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Di sini, saya hendak mengemukakan dua perkara.


Perkara pertama: Kepada pembaca-pembaca yang dihormati, saya hendak menanya; Apakah emosi yang dipamerkan oleh raksasa comel ini? *tolong taipkan komen anda*

Perkara kedua: Bermulalah dari "post" ini, saya terpaksa menulis se"column" "post" saya dalam Bahasa Melayu, iaitu bahasa ibunda. Bermulalah dari post ini menujukkan ketidakhandalan saya dalam mengguna bahasa melayu walaupun saya orang melayu. Saya terpaksa buat begini hanya kerana dipaksa walaupun kerja ini sangat memeningkan dan menyakitkan hati saya.

Tolong tunjuk ajar dan tolonglah kawal ketawa anda. Terima kasih.

komen untuk pembetulan (selepas saya menulis post ini):
1. we say saya bertanya
2. it's menunjukkan (that was seriously a typo)
3. we say menggunakan , not "mengguna"
4. "tolong berikan tunjuk ajar"

Half my holiday

Assalamualaikum!

It's a bit late but finally, I am over and done with Semester two!:) Last paper was Physics Lab last Wednesday. Sadly, I was already so frustrated at the last minutes that I really could not think of what else to do but just enter (what Najah would term as) "Fasa Tawakkal" (this is BM. you know who you are). After our invigilator finally took our papers, I entered "Fasa Blank". I'm not sure how or why exactly it happens but suddenly you feel like you're not sure where to head or what to think of. Lol. It's been a crazy cramming week.

I managed to get away from Cyberjaya that night:) On Friday, we drove back to Batu Pahat and spent a couple of days there. My grandmother's house is huge enough that when you play hide and seek, it may take a few good hours before a really good hider would be found. So when Ahmad nonchalantly splashed a bucketful of water while I was about to enter the toilet, he sped off outside to hide behind a pillar where it was really hard for me to get back at him. Now, a good way to get back at your brother who has unfairly executed such a heinous crime upon little you would be to pretend to forgive and forget this and wait for the next day and innocently call (with a hint of helplessness) him outside and for him to please look at that part of the grass because there seems something offhand..
and SPLASH! let all the water from the bucket you have gleefully hidden behind the door soak through his clean shirt. Run away to safety and scream in glory:) Owh, and smirk while you watch his defeated face as he comes up with his wet shirt, fuming at your revenge and his unexpectedness at such an awesomely wicked plan. *yay!*

The quote says it all.

The next day we went to Johor to stay at my Auntie's. And on Monday, for the first time, I stepped foot in Singapore:) Funny how we've been to so many far off placed but never to the neighbouring country. Oh well, Singapore is... like Malaysia. If not for seeing chinese faces whereever i turn, it could have been Malaysia... So, on singapore we journeyed on foot (that is, after we got dropped of near the MRT). We took the MRT to Jurong and actually spent a WHOLE day at the Science Centre. There is not enought time for a DAY to finish exploring that humongous and stimulating building. But I think we went through most of it. Pretty lot of cool things. New cool things too! Oh well, one of the cool things I saw was the Tesla Coil. When volts of electricity is generated in the ring, the hydrogen balloon placed inside would literally burst into flames. It was amazing. For more, please visit Singapore's Science Centre. It's pretty awesome:) Btw, thanks Nunu for offering your guide:)

That's actually Eistein "climbing" up a rope from the 3rd storey to the groundfloor. It's to demonstrate how he's not actually climbing but rather using the motor mechanism his hand and legs are literally glued to.

The Science Centre took up a whole day. And later on, we journeyed on foot yet again to search for a place to pray. It took a pretty long time since we were 1. On foot. 2. Tired. 3. Had no clue where the nearest Mosque was. Everyone was searching for a dome or a minaret but when we finally found the Mukmin Mosque, to everyone's utter astonishment, it looks like a... building. Like a business building. Well, we entered and I was really amazed that it is also a madrasah. It's really cool. There was a cafeteria inside, classrooms, lounges and it's 3 storeys high!
Took the MRT back to Bugis and journeyed back to Johor:)


Next day! The plan was meant to be stopping by PD and checking out the Eagle Ranch resort. BUT! There were too many attractions and interesting things for the guys and my parents really like the place too. So on last minute decisions, my dad decided to stay overnight in the Log Cabin.
The Eagle Ranch has an ingenious theme to it. It is basically like a western-ish cowboy-ish country style. Complete with Band Wagons, horses, mares, geese, turkeys, rabbits (!), tepees, obstacle courses, ATV's, go karts, paintball fields etc.

Eagle Ranch Outline.

The four bedrooms are exteriorally decorated as bandwagons.

So we spent half the day at PD and then finally drove back to my beloved ampang!:)
And that's half of my year end holiday^^

already?

It's almost the end of year already. Seconds tick, hours fly, days go, months pass.. and before you know it, it's almost the end of year already...

Funny how so many things has happened when you recall the past year events.

shattered

broken to pieces

cracked to shards

splintered to bits

phenomenal

Last night we finally presented our drama for Professional Communication and Presentation Class. After a whole month of preparations, it's finally done and over with. All four classes of foundation had to present a drama based on a classic that our lecturer gave during class.

It's been a crazy week though as our drama night drew closer. We've been practicing til late night and preparing at every free time we had...

Our drama was based on the classic Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I think when we first had to read the four classics, YGB was the longest and most wordy story. I read up the other stories but didn't have any interest in finishing up YGB. This was the same with most other people; even one of the english lecturers admitted it too:P

The story is set in Salem Village (i think during the 1600s). The time whereby people thought that if you practiced a religion other than Christianity, you are following the footsteps of the devil. Plus the witch hunt and all that...
Basically, this man called Young Goodman Brown heard about The Devil and was so curious to meet him. Brown reluctantly leaves his darling good wife Faith and then meets the Devil in the woods. He resists the Devil but throughout his journey in the woods, he finds out that the people he thought were good (like the woman who taught him about Christianity, the Deacon, the Minister), were found to be following the Devil too! And he also saw his wife Faith during the devil worshiping ritual. And when he shouts to Faith to "resist the wicked one", he blacks out... He wakes up and wonders if everything was a dream or if it was real...He was plagued with thoughts of the ritual... and he lived his life in doubt, never trusting anyone until his last moment in life...

It sounds so tragic when we first read about it.. And it still is a tragic story... But I think we presented it up pretty well:)

And I think the most important things is the process to finish up this play. I mean, all the hardwork and cooperation everyone put in to do all this. It's always such a heartfelt success trying to complete something and having to go through so many obstacles and hardships to reach that goal. We had problems, we had arguments, we had complications, we had sleepless nights. All the drama you can find without having to present one:P

But in the end, it turned out spectacularly phenomenal. After the play, everyone was all smiles and congratulating and laughing and like "Yes! It's finally over!" It's the end of the week, the end of the drama... finally I can breathe:)

until the 19th that is. Lol.

Speechless

I am forced to blog about this due to the intense feeling surged because something arrived in the mail this morning!

So to just let it out; thank you SOO MUCH SITI NURUL FITRIAH BT SAMSUDDIN!!!! You are just... amazing! Thank you thank you thank you! I am so honoured. Thank you for taking the extra mile... for taking the extra step... I watched and I cried and i sceamed and squealed and I laughed and I smiled like i'm experiencing some inhumane emotional disorder. Thank you for putting together an indescribablyunbelievably awesome video for me. And thank you everyone for putting up with Nurul's (persistent, I'm sure:P) request to wish me. Teachers, juniors, classmates; I am so very elatedly ecstatic and so very grateful. Thank u nunu; I love u too:)

I wanted to call you straight after I watched it but I couldn't reach you. This is the first thing I can do for now. Will call you once I can! We must absolutely meet up and eat sushi!:D

26th November i thought would just be another day like the past 18 years. But it wasn't.

First thing at 12am on the dot, the doorbell rang while I was revising Born Haber Cycle for Chemistry's Chapter 6 the next day. And who but Aki would be standing there catching her breath after running all the way:) Together with brownies and cheesecake from secret recipe and a letter! Of course, got bullied here and there as usual; but was still really delighted at the delightfully delicious surprise. It was superly awesome that you came running all the way. You are an angel:) Thank you for staying up with me and keeping me company all the way. I don't think you'll ever know how much it really means to me.... Thank you soo much Aki!:)

My sarang^^

Just before I slept, read Fuddy's letter which was written days ago of which I too received days ago before my birthday so that I'd be able to read it in time. Thanks for remembering Fuddy!:) Woke up at 5am and found a small box lined with a ribbon with a "HAppy Bday Alia Nad" note next to it. Thank you Alina:)

At college, I couldn't focus on anything really except the upcoming chemistry test. But after that, we had an unprecedented sudden reflection session in the discussion room. So while we (E70B; housemates) were all waiting there; Ms Fiza and NAjah came in with with J.Co doughnuts and a bouquet of pink roses and white daisies with an adorable teddy bear and polka dotted ribbon around its neck. And they all started singing Happy Birthday and Ms Fiza was holding out a Jco doughnut with two lit candles stuck into it. I was passed the bouquet and was asked to give a speech. I was so speechless and pleased; I wasn't so sure what I was saying and I tried to get together my sentence structure right but to no avail; it was all a jumble and I just didn't have the words enough to express how thrilled I was.

JCo Donuts. Lookie at the candles~ I ate the one with the blueberry filling:)

So we sat there eating doughnuts and chitchatting and Ms Fiza was telling everyone how she wished she wanted to plan that everyone "buat dunno" that it's my birthday and suddenly BAM! Like this. I think I might have terase if none of my housemates wished me; which half of them did just because of this. But I was awfully overjoyed that they did this for me. So for the rest of the day, I ended up walking around with a bouquet of flowers:) Later on i got a sweetly signed card from my housemates. THank you u guys; u guys are awesome!>_< Teamforce E70B and our mentor. Ms Fiza's always mistaken for a student because she looks so young. She's the one with the purple tudung^^

I thought this whole drama would end there. But no, it didn't. The two people; Aki and Sharon (though separately) publicized that it was my birthday thus many people from foundation were wishing me and I just sheepishly thanked and smiled. I am not used to having this many people wishing me; what with 26th Nov always being on a end year holiday.

During Chem Lab, I got a card signed by the May Intake girls wishing my happy birthday:) It was so utterly sweet and again, I was jubilantly... speechless. Thank you aainaa and everyone for writing in it.

And just when Lab was about to end, Sharon started singing Happy birthday softly and the rest of the class starting joining in; eventhough the instructor was still there! So yeah, I wasn't so sure on where to look, just smiled sheepishly- again.

I was practically walking on air that day...:) I had a prebirthday buildup, a smashing birthday bash and a postbirthday surprise. It's like a chemistry lab prelab report and post lab assignment. Lol.

Thank you everyone for wishing me verbally or through message or through emails. And putting up such a fantastic birthday for me:) I really had a fantastically thrillingly awesome day! And again, I'm loved. Thank you for reminding me nunu:)

Bouquet and bear:) Which is now named J.Cocoa.

Laughter the best medicine

During last week's PCP (english) class, our topic was about "Happiness". First off, Miss Fiza talked about being happy and the definition and how we relate it to laughter being the best medicine.

When she asked what's the first thing that comes to mind when you talk about happiness, among the replies were "Smileys", "Laughter", "Moments". And all those kinds of things.
We talked about how happiness has stages. Whereby there's the mild happiness, and then there's glad, happy, and then ecstatic or overjoyed or blessed cheerful contented delighted elated intoxicated joyful joyous lively merry peaceful pleasant pleased sparkling sunny thrilled tickled upbeat walking on air *phew!*. I remember during Sec4 when Teacher Azeera gave us this worksheet to do on how to classify the stages of happiness. I never thought there were soo many words and ways to describe this... emotion. XD

As to how laughter relates to medicine? Najah countered: Due to the secretion of endorphines. And I just realized at the end of the class my mom always told me that when we laugh, we expand our lungs and more oxygen comes in and so on and so forth....-

Anyways! We were handed worksheets (worksheet!>_<) basically to pinpoint what is our stage of happiness. When there was a question asking: State the things which you thought would make you happy but didn't. Write down in terms of people, possession, achievements and events and write down the false promise for each. And my pen hovered over that question for so long. Because there was nothing i can write down. For some reason, I cannot recall anyone/thing/place/time where i was looking for happiness there but didn't find it. I suppose when we always focus on the positive outlooks in life, we can balance out the situation and look at it as "building character" (as Calvin's dad would say:P)
In the end, I contradicted many of the questions and my answers went over the lines given and I even wrote onto the sides. Questions given were like, "How much do you rely on circumstances to make you happy?" or "Write down whether diet, exercise or change in your hair, makeup or wardrobe would bring you closer to your ideals. Which features do you need to accept as they are?"
I couldn't help going on and on about how it's always looking at the positive side and being thankful for everything is the ultimate key to happiness. lol.

So now our assignment is to produce and present a pamphlet about "What makes Jack healthy, wealthy and wise". A health guideline to reduce stress.
Fun!:D