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Creepy people are really creepy. And rude!

2011-09-05T23:32:00.001+01:00

I live in Saudi Arabia, where women are to be covered properly with a type of garment that would show no shape of the body. Some may think it as oppression, no freedom to express your true self and even a way for the men to "control" women. Some may think it as a good thing to be covered from head to toe. A nice, subtle way of self defense to a lot of cruel things.

I used to think the former. I covered my hair and thought that it was enough. After all, that's what all the women in my country do anyway. So they can't be wrong, can they?

I used to feel like this country I live in was a little too strict. I used to think, why do I need to do something I don't want to? Believe me, I tried to dump the garment at every possible time. I didn't understand why Muslim women need to cover like that. Why can't we just cover our hair and be done with it?

Thankfully, I have amazing people surrounding me here. Amazing people that knew more about the religion than I did.

In school, we often have our talks on religion. A good friend of mine, even covers her face when she's around non-Mahram. I used to think it as a little odd but she explained to me as to why she does it. And I watched enough Youtube videos/read enough books to understand why the women dress like "ninjas".

I quite appreciate the explanations. Truth be told, I feel slightly ashamed that I still can't get myself to do that much.

Why do these people cover themselves to that extent?

The answer is simple. (1)They're protecting themselves from being judged based on how they look. (2)They're protecting themselves from inviting unwanted troubles that could be caused by the influence of the devil. And simply, (3)they're just following what Allah has stated in the Quran, in Surah Al-Nur(The Light).

Like it or not, all of us are slightly, if not a lot, judgmental. We judge things based on their appearance, and rarely ever the content.

How can you feel proud when you achieve something only because the other party likes how your face looks, and how your behind seems firm and for the lack of better words, big? Do you not think by doing that, you're only selling yourself to the world?

I'm a girl as well. I know what it's like to be checked out by cute boys, and the way it feels when somebody compliments on how pretty you are or how they think your outfit is the best they've seen.

The downside is though, that's all they're ever going to think of you. The easy, pretty girl they think they can get anytime they want.

Do you honestly want to encounter a friend that way? Where's the respect?

Plus, the world doesn't contain that much of those "cute boys". There's some really spooky lads out there who would look at you and think of the nastiest things.

The news have told us so much about girls getting raped/disturbed/kidnapped/murdered by creepy people.

Why would you want to invite that even more by dressing up terribly?

These "ninjas" who covers, they're protected from being judged that way. They keep their pride and dignity. They do not feel the need to be checked out by boys who would probably not respect them anyway. They don't feel the need to win something over by a pretty face or a luscious body.

Before, I couldn't see all the benefits of wearing the Abaya. Well, except for the fact that I didn't have to go through the trouble of picking out "suitable" clothes to wear in public. So when I went back to Malaysia for holidays, I kept wearing the "normal" clothes. I remember there was a guy at the cafe I was having supper at, actually looked at my butt and had a good giggling session with his friends(HOW EMBARRASSING?!). I can't imagine what my parents must have felt at that moment. It was a shameful thing, not something I would ever want repeated again. And also, the guy looked as if he hadn't showered for days, EW?

So what I'm trying to say is, you'd never get the respect you want when you're not clothed right. People look at you with eyes bulging out in the rudest way. EVEN if you have a headscarf on! But you can't blame them and you can't think that they would get the sin for doing it. YOU are exposing yourself and making yourself available to be done that way. On top of feeling the mega shame, you'd also get the sin for wearing inappropriate attires and also the sin for letting the boys look at you that way. You get double, they get one. How is that ever beneficial on yourself?

Trust me, it's much easier being covered anyway. I don't have to splurge so much on new trends because it won't even matter what I wear inside the Abaya(for all I care, it could be pyjamas!) thus, saving more money for university! It's a big win, I tell ya.

I've never tried going out with an Abaya in Malaysia or any country outside the Middle East for that matter. But, I'm promising myself that I would give it a go, especially that I'm planning on going back for my studies(and thinking of my worried father). And may I just add how classy girls look with Abayas on? I mean, seriously. The shiny, charcoal gray material. Darn, now I'm really excited for it.

And lastly..

Make the change. Forget about what others would think of you because you know for a fact that you're doing the right thing.

Enjoy!

This is.. this.

2011-08-09T16:33:00.004+01:00

I don't know whether I want to keep writing stuff nobody cares about on here or just let it be because I have so much to write, or rather, let out*cough*, but at the same time, very little patient and "creativity" to do so. So now I'm torn, and typing at the same time, which I'm pretty sure is only because I'm trying to pass the time till Maghrib so I could stuff my face. And be thankful.

In which I'll add, Ramadan Kareem to all Muslims.

I know it's 9 days delayed but you know how people say, better late than never.

And now I'm just typing really pointless things because I've got nothing else to say.

Oh here's something, to kids under 20 years of age, please don't post things about your "love-life" because really, you ain't got any. It's annoying and really freaky. Why don't you use your time to study or something, instead of arguing and making up and arguing again with your beloved whatever. Seriously.

Anywho, it's time to eat now. I shall be back someday.

Today..

2011-06-18T17:29:00.000+01:00

Today I turned 17. Well.. if you're reading this on some other day, then today would be the 18th of June. And forget about the time zone, difference and crap. Just get it to your head that TODAY, is the 18th day in the month of June. Yes..

I have been living in this world with God's will for 17 years.

I pray that many more days would come and many more blessings would be showered upon me and my family.

While I still live, I also pray to God to always protect me from the evil, and only give me the good, beautiful things. InshaAllah.

I thank my parents for bringing me up to this day, all their hard work, patience and love. What have I done to deserve those is beyond me but I am thankful.

Alhamdulillah

Not too harsh, I hope?

2011-06-07T00:18:00.001+01:00

Before anything, I'd like to point out that this post can be a little offensive to some, but please, read it with open hearts. I meant no harm, or offense by typing this out. I just feel the need to do so because as Muslims, we do need to help each other by pointing out things that we can point out in order to improve ourselves.

These few points were taken from a fellow blogger(which I think you should really go and have a read). I thought the points he used were rather true but I didn't exactly think the way he had put the words together was very kind. I hope I could put it in a nicer way so maybe you could consider the points?

These are.. well, some excuses I myself have heard first hand from some acquaintance and friends regarding covering and hijaab. We all know as Muslims that covering your beauty from non-mahram is compulsory but only some of us truly understand why, and even do it.

Here, I'd like to point out that I'm not saying because I do it, I'm any better than you. I'm just saying that Allah has made it a rule for us girls to cover.. just so we're clear. Because obviously, only Allah can judge the worthiness of one as a Muslim. But it is very much compulsory for girls to cover!

Anywho, let's start.

1. "Are all those girls who covers guaranteed Heaven?"

No. In fact, no one is guaranteed. No matter how good you are, only Allah can decide if you're worthy of his Paradise. But if you don't do something that has been made a rule, do you, yourself think you're worthy to even have a peep of it?

2. "Some girls who covers aren't that good either. They still gossip and backbite others."

That's true. But why should you compare yourself to a lower class? You know backbiting is sinful, you know covering is a must, then be the better person. And InshaAllah, you would be put among the people that Allah loves because that's what we're aiming for in this life.

3. "You really shouldn't try to advise me. You were not so good yourself."

Everyone has a chance to repent, to be a better person, to improve. That includes you. What's past is past. Let it only be the reminder of what you're not and don't want to be. Plus, if you think only the really pious ones who has never made a mistake can admonish others, when will the message be passed across? Good advise, coming from either a good or not so good of a person, is still a good advise you should consider.

4. "Even if I don't cover, I'm still a good person. I pray and fast."

But it still doesn't change the fact that covering is compulsory for you. You know the consequences of the ones who don't cover, it's Hell-fire and it didn't sound too good when Prophet Muhammad saw it. Head hanging down with fire boiling it? Who would want that? And besides, only Allah can judge the worthiness of a Muslim. Not you, not me, not anyone else but Him so how are you sure that your actions are enough to please Him and to make you worthy of his Paradise? The best thing to do is to follow the simple rules Allah has made and leave the ones He forbids. You really don't need to complicate your life. Islam is simple and easy and truly beautiful.

5. "It's my life, what I wear and do is between me and God. It's my right and you can't say anything about it."

Like I said in my previous post, being Muslims, we need to remind each other. You can't expect Allah to give you a miracle and send an angel to tell you what you're doing is right or wrong, can you? We have each other, the Quran, the sunnah, and hadiths to remind and teach us. If I don't tell you what you're doing is wrong and I know it, then it would be counted as a bad deed for me. I would get the sin as well as you.

6. "I'm not ready to cover. It's a drastic change." "I'll cover when I'm older and more mature."

You're never going to be ready if you don't want to be ready. Allah, your creator, should not have to wait for you. You should always want to please Him. You don't know how much time you have in this life and so, always be prepared.
How old is old enough for you? How mature is mature enough? The rule is to cover once you reach puberty and even before that, to have a hang of it. Death won't wait for you till you're ready so ready yourself before it.

7. "I wear long sleeves when I'm wearing shorts and I only wear tank tops with long trousers."

And so you think it's balanced out...? But the rule in Islam clearly says you can't show your hair, you can't reveal your body parts. Why are you trying to bend the rules? Why are you trying to modify the rules to suit your own lifestyle? You should modify your lifestyle to suit the rules. You should bend your cultures and trends for Allah's rules!

So that sums up what excuses I've heard before. I truly hope this has inspired you at least a little bit, if not a lot. Thanks for reading! :D

A reminder to myself and everyone who's interested in being reminded

2011-06-01T20:52:00.000+01:00

It honestly is frustrating when you think you might know something because you've learned it in school just a few days or weeks ago but then you go online, check your Twitter timeline and find every kinds of bull on it.

You start feeling slightly angry, slightly confused, slightly depressed over it.

You try to talk to the person you think is at a slight fault but can never bring to typing because you keep contemplating on what the right words are, might it offend the other person, will the person block you!? Oh God.. so many, too many risks to your virtual, online life. :(

So just post a blog, share it, try to get as many responses that could be used to correct your own mistakes, and also, maybe.. open the eyes of others?

Today, that happened.. or is happening.

Since I've started this post with quite a lot of irrelevancy, I reckon I should go up straight to the point now? Ok. Here it goes.

Caring for what others believe, do, and say. Some people may think it's sort of like putting your nose up into others' business and some just does it to create a conversation amongst each other.

A lot of people tell each other not to butt in when it comes to others' lives. People judge you when you try to correct, they say when a person does something bad, it's between him/her and God and you don't get a say in any of it. But that's not what Islam is about.

If a person were to do something obviously very wrong and you know it, in Islam, we're advised to advise. This doesn't mean we should spread the news around, get it to be talked about, shower the person with shame.

We as Muslims, should correct other fellow Muslims, advise them, but in private. Talk one to one, no third wheel! We don't need to embarrass the other person, we don't need to feel superior just because we weren't the one at fault. But still, advise, advise, advise. Correct the person politely, in a way that you would accept if you were to be advised.

Whether or not the other person accepts your advise is not up to you because you've done your duty as a Muslim.

It's not only between that person and God, when you know it too.

With all that said, advising is not judging, and judging isn't advising. So we shouldn't be judgmental, we shouldn't jump into conclusions. Before advising, be certain. If you can't be certain, just tell the person as a reminder of God.

Secondly, people confuse races with Islam. For example, all Malays are Muslims and so people confuse the rules of Islam with the cultures of Malay.

Being a Muslim is NOT EQUIVALENT to being of a certain race. Religion comes before any race so whatever cultural acts that may contradict the rules of Islam should be left untouched.

If the culture of your race tells you to have a sip of alcohol, you cannot ever follow that, as Islam has forbidden the intake of any amount of it at all.

If your culture has evolved and become modernized, where everyone else is doing things God doesn't allow, then don't do it. Screw the damn culture because at the end of this life, your religion is all that counts.

Being of whatever race shouldn't matter when you're a Muslim.

There's no such thing as each race having different Gods. There's no such thing as being of a certain race would make you more special to God. This life has only one God. Every soul would be judged by only Him based on your religion, your faith, and how you apply them in your life.

You know your religion, so stick with it.

P.s, Islam enforces education to humankind, whether it's education on the religion itself or other worldly things. Get educated. There's never a limit to it, even when you're old. Don't stop learning about the religion, keep reminding ourselves and others.

You only get what you give

2011-05-27T00:38:00.001+01:00

If you start a fight, you would only evoke a bigger fight.

If you spread hatred, you would only be returned with hatred.

Don't think you're going to be respected with harshness, and nonintellectual acts.

Give a little love, you could get a little love of your own.

Come Home To Me

2011-05-20T03:38:00.000+01:00

I love this cover, though this is the only cover that I've listened to of this song but I still love it most. I even like it more than the original.
I love how his voice has matured so much in the past year. It has a little of huskiness in it and it's just so darn good :P

On the death of

2011-05-03T22:21:00.000+01:00

Who else if it's not Osama Bin Laden?
The big thing next to the Royal Wedding, I should say?(The Royal Wedding was spectacular. If you have something opposing to that, don't tell me. I don't care if they spent billions on the wedding, I enjoyed watching it, cried a little bit and adored the beautiful Alexander McQueen's dress!)

Words on him have been going a lot around me, everywhere I turn, somebody has to be talking about his death and Obama, and how it all was a big conspiracy.

To be honest, I had only the slightest idea of what he was, whom he really was before this.. incident of his death?
I mean, I've known his name since I was about 8 or so. Back then, I think, people wore t-shirts with his face on them.. I think. Or it could have been a nightmare but anyway, that just shows how little I knew of him.

Reading, watching about him on the net and BBC, it's tempted me a little to have an opinion of my own(since I do like to have my own opinions) on it.

Some are relieved, joyful and thankful for the death of Osama and some question whether or not it being true at all or might it be just a made-up thing by the US. And slight amount believe that he's been dead for quite some time.
Some disapprove the act of celebration of his death, saying it's nothing close to a victory with all the things going on still, for example, of how Afghanistan is still very much unstable and not at all free of war.

What I want to say to this is, let it all be. If the man is dead, he's dead.
I believe it is a justice. His death I mean.
After all, he was a terrorist, he terrorized, he did cause terror.
As a Muslim, I pray to God to forgive his soul, for all the faulty things he has done but I don't think I want to blame the US for wanting him "deceased". He was a terrorist!
He claimed to be a Muslim, and yet he'd caused massive troubles, scared the living shit out of a lot of people with his presence in the world. He made a lot of people believe that Islam is a religion that encourages terrorism towards others with different beliefs and what not which I thought was very disgusting.(Islam is about peace! but if I were to speak on the topic, this post would go on for days)

I take the "justice" part as something like.. a murderer being given a death penalty for murdering.
If a person who's murdered only one person gets hanged, I don't see the foul at giving someone who's murdered hundreds a death penalty.
With all that being said, I am in no way celebrating his death. I don't celebrate deaths. I think that's just a little too inhumane and mad.

All in all, let's just pray that God would have some mercy upon his soul. And all of our souls really.
Let's pray that God would have mercy on all of our souls, forgive us for all the crappy things we've done in this world and protect us from any kind of evil.

2011-03-29T20:04:00.000+01:00

2010 Trunk Show
Vera Wang

I am beyond in love with this dress. It's so simple, neat and just so goddamn classy. I seriously have to wear this on my wedding day, if I'm going to have one someday.
I'm such a girl, God.

On being terrified and excited

2011-03-29T18:43:00.000+01:00

This time around last year, I was probably just faffing around, wasn't at all bothered by the fact that I was about to sit for my IGCSE. It seems like it was only yesterday that all that happened. The joyful moments before exams with my friends, stuffing ourselves with junk food, watching movies in school, forever talking about cute boys, being extremely childish with the thought of life.

This year, I've realized that I'm a little more mature, more determined and hard working. Come to think of it, I find it really absurd. Me.. acting slightly grown up, handling things in a better way. ODD. But it's also very refreshing to have that thought at the back of my head. Knowing that I'm not a child anymore. It's a little frightening, but refreshing.

I've always wanted to be a grown up, acting all mature and sip coffee or something.

I think I'm ready, to move forward and be responsible over my own life. I'm ready to venture into the next chapter of my life. To be honest, I'm quite excited. Although I do still have one more year of school to go, comparing from last year to this, a year happens in a blink of an eye.

My Cambridge AS exam starts in May. If I'm not mistaken, the first paper is on the 9th of May. MOCKS are almost done and I think I did.. pretty terribly in some subjects and fairly good in others. I might have failed Chemistry but I'm just going to tell myself that I have a whole month to work on it.

This Saturday would be my last day of year 11. It's weird. I'm in year 11. About to be done with it. I'm going to be a senior soon enough. (In real life, that'd be college but I go to school, not college because my parents didn't think I was old enough to live without them when we were deciding whether or not I should go to college for A levels)
I swear it's weird, I never really thought of all this before. I mean, I fantasize of being "big" when I was little but I never thought I'd actually experience it. Not that I thought I was going to die but you know.. it just never occurred to me that it'd happen.

I'm going to be 17 this June.. I told my mom that and her reaction was something like she was just slapped on the face. Even she couldn't believe it. Time really does fly.

My parents still think I'm 14 or something.

xx

Inspired

2011-03-27T22:33:00.000+01:00

nowplaying: Spiritualized - Lay It Down Slow

Ah I miss this space. I miss writing stuff nobody cared about.
I'm going to start blogging again. Main reason is because I need to have something to do let off some exam stress and everything although the real thing hasn't even started but you know.. MOCKS are pretty stressful as well.

So today, I can finally say I am done with Arabic classes that I've never attended, done with having to study Arabic for shitty school exam and just done with it for the year! The final exam was about 3 pages long, which in reality is considered nothing. It literally was nothing though. We had two questions to answer based on some comprehension in the text book that I've never touched, some fill in the blanks, some "matching" and lastly, dictation.
All of that, in some ways connect to each other and are answers to each other. I finished the questions part long before the teacher came back to do the dictation and when she did, I was only expecting her to give the exact sentences that's already on the paper. And she did just that.
I don't blame her for making the exam a little too pointless because if she didn't, a lot of girls including me would have complaint :P

On a side note, I've discovered a new interest! I've been watching a lot of Youtube vloggers lately and found some really cool ones that actually make quite high quality videos. The editing, audio, sound effects and all of those things were just amazing. They truly are passionate about making videos and they give their best in doing it. Some videos were short films around 15 minutes, with actual story line and it being good! I especially liked the semi-animated videos because it shows not only the guy's talent in shooting videos but also a whole new level of imaginations and creativity. In seeing their great talents, I couldn't help but wonder if I can do the same and so I tried. I tried working with Photoshop and surely liked it although I still have so much to learn but it's good, you know. All the animations also inspired me to have a book with me at all times so I could express any of my thoughts, what I'm seeing and feeling in a form of drawings. I decided to have one particular book where all my drawings would go to. This should work well with me because when I want to apply for university, I could always use the best ones in the book as part of my portfolio.

Now, that's it for now. I'll write more soon!
xx

Please don't be in love with someone else

2011-02-16T14:21:00.000Z

I've recently just found out that Adam Young of Owl City covered a song called Enchanted by Taylor Swift, directly implying a reply to the song. The song was posted personally by him on his own blog on Valentine's Day.

Enchanted, when it first came out, was rumoured to be about Adam Young. Now he's proved that Taylor Swift was referring to him when she said in the song "I was enchanted to meet you".

To be honest, I didn't exactly like Swifty because of her reputation with Hollywood hotshots like John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal. I actually found her quite annoying as a person though I did love most of her songs.

And now this happens, which I think has got to be the most romantic, cutest thing any person could do.

Adam Young wrote a whole blog on this matter which you can read here.

Listen to the cover here.

The original Enchanted by Taylor Swift.

In the cover, Young slightly changed the wordings like "Oh Taylor I was so enchanted to meet you too" "Taylor, I'll spend my whole life wondering if you knew I was enchanted to meet you, too"

"I was never in love with someone else
I never had somebody waiting on me
'Cause you were all of my dreams come true
And I just wish you knew
Taylor I was so in love with you."

A little note he wrote to her

Dearest Taylor,

I’ll be the first to admit I’m a rather shy boy and since music is the most eloquent form of communication I can muster, I decided to record something for you — as sort of a “reply” to the breathtaking song on your current record. This is what I wanted so badly to tell you in person but could never quite put into words:

Everything about you is beautiful. You’re an immensely charming girl with a wonderful heart and more grace and elegance than I know how to describe. You are a true princess from a dreamy fairy tale; a modern Cinderella. I’m terribly sorry it’s taken me such a long time to reply but I figured Valentine’s Day was the perfect time to write this note to you and simply say… I was enchanted to meet you too.

Love,
Adam

This is too cute and I just had to share it although most of you might have already found this out before me.

Say NO to smoking!

2011-02-11T14:50:00.000Z

Don't you sometimes just wish you had the ability to avada kedavra your school? Because I do, ALL THE TIME. Speaking of which, second semester of 11th grade starts tomorrow for me. I haven't prepared for anything, and yes, I've wasted my two weeks vacation, not studying or finishing up the books I got. How sad is my life, tell me.

Fine, I'll stop blaming my life and start putting most of the blames on myself. I always let my weakness get the better of me, that is laziness. I'm so lazy that if I were to be talked about among desperate mothers with desperate sons, I wouldn't be. Not that I'm not grateful to be voided in conversations involving the phrases "Ah she's so pretty, I'm sure she'd make a good wife", "Oh she can cook too!", "Girls shouldn't wait too long to get married" and etc.

I have to pull myself together, sort my life out and grow up :(

Back to school,
I HATE SCHOOL.
Though I do like it sometimes(very rarely), but right now, it's the last thing I want.
The two weeks vacation had felt like forever until now. I think I've put on about a million pounds too over the vacation. I have to get on that treadmill soon. And more, I haven't scrubbed my face in a week, I feel like a caveman! (Ew, why am I telling you about my disgustingness?)

Did I tell you I had to study for my BIG DEAL board exam? The AS Cambridge Board Exam?!?!?! I didn't, did I?
Well yeah, I was supposed to study for that. The exam's in May but the syllabus is ass long so I do need to revise a lot way beforehand or else we all know what my future would look like.
I still can't find a reason why I decided to go ahead with A levels instead of Pre-U. I know it's almost the same thing but at least in Pre-U, I'd be a little more motivated because.. well it's just my theory but I think staying away from home, in college gives you more motivation to become responsible and sorted out. You'd need to depend on yourself a lot more and so makes it easier to rid of your old high school habits. And plus, I'd be out of this hellhole!

Anyway, no point on nagging about that now is there?

I'd also get my mid year results tomorrow. I failed, I know. At least in Bio and Math. I messed up quite terribly in those two. Just hope the teachers won't make a big deal out of it or I'd seriously cry. I can't handle guilt and being given the disappointed looks and disappointed words.
I'll try to avoid them as much as possible.

In conclusion, wish me good luck!

*Couldn't think of any other "suitable" title :P

Stamford Bridge

2011-02-06T20:25:00.000Z

I'm not going to say a lot but,

YNWA

Chelsea fans were a little over the top with the confidence and now weeping, bashing Liverpool of being only top 6(Chelsea at 4th).

Torres in the other hand made a complete fool out of himself with promises to score against Liverpool at his first match with Chelsea. 50million pounds to get him to sit on the bench amongst Chelsea bench..ers?
Anywho, that's about it.

MARTIN KELLY xoxo

McFly

2011-02-05T22:41:00.000Z

It sucks that McFly isn't very productive because their music is to die for! I am currently very much obsessed with this song too.
I should tell you that whenever I'm obsessed with something, I could get to a point where I could actually cry! lol :P

CHECK OUT THE LYRICS WHILE LISTENING

*The acoustic version isn't too bad either. Give it a listen!
And just in case you weren't able to figure what POV stands for, it's Point of View. Yes, I had to ask my sister too.

More than words

2011-02-05T00:21:00.000Z

Some of my amateur shots:

A day at the beach

Since this blog of mine has hardly any readers, I couldn't be bothered to watermark my photos so I'd very much appreciate if you don't claim it as being yours. (On a scale of 1 to 10, how obnoxious did that just sound? lol)

Furthermore, I'd like you to know that I'm too lazy to write the details of the day so I'll just leave you at the photos. And also acknowledge that I am not a professional, neither do I take up classes for photography so they mightn't be as good as you wish it would have been.

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On a side note, I've fallen in love with this song. It's such a great holiday trip song, of course besides A Rocket To The Moon. This is also of one of the songs from my dad's playlist. The voice gives me chills to the bone, it's amazingness. The guitar is as well pretty sick. I might try to learn this :P

You're so annoying, it's not even funny.

2011-02-04T22:38:00.000Z

Don't you just hate it when one damn person ruins your whole day by not doing what you've been dreaming of him/her doing? Even though it's completely your fault by keeping your own hopes too high, you just can't seem to shake the disappointment off. And it's darn upsetting.

It's not my aim to flood my blog with dumb, emotional things so I'll stop it right there.

My journey to Kobar yesterday was okay. I kind of just slept the whole way through because I woke up at around 7 in the morning. Nia and Nadia were riding along with us while my brother, who happened to be the birthday boy, was in Nia's car.

Oh my brother's 19 now just so you know. Soon, he'll be off to college!

We had McDonald's in the car for breakfast, it sucked. The cheeseburger was so damn dry and disgusting. Remind me to never ask for McDonald's again after this.

The journey from Riyadh to Kobar took about 4 hours. As we arrived, went straight to the hotel and freshened up before going out to eat at Malaysian Kitchen.

Due to my inability to stuff myself with excessive food, mom told me to share my meal with the 10 year old Nia. We ate Nasi Goreng Pataya - Thinly fried eggs, folded, and stuffed with fried rice, topped with either ketchup or hot sauce and cucumber - which was fantastic and very much filling.

We went over to the corniche for a little while and then to a mall.

Amazingly, a lot of the stores were on sale so I got myself some tops, a trench coat, and bottoms all from Zara. Which made me discover my deep, deep love towards it. I LOVE ZARA. Seriously, the sale was so crazy, it was like they knew how cheap and broke I am so they made it that much cheaper. lol

Jaybans

2011-02-01T17:49:00.000Z

YNWA

2011-02-01T08:36:00.000Z

With its ups an downs, I have to admit my support will not go astray, very unlike someone we've recently heard of. The team consists of great players and now that the manager's changed again, I have a good feeling they might just rise again. Over the years, the team has been commonly known by Torres '9. Wherever you go, whatever you do, when Liverpool is talked about, Torres would have to be in it.

Now that he's gone to Chelsea, thinking he would be much better off there and could have a higher chance of getting a trophy, people think the team is going to go down the drain straight up. You should know that without the other players in the team, Torres couldn't have done all the great things he did in the matches. Or maybe he would be better off there, who knows. The team will too, that's for sure. The team does no longer need his mood swings and bipolar issue or even his bouncy highlighted hair.

There's a lot more fishes in the sea, Liverpool now just has to pick the right ones to boost(BOOST NOT HELP) their greatness.

Speaking of which, Martin Kelly '34, the new member of Liverpool's first team has showed his abilities and I'm proud to say that he's great! He plays the centre-back and he looks darn good doing it! <3>

Furthermore, Liverpool has recently bought Andy Carroll '9 off Newcastle, who plays striker for 35 million pounds.That making him the most expensive British football player yet. So far, he's been on the good side of reputation and hopefully will be great in the team.

YNWA

Indoor Playground

2011-01-31T21:09:00.000Z

My mother woke us up at around.. well I don't actually know what time it was because I couldn't be bothered to check, though it was early and it was in the morning for sure. Anyway back to the point.
So she woke us up and told us to shower. The driver came to pick us up at around.. 11am or so and sent us to Ranco's Village.
Once we were there, we started off our day with some light breakfast and headed on to the recreation centre. Note that Nia and I were wearing our colourful "Jaybans"(Justin Bieber Raybans, don't ask).

First stop was at the library. Got myself 4 books on which I'm planning on finishing by the end of next week - the holiday. There wasn't much of girlie modern chic flick like the ones I usually read so I decided to give the older ones a go. I borrowed Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Love in Grafton Street by Una Brady, Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown and Pastures New by Julia Williams. I might start with the last one because I've just finished a book by her and it was pretty good.

After that, I joined them in the gym to play badminton on which I've discovered, I quite... suck at. Not completely though but I'm no longer as good as I was once at it. How sad is that? I so need to play more! My mom was comparing me to a 10 year old and worse, she said Nia was better at it! Overall though, it was a good game, sweat out a hell lot which is actually a good thing because I don't often.

After refreshing up, Khairul, my little brother, and I had 2 games of pool - I'd like to say I'm quite awesome at it :P It's something I could totally have at my own home, for sure.

The girls then wanted to "check out" the indoor playground and so they left. After a while, I joined them in there and I have to tell you that it was the best playground I've yet seen. It was massive and slides were high and AWESOME and the play area was gigantic. It was like a tree house but better. I swear if I could have it in my room, I would. We "chilled" there for a while and played tag. haha But seriously, you would die if you were there. I didn't want to leave but mom called us and told us we were going to the minimart and so we did. I wanted Dr. Pepper but they didn't have any except for the diet ones which suck so I went ahead with the Cherry 7Up. Wasn't as good but okay.

After all that, we went back to Aisyah's house to rest and watched Devil as well as Megamind. Fell asleep half way through Megamind not because it was boring but I was a little too exhausted. The movies were good.

We planned on surprising Aisyah with our presence there at her home(she was in school) but failed because of the movies. Though she was still a little surprised and hopefully grateful.

In conclusion, I had a great time today.

On a side note, I really want Maggie TomYam and Dr Pepper :(

Egypt

2011-01-31T03:37:00.001Z

The fact that my family and some other family friends of ours were planning on vacationing in Egypt for this holiday is still superbly surreal to me. To think that I could have been there to witness the riot, the gunshots, and prisoners walking down the streets might have given me a little goosebumps.

As tweeted by a reporter, Al-Jazeera news was taken off the air in Egypt by the Minister of Information. The point of this was probably to "cool off" and calm the worried residents.

I also have came across a few blogs mentioning the condition of Malaysian citizens residing, and studying there. As stated, Malaysians are to be evacuated out the country ASAP before anything worse happens - that, meaning they get hurt, killed, raped by the known fact of how irresponsible prisoners are.
Also, the blogs have reported that the community have decided to give Mubarak(the president of Egypt of 30 years) a certain amount of days to respond and step down from presidential and if not accomplished, the country would go into a civil war. What with all the other foreigners in the country, this could lead to interference of other countries and as we all could expect, resulting in.. well, let's just leave it at that.

I'm pretty sure the foreigners would want to leave but I'm not too sure of how they're going to achieve this. No flights are going into Egypt, so it could be very limited but aside of this, how are they going to do it diplomatically in the state of it now?

There was also the case of house robbing as according to Al-Jazeera, and that they, the robbers, were caught to be wearing the police uniform.

The police was also spotted being missing in the act of torching the museums, buildings and vandalizing every object there is to be vandalized. Some even, including the mummies of which does not actually belong to the Egyptians but to the whole world.

After what has happened to Tunisia and what's happening to Egypt, some other countries, predicted to fall into the same path are Syria, Jordan and a few others of which are not as well governed.

I don't really want to put a blame on either sides but the state of the country is frightening!
May Allah help the innocent to strive.

This Love

2011-01-30T21:50:00.001Z

ALFIE

Coochoo Coochoo Coochoo

2011-01-30T20:24:00.000Z

If you were wondering, the title of this post is pronounced as koo-choo, and if that still doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to you, you should know that it doesn't to me either. Just so we're clear..

May I just let out the biggest sigh I could ever let out? HAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Yes, that's my sigh. Well it's more like a ERHHHHH or HEEEEHHHHHHH but okay.
Anyways, the reason why I'm sighing that much is because my friends and I have just wasted about half our lives trying to shoot this little vloggy because well, we just thought we could give it a try. But of course, we proved ourselves wrong. We'll probably try again some other time though(how appropriate, yes? -__-) .

Today, I went to visit baby Zahrah at her home! She's the cutest thing ever! Reminds me a lot of Alfie, my little fat kitten for some reason. Nia and I made brownies from scratch! Yes, with all the chocolate melting and the whisking and the battering. It was fun and the result, I must say, was pretty darn good! Hehe, now I can officially say that I can bake, and not just out of the sweet, sweet box of Betty Crocker :P

As of now, I'm waiting for ADA, my sister, to cook up some sausages for our movie night with Anis and Nia along. Yes, Nia came home with us for a sleepover. I'm hungry and in serious need of the bathroom but as per usual, I just can't be bothered to go pee.

Life As We Know It

2011-01-27T15:11:00.000Z

From the heading, you might have guessed that I've just watched the movie and I have to say, it's quite interesting and funny. AND SO SO CUTE. Well, I'm big on the chic flicks, happy ending, cliche things but this one is REALLY good. I think because it's not just about 2 significant falling in love but a family. A family they have grown to be by time. It's a really touchy story and I just might have had gotten a little teary at some point but that's beside it.

Anyway, this past week has been a little weird because of the non-facebook thing. I've realized how much time Facebook has taken up from my life. Everyday, I used to have to spend at least 3 hours on it and giving that I still am at the age of having to study and do homework and what not, it's pretty distracting.

So as I'm writing this in the dark(because I can't be bothered to turn the lights on), I just want to share some bits on how my days could be so much better without the urge of having to check for notifications or friend requests and all. It's really refreshing because I noticed that I'm so much more well rested. I don't have to sit in front of the screen, strain my eyes and have a really bad backache by the end of the day. Instead I could just lie down and get engrossed in a book, which I love a lot.

And that, I've managed to finish 3 great books in 2 days!

I also realized that my days are calmer without Facebook. I guess it's because of all the time spared. I can do so much from reading to movies to just enjoy a little bit of experimenting in the kitchen and also naps! Good, long, long naps.

As for the exams I just had, they were pretty good. I had time to study really well and satisfy myself with knowing that I did my all best.

It's mid year holiday now. I have 2 weeks off from school and I'm really glad. I could start doing some serious studying(not cramming overnight) before the school opens and MOCKS would come along soon after that. Then the real thing but let's not think of that just yet.

Anyway, I guess that's it till now. I'll write again soon.