I DID IT~!!! yoossshhhh..

okay, so u may ask "What d hell did she do?"

and the simple answer is: I made my very own sekaya~!!

alrite, so it may not be the answer to global warming or a cure to HIV/AIDS.. but for a student who's overseas, home food becomes this dream that u hope would materialize some day.. so since I've been craving some 'roti bakar and sekaya', I decided I should try to make my own sekaya since I can't get it here... sejak dah tgk Aliana buat, I was so tempted to try it myself.. and I did it!! and it's good~ (not to blow my own trumpet or anything... =P)

yummm~~ itadakimasu... =)

my cloud of bad luck~

okay... things that has been happening to me lately:

1) I lost my wallet as I was walking on a dimly lit street on my way to Kirsty's house.. I must've not realised I dropped it when I was rummaging through my handbag to look for my phone!! Bimbo gle mistake tu okayyyy???!?? Didn't realise until the next day, which is even stupid-er..

Thank god, I cancelled my cards b4 any1 could start using them as me and drain my already on drought bank account..

So with my wallet, went all my cards, IDs, basically any form identification (aside from my passport) I have.. So now, Im gonna hv to apply for new IC n driving liscence when I get home in summer.. stupid stupid stupid me~

2) on Sunday, I accidentally locked amal's room door and her keys were inside. All my things were in there, including my phone. And Amal had work to do for her morning class the next day. I mean, how can a person 'accidentally' lock an auto-lock door?? I mean, who does that??

Her damn agent didn't advertise their phone number for emergencies online. so there was no way to contact them. That put me in a foul mood. Thank god for Azri and Aliana, who found the phone number on the front of their office. We finally got hold of him and he charged 20 bloody pounds to open the damn door!! what a rip off!! But we were desperate and we had no choice BUT to pay..

3) I absolutely, most definitely, HATE ONCOLOGY PROJECT!!! Ggrrrrrr.... I can't think of a damn topic to write for the essay. And I have to present it later today... I finally decide on something really stupid and I'm counting on my presentation skills to help me talk through it later today~

But on a brighter note, Faizal Tahir won 3 awards for AJL!!!!!
And Meet Uncle Hussein won the overall prize~~~~ That was definitely the highlight of my weekend. =)

where is my curiosity??

Yesterday, I watched this Jap drama abt a 6 year old boy who is curious about everything around him and won't accept anything he was told unless he feels it's reasoned enough to be accepted. He asks the quintessential question that we adults (or in my case, adult-to-be =P) forget; "Why?"

"Why is 1+1 = 2?"

"Why is there rich people and poor people in this world if everyone is equal?"

He asks 'why' to everything that's taught. Not out of spite or merely being annoying, it's just that he is purely curious.......

Watching 10 episodes of Edison No Haha (the name of the Jap series) has suddenly made me think; "How come I don't ask 'why' anymore?" I mean, truth be told, I can't even remember when was the last time I wanted to learn something just because I want to know. I've gotten complecent. I've gotten lazy. My brain has gotten lazy. One very recent example: I couldn't even bother to understand the concept behind estimating the mean electrical axis of the heart from an ECG strip.. I knew there was a simpler way of just memorising how an ECG looks like if it's right sided or left sided. So why should I bother understanding why, right?

So that makes me wonder.... where is my curiosity? I remember being a child who couldn't stop asking questions until my dad gets tired of answering them and says: "Just because..." And I used to never accept that. But now, I just take in everything that's thrown at me. I when it's not needed to pass an exam, I don't bother to know it, even if it was related.

Have I grown up to be a conformist? To be shallow? To worry about hot actors... clothes and shoes on sale... the next good movie to see... my weight or my looks... or how to budget my spending so that I can go on holidays in foreign countries.. Is that who I am now? Is it wrong to be so? If it's not, then why do I feel like I'm ashamed of who I've become?

But then again.. the more important question I should ask is: What do I do now that I've started thinking about this? Do I try to change? Can I change? or will I end up letting my brain rot within its cavity just because I'm to busy being concerned with how much easy life would be if I could laze around everyday?

Data interpretation and analysis...

It's here~~ the exam that has been haunting me for these past few weeks... will commence in 10 hour's time... As of now, I'm slightly tachycardic.. might also be slightly delusional (since I'm writing this instead of sleeping or studying~) I wonder how it's gonna be tomorrow... I'm sure there'll be questions that are totally unexpected (as it always is in exams~ huh) but I'm just praying not so much of those tomorrow~~ Wish me luck!!!!!!!

yossshhhh~ Ganbatte~

p/s: The most anticipated Korean drama has finally begun:- Boys over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango-korean version)!!!!!


With a very hot Domyouji Tsukasa (altho, in this pic his perm is outrageosly hideous coz the manga character has curly hair... but in the drama, it's not too bad~ u'll learn to focus on his handsome face more than his disturbing hair.. haha) and extremely jambu Hanazawa Rui... hahahahaha.. tp Makino Tsukushi dier kurang cute~ Ahhh.. can't wait for this bloody paper to finish, so I can watch it!!

My short but very sweet winter retreat..

After a very LONG and draggy semester (or maybe it wasn't but it certainly felt like it - I mean, come on, we started a whole MONTH before everybody else AND we finish a week later than everyone~), the winter holidays finally got here.. As I'm typing this, my holidays are about to finish, in less than 48 hours.. Oh the sorrow~~ Kidding!! I think I've had enough of too much sleep n too long night hours, I'm quite glad that semester's starting.. I can stop myself from bumming arnd too much! hahaha

So here's a recap of what I did for this past holidays:

1) Dublin hang out visit:
On Wed (17 Dec) I left for Dublin from Bristol airport on my own for a 5 days trip. I arrived in Dublin at about 2pm and Azilah picked me up from the airport. I was welcomed with laksa johor at her house for a late lunch. Then she made ikan bakar with air asam for dinner. Sedap nak mampos ok?? Thanks azilah!! Chatz came over for dinner and we talked a bit but she didn't stay long. The next day, we woke up real early to make a head start to Belfast - factory outlet shopping trip!!! I didn't go crazy there.. Not like usual, but not bad. I got myself a new Nike watch (not that I need a new one, I just wanted a diff one so I have an option =P) Got home really late from Belfast, then slept even later coz Azilah and I got talking. We slept in Chatz's house coz the bus service has stopped d night b4 so we couldn't get to Azilah's house. Then on Friday, Te'ah and Emy came all the way from Galway~~ Sweet gile diorg!! and of course we got talking and talking. We had dinner with a few of my ex-classmates in KMB together. The next day, all 4 of us went to watch Twilight together.. and safe to say we ALL experienced ectopic heartbeats on several intervals through out the movie. hahahaha.. Then we went shopping (well, by 'we' I mean, te'ah =P) around Dublin city centre. We went back to Azilah's for dinner n they packed up their things, and then we went out again to send them to the bus station. Then the next day was my turn to leave~ I had a real good time. Altho I didn't do any tourist-y stuff, but I got to hang out with my friends that I haven't seen in TWO years~~ It was exactly the break that I needed

2) London Lion King overnight trip:
The very next day (Monday, 22 Dec) I headed to London with Fara, Aween and Manja. We got the morning bus coz we all wanted to have lunch in Malaysia Hall =P Nik met us once we got there and Azri was with him. He had a bit of a misfortune with the bus timetables, so he decided to join us for the day. So after lunch, solat and checking in, we left for the Camden market. It was this really nice night market which reminded so much of Ferringhi at night. There were loads of crazy looking stuff sold there. And the food stalls there had halal chicken!


After a few hours there, we hung out in Trafalgar Square eating Fara and Aween's Cinnabon. As per usual, there were lotsa people there and since it wasn't so cold, we just sat around, taking photos and working up an appetite for dinner. We then made way to Edgware Rd, to eat in this Lebanese restaurant Aween recommended, Meshwar. It was quite good, and the food came in huge portions, another plus for us hungry travellers. The next day, we met up for breakfast in Malaysia Hall, and I had 1.5 portions of the roti canai set with teh tarik and seri muka!! I honestly don't know where the appetite is coming from.. =P After solat, we headed to Covent Garden coz the Lyceum theater was there. We got there early, so we hung around the marketplace there. Again, so many creative looking trinkets there.. If only I had more time and money, it would've been a real good place to go.. Then when it was time, we headed for our seats.



And OH MY GOD the show was awesome!!!! It was SO good. The songs were amazing. The choreography and dun get me started on the props~ I mean, who knew that humans could do a play on the animal kingdom and pull it off?!?? It was SOOO amazing. We all walked out of there feeling really really good. And our seats were amazing as well, it was so worth the money~
Then, Aween, Manja and I had dinner in this halal Nando's near Malaysia Hall before we headed for the bus station for our ride back to Cardiff. I got home at about 1am. It was a great trip, even if it was short!

Oh and ofcourse I won't forget the Boxing Day shopping~ I went out shopping in the cold for 2 days straight coz I just couldn't miss the shopping event of the calendar! On the 26th Dec, there wasn't even any bus services but we WALKED to town and walked all the way back with our shopping~ The determination, oh my.. If only I had the same perseverance for studying as I do for shopping~damn!! hahaha

Okay, so for an entry, that was a LONG one.. But then again, when have my entries been short? Especially when I'm detailing a holiday trip~ I'm glad for the break I had. And hopefully I'm all recharged for the new semester.. Who knew, my 3rd year is already half done? Dat means finals is just 4 months away~~~ Scary.... right, so till my next entry, ciao =)

And the obsession continues....

So I was just so innocently looking for new series/movies to watch on Crunchyroll when I stumbled upon.... guess what?? New and HOT pics of a long time obsession: Daniel Henney ahjussi~~~ (p/s: I'm not liking the hair so much but he's still smokin' hot=P)






Isn't he just dreamy??!? Oh, so after a very successful accidental stalking, I decided to continue stalking other obsessions and I found this:

Hyun Bin~~~~~ SO very adorable =P I know I'm sounding like a teenager with a crush right now but beauty has to be admired right? Not my fault, I'm just abiding the law of nature~ hahaha

And a post on obsessions will NOT be complete unless I add him in:

Who else but Mr. Cedric Diggory @ Edward Cullen@ Robert Pattinson himself?? The 'face of a god' as described by Stephanie Meyer in her books.. Now, I'm pretty sure he's no where near the beauty of God, but for a mere mortal, he really is beautiful~ And just to be clear: this obsession started WAY before there was much said on him on the internet...

Right, that was my top 3 obsessions at the moment... the list may go on with others like:

Okay, enough obsessions for now~ ciao =)

The Undomestic Goddess.. Sophie Kinsella

Okay so maybe I'm a little late in following the Sophie Kinsella craze but I've finally finished reading this chic lit by her... As all of her other writings, it's written in d 1st person's perspective who's a female..

Slight synopsis: It's about Samantha Sweeting, a high earning lawyer in London's top law firm, a graduate from Cambridge Law, with an IQ of 158, mind you. She comes from an even higher achieving family; a barrister for a mother and a financier brother. Her whole life has been about being made the youngest partner at that firm but one day disaster strikes and she decides to drop everything she had and run away. Fate, as you may say, brought her to Lower Ebury, a beautiful village in d middle of nowhere where she was mistaken as a housekeeper interviewee. And of course, as with all other high achieving feminist, she has absolutely no idea of the concept housekeeping.. She doesn't even know how a toaster looks like, let alone make a gourmet meal... But soon she falls in love with her simple yet fulfilling life, and decides that the pressure of a high-paying job is just too much to bear and settles for being a housekeeper as apparently that's what makes her happy

What I think about it? Well, 1st of all.. I do not like the notion that women have to be one or the other.. Just bcoz some of us choose to be smart and want to achieve things in life, doesn't mean we are totally hopeless around the house. Is there a universal rule that says a woman has to be one or the other? So in this book, Samantha decides to drop her job and her childhood dream bcoz she chose to return to the kitchen. Is she trying to say that it's inevitable for women that at the end of the day, our place is in the kitchen or at home ironing clothes? What is wrong with wanting to achieve?

So in the end she learned to cook a few meals from her gardener boyfriend's mother.. and a few other household tricks which are common sense to most of us... and she decides that she wants a relaxed life and money isn't everything.. I have no problems with the notion: Money can't buy happiness. What I do have a problem with is why is it we women have to give up so much more to achieve that happiness?

What I also find weird is that the author is a female who writes from the point of view of a female... but the book sounds chauvanistic~ hurmm... but then again, the books pretty funny, how ridiculously clueless Samantha is around the house is just hilarious.. It's a good read but twitched a nerve or two for me..

To start with...

Okay.. I know I'm not the blogging type for some personal reasons that probably should remain personal.. but I'm starting this blog for the benefit of my friends (following nasihat te'ah yg agak bernas sbnrnya.. hahaha)

Te'ah ckp "Ili, buat la blog... senang org nk tau hidup ko since semua dh dok jauh2... xde la semua org xtau ape cte ko, menyepi je" okay, so I know that in no way replaces traditional human communication, but then when I think abt it, it is true what te'ah said..

So here goes... I'm starting a blog.... hahahahaha

P/S: This sudden change of heart may also be due to d fact that I subconsciously want to distract myself from studying for an exam next Friday.. hahaha.. who knows?