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

The Rose, Lavender, Lime & Sakura

Date taken: 25th August 2013

Place taken: Pottique Lavender Farm, Kingaroy, QLD.

Rose:

Lavender: 

Lime Tree:

Sakuras:

Medicine: Medicated Eucalyptus Lozenges

My throat has been trying to kill me for two days of school! It just hurts so badly everytime I need to speak. So, yesterday I was coughing so badly until I lost my voice. Then it was in English when one of best classmates advised me to get some kinds of medicine to cure my 'virus'. I told her that medicines don't work well for me as one tablet of medicine takes me 30mins to be swallowed into my mouth (true story). So bad of me.

Then my friend told me to get eucalyptus lollies. Eucalyptus is quite famous here, I think: because I think see them everywhere as anything: Eucalyptus trees, Eucalyptus oil, and this one, lollies! I kinda like the lollies, it's minty. And certainly, I think it did sooth my throat a bit. I've got my voice again but it hasn't cleared my nose for some reasons. It also freshens your breath! :D

Eucalyptus lollies have variety of looks but I'm pretty sure they all tastes the same. I got one like this for $2.95 from Westridge Day&Night Pharmacy, Toowoomba. 

I recommend this for sore throat. :)

The Best Sunset Scenery: Toowoomba

As far as I know, the-best-sunset-scenery-that-I-can-enjoy-everyday can be seen in Toowoomba. 😊

I'm in love! 😻

Horrocks Cres. Park

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone.

It's Aina and Aunt Lin's last day for now in Toowoomba. So, our group did a farewell party for them today at Horrocks Cres. Park (bukan nama sebenar..tak tau pulak nama park ni..tapi fairly close to Horrocks Cres.) I'm loving this park now and it's going into my will-go-again list for photoshooting..heheh..

Such a splendid view! But.. I didn't get many photos taken due to my unrealistic-phobia. 

When I got there..

"Ohh wow! Subhanallah, this is such a nice place!" 

Excitedly got my camera out of its bag and went near the lake. 

Then.. 

STOPPPPP! There's a bank. A bank! A bank! A bank just like the one where I slipped in last time at Bribie Island. Hiuhhh~ Sadis! 

So, I've only got a few photos taken. :)

Salam.

Abah's Braided Ear Flap Hat

Assalamualaikum and hello gorgeous readers! 

As part of my obsession in handcrafting, I am now introducing, crocheting, as my brand new buddy. So, I kept Youtube-ing to understand every move in crocheting during my sick-leave. 

And at last, I made this hat for my father. 

Mum complimented it as a really nice looking hat, and also left a tip for me to make the size a bit bigger for Abah next time. But he still can fit it. Heheh. 

Goodnight peeps! 

Water Bottle Tote

My hand-knitted bottle tote. I'm rather lazy to make the string because it'll take me forever to finish it! Heheh, neverthelesss, this tote got a 'prize' from Aunty E, her hand-crochet flower! Heheh, mekashih anti~

My First Mesh Bag

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone!

Heheh, this will be the last but not least for today. :D
9 hours on last Saturday were enough for me to use the time productively, tried to knit my first bag. "9 hours?! And she only knitted this tiny??" Haha, I know right? But hey, its me, 'the imperfect-perfectionist.' :P Hihi..

An 8y/o Girl Beanie

Assalamualaikum and Hi everready everybody! (????)
I'm pretty sure this beanie was made last Wednesday. It was also my first try of combining every basic knitting techniques in this beanie. Hihi :)

Red-Black Baby Beanie

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone!
Apparently, this blog has not been updated for quite a while due to my time constraints :(

Nevertheless, I found some times to pursue my independent knitting/crochetting (still don't understand the difference) learning sessions. Well, not really, because some friends of mine are into this sort of stuff too and we usually try using new technique together. :)
So, this baby-size beanie was knitted by me last Tuesday. I loveeeee knitting!

My First Knitted Shawl/Scarf

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone!

I learnt how to do this yesterday from Ms. Youtube.

So, I started knitting the scarf (didn't actually know what exactly I was doing until it was finished!) and it was truly addictive! I even brought the unfinished project to school, just to finish it when I was free (didn't waste every single second of spare time.) Sadly, the last part of the tutorial that I used as my guide wasn't clear enough for me. Then, I decided to not be a good student, I casted off the knitting with my own way (I'm doubting it's 'long-lastingness' now).

So, after about 10 hours(not at once, of course) knitting, here's my first trial. The color is absolutely amazing!

So, there's a few random style I did. The scarf is about 41inch long.

Ohh, here's the tutorial that guided me, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCE7whUTNw.
It said in the video that only fluffy yarns work well, but I don't have a fluffy yarn yet, so, I just used this yarn, it's pretty thin though.

My New Toy!

MARTHA STEWART CRAFTS 

knit & weave loom kit

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone!

It's my joyful, thankful, cheerful and everyFUL day today. 

Hihi. I love Spotlight sooooo much! Mum and Dad took me there this evening since the shops close later on Thursdays: around 8-9pm. 

I now own an awesome knitting kit. I've been wanting to learn knitting for ages. I've got so many yarns from garage sale last year. However, I didn't have the equipment. I know I could just use the normal sticks like one of my Chinese friends does. She's soo pro! She doesn't even need the perfect tools for her knitting projects! I cannot knit, actually. Heheh, but it has always been a great satisfaction for me seeing my own hand-projects and I really enjoy trying new things. I'm gonna learn this asap!  

Spotlight is having a MAMMOTH sale until 27th of April 2013, so, hurry! Heheh, I've got my catch for today, as stated on the title. The regular cost of this kit was $49.99. It went down massively (to me) to $29.99! On top of that, I am a member of Spotlight, I've got a $5 voucher, which means, every price for item that I buy will be cut off to $5 (including sales items!). So, that made me only had to pay for $24.99. Thanks soooooo much, Umi! These are two snapshots of the item. 

I'm soooo loving this babiehhh!