dah lah semut hardworking.. :( Kesian semut...

K: Siann... Sian...

M: K lah, starting from 2014 I will no longer kill semut unless they get on my body.. Go semut, go tell your friends that, I will no longer kill your kind!

And that ladies and gentlemen is my 2014 resolution. Not to kill ants unless they are on my body. Seems fair, you don't disturb me, I don't disturb you. No?

So hows my resolution going so far? Well this is me now,

M: Got semut in this cup!

K: Go lah tukar cup lain..

M: It's okay, I'll just take it out.

And then I spend like 2-3 minutes trying to take the semut out without killing it. It's harder than you think okay, they're so delicate!

M: *uses hand to take it out* Oh no, it's not moving...

K: HA! Ayong bunuh semut!

M: NO SEMUT NOOOO, DON'T DIE ON ME!!! I'm sooooorrryyyyyy. Oh wait, it's moving. Phew.

K: Yang you pergi letak semut tuh on my bed kenapa? -.-

M: Okay, okay, I remove it. Come semut, I put you on the floor. *uses paper* Semut, get on the paperrrrrrr! We're going on a trip!

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M: Semut, enough swimming. Get out of the cup. *Uses spoon to take semut out*

K: Hah, nak buang kat mana pulak semut tuh? Go put it in the sink... Tapi nanti dia takde kawan pulak..

M: *True.. Think about Finding Nemo!* Nevermind, kita tau where semut got kawan! (There's this spot in the house where there's always a trail of ants, so I sent it there)

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K: *There's semut in the sink* Sorry lah semut.. *opens the tab*

M: Semut going on a water slide! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Bye semut!

*peace*

But then today Kookie told me that in Islam we're not allowed to kill semut. God gives us semut as a challenge to not kill it but instead direct it elsewhere so it doesn't disturb us.. And I thought: God will never give you a task you can't handle... So okay, challenge accepted! I will no longer kill semut even if it's on me.

*signs an invisible peace treaty with semuts all around the world* 0:)

p/s: This is only applicable to house ants, and not any other big huge ass ants like fire ants or etc. Those, I'll still scream and run for safety.

#girlfriendappreciationpost

One day, out of the blue I got a message from Pisang asking me "Where's is MYYY girlfriendappreciationpost?!" and without even asking why I just gave her one because I wasn't in the mood to argue with her I am a nice friend.

Pay close attention to the last comment..

Seeeeeeee I even accommodated to her OCD (everything has to be in pairs or even numbers..) and made two posts! Seriously, I AM a nice friend okay!

Thanks to her I had a few other friends demanding their own posts too..

Sorry Zoe, couldn't find any other picture of us in my phone that I haven't post up on Instagram.. :p

But anyways, the next day, this was what I woke up to:

Made my day right there and then, ahahahahahahaha! :")

Maintaining Aisya

Hehehe darling, if you can have a blogpost (written by me, not smart..) to prove how expensive I am, I can also have a blog post to show the world that I am quite easily won-over/"maintained"/pleased.

Hence the purpose of this post really. Lol. But it IS true though, it's not hard to make me happy. Bullet proof trick: Hindi movies, more specifically, Shah Rukh Khan movies. I don't think I've ever said no to it. Secondly, always-always make sure I am well-fed at all times (read: I'm not starving/hungry. It's a different story when I missed a meal because I don't feel hungry) or this will happen:

*cam. Aiyaa. How long does it takes for Aisya Amin to realise a typo? After the typo is no longer relevant apparently.. (Once it took me 3 hours to get a joke.. Long story short, a friend of mine told me a joke about someone setting a drill on fire in the auditorium and then told everybody to go to the auditorium because there's a fire drill, during dinner. I went to watch Thor 2, came back, raved about Loki and then re-read the joke THENNNNN I got it.. )

"Talk to me later in like two hours or so". 

I promise you, I'm 10,000 nicer/happier/chirpier when I get my food!

There you go. How to Take Care of Aisya 101. It's not that hard no? Shah Rukh Khan and food, I'll leave you alone for 3 hours. Shah Rukh Khan been acting for almost 22 years (he started the year I was born tooooo! There you go, FATE!), and out of those 22 years worth of movies, 23 of them are my favourite.. 23x3 = 69 hours of no-Aisya-noise, and I sleep like what, 12 hours? And I eat lots of junk food so I'll never say no to burger, pizza, chips/crisps, Maggi.. ...

Not high maintenance at all! (^.^)

Diorelly & Chanela pt. 3

My 2013 birthday presents were all, fine, almost all from Sereni & Shentel. Among those that gifted me with S&S was Chanela (the person, not the brand :p). While getting me my S&S, she too got some S&S for herself. Or her Mum did for her.. I can't remember, but I remember she wasn't too keen with S&S at that point.

Few months back, while she was in my room and raiding my bags of S&S headbands for reasons I can't remember, she fell in love with some of the bands and headbands. She claimed, "You know, normally these bands don't sit well on my head, but these does! I waaaaaant :D". We then discovered that S&S pop-up store was in Lot 10. So we promised each other that we'll go there together.

Unfortunately, at the store they didn't make bands, so she left with only Petershams (which she also liked after seeing my Petersham). She then decided to get everything else online.

That was a week or two before Christmas.

It finally arrived today! :D (Eh, I pulak yang excited, lol)

See something familiar?

No?

Maybe this will help..

What were the hashtags?

#headbandsthatIstolefromAisya #takgunapunyabudak :p

Hehehe.

We concluded that we ACTUALLY have enough clothing items now for us to dress up identically from our headbands, to our tops, bags, pants, down to our shoes. Sooo, anybody wanna throw a Twins themed party? We're already joined at the hips..

The day where she sat on top of me because I refused to entertain her because I was playing Sims3 and she wanted me to cook for her/order dinner with her -____________-

Genie Pants

During our family's short vacation, Mummy while looking at pictures of celebrities and their handbags/clothing,

Mummy: You know what I've always wanted? Harem pants..

Me: Ew, God, why?

Mummy: They look nice!

Me: So does not! Plus they make your legs look chunky!

See, in my head I was thinking about these pants:

Then one night, I went into ZARA and I saw the prettiest pink and red pants (two different pants), and just so happened, the red pants were harem pants (the pink one was a palazzo pants which I have no issues with). Without trying any of it on, I bought both of them because the colours were so beautiful!

Got back home, tried the red one on and ran downstairs to show Mummy.

Me: Mummy! Mummy loooooooooooooooooooook

Mummy: ... Kata hari tuh tak suka harem pants? -.-

Me: Hehe I don't know, I walked in the store, I saw the red and I liked it, then I saw the tassels and I must have it cause it's so cute :3

And now I call them my "Genie pants" because I feel like a genie in them :D

What I Wore: Genie pants from ZARA, mesh top by Nana G available on Fashion Valet, and heels from ZARA.

As always, my OOTD/WIWT goes on Instagram first before it appears on my blog, and Zayana just HAD to steal my thunder when I shared with the world my new found love for my Genie pants (seriously, it is MAD comfortable.. No other colours arh ZARA? :p)  -___-

Her Sheila pants.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Okay, I admit, it is quite funny..

BUT I DID NOT STEAL YOUR SHEILA PANTS! -.- #fitnah! #takbaikbetulpisangnih #insaflahwahaipisang #takbaikfitnahorang #kejaplagiseluarkoyak :p

Lunch & Waffles

I am the absolute worst at keeping track with dates, I swear. To be specific, I am terrible at keeping track with my "social calendar" (because I'm so used to not having one actually :p).

Yesterday was one of those "Sya is not so smart, she double-booked herself" day where I promised to meet two different people on the same day (normally when I like to keep it to one person per day, especially when I really should be home studying). Thankfully one was for brunch and another was for a late lunch. However by the end of the day I was so knackered..

Mummy (through text): You dah balik ker?

Me: Yeah, I'm in my room now. So tired. Socialising is a very tiring thing!

Mummy: Haha! Sejak bila you're tired of socialising?

Me: I don't know, I'm just getting old :(

It's true, I couldn't even bring myself downstairs for dinner and had to rely on my brother to bring my food up. By 10PM I was already in bed. Late night and early morning the next day just isn't my cup of tea. 

But nevertheless, it is always fun to catch up with old friends :)

Met up with Ili & Deb after brunch with the college mates (which we didn't take any pictures) at Bangsar yesterday. Had late lunch at Plan B, eventhough at first we didn't really wanna eat.

Me: Do you guys actually wanna eat?

Ili & Deb: Not really.. I had brunch tadi.

Me: Yeah, I'm not that hungry either.. Tapi I dah duduk sini for like 10 minutes while waiting, takkan nak get up and leave jer? ... K lah, we behave a bit, we order something.

Our "something" was a bowl of pasta for Ili & I each and Eggs Royale for Deb :p Food is our weakness! We then proceeded to have waffles at non-other, Daily Grind. In the last month I think I've had the waffles there at least 4 times.. I swear, I felt like the waiters semua can't stop looking at me because they recognised me dah. I mean, I was just there barely 24 hours ago.. "Ehhh it's her again!" :$

Lepas dah kenyang, with the gloomy rainy weather, we made our way home because all 3 of us really just wanna sleep actually :p But not before taking some pictures.

We also made a new discovery that escalators are good for group selfies :p