The Cutest Thing I Ever Laid My Eyes On (period!)

I was in awed when my nephew, Amreel Nuqman came over my house this morning. It was raining that morning, so he had the CUTEST Osh Kosh hoodie on!! Totally melt my tiny heart. See for yourself!




Ain't he the cutest baby u ever seen!!??

Week 14: "I think I'm gonna passed out!!!"

Gosh, this week got a few drama going on pulak!? First few days of work was fine, didn't do much at all. Just the work that was pending since last week. Other than that, the usual, be the girl of 'mystery' - meaning selections of prank calls, and besides that, some boring data entry and reading newspapers for monitoring. The last 2 days of work was incredibly boring! To make things worst, both of my supervisors are out of the office most of the time. Or, doesn't have anything to give me.

Friday was amazingly boring. The office was quiet than usual because there are less people around. Should be happy, well, I am a bit. But the silence and the boredom took a toll on my mood. So, I ended up chatting with Nadhyrah and Suh Shien (the other intern from UTAR), AND, I was so bored, I managed to finished the Intro and Acknowledgment for my final report!

On the same Friday noted as the final day for Suh Shien (UTAR intern). She was my partner in crime in 141 department. Such incredibly sweet girl, very polite, have a incredibly soft voice and a cute way of reply to anything: "HMM!" - love to tease her for that. She's from Tabuan, Sarawak..so I'm sure I'll bumped into her whenever I'm in Borneo. Unlike us kids, she will continue her studies - back to class! You'll be missed, Suh Shien! Now I have to go to WIP meeting alone!! Boo Hoo! No one to 'kacau' around there besides my other flamboyant colleague and Hedgehog.


Me & Suh Shien on her final day (Sob!!!)

The drama continues...like any other week, me and Nadhyrah would find a 'release' at the end of most week after work - usual on Friday. Either it's karaoke like last week, a long chat over coffee or tea but most times, it involves a movie. So far we've watched great movies together. Getting out of the office feeling happy. So, on Friday, we catch "He's not that into you" at Signature, The Gardens (our fave place!). But this time we thought of inviting Huda and Muzaffar along. Our closes friends nearby. But Huda ditched us last minute: her excuse - a lot of work. Then, Muzaffar tags along with us, even paid for our tickets! How sweet! He later told us that Huda is hanging out with her beloved Imran! Woah! Nevermind that. Pity Muzaffar his date didn't want to seat with him at the couple seat. Probably thinking a man seating next to man, watching a chick flick!??? That's too gay for a straight man. None the less, we all enjoyed the movie. Cool insights! I can't remember how many times me and Nad cringe looking at Gigi's behavior! AIYOO!

The drama continues...

After great movie, we bit our goodbyes and parted ways with Muzaffar outside Midvalley. Then, as we would thought everything is fine and dandy..and even still a bit mesmerized with the movie, for Nad, it was Ben Affleck! When I get to my car, it won't open. I thought it must be the car keys battery run out. So, I open manually. Countless of try by indicating whether the door is unlock from the passenger seat. I started to worry. Because the other doors won't open besides the driver's. Then, I opened the door for Nad first. When I wanted to start the car, nothing happened, not even a sound like the battery is dead. But the thing is, I just serviced my car in February and I just changed the battery end of last year before I went to LA! Shouldn't it last more than a year!? Plus, I know if the car won't start because of the battery, it would make a "click" sound whenever u twist the keys at the ignition. And, the meter face would light up. But this time, only the battery and oil symbol came about.

Frantically, I called my mum. She said that she will call my brother or dad to come over with jumper cables. Then, my brother called he said he doesn't have the cables with him, it's with my father who is conveniently in Miri pulak!? So, there is nothing for him to do. I swear at the time all the men in my life are not dependable! Thankfully Nadhyrah was there with me, so I was a bit calmer. Then, we thought of just going to the Midvalley security for help. The lady there was intimidating, but she agree to help us out. Then, in 10 minutes, a guy came with a scooter asking if I was the one who needed to jump start her car. Obviously! SO, he grabbed the Midvalley security car with his another friend.

Well, I'm a typical girl when it comes to car. The only thing I know is how to check the air in the tyres. That's all. Besides that I know how to read the indicators in the car. Other than that, I only know how to drive it. So, when the guy asked me to pop up the hood, I don't know which ones is the button. How silly kan!?? The pak cik was kind enough to help all the way - from opening the trunk, jump start the car, check to start the car and close the hood back. They even waited for me to get out first. Thanks a bunch Midvalley peeps!

After the incident, I am in dying need for some JASON MRAZ! The sound of the car makes me eerie! Felt a bit better when Jason is around and Nad's company makes it all bearable. On the way to Nad's house, we had to stop for what it seemed like countless of traffic lights. The anticipation is killing me. I was scared if I stopped the car too long, it will die!! I prayed to God it didn't at every stop of the way. But the last stop before arriving to Nad's house was the nerve wrecking point. GOSH! Please take your time traffic light!!

Soon, after dropping off Nad. I made a decision to go through the federal highway instead my usual NPE. Thought if my car died at the side of the road, there would be more people around in Federal Hghway rather than NPE, where is much quieter, though faster. Plus, I thought since it was 10-ish PM already, surely there would be lesser cars on the federal highway. Wah...how i was so dead wrong. Suddenly, there was traffic jams at the most unexpected junctions. I got pissed. Even Jason can't help.
Along the way I turned off and on my aircond, and just let the car window down. Then, I noticed that the air cond burst out a very cool air which sort of like a mist from it. Then, when i turned of the radio, the sound of the air cond became more clearer. It made a cracking sound like an ice would crack. Then, I remembered my dad used to remind us not to set the temperature of the air cond into high all the time, because it could somehow make the aircond filter or compressor frozen. and, eventually damaged your car in some sort of way.

My heart was thumping so loud, I could hear it at my ears. And, I swear I think I'm gonna passed out!!!

The road has not been kind to me, even entering Subang was jam at that hour. I thought this must be a test from GOD! I whispered Bismillahiramannirahim every second on the way home. I swear I was being phobia when driving the car at that condition, because whenever I looked at the rear view mirror, it seemed like the car behind me is 'flashing' it lights at me. Then, during the traffic jam, I noticed many cars over take me. Probably, they are in a rush. I was in rush too, but the car in front of me is taking it own sweet time. I was afraid to go at the fast lane in that condition!!

I arrived home at 10:50pm. WHAT A RELIEF! After that ordeal, can't wait to be home!
I wanna give my thanks to Nadhyrah and Jason Mraz for making it all bearable. And, GOD for testing and being with me throughout the time!

FUH!!!

Isn't he HOT?

Name: Hugh Dancy

You seen him in:
"Confession of a Shopaholic"
"The Jane Austen Book Club"

Date of birth: 19 June 1975

Trivia:
He's engage to Claire Danes
He speaks fluent French
Graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature & Language (Nadhyrah is melting!)
The face of the Burberry mens' fashion campaign (2004)
Friends with Sienna Miller and Ewan Mcgregor
Oh, yea. He's a Brit!

Week 13: We're out. We asked. We sing. We dance. We cried. We yelled. We loved. We fell asleep.

It has been a tense week, we’ve been out more than usual – for work I meant. I had to do another ‘mystery audit’ thingy for other competitive banks. Acting nice and yearn to listen is fine to me, in fact it comes naturally, but what am I tired of is when the service I’m doing research of have a requirement of being a Malay, I’m tired of answering the same question: “Are you Chinese?” I so want to learn Chinese! Hah!

This time is not as bad as the first one since Nadhyrah tag along, so I had it smoothly. No one asked. Wonder why?? Probably, it’s not normal (yet) for a Chinese to be good friends with Malay? Or is it, I looked just as Malay next to Nadhyrah. That could be it too. Thanks Nad!

After we finished being girls of ‘mystery’, we headed back to Subang to do Nad’s project – research for some local college. To make things worst, the research consist of 11 open ended questions. We were sweaty, nervous, shy, craving for Slurpee which to this day tak dapat-dapat lagi!!, and we were really sick and tired of asking these people the same questions. “Hi, can I have a moment of your time?/Are you rushing?/Do you mind answering a few questions…it’s for a research.” First day, we stop by UiTM – manage to ask the gullible Dr.Ngu and Prof.Rahim jer. Both took incredibly long time to answer! We ended the first day by watching a movie: Confessions of a Shopaholic”, which was great…we left the cinema feeling HAPPY! We’re totally in love with Hugh Dancy! That scruffy look and his English accent are to die for. If we were in a relationship, I want to get in a fight with him all the time, just to listen to his accent!! Dreamy! –Damn u Claire Danes!

The next day, we began our research again since Nad’s superior actually thought the facts are not credible enough. So, out we go again. Don’t get me wrong, we love going out, because we get to go home early! But the fact is, we have to bring the work home too. Shit kan!? When doing the research, we met quite nice people. And somehow, we found out that guys are much nicer than girls when it comes to when strangers approaching them. And, let me tell ya, we meet quite a number of cuties too. One lad, we thought was a Japanese but the fact he is a mix of Chinese and Borneo. So, nice…he even gave us a tip where to find people. Foreigners are nice too, but mostly scary looking - me and Nad try not to approach ‘African’ people. So, we got ourselves Arabic and Middle East lab rats. Hehe. Like Azlan said before: Nadhyrah does looked like an Arabic, I guess that’s why they seemed so polite and approachable around Nadhyrah. Hehe. Nad, you’re so bound to marry an Arabic looking guy – preferably bald too! Hehe. Then, there was this trio from Acheh, Nad has a thing for bald guys, fortunately for her, the one that is very talkative is bald. She was practically swooning over him. I like the ‘bapak orang’ looking type. Haha. – Hide your dads!

All this cute guys makes me wish Azlan was around, I could just hear him say: “Ohh, mak dah berair!!”. Hehe.

When we thought interviewing was hard enough, summarize the findings is even harder! To begin with, Nad didn’t even know how to summarize it, and to have 3 big superiors fighting over you and telling you how to do your job is not helping at all. I heard some people were mentioning Nad’s name in my department – well, honey, don’t you go dissing my friend. I’m going to pinch that well rounded face yours until it turns blue!! Don’t tempt me!

Pity Nad, all the big bosses actually fought for her attention. One in particular, backs her up every time – in fact never backs down. I’m not surprised if she got an offer to work at Bates later. Mark my words! Unlike me, I work with the middle rank dudes. They’re nice peeps, always looking out for me to try new things, but not to the extent of going out of their way to find job offers. My big bosses like to keep their ‘thang’ to themselves. (Probably scared if an intern screws it up.) Now, I have to keep in mind these peeps are not my friends, they are my supervisors. So, I have to keep that in mind and I check every time I wanted to chase, pinch, squeeze and rub someone in the office. And, YES I did all those already! Nad-nadia…apa lah nak jadi ni?

After all this shit happening this week, I totally need a ‘release’! Thankfully, Huda had planned a karaoke session on Friday night – simultaneously celebrate Wan’s birthday. I swear I had the death ride of my life so far in Huda’s car. She was pissed at ‘someone’ and really thoughtful enough to rush and pick everyone up. So, there is no wonder why she’s driving like a mad man. Me and Nad screamed like mad in the car every time she came closed to a car or stuck in a traffic. I swear to you, we were driving in circles in KL trying to avoid traffic on a Friday night. Unbelievable.

We started singing at ‘Party KTV’ (SS2), from 11:30pm to 3:30am!! Imagine that! We all performed. We did a surprised for Wan just as the clock strikes 12am. We sang ‘Happy Birthday’ karaoke style, with a surprise cake in hand. – Mastermind: Huda. Main accomplice: Sue. Sub-accomplices: Nad, me, Baya and Imran. I swear, Wan’s eyes was filled with tears of joy when the waiter came into our room with a lit candle on a cake. He was surprised! That night we sang a lot of oldies, a lot of Siti Nurhaliza, a few alternative rock bands (courtesy of me and Wan), and a few more Indon songs. We endure a couple of cries, a lot of yelling (traffic jam), a lot of jumping on the couch, a lot more dancing, a few more mushy lovey-dovey stuff (Huda and Imran), tons of giggles and most of all, a massive quantity of FUN. All in all, what a great night to end to a very tense week at work.

Week 12: We are rebels with causes!!!

This week, I'm not going to update y'all in my Bates experience, instead, let me tell you the highlight of my week! - AdFest 2009, babay!!

In fact, I just got back from the trip like few hours ago. We had so much fun being rebels! The fact is, we played the 'senior' card! Of course lah, we all our part 6 students..we'll be graduating next semester. So, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!

Although we were dead tired that morning before we left for Lumut, that tiredness are all gone as soon as we saw each others faces. Some of us actually woke up at 5am because we were told to be there by 6:45am. But, janji Melayu punye pasal, we actually left UiTM at 8:30am! So typical.

Here's a pic of us before we left!



While waiting for the bus, there is 'nice' girl, who we dubbed the nickname 'Eventually' for her snob accent! FYI, she asked us to run up back to the faculty to signed up for the trip. We don't mind really, but the accent and her body language is driving us nuts.

Then came the time when we were about to boarded the bus, it took so long because the organizers thought it would be a fun idea to mix people up by semesters. Duh, being this is our chance to go and be together as classmates, we make our own rules. Lead by the prankster - Nadhyrah, we put our bags in one of the buses, and ignore everyone, since we are practical students, so we barely sees each other and them all, who cares if we want to be together!? Basically, we are the first ones to boarded the bus. Then, the rest follows.

On the bus, we thought about getting some shut eyes, but NO! None of us sleep, well...maybe a while, but just brief! We were so excited to see each other, we laugh, we sing and talk throughout the journey.



While on the bus, some freakish guy came and talk to us. We sort of have this cocoon protecting our circle that we refused strangers. But, this guy is not a stranger, he is an old friend of Huda - which unfortunately, this particular fact he kept repeating to all of us. Scarily, he kept hovering near Huda throughout the time. We dubbed him the 'stalker'. Ironically, he approached most of us, but when it comes to me and Nad, he skipped, probably we looked so grim with our shades on; we dubbed ourselves as the 'unapproachable Bates babes'.

When we arrived, it's like 2pm already. All I think is rushing to the toilet. As normal, us girls have to go to the loo in groups..hehe. There we chatted some more, but more complaining than chatting because we didn't get our room yet, because ours are being cleaned! But the boys already got theirs. BUT, we are so delighted to know that we girls are all in the same room!! All 9 of us!

Because we didn't have a room yet, we were told to put our bags in one of the rooms available and rush down for lunch. After having lunch, we were told to go to AdTalk. But only some of us did. During the AdTalk, rebels being rebels, we made our own row of seats, which a couple of people; Ms. Shifa and the speaker himself (senior copywriter of Naga) came to us and asked us to to seat in front. But, of course we put our best faces on, and refuse nicely with bunch of excuses. Here are the faces...of so-called-good girls.




Unfortunately, we are not as goody as we seemed, we left after the AdTalk tea break. Duh, of course we have to, we already got the key our room, we see no point to stick around for the 'workshop' after the 'talk'. We are so anti-social!

But, sad as it seemed, we couldn't get our bags from the other room becuz it's lock. So, we stayed in the apartment just giggling. There are 3 rooms in the apartment. I shared with Huda and Yana. Nad, Yoni and Ina (pranksters) in one room. Baya, Sue and Myn in the other. We all love our apartment because it faces the sea. So pretty.

After getting all glam up, like the tradition before AdNite, we took pictures first using timer some more!! So here we are...FYI, the theme was 'casual masquerade'. That's explains the masks.



Yana is the peacock lady. Nadhyrah is the 'glamazon' women. Ina and I are the tragic 80's superheroes. Yasmin looked like the cat from Alice and Wonderland. And, Yonie is the gold burglar.

Our venue is great, right next to the beach. I have to give kudos to the organizer of AdNite for their management, the BBQ food they served is good, the karaoke sessions they planned is superb, the performances from the each semester was fun.
We sang harmoniously, we danced like crazy, we screamed our lungs out, we took more photos than a paparazzi, and basically, have a great jolly time. We got goodies from Famous Amos that night...which was way better than any AdNite we've been to. Yummy.



FYI, the pic above taken during our tribute to Earth Hour that night. We support it too, okay!!??

And, here's a pic of us on the dance floor.



Oh, we performed that night together with the other part 6 student. They did 3 Abba songs. A sing and dance combo. We were asked to joined them when they performed Abba's 'Thank you for the music'. Sad, rite!?

They end the night officially by announcing the king and queen of the night. The queen was won by Qila from part 6, and the king was some dude with 'Joker' mask on.
Unofficially, the night runs through with MORE karaoke sessions. Here are some of the lecturers performed that night...




Although, the dinner is over, our party was still going on. We took our party to the man-made beach. We took a lot of ridiculous pictures...here are some of it.





We talked that night until 1 am at the beach. Wonderfully, we made a circle, Chris turned into a 'ketua rumah panjang' and lead the conversation. We all got sentimental in our speeches. Semua teringat masa zaman silam. How I wish all of us were there.





The girls resigned the night to our apartment. The boys did the same. But after changing into our PJ's, we all talked some more. Some retired earlier than others. Ended up, me, Yana, Sue and Myn are the last ones to snooze around 4am.

The next morning, the first person to woke up was Huda. Then, Sue, Baya and Myn joined. Yonie, Ina and Nad resumed later. The last ones are me and Yana. Some of us was woken up by Huda's loud voice, but most of us are awoken by the loud announcement from the Explorace event. Although, we all are awake, we show no interest to it, except Sue who is really keen on joining but kesian her friends couldn't care less. After washing our faces and brushing our teeth. All of us with our PJ's and bed heads, headed down to the breakfast buffet. We thought we are the only ones, it seemed others are the same. Hehe. Even after the lecturers and the organizers saw us, we couldn't be bothered.

After breakfast, we run up again, some took a light nap, but most stay in chat. Eventually, we all started to take our showers and began to pack. While others were busy running here and there and getting wet in the explorace which were held at the nearby 'waterpark', we were also running here and there taking pictures in the compounds of the hotel...



Then, we headed down to the hotel's little sundry shop and have a drink next to the pool...and chatted some more.



And took more pictures...



Then, we had our lunch. While the rest still running around. Hehe. After lunch, we headed back to our apartment, chill for a moment and then, grabbed our bags. While others we showering after explorace, we already down at the lobby. Haha

As usual, we saw our buses arrived, without further or due, we headed to the bus and put our bags in it. Sit inside and mark our territory. Basically, it's the same bus as the one we took on the way there. Others, somehow doesn't want to sit in the same bus with us, probably we are anti-social and running into our own drums. hehe.



Somehow, karma hits us, and the bus seemed to be in a bit of a trouble besides getting stuck in the jam, while I wanted so badly to go to the loo. We should have known, the same bus broke down on us while on the way to Lumut..I don't know why we didn't thought of that in the first place. Aiyo. Frankly, we are the last couple of buses that arrived at UiTM. We were home by 7-ish pm.

Frankly, my darlings. We had a blast there. We do as we pleased. We didn't follow any rules besides the 'makan' time and we laughed the loudest.



We sing. We dance. We make noise.