Graduated!

Today I am a graduate.

That's the end of my formal education. The feeling is surreal.

Breathtakingly Beautiful

Phew, food for buka is ready! About an hour more til buka.. Surprisingly fasting for 19 hours was easier done that I thought it'd be, alhamdulillah.

Anyways, we're now back in Sheffield after a quick trip to Lake District.

SubhanAllah, Lake District was so beautiful, peaceful, and definitely breathtaking. I mean, just look at this sunset!

This was the view from our apartment.

It was so nice to be cooking and looking at this view, ya Allah :")

And then after sahur while waiting for Subuh, we saw the crescent moon and me with my love story with the moon sat outside at the porch while moon-gazing & stargazing. It was so relaxing and calming for the soul.

More on Lake District later, now to prepare for my graduation tomorrow. O.O

I'M GRADUATING!!!!!! OMG!

Tragic & Unfortunate

Before anything, my deepest condolences to the family members of MH17 & Al-Fatihah to those unfortunate victims.

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As I was queueing at the UK Immigration upon landing, Pisang texted

Cik P: THANK GOD YOU'VE LANDED!!!!! ... Wait, you HAVE landed right?!

Me: Yes I have.. Why? Miss me? Dude, it's only been 12 hours *smirks*

Cik P: No you idiot! There was a MAS crash! I was worried!

Not long after that a few other Malaysians that just landed from the same MH4 flight were also talking about the same thing; the MAS flight getting shot down somewhere close to Russia.

We were all of course saddened by the news, but at the same time we couldn't help but to say thank you to God for our safe landing.. Alhamdulillah.

We did our maths and we probably just passed that area about an hour before the incident :/ It's still kinda eerie to think how we just passed by the same route as MH17, though in opposite direction (because all MAS flights between Europe-KL takes the same route apparently), and instead of MH17, it could've been our flight, MH4. O.O Nauzubillah, astaghfirullahalazim. 

It could've happened to any one of us.

It was a very tragic and unfortunate event, not just for the families of the victims, but for both airline companies and involved countries too.

Al-Fatihah.

Wardrobe Crisis!

I am leaving for the airport in about 9 hours, of course I've not pack.. But that's not even the problem.. The problem is, I don't know WHAT to pack! O.O

Honestly, what DO you wear for your graduation? An event where you know you're going to take a photograph, a photograph which at this rate is more important than your IC/passport photographs (you get to change them once your turn 21/when your passport expires)!! This is the photograph that you'll be hanging in your home. One in your parents' house and one in (insyAllah) my own home where my  parents grandkids and my kids are going to see (and shall not judge, hopefully).. This is a photograph that will last a life time! O.O

So yeah, I'm a little freaked out. What DO you wear?!

I know for a fact that I'd prefer to be in pants. I'm sorry, when I see bare legs underneath a robe, it just looks weird to me.. :/ I think it's all those wearing-a-robe-w/o-wearing pants/wearing shorts around the house that I do that destroyed the image for me.. I'd feel... Not dressed.

But should I not find a suitable (read: formal, yet fancy, but not over the top, yet outstanding, but not in a clown-ish way) top to go with pants, I guess I have to resort to a dress.. There are just so many options for mixing and matching! Ahhhhhhh!

I just can't make up my minddddd, haih!

But one thing I know though,

I'm graduating in a pair of white court heels.

Min: Sya! What are you wearing for graduation?

Me: If you're asking about what clothes I'm wearing, I don't know. But I'm wearing these babies (the shoes) for graduation :D

Min: How can you pick a shoe before you pick out what clothes you're going to wear?!

Me: .... I do that all the time!

Pisang Chanela & Kentang Diorelly

Hi guys! I've some pretty exciting news to share with you! But first, some back story..

Cik Pisang & I have all sorts of nickname for each other. Besides the most common Pisang & Kentang, there's also Chanela & Diorelly. If you're a constant reader of this blog, you'd know how these names came about.

Cik P & I also are very clingy, that's very obvious. We do (almost) everything together, apa taknyer, we live in the same house, we do the same courses, if tutorials were up to us, we'd choose the same tutorial groups... Attached at the hips I tell you!

Every exams period our clingy level just elevates. There'll be nights where we spend in each other's room because we can't be bothered to go back to our rooms.. We spend (almost) every waking moment together, eat at the same time, watch the same TV shows while we eat, study the same thing, everything!

Thankfully when we freak out for an exam, we don't freak out together (that would not be pretty, Ashley would've to probably slap us..). We take turns. On days where I'm freaking out, Pisang would have to be the rock and snap some sense back into me. On days when Pisang is freaking out, I draw pictures..

I'm no Picasso, but hey! She thought it was beautiful enough to put it up on her wall (next to a picture of her father to motivate her..)

See, I went crazy with all the details. I gave the Pisang a nice beautiful butt (because Pisang really loves her butt, she gets depressed when her butt "dropped"), she's wearing a Chanel footwear AND also carrying a Chanel clutch! Would've drawn a pair of Chanel earings for her too, but bananas do not have ears! Pfft. For the cute little round thing (Potato = a.k.a ME!), I gave her the Diorissimo bag and a pair of heels because, hello, I'm always in heels for formal events! They're both wearing the graduation hat as a sign that they're graduating (the whole motivation purpose of this drawing) and they're holding hands (indicating that we'll conquer this together til the end). And of course, the #forever #tilJannah..

As for the #4YearsLagi is not an indication that we'll need 4 more years to graduate (nauzubillah!) but it's 4 more years til our friendship turns 7! One day while we were studying,

Pisang: You know Kentang, I read somewhere that once your friendship turns 7 years old, it'll last forever..

Me: Muahahaha, that's 4 years more for you to try to get rid of me otherwise you'll NEVER be rid of me, muahahahaha! >)

I was all secretive when I drew this, it's not easy trying to be sneaky when you're in the same room okay! And once I'm done, I showed and her reaction was "AWHHHH KENTANG! YOU'RE SO SWEET! I LOVE YOU :") I'LL COOK FOR YOU AND DO YOUR LAUNDRY AND BLAHBLAH".

Ahahaha, of course not. That's never our friendship. Her real reaction was:

"AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA! Now everytime I look at you, all I see is this little round thing *points to Potato in photo*"

.... -______________________-" Oh well, at least the Potato in the picture looks cute!

Anyways, the good news is, Alhamdulillah(!!!!!), thank you all for your well wishes and prayers, both Pisang Chanela & Kentang Diorelly are graduating in 9 more days! :D :D :D :D

22 Take Two!

I need to get this sleeping pattern fixed -.-

Anyways, as last mentioned, I turned 22 last week! I am 3 years away from 25, and I get very sensitive now if people tanya bila nak kahwin okay! As a child I'd always say "Ohh, bila I'm 25 lah kot".. And now... *gulp* I'm ooooooollllldddddddd! :'(

Last week I had a small dinner with few of my closest friends (which I promise I'll blog about soon!) and honestly, that's all I thought I'd be doing for my birthday. I initially wanted to do a doa selamat & solat hajat with my family & relatives but I forgot to mention my niat to my parents and when I remembered it was already Saturday night, ehehehe. So hopefully we'll get around to that this weekend, insyAllah.

That's just how I like to spend my birthday ideally actually. With family & friends. I think everybody closest to me knows that & I think that's why they make an effort to show up for my birthday dinner, thank you! Saaaaaayang korang!

What I was not expecting was getting surprised though for my 22nd birthday!

See, I've had 22nd birthdays, provided I can't remember quite majority of it (seriously not the type of family that does something grand for birthdays) but I know I've not been successfully surprised by anyone for my birthday in my entire 22 years of living! I can't say people never tried, ohh they have (once I find out about my surprise, I try to surprise them back normally :p), so I can't say nobody has ever loved me that much to surprise me... So I guess I'm just difficult to surprise or I'm the sneakiest amongst my friends that they can't out-sneak me... I don't know.. But yeah, basically once I turned 20, I stopped hoping/wishing/expecting a surprise dah for my birthday.

But my surprise was not the entire event they planned out for me though, my surprise was something totally unexpected! (Well duh! Nama pun surprise -.-).

Here's how the story goes:

So I'm a clingy friend, naturally I'm a clingy girlfriend too. Alhamdulillah, my boyfriend is just as clingy. So seeing each other on a daily basis isn't something weird for us (not seeing each other in a day feels weird for us..). But what was weird was how adamant Zawir was about taking me out for buka today and making sure I do not get back home in time for terawih..

Yesterday: "Well, you don't have to ikut today. We're going out tomorrow pun, itu confirm, mesti!" - Him.

Urr okay.. Clingy boy, let it be lah..

Today:

Him: Hrmm after buka we terus balik lah? We can just chill at your place, I don't wanna balik so lambat anyways..

Me: Broooooo (we bro each other whenever we think the other one is being stupid or lame), kalau balik lepas buka baik I terus pergi terawih kan?

Him: I send you home around 9 lah. Then dah masuk Isya' sure you tak sempat go terawih..

Tadi nak balik awal sangat... Oh wells.

Anyways, I thought of surprising him with one of his favourite dessert but then I got too lazy to drive myself to Bangsar alone so I just told him about it.

Him: Uuuuuu! Pavlova! Okay, I pick you up after work then we terus go Bangsar lah, then we chill dulu, jalan-jalan then we go buka k?

Me: Why don't we just go Bangsar after buka? Then you can eat terus than just simpan dulu?

Him: Alaaa, dowanlahh, we go Bangsar before k! I nak basuh kereta also anyways..

Me: Why don't we do ALL that AFTER buka? You nak balik by 9, sempat whaaaaat..

Him: Alaaaa, dowanlahhh.

Okaylah fine, he is quite impatient..

So after he picked me up and we saw the traffic,

Him: OMG! Jam diaa....... Tak jadi lah go Bangsar!

Me: We can go later? Later sure dah clear traffic.

Him: Taknak lahhh. I lazy.

Pulakkkk. Tadi nak sangat pergi -.-'

Me: I can drive kalau you penat?

Him: No lah, it's okay. I'll drive.

Me: We can go now, I'll drive.

Him: The traffic is so bad! What difference does it make if you drive?

Me: Urr, I'm more patient and you'll get stressed nanti in jam & you can't smoke.. Plus you penat, so you can sleep first?

Him: No lahhh, it's okayyyyyy. We can go Alexis another day :)

Me: But you said you wanna wash you car?

Him: Another day pun boleh, it's fine!

This is very unusual okay guys! This is the kind of guy that if he says on Saturday we are going out to go and get new pants for him, we HAVE to go out on Saturday to get pants for him.

At the DVD store,

Me: Uuuuuu! Meet The Millers! Have you watched it?

Him: Nope. Wanna watch together later?

Me: Okay! Your house?

Him: No lahh, you house lah.

Again weird. He always prefers being at his house more than mine.

Me: Alaaa, but then I have to move my laptop up and downnnnn.

Him: Nevermind lah, another day lahh. Tak sempat nanti.

Me: Heh? Tak sempat for what?

Him: .. Nanti lambat I lazy send you home...

Dude, you gotta send me home no matter what.. But fine, drop it. Do not agitate the hungry boy.

So we went to the restaurant, sat down and ordered our food and waited for buka.

While waiting I decided that we should put our phones aside and enforce the "Whoever touches the phone first, pays". And I swear, I love this rule! Not only does it gives people the chance to stop being anti-social, but it also helped me answer the question as to why Zawir was being so. weird! Seriously, this mamat had all the time lepas buka to do whatever errands you wanna do and yet he didn't want to and insist on settling them before buka and then in the end tak jugak settle them because of traffic (which I'm sure he expected it..). WEIRD!

Anyways, peopurr (including you 4 masterminds reading this..), after we were done eating & when I passed back his phone to him, I saw this group chats notifications coming in; "Tuesdays" from  Yasmin Shahira, Zayana Mahira & Zoe Chia. Ibarat pepatah melayu, dah terang lagi bersuluh, sah sah they're discussing something about me!

Me: Banyaknyer messages youuuuu

Him: *grabs phone quickly away from me*

But anyways, damage was done. I saw they mentioned something about coming about 8.30PM like that :p Nice try peeps!

After that I didn't make any noise about "We must balik now tak sempat nak do anything else dah must must must get you home early but not too early til you go terawih" and just went with it quietly. About 8.45PM we reached home. Barely even sat for like 5 minutes, and then suddenly he said he needs to get something that he left in the car..

Him: Alamak! I left something in the car, I need to get it.

Me: Haaaaa... K lah, you go bukak pintu sendiri lah.. Use the small gate.

Him: Alaaaa, you ikut lah!

Me: I lazyyyyy!

Him: I clingy!

Yeeerrrrlaaaaaaaaatuuuuuhhhhhh..

And as expected, the next thing I heard was "SURPRISE" as I open the door & see people & Minions (on balloons) walking towards me.

My instant reaction was:

Me: Ngaww.. WHYYYYYYYYYY?

Like seriously, it wasn't like they didn't attend the dinner last week.. WHY?!

Zawir: Because Zayana bengang I got you an ice cream cake last week, and she already got you a cake.

Zayana: YEAH! I was like "reallyyyyy.. Dah lah ice cream cake, her favourite type of cake -.-", I can't let him win!

#masalah -.- #butsokaytheybothclingyofme

But yeah as you can tell, this wasn't the surprise. The surprise was this:

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I SWEAR THIS WAS LIKE SO AWESOME I WANTED TO FRAMED IT UP IF I COULD! Actually, I'm still wondering how do I frame the icings up! So much effort! & NO! It's not the same as printing the photos and frame it up myself -___-'

Tak pe lah, I'll guess I'll just frame up the photo of this cake, ahhh loveeeee!

MY BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! <3

"Guys! You want me to name the movies these photos came from? :D"

Zawir: Riiiiightt.. Soo urm, I wanted to go home early kan tadi..

Zayana: Allah! x.x

Zoe: That one (9' o clock position) is from Matrix kan!

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"I wish to meet Shah Rukh Khan in person one day!"

"You're not supposed to say it out loud!"

... I BELIEVEEEEEEEEEEE!

My 30th birthday surprise perhaps? :D

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Thank you lovely people for the surprise and the cake and lots and lots of Shah Rukh Khan!

I would just like to thank each and everyone of them who put up the effort with me not just for my birthday, but throughout the year in general. I'm not easy, I know, but I swear I love you guys and I feel so blessed that I have you guys in my life :") You guys always know how to make me laugh and no matter how we fight, how we annoy each other, I like how we're still strong together and hopefully poreberrrrrr *kissieeeeeeeeeess*

& okay, now I sleep. Dudeeee, it's 8.40AM! x.x (I will attend to the typos & errors when I wake up :p)

Drugged

How's Ramadhan going for everyone?

Last year during Ramadhan I was too occupied between not wanting to be awake and being bored as hell at work. Little did I know being at work actually helped me making the day pass by faster, because seriously, what do you do when you're not employed, at home and can't eat during daylight?!

So to keep myself busy during the day (by something else other than sleeping) I try to make sure I have a "project" for that day.

Like yesterday the project was to bake my all time favourite honey cornflakes. I baked 100 pieces of it, and I think everything is finished now x)

Today the project was supposed to mop the house. I even asked Mummy where's the mop (which is a whole other creepy story by itself...) and all.

However, Kookie drugged me and I slept all the way til 4.15PM -.-' With lots of concerned messages from people asking where am I, ehehe.

Okay now, she didn't drugged me, she gave me medicine that were supposed to make me sleepy (read: SLEEPY, NOT sleep) for my phlegm.

Oh well, I guess mopping the house can be done tomorrow..