~ Nusantara Aidil Adha ~

Eid Mubarak everyone! The second time eid adha away from home and first time without my family. Huhu! Its so sad but i'm not crying. I thought when I'll listen to takbir before the eid prayer i'll cry but the takbir is so different from Malaysia. Its full of energy and not 'mendayu' like in Malaysia. So yeah, not ad. Haha..I went to eid prayer at 8am because i've class at 9 and the sermons is in arabic and english. Since my class will start at 9 so i listened to the arabic version, haha! Luckily i know a little of arabic.Nothing special on the eid day after the prayer for me.   

Our malaysian society here decided to held an event on the saturday to celebrate eid, called 'nusantara aidil adha' for all malaysian, brunei and singaporean. Its a pot luck event, so we have to prepare our own food. My friend dyana and I decided to make 'onde-onde' or 'buah melaka', whatever you called it. It is the first time we want to try it and in mass production!  We managed to get all the ingredients here and you'll be surprised to know that daun pandan and gula melaka are available too. No fresh coconut though, we just used dried coconut flakes. I asked my ummi the recipe again the night before the event, and very early in the morning we made it.  

Here how the process goes: 

we made the dough

fill it with gula melaka

boil it

roll with coconut flakes

Tada!!

It was good even for the beginner like us, haha! There are lots of foods too. Nasi goreng, nasi lemak, kuah kacang, nasi impit, rendang, kari ayam and much more. Its so much fun and the foods are delicious. Some of us even wore baju kurung! I miss home!

Eid Mubarak!

ai-na : dont eat to much, please remember us here! hehe

~ plagiarism and creative mind ~

when information you need is all the thing you have to write, you have to be creative with your word. how am i suppose to paraphrase every single word if it means using the same word? its plagiarism! what am i saying?

ai-na : i felt like i'm being hit by bludger! haha

~ isoc, food and friends ~

Being a muslim is not just only by appearance or by name, it's how you practice it, your way of life. I just came back from the gathering for the Islamic society in my uni. The purpose of this meeting is to know each other, get to know the other muslims in Exeter and get more friends! The best part of it, free food!! haha

We start of with what we call 'ice breaking', where we get to know each member. It's kind of awkward at first, but when they start talking about movies everyone got excited and start talking. What got me excited is when they start talking about movies that were adapted from books, of course one of it is harry potter! I know the movies is kind of sucks (oops!) but the books are amazing! Then my friend said that j.k rowling is one of the student here in my uni (she was or is a student?) and some of the ideas in the harry potter books are adapted from places around Exeter. Also Diagon Alley was inspired from a street near my house! (i'm so going to go there tomorrow!) That make me really excited and then they said the set from 'the chamber of secret' the scene from the toilet where the basilisk came out was actually in the one of the school building in my uni! ok, right there and then i have made up my mind that i'll find the places (more like hunt the place) where it's connected with harry potter! (psycho right? i know) I'll stop about harry potter now before its too late. I can go on though! haha

So, we had our food, at last! yay, pizza! I love pizza when i start living here. It just, pizza is so good. So everybody stop talking for a few minutes to enjoy the food. 

Then everybody start talking again and when i look around i'm the only one not talking! Everybody are talking with each other and it seems they have a lot to talk about. Some of you may know that i'm not the kind who can talk easily with people, to start the conversation. It's some kind of disease, i think. So i'm like suffer in silence and eating, and eating. Then somebody took pity on me (i think!) and asked how was my day! Bless her! Now i have someone to talk to, so yes we talked about my study, her study and life in Exeter. haha, boring? no! 

Suddenly a girl from the other side of the room sat beside me and talked and asked about Islam with me and my new friend. I really want to talk about it here, now, but the topic is interesting so i'll keep it for my next post, i promise!

After the meeting, me and few girls went to this one girl's house (actually she invited us to come over) where she made us chai. It's indian style kind of chai or tea, it's nice and exotic where she boil the water, mix it with cinnamon, cardamon, honey and milk. It's sweet and spicy, exotic eh? She serve it with chocolate, and carrot and orange pastries. So now i'm kind of hyper because too much intake of sugar! I fell like walking around and running! oh i miss running! But i have to go home, my homework's calling. Once at home, i just remember 'oh no, i have no milk to eat with cereal for my breakfast tomorrow!' crumpet then..huhu

I have to go now, homework to finish because early morning tomorrow is my tutorial. Need to prepare, later!

ai-na : i want milk! i want milk! i want milk! 

~ complicated knowledge of emotion ~

When I'm angry, I found myself eating

When I'm sad, I found myself eating

When I'm happy, I found myself eating

When I'm bored, I found myself eating

When I dont have anything else to do, I found myself eating

It seem I'm eating all the time!

No wonder my food stock are depleting...

ai-na : i should reduce the amount of food i took and increase the amount of knowledge to seek.

~ victoria ~

the search for victoria has begun...