~ plan and decision ~

No matter how thorough and well-planned your plan is, in the end the decision is not in our hand. Things happened out of sudden, even you cant predict anything, no one can. No matter how much we want tomorrow to come, can we be sure that we will still be here to see it, to meet tommorow? When something happened out of sudden, it can staggered you to think back on how ungrateful you have been all this time. We've been ignorant, not because we do not know but because we chose not to. Arrogant, all of us. We became so sure of ourselves, acting all powerful and mighty. When the truth is we are nobody! I think when things happened to us, we should be thankful, grateful that we still got the chance to repent, to ask for forgiveness and to improve ourselves. Life is all about improvement, your day today should be better than yesterday and tomorrow should be better than today. How, you ask me? Look into yourself and you may find the answer.
Oh yes, i am now unofficially finished my degree! Now i can fully enjoy the word freedom, been waiting for this since i was in standard 6. I remembered that day when we finish our primary school exam, we all were overjoy and shouting 'freedom' then our teacher said, we have yet to be free. There are still other big exam throughout our schooling, way to damper our spirit i tell you! But this time, this is freedom! I'm so going to miss being a student, even though i'm still going to continue my study after this, i think the feeling will be different, dont you think?
Oh, i got lots to tell about my trip but maybe next time. Got to wait for those pictures as well.

ai-na : pray to Allah for Abah's full recovery, he didnt forget you Abah!

~ amazing race! and open house? ~

Amazing Race? Yes, oh not the one in the TV but in Exeter! Organized but our own Malaysian Society as one of their biggest event, a success if you ask me! Starting at 1030 in Cornwall House and it took us about 4 hours to finish the course. Super tiring and very exciting! There's about 8 team with 2 to 3 members each, my team are me ( obviously!) kak Irfana and her hubby, abg Ali. What a great team too! We are the first team to leave the base, and the first checkpoint is up the hill! The clue to the next checkpoint is confusing, to me it is as i cant figure out where that place is. We are the last team to reach the 2nd checkpoint, i almost give up, thought of saying 'lets just go home, i'm hungry anyway' and a few other teams can be seen passing us to their next checkpoint, way to damper our mood but luckily we tried again and we did it. We found the 2nd checkpoint! Wonder why i cant figure out that place? Well, i never been to that area before and suddenly feel like first year again. Haha! And wonder of wonder, we speed up after that. We did all the task given at each checkpoint quickly and swiftly too! Oh, there are 10 checkpoint to finish by the way. I cant believe it myself when we manage to do it so quickly. The tasks are all funny and weird too. There's one where we were given a picture, they tell us that we need to take picture of the object in the picture given to us with precision, same angle, same spot and same everything! Know what we got? Hand dryer! Guess where we can find it? In the public toilet of course! oh how people think i'm some weird person taking picture in the toilet! But i did it, 3 try is all it takes to get the exact picture. I'm proud of myself even with those funny look directed my way. There also this one task in Gandy Street, if you dont know Diagon Alley was inspired based on that street, with the history you can guess the task there. 3 different spells from Harry Potter and we have to cast the spell so the taskmaster can film it. Embarassing!
The second last checkpoint task is questions about Exeter, it is so hard too luckily we managed to answer it as they only need the best 3 out of 10. We are the first team to finish all task and was targeted to be the winner where the final checkpoint is at the Imperial, alas we didnt make it because we are all tired and cant run all the way from the quay to impe. We managed to get 1st runner up by mere 10 seconds from the winner. Its actually a luck as Angie is no where to be found, we are the third team to reach impe by the way but Angie is very good at
hiding so none of us can find her at first. Even though we didnt won the first place and the £60 prize, we still happy and tired! What a great day!
Open house? Not anything special, i just thought of cooking something and invite almost everybody to my house. It was a busy day but fun too as everybody tend to get to know each other and share stories. The food are good too, and everyone enjoy it ( i hope so).

ai-na : thanks k irfana and her husband, we make a great team dont you think?

~ flirting with my mind ~

I just realised that my post for the past few months are all about me and what I mostly did in my life, but nothing from what I get from it. Well, I think I have to keep searching and reflect it back.

ai-na : baking...

~ exam and new term ~

fuh!! exam was fine, quite hard but alright, wish i study more. really, i wish i study more of it, hopefully i 'll learn my lesson to study early and study more for my next exam. hopefully, the results will be fine and i past all my papers.

day after exam, i went to Bristol to enjoy before the start of term. the initial plan is to go eat, because a friend of mine said there's lot of Halal food there, but we spend the day walking around Bristol City. it's so big! the clifton suspension bridge, the must-see attraction in Bristol is on top of a hill so we have to climb a very steep hill, my legs and back ached. since we went there on sunday, there are no sunday service bus in the city (we didn't know!!) so we have to use our foot to go around or taxi. overall, the trip was great and i really enjoy it. that's the point right!

last week is the first week of term, so class started as usual. i just have 3 modules this term, so hopefully not too busy as last year. therefore, i planned to use all the extra hours to study more (new year resolution!) really need to study hard this term as this is my final term. i started working as a babysitter as well this term, ooh baby! i'm very nervous that day because i never change a nappies before, and luckily the baby i care for, Farouq, didn't need nappy change the time i care for him. but he cried the whole morning because he doesn't like me! well, he didn't know me yet. crying then sleeping in my arm, woke up and cried again then sleep then woke up and cried again. i got him watched me eat my lunch and he stop crying. now, don't say i'm cruel or what for not feeding him, i offered (not my food, his baby food) and he don't want to eat. Until his mum got home, then he want to smile. see, he doesn't like me!

oh, on saturday i went to Exmouth and Sidmouth. it's a very nice and exciting excursion! at least this time around i'm covering Devon area instead of outside of Devon and it's cheaper too. well, i planned to go to Dartmoor later but still not sure when, i'll keep it in the planner.

ai-na : how wonderful to go around places, just if you have enough money!

~snow, holiday and study for exam~

what a great winter in Exeter! so much snow this year, i'm having lots of fun playing in the snow and building snowman. i'm so glad i bought my hiking boots because of the thick snow, compare to last year. see my snow man, the name Abu!
oh yeah, winter means holiday as well, that means study weeks and exam is around the corner! oh my, i haven't started anything yet!!! well, since the snow are quite heavy, lots of travel route including the airports are closed. i just went to Plymouth last week and our train being delayed. but i like snow so i don't mind much unless you thought of going somewhere.

well, i got 3 exam and 1 test, hopefully will do well in all of it.

ai-na : study plan has been drawn but...

~busy-ness~

who's the busiest in the world? bees of course! why? cant you hear? they alway buzzing 'busy, busy, busy' hahaha
yeah, very lame, i know! these 2 weeks are the most busiest for me, because of the assignments and test. i barely can handle it! well, hopefully everything went well.

ai-na : 1 done, 2 more to go..

~assignments!!!~

sick, sick and sick again! it has been weeks now but i'm still having flu. my week has been very interesting and very busy. lots of assignments and presentation. but still i'm enjoying my days, i've been to nottingham again few weeks back and last week been to stonehenge and bath.


oh, last sunday we have raya celebration with lots and lots of food. by the way, my list of place to go have decrease by 1 place and increase by 1 place! i want to go to grand central station in US!


ai-na : start working now..bye!