So be it.


Allah knows the best for us.

Pesta Buku Antarabangsa 2013 & pengunjung-pengunjung setianya

(dan-dan aku nak cerita pasal benda ni, adik aku pun bukak topik sama. usha la blog dia, boleh tengok buku apa kitorang beli cewah) 

hari Ahad lepas aku pergi Pesta Buku dekat PWTC nun. lepas beli buku-buku yang patut walaupun poket kemarau panjang, aku pun upload la sekeping naik instagram, bukan apa, saja nak memeriahkan lagi arena fotografi negara. masa tu aku terfikir pulak yang kitorang memang pergi Pesta Buku ni setiap tahun, tanpa gagal. daripada aku kecik lagi, tu yang tak teringat dari tahun bila (ada satu tahun la aku tak pergi, kononnya pulun study untuk final exam haaa beria tak)


so, aku buat kesimpulan, mak aku start angkut kitorang pergi Pesta Buku ni masa aku darjah 1. memang best la sebab cakap je nak buku apa, mesti dapat. komik pun main tunjuk je terus mama pegi bayar, takde tanya-tanya dah, tak payah susah-susah nak pegi bisik kat mama kenapa komik tu wajar dibeli. 

hasilnya, kat library rumah adalah macam-macam jenis buku - komik, buku pop-up, buku sirah nabi, antologi cerpen, majalah asuh dan majalah kanak-kanak lain, buku puisi, siri salma, muqadam, buku cerita hantu, buku sastera, Enid Blyton, tidak lupa juga ensiklopedia berbagai genre serta banyak lagi.


dah sah-sah lah mama aku ni suka sangat kat buku. kalau kitorang, anak-anak dia tak baca pun, mama akan bacakan jugak kuat-kuat dekat rumah, tak pun dalam kereta. so paling tak, mesti sangkut jugak sikit-sikit dalam kepala kitorang. 

satu tahun ni, aku dengan adik-adik macam biasa ikut mama pegi Pesta Buku. masa ni aku kecik lagi, darjah dua kut. ada pulak bro nak jual barang dia, rasanya ensiklopedia. berdiri tengah-tengah jalan, dah la orang sesak. sekali, dia dapat tangkap aku. and dia stopkan aku dengan soalan, 

"Adik, adik tau tak binatang apa paling besar dalam dunia?" muka dia menduga habis.


aku pandang mama sekejap.

"Ikan paus biru," aku jawab dengan memandang tepat ke mukanya. 



aku rasa kalau masa tu aku tak innocent, mesti aku dah menyeringai dengan disusuli gelak tawa kat dia bagi menunjukkan kemenangan aku muahahaha.

so, bro tu balas " Eh betul lah dik!" ayat cover.
lantas, aku yang kurus dan pendiam pada waktu itu, terus berlalu pergi. bro tu gagal mengagumkan aku. 






masalahnya,
tahun-tahun seterusnya, ada jugak orang pakai soalan yang sama, dah lah tanya dekat aku dengan adik-beradik aku jugak! dia tak dapat pengajaran lagi tu. 


mama senyum je, karang kena cop berlagak pulak. 






bila cakap pasal tu sekarang, kitorang tibai gelak.



p/s: lupa nak check masa pergi Pesta Buku semalam, dia tanya soalan macam tu lagi tak? 
p/s/s: aku tergerak nak tulis sebab mama dah sound, and terpengaruh gaya tulisan, sebab baru lepas baca buku Dari Tg Malim ke KLCC. haihhh





sedih jugak sekarang kena pakai duit sendiri.

funny how your mind operates

semput bila banyak benda jadi dalam satu masa.

funny i wrote this like just a couple of days ago and now i couldn't even remember what this is all about. funny how easily we forget things. 
funny how we think too much about our problems at one time and then, they just vanish.


how funny life is. 





when i was too consumed by the workloads, some other girl at the other end of the world has died fighting for her dream.

when will you go for your dream?

enchantment of an awesome night

salam. 

quite a long time no see eh?
i am not even going to use being busy as an excuse because honestly, i have a-week-long holiday and half of the time, i was being lazier than a lazy bum. teruk betul. i've been delaying my work since day 1 and kept myself 'busy' over surfing through the internet and whatnot, which include being idle on my comfy bed for hours, doing exactly nothing. blegh.

however, nearing the end, i had to muster everything in me to fight this overwhelming laziness. i always find it hard to start. no worries, i've managed to drag my body parts and brain to do them. 

anyway, yesterday was really a nice day (despite the fact that i had to face books during holiday) because...
i'm not going to let you wander.
i had a nice chat with a very dear friend from high school to begin with and that is always lovely. later that day, i had to go to the book store at 10 and the sky was amazing! it was clear, the moon was brighter than usual, no clouds obstructing the view, the sky was black, not reddish like common industrial city skies and the stars were shining brightly! ah the feeling when you see beautiful things. it just makes you smile and feel content. masha Allah. 

and as if that is not heart-warming enough for me, there was a shower of fireworks very nearby to my house since they were coming from houses from the neighbourhood. i could see them clearly from the yard of my house and i was literally standing for like at least 5 minutes and watched the whole show, with my little sister (sayangnya, my parents were already sleeping).

so pretty and so near, like the fireworks are meant for me. 
(so if anyone has ever watch the Indonesian movie, Eiffel I'm in Love - you'll get how i feel hihhih). again, the feeling of enchantment made me on cloud nine, ten if that's possible. haha

 actually, i had to suppress the desire to watch the fireworks though it had started at nearly 11 because i had to finish up my work. and right after i settled it, the sounds are too loud and too near to resist and i checked every window to know where the fireworks are coming from. and i thought they were just some loud firecrackers from distant but heck, i was wrong. i guess, this would be the best present for finishing your assignments hihi

Dan Dia telah menundukkan untukmu apa yang di langit dan apa yang di bumi semuanya, (sebagai rahmat) daripada-Nya. Sesungguhnya pada yang demikian itu benar-benar terdapat tanda-tanda (kekuasaan Allah) bagi kaum yang berfikir.

Terjemahan : Surah Ar-Ruum [30] : 8

i'd like to remember this, as one of the many awesome nights in my life. Alhamdulillah. 




the GIF is by ulfa. 

Sore throat Attack

i think, this is, by far, the worst sore throat i have ever get attached on.
because,
i don't only have stuffy nose, i also lost my voice, completely.

this is totally no exaggeration. i can only whisper, and squeal now. usually, my voice would be deep like a man's when the throat sores, but this time, i can't speak at all. the good thing is i'm excluded from any presentations at class but that is so meaningless compared to the ability to express yourself with talking. and my friends were teasing me while they can. they all whispered back to me when i talked to them. haih what to do, naughty friends. just wait till i get my voice back heh.

anyway, today has been the third day. 
i thought of the what ifs. what if this continues until forever? then, i'd have to learn the sign language? scary thoughts. i hope it gets better along with the sore throat.



hehe but this also pops up in my mind, what if my voice turns sweeter? HAHA optimism at its best.

MWEHEHEHE

of broken pipes and politics dirty games

january is coming to an end by another week. 


for the time being, i went to bed really late now. heh i thought i wanted to have organized sleeping hours but no, they get worse. and, the workload has not even come in yet! 



and the first week of 2013 couldn't start with anything but water shortage. fuh i was trying hard to keep my spirits high for the new year (despite all the complaining and sighs i gave) and when this happens, i really think i should say ' Serves you right!' to ungrateful me. 

there's not even a single drop from the water taps. so what we do is to fetch water from downstairs. i stayed at the 16th floor in a condo (it really doesn't live up to its name, this is serious) and everyday, my housemates and i would together go to lectures and on the afternoon, fetch water from the separate tanks provided by the water company. using pails and anything else possible to contain water. imagine that and carrying them to the our floor. thank God there's lift or the water would be all splashed out by the time we reached our house.

it went on for two weeks plus. but it felt like two long years. 
i dunno how africans can survive with depleting source of water. 

our hands are red with blisters. but good thing is, i think i gained muscles LOL. and the people in this condo had no better opportunity to mingle with each other. we could barely know who's living in the same building but because of the water shortage, we got to meet (and for some, greet) the pretty ladies, the cute hunks, the wise uncles, the hardworking aunties, the naughty kids and the under rated foreign house maids. 

and during this period, we all had to endure the strenuous desire to use water more than we actually have in store, like having a long shower. we had to hold it in even, for the excretion process and wait till the next morning, because the water supply in college is not disrupted. 
(the boys showered at college before they came to class, i didn't because that would need me to bring so many things, you know girls)

of course, i heard stuff like main water pipes got broken. and the political game it entangled with. duhh this one looks very much like in tv dramas, i can't believe my ears to hear this happening in Malaysia. power betul. neither way, suspending water is so not cool, because it's a basic necessity.
there's a family of this one indian lady, she hunches on her back because of her age and she had to carry so many pails of water, with only his husband to help him. and his husband is also not capable of carrying heavy things, due to his age. they went up and down for so many times and only once, i saw their daughter, who was in her thirties helped. i guess the daughter is working and they had small babies. hence, they need more water so the grandparents had to carry all the water to help. i don't know but i was touched to see that.



and one day, my housemate told me the water is back.
and when i got back from class, the water's gone again. wuaaa!
that happened twice before the water stop putting up a joke on us.

up till this day, the water is still running. alhamdulillah.




but the suspense is not over yet, our landlady told told us to keep some water in store because it might happen anytime soon. agh not again!

2013 let's do thing

assalamualaikum

so a new year starts anew. every time this moment come, i always had this tinge of morose and gloomy feeling. maybe knowing that this one year has passed and can never be undone. and what have i done for all the time given to me. anyone feels the same? 


anyway, i seldom make specific new year's resolution - i mean, everyone wants to be better; a better Muslim, a better child, a better citizen etc., those are too general. but this time i feel like writing out a list on that, like get people to be less frightened of my driving, learn swimming (?) or organized sleep hours or some more unineresting stuffs. well, that'd get me thinking this few days. but knowing myself, sigh. ahhh ... i'd get at least one of them done! (well, let's see what the entry in 1st jan next year would be about hahah)

and school is starting so early! i have always dreaded the first day of school opening from breaks since high school, because i have to depart with my ever comfortable home. but my youngest sister is far from sad to be back at school this afternoon (it's not even 2013 yet!

last day of 2012. iyah is already a senior!

ah, and i better include this in my list, start EVERY action with bismillah.