Lonely. Haha.

Sometimes I wish I'm not such a people person.

Hahaha. Here me out first. My life pretty much revolves around everyone else other than me even if I'm super self-centered. Meaning I want to constantly be in contact with my huge family, my awesome friends and the love of my life. (Except when I'm shopping of course, going solo is my way). But sometimes when they're suddenly not there, life can be so empty. Suddenly so dull, monotonous, colourless.

I noticed that I can deal with any sort of dismay or catastrophe that is directed to just me. I don't cry. I'm the one who usually give advice to friends or family that are in need. But when it happens to me, I... don't know what to do. Haha. Say the rational side of me usually take place, and I advice myself.

Talking gibberish again. Excuseme.

So for some people who have no one to talk to they may turn to Twitter, Facebook, or Blogs to express what they feel. So sorry if I keep complaining here. I know someone somewhere will read this. Hopefully! Haha. Anyways, the thing is, appreciate people when they're there. Luahkan tah perasaan when you're comfortable before it's too late. And also, even if you can't give advice, lending an ear sometimes can be enough for a person to let out to.


I miss talking to people I love. Let's get this over with. Cmon studies, let's pummel this exam away.

This Week.

RESULTS coming out this Thursday.

Ethics week from Monday until Friday, 9am-4pm.

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Special person arriving in 7 hours.
So close. Yet so far...

6 months of waiting is finally over in 20 hours!

Happy, nervous, excited, touched, anticipated, impatient.
A handful of emotions, but which one to pick?

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CHEEZY, but you'll understand what I mean if you go through what I'm going through now. Hahahaha. Sleepy time. Happy Father's Day to my amazing daddy who has went through ups and downs to raise me for the person I am today. Let's just hope I can go through this 5 years to be what I wanna be for my parents.

Wassalam.

Holy Month

ISABELLA could hear the impatient honks from the car downstairs.

“Kaka Bell!! Hurry up!”

“Yes yess…” she replied hurriedly trying to concentrate on locking the main door. It was 5 minutes to Isya by the time Isabella got in the car. The usual religious songs were playing on the radio while she and her brother sang along to them.

“Whoaahh… talk about second day of Terawikh man!” Cars were overflowing from the compound of the mosque. Even from the shopping complex opposite it.

“Nahh… who told you to be late? I’m not even sure if we can find any space to park the car,” replied my dad. It’s amazing how semangat people are when Ramadhan had just arrived. It’s nice to see a lot of people walking around the compound of the mosque. Men with their Cara Melayu or Kain Sarong while women with their telekungs. You only get to walk around in telekungs in Mekkah. I tell you that.

It was Isabella’s first season of puasa here in Brunei after missing it for two years of “celebrating” it in UK instead. The difference is quite obvious especially the atmosphere. Here the government allows shorter office and school hours. Not to forget holiday on the first day of fasting and the never ending adverts on discounts in every imaginable stores.

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Isabella was walking slowly out of the mosque, in a daze thinking about the food at the Pasar Malam and the Stadium. Suddenly a finger poked her hips. She barely had any reaction since she was immune to these attacks. She turns and sees a familiar face. Hazel shaped eyes, a cute little nose and that mischievous smile that has never changed since they were in Form 2.

“Laina! Ohmigosh! I haven’t seen you since you went to Phillipines. How are you?”

“Hey bebs. Doing okay. Back now for about a month. Going to uni soon. You?”

“Same here. Too bad I’m leaving right before Hari Raya celebrations man.”

“Awwhh. That’s too bad. Hey, you know what? I miss those times when we debate about stuff.”

Laina and Isabella used to spend hours discussing about random topics. Things like the society, the tree, about our life in this world and even about the reason people pick their nose during driving!

“Now that you mentioned it, I was going to say something about Terawikh. You know what? I think it is actually like a form of exercise!”

“What are you taaaalking about??”

“Think about it. You know how Terawikh is uber long, 20 rakaats? Imagine the fact that you fast the whole day, you metabolism becomes low. Then some people might eat their hearts out during sungkai and just sit or lie down after that. I presume Allah advices we should not just sit around like that… C’mon it Ramadhan. Lebih baik beribadah.”

“Hahahaha. You sound like those iklan on RTB about puasa”

“… I know right! ‘Inda bah kita aniiii. Aku ani kan becerita ganya nyaintaaaaaa~’”

By this time both of these two enthusiasts were making their way to the parking lot.

“But I get what you mean Isabella. There’s so much stretching, sitting down and standing up. I guess we can call it relaxed exercise. Like yoga or tai chi or something.”

“Especially good for the elderlies.”

“And it’s totally beneficial. Your body is moving and you’re also doing ibadah to Allah.”

“Ahh… but there’s also the fact that people do only 8 rakaats. What do you think are the reasons?”

“Well… there are a few. Firstly they might have other obligations and they still want to do this optional task, so this is an decision they can choose. After all, we want to make as much Pahala as possible. Secondly,”

“Isabella! Hurry up; it’s time to go,” the voice of Isabella’s mom was heard from their car of which she vaguely remembered its position. She looked around the dim-lit parking area and found her ride home.

“Mann… I gotta go Laina. Sorry. How shall I contact you? Same phone number?”

“Haha don’t worry. My parents are waiting for me too,” she points to a nearby car already occupied by her parents, “yes, same number.” She turned to leave but stopped. “Ooooh, facebook me!”

“Ooh great idea. Facebook is the penultimate socializing site man!”

Both of them giggled. It’s fun to be silly girls once in a while. Isabella skipped to her awaiting family and entered the car. She started her routine on changing from her telekung into her head scarf as they were going out to have a drink. Yet again.

Isabella took in the view of the traffic around the mosque. “Why do I have to suffer from going home late just cause of this minum, and then cook for sahur?” She started weighing out the reasons and consequences of the situation on the short ride to the usual café they go to.

Old Stories Told

I had just spent my morning eating bubur with my grandmother and my mom. It's this place in around Pulaie. That bangunan that has a lot of stalls and opposite it ada urang jual chicken. There was this one time when my late grandfather wanted to send me to school and he was like
"bah, lakastah singgah sekajap makan bubur."

"....mmmmm bahhh..." unsure of wanting to go as I was afraid to be late for school. I wasn't and still am not much of a fan of bubur anyway.

So we had some bubur. AND IT WAS QUITE AWESOME. Haha. I think this is the only bubur that I actually will like. When we arrived at the school, there were barely even anyone there! Imagine how uber early I left the house. AND how early I woke up.

So the the grandmother, mother and grandaugther had a few journeys here and there. Mama bali ipin, aku bali Easikad for nini, hantar ujian papers to be photocopied... etc etc. All these while, my nini keeps talking in the car. She talks about how her credit, finished all in one go, talks about her children and talks about my brothers! My mom repeats again and again with the same reply to each statement but in different ways. Haha usually these situations answers my question why my mom is such a nagger =op But of course I still love my mummeh. Think this is what they mean by like mother like daughter. Think I inherited this trait as well -.- So don't blame me. Here are some of the things she mentioned about my brothers.

Bang Piq
Nini: Si Sapiq masa damit atu, kana sayangi tu oleh nini nya. Inda buleh di marahi tuu. Si Ammat (bukan nama sebenar. hehe.) kan marahi pun inda kana suruh. Cucu pertama kali tu ah.
Mimi: Apeehh, indakan
Mama: Astaah, masa di KL lagi, nini mu batanya si Apiq, inda kau memmmbali baaaju laaai (dengan nini2 urang tua accent). Nya abang mu inda payah nii.
And apparently mulah nini gave him like RM100 to buy a baju
Mimi: Auah, tu abang masih pakai numbur nini Silat bagi ah.

Bang Wi
Nini: Si Awi atu lagi tia, pelawan tu. Inda mau mau kan membali Aeroplane. Yang basar lagi tu. 5ringgit 10ringgit pulang ganya. Tapinya dulu atu bukannya kan beduiit. Duiii lillaaahh. Ada lagi mengambil ia surat khabar, membuat tia kapal trabang ah, nggiuuuung, ngggiiiuuuung.
Mama: Hahahaha. Au si Awi atuu. Ani ia pulang membawa kapal terabang!

Bang Wan
Mama: Ih, si wan atu lagi damit putih tu ma ah, lampuh lagi.
Mimi: Hahahahahahaha. Masa ani opposite berabis. Hitam and kurus.
Nini: Tapi bagus tu si Wan atu, pendiam sikit.

I think this all started when my nini saw a baby picture of me in the car. Saying how huge my eyes were, and how huge and fat i was. (THAAANKS niiii. haha.) Then they started talking about how much I liked to eat back then and pretty much how my body is currently evolving back to when I was a baby. (weight-wise of course) Well, at least this will add up to the piles of intriguing stories about my siblings when they were younger.

My youngest brother Anih is turning 16 tomorrow! Horra!

Babies In The Family

WELL. If you think they're not cute, think again.

..apakan. Anyway.

Alai Faaruq.

Currently my favourite. He usually makes weird and questioning faces everytime you try to make him laugh. It's as if he's saying "...are you...okay?" Hahaha. Love everybit of him apart from the constant drool. Last time he got excited with the power sockets. KIUT JUA TU!! I would think he'll turn out to be a very handsome boy. Turns out he can say "apaa~? apaa??"

Zainul

Our very own Michael Jackson =op I have a video of him dancing to Beat It. I think. Will check again later. Anywhere there's music he can just shake his cute lil body to the beat! When you say "tangan Jenul, tangan!" He would put up his arm up to his head, and start shaking that too. Pintar lagi tu, if you ask him to close the door, he will. Basically he now understand mostly what people are saying lah.

Balqis

She's really smart. She's......well I dunno how old she is. But she knows how to talk properly now. As in her pronounciation is quite good. Usually if you play with her, she'd react. Kadang2 mengusut. Haha last time in Rizqun, I went "hi Balqiiiis." Suddenly, out of nowhere, she replied with he cute voice, "hai Kaka Mimi..."Awhhhhh. She said my name!

There's another baby called Ashraf. He slept in my arms the other day=o) He used to be afraid of other people. Kept clinging on he mommy. BUT HE KNOWS ME NOWWW. Mwahahahaha.

Don't worry guys, I'm not even thinking of having my own baby yet. Haha yes, I'm safe. Will not take desperate measures. I have like...30+ cousins? Banyak lagi masih kanak2. So I have unlimited supply of kids to play with. Hahaha.

Malas ku usai malay to italics.

Wassalam =oD

My First Youtube Video!!

Heehee.



Wassalam

Here Comes the Bride and Groom

IT'S OFFICIAL!

On the 10th of July at 4.49pm, my brother Syazwan got married to Kaka Mala in the acara bernikah in Masjid Omar Ali Saifuddien =oD Bang Wan got the sentence thingy in one go. Semangat wah tu, bini nya yang tersangat lawa dapan nya. Heehee. May their marriage akan berkekalan and happy-happy selalu.

Love you guys!

Since there's a gathering in my house every night from the day I arrived, I've been sleeping around... 4 am?? I didn't even feel tired and had to listen to something to go to sleep. Haha. I think it's the jet lag pulang sebenarnya. I was a major karaoke girl when the day I came back. The karaoke has been going on everynight this week and stops at around 12 o'clock in the morning! I thought to myself, if I were the neighbour, I'd be like "baie kali, bising wah". It's a good thing my family's voices are quite awesome =op

Bersanding tomorrow! Gotta have a good night sleep.

Wassalam.

My Mommy

MY MOM IS SO HAPPY I'M HOME, she was singing the Malay song "Isabella" with her own lyrics. Haha kiut. It went like

"Hasba Villa adalah, cantuman nama suami isteri.
Anak cuma lima, tapi ada seorang puuuuteri"

And it went on and on about the house, her house work, etc etc.

Right. I'm off to cleaning up my room now before the girls come over. With their masks. I tell you, the level of scared-ness towards swine flu in this country is suuper up there. I've blogged too much...better get on the life I have before I lose it, macam urang main Sims =op

Wassalam.

Gone down to London

Hi=o)

JUST GOT BACK FROM LONDON yesterday - went down last Wednesday to Slough. There was a change in Reading to there though. Cheh, no direct train. Haha brought some past papers with me. That didn't work. Half way in doing a paper, I either got distracted by the TV (this was also the problem when we stayed at the hotel) or by my phone. Bang Wi and I went to a Halal Nando's in Slough... a WHOLE CHICKEN accompanied by chips. I ate 3/4 only. OKAYY?? No, it wasn't because I 'control', but more like... I don't like isi ayam (the breast bit etc) Heck, I don't even like chicken. Haha. If you're surprised by that then what you need to know is that I loooove fish, then comes lamb then beef then chicken. Sigh, I miss Mummy's Ikan Masak Merah and Masak Tau-chu (?). Obviously Bang Wi was tired, so he slept like around 6.30 pm? I was bored like hell plus I had no mood to study, so I went to check my email and opened up my subscriptions from ASOS and Topshop hence ended up looking at clothes and accessories to buy. However, this is the embarassing bit... Went to onemanga.com and read Ouran High School. Since I haven't read it for more than a year, I read till I finished the whole thing! (Like I said, when I start on a series, it's really hard to navigate away from it) This was from 7pm till 12.3oam okay. HAHA. I can't believe I did that!

And Bang Wi was sleeping so soundly. In the middle of the night I got super hungry and I was like "hellloooo? you're sister's hungryyy" hahaha but I didnt dare wake him up. He was tired kan. Anyway, at least helps to diet [thumb up]. THIS IS BAD BY THE WAY. DO NOT MAKE ME AN EXAMPLE.

Next day went shopping in Oxford Street. I got the YSL Radient Touch Highlighter in colour No.3. Wanted to get the green cream eyeshadow too! But my sain self kept nagging me and made me consider about how much it cost=op. Bought a cardi and a vintage looking sling bag from Urban Outfitters. I also got the kantongs, white dress and keropok udang from Mummy. Being the silly forgetful me, I came down with a small bag. So my journey back involved bringing one bag on each shoulder and one kantong on each hand.

OMG, I just remembered!! I wanted to take a picture with Bang Wi before balik! Damn.

Bang Wi's not the type to talk that much. Haha and he mumbles too. Our typical conversation goes:
Bang Wi: "Semmbrk boh nya?"
Mimi: "hah? what?"
Bang Wi: "Semrbak bau nya?"
Mimi: "Seme what?"
Bang Wi: "Semerbak bau nya?"
Then I realised there was a keling lady (no offense is intended here) standing next to me (I was sitting in a bus) and her armpit was next to me. HAHAHAHA. Palui wah abang ah.
Mimi: "Au sadang, now that you mentioned it-.-"
Enden ada lagi tu urang pasang earphone and lagu kaling kedengaran berabis. Had to stop myself from shaking my head to the beat =op Ah well. I love my brothers. who are each different. Us siblings show our love in a weird way. But that's another story.

I was greeted by my beloved friends when I arrived. Hahaha. Kiut. Apparently Geraldine had withdrawal symptoms. Kept pushing my door open and went "MIMIIII~!!" and I wasn't there. And Shin was all giddy and Zaz kept talking to me about The Science Festival -which is this week. I missed the Blood and Guts talk! Sigh.

Am back now, and ready to study. ...Since I have something to munch on now. Woohoo.

Wassalam.

Happy Anniversary to The Exclusives!

All photos in this post are properties of Mr Syaf

LOOOVE IS IN THE AIIIR~
Haha. My brother and sister in law met a few years ago, not knowing that they're perfect for each other and will be spending their whole lives together. Pejam celik pejam celik, it's their second year anniversary! YAYYYYYYEE. [throws confetti]

I'm really happy that my brother found the perfect amazing wife for himself. Haven't seen my brother willing to give up lots of things for someone (karit sikit wah =op. kidding!! but kan, there was one point dulu kami sengaja minta lanja arah bang piq infront of ka julie, so that success is higher. haha. probability decreased after they got marriied). and ka Julie is an awesome sister in law! Kami Leos, so kinda click together [five!]. Since I never had a sister, so she was like my first real family-sister. Haha apakan! And guess whaaat? It's going to be out first raya together this year! Horraaaa. Hahahahahhaha. Sigh, it's great that you get to find your soulmate yeah? Abang sehat now, heehee, pasal happy wah tu. Looky at my brother when he just met Ka Julie!

Heeheehee. I just saw this picture from his multiply, so aku grab lah =op LOVE YOU BANG. Hot kaliah [thumb up].

The journey of your life together since you first met (ehem2 I know where, cannot tell kaliaaah) till today is so full of adventures with ups and downs. However you made every jumps and turns together and here you guys are today, one of the lovey-dovey, coolness couples I know, Mr and Mrs Exclusives =o)



Love you!!!

This is dedicated to the two of you. Semoga Bang Piq and Ka Julie kekal karar hingga ke akhir waktu, panjang umur and murah rezekii =o)

ps: bang! I just read your blog dari multiply yang aaaagess ago, when I had just left for UK. Homigosssh, I dinno thaaat! Haha kan nangis ku tadi. O.O

Wassalammm.