A Day in Demon Heels

The road to employment is not an easy road. Not for me at least. Literally.

Last Sunday (yesterday) was the UKEC-Graduan Career Fair, and I along with thousand other hopeful student were in town hoping to finalise our job after graduation.

So like I made my way from Southwark to Lancaster Gate at 9.30AM, only to discover that the part Jubilee line was under construction.. So I only managed to get from Southwark to Waterloo station (which is only a stop away..) using the line. Had to change to Northern Line (could've just done that at Southwark station) to get to Tottenham Court Road to change to Central line to get to Lancaster Gate. AND MY GOODNESS BAPAK JAUH LAH RIGHT TO CHANGE FROM JUBILEE LINE TO NORTHERN LINE -____-' And I was wearing heels and carrying my overnight bag along with my handbag.. Haih. Contemplated on changing to my flats, but I figured "No, shall not waste more time. Suck it up woman! You can shop in heels, you can bloody well walk in heels to get a job". Okayy...

Anyways, got to Lancaster Gate, left my bag at Pisang's place and made our way to Lancaster Hotel.

Career Fair went okie dokie, and then it's time to catch my train back at 5.35PM.. Onlyy.... I did not have my train ticket with me (because I am an idiot who left it at Farm's). Farm was trying to get them to me in time, and I have to say this..

You know that scene in the movies when the guy is trying to get to the girl before she boards a plane/train to leave town? And then the guy would scream the other girl's name and it's all dramatic and blahblah?

Jyeah, I had EXACTLY that going on for me, except with Farm. Hahahahaha.

I felt like I was in a Bollywood movie, and my life for that moment was complete. Lol.

Anyways, making my way down to London again tomorrow (for an interview) and no more heels! Or at least not til I reach the office x)

What I Wore: Shirt from ZARA, slacks from ASOS, demon heels (yes cause they gave me so much blisters) from ZARA (surprisingly).

 

Only because the second picture showed me little butt in the mirror reflection. New favourite work pants!

Omg.. I have favourite work pants...

I'M OOOOOLDDD.

Olaf

 Do you wanna build a snowmannnnnnnn?

Nope. Cause I got my own Olaf already :3

Meet Olaf. He likes warm hugs. And he's gonna get to experience summer, cause InsyAllah in a week, he'll be in Malaysia, :D

I Had To Check

Day 9 of Scaring Ashley Wong.

At what, 10AM? Probably earlier,

Ash: (As she comes out from here room) Guyssss? Aisyaaaa? Zayanaaaaaaa?

Me & Banana (in Banana's room): We're in hereeeeeeeeee!

Ash: Zayana's room? Okay. Good. I needed to check.

*two minutes later Ash came in to the room*

Ash: How's life guyssssssss?

Me (mouthing the words to Banana): She's being weird again.. Your friend!

Banana: DAMN IT!

Ash: What? What did I do nowwwww?!

Me: You're being weird again... What's up?

Ash: Nothing.. I just had to check where you guys were before I go to the kitchen..

Banana & I: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ashley Wong now lives in fear. AHAHAHAHAHAH :")

..

I smell food cooking coming from the kitchen.. Could it be... Ashley Wong... ? :p

 

Child's Play

Besides playing friend ping-pong on Ashley Wong (to be fair, we play it on all of us, but she's just the ball almost all the time that she feels we only do it on her.. It is not our fault you say the most ridiculous things most of the time Ash), we also take great joy in scaring the shit out of her in our house.

The thing is, she gets scared easily. Like, seriously.

One time Banana hid behind the kitchen counter and scared Ash as she was entering the kitchen. Banana scream "boo!" while jumping from behind the kitchen counter as Ash opens the door and the poor girl screamed "AAAAAAAA!" and then moved to a different spot and screamed again "AAAAAAAAAAAAA!" for the second time and right there and then Banana dropped on the floor. I wasn't in the kitchen but I knew of the plan, so when I heard the first screamed I thought "Well done Banana!" but when I heard the second scream I thought things got way too brutal so I ran to the kitchen only to see Banana splattered on the floor laughing/wiggling like a fish out of water.

Other methods of scaring Ashley Wong involves hiding under her table in her room while she went to the kitchen to grab a quick bite, hiding behind shoe racks and literally just walk into the kitchen as she puts her stuff in the freezer ( I don't even know how I got to scare her like this.. But seriously, easy target that girl).

Today was probably day 5 out of 8 days of scaring Ashley Wong.. It was just me and her at home, and she was in the kitchen & I heard her. So I got out of my room, put my door stopper so she won't hear my door slamming and went off to the kitchen to scare her.. She screamed. TWICE... SUCCESS!

Me: MUAHAHA!

Ash: AISYA AMIN! I'M EATING. I HAVE FOOD IN MY MOUTH. I COULD'VE CHOKED!

Me: *thought of me doing the Heimlich maneuver to her* AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ash: & the thing is, I saw you!

Me: AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

Ash: Cannot wait to live alone.. CANNOT WAIT to live alone!

Me: AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!

Ash: You get too much joy out of this! I think I shouldn't react, my reaction gives you pleasure doesn't it.. This is exactly like what I learned in lectures today, ABOUT DEALING WITH KIDS!

Me: *Still laughing, but by this time I couldn't even stand up straight anymore*

Ash: You hear that, dealing with a CHILD. You're like a CHILD. A CHILD!

Me: *About to collapse on the floor already laughing*

Ash: Should I leave you alone in the kitchen until you can pull yourself together again?

Me: *Just keep on laughing, laughing, laughing..*

Anyways, Banana missed all the fun so when Banana came back from the gym and she called Ash (who was in her room) telling her she has a parcel, I saw the perfect opportunity to scare Ash again :D And lo & behold, Ashley Wong got scared again and screamed her highest pitch.. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh by the way, this all happened in the span of like 10 minutes. Hehe.

What, I'm like stressing over assignments and job applications all that okay. I need some entertainment! (Hindi movies are too long, I can't afford to spend 3 hours of my time on that currently..)

Plus, she's got such a lovely voice... Her scream/voice is music to my ears ;)

"I need a Chanel"

So my darling Pisang was feeling a little bit down in the dumps and me being amazing friend me clingy friend me just was so happened to be by her side at like I don't know, some hour in the morning..

Banana: Aisya.. You know what I need?

Me: What?

Banana: I need a Chanel..

InsyAllah in the future when I'm successful enough, I can just plop her a Chanel on her lap whenever she's sad, ameeeeeen! (Come on guys, amin-kan my doa! Don't you guys want a Chanel to fall on your lap the next time you're sad too?!) But for now, I'm no where near of having that kind of money.. BUT, like I said, I am truly one hect of an amazing friend..

Me: Urrr....... Jap.......

So I got off her bed and went for the door,

Banana: You're not giving me your shoes! I ain't hugging your shoes! -____-

Me: NOOOOO! I'm not giving you my shoes... WAITTTTT

Banana: You're giving me Che-Nel  aren't you!

Me: No, I ain't giving you Che-Nel.. Will you sabar?! ISH!

Ran like a little baby elephant (as what she describes my stomping on the ground) with hands flailing everywhere (I call it my "trolololo" run) to my room and then came back to her room and presented my "gift" for her,

An empty Chanel box with Chanel ribbon tied on it..

Me: I'm sorry, this is all I have for now... If I had a dustbag, I'd put pillows in it and give it to you..

AND SHE LOVED IT SEE SEEE! She's hugging it with her dear life!

Banana: HELLLOOOOO FRIENDDD! Ohhhh, I've missed you!

You tell me I don't deserve the Best Friend of The Year Award! I mean, I got her Chanela!

Skants

I am not a terrible blogger.. I am not a terrible blogger! :'( Okay I am.. I AM SORRY I REALLY AM! Everyday I check my visitors and I'm like "I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but today will be another no-update day".. HEHE *peace* #pleasedontleaveme

ANYWAYS!

Went for a friend's surprise birthday dinner last night and omg, I'm so excited I got to do OOTD again! :D The thing is, when I'm in UK, 99/100 times, I'm always in a jacket, and the jacket is almost always the same jacket.. So like I don't even bother taking an outfit picture because well, it's always the ZARA/H&M jacket anyways. But now that Spring is here, and the weather has been more or less lovely, I'll tryyyy to do more OOTDs here okay?

What I Wore: White shirt from Dorothy Perkins, orange skirt-pants (skants?) from ZARA, nude heels from ZARA and belt from one of the dresses that comes with a belt from ASOS.

Funny story about how I found out about what/who was I wearing, so one of Ash's friend from Durham came down to visit and naturally she wouldn't know about how probably half of my wardrobe is filled with ZARA's stuff, so first she saw my shoes and asked if it's from ZARA cause she noticed it (I like her right there and there.. Her love for ZARA is like mineeeeeee! "Have you seen the new stuff for the season?!" "OMG YEAAAAAAAH :D" Lol she probably spent the same amount of time I do on the website too, hehe. Oh & her bag was from ZARA too! Me likey!) then she realised I wasn't wearing a skirt and it's another ZARA item..

Sylvia: Are your pants from ZARA too?

Banana: Yeahp. Everything on her is probably from ZARA..

Which then I realise, hey I MIGHT just be (because I have lots of white shirt, I don't know which is from where anymore without having to check for label). So then I told Banana to check my label for me,

Banana: Oh no wait. The shirt is from Dorothy Perkins.. Not bad Aisya.. You finally branched out!

Hehe, okay no more white shirt (yes Mummy, I hear ya...).

Closer to real life colour of the pants. I swear it's orange, not pink. Though I do have the pink one, at home in KL. Which I've not worn yet.. And a nude one here in Sheffield with me.. Which I sometimes use as sleeping pants (THESE PANTS ARE MAD COMFORTABLE OKAY!).. And you know what guys, the best part of it all is that.. I got the orange and the nude one only for £9!!! :D #ILoveZARAsales

I apologise for the poor quality of the photos. Smarty pants me forgot to put the memory card in the camera.. Hehe x) (This is why I need to upgrade my phone to a phone with a better camera! :p) Hence why you can see me fiddling with the camera in hopes trying to get it to work even without a memory card.. Which failed as you can guess.

Headband from: Sereni & Shentel.

When You Can't Sleep...

RISE AND SHINE EVERYBODYYYYYYY!

Hehehehe.

For-Sure Fact

Pisang: You'll know I'm desperate when I settle for that..

Me: ARE YOU SAYING I'M SETTLING?!

Pisang: No, you ACTUALLY like that kind of thing, I don't. It's weird for me. You know I'm desperate when I start liking weird stuff.. It's like.. It's like you going back to Anomaly!

Ashley & I: AHAHAHAHAHA!

Ashley: Aisya going back to Anomaly is just never going to happen. That is like a for-sure fact.. That and the fact that God exists.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ashley's last comment cracked me up.. :") Ahh the conversations that we have in the kitchen/The Boat.

Clinique

Alhamdulillah, I do not have such problematic skin. My only problem is dry-ness (I don't drink lots of water. Not as much as I should anyways..) and basically being in UK doesn't help my already dry skin. A few months back I switched to Clinique's 3-Step Care regime, and it was doing it's work fine for everywhere on my face except my forehead..

But overall it was a major improvement from when I first started (I swear it use to burn when I apply moisturisers last time because my skin was THAT dry..). So I decided to pay Clinique another visit (also because they emailed me saying they have free gifts in store for me provided I buy two more products of theirs & one of them has to be a skin care product) and told the lady my problem. She suggested that I should add the 3-Step moisturiser to my regime and use it along with my current moisturiser (The Superdefense Moisturiser, which isn't part of the original 3-Step line).

I also got an overnight mask (more like an overnight moisturiser) for moisture and an overnight serum for radiance. Along with that I also bought my normal moisturiser, which came with a couple of other things.

And now my toilet has probably half of Clinique's skin care products.. I have some facial wash for make-up, some scrub, eye creams (Godsend for my eyebags right now I swear!) along with my usual cleanser, exfoliator, and moisturisers.

Long gone are the days where Clean & Clear would cut it as my "skin care products".

Here Comes The Sun

It was the last day of a sunny week, so naturally it was "I gotta run errands" day. Any excuse to go out really.. :p Okaylah, actually no. I really had to go out, because I ran out of toothpaste and can no longer squeeze the remains of it out... (Been doing for three days.. :p)

At 10.30AM, (through text)

Me: Ash........ Can I borrow toothpaste...? Hehehe 0:)

Ash: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! No.

Me: ... :( Is this because you're not my friend?

Ash: Hahaha, yes! Milking every opportunity I get for as long as I can with this..

Well, I guess she no likey ping-pong friend game.. :(

What I Wore: Sweatshirt from ZARA, jeans from Primark, shoes from Chanel, and sunglasses from Ray Ban.

It was also a very windy day! And my mistake for not tying my hair up.. Ended up looking like this at the end of the day:

What I Wore: Coat from ZARA.

Aren't we attractive?! .. I assure you, I own a hairbrush..

Despicable Us

Since Ash's Taste Card expired, our half-priced Sushi Date Night also was discontinued. But being the true Asians that we are, and considering we're students hence bounded by the "student living" rules, we found a new way to get back half-priced sushi!

So Sushi Date Night was back in full-swing last Thursday night, whooopie! I was so excited for my prawn katsu kare :3 I had the order all memorised in my head. EXCEPT! We have been away THAT long (padahal it has only been 3-4 months?) that they not only removed the ebi katsu from the menu, they also increased their price!

"Maybe you were the only person who ever orders the prawn katsu and since you stopped coming here, they discontinued it!"

Well then continue it back! >( I wasn't in the mood to make a special request that night, so I settled for prawn tempura and salmon teriyaki with a side of inari.

I swear I underestimate the power of salmon all the time. I keep forgetting just how filing a fillet portion of salmon can be. I had to eat my inari really slowly because I was already full with the salmon & the tempura. But it was good food nevertheless; the tempura wasn't as amazing as the prawn katsu would've been, but the salmon was the saving grace.

While waiting for Ash's dessert (her typical black sesame ice cream. As Banana puts it, we really are creatures of habit, because our orders are always so standard..) we decided to take photos to remember "The Return of Sushi Date Night" by.

Photo of the night! Hahahahahaha!

See, we play this game called "The Friend Ping Pong" game where whenever one of us says/does anything stupid, she'll basically get toss around between the other two. For example, if A does anything stupid, B can say to C "you're friend!" making C responsible in dealing with A from there onwards. C can also do it to B, if C beats B to it. The game resets itself the next time someone says anything stupid.

Most of the time Ash is always Banana's friend because I'm really good at this game. Muahahaha. And Ash is normally the "ping pong ball" because well, she's Ashley :p

I love you Ash, I do, but no you're still Zayana's friend. :p 

So before she beats me to it, SHE'S YOUR FRIEND BANANA. YOUR FRIEND. HA.

Okay, moving on with the night..

Before we left the hours Ash said we should "dress up", again to remember the night by. 15 minutes later, we came out from our rooms looking like this:

Instantaneously with my yellow shirt & blue jeans combo, I looked like a Minion. And then it hit us, we were this:

Ahahahahaha, aren't we the coolest? ;)

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What I Wore: Shirt from ZARA, jeans from Primark, shoes from Chanel and headband from Sereni & Shentel.

Life dream to dress up like a minion: √ checked!

Sometimes I feel like I am a terrible blogger. Most of the time I wouldn't even call myself a "blogger" actually. I have a blog, I blog, but I'm not a "blogger". I am not dedicated enough for that title. I think I am underserving of the title. I mean, seriously, it's mid-March and I've only posted what 3 times? 4 including this..? Terrible blogger is me. I apologise.

I do try to update daily (at least). But most of the times I find myself saying "I'll update tomorrow lah" and then another "tomorrow, I promise" and before I knew it the week is almost over and I posted only once. Oops x)

Anyways, bare with me as I am currently in the midst of juggling 2 assignments due in two weeks time. Sorry guys!

Cornetto

While in The Boat,

Me: I feel like having a Cornetto. But then I want it because I want to eat the top part only. I don't really wan't the rest of the Cornetto.. Should I?

Pisang: *looks at me like I'm a weirdo* ....

Ash: See! That's EXACTLY WHYYYY I don't like Cornettos! Only the top part is nice, the rest of it is just full of disappointments....

Pisang & I: *Look at each other*

Me: ... This is not relationships we're talking about Ash! ...

And then the next 5 minutes, we psycho-analysed each other using our own Cornetto Theory.

Pisang: See Aisya, you just want the top part of the Cornetto right, the good part, but you don't want the rest of the Cornetto, means you're not willing to commit to the Cornetto all the way. You just want the frivolous part of it. You think you want the Cornetto, but you really don't, you just want the Cornetto in your head, which consists only of the top part.

Pisang: And you Ash, well you're just bitter against Cornettos. Cornettos disappoint you, so you stay away from Cornetto to avoid disappointment all together.

Pisang: But you seeeeeee, guys... The beautiful thing about Cornetto is that at the end of it, you get the beautiful chocolate bit in the cone!

Me: So is that what you're doing right now? Just enjoying the middle part of the Cornetto, waiting to get to the end of it?

Ash: Explains sooooo much! That's why she buys like 5 boxes of Cornettos!

Pisang: And I have Aisya who adds to it somemore whenever she goes to Tesco..

Ash: Ahhh.. We've figured out life through Cornettos..

Approval

I would like to believe that I am a very obedient daughter. Okay, considerably obedient daughter.

I believe in getting into a shit lot of trouble if I disobey my parents. Mainly because I learned this through experience, and also because my Mum likes to tell me "You kalau tak dapat permission Mummy/Daddy, you buat apa-apa, tak berkat punya. Hidup tak berkat, susaaaaah". So yeah after awhile, her words just immediately plays in my head as a warning every time I'm about to do something big.

After some time, I start to realise that things just naturally become easier when I listen to them. Like if I was to go out and they know A-Z about my entire plan of that day (i.e: Every stop I'm making, every person I'm meeting, every errands I'm running etc), every traffic light I encounter becomes green or I'll get parking super easy and super near the entrance that kind of thing you know. Basically, it's a good day when I listen to them (and don't get me started on the kind of trouble I get into if I don't tell them something.. Once I almost missed my train because I did not tell my parents I was heading to London for a weekend..). So now instead of a warning, it has become something that I seek. I seek my parent's approval in everything I do. From big decisions like my career choice down to the littlest things such of what I wear.

I wonder if she knew the okay & smiley meant = Okay, I'm charging the card....

But she likes the pants therefore I believe pants will look nice on me, even if it's a size bigger than my normal size.. ZARA pants has never been in my size anyways -___- Seriously, petite clothing please ZARA!

(I told her lah eventually I bought the pants, along with other stuff hehe. Yes yes, my ZARA fast for a month starts now. Hopefully by then they'll have a petite range and nicer shoes.. ENOUGH WITH THE HIPSTER SHOES ZARA! ENOUGH!)

I laughed so hard when I read her reply. Clearly she's not a fan of the "baju banduan/penjara/perompak" (the names I came up for this baju)... Safe to say that weekend I went to ZARA to return the top.

What?! I don't want to actually end up in jail while wearing that top.. Nauzubillah..

Loyalty

One of the things I love about my accommodation is that it provides parcel collection service meaning you don't always have to be home if you're expecting a parcel. The delivery guy will just leave it at the reception and then reception will inform you later if you have a parcel. I think this is one of the selling point about my accommodation. This is also the reason why I am an avid online shopper.

It's true, sometimes Banana & I talk about moving to the houses (actual land houses) nearer to our Management School and I am always put off by the idea that I have to always be home if I'm expecting a parcel.

Banana: But then if you don't have that privilege of always having someone to accept a parcel for you, maybe you won't shop as much!

She does have a point..

Anyways! Basically I always know when I'm supposed to have a parcel. Which to a certain level is always fun, seriously during Christmas season the reception people kept seeing my face, especially towards the last week before my flight home.. (My mum takes full advantage of this service too. The joy she got when I introduced her to ASOS Premium..) But you know what's MORE fun than getting a parcel you're expecting? When you receive an UNEXPECTED parcel! :D

Though truth to be told this does not happen often. Once it happened and it was a significantly large box and I thought my parents were kind enough to give me an unexpected present. I was so happy, until I saw it was a curling iron and I thought ... "Why would they give me curling iron.. WHO would give me curling iron.... OHHH RIGHT! Not mine!".. A friend of mine actually ordered it for herself and I was supposed to bring it back for her.. Pfft. (Yes, I did look for an extra gift inside the box, it was nearing Christmas okay! In the spirit of giving!)

And then another incident happened last January when I got back from Christmas break. I had quite a few parcels waiting for me, some were expected but I had two unexpected ones. And I'm like ":O SOMEBODY LOVES ME?! Omg, I got Christmas presents Raema! Somebody lovesssssssssss me!". Turned out it was a present for my brother that I forgot about and a parcel I sent to a friend that was re-delivered back to me because she did not collect it from the post office -__________________-'

Conclusion: I never get surprise mails. Ever. Nobody loves me. End of story.

So today when Banana came back from the gym and told me that I have a parcel from FedEx, you can bloody well guess I was shocked. Because I have been behaving, I have not bought anything online recently (in the span of one week), what is this international parcel that I got?! (FedEx/DHL = International parcels).

And then I read the slip it said "A4 paper size envelope" and my immediate thought was "This has got to be a document. WHY would anybody send me a document? o.O". See the last time Banana got an envelope like this it was a contract. So I thought "I'm not expecting any contract...... AM I GETTING SUED?! O.O Why would anybody wanna sue me?! What contract did I violate? o.O Somemore internationally........". My heart was beating really fast. (Bare in mind, I've not eaten all day also because I was fasting so I was a little bit loopy).

I went down, collected my parcel, and anxiously opened it when I got back upstairs. Turns out, it was a lovely surprise:

First reaction: I'M NOT GETTING SUED!!!!!!! I'm being thanked! Phewwwwwwwwwwww!

Thank you Sereni & Shentel! Soon I will make a use of this loyalty card ;)

Now ZARA, your turn.