crazy talk

To all the people who get weird or annoying emails from my hotmail email address or my MSN messenger, with emails with the content "nothing:D" or pirate talks of "Arrrr there ye matey scallywaygs!", i apologize on behalf of my insane and crazy brother- Ahmad.

my wind

yknow how kites can only fly up up high when there's a wind blowing and making sure they can be up there against the clear blue sky? And when there's no wind, they fall down flat on the ground and you can't see it reaching up and above the clouds anymore...

I lost my wind.... The strong wind that keeps me high up there and soaring like a bird...

Shall wait for another breeze to lift me back up again...






I promise.

soar up high!

Because there are no words to describe kite flying.

Women's Day

Have you ever wondered why all the evil and diabolical baddies in cartoons are ladies? I mean like look at Cinderalla; her evil stepmother. In Rapunzel, that old lady who imprisoned her in the tall tall tower. In Shrek, that prince's mother who was pretending to be the 'fairy godmother'. In Snow White, that witch who had the poisonous apple.

Are women such suitable candidates to play as evildoers?

I say, perhaps. And I begin this post like so because I've just watched "Happy Never After" whereby all the bad guys take over the folktales; but it has a happy ending anyways *spoiler ahead*: The story is mainly revolving around Cinderella. Whereby the hero is not the usual Prince Charming (Prince Charming is depicted as a hopeless childish perasan-ist in this movie) but actually the prince's shoe polisher: Rick. And Rick is in love with Ella (CinderELLA) and basically, the evil stepmother finds this staff to control how Endings of all Fairytales can work out. So she decrees that all bad guys (like the Wolf in Three little pigs; and the other wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, and the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk and lots lots more) to kill Cinderella. in the END, rick and ella get married and their wedding was paid by the Prince Charming. Pretty cool.

But anyways, today is Women's Day and in a totally unrelated way to my paragraphs up there, Happy Women's Day:)

tired cheek muscles

Yknow how you tire your cheek muscles? When you smile too much. You can especially feel it when you take photos and there are so many cameras when you're posing for a group picture. And the cameraman goes "Wait2, one more one more" And that doesn't event count for the number of pictures they take for ONE camera. And then you realize that somehow that smile can't stretch into a proper smile anymore but it looks so slightly forced.

But that beats nothing when you are at the top of the world. Because even if your cheek muscles can't pull your lips to a curved line, your heart is still smiling incandescently.

So there are two things I am superly happy about:

1. How to write a Proposal workshop

I attended this course yesterday morning which was conducted by Prof Suhaidi at CUCMS. It was more directed to various forms of writing, but the workshop was really productive and I learnt so so many things!

So, there were only four of us foundation students and the rest were our seniors. I couldn't help speaking out and volunteering at everything the speaker asked for. At one part, I felt like sangat mencapab and probably people are thinking "omg this girl is like such a know-it-all and always has to talk". Dah la Alia duduk kat depaaaan skali. So in order to comfort myself, I listed down (during the talk) why I speak out so much. The list which I shall write it here so people can understand why i do, and also to convince myself to talk out:

• The speaker wants response; so give it
• xnak kedekut ilmu
• see if my ideas are good or not
• promote spirit of volunteerism (my lifelong campaign!)
• share ideas
• spark interests
• practise speaking skills
• to receive as many feedbacks as possible for improvement
• to maximise time productivity
• opportunities for learning

So yeah, many a times i have to think 10 times before deciding to put my hand up. And even if I'm still undecided, I just shoot my hand right up so that I can't back down anymore and just forced to say it. My hand of course turns clammy and cold and my heart feels like it's about to jump out and there are a million flying insects in my stomach; but it's always worth it. And I would always regret if I weren't able to speak out.

But anyways, it is a good good good thing that I did because when Prof Suhaidi asked if someone wants to present a proposal paper, I volunteered to present my Proposal Paper for the Toastmasters Meeting Demonstration (that has yet to take place) in CUCMS. Alina encouraged me to go and Faizal gave me the thumbs up to present it. eventhough I was so scared because everyone were my seniors. So, of course, i got a lot of feedback and (very) constructive criticism since the participants were mostly the SC members. There was this one guy especially yang selalu giving so many of his comments "I suggest that maybe you should...", "Oh wait, go back go back to the previous..", "Perhaps you can...". I felt like kenapa selalu tembak alia ni?

But I managed to improve my proposal AND I got a lot of positive response about the event; which is why i am just so ecstatic about!:D People came up to me and said they were really interested to come. I've been racking my brains on how to promote the event, because eventhough it's really cool (to me), people may shy away from it because it's a public speaking event. But now people know about it and at least I know they will come!:D And even the president of the Student Council personally came up to me and said to "Give the proposal asap" and "This is the type of things we need!"

I was so pleased that I couldn't go to sleep at all because my mind was still furiously thinking about it last night>_<


2. Illustrator
When I met my mom, she told me that her second book has been agreed to be published!:D So it's coming out, real soon (look out for it!) And I did the illustrations for her book and when my mom's publisher saw it, she said "Can I put Alia's name as an illustrator in my database?" I screamed in utter delight. Me? Illustrator? For a publisher's database??? Meaning that if she's looking for an illustrator, I'm one of the names she has in mind!:D

And so, that is how one tire her cheek muscles:) I wonder if they can be overstretched... Would it just freeze into a smile? Or just you can't smile anymore? (That would be horrendous!) I suppose it would freeze depending on when exactly you overstretch it. I'd like to have it freeze in a smile though:)

inspiring start

Aaaand my mid semester holiday began yesterday!*tears of happiness* Well, actually it began on friday after Bio class in the morning but then there was an event in the evening at Putrajaya.

This post is actually more suited to be written in malay because of that particular event; but if I do write in Malay, it will lose all the drama; but, oh well.

Jadi, acara apa yang memerlukan saya untuk bertutur dalam bahasa melayu? Pada malam Jumaat, saya dan beberapa pelajar Universiti Kolej Sains Perubatan Cyberjaya (iaitu housemates -kawan rumah?- saya) mengunjung ke PICC, Putrajaya untuk menyaksi Malam Kemuncak Pertandigan Pidato Antarabangsa Bahasa Melayu, Piala Timbalan Perdana Menteri 2009 yang disiarkan secara (siaran?) langsung di rtm1.

Seperti F1: Baju "Young MERCY" yang dipakai untuk mewakili kolej. Kami terpaksa balik ke Cyberjaya untuk bertukar ke seragam ini selepas sedar yang semua kolej/persatuan yang hadir memakai seragam mereka.

Pertandingan ini dibahagi kepada dua kategori; iaitu Nusantara dan Antarabangsa. Peserta-peserta Antarabangsa berasal dari negara seperti Azerbaijan, Belanda, Amerika Syarikat, Palestin, China, Australia, New Zealand (Zealand Baru? haha), Brunei, Singapura, Sudan, Kemboja dan pelbagai lagi. Ia amat menakjubkan kerana mereka amat handal berpidato bahasa melayu walaupun bukan bahasa ibunda (mothertounge) mereka. Seorang perempuan yang dapat bertanding pada pusingan akhir dari Belanda hanya 19 tahun dan belajar bahasa melayu hanya 5 tahun. Ahh, amat menakjubkan:) Pemenang Pertandingan Antarabangsa adalah seorang lelaki dari Kemboja:)

Alia dapat tangkap beberapa ayat-ayat yang saya suka:
Tentang remaja: Ada jadi Khalifah, ada pula jadi sampah.
Dan: Ilmu dah miliki, adakah kita aplikasi?

Berdiri dari kiri: Sharon, Alina, Ms Fiza, Najah, Ms Fazilah, Saya, Kaktqa
Di depan, dari kiri: Aqilah, Azra

Acara ini sangat menarik dan boleh banyak dipelajari. Tapi, yang Alia sedar (dan Najah mengajar), pidato bahasa melayu terlalu struktur(ed?) dalam pandangan Alia. Sebab pertama sekali, diperlukan untuk menerangkan tajuk secara konseptual dan literal sebelum memulakan pidato. Dan juga, terpaksa menggunakan nada/intonasi yang sama untuk semua pidato (If you watch many of these pidato, you'll realize there's a certain way they present it. Like... I dunno, you have to watch it lol). Sangat lain dari berbahas dalam bahasa Inggeris.

Sekarang, saya boleh jugak menghargai bahasa kebangsaan dan berazam untuk memperbaiki bahasa saya:) macam best je bace, tapi perlu istiqamah. Tolong ingatkan saya selalu>_<

Akhir kata, itu saja dari saya, selamat malam dan assalamualaikum warah matullah hi wabarakatuh!

ideas

i desperately need ideas to make myself more busy. If you love me, enlighten me please:)