Down Kitty Cat Walk :)

Goodbye, Twenty Eleven

2011-12-31T23:59:00.003+08:00

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.

2011-12-22T21:06:00.000+08:00

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 :)

Noms

2011-10-12T21:16:00.003+08:00

GREETINGS EARTHLINGS! ┗┃・ ■ ・┃┛

My, my, isn't my hair long now?! I want to go layer it, but I'll have to wait for the weekend for that :|

I suddenly have the urge to blog, therefore, I shall.

It hasn't been happening often ._. The blogging mood.

That is why I have abandoned you, poor poor blog :(

I feel kinda sad when I imagine myself looking back at my life through my blog, with a huge gaping hole in it ever since I started college!

I mean, is it that hard just telling my blog what I've been up to lately?!

No. It is not. ~~I haven't been up to much lately anyway~~

I will try harder to keep this blog updated!

I mean, I didn't write anything anywhere about my Terengganu trip! I'll just forget about it in like..a year!

Which is sad. I don't want to forget anything :(

So yes. I will try my best to update this blog regularly again!

And if I don't, you can always check my 365 :p I feel obligated to update that hahaha.

The year is coming to an end soon.

When I stop and think about it, it feel so surreal that I've been in college for almost a year now!

High school seems a distant memory. I've gotten so used to college, that waking up at 6am seems like a great chore now!!

So strange.

Speaking of things being a distant memory, I used to feel like this 'new life' i've had since Daddy remarried was a dream; like I'd wake up one day, and my mum would still be here and everything.

However, now, it feels like my old life was the dream, and this scares me.

Alas, such is life!

Moving on,

I'm on my mid sem break at the moment!

It's a one week break, and I have so many assignments to complete!!!

I've only started on two, for now. I think I have a total of, what, 5 or 6? D:

Saveth me!

I've been procrastinating, of course :(

Today I watched X-Men: First Class. It was so gooooood! I can't wait for The Avengers now.

I still haven't watched Captain America though! Will watch that before The Avengers comes out.

Yesterday I started with my graphic design assignment, which is to create something that represents Ricky! (we're partnered) I've decided to make a jack-in-the-box thing, with a Ricky popping out of it, haha.

Not sure if it'll be functional though, seems hard to make it functional now :(

But anyway, I started sewing the felt doll Ricky yesterday, complete with his red hoodie!

Pretty proud of it actually :'D I'd never sewed anything like this before!

hahahahaha.

I like this family photo :) Afiq's birthday at Madam Kwan's, Empire.

And now Empire's closed because there was a gas leak which caused an explosion.

Wow hahahaha.

Okay, I think it's time for me to procrastinate some more.

Goodnight guys! <3

Shutterbug

2011-09-25T10:57:00.000+08:00

Good morning everybody!

I have a pore pack on my nose.

It's a lovely Sunday morning! Rain isn't falling.

Hahahahaha I'm sorry if you didn't get the lame joke :p

I know you've missed meeeeee! I haven't blogged here in aaaages!

I'm sorry Blogger :(

I just haven't had the inspiration to blog. Seems like I've lost the blogging bug :(

BUT I WILL GET IT BACK!

I know, I always say that :p Let's just hope it's true this time lol.

I'll be going to Terengganu on Monday to Wednesday for a study trip!

We have this big assignment where we have to work with an Interior Design student and create the corporate identity for a made-up resort!

Fun stuff :B

Pretty scary too lol.

But can't waaaait!

Never had a trip like this during school! I wish we did have one though~

Would've been moles of fun!

We're required to bring a camera and a sketchpad for this trip. Can't wait to go trigger happy heheeeeee.

K I have nothing more to say :p

Going to Parade today with Aqilah, Sanesh, possibly Brandon, and Pang to celebrate Pang's birthday :)

Toooooodaloo!

Eighteen.

2011-08-09T12:30:00.000+08:00

HI!

It's about time I blog about my birthday, yes? :p

I went to Fourian Fare! :)

Julia picked me up (oooh fancy) and she drove us to school!

Julia :)

Brynn :)

Irvin :)

Faruq :)

Chia Mei :)

More people yay! <3

Julia, Tracey, me and Brynn :)

It was so hectic at Fourian Fare!!!

I was sweating 5 minutes after going in the school. Phew!

But that's just me. I tend to sweat more than the average person ;p

Anyway, after walking around, buying a few things (using Julia's overwhelming amount of coupons), Julia drove me, Tracey and Brynn to my house so I could get a change of clothes, because we were going to Pyramid to watch Captain America.

We didn't get tickets to Captain America, sadly :( Cinema was full!

But the lady at the cinema counter saw that it was my birthday from my IC, and wished me Happy Birthday!

I thought that was nice, haha :)

Anyway, Julia and Brynn were looking for parking (Tracey and I rushed ahead to try and get tickets), so we just sat and talked. Haven't seen Tracey in ages before that day!

Eventually Julia and Brynn came, and we just aimlessly walked, hahaaaa.

Then, at about 4.30pm? or 5pm, we went to Friday's!

Oh, before that, Tracey and Brynn said they had to go home, and went off :(

When Julia and I got to Friday's, I saw...friends! 8D

Haha! Julia wanted to surprise me! :'D

And it would've worked too, except a few days before, Brandon mentioned something about going to OU (we were supposed to go to OU at the time), when it was only supposed to be Julia, Aqilah and I!

So I sort of figured that she was planning to surprise me :p

It was really nice nonetheless!

THANK YOU JULIA <3 and

THANK YOU EVERYONE <3

I was surprised Aqilah came though!!!

Because she told me she wasn't coming :( I was all bitter about it, too, lolol.

Tracey and Brynn didn't leave either! They were there at Friday's :)

Here's everyone who was at Friday's! Julia, Aqilah, Chia Mei, Tracey, Brynn, Pang, Sanesh and Brandon!

Thank youuuu again <3

The Friday's people made me stand on my chair and give a speech and sing a song o_o

What.

Then I got to blow out the candle from my birthday cake!

(which is from Aqilah and Aqil--thank you! <3)

Binxy, lol.

It's red velvet cake from Whisk! :D

My slice :) Which I didn't finish, lol.

We had lunch before having the cake (I split a burger and stuffed mushrooms with Julia), so I was pretty full.

Thank you Julia for paying for my meal!!! <3

I always feel so loved and grateful on my birthday :')

AQILAH! The girl who said she wasn't coming, hahaha :D

Three blind mice for evah. (PS: The ring was given to me by Aqilah :D)

Pang kindly cutting the cake for everyone :) I'm always scared to cut cakes because I'm afraid I'll ruin it, heh.

Blurry photo of all the girls :p

The guys and I :)

Outside Friday's :)

Thanks again you guiseeee <3

Oh, I bought a pair of pumps!

My birthday shoes :p

They were on saleeee! :D

That night, my family and I were supposed to go to this meat place called Las Vacas for dinner. We made reservations and everything, but when we got to the place, to our dismay, there was a pasar malam right outside it -_-

The guy on the phone asked us to park at the nearby housing area, but it was dark and dodgy looking, plus we had Jaz to carry, so we decided to eat somewhere else instead.

We went to Empire!

We originally wanted to eat at Chili's, but of course the place was full, with a line of people outside it, waiting to get it.

So we went to Italiannies instead! :)

Had good food :9

But I'm still craving steak lol.

Nevermind, soon soon :)

So that was my birthday!

The next day, I asked Daddy for a pavlova as my birthday cake, heh.

We got one from Alexis, Bangsar :)

Aizah and I had to go pick it up!

Apparently, the lady said it was a meringue, not a pavlova, because they were out of pavlovas.

She said something about meringues having two layers, while pavlovas only have one, but when I researched it (thanks Google!), meringues are just the base of pavlovas (egg whites and sugar, basically), while pavlovas are meringues with cream and fruits on it.

So I think, technically, it's still a pavlova, but whatever :p

Here it is in the box :9

And here it is outside the box :9

Daddy wrote this lol. He said this should be on the cake, lol.

I know it isn't gramatically correct :p

Here's me and Daddy! :)

Thank you Daddy, hehe <3

So that's it!

My birthday weekend :)

Right before Ramadhan started, haha.

Speaking of which, selamat berpuasa to all muslims!!!

~~~

I've been watching this Korean drama lately, called Heartstrings :D

I'm watching it cause the hot guy that was in this other drama Aifa asked me to watch, is in it!

And the girl from that previous drama I watched is in it too!

I likeeee.

The guy is hot :9 here, let me show you:

Here's the both of them, hehe. The girl is cute too!

Okaaay, maybe that's not such a good photo. But I'm telling you, this guy is hot :9

He has a band too, and I like their music! Verrrry naise.

They're not a Kpop band, btw. They don't dance or anything :p

It's more about the music. I like, haha. They play pop/rock :)

He looks really good in a suit.

Okay, that is all :p

I've also been watching Ouran High School drama!

I watched the anime ages ago, and it was really good. Now they made a drama out of it :)

It's not bad, but the guys aren't as hot as they were in the anime, haha :p

ENOUGH DRAMA TALK!

I'm going to uni later to ask a question about my fees.

Then I'm going to Pyramid to browse! :)

Since Raya is coming, I'm going to see what clothes I'd like, heheheeeeeee.

It's strange how excited I am about going out today!

Guess I've been at home far too long :p

I'm also planning to bake macarons on Thursday!!! Wish me luck, this is a new recipe, given to me by Arinah (thanks!) :)

I really hope it works for me!

Goodbye folks :)

Before I Turn 18

2011-07-29T23:13:00.001+08:00

Jaz so cute in her little "denim" jacket and her ladybug bandana bib!

WADDUP DOODZ AND DOODETTES?

What am I doing the night before I turn 18??

Chatting on Skype with Julia and Joon Keit :D

Hahahaha.

I'm such a nerd. Srsly.

I'm also playing the guitar and singing--badly :D BUT WHO CARES?

Sorry, feeling a bit hyper.

Just went to put the trash outside, and playing with the cats for a bit. The kittens are growing so big so fast!

So adorable, heeee.

No, that doesn't really explain WHY I'm hyper.

But I have no explanation.

I was born this way, baby.

AHAAAA!

Afiq just burst into my room earlier, because he bumped his knee on his door rushing out and got himself hurt. So I patched him up haha :D

A good sister I am :'D

K I've stopped playing the guitar now, listening to good ol' Beatles songs <3

Today I followed Aizah and Jaz to Jaz's Shichida class :) Before that we dropped by Aizah's friend's house to drop a gift. There was this massive jam towards KL!!!

We were lucky in a way though, because we went relatively early.

When we were going out of Shichida, the jam seemed never ending!

We wanted to have lunch at Gardens, but because there was no parking at all there, we headed to Parade for sushi :)

Then we went home and I watched an episode of Pretty Little Liars haha 8D

I've finally reached Season 2!

Kinda sad I won't be able to watch episodes back-to-back anymore soon though, but oh well!

Life goes on :p hahaaaa~

Oh, on the way back home we dropped by a Baskin Robbins to redeem ice-cream from the coupon Aizah bought at the Treats fair :)

NOMS.

Just asked Aizah to help buy Julia and I coupons to get cheap movie tickets for tomorrow :)

Speaking of tomorrow, I got a text from Abidah a few hours earlier asking if I wanted to go with them to watch Lion King the musical--in Singapore!

Sad thing is, it clashes with the plans I've already got tomorrow, so I--after some deliberation--wisely decided not to go with them. (plus the air fare doesn't help either lol)

How I wish the musical was on Sunday instead of tomorrow!

That would've been perfect.

But it doesn't work that way :p

It's okay! I'll get to watch it some other time, hopefully.

Well well. I have lost my blogging mojo.

I'll be off, lads!

Have a good weekend :)

Just a random old photo hehe <3

Mess

2011-07-27T21:56:00.001+08:00

Hey friends!!!

Sorry for not updating this blog in absolute ages :3

I've been lazy, there's no excuse this time hahaha.

Let's see..Since the last time I wrote in here, I have been going out with Aizah and Jaz, and learning new things to do on Photoshop.

That's pretty much all I've done so far during this break, really o_o

I really should get cracking on that cleaning. My room is terrible!!

And Ramadhan is coming soon, so I want to clean my room before then :)

Tomorrow shall be my cleaning day! No distractions!!!

~~I hope, hah.~~

Here's one of the things I've learnt in Photoshop: how to use Photoshop actions!

I know, so noob. Now only I know how to use them :p

It's super easy!!!

Can't believe people give out free actions online.

It's like, cheating.

The first one is from one of my favourite Flickr users of all time, Kane :)

Check out his photos, they're so good!

He gave away the action for free because he got to top 20 for this contest he entered

(people had to vote)

And the second one is just one I found online.

You know how I thought my days would be all boring and dull because I have nothing to do??

It hasn't been boring actually! For the most part, anyway.

Specially lately, because I've been going around with Aizah and Jaz, haha :)

And when I'm home, I spend my time Facebooking and tweeting and watching Pretty Little Liars :3

The girls are so pretty. WHY!

Speaking of pretty people, there are also lots of people on Lookbook.

Why are they so pretty?

So nice to look at, haha.

Their photos are all really good too! Looks really professional.

Well, I guess that's it!

Talk to ya later, alligators :)

Oh, check out this cover of Terrified I did with Mun Hong the other day :)

Thanks Aifa and Zie Zhen for sticking around :)

Bye!

Rat-A-Tat-Tat

2011-07-17T22:04:00.000+08:00

Do you like my new shirt? :D

It's so retarded. I love it.

My bro said Rat-A-Tat-Tat is a band?! Say whaaat. I didn't know that.

Julia noms.

Nooo can't see Julia's new hairstyle in this photo! Should've taken more.

Aifa! :D

The brownie I had for "lunch" hahaha.

Fa and I :)

Had a good day out with Julia and Aifa today! :D

Lovely people heheeeeee.

Wish we got to hang out longer!

I wish Julia was on break too so we could hang this whole week!

Aqilah too!

So, I'm on my semester break now.

Six freakin weeks :0

I AM happy I got a break, but I just wish other people were on holiday too!

After all, being all by yourself for six weeks could drive a person crazy 8D

We don't want that to happen, do we?

Don't answer that.

Ladidadidaaaaa.

Poor friends. You're wasting minutes reading this.

I don't have anything to say..yet I still want to update.

K I won't waste your time any longer :p

I'll blog when I actually have something to say, next time!

Just Because

2011-07-16T23:31:00.001+08:00

HI!

I had a mocha drink during dinner earlier, so I'm pretty hyper right now.

I said coffee doesn't affect me, and it doesn't in the case of keeping me awake (maybe for a lil while), but I do feel hyper after drinking it. Although..doesn't being hyper prevent me from sleeping? HM.

We went to Kelantan Delights, btw. I was reluctant to go at first (you know, me and Malay food..we're alright, but a bit rocky), but it turned out alright! The food is pretty good :9

and the mocha frappe was yums.

I don't really have anything in particular to talk about, actually.

I just felt like updating this blog :3

OH! I'll show you some photos from the last day of the semester (for Graphic & Multimedia Design students anyway--Interior Design students have their final presentation next week).

Half (or less?) of my class, with our lecturer, Ms Susan (on my left) and our tutor, Mr Chin (second from left, front row)

My, my. I really am short eh?

It's okay..Good things come in small packages :p

That's what I tell myself anyway, har har.

Another photo, without the lecturers now!

Jump shot! Hahaha :D

In class! The 'Home Alone' face :0

Before my final presentation. You can see some of my artwork on the left haha.

Speaking of my final presentation, the lecturers took 3 of my artwork for exhibition :D

So coooolz.

Me with Helena and Mama Bra hahaha :D

Here's my friend Lini, when we were at Popoye's after the presentations. Waiting to see Harry Potter :3

And this is May Yee :) She likes cows, hahaha :D

Ricky and I with Sir Optimus Prime :D

And then they all went home, and I went to the cinema to wait for the rest to come (Joshua, Brandon, Brian, Shermaine and Faruq)

They (Bra, Bri and Faruq) were slightly late, but at least we didn't miss the starting of the movie!

I was going to cry if we did :p

Oh, speaking of crying, I kinda cried a leeeetle bit at some point during the movie :p hahaha.

Last Harry Potter movie and all that--very emotional ok?

NO MORE HARRY POTTER MOVIES! AHH THE HORROR!

In the car after the movie. Brandon's car! Brandon drove!

I survived :D

Bri and I at Starbucks.

I followed Bra and Bri to Starbucks after sending Joshua and Faruq home.

We pretty much just sat there lol.

I wish I brought my lappy!

Went to Strawberry Fields for dinner, then went back to Starbucks again, and just..sat there XD

Then Pang came, and I had to go home lolzorz.

Is this what you guys call fun? :p Cereally?

Haha I'm so bad..no lah, fun la fun la :p

OKIES! I am ending this post now.

Wow, that's a lot of photos, and very little words hehe.

It's okay, pictures speak a thousand words!

PS: Most of the photos from uni are from May Yee's camera, and taken by Len! Thanks!!

You Can Fly!

2011-07-12T22:22:00.002+08:00

Hi guise! :D

How you doin this lovely (albeit HOT) evening? Well I hope!

I am going to bore you tonight (heh) with another one of my lists!

I love writing lists :}

This time, it'll be a list of things I could (and should) do during my one month+ break from uni!

Which is starting this Friday :D

1. CLEAN MY ROOM

Yes, I really need to do this ASAP. My room is getting waaaaay too cluttered for its own good!

Oh, this includes my closet as well! Which currently looks like Hurricane Katrina just hit it.

2. BAKE STUFF

As stated lengthily in the previous post :p

3. WATCH MOVIES

YESSSS I finally have a lot of time to watch all those movies I never got around to watching! Like Titanic. I still haven't watched Titanic!! Or Inception! Horror. I'll get around to it this time :D

OH, I also want to watch some Japanese dramas during my break, hehe.

---oh god, I'm listening to 'You've Got A Friend In Me' from Toy Story! :'D I feel happy--

Continuing the list!

4. HANG OOT WITH FRIENDS

Unfortunately, this mostly means on weekends, seeing as most of my friends aren't on holiday D: (with the exception of Aifa next week--YAY! And Pang!)

Mun Hong is also free on Fridays, so we'll be making covers and stuff then, hopefully :)

Uh...You know what, I think that's it o_o

That's all I can think of at this present time anyway!

Oh wait!

5. LEARN NEW SONGS ON PIANO/GUITAR

My musical skills *cough* are getting super rusty :p

6. PRACTICE PHOTOGRAPHY
Time to really learn the technique and master (try to master..) the DSLR!

Holy crap it's already 10pm?! Time to watch Peter Pan!

I love Peter Pan, don't you?? Had a huge crush on him when I was younger :}

Disney fo laife <3
[edit: I didn't end up watching Peter Pan all the way lol. Had to eat dinner, etc]

Oh, here are a few photos before I end this post:

Part of my dad's side of the family :)

Uncle Karl had a birthday celebration for Nenek Pohn as well as Balkish's house-warming last week (or was it the weekend before...@_@)

Anyway, it was held at their old house (now Balkish's house!) which we all hadn't been to in absolute ages!

Was interesting to go there, my foggy memories were stirred, hehe.

Baked these for the event! :) Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache. I can cross this off my to-bake list now, haha. My cousin said it was sinful to even look at these cupcakes, lolzorz.

I think I've found the recipe to stick to for chocolate cupcakes now!!

Here are Poopie's super adorable kittens!!

There were originally 3, but one died after being bitten by a male cat :((((

On the left is Tootles, and on the right is Swiftly!

They're named after the Lost Boys from Peter Pan, if you didn't know!

I was reading the book (the original one) at the time, and decided to call them Tootles and Swiftly, even though Daddy insisted on calling them Will and Kate HAHA.

I don't know if they're male or female though, lol, but they're SO adorable omg. I constantly want to squish them, specially Tootles because HE IS FAT.

Look!!! It's a box of truffles left unopened, yummers. Do you want one?

HORROR! A cockroach got into the box because it was left unopened :(

Don't worry, I killed the little bugger after that :D

Jaz's reaction to nyan cat earlier today--LOL!

And this is what I would look like if my face was symmetrical.

kthxbye!

To-Bake-List

2011-06-28T20:01:00.000+08:00

Hello! Here are some yummy things which I plan to bake during my semester break :D

1. Rainbow cupcakes

I've actually made these successfully before, but I'm going to try a different recipe this time :B

2. Coloured macarons

As you may or may not know, the only macarons I have successfully made are chocolate macarons using David Lebovitz's recipe.

I'm going to try making coloured macarons now--because what's the fun in macarons if they're not pretty and colorful?? (and delicious :p)

3. Red velvet cupcakes

These cupcakes are SO popular now!

I want to try and make them :}

4. Moist chocolate cupcakes

I can't remember the last time I made chocolate cupcakes!!

(and I've just found a promising looking recipe online :p)

5. Bread

I've been wanting to try and bake bread for a while now, and I think my break is the perfect time :D

So that's it!

My list of things I want to bake :)

I'm actually also thinking of selling some baked things during my break, but that's just a thought--I might not do it. Too much work and using Daddy's money :p

Going to have dinner soon, goodbye folks!

PS: Julia, I really hope you're okay in KTT! Surely a huge shock after KY, but remember: humans can adjust to anything! Hopefully you'll get used to it soon :} We shall hang out this weekend, yes?

PPS: I miss you Aifaaaaaaaaa! And Aqilah too, though I've just seen you last week hehe.

Dream A Little Dream

2011-06-21T21:03:00.000+08:00

HI!

Last night, I had one of my recurring dreams (I have two of them), but with a twist!

Usually this particular dream goes like this:

I'm running away from someone, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, running

Feels like I could almost flyyyyyy~

Anyway, last night's dream was different because, instead of me being chased by someone, I was..following? this guy being chased by the police! (at least I think it was the police). I could only see his back view the whole time!

I'm not sure if I was following him or if I was his accomplice, HMM.

I wonder why my recurring dream suddenly changed? Don't you think dreams are fascinating?? 8D

*super nerd*

Oh, another difference between last night's dream and the usual recurring dream is, in the "normal" dreams, I never get caught. Butttt in last night's dream, the guy I was following got caught by the police!

How odd.

Odd odd oddities.

Dreams are weird. I wonder why we even have them?

Oh, I read online that dreams involving you being chased means that you're running away from something.

I don't know what I'm running away from LOL.

But I never get caught in my running away dreams! And I always feel so happy running on rooftops!

Hahaha that makes me sound like a loony. Loooony.

*cough*

When I woke up this morning, my head and body felt so heavy and exhausted, like I HAD been running on rooftops, lolol.

Got a headache shortly after I woke up, and about an hour after I got to uni, I got a fever.

Dum dum dummmm. I am now fever-free, but my head still feels a bit..meh.

Just wanted to record down that strange dream hahaha.

WHOOPDIDOO! You just wasted about...5 minutes of your life :}

Sorry!

I Just Want A Blazer

2011-06-17T21:08:00.001+08:00

HELLO FRIENDS!

You know that feeling when you go out particularly to get something, and you're excited to get it, but in the end you don't get it because it's just not what you wanted?

YES. I experienced that (again!) today.

Why is it when you actually look for something it's not there?! WHY OH WHYYYYY.

*deep breath*

Anyway, I want this blazer from Uniqlo :( Or at least, I want to see it and try it on and then decide if it's what I've been looking for.

But the Uniqlo at KLCC doesn't have it D':

Sad child.

Sad Syaza.

K I'll stop, cause I sound like a spoilt brat.

And I do not wish to be a spoilt brat.

At least I got to go out and have a browse :)

There was this blazer at MNG, but it's too structured! Don't want.

Anyway, I went to Sephora toooo! Lovely store *-*

This is coming from a person who barely wears any makeup.

I want their huge makeup set! It has EVERYTHING. Eyeshadow, eyeliner (even comes in blue!), lipstick, blusher and bronzer!

Want want want.

Also want lotion, body butter, eyeliner, and perfume.

Teehee.

I long for the day when I earn my own money and can actually buy these things if I wanted to XD

Just the possibility of being able to buy what I want would be nice, hehehe.

Goodnight lovely people of the world :D

This has been a pretty shallow post. I apologise.

Fun in the Lab

2011-06-16T22:18:00.000+08:00

LOL omg had so much fun playing with the webcam in the mac lab during Computer Graphics today! XD

One of the more "normal" ones.

AW YEAH!

WHAT IS THIS MONSTROSITY?!

And last but not least:

OMG CLOUDS! Oh mai gawddddd!

K that is all I wanted to post tonight :}

HEHEHE.

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

2011-06-10T12:40:00.000+08:00

HELLO BLOG!

No, I did not forget about you, certainly not!

I was just...being lazy. Durrrrrr.

But I'm back now, hooray! *cheers*

I'm actually procrastinating doing my homework now..but I can only procrastinate for so long. I'm going to get on with it after I write this *hopefully* short post.

At the moment, I have 3 assignments to do:

1. Journal on Dalí

2. 3D paper sculpture

3. Postcard for Com Graphics

On top of that, though, I have to do some research on pamphlets, because that's my final project for Com Graphics. Aaaaand I also have to start doing my powerpoint (or Keynote, I guess, since that's what it's called on Macs) for my English presentation on the 20th of June. I'm going to talk about Salvador Dalí, because after all that research about it, I think I've come to know him rather well x)

He's also fun to talk about because he was mad, lolol.

K, you know what, I think it's time to get to that paper sculpture. I just want to get on with it already!

I will update soon, reallyyyyyy :}

(I hope)

PS: Sorry for the lame post about homework, booo haha.

To Do List

2011-05-06T10:23:00.000+08:00

Things for Syaza to do today, 6th of May 2011 (Friday):

1. Finish assignments:
   -English Journal
   -Optical illusion
   -Tint, tone, shade
   -Icon for Computer Graphics

2. Cook mac and cheese for self and little brother Syafiq for lunch.

3. Sweep outside house compound, which is once again littered with those dried leaf/branch things.

4. Wash clothes and hang them outside (also don't forget to pick them up afterwards-tend to do that :p)

Just four things to do today!

Will get them done hopefully; YOSH!

What

2011-04-22T18:32:00.000+08:00

AAAAH! It's raining cats and dogs outside.

The thunder and lightning are frightening! Heh heh. That rhymesssss.

Oh hello there :D

You might've noticed uni has picked up it's pace, judging from my lack of posts :p

I've been sort of busy!

Not used to having homework to do, so I've been pretty occupied juggling everything.

I've actually been ~~wasting~~ spending a lot of time on the internet; but I haven't had the....inspiration? mood? to blog.

BUT NOW I'M BACK!

From outer space, just turn around nowwww--K I'll stop.

Here are some of my new classmates from Uni :)

They're nice people :) We've had a lot of laughs talking about random things that...don't really make sense XD

SO. ON WITH THE UPDATE!

~~~

Last Sunday, my family and I went to visit Uncle Wafa who's in hospital since he had a stroke about 2 weeks ago. He lost part of his memory, and it was heart-breaking to watch him.

He kept saying "There's something wrong with me. Uncle slow. But it's okay, don't worry about me. I will get better!! Don't worry. I will be okay."

He got frustrated too, when he couldn't remember things. I'm guessing it's like the feeling when you KNOW something, it's at the tip of your tongue, yet you can't get it out. The only difference is, my uncle's is 10 times worse. He also kept looking at us and hugging us tightly :(

I really hope he gets better soon! We're going to visit him again this weekend, I think :)

~~~

On Monday, Poopie gave birth to three adorable kittens!!

I am now a grandmother! HAHA.

There are two cream-coloured ones, and one orange-and-white one :) SOOO CUTE.

I can't wait til they open their eyes!

Then, on Wednesday, Poopie got hit by the gate--AGAIN.

This cat ahhh, I don't know la what to do anymore :|

Abang was going out to work, and Poopie wanted to get in the house juuuust as the gate was closing.

Good thing Abang was still there and he stopped the gate before it could fully crush Poopie.

But still, now both Poopie's back legs are hurt. And I think her front paw too!

Somehow though, she still manages to climb into the box where her kittens are!

I think she'll be able to heal by herself :) Just gonna take some time, poor thing.

~~~

Last Monday also, I hung out with Aifa, Tracey and Brynn! Haven't seen the twins for SO LONG! Since SPM result day, to be exact, so it was really nice to catch up with them :)

We had breakfast at Brumby's, then hung out at my house cause I had to babysit Jaz x)

Thanks for coming you guysssss! It was fun fun fun haha.

A few weeks ago, I also hung out with Aifa, Bra, Bri and Irvin! :) We had waffles at Petronas, hee :9

I miss Julia and Aqilah :(

I wanna hang out with you two + Aifa this weekend :(

~~~

WELL. I suppose you're now more or less up-to-date on my life. Yay!

I've pretty much gotten used to uni now :)

School seems a long time ago! Strangeeeeeee.

OH! One more thing. We are currently maid-less! Haha.

Our maid went off to Indonesia to visit her family for two weeks, so we're on our own.

Jaz misses her, you can tell because she's extra clingy and cries more than usual.

It's okay, the maid SHOULD be back soon next Thursday..but you can never really tell with maids; she might've decided to just stay there, lol :p

Argh. I want to eat froyo.

Or Baskin Robbins.

Nah...Froyo.

Lets go? :(

I Like Apples

2011-04-04T22:53:00.001+08:00

Hello!

This is the only photo I currently have on my new Mac (!), so please bear with it :p

Daddy came home from work today and told me to help him get some of his stuff out of the car. He said he bought a karaoke machine hahahahah.

I knew it was my MacBook Pro though :p Fail snail Daddy!

THANK YOU DADDY I LOVE YOU <3

So I'm supposedly a Mac user now.

Not used to it at all! I really need to read the manual. Confusionnnnn.

Hopefully I'll get this thing figured out real soon!

I'm going to miss my trusty (and veli pretty!) white Toshiba :(

Giving it to Afiq this weekend, after I've transferred all my stuff. Goodbye my lovely~

Alright, it's getting late! Have got class tomorrow.

Later, alligators!

PS: I miss everybodyyy :(

PPS: Sorry I'm showing off a bit, I'm just excitedly happy haha 8D

Ob-la-di-bla-da

2011-03-24T23:30:00.000+08:00

Harro!

We got our SPM results yesterday.

The night before I was really nervous and going mad.

On the morning itself, I was still very nervous.

However when I reached school, I just felt numb. I don't know why, but it feels dreamlike to me; getting my SPM results. Hahah. I'm so weird, I know.

Anyway, we did a great deal of waiting! Was in school from 9.45am, and results came out just before 11am.

Just walked around tempat menunggu, canteen and Foyer C waiting for the teachers to come down with our results. Very happy to see all my school friends again, I really miss the old days :(

When the teachers finally came down, many people screamed, lol.

And thennnn a whole flurry of students went rushing to their respective teachers to get their results!

(including me)

Our class was taken over by Pn. Aliah for some reason; our class teacher must've been absent.

Anyhoo, I got my file (filled with our certs and stuff like that) and school magazine, andddd Pn. Aliah handed me my result slip with this sort of...knowing smile.

I looked at the slip, anddddd....

I got 8A's. 1A+, 4A's, 3A-'s and 2B+'s.

I can't say I'm totally surprised.

You get what you worked for, eh :p

Though I AM surprised at some of my results like..Biology. I got an A-! I was fearing for my Bio because I remember during SPM, just a day before the exam I was studying, and I found that there were things I'd never read before in the reference book! Panicked like a madwoman.

I'm glad I managed to get an A-, hehe.

I'm very sad, however, that I got a B+ for Physics.

Mummy would've been sad, I think :/

Mr. Yeoh and Pn. Santhy, I AM SO SORRY.

I don't know what happened. The paper was just odd for me :(

I must've messed up the Paper 3 Vernier Callipers question worse than I thought.

Sigh.

I dishonour my family.

The other B+ I got was Chemistry, which I suppose was to be expected. I was never great at Chemistry, so that didn't surprise me thaaat much. I was still hoping and hoping for an A- though, hah.

My A-'s are for History, Add Maths and Bio.

Hooray for Add Maths! As long as it's an A, I'm happy :) Never gotten an A for Add Maths before.

Yes, not even an A- :p

History was to be expected; I didn't memorise the text books as much as I did during PMR year, heh.

My A's were for BM, Pendidikan Islam, Mathematics and EST. I'm very glad I got an A for BM, seeing as everyone keeps saying how they raise the bar for marking the BM paper, and also, I had a dream a couple nights before that I got a C for BM! Which made me panic about it, of course.

Probably should've gotten an A+ for Maths though :p But I'm glad for the A.

My only A+ was for English, of course (no other subjects left, haha.). Yay for English :)

Aaaand those are my results. After hearing from Julia that over 9,000 SPM candidates got straight A's, I felt really low about my results. But now I've sort of cheered up a bit (just a tad), because at least I'm done with it, and I did relatively well, seeing as I've been a lazy bum throughout the year.

Alhamdulillah, I'm very fortunate to get the results I got :)

Also, I did it without having mummy pushing me all the way! So that should count for something..I think.

CONGRATULATIONS to all my lovely friends who got awesome results!!!

I'm so proud to know such smart people :')

Anyway, it's late now, and tomorrow we're going to Langkawi, so YAY :)

Sorry for the wordy post :p

Blissfully Ignorant

2011-03-22T23:32:00.002+08:00

Enjoy this moment Syaza. You'll know in approximately 11 hours.

Good luck to all SPM students of 2010!

This.

Is.

It.

Party On Our Own

2011-03-21T20:54:00.001+08:00

Here is a photo of us in Bukit Bintang from two days ago, when my friends and I went to KL by public transport!

We're tourists in our own country, hahah. We so funny.

Julia took this photo, and Pang, Brandon, Chong and Jonathan are missing from the photo. They seemed annoyed that we kept stopping for photos -_-

Anyway, I don't feel like going much into detail on the day, but it was a fun one, albeit tiring!

According to my phone, we walked 11.5km! Amazing.

Alrighto, I'm staying over at my cousin's house now to practice baking macarons, and I have to see where my cousin has gone to :0 Goodnight!

Will update soon okay :}

SPM results coming out in two days. PANIC ATTACK!

Wistful

2011-03-08T11:10:00.000+08:00

Wistful:

Full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy; also :inspiring such yearning

Also, musingly sad : PENSIVE

I feel like I'm a bit of both at the moment! For no apparent reason.

Sometimes being a girl makes you feel things you're not sure why you're feeling.

Or..maybe it's just me :p

That's plausible as well, haha.

I want to go to Japan! I want to TRAVEL. I want to see the worldddd.

I somewhat feel as though my life has been so...closed. I mean, I haven't even seen my own country properly. I don't even mean other states like Perlis or Kelantan (which incidentally, I also have not seen). I haven't even seen Kuala Lumpur properly! And I live pretty close to KL, it's ridiculous that I haven't explored it!

I guess my point is...lets explore KL, guys! Lets get on the LRT and just..explore.

One of these days? :D

Soon? :D

Also, my other point is..I wish I had an income so I could start saving money for travelling!

I SO want to travel around the world, it's sad.

ONE DAY, my friends. One. Day.

Becoming Strangers

2011-03-06T21:13:00.002+08:00

Well hallo thar!

I'm so thankful to Francis Light (EDIT: HAHAHA Thomas Edison discovered light, not Francis Light LOL! Fail!) for discovering/inventing the light bulb. I'd been living in the dark for about 5 days now, because the light bulb in my room decided to burn out D:

BUT! Today dad replaced it, so thank you Daddy!

[Note: I wrote this post on Friday, and it's Sunday now!]

So what have I been up to?!

Well, mostly just classes. University is already starting to feel like school!

When I wake up in the morning I'm like "bleh, class". The only difference is, I get to wake up half an hour later than when I used to wake up for school, yay! Hahah.

Also, on most days my classes end at 10.30am or 11.30am. Lolzorz. It's like main-main only.

Anyhoo, today I had my Malaysian Studies exam! No more Malaysian Studies WOOO! Provided I pass, of course. Please please let me pass, heh.

No more Islamic Studies either! That exam was on Wednesday. I'll miss Islamic Studies class!

Oh btw, I only studied Malaysian Studies for ONE (satu) day!

Borrowed the textbook from Yee Ling's friend JJ YESTERDAY, for the exam TODAY. Hahahahahah.

Thank god the syllabus is pretty much the same as SPM, except it's in English.

After Monday (I have to present 3 of my drawings for Drawing Studies!), my semester is over :(

Can you believe I've been in college/uni/whatever for 3 months now?! More or less, anyway.

I'm rather excited for the next semester! More students! YAY!

I'll be missing the first day though, which makes me very sad. I won't get to see all the new students/lecturers on the first day! I'll also miss a day of class :(

However, I am going on holiday with my family! So it's a plus minus sort of situation.

Jaz's first ever holiday :)

Speaking of Jaz, tomorrow we're having a birthday party for her, because she's turning 1 soon!

She's been with us for a year already! Wow wow. I can't help marvelling at how time flies. It's amazing.

And scary.

UPDATE: Her birthday party has passed! :) Although not many family members turned up, it was fine :) I took a dip in the sungai cause it was so hot!

Gosh, uploading photos is taking a while! Okay they're done :D

So I'll just sort of summarize all the things I've done while I haven't been blogging, K?

1. I passed my driving test!

Hooray, the government has given me license to drive! That doesn't mean that I've been driving around though, oh no. Not at all actually! The last time I drove a car was my exam, which was I think two weeks ago. Haven't passed my dad's test yet! (was sick AND busy last week, so didn't get to drive)

2. I went to a rehab center!

For Islamic Studies, we had to do charity work as our group assignment. My class decided to go and visit Rumah Pengasih, a rehabilitation center.

I never knew Malaysia had a rehab center.

PLUS, what's unique about this place is, it's run entirely by former drug users! Pretty impressive, I think.

This is part of the rehab center! It's HUGE. And it reminds me of camp :)

Our class consists of a lot of performing arts students, and they decided we should perform at Pengasih, and provide them with food as well.

All of them have such nice voices! So nice to listen to practices and everything :)

Everyone had to perform, btw, uztazah says if we don't perform we won't get marks. Soo the whole class sang 2 songs :)

Radhi from the band OAG was there! He performed a few songs, and I gotta say, his voice is really good! And he's such a good performer; very entertaining and funny :)

Here are two of my college friends, Lini and Izzah :)

It was an eye-opener, going to the rehab. I'm so glad I'm not involved in stuff like drugs! Or smoking.

And I hope the residents recover fast :)

3. Went to Zara Aaliyah's Birthday Party at Bangsar Village!

Poor Zara was sleeping when it was time to cut her birthday cake and had to be woken up!

Aizah, Jaz, Sheahnee and I :)

Got to hang out with Rahimah and family, plus Ea and Abidah :D

4. Celebrated Mun Hong & Sanesh's Birthday(s?) at Empire :)

We had a little get-together last Sunday night to celebrate Mun Hong and Sanesh's birthday!

When I was asking everyone where to eat, nobody really gave any suggestions, so we ended up going to Rakuzen after the 2 birthday boys agreed to it. However when we actually got to Rakuzen, only a few of us actually had dinner -_-

We ended up going to Chili's afterwards, specially since Faruq got us a discount!

I suggest you guys just tell me next time that you wanted to eat at Chili's D:

But whatever. Water under the bridge now.

A lot of us (19 of us, to be exact) chipped in money to buy Mun Hong a...polaroid camera!

Well, an instant camera. A Fujifilm Instax 210!

Aren't you glad you have friends like us, Mun Hong? :p

This was his reaction upon opening the present, hahah.

The first ever photo taken with the camera! :D

Missing Tessa who came a bit later, and Julia who couldn't make it cause she had to go back to college :(

Here's Brian and I :)

Aqilah and I :D

My MaChinDian brother and I :)

Vicky Pang and I :)

A drunk photo of Pang and I because I said I looked drunk in the previous photo hahah 8D

Birthday boy number 1 and I (Phil! 8D)

And Birthday boy number 2! :)

5. Done my final drawing for Drawing Studies!

Ta daaaah. Here's me and my friend Nina with our final drawings!

It was done with charcoal. And we were supposed to use white charcoal for the white bits but we couldn't find any at Popular, so we used chalk instead, which worked well :)

The drawing at the bottom was done by my friend Lini, btw! Aren't Nina's and Lini's drawings NICE? More than nice. They look great! Mine looks so cartoony in comparison.

But it's alright..I guess that's just my style :p I guess.

Everyone working hard on their drawings, while I'm snapping photos hahah.

PHEW. That was one huge update!

OH before I forget--Nina belanja-ed the whole family Baskin Robbins ice-cream today with her first salary from her internship! :D

Thank you Nina-channnn ;D

I'm going to write my report for Islamic Studies now :B

Going jogging tomorrow morning with Aifa, yaaay!

PS: Julia and Aqilah, we HAVE to hang out next weekend!

Life Goes On

2011-02-07T22:48:00.001+08:00

Check out the monstrosity I created yesterday! Haha. It's chocolate cake (made in a MUG!), with Nutella and bananas.

When they saw this, Nina and Aizah started going on about how much sugar I eat.

And they're absolutely right! Anybody who knows me would know that I have a VERY sweet tooth. I am starting to monitor and cut down on my sugar intake.

I'd like to have my legs when I'm 40, thanks.

Anyway!

HEY HOW YOU DOIN? ;)

Ooh emo post previously. What was that about?

Not gonna tell you :p

SO I'M BACK in the blogging mood! Hooray! Did I hear cheers?

I know I did. I know you miss me and my blogging! Don't lie.

I am no longer on holiday :( I'm glad I got the whole week off (apart from Drawing Studies last Tuesday). I was only supposed to be on holiday on Thursday and Friday for Chinese New Year, but a couple students in my Islamic Studies class had the whole week off, so obviously the lecturer couldn't teach us alone.

I didn't complain :p

Last week was great, but now it's back to classes again.

I'm kinda thankful for my relaxing schedule for this semester. Sort of eases me into college life instead of suddenly bombarding me with many subjects and assignments. I mean, isn't that why I went for the January intake in the first place?

Yes!

Therefore, I will (try) not to complain about my having only 3 subjects this semester; and only one of which is relevant to my actual course :D

YAY!!!!

I am going to try screen-printing T-shirts soon! Going to buy silkscreens and stuff on Wednesday after class with Josh and Nigel :B

Finding an alternative way to print T-shirts; since transfer paper just doesn't cut it. I feel bad that I bought a lot now :| FAIL SNAIL. Nevermind. I'll find something to do with them :)

ANYWAY,

Here are a few recent photos I just feel like posting up :)

One of the days last week, I hung out at Pyramid with Julia and Aifa :) Took them to a mini tour of my uni, hehe. (as mentioned two posts earlier)

This was at Ministry of Food afterwards! Julia took this, hehe.

(Actually Julia took a lot of the photos you see in my blog :p)

SEE? Prince PoutyLips is pointing at the sign!

Mine and Aifa's desserts! YUMMY. We had lunch at Sakae sushi before this :)

Julia's dessert! It was yummy too! But there was a LOT of it and we couldn't finish it hahah.

A few days after that (or was it just a day after?), Julia and Aqilah came over to hang! We went to the park and took photos :)

Here is a photo of our feet which I like, haha.

We also took (LOTS of) jump shots! Here is one of them where we were trying to do the Cactuar pose. I failed, obviously XD But it's a lol photo, just had to post it up!

Here are Julia and Aqilah jumping! I love taking jump shots of them; they're really good!!

Haha an emo shot by the skateboard ramp.

Oh hai thar. Just reading the news, yknow. Normal stuff.

Photo of Jaz I took yesterday XD Went to eat lunch at Manhattan Fish Market with my family. Jaz is now almost 11 months old!! How time flies.

Alright! It's almost 11pm, by which time I should be sleeping.

OH, by the way...I gave in and made myself a Tumblr account (click me!)

However, this does not mean I am abandoning this blog! NEVER.

I made a Tumblr so people could reblog my things :p It feels good when people do it! HEHE.

I won't be reblogging things :p

Takde kerje. Okay.

Goodnight!

Ouch

2011-02-06T16:02:00.007+08:00

It's like having ice-cold water thrown right at the face.

Like a shard of ice just went through my heart.

Like being rudely woken up from a beautiful dream.

Like a punch in the gut
A reality check..

Whatever you want to call it, it's not a nice feeling.

I always feared it would happen; but I hoped hoped hoped that it wouldn't.

Well looky here, I believe it has.

Lovely.

What Up!

2011-02-02T10:29:00.000+08:00

Well hello there my loyal readers. *cough* I mean, hi Julia, Aqilah, Aifa and Joon Keit :p

I am currently in the college library waiting for Julia and Aifa (hopefully Aqilah too, if she's not working today!) to come to Pyramid. They're also going to come to my Uni, for the fun of it :D

It's really fun to people watch here, you know. Many people are on their Chinese New Year break already though..

Well. What have I been up to since I've written in here? You can visit my Project 365 to see what I've been up to :p (It's on the links bar)

Mostly I've been going to class and going out with kawans. Thaaat's it.

Joon Keit's back in Aussieland; Aqilah is working at Ed Hardy (full time!). We've been visiting Aqilah at work quite frequently :D I feel bad going out when she's stuck at work :| I really hope she's not working today.

Lalalaaa~

I wonder what we're going to do at Pyramid today. It's so boring ~_~

We'll probably wander around aimlessly, and eat a lot.

Yup, we're definitely going to eat a lot.

Anyway, here is an update :p

Adieu!

Plunge

2011-01-20T00:59:00.001+08:00

Three Syazas! My sister would freaaak.

WARNING: Really long post ahead with NO PHOTOS. I repeat, NO PHOTOS.

You have been forewarned.

Last night, I had one of the best sleeps of my life! (I don't really know if 'sleeps' is a word, but I'll just presume it is) I slept like a log! It was awesome.

I guess that's how deep sleepers sleep every single night, eh?

How I envy you deep sleepers..

Anyway, point is, I had a gooood sleep and I'm happy :D

This is my first week of classes in college (Uni? Argh so confusing -_-).

College is..different, but interesting.

There are lots of international people in my college, whom I enjoy speaking to :)

College is so..independent. My Drawing Studies lecturer, Mr. Nasa, says we can go in and out of class as we please, as long as we finish our work. Which means, if I'm hungry, I can just nip down to the cafeteria for a snack, and come back!

I find that odd..

But it's pretty cool too :p

So yeah, college is a whole new ball game. It's going alright so far! I can't wait for the second semester, where I'll be learning more things!

~~~

Now time to get on my old time machine to travel back to last week!

Since I last wrote in here, I went to watch The Tourist with Nina and my cousin, Farah :)

It was just a so-so movie; not that bad, but not that great either.

Before and after the movie we just walked around looking at clothes!

Also had fun hanging out with Farah :D Got to see other cousins, plus nephews too! Cause all of them wanted to buy some stuff in Pyramid.

~~~

I'm referring to my 365 (CLICK ME) to see what I've been up to, hee :B

So the day after I went to watch The Tourist, I drove a car for the very first time!

I went for the workshop thingy at Metro with Aqilah :) Julia went the day before; and we couldn't go for that one cause it was full :(

It was funnnnn!

I drove for 3 straight hours with only one 5 minute break!

I'm just scared I'll forget how to drive before my next class XD

I just called the driving school today, they said my L license is ready! She'll book me a class this weekend, if they're still available :)

~~~

The day after driving (I think), was Mayuri's surprise birthday party!

Which was at Karaoke Lounge at Holiday Villa :D

The place was absolutely freezing!!

But it was so cool ;D (Hah, get it? Cool? Okay.)

Aaanyway, the food was good!

And we had fun XD

Sorry, can't go into details now, too much to write!!

Thanks (again) for having us, Mayuri!!

Mayuri cried when we jumped out of hiding and screamed "SURPRISE!" at her, hehe :D Aww.

This was also the day Julia left for college :(

I was so sad :(

I AM still sad :(

But we get to see her during weekends!! So that's something, at least.

~~~

THEN, the day after that was college orientation! My orientation went on for three days.

Honestly it was rather boring, lots of speeches, but I guess that's normal.

At the end of orientation, we were split into groups and had to play this game involving straws.

It was..okay x)

The second day of orientation, honestly, was rather disappointing. I thought there'd be tons of people in my course, let alone my department (which is the Art and Design department), but I was disappointed to find out that there were only around 17 people in total in the Art and Design department! (that's Graphic & Multimedia Design students plus Interior Design students!)

But now I've sort of gotten used to it :)

I'm pretty sure more people will be coming in March; not everyone likes to start college so early anyway.

Third day of orientation was alright; after a few briefings about the Art and Design courses, we were shown some art supplies (which I now have, yay!), and we went on a sort of..partial campus tour. We were also supposed to register our student ID thing so we could access Sunway Uni's student portal thing; where the lecturers will post notes on lessons, and where we'll get our exam results, but there was something wrong with the system and we couldn't do it -_-

After eating, we went for this talk at the MPH on Study Skills for Higher Learning!

We had the same talk yesterday; so this was a continuation.

But on this day, we split into groups and a representative from each group had to do a presentation on Successful Students.

Guess who was the representative for my group?

Yeah -_- It was me.

And hey, we ended up winning Best Idea~! :) It was cool, haha.

So that was orientation! I kinda miss it now, actually, now classes have started!

The friends that I have made are mostly in the ADP course, which is sad~

But it's alright, I'll see them around :)

~~~

Now we've come to last Saturday!

I went to Taman Paramount with Sanesh, Aifa, Joon Keit, Mun Hong, Dain and Deion :)

It was fun!

We had green tea, and ate Ruffles 8D

Then, Mun Hong and I went and took photos!

Which is why I invited myself to come to the place, anyway. Heh. Tak malu. Sorry, Sanesh!!!

The pictures can be seen on my Facebook :) I've juuust uploaded them today.

Anyway, we took lots of photos, and the rest went running off to god knows where; everytime we came near to them they'd run away again -__-

And then, after a while, Mun Hong and I decided they'd stopped running away, so we went to find them, and we went on the LRT (station was very close by) to KLCC!

We just wanted an adventure, really :p

So we had lunch at the food court in KLCC, then we walked outside!

I had never been there in my life!

The park is HUGE.

I think we should bring Jaz there when she's a bit bigger; if I were a kid I'd go crazy there seriously.

So much funnnnn!

So yeah, after walking around in KLCC a bit more, we went back home on the LRT :)

~~~

Oh wow, this post is SO LONG. I'm sorry :p

SUNDAY!

I went to Empire to meet up with Julia and Aqilah after SOOO LONGGG!

Well okay, it was a week. But I've been seeing those two practically everyday since after SPM, so I really missed them okay!

Heck, I miss them now, as well :( Them, and Aifa, Joon Keit, Pang, Mun Hong, Sanesh, Irvin (omg haven't seen him in ages!), Faruq (you too!), Tracey and Brynn, plus everyone else from school lah! I just miss everyone. Being in college makes me miss them a lot!

Oh, I didn't mention Tessa, Shermaine, Brandon and Brian because I just saw them today :D It was like a breath of fresh air! I was myself again :) Hehe. More on that later..

So! Sunday! Went to Empire with Julia! First time seeing her after her first week away in college.

As expected, all of us had tons of stories to shareeee! It's so interesting to hear about their lives now, since our lives are are seperated now *sniff* :(

Anyway, Julia and I sat at The Loaf waiting for Aqilah, and when she came she sat with us for less than 10 minutes, cause she had to get to work! (she's working at Ed Hardy ;D)

I'm glad we got to see her, eventhough it was only for a bit!

Aifa, Tracey and Brynn were supposed to come too, to catch up! But they couldn't, sadly :(

~~~

And now we have FINALLY arrived at this week :)

For this semester, I only have 3 subjects: Islamic Studies, Malaysian Studies and Drawing Studies.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know which subject I look forward to the most, eh? :p

I enjoy Drawing Studies!

Okay, we've only had ONE class, but I do think I'll like it :)

Today I only had one class, which was Islamic Studies which ended by 10am (it was supposed to end at 10.30am though!). Tessa and Shermaine both had breaks around this time as well, so I hung out with them at Pyramid! :) (I had to wait til Abang finishes his class at 3.30pm)

After a while, Brandon and Brian came to join us, like I'd said previously.

It was SO good to see old familiar faces again!!!

Yeaaaah. College really makes me miss you guys :')

Tomorrow is a holiday, thank god!

I just want to sleep until I wake up naturally. Haven't been able to do that all week; every day, my first class is at 8.30am. (I wake up at 6.40am every day)

Alright, I think that's it for now :p

I'll try and keep this blog as updated as possible!

In the meantime, do visit my 365, at least I try to update that every single day! :D

Arithmetic Progressions

2011-01-07T21:01:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

Yesterday night, my friends and I went to Holiday Inn, Glenmarie to have a sort of farewell dinner for us all, since after this all of us will be going different paths and will probably not get to meet so often.

[insert sad face here.]

It was a lovely night for us all :')

The food wasn't bad, and hey, there was a CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!

Who doesn't love chocolate fountains, am I right? :D

All the lovely girls ;D

The three blind mice! These two have stuck with me all the way from primary school, back when I was an annoying pushover. I'm glad :)

We had fun just talking, eating, and just generally enjoying each others' company :) We took so many photos!

After eating our fill of the buffet, we went on a photo-taking spree. Since we were the only customers in the restaurant, we sort of went crazy, haha. We were so noisy! I bet the waiters were annoyed.

Oh well, we paid for it :p

The guys look good all suited up ;D

After taking many photos inside the restaurant, we went outside and...took MORE photos!

Then after that, we went up to the lobby and talked some more.

These are the people I'll really miss :')

Minus a few who couldn't make it: Sanesh, Faruq, Ian, Shu Run, etc etc.

We even hung out at the lounge and listened to this lady singing. The girls even danced a little bit, hehe.

And then guess what? -_-

My friends made me SING.

It was like prefect dinner all over again. But this time I purposefully sang softly so they couldn't hear, and well okay, I guess it wasn't as bad as prefect dinner..

I don't know why though, I just can't sing in a crowd. My voice gets all shaky and annoying, ish.

Mun Hong was supposed to sing with me, but he didn't know the song (Colours of the Wind!).

Oh, by the way, I relaxed (most of) my hair :)

Woohoo! It's never been as straight (or as soft!) before :}

Anyway, I had a great time at AP!

This is definitely a good send off for us all before everything changes.

Here's to good changes in the future!

HOZZA!

Fast-Forwarded!

2011-01-04T13:56:00.003+08:00

Converse shoes I drew for my portfolio :)

I feel like time is suddenly on fast-forward!

What iz diz.

I just registered for college (!!!), and tomorrow I will be taking my computerised driving test, AND driving a car for the very first time.

This is all very scary.

I can't believe I'm done with high school! It's just..surreal.

When I walked in Sunway Uni today, it felt really weird. I can't believe I'm going to be studying there :0

But I'll get used to it. In my life, I've definitely learnt that humans can get used to anything!

Oh, turns out I didn't have to show my portfolio, and I didn't even get interviewed -_-

I just gave the lady the soft copy of my portfolio (I burnt it into a CD). Hopefully they'll like it :B

Here's the coloured version of the shoes, which I only finished colouring (on Photoshop) this morning!

OKAY!

Lets blog about ice-skating last Thursday!

I haven't been ice-skating in a while, so I was rather excited to go ice-skating, haha.

The lady at the ice-skating counter was really unpleasant though, to use a polite word. Why do people have to be so unpleasant? If you're going to be annoying, don't work in places where you'll deal with people.

Or you'll just make other people feel grumpy like you, Grumpyguts!

Okay.

Done ranting about counter lady.

PIKA!

We ice-skated from 10am to 1pm! I totally taught Mun Hong and Joon Keit how to skate ;D HAHA.

By which time I was ravenous and had blisters on both my feet. So off we went for lunch at McD's!

And Julia arrived :D (she didn't want to go ice-skating, so Zie Zhen, Shu Mei and I were the only girls)

We just walked around Pyramid aimlessly after lunch~

We didn't know what to do! If we girls went to look at clothes, the guys would get bored. So we just walked and walked.

Then, we finally decided to sit down at the Chocolate Lounge!

I had a Belgian Chocolate Frappe, which was heavenly :9 I could do with one of those now!!

So hungry.

We sat a long time at the Chocolate Lounge, haha.

Took some pics using Mun Hong's DSLR, and then we went off to Harvey Norman, because Mun Hong said we could print photos out there!

So we did :D It was only 35 cents each! So cheap.

After printing out a photo of ourselves (we got one eeach, plus one for Brian because it was his birthday!), we went to Popular to use their Sharpies to sign the back of our photos, hahah.

After that, the guys had to go send off Shu Run to the airport, because she was leaving for New Zealand :(

We, meaning Julia, Aqilah and I, couldn't go because we didn't have transport :( Was sad :(

Oh yes, riight after Mun Hong and Joon Keit left, Aqilah came!

And we had dinner at Sakae Sushi :9

Julia paid for me because the ATM machine wouldn't work D: THANK YOU JULIA!

I shall belanja you back soon!

After that, we went to Harvey Norman AGAIN, and printed out more photos!

I think we have a new "thing" to do at Pyramid now :p

I love the photos we printed!! Wheee~

Then we helped Lissa choose her pencilbox for school (heh, SCHOOL :p), and went home.

It was a good day :)

Oh, Mun Hong lent me his photography magazine! Which I have not yet read because I've been busy D:

I shall read it soon!

~~~

The very next day, I slept over at my cousin Zulaiha's house in Bukit Antarabangsa!

Hung out with the Rahman's for New Year's Eve :)

Had a great time just talking to them, playing Rockband (I'm soo good at singing, HAHA :p), board games (Taboo! We played it thrice!) and eating. A LOT of eating.

We had trifle at 1am! It was GOOD.

Yeah, I still got my Karate skillz, yo :p

We tried to watch the fireworks at 12am, but they were very far away. But it's okay, fireworks all look the same anyway, heh!

I slept at 6am that morning :0 The latest I have ever slept, I think!

I woke up at 6.30am for prayers, and then went back to sleep, only to be awoken by my cousin at 9.30am (THANK YOU, Omar -_-).

Had breakfast, and just lazed around eating mini Cornettos. Seriously, I had about 5 of those tiny things!

Plus one normal sized Magnum.

Why laa Uncle Fazlur put so much ice-cream in the freezer? :p

Went back only at night, because Daddy came in the evening and we stayed for dinner :)

The very next day, I was surprised to wake up with..a sore throat! :0

TEH HORROR!

It soon developed into a fever. I was supposed to take my undang test on Monday, but since I wass sick, I couldn't study on Sunday, therefore we had to postpone it. Sorry Julia, Aqilah, Ellisa, and Sarah! :(

So now my undang test has been pushed to tomorrow. I'm almost fully recovered from being sick :)

Off to study now, right after lunch!

OH, please check out my project 365! Here, clickity click! Check it out daily, there'll be photos everyday ;D

Hope you guys had a great New Year!

Twenty Eleven

2011-01-01T22:28:00.002+08:00

HI!

Just a little quickie because I promised myself I'd type SOMETHING in my blog today, because of the date :D

Today is the first of January, 2011!

1.1.11!

How cool is that?

I can't believe 2010 passed by so quickly. Where has the time gone??

Anyway, I'm going to go for now. I'm actually very tired; only got 3 hours of sleep last night! Had a sleepover with the cousins :)

GOODNIGHT!

I hope 2011 has a lot of good things in store for us!

2010-12-29T22:50:00.002+08:00

SALUTATIONS, HOMO SAPIENS!

Yeah, I know. I'm such a geek sometimes :B

Part of my charm ;)

I am going to get this blog (finally) updated to this very day!

This post is going to have words, words, one photo, and more words; because I think pictures are the things that make my blogging process so slow.

Lets start off with..Sanesh's Annual Christmas party!!!

Ah, I think that's one of my best days for this year. Chilling with good friends without SPM looming over me. Bliss~ :)

So I got to Sanesh's house around 3pm, and did what we do every year--sit around and eat!

Sanesh's house always has good chocolate and junk food! I love the mini dorayakis, I'm going to ask him where he gets them :B

We used the internet, played with Sanesh's music instruments, went on Omegle (*eyebrows Julia, Aqilah and Aifa*), and I even played COD:Black Ops (which I am unfortunately not very good at :p).

I really don't know how it happened, but time passed by SO quickly this year!! Before we knew it, it was already night time. Off we went to the park! Because we're cool like that.

We spent quite a lot of time at the park, just sitting down and talking and playing! I had a tummy ache from too much food, and had to go to Julia's to eat chikiteckaun (sp? :p).

After playing at the park, we went to the mamak nearby! (Yeah, I know right, really like those kids who lepas SPM already :p)

Then Julia, Aifa and I went to Julia's house to get changed, and went back to JayJay's :)

And we chilled some more.

By this time, I was already a walking zombie. I mean, it's me. I'm usually asleep by 12am, LATEST.

So this was really testing my limit ;p Haha.

After a while, we decided to go back to Julia's~

(I was already sleepwalking/talking by this point).

We borrowed Sanesh's Tekken DVD, and after getting ready for bed, we watched it.

Oh my goddd, horrible movie. We couldn't even make proper sense of it! Although being really tired and sleepy might have contributed to that..

Hm.

We cut the movie halfway (probably less than halfway -_-) and went to ~~sleeeep.~~

Uh, by "sleep", I meant we just stayed up all night talking! Heh heh.

(You won't get this if you weren't at the party, sorry!)

The next morning, I woke up at exactly 9.59am, one minute before my alarm rang! I must be like, telepathic or something.

Anyway, we woke up, bathed and got dressed, then went over to Sanesh's house because Aqilah left some stuff there, so we went over to get it for her.

Most of them were still sleeping! Haha.

Julia's mum wanted to go to Empire to go grocery shopping, so we tagged along for breakfast :B

We ate at The Loaf! :D

The pastries there are good! So filling; I only had 2 and I was already full!

I feel like eating some now, I'm hungrehh.

Met Uncle Khalifur there! He wanted to pay for mine, Julia's and Aifa's meals! So baik :')

I miss my relatives, I want to seeee them!

I'll see my cousins on my dad's side of the family on Friday! We're sleeping over at Zulaiha's for New Year's eve ;D

Okay, moving on!

Julia's mum bought us strawberries! They were so good omg. Best strawberries I've ever eaten!

I don't usually have strawberries, I always think they're going to be sour so I don't usually like them thaaat much.

But these were great! I want some now.

Thank you Aunty :D

Aaaand that's basically it!

I had a great time :')

I'll remember this day (these days?) for the rest of my life!

And if I don't, I have my trusty blog to read all the details :)

That's why I have a blog, after all!

So I won't forget things in my teenage life; since I've forgotten so many things in my childhood life already.

(Memory of a goldfishhhhh D:)

I'm already looking forward to next year's party; where all of us will be somewhat different!

Hopefully we'll still be able to be friends and keep in touch :) It's hard not to now anyway, what with Facebook and Twitter and blogs, etc etc.

I'll really miss you guys!!!

*sniffle*

~~~

Then on Sunday, I went over to my Aunty Jo's house for my nephew Emir's aqiqah! :)

It was nice seeing my cousins on my mum's side of the family again! I've missed them.

My mum's side of the family now has SO many babies!!

It's unbelievable. Next year there'll be even more--one of my cousins is pregnant with twins (YAY!), and 2 others are also pregnant!

BABY BOOM!

I miss my mummy.

Okay.

Moving on!

~~~

What else, what else...

OH YES!

Yesterday, as I've already said in the previous post, I went for my driving lecture! (KPP)

I'm so lucky to have gone with Julia, Aqilah, Ellisa and Sarah!

Plus, the guy who gave us the talk was entertaining, so the 5 hour talk was not as horrible as I expected. I expected to be bored and annoyed, but I wasn't!

In fact, after the one and a half hour break, I was kinda hyper 8D

Had to make up for the fact that Aifa wasn't there, kan? :/

Anyway, it was good :) I'm pretty intimidated by driving though; I've been intimidated even before the talk!

I think driving is scaryyy.

But it's also rather exciting :} I can't decide, haha!

We'll see when I've actually started driving (should be this Sunday! D:)

~~~

And now...for TODAY!

Omg, my blog is going to be updated properly, and I can type crap if I want to after this, YAY!

Today, I went with Aizah to Pavilion after sending Atuk to hospital for his check-up :)

We went with the intention of buying college clothes--or I did, at least!

Aizah went cause she wanted to meet her friend for lunch XD

Anyway, we didn't find any college clothes (not even a bag!) for me :(

Sad. It's always the case, isn't it?

When you actually go to a shopping mall with the intention of buying something, you end up NOT buying something, because nothing seems to be worth it.

Or at least that's how it seems with me!

I don't know if I'm picky, or the clothes are genuinely not that great.

Sigh. It's okay, I still have some time to buy clothes and a bag before college starts on Jan 18th!~

I want this Fossil bag that costs around RM600, btw. Anyone? :p HAHA.

Dream on.

OKAY!

Now, my blog is officially updated to this very day!

I feel happy :D

I am currently eating a chocolate fudge Tiger biscuit, and it's almost 12am :(

I should be locked up :(

I already brushed my teeth now! Now I need to brush them again.

Oh, woe!

Going ice-skating tomorrow, and my girlfriends aren't coming :( Well, Julia is hopefully coming, but she'll only come AFTER ice-skating, as it's not her cup of tea.

IT OKAY! I will have to learn to be independent without my girlfriends, right?

K, Syaza wants to sleep very soon.

Goodnight, my lovelies!

I applaud you if you read all of that!

*applause*

2010-12-27T22:37:00.002+08:00

I'm going for my 5 hour driving lecture tomorrow!

OH MAI GAWD.

Yet another step into adulthood.
Good thing I have Julia, Aqilah and Ellisa with me! (Aifa! Why you going next week!!)

Here's to hoping I'm a good driver.
(although the actual driving will only start next week)

Panthera Tigris

2010-12-23T21:29:00.003+08:00

So I've just found out that I have to come up with a portfolio to apply for college!!

This is so scary.
I can't draw amazingly! I'm just average at drawing T.T
The portfolio, as it says from the website should;

"..contain examples of drawings in a variety of media. Photographs of 3D pieces you have made such as jewellery, sculpture, packaging, card design, furniture products, interior design or sketchbooks can be included."

I am scared.

I'm going to try and draw a tiger or something. Rawr rawr.

Seeya later alligators!
(I know, I'll update soon! This is just a...filler :p)

Whirlwind

2010-12-23T20:03:00.009+08:00

Well, hallo there!
I'm back :D

And I'll try and make this post as short as possible..

~~~

So last Saturday (if I'm not mistaken), I went to Sunway Universty's open day!
My dad, abang, Afiq and I listened to this talk by one of the professors on The Generalist; which basically means a designer who knows all fields of design instead of just specialising in one particular field.
The professor talked about how, if I want to be a designer, I should be versatile, able to design anything, instead of only being able to do one particular thing. Which sounded really good!
I'd love to be able to do everything! Haha.

So in Sunway Uni, they're allowing their students to explore all fields of design in their first year, so if I get to do basically everything :) Which is great! After the talk ended, we went out to talk to another lecturer, asking questions about the course and stuff.

Daddy was very enthusiastic; he wanted to sign me up right away :p
So it looks like I'm going there. Yay~
I just really hope I'm good at it. I mean, this is my future we're talking about!

After that, we went off to Sunway Pyramid for lunch! Ate at Friday's :B
Yummy juicy burger, mm.

For dessert, we had chocolate fondue at Haagen Dazs! It was the Christmas fondue, not like the one I had with the girls a while back. Different ice-cream flavours and things to dip in :9

Dad was in a really good mood that day :p I think it's cause he's happy that I've (more or less) settled my college stuff, haha.

~~~

In that same afternoon (if not mistaken, again), we went off to Mak Long's house to visit Nenek Pohn :)
Haven't seen her in a while due to SPM!
Here's Jazzie and Daddy with Nenek :)

We had dinner at Cozy House at Great Eastern, cause Mak Long's house is around that area.

~~~

I don't remember when this was anymore, but sometime last week, I went to Summit with Aifa and the guys to go bowling :)

While waiting for the bowling alley to clear up (no free lanes), we played pool!
This was only my second time playing pool--ever.
I'm not very good at it, heh.
Aifa looking all cool ;D
A blurry picture of me and Aifa!
Pang, Irvin and I :)

After waiting a while, we finally got to bowl!
Hooray :)

Now, bowling, I'm better at :p
I got 2nd place for the 2nd game we played, yay~
Next to Pang, who is memang good at bowling, haha.
Aifa and I had matching shoes! :p Hers are dark purple, but it looks sort of black in the photo.

After bowling, we had lunch at Subway, then went to the arcade and played a few racing games.
It was surprisingly not that bad! Haha. I don't usually like arcades, too noisy and annoying.

Like Julia said, it was like a guys' day out, HAHA.

~~~

Then last Sunday, I went to Summit AGAIN to watch Tangled!
With this bunch :)

Was supposed to go to Comic Fiesta with Aqilah at Timesquare, but the day before, Omar went and his bag got snatched! :0 So Daddy didn't want me going..
We had KFC for free, thanks to Joon Keit's aunt! Thanks again, Joon Keit! :)

Then we just walked around Summit aimlessly..not much to do there.
Lulz!
We went to Subway to sit down and was hyper for no reason at all ~_~

Tangled was an okay movie :) Very typical Disney, but I do like Disney films!
But nothing can replace the old Disney movies like The Lion King, Little Mermaid, etc. So nice :')

~~~

Once again, I have lost track of time and do not know when this was, but after jogging one day, Julia and Joon Keit came over and we baked cookies for Shu Run's farewell party!
Our workstation, haha.
At first we tried baking macarons, but they didn't turn out right, because I just used my old recipe and substituted the cocoa powder for icing sugar--which did not turn out well.

I have now found a new recipe but have yet to test it out because the oven died!!! :(
I am sad.
I hope daddy gets a new oven soon :(
I am so itchy to BAKE.
And because the oven died, I couldn't bake macarons for Sanesh to bring to his Christmas party. :(
Anyway, here's the finished product :D Cooookiez! I love Julia's cookie cutters.

Aizah's friend who's living in France now just came back, and gave us a few Ladurée macarons left over from this sleepover they had at Cyberjaya :D
Om nom noms.

We created something weird when we were baking cookies! We wanted to make icing.
Joon Keit said that to make icing, we had to icing sugar and butter. We thought since he has cooking class in Melbourne, he should know what he was talking about, so we didn't bother Googling a recipe or anything.

He. Was. Wrong!

You're supposed to mix icing sugar with WATER to make icing -_- Noob!
So, not knowing what else to do with it, we baked the weird icing sugar and butter mixture.
This is what we got:
It was crazy sweet and oily....

Oh, in the end I couldn't go to Shu Run's farewell, because it was at night, and it was at a park :(

~~~

Last Tuesday (I think), Julia, Aifa and I went to Pavillion! :D
We also took the opportunity to finally check out Uniqlo, the Japanese clothes shop at Fahrenheit88, which is right across Pavi.
Hooray!

The shop is huge; 3 floors of clothes! Although now, since it's winter in Japan, they had lots of winter clothing, which is rather useless for us in Malaysia.
Like Julia said, can't wait for their Summer collection! NICE CLOTHES :B

I like Pavillion! That was only my second time going there, and the first time, I went with my family and dad wanted to go home early, so I didn't get to look around properly.
I want to go Raya shopping there T.T
This was at Forever 21. Can you guess how much this top was??

Go on. Guess.

It was RM99! WHAT!
RM99 for a simple batwing top! Ridiculous. I would've bought it if it was, say, RM45. I wanted it for Sanesh's Christmas party :(

We had lunch at Pepper Lunch, btw :)

After all that walking around, we went to this place called Shimino and had Japanese crepes!
Me and Aifa nom nomming on crepes.
It was yummy :9 I want to try the other flavours! Mine was banana with vanilla ice-cream and chocolate sauce!

Lets go to Pavi again! This time make sure Aqilah and Tracey and Brynn come too ;D

~~~

Last Thursday, I went to Empire with Julia and Aqilah to meet Ellisa for a lunch date! :D
Haven't talked to her properly in ages, so it was a good catching up session.

Had lunch at The Loaf, first time eating there.
Ham and cheese paninni! :) Yummy.

Then we went to Coffee Bean and had ice-cream :)
Oh, before having lunch with Ellisa, I went around Empire with Julia and Aqilah in search of a gift to bring for the gift exchange at Sanesh's the next day. We went around the whole of Empire to no avail!
We ran into Ben10, who is looking rather dashing, I must say ;p

In the end, Julia and I both bought food from Jaya Grocer. You could never go wrong with food!

Before going home, I HAD to buy a slice of pavlova from Serai, haha.
I know, I know. Syaza iz FAT!
What to do, old habits die hard :p

~~~

Btw, I've been going jogging with Julia, Aifa and Joon Keit at the park 3 times a week for a week now! Semangat! Slowly building my stamina.

There's still more to talk about, like Sanesh's annual Christmas partayyy!
But I think I'll write that in the next post, because Sanesh's party deserves its own post, with descriptions in full detail and lots of pictures ;D

Well, that is all for today!
You can leave now.

SHOO!!!

Hehe.
I mean, BYE!!!

I can't wait til my blog's fully updated so I can write about current events and random things..

Liberation!

2010-12-19T07:18:00.011+08:00

Are you ready for a WHOPPER of a post??

Hey guys, guess what?!

SPM'S OVER!!!

Hm, is it just me or does the effect of that seem less apparent now SPM's been over for almost a week? :p

I know, I know, I haven't been updating my blog..but I've been very ~~lazy~~ busy!

There are just so many things I want to remember and write in this blog, and I know it'll take a long time to write it.
And for some strange reason, at this weird hour (it's 7.20am), I feel like updating my blog :)
So, enjoy :p

~~~
First off, we have the day we got our SPM slips!
On that day, it finally hit us--the next time we were going to see each other, it'd be SPM!
I'm glad I brought my camera :)
Waiting to get our slips!
After all of us got our slips, we took jump shots at Foyer A, haha!
Yeah, we acted as though those were our result slips and we all got 10A+'s! :p
Pfft, we hadn't even sat for SPM yet then!
Tourist-y photo :p "Hey, look! School boys!"

Dum dum dum, now, time for SPM!

~~~

After the first week of SPM (BM, BI, Sejarah), on a Friday, we didn't have any papers to sit for. My dad had to go up to Genting for work, and he asked if we wanted to come along.

YES PLEASE!

The last time I went to Genting was in primary school, in Standard 6! So I was rather excited about going to Genting again, eventhough it was during SPM week.
I originally didn't want to go, because I thought I should study (of course), but my dad told me to just go, and I could bring my books.

Um, lets just say I tried.

Anyway, the trip was fun! For dinner we ate at this fancy restaurant called Olive. It was supposed to be fine dining, but honestly the main course wasn't that great.
But the dessert totally made up for it! I had this dessert called hot chocolate fondant. It was heavenly!
The next day, we went to the theme park, where Afiq practically rode on EVERYTHING.
Damn son, he's so brave!
I was a chicken and rode only one roller coaster. But in my defence, that roller coaster went upside down! It was my first time riding a roller coaster that went upside down; pretty thrilling :p

I was surprised Genting was so cold; but it was. It was freezing!! And the clouds were gorgeous. We stayed in Highlands Hotel.

I would like to write everything about my trip here in my blog, but I think it'll be too long, so lets just say I had fun, and leave it at that :) A
Also, I had..an experience. Oooooh~
I'll just leave it at that.

~~~

The weekend after the second week of SPM (Maths, Agama, Add Maths, Physics--tiring week!), I went out AGAIN!
Gosh, my family haaad to go out for all the fun things during SPM :p
I went to the Popular book sale at Summit!
(yeah okay, maybe it's not your idea of fun, but books are fun for me la okay?)
And I got books :B And they're awesome.
(thank you Daddy!)

I'm currently reading 'Elephants On Acid', and it's so intriguing! The experiments people used to do are really fascinating. Gruesome; but fascinating.

~~~

Then it was the 3rd week of SPM (Chemistry and Biology). Studying Bio was killerrrrr. There was SO much to read, and I almost cried looking at the topics I had to cover. It was scary.

On the day of the Bio paper, I brought my camera to school; specially since some people didn't take EST like I did.
It was a beautiful day :) Hot, yes, but beautiful. Freedom was so close, we could almost taste it!~
Brynn and I during the break between Paper 2 and Paper 3 (1 and a half hours!)
Man, I'll really miss this!!
Coming back from the canteen during a break between papers, seeing the guys studying at Foyer C~

I'll miss everything :(

~~~

So after that came the week of unofficial freedom! (We still had one more paper to go--English in Science and Technology)
First of all, Joon Keit came back from Australia, so I invited Julia, Aqilah, Aifa and Joon Keit over to my house to celebrate that, plus the unofficial ending of SPM :)
Julia couldn't make it though :/
LULZ!
Look what he bought us!! :) Thank you Joon Keit!
For those of you who have been reading my blog for years, you'd know that I've always wanted a chocolate bunny!
My family and I ate it last week. It was delicious! Nom noms.
Everyone :) Well, sort of. It's so hard to take pictures like this using dad's DSLR :|
Aqilah and I!!! Whom we haven't seen since....I don't even know when :0
But I do know that we saw each other like, what, only 5 times this year?
So it was really great to see her :)
She had her Literature exam the following day, so she sat studying at my house! Hehe.

It was a great day :D It felt like SPM was over!

~~~

I don't remember what day I went, but one of the days after the Bio paper, Aizah asked me to follow her to Great Eastern mall to meet up with her friend who just got back from the UK :)
She had a baby too, and Aizah wanted Jaz to meet her :)
Maia and Jaz :)

Look at that!! Maia is only 5 months, and look, she's about the same size as Jaz!
She's half British though, so that's probably why x) So adorably chubby!! I want to bite her chubby cheeks.
I had pavlova and passionfruit tea :9 It was delicious.
Aizah was supposed to share the pavlova with me, but she was catching up with her friend, and left me to finish it!
Oh well ;p Heheh.

~~~

Then on Friday, 10th December, I went to Sunway Pyramid with the usual gang! :)
Most of them went paintballing in the morning, but dad didn't let me go because he was scared I'd injure myself before SPM was over, hahah.
So I didn't go :(
Aqilah and Sanesh both got shot in the neck, giving them marks that looked like hickeys, lolol!

Despite not going for paintball, the day in Pyramid was a good one :)
Tracey and Brynn didn't go paintballing either :)

After the rest were done with paintball, we met, and had lunch at Pasta Zanmai :)
The three blind mice and reunited!! :D I like this picture, hehe.
We acted like kids and played bumper cars! It was so much fun, I couldn't stop laughing the whole time!
We had to split into 2 groups to play the bumper cars, hahah.

We also went on the--wait for it--ferris wheel!
It was Aifa's dream come true! She'd been wanting to ride it ever since they put it up in Pyramid.
LOL!

After we were tired of walking around, we went up to the convention centre where they had Comic Fiesta last year, and just hung out there like we owned the place XD
This is almost the whole group! A few people already went home when we took the photo :(

Shu Run, Mun Hong and Ian invited us to this Christmas party at Lex in Empire, and a few of us spontaneously went! I was surprised my dad let me go out the whole day, haha.

Shu Run performed! She was great ;D

~~~

Then it was the day we'd all been waiting for since the start of the year--the LAST day of SPM!

After Paper one of EST, I had a permanent smile on my face. It felt so good to know it was almost over!
Toilet picture! Can you believe, after 5 years in the school, we had never taken a toilet mirror picture?? At least, I don't think we have..
This was taken just a few minutes after the last paper! Everyone was in the ecstatic mood, it was great :D
I wanted to be in the picture too! :p Check out me and Brynn awkwardly holding hands, LOL!
So funny!
We will never walk the corridors again, going to class... :(
We TRIED taking a group photo. Pang pushed everyone (so typically Pang!).
These are my best friends in high school :) (minus Aqilah, of course, but obviously she's not in the photo cause she's in a different school! But she is also one of my very best friends)
A better photo where Julia's head isn't partially cut off :)
Faruq and I! :) I will miss sitting next to him during SPM :( He brought gummy bears for almost every day of SPM! NOM NOMS.
Ah, Brandon and Brian. My two bodyguards :)
I'll really miss walking home with you guys!! Eventhough you guys love to kerek me and call me names, (gedik, budak kecik, etc.) I had a ton of fun walking home with you guys throughout these last 2 years!
I'll also miss going to Petronas to eat waffles, and Brandon playing the checkpoint game on particularly HOT days :(
Check out what Brian's ice-cream stick said! Eh? Eh? ;D HAHA. (internal joke, sorry :p)

And that was the last day of high school :(

~~~

The evening of the last day of SPM, Julia and I went to Taipan!
Aqilah, Aifa, Tracey and Brynn were supposed to come too, but for their own reasons, they couldn't make it :(

Julia and I ate at Lorong Seratus Tahun XD I had cendol which had waaay too many red beans in it! Hahah.
After that we just walked around randomly~
I bought these from Big Bookshop! SO ADORABLE OMG :D
Yeah, I know. I seem like such a mature soon-to-be college student, right? :p

~~~

So now, we're FREE! Really, truly free! Not like after PMR, when you say you're free but in reality you're not because you've still got SPM to sit for. This is the real deal!

And it feels great!

So, Syaza, how was SPM?
That's the question I hear almost everytime I see someone nowadays.
And, well, I don't know how it was! It was okay, I guess.
I did my best, and that's all I could hope for, right?
I just hope that it's enough to get me my 10A's.

There are actually a few more things I'd like to type about, but I fear that this post is too long to handle!!

So...this post is TO BE CONTINUED :)

Enjoy a picture of these macarons I baked the other day while you're waiting for the next post :p
They're chocolate with banana filling!
Not many of them turned out right, because that day was too scorching hot :/

Well, seeya!

Shameless Advertising

2010-12-12T18:05:00.003+08:00

Hi!
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Do spread it to your own Facebook page as well, yeah?

(Proper update very soon!)

2010-12-02T22:43:00.003+08:00

I love the Beatles!

I want to read my storybooks, but it'll have to wait till after Bio, at the very least.

I am very, very sleepy, and I don't know why I am writing this.

I can't wait for all of this to be over, yet I don't want it to end! Not SPM specifically, but school.

I am sorry for those of you reading this, you shouldn't waste your time..

OKAY TIME TO SLEEP, GOODNIGHT!
Catch you cats on the flipside laterrrrr, after the Biology paperrrrrr.
(heck yeah, that rhymes!)
LETS DO DIZ!

2010-11-22T19:50:00.002+08:00

12 hours from now (Well fine, 12 hours and 9 minutes from now, but by the time I've posted this it'll be 12 hours!), I, along with the rest of the SPM candidates, will be sitting for our first paper, Bahasa Melayu Kertas 1.

I don't know how to feel about that!

Obviously I'm nervous. Beyond nervous. Terrified!~
But on the other hand, I'm also slightly excited.
It'll all be over soon!
And I won't have to make any more sacrifies for the time being.
I can just let loose, and enjoy!
Unpause my life!
SCREAM at the top of my lungs and jump around like a banshee! (although banshees probably just float around instead of jumping)
And do whatever I want, just because I CAN!

--at least before college starts, by which time I'll have to settle down again.
But lets cross that bridge when we reach it, shall we?

So what exactly is in Syaza's head, 12 hours before sitting for her first paper for SPM?

Honestly, not much.
A few peribahasas are floating around there (Ada gula, ada semut! Sudah terhantuk baru tergadah!), and I'm also rather hungry..(waiting for Dad to come home) but that's pretty much it.
I don't know if this is normal..

Well, I'm not going to contemplate my sanity any further. Something tells me that's not wise to do 12 hours before SPM :p

GOOD LUCK to my fellow SPM candidates!!!
InsyaAllah, we'll make it through this with our heads held high!
Lets kick some SPM ass!

Serendipity

2010-11-11T10:27:00.002+08:00

Wanting, wishing, hoping,
but not doing.

What is wrong with me??

2010-10-26T23:19:00.002+08:00

Ah, carefree days!

Soon, we'll get back to this :}
Just 3 more weeks!

Oh my god.
JUST THREE MORE WEEKS.

What Would've Been

2010-10-23T23:38:00.004+08:00

Happy Would-Be 49th Birthday, Mummy!!!
I love you. God knows how much I miss you, how I wish I had more time with you!
I never appreciated what I had before you went--a mother.
But it's okay, all of this is God's will, we just have to make the best out of it.

I'm going to utilize this one month before SPM to it's maximum! For you!
And myself, of course :)

YOSHHHHH!!!

2010-10-21T22:48:00.003+08:00

drsamirah@ho: Ok have added Jaja. Never done this
messenger before! How is everyone? Have you all been
taking probiotics regularly?

~~~

ar: Have mummy mandi yet ???
drsamirah@hotmail.com: Yesterday, mandi twice, ok...

~~~

(¯`·._.·[Çå: how's d US?
drsamirah@hotmail.com: It's just as I remembered it. Wish all of
you are with me here - someday, ok.

Sigh.
:'(

Fishbone

2010-10-20T16:20:00.002+08:00

Eee look what I did to Nina's hair! :D

I am so proud :') Hahah.
It's a fishbone plait/braid~
The streaks in her hair make it look nicer!
I likey. When I have long hair, I'm going to get Nina to do it for me in return :P
I learned it through an 8 minute Youtube video, heh.

..And that's all I want to say today :)
Just thought I'd blog something since it's 20/10/2010! :D
What a nice date.
Off to study!

Narcissist

2010-10-16T16:31:00.004+08:00

LOOK!
It looks like I've highlighted my hair! How cool is that. I didn't photoshop it, either!
It was just the light. (because today is SCORCHING-no kidding)
Heh 8D
I know, I know, I'm incredibly vain, I admit :|
SORRY.
This is what happens when I sit for hours and hours trying to study, with my camera just sitting there, staring at me ;p
I think I'm going to keep it in my room so I don't get distracted.

Anyway, Daddy made burgers today for lunch, because we have had an excessive amount of mince meat for about 3 weeks now!
I think he bought lots of mince meat because he thought he was making spaghetti for our open house, but he didn't, because we catered food.
We wanted to bake the patties instead of frying them, but that took too long.
We ended up eating lunch at 2pm, by which everyone was ravenous. Well, at least, I was ravenous. The smell was overwhelming!
I helped shape the patties :}
That was my burger. Mm, yummy yummy all in my tummy :)

Daddy ate TWO. And this is a guy who very, very rarely eats burgers!
He said it's because he made them ;p

Anyway, I went to Popular today and got a stack of new exercise books for me to devour before SPM.
I can hear them screeching at me for just updating my blog. -_-
Well, goodbye then!
Look at Jaz! So adowable. Even when I'm pinching her cheeks, she's smiling!
BAIII!

2010-10-13T18:35:00.003+08:00

I kinda need to trim my fringe.
I'm starting to look like Violet from The Incredibles.
..Yeah, okay, time to trim my fringe!

On another note, my hair's getting long! It's even touching my shoulders! :0
And..
I've decided I'm going to let it grow :)
I miss my old hair. Plus, who knows, it might look better long, since I'll actually try to take care of it this time!
(the last time I had long hair I didn't care about it at all-POOF! Frizziness!)\
Well, ta!

Almost

2010-10-10T23:19:00.003+08:00

It would be just SO easy to go along with what my heart is saying (which is, YES, Syaza, go ice-skating with your friends on Wednesday!), yet it would not be easy at all.

The whole time there'll be this annoying little nagging voice at the back of my head saying,
"Are you sure about this? You're not even ready for SPM. Why are you doing this to yourself? You'll only regret it later. Can't you just FOCUS for the next 5 weeks?"
I can almost hear it now.

So, after all the stress, heartache and tears (hah, srsly -_-), I have decided to NOT go ice-skating on Wednesday.

Yay me.

This sacrifice (among others) better be worth it.

PS: Yeah, dad didn't take my laptop away. I have a time limit though. Sort of.

2010-10-07T20:21:00.002+08:00

Well, this is it. Daddy's taking my laptop away until SPM is over.

AKSDJNIU($ GHJKNVKASDJK

Yeah, okay.

Guess my only form of entertainment will be the television, my handphone (which isn't much entertainment anyway) and Jaz.

OH JOY JOY JOY TO THE WORLD AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA.

See you on the 8th of December.

Seething With Happiness

2010-10-07T16:32:00.004+08:00

I know I should be all happy and "seething" with happiness right now because SPM trials are (practically) over, but after watching the latest episode of Glee (Season 2, Episode 3), I'm feeling a bit sad.
Glee shouldn't do this! Glee should make me feel Glee-ful!
Hahah.
Nah, I'm not that sad..(anymore)
But that was a sad episode :(

OKAY!

TRIALS ARE OVER!

Can you believe that SPM is only 5 weeks (yeah, Syaza, that's a wake up call for you) away?
Of course you can. You're not me. You don't feel the absolute stress and pressure on your shoulders!
Unless you're an SPM candidate too. Then we're on the same boat.
*sniff*
This boat isn't very nice.

But after the exam (oh god I really can't wait for that), this horrible, tiny, sore excuse of a boat will turn into a luxorious cruise!
And that's the part I'm absolutely looking forward to.
No more stress, at least not until college. I can just..live.
And not float around like a zombie who feels guilty doing anything remotely fun.
Which is how I feel now.

The JPS papers were alright, I suppose. Chemistry was hard, but I suppose that's just because I need more practice :|
Add Maths...oh god it was so long ago I forgot how the paper was.
(that's how long the exams run for!)
I texted teacher asking her if she'd marked my paper, but she hasn't replied.
I guess that means no..

DAD'S HOME!
He just came home from Sarawak, after being there for three days.

Yay :)

Mm listening to music with headphones on is just great. Just great :)

Okay, I don't have anything much to say! (right now)
I'd lost my writing mojo for the time being..

Here's a picture of delicious pavlova that I had at my aunt's house during my nephew's birthday party! It's from Serai at Empire.
Just to entice you guys :)
Enjoy!
LOOK AT ALL THOSE BERRIES!This was my slice :9 Shared it with my sister and brother cause I was too full!

Well, goodbye then!

2010-09-11T22:26:00.004+08:00

Selamat Hari Raya :)
Apologies to everyone I've hurt and annoyed this year.

Raya hasn't been the same without you. It never will be..
Hope you are alright, with Yan and Nanny and everyone else :)

Life goes on.

Take A Sad Song, And Make It Better

2010-09-04T18:50:00.004+08:00

2 Fridays ago, I went to buka puasa with Julia, Aqilah, Aifa, Tracey and Brynn at Pyramid! :D
We went by train ;p
Just arrived at Pyramid! Haha.

Just kidding, there's no train to Sunway--yet. We got there by car! (thanks Julia!)
But Sunway Pyramid had this great display in the middle of a train, complete with a train track!
So we took a couple of pictures ;p
OH NOES MISSED THE TRAIN!
This photo does not make sense because if I really did miss the train, I wouldn't go standing on the train track like that. Unless I was suicidal..
Aifa and I standing on the train track, lulz.
I wonder how they got the rail and all those rocks there! Lots of trouble for a display that's only going to last about a month.
But I do agree that it looks good :)
There were also 2 Vespas around for people to take photos with! So random, haha. Complete with that big hat I'm wearing in the photo!

We ate at Pasta Zanmai :9
I had Beef Teriyaki Steak and apple juice! OM NOM NOM.
Sooo gooooood~
Even Brynn liked the steak! And that's saying something, because she absolutely hates Japanese food (or anything else out of the ordinary for her)
While waiting for buka puasa. Tracey and Brynn went to McD to get their dinner!
(like I said, they don't like Japanese food ;p)
Was very nice of them to agree to eat at Pasta Zanmai eventhough they don't like the food!

After we had our fill at Pasta Zanmai, we went to...
Haagen Dazs! To eat the chocolate fondue that we'd been waiting for for so long!
(since we saw that picture that Asila put up on Facebook)
Waiting waiting waiting for the chocolate fondue! Oh the anticipation!
Julia took the pic, which is (obviously) why she isn't in it~

And now....
HERE IT IS!
It's like a slice of heaven!
:') Just look at it, so lovely.

After taking these photos, we dug in, and in a span of about...10 minutes(?) IT WAS GONE.
*burp*

Mm. Lovely Belgian chocolate! Nils (from AFS interview) was right. Belgian chocolate is the best.
Though UK chocolate is great too :9

~~~

That was an overdue update, haha.
Last Monday, I skipped school (*gasp*) and...
went to Sunway Pyramid with Afiq! (*GASP!!!*)

We were supposed to go shopping for Raya, but since I wasn't allowed to bring a large sum of money in my bag, we just went window shopping, to look at the things we liked, and to remember them so we could buy them when we went out with either Aizah or my dad.
I had fun :)
We only went for about 3 hours though, but it was enough. I was tired!
I thought it'd be rather troublesome going window-shopping with my little bro, but it was surprisingly not :) He was really nice about me going in girly shops and trying on the clothes!
We took pics of the clothes we wanted, which weren't that many anyway.

Then, on Wednesday after school, I went to Pyramid again with Aizah and Nina (and baby Jaz!) to actually buy the stuff that I wanted :)
The cardigan that I wanted from Dorothy Perkins was sold out :( Well, there were other colours, but the colour I wanted (dark blue) was sold out :(
I got a pair of Dorothy Perkins jeans, a pair of black jeans from Nichii, 2 random tops (One of them a collared shirt! A first for me :P) and a handbag. Yay handbagggg!
The last handbag I bought was 2 years ago in Cambodia. The fake Hello Kitty one. LOL!

So yes, I am a happy girl ^_^
I wish I'd gotten more tops though, but that's alright, maybe we can go out again soon!
Holidays for 2 weeks after all ;)

Yesterday was (practically) my last day of high school :(
I consider it the last day of high school, because after the holidays it's trials, and after trials there will be tests all the time to prepare us for SPM!
No more normal, relaxed classes.
I will really miss high school, and my class, and my classmates :(

I will miss sitting around the tables talking and laughing madly about stupid things, watching Dain get bullied by the guys (it's okay, he likes it :P), sitting next to Aifa-giving her looks for being too hyper, listening to Tracey telling us all sorts of stories about her busy, interesting life, insulting the guys (Brian, Irvin, Pang, Brandon) and getting insulted in return, looking innocently at teachers when they ask if I've done my work (I haven't ;p), and everything else!

I'll just really miss everything :'(
Haha, so sentimental.
But hey, life goes on, that's just how the wind blows :)
I'll write a proper "Goodbye, high school" post later on the last day of SPM.
(Oh god I cannot wait for that day! Yet I am dreading it..)

Today was a really tiring day!!
I helped Daddy clean out all his old Leapfrog stuff (tons and tons of boxes of old docs). I had to lift things and arrange them.
Took 3 hours (maybe more) to finish doing it!
Now we have 4 (really) tall stacks of papers for the newspaper man to come and take.
Daddy says it'll probably only fetch about RM10 -_-
All that hard work, and only RM10!?!

We did all this outside, so naturally, it was HOT, and I sweat a lot.
Took a nice cold bath, and after letting my hair dry out a bit, practically fainted on my bed until daddy woke me up to pray x)
Then followed dad and Nina to buy a new mattress for her bed, went to the hardware store (daddy's version of a mall *-*), bank, and went home.

A rather uneventful day.

I feel guilty that I haven't studied.
Sigh.
Time to hit the books, my friend!

Random photos before I go:
My grandma is so cuteee! Taken a month ago at Uncle Karl's place :) We sang her Happy Birthday, eventhough nobody knows when her real birthday is, since she was adopted, and those days they don't really care much for birth certificates.
Aw yeah, Jazzie sure knows how to pose ;p HEHE SO CUTE. Just look at the expression on her face!
We got a robot from the Raya hamper that Uncle Karl's family sent to us! :D
Thank you Uncle! It can repeat what you say in a robot voice, and responds to claps, lol. So cute and random.

Alright then, TAAAA!~

Utterly Pointless

2010-08-26T23:19:00.004+08:00

Well HAY THAR!
How you be doing today? :)
I'm into The Beatles now :)
I mean, I always knew they had great songs (dad plays them in the car), but I never really...liked them properly.
But now I do! :D
And it's all thanks to the movie 'Nowhere Boy', which is about John Lennon's life when he was young. So tragic! But I guess that's what gave him inspiration to write those awesome songs of his.
I wish The Beatles were during my time so I could watch them in concert!
I suppose Youtube videos of their old live shoes will have to suffice.
They are so cool!(like :P)
Specially John and Paul ;D

Anyway, I'm also into Matt Lanter! :D
Isn't he lovely? 8D
He's Liam in 90210, if you didn't know.
And! He's Edward Sullen (heh, Cullen WHO?) in Vampires Suck too!
Which I'm about to watch tomorrow :D YAY!
Kenichi says: WHAT ABOUT MEEEE, SYAZA?

Don't worry Kenichi! I still hart you!
But NGL, Matt Lanter's hot :)
Look at his purdy blue eyes~
Kenichi says: Oh okay :)

...Okay, I think it's a sign to stop blogging when you start imagining Japanese actors talking to you.

Well, um.
GOODNIGHT!

~Chunkeh Munkeh ;D

Victorian Ballroom

2010-08-17T16:59:00.011+08:00

GREETINGS, my lovely homo sapiens!

I am so so sorry for the overdue post!
(not really, it's MY blog, I can not write in it if I want to ;p)

I am now going to blog about Prefect Dinner, which happened on the 30th of July :)
First things first; I went to the saloon behind my house with Tracey and Brynn to style our hairz for dinner at about 4.30pm. Aifa joined us later :)
Can you believe that it costs RM10 to just trim my fringe??
I'd rather just cut it myself then, thanks.
Hmph. Ripoff.

So anyway, Brynn and I just got our hair done straight, which Tracey and Aifa got theirs done wavy!

After getting my hair done, I rushed home to pray and get ready.
Went to Holiday Villa with Tracey and Brynn. (thanks Aunty!)

And now, I will let the photos do (most of) the talking :)
First picture that we took as we got there!
Seniors! :D This isn't everyone though. But that's the table that I sat at! Yay!

The food was served, not buffet! I really enjoyed the appetizer (seafood soup!) and the chicken :9
Mm~
Fasting now, so everything seems extra yummy!
I reckon the place and food were good this year! ;)

To start off the whole dinner, the Form 4's did an awesome skit of a typical James Bond movie. The sound system there was great as well!

So as we ate, we saw performances by the Form 1's, 2's and 3's, and it was all good :) Haha.
Then it was time for our Form 5 performance!!
Our last ever prefect performance :') :'(
I would post up a video of the performance, but the file's waaay too big, sorry!
The stage was overcrowded, and it was a little messy, but I still think we did alright :)
Come next year, I'll really miss practicing for these performances! Sigh. Next year...

Anyhoo!
On to more pictures!
Ah yes. I performed! I sang 'To Sir, With Love' with Faruq, while Sanesh and Dain played guitar for us.
And it was...terrible!! It was my first time ever singing on stage, and I never knew that when you are singing on stage you can't hear yourself!!
So my pitching was totally off, plus, I forgot the lyrics to the first chorus--and so did Faruq.
Epic failz.
I'm just going to put it behind me now. Everyone was so nice about it afterwards :')
I hart you guys!

Izzat performed as well, Daughters by John Mayer, and Nadia and Satpreet sang U Smile and More Than Words, which was awesome :)
The seniors got a cake!! Courtesy of Holiday Villa :)
It tasted really good, like Hershey's chocolate, yummmm~
They sang Happy Birthday for me :)
After dancing for a little while, all the seniors went to the back of the ballroom to take pictures!
Hehe :)

Then after everything was over, we went outside (to take even more photos!) and was surprised by this:
An Oreo cheesecake baked by Izzat and Syamel for Aifa, Kirstin and I! :D
Aw~
It tasted gooood :)
Nadia and I :D
Julia and I :D
Leonard! :D
All the senior dudes ;D
Irvin! :D
Daryl! :D
Zharif! :D
Julia! :D
Pat and Naziha! :D
Dani! :D
Ryan! :D
Izzat! :D
Sanesh JayJay! :D
Brotha Faruqa! :D
Ian! :D
Julia and Tessa! :D
Asyraf! :D
Chris! :D
Brynn and Tracey! :D
Shermaine! :D
Razzi! :D
Asila! :D
Kirstin! :D
Ben Sern! :D
Satish! :D
Syamel! :D
Hariz! :D
Cia Hui! :D
Deion! :D
Wei Beng! :D
and last but not least, Safura! :D

Phew!
That's a lot of photos.
I can't believe our last prefect dinner is over :(
It was a good night :)
Oh, and we got a Toblerone bar and poker cards (since the theme was 007) as doorgifts! :D

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Two Sundays ago, my family and I went to Janda Baik to Uncle Karl's house for a durian partayyy!
Their durian trees bore too many durians for them to eat, so they invited us over to help them finish them :)
I baked macarons for Aunty Rod for her birthday!
I doubled the recipe I used last time, and made 45 macarons!
It was very tiring! Took me the whole day to bake.
But they turned out lovely, so I'm happy :)

Over at my uncle's house, my cousins and I rode (and drove) his buggy! :D
It was so much fun!!
It was my first time driving anything 8D Wheeee~
Hehe :)
Played a little ball with Hammy :)

The whole car still smells like durians from that day ;p

Anyhoo, an hour more till buka puasa! I can't wait! :D
I'm ordering McDonald's today, mmmmm~
Selamat Berpuasa to all Muslims!

Seeya later pandas!

Seventeen!

2010-08-04T16:25:00.010+08:00

ARE YOU READY FOR A *TOOT* LOAD OF PICTURESSSSSSS?

If you're not, click the tiny 'X' button there on the top right of your screen, because this post is going to have a LOT of pictures. (AND words too!)

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So. Last Wednesday, 28th July, was Aifa's birthday! :D
Practicing.

We'd been practicing for our prefect dinner performance (a dance, of course!) the whole week after school, and this day was no different. However, since it was Aifa's birthday, Tracey and Brynn decided to buy a cake for her, and Julia and I decided to buy pizzas for everybodeh :)
I helped Tracey plan the whole cake thing.
Who knew I was planning my own birthday surprise as well??
The cake had MY name on it too! Hahahah! I was so surprised!
I thought we were only planning this for Aifa XD
I was pleasantly surprised though :)
THANK YOU TRACEY AND BRYNN!!! I hart you guys!
Btw, I ordered the pizzas using Tracey's phone, and I forgot to include the SIZE of the pizza, so they brought the regular sized ones -_-
My own stupid mistake!
Surprisingly though, it was enough! The cake was filling :)
Chocolate Indulgence!
Aah~
Tasted SO good!
HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY FA!!! :D
Julia! :)
And here's everybody :) Less than three!!!

Then, on the very next day, the Form 2 prefects gave Aifa and I a cake as well!
Gosh :D
It was a really pretty, layered chocolate mousse cake :D
I couldn't eat it there and then though, cause I was fasting that day. I brought some home and had it when I buka puasa though! Yummmm~

THANK YOU FORM 2 PREFECTS!
(Don't want to name names in case I forget someone!) You guys are SO sweet :D :D :D

They even got me and Aifa twin teddy bears!
THANK YOU GUYS! :D
Victor Choo got me this ;D
A cuppycake!!! :D Thank you!
Cards from Hazeera and Alleysha :) Aww~

By then, I'd gotten 2 surprises! And it wasn't even my birthday yet!
Gosh, why is everyone so nice ah? ;p

Hahah.
Now my actual birthday!
Got iPanema slippers from Irvin and Nats! :)
Thanks guys!
You know what's sad though? When Natassha asked Irvin what my favourite colour was, he didn't know XD FAIL IRVIN, FAIL!
It's turquoise, btw. Hahaha.
Pretty Forever 21 necklace from Tessa! :D Thanks!
Bow hairclip from Zie Zhen :D Thank you!!

Chia Mei, Mun Hong and Ian made me a VIDEO! Clicky click!
So sweet of them! I was smiling the whole time I was watching it :) Their Chinese accents are so cute XD

So after I saw the video, I thought okay, they obviously didn't eat the cake, so maybe Chia Mei was going to give it to me in school!
But she didn't.
She surprised me by coming over to my house with Mun Hong and Ian after school!
Even better :D
Here's the yummy, very chocolatey chocolate cake! :D
Ian was (of course) very eager to try out the electric drums ;D
Ian! :) LOL check out mah awesum hairz. I tied my hair in school okay, that's why it's all bumpy!
Jazzie joined in the festivities too :)
Mun Hong had a go on the drums too!
THANK YOUUUUUU!~ :D
Hart you guys!
Pfft, Mun Hong was too busy talking on the phone to smile at the camera :P

They had to go back rather early, because I was going to the saloon with Tracey and Brynn (and Aifa too!) to get our hair done for prefect dinner at 4.30pm! They left around 4pm, haha :)

OH, speaking of prefect dinner, I think I'm going to write about that in the next post, because I think our last prefect dinner deserves it's own blog post :)
So I shall now talk about..Saturday! The day after my birthday.
Went to Empire with my family to eat JAPANESE FOOD with my family!
*gasp!*
Did I say Japanese food?!
But...Daddy, Abang and Nina don't eat Japanese food!
Well, they did.
For me! :) So sweet!
Abang was like being tortured when he ate his egg custard! LOL. So funny to watch!
He was horrified that it didn't taste sweet like how he imagined it XD
Oh, we ate at Rakuzen!
We were supposed to go to Tenji, in Soho, KL but when we called them up for reservation, they said they'd call back, and they didn't. Hmph.
Oh well, Rakuzen was awesome!

I had a grilled beef set. Mmmmmm~
I'm a meat-eater! Looooove meat.
Nom noms!

This is Aizah's sashimi and udon set :)
And Abang and Nina both had this :) Chicken katsu with rice.
My bro said the best thing about the meal was the fruit! So mean! Hahah XD
He really doesn't like Japanese food.
Afiq's chicken katsu and udon set :D Nom noms!
And last but not least, Daddy's silver cod fish set :)
Here's Daddy about to dig in, haha.
We also ordered one extra plate of sushi! It was soo good omg I want some now!!
Jaz came along too! But she was asleep when we ate, which was good because sadly, she can't eat any Japanese food yet, since she hasn't any teeth :P
Patience, young one!
She woke up when we were almost done though, and wanted to drink x)

I love Rakuzen's interior! We got a private room for just us :)
Afiq, Daddy and Aizah xD Daddy was making a funny face riight before the picture was taken!
The other side of the table! Nina, me and Abang :)
Me with Daddy and Aizah :D
Me with Afiq and Daddy :D
I think I see now why Daddy says Afiq is the one who resembles him the most, I see the subtle similarities in this photo :)

After we had lunch, we walked around Empire for a bit.
I got a fancy peacock ring from Diva! :D Thanks Daddy!
I've never had such an extravagant ring before! Now I don't know when to wear it, haha!
I lavvvv it though!
HEHE. At Diva ;D *nudgenudgewinkwinktoAqilahandJulia*

OH!
On Sunday, there was a tahlil thing at my uncle's house (mum's side of the family) :)
We brought the cake Aizah bought for me there, cause we had enough cake at home XD
They sang Happy Birthday, of course x)
I think this birthday is the MOST times I've had the birthday song sang to me!!
Also the birthday with most birthday cakes (4) and surprises (3).
I feel so loved :')
My aunty even bought me this really pretty dark blue animal print cloth to make into baju kurung! Sadly, we can't make a baju kurung in time for this raya :(

PHEW!
Gosh that was tiring.
I'm going to rest now :P
Seeya later alligators!

Mission Accomplished!

2010-08-02T20:27:00.005+08:00

I really have no idea how my macaron...~~obsession~~ interest started!

I guess I just saw a picture of them on the internet one day, and it piqued my interest.
Ladurée and Pierre Hermé!
Ooh la la~ ;D

But I never thought of baking them! Oh no sirree, I just wanted to BUY them!
It never even occurred to me that I could try baking them.
Until recently when I started having an interest in baking :)
Then I started looking up macaron recipes, checking out the ingredients to see if I could get them here, watching Youtube videos on how to make macarons..
Well, whaddya know? You CAN get all the ingredients here :D

And so I tried baking macarons.
Attempt numer 1:
Hahaha! Total macawrongs! Cracked shell, and no feet to speak of.

Attempt number 2:
Slightly better, I suppose. They had feet! Although they were lumpy and not circular.

Attempt number 3:
I only just did these yesterday!
The first picture was the first batch, which had little feet. The rest of the batches had no feet, and most had cracked shells -_-
FAIL!

Attempt number 4:
And now for the pretty macarons I baked today!
I was SO happy that they had feet, smooth shells and were circular! 8D
Hehe. Sorry for putting up lots of pictures. I was excited :P

After 4 failed attempts! I've finally got it!
The recipe I used was from David Lebovitz :D
Previously I used a different recipe, but evidently this is the best one!

YATTA!

Now I should apply this..determination into studying for SPM.
It's kinda sad that it took me 3 hours to bake them, and 10 minutes for my family to devour them :P
But I'm glad they liked it!~

Next post: Aifa's birthday, my birthday and Prefect Dinner! ;D