Amiecha's 20th Birthday!

Hey there connivers! It's Miecha's birthday last 25th of June. And yes, she's a gaining a year older again as normal people do, she's 20 now! Woohoo! The age nearing to legalism--though she turned 18, two years ago, there are still such things she can't do. Like what? Let me think? Ummp..driving? Hah. Yeahh..you got it right! She bumped into this--someone else's car (I'm not really sure, but surely, it was a bad bump) while she was on a test drive. Haha..well, our Miecha finally now has her own wheels now, however she can't drive it yet! haha..Now that she's a year away from independence, I wonder what's the first thing she'd do??

But let's don't get too far yet. Let's focus unto something near for now, It's her birthday! haha..last 24th day of June at nigh, we--me and the rest of my old roomies-- stayed unusually up at that night to having our midnight snack. We were just randomly reading our textbooks, some are reading novels they borrowed from the lib, gossiping and some are just plainly eating! Then, when Henny fall to check that it was exactly 12:01am, everybody stared and exchanged sheepish smiles at Miecha. Yeahh..it's not everyday that you turn 20, isn't? But it's not the reason were staring..it's because..She's OLD now! haha..we loved to tease her that she's old but she never gets pissed off though the truth hurts! haha..

We sang a very lousy Happy Birthday song and give her a very big bear hug!

But before anything else, of course were aware that it was her birthday on the 25th. So Henny and I planned weeks ago of what to give our beloved Miecha. First, the idea of black spider brooches came. But then, se has a lot already. Then, we thought of a book. A novel maybe..but her taste of books never matches our "pre-teen" (as she loves to quote it) taste. And finally, we decided of buying a cake. A rectangular chocolate cake made from Secret Recipe with the greeting:

"Happy Birthday Miecha..love BT :)", which we know that will really piss her off but still will be eating it since it's not as dangerous as the said sender's fangs! haha..

However, our evil plan didn't work out, as our schedules and financial problems weren't settled until the day of Miecha's birthday. So we tried to plan another evilness by asking her out for dinner with FBB and BT (of course BT is not in the first plan but we decided to why not, anyway). It's gonna be a laugh, we thought! Then suddenly, the night before the event, she casually said that she wanna have dinner with the girls (meaning the resident A1-1's before). So who are we to clash her plans?

The night in her birthday, Hazel** and I decided to ditch the Committee meeting for a dinner with he girls. We ate at Tea Box, a really gloomy and remote resto you can find at the back of block E and an intersection from Block G. It's merely the last resto at back of Block E so no one really eat there, unless they really wanna eat and all the restos in a hundred meter walking distance are filled with the Juniors!

We have no choice but to seat our fluffy butts there and sunk in to the gloominess of the place. Although three of our old roomies weren't there, we managed to enjoy by criticizing the lady in one of the oldest and yuckiest MTV on earth ever made! haha..

But one thing's weird, we never took photos! How could we live?! Goodness. We laughed a lot, I guess that's why the thought of capturing the moment was totally forgotten.

Miecha's last words:

" I'm happy that I enjoyed my last year of teenage with you guys. And I think there's nothing wrong with getting old with you."

Aww..and that day Henny promised not to tease Miecha about BT for the rest of the day! (at least just for a day!)

core courses + new lecturers + all new classmates / SHORT-y = NEW SEM!!!

Oh my dear bloggers! I'm here once again to share some of my frustrations and madness, now that new sem has entered!

My Core Courses!

Im really excited for my 1st core courses this sem that consists of: Accounting I, Maths I, and Statistics! Among all, Accounting is the only subject I don't have any background of. Gosh! Who would say I would end up in Accounting , anyway!? haha..They say that Accounting is really boring and that most of the students taking it for their first core course never get A. But for me, it really depends upon you. Though I'm still on the level of knowing the fundamentals of Accounting, I can say that learning is really lasts by heart. And that's what I'm aiming this new sem: "Learn everything, even though how hard it is, by heart". And mind you, it really helps! (my Arabic class is one good example.) Good luck to me! :)

+ New Lecturers!

Yup! Next to my subjects, my lecturers are always my next stop. You won't go spending the rest of 4 hours every week per subject with some boring lecturers that talks 500 words a minute, right? That's my main purpose of going to class in the very first day. Hah. I would check out how they deal with their students. how can they help us gain some knowledge? are they sarcastic? do they gabble? Gosh. Seriously, there are some lecturers I now that gabbles a lot and they don't even notice it. Try telling them and they'll give you the looks saying; "one more minute".

But I'm so happy we have really nice lecturers who all belong to the Tudung L***** Clan a.k.a. TLC! haha..They're really cool and open-minded..and they make things easier and comprehensive to the students! Goodness! Though they're TLC, they Rock! Hope for my next core courses (specially in Maths II), at least one of them would be my lecturer!

+ All New Classmates!!!

As you all know, this sem is the 1st sem open of IIUM for the juniours who just graduated from High School. That's why most of my new classmates are new intakes a.k.a. the juniours (which I don't are any younger than me)! Oh God, I was hoping for some yummy eye-candies tehm sem, but them seem to be not that mouth-watering than I was expecting it to be!

On the other hand, I have my old roomies with me, namely: Fareeha, Amy, Jo, Aisulu (just for Arabic and and BTQ) with almost all of my sujects!!! Nyahaha!!! Then that means, I can have my own living alarm clock! I can nwon't be late again (or at least just for some times) and people won't be talking to me in an alien language! hehe..kidding..but i'm really thankful their around, and thank Goodness to the Department of Econs for this marvelous idea of putting all the international students taking the same courses, in the same group! Things are getting tougher now, but with them beside me, I feel safe.

/ SHORT-y..

There's this guy I knew since last sem because of my roomies' annoying giggles of "OHMIGAWWD!"...so I join in their circle to know the cause of 'Ohmigawding'..and turns out that this particular guy their referring to is, ummhp..how do you say..short. What's the big deal?, I thought. So mean that they're laughting at him behind his back coz he's short. But when I saw him walking with my, not-so-short friend--but I figure is the shortest among all the guys I know--I was convinced, he's really (OUCh! I know.) short.

So what's the bigger deal? Well, let's say it this way, he.is.my.classmate! Yup! For this sem, I'll be seeing him everyday, to all of my core courses! Goodness. Not to be mean, but I'm not comfortable of having him around. Especially when he started to be close to my sort-of-bf, he kind of lingers around the open air since then! AND.IT'S.ANNOYING! I'm not about all the short-y-ness, Im short as well, ok! But it really bothers me when he's around. Gosh, I'm running mad.

= NEW SEM!!!

I'm looking forward of scoring high this sem. After all, aiming and dreaming is free of charge! hehe..I wanna live my matric days to he fullest, as three of my beloved roomies are leaving this sem for Gombak. But "no worries", keep on telling myself. I'll be going there (main campus) soon and live together again all in one room! Woow!

I know i'll be extremely missing them since it's never been the same without them, but for now, we'll have fun! We'll ROCk this new sem! hahah..

GOOD LUCK TO US!!! :)

20 OBVIOUS SIGNS That a Pretty Boy Likes My Bestie!

Hey there! It's good to be back! The Taa'ruf week is over and class resumed for a week now. But I can still smell the blossoms of love in air during the last week's holidays..

What am I talking about? Well, if your a big fan of observing like me, it won't be hard for you notice that someone, so well featuered guy is up to something more friendlier. Henny (well, I'd practically be dead if I spill out her name on an online public diary) and I were always together. Specially this past few weeks that we stayed for the holidays for the Taa'ruf week. That's why it's really hard for me to not notice that Fbb lingers around us.

Let's go straight to the point, there's a pretty boy named Fbb (why Fbb? that's a secret i'll never tell), whom we used to think is a gay! hehe..actually, I was happy to hear that he's not gay coz he's--I admit it, cute (with that perfectly trimmed, white, beaming teeth of his? oh God.). And for such a gift like that, it's really a turn off to know that he belongs to the 3rd sex! Thank God he's not. But there's another thing that's bothering me..and I think my instincts are true..that FBB..is in Love with Henny..

And Im ready to bet my 20 theories that this preety boy is trully, madly, crazy in love with you Henny!

20 OBVIOUS SIGNS That a Pretty Boy Likes My Bestie!

1. He want to walk with her.

- Woohoo! I guess this is a ramdom one. Every guy has this first move to their girls. I mean, you know, its basic principle is to know if the girl is taller than the guy. And for their case, their on the same height. Saved!

2. He asks her out. (DUH?)

-speaking of random, asking out a.k.a. dating is another obvious sign, for God's sake! I mean, most guy's don't just ask their girl friends for a lunch, and specifically state he just want to have it with you!

3. He gives (or even steals) you stuffs that you don't even ask for, and that he can just rather give it to the needy than to you.

-OK. I know it's not so sweet if I tell you that Fbb stole some dinner package in the counter to impress Henny. But he really did! hehe..poor Fbb..he got my symphaty..but not in stealing, dude!

4. He asks he's friend to come along with them for lunch to--to cover up the fact that, that lunch was his dream date! hah.

-you see, UIA is an Islamic Uni and that coupling (which is practically not a word they just made of to describe dating in another form) is totally prohibited. So what are friends are for? To back them up, of course!

5. He admires her features.

-OK. It's really sweet of him to call her Angelina Jolie look-a-like when he noticed her ala Angie lips of hers. But degrading my being by calling me a kampung girl is not so sweet Fbb! Anyway, that just shows that he can only appreciate Henny's distinctive features! hehe..

6. He stares at her.

-Gosh. This one might sound like a stalker, but he really stares ala Nate Archivald as his piercing eyes where darted to, who else..Henny!

7. He miscalls to call her attention!

-well, what really is the main purpose fo miscalling? To know if she's using the right phone number? But this just lack of attention, im sure!

8. He calls her princess. (Eww!!! Yuckidyyuck!!!)

-I know it's gross but it's called 'romantic' in those times when Tokyo used to be called Edo. Ninjas are dying to protect their other halves whom they love to call 'princess'. Aww..but now I'm wondering if Fbb is really 19 or if he lived million years ago?!

9. He perves on her! Hah.

-even though your playing the lamest sport on earth which you lazily refuse to contribute yourself fully, is not buying his way out from perving at you! And denies to be perving by saying:

" I just passed by here (the parking space) and I saw you're playing badminton! :)", which is kind a lame coz you can only see people inside if you intently look at them!

10. He sms' with the smiley face at the end.

- Again, I don't like this move. But this crap is intended to brighten up someone's day, so Fbb really did a research to do such a move! haha..

11. He hints her on his messages.

-poor thing..Fbb sends Henny message like:

" I'm totally free right now! :) (again with the smiley face!)", meaning he wants you to say something or even show that he said a general statement saying he wants you to care.

12. He can't look at her in the eye.

-whenever they're seated together or their walking somewhere, he can't look at her! haha..

13. He sounds like he's asking permission to you to where he's going.

-like you were his girlfriend err..more like a mom as he states his daily routine to you. Where he's going, what the hell is he doing there..you name it! In short, he's reassuring you that your he's only girl and that he's a good boy! hehe..

14. He acknowledges her presence.

-emphasized the word BOTH when he saw me and Henny walking near him one day, to distinguish the fact that he wants her presence, not mine, and her ALONE!

15. He teases her.

-whoever suggested that teasing game is a good stepping stone to a blossoming puppy love, I salute you!

16. But he's afraid to make her angry.

-Like most guys do, they tease you 'til you're brain come out and had nothing to say but "LEAVE ME ALONE!". However, when they show symphaty to your mood, he so like you, girl!

17. He apologizes millions and millions of times.

- he begs for your forgiveness countless times even though you already told him you're fine and you don't look pissed at all.

18. He asks me random questions to make me busy whereas he's not paying attention to my speech at all.

-He noticed one of the trustworthy chaperons is bored so he nicely interrogated her. But the whole time that I was talking to him, his just physically there on his seat but his soul is with the feminine figure beside me.

19. He loves her around.

-my partner for emceeing nicely told me to get loss since she can handle things on her own. But Fbb purposely gave Henny a job to keep her around in a matter of 20 meters away!

20. He sees her everywhere!!!

- this sign is the most lunatic theory that this pretty boy is crazy about her, coz It's not normal that he sees her everywhere! But if you ask me 'How'? I say, by secretly checking her out. Simple as that.

Now I can really feel the end of my life. Please send my love to all of love ones..Mama, Nana, Hanie, MJ..I love you all!!! Im sorry I can't go home next summer in Philippines coz my time has come...

Bye unfair World..Henny's gonna kill me any minute now..

POKA!

Your Mortal Enemy

College Life is really tough, indeed. Frustrating exams, full-packed schedule, grumpy lecturers, annoying classmates..and tons and tons of assignments! But if you think they're your best enemies for winning a heavy-weight belt of college fun--boy, think again! Things are harder to accomplish if they're totally near to accomplishment. Things that can talk and refuses to understand the logic of humanity are not robots. What am I talking about? Actually, it's a 'Who?'... your roommate of course!

Not all roomies are meant to be best friends forever like what we saw on the telies. Sometimes it could be really hard to deal with your roomie, specially if she/he happens to be not the most rational person on earth and fails to be polite and persuades you to go her way. Well, it'll be fine if he/she persuades you, but if he/she boastfully take your chance to choose -- that's another thing!

Why am I talking about this? Recently, we moved back to our original dorms as the class will be resuming in a matter of 2 days. But before we left our undesirable room, we plastered our names desperately to the beds of our choice (seriously, one thing you need to be reminded of is to pick the best bed ever in order to survive in Nilai). And so, I picked the bottom bunk in the middle of the room, complete with all the benefits, of course. hehe..coz you know since last sem (short sem), I've been dying to have the bottom bed near the outlets, not--even a meter--near the toilet (PUH-PLEASE! I am not, in any cases, would be eating inside the room if I happen to fall on the ugliest bunk ever! With the condition of our toilet? never mind. ), the light centered on it and most of all, near the FAN! (hah!) Well, it's new sem after all. Meaning: new beds, new tables, and new lockers. So we're free to choose!

Moving on..we finally moved back and unpacked our stuffs. OH, it's good to be back! haha..I was about to unpack when one of my old roomie, Alena (her unpopular name,of course), came as she heard that we're moving back. She was surprised that all the nice-situated beds were all booked, leaving only one bottom bunk against the wall and the top bunks. She walked from the entrance door of the room to the toilet, back and forth, surveying the condition of every single beds. And when she finally stopped at the bed by the wall, I thought she would settle with it. But NO. Her and her some sort of country mate, pulled the bed out from the corner, took off all the mats along the way and squeezed the poor double-decker bed in the tiniest space she can possibly squeeze it in. Letting the vision of her future beddie of scratching her butt against another bed, making it impossible for her to climb up.

But I was greatful she realised how horrific her idea was that she decide to move it again to the other side of the room. Ohmigod! Did I just said other side the room? Then that means, it's my side. And yes, she asked my permission first to put her bed in between the 2 beds, which means she wanna take the portion intended for my locker and combine our lockers in the corner by the door. At first I don't like the idea, but I agreed anyway. Her and her partner in crime since last sem picked new tables in the study room which basically is owned by the resident girls already.

The next day, our other roomies came and complained about the really small space in climbing up. (Goodness! they barely know that it s old place was worst than that) And serious arguments occurred.

The first girl went like:

" huh? are they crazy?!! What did they do??" (meaning, us. I've learned to figure out that it's us they're talking about when they say THEY), as she dropped her laugage dramatically.

The second girl was fortunately a calm one, and just said:

"What happened?", as she look around until her dark eyes reached mine, but all I can do is to look at Alena. (Shhish! Why is it harder to explain the unfair truth to such a sweet and calm person like A**??)

Then Alena headed me to the study room to sort out the glitch. I thank her for blaming me that the girl that will occupy my upper bunk is freaking kind that she can't just shut her out. Argh. I'm so pissed! I see this coming but I barely do anything. Instead, I agreed to whatever she said. But then I still didn't move. I rested my head to the comfort of my new bed coz I'm partially speech-impaired.

The next thing I know, two girls went raising their voice at each other as the old resident girl (we call "M") demanded for her old table back which the new girl (we call "S") already took (and mind you, S is really territorial that she put her picture frame on the table)!

"excuse me..I want to put my things in my table..so please move your things..", M said trying to be politely sarcastic towards S.

"I already wiped this table with powder and your things are there," she pointed to M's box under other's table.

"No. This is my table. I put my stuffs under it! You just moved it!", exclaimed M, losing her cool.

"Why? Did you buy this??!!", now finally, S lost her cool as well.

Oh my God..we can't help it if we have our own attitudes towards things that will really affect our needs, but hang on girl. Don't let selfishness eat your whole being...think not just for yourself but also for others! Coz mind you, it's hard to stay in one room with someone you barely meet the eye.

(but good thing they didn't end up on a cat fight! hehe)

My Clashed Holidays! Argh.

Im really sorry bloggers..gosh! It has been ages since I updated my blog. Well, I've been blaming my laziness and lack of interesting thoughts I can share you guys. I mean, I know it sucks to just complain on how unfair the world could be to us, right? So, since Blog is most likely a public diary, I would love to share to you all readers the latest and not so moarnful events of my life.

What's up?? I was really happy that last Friday was my last paper! haha..then that means, right after the exam, it's HOLIDAYS! I packed my stuffs the night before the exam out of my excitement! Oh God, I can't believe I've got loads and loads of things in my locker that I haven't used and never thought of using in the future. You see, that's the thing about being a shopaholic. You tend to buy and buy things that you think you like, then dump them somewhere a few weeks later as you found them no longer attractive. Gosh! Should I sell them? If only I can open a mini-garage sale in from of my room! haha..I can collaborate with my roommates if they have old or even new things that they're not using anymore! It could be a hit! haha..many girls..as long as they are girls (correct me if Im wrong)..they will surely love shopping! yeahh..I'll be known as the "Filipina-Garage-Queen" in CFS! haha..Oh my Gawdd. And Im imagining, as I deal with a girl looking for a nice pink brouch to match her pink,silk baju kurung..the Mahallah (hostel) fellow came and confiscated my products!

" I CAN summon you, you know?!!! ", exclaims the mad Mahallah leader, firmly pointing out the word summon in front of my face as I watch my products being harshly packed.

" You don't understand..", I cried as I start kneeling down in the floor, grabbing her right hand..

OK.

ENOUGH. Im just imagining it, OK. But now it's creeping me out. And the last part reminds me of Arthie from Shrek 3, as he begs the old, short-robed Merlin to cast them a spell. haha..

Moving on..Hawa and I bot the bus going to PJ at 5pm, the afternoon after the jumaat prayer. Gosh! we're so holiday-deprived and it shows as we're dying to get our ass out of Nilai as early as we can. We reached Gombak and had a dinner with Hannah (my countrymate). Then, I met A**r, Hawa's classmate in High School, with the really cute voice (that will most probably suit a 12-year-old girl). Then again, after dinner is another boring night. So we decided to plan everything first before anything else.

SATRUDAY/ June 07:

-we'll visit Jene's house to..basically, to disturb her peaceful life! haha..

SUNDAY/ June 08:
-we'll savour the moment we have to roam around Gombak campus and check-out some hot guys! haha..since it's still school days in there! and we'll eat..and then walk again..and eat once again! Oh God, we're like living in a stone age and the only thing humans do is to eat, hunt and eat some more!

MONDAY/ June 09:

-we're planning to disturb another innocent and peaceful life, Mika's house! haha..coz I haven't swim for a year now coz Im afraid to get dark! But now, im craving to soak myself in the cool water and do whatevr I want under the sun! Then, after that we're planning of having a bit of shopping and head out butts back to Nilai.

Uhu. That's basically the outline of our three-day-holiday. But it all changed on a late Saturday night, when we recieved a text message from the Taaruf Coordinator that we will have to go back for a briefing session of all The MCs. Gosh! Our plans have clashed on an early bus trip on about 6:45 on a cold Sunday morning. And it was raining for God's sake!!! I can just remember myself laughing as Hawa swear in her every step in the tarmac. I bet we're the earliest passengers ever that morning. The sky is still on its dreamy, dark blue state and you can still feel the 'ZzZzZzZ' of everybody. So far, we just managed to visit Jene's house. huhu..but it doesn't matter. What really matters is the 1 hour journey in the uber slow tube of the KTM. God, if only we have a choice, KTM would be my last option. It was a good deal of boredom that invited drowsyness to come..and yeahh we slept! The next thing we know, we're only 2 stations away from Nilai. We woke up in the station called BANGI, that happened to be BAI GI as what is written in the sign board. And what do you expect us to do? We panicked, of course! We're foreigners. There's no such thing as getting lost for us. Coz most of the time, no one can help us but ourselves! Turns out the other half of the letter N was removed because of the oldness of the sign board. haha..CRAP! Hawa's reaction really damn convinced me that we're lost! haha..

We arrived just right in time for us to grab lunch and attend the briefing . So guys, see you this Thursday and Friday morning in the field as I'll be your MC for two programs of the Taa'ruf week in Nilai.

HANG ON, i forgot: WELCOME NEWBIES!!!

ciao! ciao! ;>