Every time I read my friend's writing anywhere within my reach, the inferiority feelings will take over me.

The first thing that crossed my mind was, I must not make my writing public. Hence, I decided to post pictures (with a brief description of course) instead of a long mundane essay. Well, that's why I like instagram! 

my very best friend for almost 6 years and counting 

I loveeee the last sentence of this page :)

this picture was taken 3 years ago, like I said, we have been best friends for 6 years now

#ktjneverends she is definitely a friend for keeps

I don't really have many good friends but they are definitely one of them

#district21

I think the Korean actor looks like Danial Fitri, lol

because I've gained so much weight, that baju kurung looks a little bit too tight for me, haha

that's my mum, lying on the sofa, pretending as if she were at home, haha. we were at the airport lounge, like the premier lounge

well, that's my mum again, haha

happy birthday to me

Assalamualaikum :)

semalam, birthday saya.

saya agak excited, nak tunggu siapa orang yang pertama sekali wish birthday saya. masa tu dah pukul 10.30 malam dan saya sangat la penat dan pening tapi sebab nak tunggu jgak, i kept myself awake with QTB questions.

saya tunggu, dan tunggu.. sampai 12 malam, tapi phone saya senyap je.. dalam 12.10 minit saya kata kat diri sendiri,

"afiqah, you yourself pun tak wish birthday orang, tolong jangan harap orang wish birthday awak boleh tak?"

lepas tu saya buat keputusan untuk tido. baru tutup lampu dan baring, tetiba phone vibrate. masa tu phone tengah charging, phone atas meja belaja. hah! saya cepat2 pergi kat meja belaja nak check phone, rupa rupanya, tonton.com hantar email wish birthday saya, that's a good CRM, haha

lepas bagun tido, saya dapat beberapa wishes daripada keluarga kat whatsapp, banyak jgak la. lepas tu Dua belikan kek, that was very nice of her :) she is my closest friend here :)

kalau nak cakap tentang apa orang buat untuk saya sebab hari tu adalah birthday saya, tak de apa yang menarik sangat (selain daripada Dua belikan kek untuk saya) tapi semalam, saya rasa happy sangat, saya rasa semua orang sangat baik dengan saya.

1. seorang classmate hantar email pada saya kata nak join kumpulan saya untuk group assignment untuk subjek marketing. bersungguh betul sampai bertanya orang untuk email saya. dah tu, dalam email tu, puji saya melambung lambung. tak cukup dengan tu, selepas habis kelas kitaorang bercakap, dia puji plak kata saya nampak muda. tak cukup dengan tu lagi, dia kata kulit saya cantik dan dia tanya saya pakai moisturizer apa, hahaha! how can i not take her to be in my group! :)

saya cerita kat raihan, raihan meng ia kan semua pujian dia tu dan raihan kata apa dia cakap betul. raihan siap tambah, dia (maksudnya raihan) bukan nak bodek saya untuk masuk kumpulan saya, *blushing* hahhahaha!

2. dalam kelas econs, cikgu randomly bagi kitaorang kumpulan untuk perbincangan soalan tutorial. dalam kumpulan saya, semua tak buat soalan tutorial langsung, kecuali saya. so, masa perbincangan saya cite2 la kat diaorang jawapan soalan tu, dan terang kan sikit2.

lepas habis kelas, dua orang antara diaorang tanya cikgu, kumpulan ni kekal sampai habis semester ke, cikgu cakap tak, setiap minggu akan tukar kumpulan. diaorang minta supaya kumpulan kitaorang kekal, they want me to be in the group, they dont mind about the others, hahaha!

dan lepas habis kelas, diaorang semua cakap thanks kat saya, bukan kat cikgu. cikgu tu pandang je, haha!

3. meeting untuk publicity team untuk charity run berjalan dengan sangat lancar. yang ni tak de siapa puji saya (lol!) tapi saya seronok sangat sebab sebelum ni team ni yang paling saya risau, tapi lepas meeting tu, saya sangat lega :)


selepas pukul 8 malam tu, saya terima banyak birthday wishes, sebab kawan saya terperasan dalam calender phone dia ada tulis birthday saya tapi tak kat facebook, saya rasa mungkin sebelum saya private kan birthday saya, phone calender dia sync dengan facebook punya birthday kot dan bila saya private kan birthday saya, phone calender dia tak delete.

kesimpulannya, saya sangat happy masa birthday saya :)

i cannot get over it

i miss my friends :( i miss my flat 24 housemates :( i miss belle and deena :(

i still cannot get over the idea that someone thought i cannot speak and understand english.

she gave me an advice, read more. i read news in english, everyday. i watch documentaries, everyday. she only uses very simple english with very limited vocab and she thought that i couldn't understand her?

you know, girls like to share their stories when something out of ordinary happen. so, i know all of my friends in london are busy with their studies as exams are just around the corner. i don't want to bug them.

you want to know what i did? i look at the reflection of myself at the black screen of my laptop. and started talking to the reflection. macam tak betul sikit pun ada.

kesian jadi kawan saya, terpaksa dengar saya membebel selalu. and now, my friend is myself.

some of my stories in curtin

Assalamualaikum :)

As the title speaks for itself, I will be sharing some of my experiences here, in Curtin Miri, not Perth not Singapore or any other Curtin branch universities. do you know that there are five Curtin campuses around the world? which makes me wonder, what's the point of having many campuses if you're not even one of the top universities? no need to compare with universities around the world, even among Australian universities, you're not really in a good place. to add with that, your minimum requirement is too low. okay, persoalan saya berhenti sampai di sini. sambung pada hikayat hidup saya pula :)

so, lots of my friends in London asked me, "how's miri?". and my answer was

"try to imagine a transition that I'm going through from London, a city that never sleep to Miri, a city that never live/awake"

it's more like living in ktj except I can't go home every weekend. My first week was a torture, the time was killing me. i felt like things were not moving and I tried to sleep most of the time just to kill time.

However, I find it not that bad anymore. I can update my blog, I can go for a jog, I watched numerous documentaries, read so many articles and now, I've adapted to a slow, mundane life in Miri. no more complains.

apa apa pun, saya nak share sedikit perbualan dengan mereka mereka di sini yang saya rasa agak menarik.

soalan norma yang kita terima apabila masuk universiti, "sebelum ni belajar mana, buat apa?"

dan saya jawab, "buat a level, dekat ktj"

dia : "ohhh. tak fly ke?"

saya : "oh, fly. sebelum ni belajar kat sini (tunjuk note book LSE)"

dia : "oh, kat mana tu?"

saya : "London School of Economis, LSE"

dia : "oh, kat UK eh? kat mana?"

saya : "kat London"

dia : "kat Manchester eh"

saya : "tak tak. kat London"

apparently there are many people who knew the existence of LSE and to my surprise, they are engineering students. the person I had the conversation above was with an accounting and finance student and she never heard of LSE. okay, I give her credit for knowing that those who do A-level intend to study abroad even though I find her question about Manchester was rather amusing.

next is about me worrying for my electricity bill because I did not realise that only allocation of 50 ringgit for electricity is included is our rent. if we exceed the allocation, we have to pay the exceeded amount ourself. so, I had this conversation with my friend;

saya : I'm a bit worried about my bill cause I on my aircond for 24/7 on my first week here.

dia : what do you mean by 24/7? you use it for 24 minutes and 7 seconds?

saya : oh, tak tak. maksudnya i on 24 jam sehari.

saya rasa saya share dua perbualan ni je buat masa sekarang.

oh, lupa nak tambah. dah berhari hari hutan dekat dengan curtin terbakar tapi hari ni yang paling dasyat. rasa macam berjalan dalam awan siap dengan salji lagi. cuma masalahnya, bila nafas bau asap sangat kuat sampai sakit tekak dan salji dia tak berwarna putih, dia warna hitam atau kelabu (abu).

okay, tamat sudah hikayat kali ini :)

ghana :)

Assalamualaikum :)

Seperti janji saya pada mereka mereka yang bertanya "macam mana ghana?", saya tulis post ini khas untuk anda :)

hikayat nya bermula dengan, pada suatu hari.....

There was 15 volunteers in my group, 6 from LSE 4 from UCL and the rest from Arizona State University.

We were there to build water tanks (which I believe they could do it faster without us) and experience life as Ghanaian (which is not entirely true). We didn't really drink the water that they drink and we definitely did not eat things that they eat because they said if we do, diarrhea is definite.

We were divided into 2 groups as we were building water tank for 2 houses. To be honest with you, I felt like I was working on a construction site. It was tough, hard, tiring, exhausting and body ache was a promise. even though it was a menial construction job, it was not easy.

On our first day, the work I did the most was sifting the sand. When the mason showed us how to do it, it LOOKED EASY. trust me, it wasn't. when we arrived at the lodge after we were done for the day, my hands were aching so much!

oh, I forgot to add about the weather. It was hot but I don't think it was so much different than Malaysia. In fact, Malaysia was hotter when I check the temperature. That explains the big hat I wore in the pictures below. I didn't let the sun touch my face even a bit. However, my skin still got burned. Alhamdulillah my face was fine, my hands got sunburned. I guess because we were literally under the sun for the whole day.

On the second day onwards, things did not seem that difficult anymore. My body did not ache so much and we kind of enjoy what we were doing even though I knew that we were slowing things down. If you were to ask me how much work we did and how much did the mason do, I would say we did at most 10% and the mason did the rest. itupun rasa macam dah buat banyak sangat okay. trust me, we gave our best. kami tak bermalasan pun.

oh, other thing that I find difficult to do is mixing the cement and sand. It's Ghana, things are done manually. At first they let 5 of us to do it but nothing happen, hahaha. seriously, berat teramat sangat kot! If they were to do it, two of them would be enough. Sometimes only one person did it, lol.

Here is a little info about my host family (the house that we were building water tank for). The household consist of 11 members (if I'm not mistaken) and the mother is the breadwinner. She cook and she sells her cooking at a village nearby. Her husband died few years ago, she told me how he died but I can't exactly remember how. Her daughter just gave birth about a month before we arrived and trust me, Ghanaian women are strong! The daughter that I just mentioned can carry a very heavy brick that need 2 men from our group to carry it. Tolong jangan kata budak laki kumpulan saya tak kuat, batu tu memang berat oh.

Sebelum saya sambung menulis, jom tengok gambar dulu :)

our last day in Ghana, Cape Coast Castle

Sarah was showing us how the water tank system works

this is a view of a small town close to our lodge.

trying to mix the sifted sand and cement

they were tying iron construction into a shape of a water tank

the kids LOVE taking pictures. oh, did i mention the kids were barefoot? i seldom see any kids wear anything on their feet

Fransis finishing the last bit of the tank. It was too dangerous for us, only the mason can do it.

at the local school where we teach them on the importance of drinking clean water

this is a song that my group came up with. Ebura is the name of the source of water that they drink

almost every night we would gather and spend our time together as there was nothing much to do, no internet

our last day at Srafa Aboano (the name of the village)

with the student coordinator, Audrey. at Cape Coast

a picture of me with Miruka :)

On our first day, getting to know the local community. with Elena :)

the lady in the pink top claim she is the queen of the village.

spend our day at the beach and enjoy some delicacies at the hotel restaurant

with Marco :)

Just before we took our ride to the airport

me explaining something

again, group photo with the girls

oh, I just like this photo

I asked the project leader, the one who designed the water tank and manage water brigade;

why should we come? With the price of our flight ticket, you can build more water tanks (our flight ticket was more expensive than our donation for the water tanks). We were just slowing things down, they could do it faster without us. Plus, it will create more job for the local if we were not here.

So he said,

I was once like you, a volunteer. Yes, you could give your money and we manage it but this is not just about building water tanks. We want to create awareness. Now you know how Ghana is and you will start to tell their story. And we need more volunteers to continue our work. If you don't feel attach to this place, would you be willing to come and stay here?

it was not exactly how he put it but the message is there. We were there for 10 days, throughout our stay, we had to take the malaria pill. Just imagine if you were to stay for a year, are you willing to take the pill, everyday, for a year? Emily, the project coordinator, she has stayed in Ghana for a year and she didn't take the pill. You know what is the aftermath of taking drugs do to your body, especially to your kidney. I honestly feel like I want to be one of them, to work with Global Brigade.

I also had a conversation with an elder in the community. I asked her, if she could make a wish, what would it be?

surprisingly she said;

nothing

if you were there, I bet you would have endless wishes. or at least a piped water. and a toilet. and some rice. and the list goes on....

One of the local guy taught us a Ghanaian song, their traditional song. it's about how proud they are with their country and how happy they are being a Ghanaian.

We were thinking, maybe because they've never been out of Ghana that they don't know how people in other countries are living, london for instance. that's why they don't wish for anything else because they don't know what is anything else they could get.

You know, at first I thought they are very content with their life, grateful for what they have, which is good. but then, is that really the explanation for it? isn't it the same with you take your life for granted and too lazy to do something to move forward?

but then, Ghanaian work hard. they work really hard. it's just that, life for them is not easy. now is the time for me to look at myself, self reflection. How lucky I am to be malaysian, and even able to experience a life in london. There are so many people who have so much less than us but they can still be grateful. and that elder can even say there's nothing else she could wish for with her current condition.

I read someone wrote somewhere about travelling;

travelling is like a book. if you never go out of your comfort zone (not to travel), you are stuck in one chapter.

I'm not copying word by word but the main point is there. even Allah tells us to travel :)

Al Ankabut : 20, Al Hajj : 46, etc

banyak sangat ayat Allah suruh kita berjalan. sila baca blog ini untuk pencerahan :)

I think this post is too long already and I will write about the cape coast castle some other time :) serious, cerita disebalik cape coast castle tu sangat menarik! our ancestors were lucky tanah melayu had iron back then. If not, maybe the west would treat them as how they treated africans. tapi mama kata, melayu malas kerja, tak jadi penjajah nak jual diaorang jadi hamba, buat habis beras je, lol.

My journey in LSE ends here

Assalamualaikum :)

As the tittle of this post, I bet you already know what I am about to write for this post.

Some of you might be wondering why I have not been replying you texts, whatsapp, facebook messages, we chat and all other means of social media communication. Well, now you know why.

I don’t know how to break the news to you personally and I don’t want you to go through the awkwardness not knowing how to respond to the news after I tell you about it.

To be honest with you, it feels surreal, not to be able to continue for my third year.

Dulu, bukan setakat tak lulus, kalau tak dapat semua A pun dah meraung.

I was never an outstanding student in high school. I was never in the top 10 list except when I was in form 2 once, and another one for my trial SPM. Me, myself were surprised with those results. But when it comes to the real deal, Alhamdulillah, I manage to do just fine. Straight A’s for PMR, 10A 1B for SPM and A*AAA for A-level.

Before LSE, I was never a hard working student. If you were my roommate or at least my housemate, you would know. I never did my homework and for SPM, I didn't even do the past papers. I passed all the books of my past papers to Yanie and all of them were as clean as new. Nothing was written in it and it even looks like it has never been opened.

When it comes to examinations, it looks like I have been very lucky. Questions that came out have always been the exact one that I memorise. Honestly, I’m not kidding. I think the reason Allah has been giving me good grades because mama and ayah pray really hard for me. If I tell mama I’m really worried about my upcoming exams, both of them wouldn’t sleep the whole night. They will pray for me till morning. What can I say, I have amazing parents :D

mama bajet manja, lol

To be honest with you, I have never heard of LSE before KTJ. And it has never been my dream to study in one of the most prestigious university for Social Science. The only thing that I have ever wanted was to study abroad. Doesn’t matter which country as long as it is not Malaysia. Tapi kalau boleh, tak nak lah Singapore atau Indonesia. Saya nak yang jauh sikit. Just for clarification, it is not that I don’t like Malaysia; it is more about keeping the tradition. 

In KTJ, people make a big fuss about LSE. They look at LSE as the same level as Oxbridge. Okay, maybe a bit lower than Oxbridge. But for Accounting and Finance, LSE is the best in the UK as Oxbridge do not offer A&F.

When we were applying for universities, we were allowed to choose only 5 universities and for me, LSE was not one of them. I thought that it would be such a waste if I were to apply for LSE as I believed I had a very slim chance to get in. Baik mohon uni yang saya yakin boleh dapat. When people knew I was not planning to apply for LSE, I got this phrase a lot;

“ala, cuba je. Test kemampuan diri. Kalau dah dapat lepas tu tak nak, tolak je la”

Trust me, I got that a lot. So, I decided to give LSE a try. Plus, I see that there was no harm trying. 

Alhamdulillah, I got offers from all the universities that I applied to.

To be accepted into LSE itself was more like a miracle. I didn’t want to go there at first. I didn’t tell ayah about it cause I knew he really wants me to go there. Mama was the first person to know about it. Ayah knew about the offer a week later because abang or Yanie slipped their tongue. Ayah was a bit upset when I told him I didn’t want to go to LSE.

My concern was never about the syllabus or the course subjects. I was more concern about life in London. You know, a city life; hectic life. Then, I asked Kak Sarah about her life in LSE and it doesn’t sound so bad. I think I would be fine. Plus, when you are pleasing your parents, you are pleasing Allah :)

Oh, I’ve just checked the world ranking for LSE and apparently LSE is not really in a good position, number 68. Not bad at all if I were to compare it with Malaysian universities like UITM, 700++, lol. But, if you were to checked its rank course by course (e.g. Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Finance, etc) LSE is not doing that bad. For A&F, LSE is second after Harvard. Even for Economics or employer satisfaction etcetera, LSE is always in the top 5.

Apa apa pun, after studying in LSE for 2 years, I have no regrets. I got the experience as a tutor in a local school, be the Public Relations Director for MACFIS, having dinner with corporate leaders, doing volunteering works, go to Bosnia, go to Ghana, travel to more than 15 countries (which I didn’t spend a penny for it except for Ghana and Bosnia), Dato’ Seri Johan Raslan knows my name and he even greeted me when he saw me at some of the past events, had lunch with CEO of CIMB Islamic Bank which I paid for it (including his meal), had an usrah group with 6 of the most wonderful people on earth, experience fundraising at tube station (tube collection) for Charity Week, being a member of flat 24, and many more. If I were to list them all, it would be an endless list.

Tapi yang pasti, perkara terbaik yang saya dapat semasa belajar di London adalah rakan rakan yang sememangny awesome! :)

tube collection with my buddy :)

volleyball practice for notts game which I didnt go, lol

walked 110 km for Mars Mira, one of the activities I did in Bosnia

they called me out of retirement, representing MACFIS

bersama Nabilah Karim :) masa ni dua2 masih belum gemuk, lol

family vacation, Barcelona 2013

family vacation, London 2012

family vacation, Andorra 2013

went to the local school to educate the kids on clean water, Ghana 2013

building water tank for my host family, Ghana 2013

vacation with the housemates, Istanbul 2013

post MACFIS BOD's dinner with Faiz Azmi

Flat 24 :) minus Ameenah

working on the corn farm, Bosnia 2012

When people asked me why I like to do charity, my answer has always been;

“My life has been a smooth sailing. I have such a beautiful life and I want to share it with others”

Now, I can’t really say my life is a smooth sailing but I believe whatever happens to me now is what’s best for me. Plus, Allah says;

Do people think that they will be let go merely by saying: “We believe,” and that they will not be tested

(29:2)

So, this is just one of the tests, a BIG one.

Atau mungkin saya akan berjumpa jodoh ke kat uni baru ni, lol

Now, my next step is to wait for PETRONAS’s official decision (they already have an unofficial one; not going back to London). Start as a first year student at Curtin University, Sarawak and for the meantime, I’ll be staying in London cause mama wants me to work in Malaysia but I don’t want to, lol.

bullying and suicide

Assalamualaikum :)

apa khabar semua? :D

harap semua nya sihat dari semua segi, fizikal mental dan emosi :)

okay, di sini saya ada sedikit fakta nak kongsi.

dalam masa seminggu ni je, dah ada 4 orang yang mati kena langgar kereta api london underground di mana saya berperasangka mereka mereka itu bunuh diri.

sebab kalau bukan bunuh diri, mesti dah kecoh macam ada sekali ni, ada perempuan kena tolak dengan lelaki ni masa diaorang berdua tengah bergaduh. perempuan tu selamat je tapi satu london tau ada perempuan jatuh kat tube sebab kena tolak.

jadi, andaian saya berasas :)

jujurnya, saya faham je apa diaorang rasa..

duduk london memang stress. jujur tak tipu.

tahun lepas, bila saya rasa dapat keluar dari london je, saya rasa macam satu beban yang sangat berat hilang.

dan perasaan ketika di malaysia adalah yang terbaik! macam tak de beban langsung :DD

berbalik pada cerita mereka yang bunuh diri dengan terjun depan tube, saya yakin kami kami yang kat sini ramai je yang teringin buat perkara yang sama.. lebih lebih lagi sekarang, dah dekat dengan peperiksaan, sebab yang lagi kukuh untuk berasa stress dan solusi jangka pendek, terjun depan tube.

tapi kita tak buat macam tu.

alhamdulillah, kita di kurnia kan islam. inshaAllah, agama yang membimbing kita untuk jalani kehidupan seharian kita :)

and the only thing keeping me sane at the moment.

anyway, my point is that to be emotionally balance is really important. being physically fit and intellectually bright wouldn't mean anything if you are not emotionally healthy.

so, I saw someone tweeted about a video of a group of students bullying their friend.

I believe all of you have seen it. it's viral in facebook and even KJ tweeted about it.

in case if some of you haven't seen it, here is the video:

when I first watched it, I cried. I cannot help myself not to think that the poor kid might be my own brother or even my own son (if I have one).

just imagine what would their parents feel if they watch this video.

kyopropaganda did a parody on this issue and he wrote in the description of the video about how should we punished those who bullied their friends.

saya yakin dengan ada nya cerita juvana, kita tau tentang kewujudan sekolah kanak kanal nakal.

kyo ber tanya, ada kah dengan menghantar mereka ke sekolah juvana boleh menyelesaikan masalah?

jawapan saya:

okay, pada saya keadaan sekeliling sangat mempengaruhi personaliti dan identiti kita.

saya tidak rasa dengan mengumpulkan kanak kanak nakal ni dalam satu sekolah dapat membantu.

cuba bayangkan, awak nak mereka menjadi lebih baik tapi orang keliling mereka semua macam tu, kanak kanak nakal.

kalau awak tengok cerita juvana, mereka mereka kat situ mula berubah selepas Daim masuk.

dan Daim tu sebenarnya budak baik.


tapi kalau setakat membangkang tidak membawa apa apa makna kalau tak disertakan dengan cadangan :)

okay, mari kita ambik selangkah kebelakang lihat punca masalah ini.

kalau anda pernah pergi ISK (ini sejarah kita) mesti anda tau tentang 7 maratib amal.

jadi, marilah kita muhasabah diri, dan selepas tu tengok pada keluarga kita. settle kan dua perkara ni dulu baru kita tengok ke tahap seterusnya.

we need to educate the society about the importance of imposing good values in the family. family values.

kids from broken family tend to be rebellious.

workaholic parents tend to neglect their children and again, producing rebellious kids.

I believe that bullying and suicide share the same cause.

okay, sampai di sini sahaja ceramah saya :)

sila ingat, saya bukan penceramah bertauliah :) sekadar meluahkan pandangan, lol

akhir kata, jaga diri :)

cinta jangan pergi

Assalamualaikum :)

saya yakin anda semua boleh agak apa saya akan tulis bila baca tajuk post ni... lebih lebih lagi yang belajar di UK.. mesti awak awak semua fikir apa yang saya fikir..

jujur, saya dah macam agak lama tak ikut drama melayu.. tapi, hari tu saya ada pergi rumah fadia dan dia lah yang bercerita dengan semangatnya tentang cerita cinta jangan pergi ni..

kalau awak dah tengok, mesti awak perasan..

tiz zaqyah dan remy ishak sebut warwick sebagai wo-wick..

you just cant help not to notice.. serious, kak sarah and fadia rewind that part several times just to laugh again and again!

serious lawak

cuba bayangkan kalau konon konon diaorang tinggal kat bankside dan kena terangkan macam mana nak sampai bankside.. mesti diaorang akan kata station paling dekat adalah southwark dan diaorang akan sebut south-wark.. 

nasib baik tak, kalau ye jadi cerita komedi la nampak gayanya..

saya jujur tak de masalah dengan orang yang salah sebut nama nama tempat kat sini sebab saya sendiri pun bukan pandai sangat sebut semua dengan betul..

masa dekat ktj dulu, ada wakil dari university of loughborough datang promosi uni dia.. dia ada ajar kami cara sebut nama uni dia, luv-bra..

dia kata, english ni sebutan dia memang tak sama dengan ejaan..

jadi, tak de masalah kalau awak salah sebut..

yang membuatkan sangat lawak, awak belajar kat warwick tapi awak tak tau nak sebut nama tempat awak belajar? tak logik!

dan remy ishak, budak melayu kat sini tak tegur semua orang yang dia jumpa terutama sekali mat saleh yang dia jumpa depan pintu uni.. melainkan kalau mat saleh tu kawan dia la.. 

dan untuk menunjukkan lagi awak tu betul betul pelajar IC, biasanya budak IC tak cakap diaorang belajar kat imperial college, diaorang cuma kata diaorang belajar kat IC atau imperial je..

yang diaorang punya scene kat LSE tu, make sense.. sebab kat london ni, kitoarang boleh masuk library mana mana uni kat london..cuma pelajar warwick, saya tak pasti diaorang boleh buat LSE library card ke tak.. 

tapi saya jujur tak tau scene tu kat LSE bahagian mana

anyway, my point is, if you were to do something that will be broadcasted nationally please at least do some research.. 

in this particular case, try to actually live in warwick.. and remy ishak try to live the life as a student in london..

trust me, it's not that difficult.. seminggu pun cukup la..

saya ada terbaca tentang betapa tom cruise buat kajian tentang sejarah samurai dan siap belajar bahasa jepun lagi untuk cerita the last samurai..

you can read the article about it here

i didnt finish the drama.

okay, nak sambung belaja :)

pencuri

Assalamualaikum

maaf, kali ni tak ada senyum sebab saya sangat marah. marah yang teramat sangat.

jujurnya, saya dah pernah dengar tentang rasuah rasuah ni, dari sumber yang pertama lagi, mereka yang memberi rasuah itu sendiri.

after doing it for so many times, they become desensitise. they (I purposely do not want to use 'we') don't even feel what they're doing is wrong.

agaknya, macam tu jugak lah apa yang terjadi pada mereka mereka dalam video ni.

perkara yang sangat lah membuat saya marah, mereka kata orang Sarawak itu menumpang?!

how dare they say such thing?!

they are the thief!

you are the one who is stealing from the people of Sawarak. you are the one denying their right. and now you call them squatters?

I was once read a hadith in my phone saying something about Allah curse those who give or accept bribery.

Abdullah bin Amr (RA) narrated: Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) cursed the one who bribes and the one who takes bribe.

Abu Hurairah (RA) narrated: Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) cursed the one who bribes and the one who takes a bribe for judgement.

(Hadith No. 1336-1337, Chapters on Judgement, Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 3)

saya yakin semua orang tau apa jadi kat bangladesh sekarang.. dan saya rasa sangat sedih.

negara yang penduduk nya hampir 90% orang islam, tapi pemimpin nya macam tu. terlampau dahagakan kuasa (baca: power hunger).

somehow, I feel malaysia is moving towards that direction, jika tidak dibendung.

kawan saya pernah kata,

"makin kita kejar duit tu, makin tak cukup kita rasa"

sangat betul. dan untuk peringatan pada diri sendiri jgak :)

footnote: tok cik dan embah baru meninggal kelmarin dan semalam. saya masih rasa terkejut sebab mereka pergi dengan mengejut. tolong sedekahkan al-fatihah pada mereka ye.

a guy in a pink pants, jogging, accident and snow

Assalamualaikum :)

untuk penulisan kali ni, saya nak kongsi perkara menarik yang berlaku pada saya hari ahad lepas :)

perkara pertama, saya ternampak seorang lelaki dalam tube perjalanan balik rumah memakai seluar pink! that was first time. kalau t shirt, mungkin macam dah biasa.

dulu saya selalu sangat teringin nak beli seluar warna pink tapi mama kata jangan sebab dia kata saya tak akan pakai.

petang tu, dhiya ajak saya jogging :) 

inilah kawan saya, dhiya comel :)

raihan pun teman sekali sebab nak main buaian

masa tengah jogging, saya nampak banyak sangat kereta polis dan ambulance lalu, siap jalan tutup lagi.

saya tertanya tanya, kenapa banyak sangat.. dah la depan rumah kitaorang je plak tu.. lepas tu, nampak bas nie dah lama kat situ tak bergerak.

saya pun dah fikir, eh, bas langgar orang ke? sebab serious, banyak sangat ambulance dan polis ni..

but i cannot be bothered to stop jogging and check. so, i continue jogging until i was too tired to jog. later, all of us went home.

so, this is the view of the scene from my room. seriously, it happened in front of my flat!

nak di buat cerita, ada kemalangan antara dua kereta dan kedua dua kereta kemek depan. tak de la sampai terbalik bagai macam dalam movie.

tapi, bomba, ambulance dan polis yang datang, macam ada kemalangan untuk paling kurang 10 kereta (kalau kat malaysia). serious tak tipu!

ada 3 kereta bomba yang besar. itu tak kira kereta kecik yang biasa. nak buat apa sampai 3 kereta bomba? 3 ambulance, okay that make sense.. we never know, there might be more people injured.

but the police cars, serious banyak.. paling kurang rasanya ada 8.. siap tutup jalan bagai.

mari saya ingatkan, kejadian ini adalah kemalangan antara dua kereta yang kemek depan.

tapi, yang saya sangat sangat nak puji (sebenarnya, semuanya pun pujian), mereka semua sampai kurang dari 5 minit selepas kejadian. hebat tak?!

malaysia, mungkin ini satu contoh yang mungkin boleh di ikuti :)

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semalam london turun salji. ramai yang merungut dan saya tak tertinggal.

sejuk, bil gas tinggi sebab pasang heater, susah nak gerak sebab sejuk dan macam macam lagi.

most of them complained about snowing in spring! some of my local friends told me, as far as she can remember, it never happened before. the latest snow would fall is in february.

so, i was going through the twitter and one of my friend tweeted about snow falling and wrote "Subhanallah".

okay afiqah, maybe you should see this thing in different perspective. tak rasa wow ke, salji pada bulan march?