A Good Start

Hello there fellow humans!

I hope you're doing well?

I am :)

2012 is shaping up to be a good year, Alhamdulillah.

So.

What has happened so far???

Well. I actually had decided to start up a 366 this year after successfully completing my 365 last year, but then, upon finding out that Flickr has a 200 photo limit (unless you pay and upgrade to a pro account), I decided to stop. Sad indeed :( but it's alright, perhaps now I shall blog more!

You can still check out the first month of my 2012 on my Flickr though, if you wish :)

Now let's get on my time machine and see what has happened so far since I wrote here on New Year's Eve!

I'll start with the highlights first:

First off, AP! 14th January.

This year's AP was at Crowne Plaza, KL :) It was a lovely night spent with great buddies. Had a wonderful time although the food was pricey...teehee. Most of us chose to have the buffet; they had a lot of different food! 

We didn't take lots of group photos like we did last year though, which I regret! But that's alright, we have next year to do that, don't we?

 Everyone :) excluding me, who took the photo!

 Now, THIS is everyone! Our only "group photo", lol.

The girls <3

Then, I went to Singapore on the 21st of January with my lovely cousins (The KR family!) to watch Wicked the musical! Oh god. It was amazing. I loved every minute of it! Would love to see it again.

The cast was just great. The music? We were all singing it weeks after seeing the show.

Heck, I just sang it earlier during my shower...

Anyway!

You guys should definitely check it out if you can! 

My cousins, sister and I :) 

Omar took the photo!

After the show, we got to take a photo with one of the actors! He played Fiyero :)

Lol I'm looking at the other camera.

This was my first time going to Singapore! (not counting the time I went when I was a baby). 

Had a good time, thanks again Uncle Karl and family <3

And now for the last highlight (for now!):

This is only part 1 of 2.

Meeting Phil and Wes from WongFu Productions!

Now, I am going to blog about this IN DETAIL, because I told Aifa I would.

Now, Julia, Aqilah, Joon Keit, Mun Hong and I joined this video competition to win tickets to brunch with Phil and Wes.

But due to some unfairness on the organisers' part, and some other stupid crap, we did not win.

(for the record, we were pretty upset about this. Well, I was, anyway! But will not tell the full story as there is no point :p)

Anyway, we joined another competition by Hitz FM to try and meet them.

I did not win :(

But Mun Hong did!

He was allowed to bring a friend for the meet and greet, and he so kindly asked me to go with him!

(I pretty much begged him to bring me if he could once I knew he won the competition...sorry!)

Thank you once more, Mun Hong! I really appreciate it :D

You don't have to get me a birthday present this year hahahaha.

So, the day of the meet and greet came! Mun Hong picked me up at about 5pm, and off we went to the Astro office! (which is also where the Hitz office is)

We kinda got a bit lost, so it took us some time to get there. The jam didn't help!

What we saw on the way there! WFP! WongFu Productions!

When we got there, we were led by one of the Hitz people, Aaron, to the cafeteria.

I went to pray first cause it was already maghrib time, then went to eat with the rest :)

Didn't manage to finish my cantonese kuey teow in time, haha oh well!

Was excited to go up to the studio :p

Excited faces!

When we got up to the studio, we were told by Jin (Hitz DJ) to wait in this room, which turned out to be Mix FM's recording studio!

So we posed with the equipment, teehee.

Pretty cool stuff.

See that huge window? We (us and the other winners + their friends) were all standing there with our cameras waiting for Phil and Wes. Like animals in a zoo. Or paparazzi, lol.

Steve and Ryan from Mix FM printed out a sign that said "please don't feed the fans" and put it on the window for Phil and Wes to see, hahahaha.

Winners of the contest and their friends :)

Mun Hong with his Astro visitor's pass.

Anyway, eventually, after waiting a little while, Phil & Wes came!

I was such a fangirl. It's embarassingggg. I spazzed hahaha.

I took a video too! Which I will probably not post anywhere...

I was all like "HI PHIL! HI WES!" in my high pitched voice.

Good lord.

Still, it was pretty cool seeing them in the flesh! They look good, lol.

And tall!

They came into the room for a little while to shake hands with us and say hi, then Jin whisked them off to the studio for their radio interview.

We got to go in during the last 10 minutes of the interview, which was fun :)

After that was finally the meet and greet!

We got to go in two by two to take a photo with them. Didn't really get to talk to them though, but ah well.

I did manage to ask them if they thought Mun Hong looked like Phil though!

Wes agreed and said, "I was gonna say that!" and Phil just agreed hahaha.

Actually I'm not too sure what Phil said exactly, it was all a blur to me lol. But pretty sure he agreed!

 <3 

They're tall la ok.

And I'm short :p

So after all of us got our photos taken with Phil and Wes, we were sent once more to the Mix FM studio. Steve was on air! Pretty cool, lol.

People who work at radio stations are friendly and nice :) had a good time with them!

Seems like a fun working environment!

After a little while, Phil and Wes came out of the Hitz office to leave :(

They came into the Mix room to see us first, though!

That's when we all practically mobbed them cause we didn't get to get their autographs earlier :p

Mun Hong and I wanted to get signed polaroids!

So I quickly asked Phil if we could get a quick polaroid photo :)

DO THEY LOOK ALIKE OR WHAT EH?!

Phil didn't get to sign it on that day though! The both of them left pretty much right after we took this photo!

Wanted to get one with Wes as well (I was nearly grabbing him to take the photo), but the organisers were already getting them to leave, so we didn't get one :(

Here's another angle lol, taken by either Felicia or Rachel (thanks!!), one of the other winners.

Even after Phil and Wes left, we stuck around the Mix studio for a little while, lol.

Steve did an impromptu interview with Joseph Germani!

Aaaaand that was the end of that day!

Reached home at 11+pm.

Thanks Mun Hong for picking me up and sending me home :)

Phew.

This post is LONG.

And I still have a lot of things to say!

I will have to continue with the rest another day though, because I have assignments to do.

Til next time, folks :)

Goodbye, Twenty Eleven

Today is the last day of 2011!

Time to recap on some things I've done this year :')

1. Started college

With some of my classmates in July :)

To me, this is definitely the biggest 'thing' that happened to me all year!

College is so different from high school; I think it took me about half a year to truly adjust to college life.

I'm having heaps of fun here though, and I'm really happy that I get to do something I love to do! I think going to college has helped open my eyes a bit to what's out there in the real world. I've met different kinds of people, been exposed to many different things (don't worry, nothing bad I'm sure :p), and have definitely learnt a lot.

Excited to see what the future brings :)

2. Travelled to KL via public transport with friends.

At KLCC!

At Taman Paramount!

 I just realised that I did this TWICE this year!

First time was when I went to drink tea at Taman Paramount, then the second time was when we specifically went out to go to KL!

 At the heart of the city!

In the bus, lol. Women's carriage!

3. Got my driving license.

Hooray! I've got my license!

Not that I've been doing much (any) driving though :p

Got my license waaaay back in March; but have only driven twice since: 1st time was Sanesh's car, from the park near my house to the big park (I think?). 2nd time was Asha's car at college; had to move the car forward because she went into college to get something, and I was waiting in her car. First time driving alone, lol).

4. Turned 18, obviously.

Had a lovely small party with my friends <3

And got a beautiful Fossil wallet!

Went to Italiannies with my family <3

I still don't feel 18. 

But how does one actually FEEL 18? I don't think there's any way to FEEL a certain age.

Ok. 

Moving on!

5. Developed an interest in photography + used an analog camera.

So yaaah, I like taking photos!

Glad to have like-minded friends in this interest! (Julia, Mun Hong, May Yee, Leonard!)

Also, I recently borrowed Leonard's Diana F+, which is an analog camera, and the photos are currently being developed at the shop! Hopefully the photos turn out well :)

6. Got a MacBook.

My dad bought me a Mac to use for college, and I love it so! <3

Haha. 

Also, I am currently using my dad's iPhone.

My brothers say I am an iFag. Ok.

7. Painted a mural.

In May, a few classmates and I were chosen to go to a school in Damansara to paint their counselling room.

It is not easy painting a huge wall, let me tell you that!

It was fun nonetheless, and we got paid; which was a pleasant surprise!

8. Stayed up all night.

(Sorry Bri, this photo of you sleeping seemed appropriate!)

This was only recently; at Sanesh's Christmas party!

I stayed up until 7am!!!!!!

Fun stuff ;D

I don't believe I'd ever done that before; I'm usually asleep LATEST by 12am. Most days, anyway.

Been staying up a bit later lately....hm.

9. Got a pair of Vans.

Here are my Vans.

Interesting stuff!

10. Went on a trip to Terengganu.

Had a great time on my study trip to Terengganu!

It was to collect research for our corporate identity assignment.

Wish it could've lasted longer :)

11. Learned how to use Adobe Illustrator.

After learning to use it, and getting a bit better at it; I must say, I LIKE using Illustrator!

Hahahaha!

12. Went to a Big Bad Wolf Sale.

Best warehouse sale ever!

Only wish I had more time to look around!! 

Can't wait for next year's.

13. Learnt to sew.

It was for an assignment, lol.

Learned from Youtube <3

13. Visited a paper company.

Yup, that's a huge-ass origami unicorn.

NBD.

14. Hand painted a meme on a shirt.

I painted a nyan cat on a shirt for Omar's birthday!

Took about 5 hours, I think!

15. Made a fondant cake.

Made a fondant cake with Nina and my cousins!

SUCH FUN!

16. Went cycling.

Last but not least, I went cycling just yesterday!

Very tiring, but fun nonetheless. 

My butt hurts now, though.

So that's it!

A list of things I'd done in 2011. It's not much; barely any achievements, if any at all, but I think I had a good year :)

I have many things to be thankful for, most of all is of course that I'm alive in good health, and surrounded by a loving family, and friends I can count on <3

May 2012 be kind to me as 2011 was!

InsyaAllah :)

Happy New Year to everyone!

PS: Totally posting this at 11.59pm like a baws.

Oh hi there!

It's been a while :p

I'm updating today because of a few reasons; primarily because I told Aifa I would, and I'd like to keep that promise! (especially since I still haven't got your banner done--forgive meee!)

Today I planned to stay home all day resting; because I'm not exactly well. I've got the flu :<

BUT! Instead, I went to Pavilion with Aizah, Nina, Jaz and Afiq, mostly to celebrate Afiq's 8A's hahaha.

My sis said I'm not bedridden, am I? So I can go out. Lol.

Also, we went to see the buddy bears that they have displayed outside!

They had a bear from almost every country in the world! It was pretty cool.

Here are some of the other bears!

Lol.

Nina and Afiq :)

We had lunch at Ichiban Boshi :9 

And Nina belanja-ed Afiq and I gelato afterwards! Dark chocolate gelato; so so good.

Jaz on the merry-go-round hehe. She didn't look that amused, really :p

Jaz got a pair of Hello Kitty Vans!! Adorable or what?!

She's rockin' em hahaha!

So that was my day :)

Now let's talk about the previous semester in college!

Phew, it was a whirlwind!

It started off alright; the calm before the storm haha.

Then, in the last month, things started becoming hectic; it was tough to keep up with the assignments!

But I did it!!!

The semester is over; and I'm on my break now, until January 16 :)

I was supposed to have next semester off, as it says in my schedule, BUT the department offered me two subjects to take, so I thought "why not?". Better take two subjects now, and three in the next sem; because if I don't take the two subjects now, I'd be taking five subjects in the next sem, which would definitely be a handful, if this past semester is any indication!

Some of my table during my final presentation!

Hahaha had to put a watermark :p just a precaution lol.

All you can see here is my corporate identity assignment! The assignment we went to Terengganu for earlier. My resort is a boutique resort; I'd say about 4/5 stars :) The concept was inspired by songket of Terengganu.

OKEH! I think that's all I've got to update you on. 

I've just been catching up with school friends during the break :)

And watching movies. Lots of movies!

Though I still have yet to watch Titanic

I've watched the entire X-Men series (which is awesome) and a lot moreeee.

I am a couch potato.

You can, of course, read my 365 for daily updates haha.

I'm typing all this like I have fans who'd actually like to know about my life.

Lol.

Funny Syaza.

Anyway, I will update this more often next year definitely; cause my 365 will be done with then!

Sad :(

Okay, time to watch Abduction! 

Seeya soon folks ;)

Sanesh's Christmas party is on Saturday!!! Can't wait to see all my buddies :)