[ Manusia #1 ]

Bismillah.. :)

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Ada masa-masa, ibu selalu kagum dengan personaliti manusia-manusia yang ibu sangka hatinya murni sekali.

Mereka suka memberi kata-kata yang baik dan melembutkan untuk tunjuk betapa mereka sangat terbuka untuk mendengar. Mendengar masalah kawan-kawan. Ibu teruja. Kerana ibu sangka, merekalah orang-orang yang akan menjadi pendengar yang baik bila ibu di tahap yang sangat memerlukan. 

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Sampai satu masa, ibu cuma tersenyum, tanpa merasa apa-apa. (macam ni -> :) )

Ada sebenarnya di kalangan manusia-manusia yang kita sangka kawan, berfikiran terbuka, bila kita cuba cerita situasi kita, ada yang buatkan kita bertambah positif dan optimis. 

Tapi hai anak-anak ibu..jangan terlalu suka. Kerana kita juga akan dipertemukan dengan jenis orang yang... Ya, akan dengar masalah kita, dan tunjuk betapa mereka memahami kita. Tapi dek kerana akal fikiran yang tak berhenti berfikir, mereka akan sampai ke tahap yang bilamana mereka tunjukkan pada kita siapa kita sebenarnya di mata mereka.

Ada yang bila dah dengar apa yang kita kurang dan tak mampu, mereka akan buat kita lebih rasa kurang dan tak mampu. Akan banding-bandingkan kita. 

Kadang, ibu cerita, bukan untuk minta simpati atau difahami. Cuma ibu faham, ada yang kita tak mampu simpan sendiri. Dia macam cuba nasib jugak. Kena dengan orang yang betul, In shaa Allah akan lebih cekal diri ini. Kena dengan yang memang tak berapa kena, kita kena maaaaakin cekal, anak-anak. 

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Ingat juga ya, bila orang memang tak suka kita, harum mana pun jutaan bunga yang kita tabur atas muka bumi ini, mereka akan cari juga serpihan-serpihan kelopak yang layu pada kita. 

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Moga anak-anak ibu kuat. 😊💪💪💪💪

MBf&I - PART I

It all started with my active involvement with a community service society at the place I was studying, International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), Gombak, Malaysia.

Those who are very close to me would know how much I love photography. Super passionate in it! 😘

Coincidentally, I met a friend from the same society that I joined, who shares the same passion as me. As time went, we got along really well. I felt sooooo happy and blessed when I met My Friend. Maybe because all this while, I've been doing what I love all by myself. I still enjoyed it though. Didn't realise that I need a friend to do that at all. Until, I met that one Friend.

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One day, we participated in a photography competition that was being advertised on Facebook. We've spent so much effort in that competition together. As time went, we got to know each other better too.

We found so many common attributes in each other and could go along really well.

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I like the way My Friend thinks, the way My Friend talks, to me or to other people, the way My Friend really cares about My Friend's religion, and many many things lah that I like about My Friend actually. Hahah.😆

I really appreciate our meeting. My Friend also seemed to like being friend with me.🙈
I appreciate everything that we do, maybe because I've never felt like this and never thought that I'd experience this kind of friendship ever. 😌

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I like you, Friend. 🌷

The everything-about-it-is-sengetbenget Remote Holder

"Boleh ke la kakak nak buatkan remote holder tu..dah sebok dengan mac jer skrg.." Hahah, hamek, setepek dari umi..

I think that is usual. I get distracted so easily by new stuff. But I get bored eventually. So, today I'm happy because I fulfilled Umi's request, yayy!

So what I did was, I made use of some old cloths that I don't wanna wear again. The flowery fabric is from my old baju kurung (that I inherited from Umi) and the plain fabric is from my old gown (also inherited from Umi). 

But.. 

It didn't turn up as how I wanted.

The plain blue fabric is very stretchy! It was hard to control at the sewing machine. So, the square is apparently unstraight. 

Nevertheless, it's working as finely as how I imagined it was gonna work. So, fiuhhh, alhamdulillah. I hope it lasts without breaking, ahakss!

Parcel from Tokyo, Japan

Here's my Japanese best friend. She is another cheerful girl that I know apart from my beloved Farah in Malaysia. I miss Farah sooo much, don't know if we can be like how we used to be again when I return. I'm glad to see her super adorably happy now [bla..bla..no jiwang2 laa..we'll reunite! Heheh, that's what I want]. :)

THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, ZOOMIE!

Back to Hazumi, she was an exchange student at my school. But we both are Harristown's alumni now! Wee ;-D

She has made every single day of mine a very joyful day. Whenever she's with us, there will be tons of laughs and happiness. But she never realises that. There you go, Hazumi. One truth about you has just revealed! Music is one of her passions. She's got a super beautiful voice! Honestly, she doesn't sound like a Japanese at all when she sings! To me, that's a magical. *she knows I'm pretty straight forward..ahaks! So, no offence, certainly.*

But one day, she had no choice. She had to create one of the saddest days of my life. Tokyo needed her back by the 30th November 2013. So, she left Australia. I know everyone was super sad. But that's life. When there is a Hello, there is a Goodbye.

Nevertheless, we promised to keep in touch with each other. So far, the plan is going REALLY finely. Thank you, Dear God. We even listed the names of countries that we want to visit together! Yep, we are thinking of backpacking together, one day. So, yea, we are making use of the social nets as wisely as we can, ahakss!

But today, I was awaken by the delivery aunty. She banged on my house door before 10am! It's school holiday, maam, what do you think? ;-P Heheh, no laa. Not being rude to anyone. :-)
So, I excitedly went out to get her with my pyjamas still on. This parcel made me cried a little. Especially when I opened it up. That is soooo meee!! So my colours! I loveee colourful stuff. Hazumi said it's made out of Kimono's cloths but I honestly don't clearly understand about this whole material stuff. If I'm hooked with the colours, I'm hooked with the entire thing! Teheheh n_n

This made my day, children. Mumma is overwhelmed but happy. :-D

Adovebel!

My First Granted Wishlist

*Feeling blessed!*

I have a new baby! Thank you, Allah.

1. Front    2. Back    3. Inside    4. Watching Despicable Me 2! Hee

It's not new, but it's awesomely the best laptop I could ever ask for. It was born (produced) in October 2012 and I was produced (born) in October 1996. So, I can see how we were written to be together (sorry, I am still in this whole excited mood) :-P.

The laptop was preowned by a British guy since March 2013 (before a Malaysian girl owns it now). Then he moved to Australia and needs some money for licensing stuff, that's why he sold it. The Macbook was in a perfect condition when he sold it to me (it still is) :P.

Another awesome part about this darling is, it has already got sooo many photography and media stuff installed! The price I got was 50% off the actual price for a new 15" Macbook Pro. But with the programs and software installed, and the condition itself, I honestly think that it's worth of buying (even though my parents paid it for me). 

Some softwares that are already being installed. ;-)

But I promised Abah that I will pay him back when I have a job and occupied enough (which I will, In Shaa Allah). Heheh, and the laptop will be prioritised for my studies. 

Macbook Pro has always been in my Wishlist. 

Not anymore! Ahaks! *Alhamdulillah*

So, thank you, young man.

Thank you, Umi and Abah.

Thank you, Allah, for blessing me with these people. 

I will look after this Macbook as how I look after myself! xoxo

Two days after that, I checked my final school results on studentconnect.qsa.qld.edu.au. This is what I found out.

Alhamdulillah!!! ;'-D

My Overall Position (OP) is 7. It is surprisingly acceptable for a student like me. To those who don't know how this works, I'm gonna explain a bit here. 

• Each applicable student will get an OP at the end of high school.
• The OP will be used for entering most tertiary education. Different courses at the uni require different OPs from students.
• The lowest OP is 25 and the highest OP is 1.

That's all I can recall about this whole OPs thingy. So, Alhamdulillah, as a non-English-speaker background person, I'm happy with what I got. Umi had some tears in her eyes (I know). Maybe I can now convince my parents about the whole repaying for the laptop thingy. Ahaksss! No la. ;-P

Also, thank you for my friends and families out there for your duas. :-)

P/s: It's my first post from my new darling! Eheks~😋

Screen-captures Messages.

Err.. "No offence," says a confused growing up girl.

Old Table- New Look

My family and I won't be living in Toowoomba permanently. In fact, we are only going to be here for three years. So, our house is decorated with lovely Garage Sale stuff. We decide not to get brand new furniture here, so, we could do some savings through that. Plus, our house in Malaysia has already been beautifully-fully furnished. :)

We own a garden table that we got from GS long time ago. In my honest opinion, this table looks, not too great, but very useful for us. Abah would sit there when his friends come over for quick chats and have cups of coffees or teas or stuff like that. So, yea, to me, it seems not-too-welcoming for our guests to chill there.
I've always been wanting to replace our garden table. But instead, I replace 'the look' of the table.

I drew my ideas down on piece of paper and imagined that the design would turn up like this:

I really love it when Black, White, and Red are put together.
(From Google Images)

Before and During the making of it:

As you can see, the stripes were an initial step that I did to get the shown design.
Those are only newspapers that I cut off.

*I forgot to get some photos of my failure stage.*

After that, I decided to make the table look a bit flowery instead of stripy.

My next plan:

1. Spray white paint on the table as a first layer to cover some rusty parts of the table. Wait till it dries.
2. Cut some pieces of flowers and glue them on the dried white table. I used normal glue stick because it makes it easier to peel off the flowers later.
3. Spray red paint on the table as a second layer to make the paint thicker and to get the flowery look. Wait till it dries.
4. Peel off the flowers.
5. Spray the legs black to get the black-white-red theme.
6. Wallahhh~

The white flowers are the ones that were already peeled off.
And apparently, the red ones are the ones that weren't peeled off.

After-Products:

IPhone Camera Testimony- Dandelions

My last weekend felt sooooo long without my parents. There were lots of work that needed to be done but I couldn't handle my boredom (I now know that I should stop dreaming about a 'future husband' now, I'm soooo not ready yet). Haha, I feel like my life is super cool when I am by myself.

Anyways~

One evening, I had a great project at home. Apart from the project, I decided to sit in my frontyard 'bush' with the dandelions. I love dandelions so much. I tried to take some 'flying dandelions' photos like in many ads to test the efficiency of my phone. So, I used my left hand to hold the stem, my lips for blowing, and my right hand to snap. Apparently, it happened to be an embarassing failure when someone walked passed on the pavement. 

Even though I ended up with 'not-flying dandelions' photos, I was pretty happy with the results! ;-D

One Week of Independence

It has been a very mixed up week for myself. School is getting even more hectic in this last three weeks. But you know what? There is only one week left for learning, specifically, revising. *Let me just re-sentence that* There's only one revising week left before my ever final school-oriented exam.

So, yea, I do Accounting, Indonesian, English, Maths B (Addmath in Malaysia), Business Organisation and Management (BOM) and that's it. I finished my Indonesian exam last Tuesday. There won't be any exams for English, instead, we have to do an oral, which will be on this Monday. We were only given one week for the oral preparation.*time hates me sometimes* 
BOM, Accounting, and Maths B exams will be on Exam Block week (4th-8th Nov 2013).

It shouldn't be that hard for me. Maybe it's only because I instantly have to babysit my siblings. We have to walk and catch the bus in the morning, and then walk and catch the bus again after school. *tired kot..*
When we get home, we all will inflate on the beds like balloons!
So, my only precious time to study is at school. Alhamdulillah, everything is going well now. Plus, we have Kak Abby to be our company at night time.

You have more life when your parents are with you. 

Appreciate them while you still can.

That quote came up on my mind one morning when things were so messed up with me this week. And I am soooo obsessed with it because it is soooo purely true! Maybe that's the hikmah Allah wants to show me. That's why our parents had to leave us for now. I am so excited for them to come back. 
P.s. It's Abah's birthday today! I only wish that Allah will always be their company no matter where they are. 

Okay, enough of that touchy-mouchy. One day, I left school earlier because I had no more classes to attend. So, as usual I had to catch the bus. These were what I found on my way to the 15mins-walking distance-bus stop. 

Near Harristown schools area.

Along the roadside.

In front of the house front-yard. 

Felt like I was in a drama.

The People

"It will take a century to work this miscellaneous gathering of rude people out of the scum. As they get money, they will, however, as in America, in time give their children some education; but out of them will grow, as is plain to see, a go-ahead, self-confident, Yankee sort of people." 

-William Howitt