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I have good news, you guys!! I don't know about you, but it is good news to me. I'm going to keep it in the closet for a little while until it actually happens. So wait for my good news okay?

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Guess what?? Still no idea? Then you'll just have to wait for it. Hehehe :)

Coughs, fever, headache.. what more?

I'm having the time of my life with this headache and fever. And the only reason why I'm typing away on my laptop is because I can't seem to sleep because I keep coughing and coughing and coughing and coughing.. and coughing some more. As much as I love being in bed all day, I can't stand it. Staying in bed is nothing if I can't really sleep.

And the works I have that are not even touched yet.. well, let's just not go there. I don't know how am I going to keep up, with the over piling works I have in front of me. Finals is less than a month and yeay, a test tomorrow too. How great is my life??? In case you haven't notice, I'm being sarcastic here. I can't even sit up straight because my head suddenly weights more than it should, so all I have to do is lie down and what? Cough?? Speaking of work, I'm meeting a customer from Little Hellion again tonight. The second meet up this week. Although I'm sick, I really don't mind going all the way for my lovely customers! I have a few more items to put up on LH today but I guess I'll have to wait until I get better.

Oh, by the way, have I told you? I think there's something wrong with my body or hormone or something because I'm sick since Monday and I have all these pimples across my face!

I look pathetic, I know! Even my eyes are not balanced. Okay, you can stop laughing now.......
No, really. I'm serious.

Ballet

I have a presentation tomorrow and I just finished preparing for it. I chose Ballet for my topic this time. I figured it'll be great and easy since I have all the certificates and trophies for materials to bring, so I can get extra marks. But I was wrong. Of course, how could I forget that Ballet isn't all about dancing. I have to study about the history, the origins and even their costumes evolution from the 1400s! Not that I'm complaining.


I just learnt that Ballet came from Italy, not UK. I thought UK was the one who invented the idea of ballet because my former ballet academy came from the UK. In fact, UK wasn't even the second country to have ballet. It was France and Russia came in at third. UK came only after Russia. How embarrassing. And I thought my academy was the number one in the world!

I'm planning to bring this certificate along (with my name on it, of course) just so the examiner will give me extra marks for bringing extra materials and I'm hoping she/he will believe I'm a professional ballerina(which I am not -__-).

Things and photos like these really make me miss my ballet days... But no procrastinating please! I don't have time for that. Need to rock this final presentation and I'll be done with this course! Wish me luck, you guys!!

FashionValet & Minz Fashion Show/Tea Party

Forgive me but I don't know why it took me so long to post about this event. Believe it or not, I won an invite(with plus one) to this private event when I purchased a necklace from FashionValet(FV) and only God knows how loud I screamed in the car when I saw an extra envelope in my parcel! Okay, actually Zahir knows too because he was in the car with me.

Lady Jane Cameo necklace

The fashion show/tea party was a private party held at T Forty Two in Bangsar Village 2 at 3pm on March 29th 2011, which was on Tuesday. Thank God our class ends at 11am on Tuesdays. So we went to lunch at Midvalley and had to rush back to college to get ready. We were lucky that Bangsar is so near to UM! Pheww!


I invited Reena to come with me since she was the one who introduced me to the founder of FV's (Vivy Yusof) blog. I wouldn't even know about FV if it weren't for Reena. We were so nervous for the event because well.. because we're regular people, not a magazine's editor or a famous blogger or a founder of an online boutique. I swear, by the time we took a seat, my palms were all sweaty and I could hear my heart beating, literally. It was my first time going to a fashion show, so forgive me for being so nervous! All I could think was did I dress okay? Do I look okay? Why didn't I choose to wear something more attractive? Is my hair behaving? Why didn't I put on extra compact powder? And can everyone hear my heart beating so fast and loud??

Reena and I both felt so out of place, surrounded by all these professionals and pretty people! But after a while being uncomfortable, two women approached our table and sat with us and everything went great after that. We relaxed a little and just enjoyed the food they served.

I love their macaroons!! The best I've tried so far!

The models walked out right after the founders of FashionValet.net and Minz sisters gave their speeches. Minz collections were so pretty, I almost snatched a necklace from a model's neck! Okay, I'm kidding. But it'll be nice too if...

By the time the models walked out one by one, Reena and I relaxed ourselves and the next thing we know, we were taking photos with the people there. My favourite photo of the day is this:

I know I look weird in this photo, but hello! Vivy was beside me!! Sorry, I know I'm acting stupid but I just adore Vivy so much!

We went around to take photos with other people too after that :)

Asma' from FashionValet

With the gorgeous Minz ladies :)

The woman who sat with us, Shera from Harpers Bazaar

We decided to go back when we were satisfied with all the photos we got and we received goodie bags! Oh, I LOVE goodie bags, if you must know :)

Reena and I couldn't stop smiling the whole way back and we even smiled while sleeping that night! We were just so happy that we have witnessed an awesome event and met with the friendliest and greatest people in fashion industry in Malaysia.

And I still can't get over the fact that I met Vivy Yusof! :p

Thanks to FashionValet and Minz for having me at your private event!

APK

APK as in Asas Pembudayaan Keusahawanan (Basic of Entrepreneurship Culture). APK is one of the university courses that is compulsory for students to take. So on Wednesday and Thursday, my whole class had to open up a stall and experienced being entrepreneurs for real. Our task was to sell any kinds of food. So my team came up with rojak buah, Bakso(Indonesian food), Herbal eggs and drinks.

I know our rojak looks all messy and gross, but it tasted so nice, I swear!

Noor opened a stall too and she sold vintage clothes. I even got myself two tops, only for RM20 for both!!

Miejah's stall was next to ours which made the whole thing even better to have close friends just a few steps away!

Though we looked like a pair of 'mak ciks' throughout the two days but we had fun regardless :)

Zahir and my sister came to support too!

Despite everything, we do love University Malaya (UM) :)

UM's 11th College Dinner

Everyone knows I'm not staying at my hostel in UM since I have Summer (my car) and UM is only 15 minutes drive (without traffic) from home. But as I still have a room there in 11th College which I've never stepped in after orientation week, I still have to pay for the fees and such. The fees includes a dinner since this semester is coming to an end. I dreaded to go because well, I don't have any friends there in 11th college as I don't spend my time there. Okay, maybe a few friends but we barely see each other. So I decided not to go. I'd rather burn RM130 than going alone looking all pathetic by myself.

And then Siti texted me one day, asking if I have any table for that dinner. Of course! I forgot I have my lovely friends there, it's just that we haven't met in a while so I forgot that they are in the same residential college as me! After thinking it over, I decided to go. And last night was the night! Frankly, I wasn't excited for this dinner because there was nothing to look forward to. Except the fact that I can doll myself up for a night, and of course, I get to see and spend time with my friends.

Everything was pretty much haywire yesterday because my condominium's organisers decided to organise a family day on the same day as my dinner. So in the morning, I had to go down to the lobby to help Mom with the registration, the games and all. I lost track of time and it was almost 5 when I was taking care of the kids that took part for a colouring contest. My salon appointment was at 5!! So I ran up and showered before going to the salon. I had to put on my make up as fast as I can after that.

I arrived at a hotel in Mines, Palace of the Golden Horses, greeted by Siti and Nikki. We had to sit at a table with 4 strangers. They're guys, I might add. At first, I was all, 'nooo, we won't be able to laugh out loud and be ourselves and we have to be all proper mannered' as they're our seniors. And boy, was I wrong. Looking at them, I thought they'd be boring but lesson learnt (yet again), don't judge the book by it's cover! They really were funny and made us all laugh that night. After the event wrapped up, we just roamed around the ballroom to find people we know just so we could take pictures together.


I seriously had fun though this dinner wasn't really something I was looking forward to go. But thanks to everyone at my table, especially Nikki and Siti, last night was great :)

How to make money

Who doesn't love money? Everyone does. Everyone needs money to survive. When someone says, money isn't everything, they are lying. What are you going to wear if you don't have money? What are you going to use to shelter your family without money? Yes, money isn't everything but can you actually own the essentials and needs in life if you don't have money? Doesn't matter if you own a lot of money or a little, you still need money, regardless of the amount. I once read somewhere, that if someone says money can't buy you happiness, then they sure don't know where to shop, or something like that. And I couldn't agree more! Being me, an 'almost-shopaholic' (Almost because I sometimes know when to save my money. SOMETIMES), of course I love money and money can definitely make me happy by buying whatever I want but whenever I spend my money too much, I started to regret. Now, this is not a healthy way of life, I must say. But I couldn't help it!

This semester, it's compulsory for my whole class to take an Entrepreneur subject where we learn how to make business. On Tuesday, there was a talk on 'How To Make Money', as a part of the subject. As lazy as I was, because trust me, as much as I love money and shopping, I'm not really interested on how to make them. My way of making money is to save my allowance and when it's enough, I'll go shopping. Whenever I need extra money to buy something more expensive than my allowance, I will save up and not eat outside for the rest of the week. Simple as that. So I was dreading to go to the 4 hours of talk. But turned out, I enjoyed the whole talk! I'm always sleepy when I go to talks but this time, I'm wide awake!

Y. Bhg. Senator Dato' Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, the owner of a well-known real estate consultancy company, Rahim & Co. and Y. Bhg. Dato' Ghazali B. Dato' Yusoff, a graduate from UM himself were there to deliver the talk. Dato' Rahim's first sentence was, " if you want to make money, then Estate Management is the way". Of course, being one of Estate Management student among all other courses in the hall made me proud. Dato' Rahim also said that most of the millionaires in the world came from Real Estate background. By the time he said that, I was imagining myself being a millionaire 6 years from now, shopping the whole Pavillion. A girl can dream right?? :p

But what attracted me the most on that day was Dato' Ghazali's charming personality. He started as a musician playing in small bars and now who would've thought, he is the Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Nusantara Technology Sdn Bhd. His talk definitely opened my eyes to the outside world and how we have to think and work hard for money.

Oh and Noor was there at the talk because she's taking the subject too. So after the talk, we couldn't help but to take pictures together as it's been so long since we last see each other.

The day we turned 3

Some of you might know Zahir and I celebrated our 3rd year anniversary last Friday. I was looking forward to that day and when it came, I was excited but nervous at the same time. I had everything planned out months before. I even seek for help and ideas from some friends and ended up making a scrapbook/journal for him and decided to make pancakes for him for breakfast!

I started the journal a month before and yet I still had to complete it last minute due to my hectic life, though I don't really know what I filled my time with. I didn't study and I haven't even completed my assignments. And I had to skip class the day before just so I could finish the journal in time. I locked myself in my room the whole day. I didn't even get up to eat and every part of my body were aching but I was determine to finish up the journal that day since I have a lot more to do after that. Looking up how to make Chocolate Chip pancakes on YouTube, making the photo collage board.. Thursday was really, and I mean, REALLY hectic day for me. I started the journal from early morning and finished up by dusk. There were just too many pages and too much to write and too many photos to put up!!

I wanted to do the scrapbook by my own bare hands.. until I saw this.

This journal is just so adorable, I couldn't resist! So I decided to buy it though I was worried Zahir will think I'm getting lazier for these kind of things because I used to make handmade cards for him a lot. Reena suggested to make the cover different so that it will show my effort that I put in to make this journal. Brilliant! :D

It became like this! I don't know about you, but I just love the bling letterings! I was so satisfied that I had to resist patting my own back :p I know it does look a little bit off here and there, but that's the point. That shows how hard and how much effort I put in to make this. Of course, there's a lot more inside, but I'm not going to let you puke by looking at all the romantic side of me. What with all the photos and the speech I wrote in there.. *blush*

After the journal, I made the photo collage. Thank God it wasn't hard to make. It took only 10 minutes to do it. I went to the kitchen straight away to start on my ice cream cake. The cake turned out pretty good, I must say. Sadly I didn't have any photos of it :( After the ice cream cake, I prepared the ingredients for my Chocolate Chip pancakes to cook the next morning and went to sleep. Or you might as well call it a nap. Because I swear, it felt as if like only slept for 2 hours! When my alarm woke me up, I saw the clock and realised that I didn't sleep for 2 hours. It was 3 hours. But like it or not, I had to get up and start on my pancakes because Zahir's fetching me up at 6.30am for our Hot Air Balloon in Putrajaya. The pancakes turned out pretty well too, Alhamdulillah.

Fara and Nazrin tagged along too the next morning to the Hot Air Balloon. We went out of the house wishing we could be all romantic flying up together in the basket-thing, but we were late, tickets were sold out :(

That night, Zahir invited me to his house for dinner (with his family around, of course). I had the shock of my life that night!! After 3 years of being together, I just found out Zahir has a hidden talent : Cooking. I had the hardest time to accept the fact that my boyfriend is a better cook than me. He cooked Fetuccini Carbonara and the best brownies I ever tasted for dessert. If you're a big fan of desserts like I am, you'll be begging on your knees, asking Zahir the recipe of his brownies. As for me, I couldn't be bothered by the recipe because I'm too lazy to bake and I know I can just call Zahir to bake one for me :p

That night ended perfectly, with a hand made card from him.

And my favorite part of the card is the messages that can be pull out from the green compartments!

That day was so magical!!!! But I woke up the next day with a sore throat, runny nose and a fever -___-

Little Hellion

Ika, Noor and I made a pre-loved blogshop when we were in our Foundation year, which was nearly 2 years ago. But because we were too young and too busy with our assignments (actually we were lazy too update the blogshop), that blog has been deleted. We figured that we didn't have the time to organise things and take photos to put up on the blog.

But a month ago, I don't know why, I don't know how but my feeling to get back into business just came. Maybe because I need cash really bad at that time. Or maybe because I just love selling my things (with good condition, of course), so I can buy new ones? I'm sure it's more to the latter. So there I was, creating a new email, a new Facebook and a new blog to start back my small business. And it's called Little Hellion.

The thing about me is, I'm not really good at promoting things. But now, a month had passed and Alhamdulillah, I've had customers and I really appreciate my customers. They are such sweethearts! So thank you to all who support Little Hellion and I :)


Although everything is pre-loved, but most of the items have no defects and almost everything is from well-known brand. A Topshop t-shirt for RM15? MNG for RM7? Zara for RM20?? Where can you get that kind of prices??? Well, Little Hellion of course! Okay I know I sound so much like the annoying ads on tv but I can't help it :p

From dresses, to tunics, to tops to skirts.

I know it's not big and professional enough but hey, baby steps, you guys!

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Thanks again to the girls that gave me their supports from the first I started Little Hellion. Now LH is one month down the road, and insyaAllah, with God's will, we'll be better :)

Birthday Album

Last month, February 23rd to be precise, one of my high school closest friend, Lola turned 20. I know this is so late, but forgive me. I'm so busy lately.

Lola and I had been friends since.. God knows how long. Despite us being super close for long, we have never argued. Not even once. Now that is what that makes Lola special. She's not the typical high school girl you always see. She's so matured even when she's only 15. I guess that's why teachers always rely on her and made her class monitor every year. Because she's so responsible and can handle everything. Her report card is also one of the many reasons why the whole school knows her. She has the brain AND the right attitude. Who wouldn't love her??

Among all of us, she's the first to go to London to do her ACCA. Obviously! So this year is the first year she's not here with us to celebrate. We all miss her bossiness, the way she takes care of all of us in the class. She's just a great friend that everyone can never have the courage to hate her even if they tried. She has such bubbly personality that we all love so much! Seeing how we all miss her too much but can't really take a plane and fly to London spontaneously, we decided to prepare a little something for her, on her birthday. That was when my creativity bloomed out :p I came up with an idea of making a photo album for her. I love doing all these photo albums/journals/hand made cards kind of things, so I volunteered to get the photo album done by myself. With helping hands of the others here and there too, of course! I managed to get the photo album done just in time, but now, delivery!

We had the most complicated situation when it comes to the delivery. I was so busy with assignments, presentations and whatnot that particular week, so I ended up delivering it later than we planned, which was on her birthday. Not just that, but okay, don't laugh.. but that was my first time queuing up at the shipping lane. *hides face* Although my blogshop offers shipping(Malaysia only), customers never ask for shipping. They always prefer to meet up. So yeah, you have no idea how clueless I was in the post office but thank God Zahir was with me, so he was the one who handled everything for me. I just provided him with the address and the other details that we had to fill in the paper. All I did during the shipping process was wrap the album in a brown paper because the post office won't accept the pretty wrapper I wrapped the album with.



Then, last weekend, Lola received the package and I was so excited because she loved it but mainly because my first attempt on delivery succeeded (okay fine, it was Zahir's attempt but whatever).

But in all seriousness, I'm glad the package was delivered without any complications(pheww!) and she liked it so much that she posted photos of the album in her Facebook and tagged all of us :) Okay now that she had received it, let's see if she will board on a plane to Malaysia somewhere this week just because she misses us too much by looking at the album.

Nightmares

Do you like nightmares? I know I don't. And I don't mean the ghost kind of nightmares. Nightmares as in, it involves your loved ones and you sure don't want it to happen in real life. I had one of those nightmares last night. I thought the dream was real.

Then I woke up with tears on my cheeks.

I just don't like these dreams because when I wake up, I will think that it's going to happen for real. So I'll be so insecure and doubting everyone. Not to mention, I'll be as grumpy as an old man the whole day. Till the next day, probably. So you can guess my mood the whole day today. And the fact that I had to wake up crying because of those dreams.. ugh.

I can get very angry sometimes just because I dream something bad. I've had so many bad dreams but the worst got to be the one where I dreamt of Zahir leaving me because of another girl. I always have the same dream and the girl he leaves me for in the dreams is the same girl. And I happen to know her in real life. Imagine how hard can it be for me.

I know I'm only 20 and there's still a very long way to go. There are a lot of new people I'm going to meet. Anything can happen in a few years time. Yes yes, I've heard all of that before. But though I'm 20, doesn't mean my relationship is a joking matter. I take relationships seriously and be it 20 or not, my relationship is serious. I know Zahir and I started our relationship in high school but our relationship is not like those typical high school love. We were/are serious. So I can't imagine if my dreams come true.

So, what's your worst nightmare?

Beastly

It's been awhile since we last went out like this. Since my brothers (both elder and younger) went to other places for studies, our family has become pretty quiet. With Abang thousands of miles away in the US, we couldn't really see him that much. Our only saviour is of course, Skype. Skype is everyone's saviour, right?? My little brother on the other hand, can't Skype with us. So it's either through texts or calls.

School holidays are here for 9 good days (can you believe it?!) and so little brother came home last weekend. We had a lot of plans when he's back since he pretty much lives like a prisoner in his school. But I was the only one who thinks that way, even little brother himself said it's not too bad.

No McDonald's?? No shopping malls?? No cinemas??

I'd die before orientation starts.

But little brother is a tough boy even though he's the youngest in the family. He has been there since January and now it's middle of March. He seems to enjoy his time there though he came back with a few shades darker than he was before. So today, we all went out to entertain him with cinemas, popcorns and buy him books and a few other things that he won't get in Pekan, Pahang where his school is.

I drove them to Cineleisure after my class today. I was so excited because we were going to watch Beastly. Some of you might know how much I love Mary-Kate Olsen. Though her scenes weren't much but I didn't mind. As long as she's in it because I've always preferred her than her twin sister since I was little. We had a good laugh in the car, feels like old time. But this kind of moment reminds me so much of Abang..



We're meeting Dad there as Dad had something to settle in the office. We arrived first and went straight to collect the tickets that I booked. Our seats were released because we were late(like always), so we had to split up in the movie. We didn't mind though because Mom and Dad took the seats behind us :)

Before going in for the movie, Dad and little brother were complaining how hungry they were. So we went to the nearest restaurant possible to the cinema so we won't be rushing when it's time. We settled in an Indonesian Restaurant. At first I doubted the restaurant. Forgive me by judging the book by it's cover, I just couldn't help it. Hehe. But as I ate some of Dad's Mee Jawa, I regretted judging. Their Mee Jawa is so nice!! I looked through the menu and they have Pecel Lele and Es Teller too! If you've been to Indonesia, you'll know what I'm talking about :)

We had to eat in a rush since we were going to be late for the movie. And we sure appreciate the never ending ads before the movie starts at times like this. But we curse the ads when we're the first to arrive in the cinema hall. Always.

A lot of people said Mary-Kate looks ugly in Beastly and I never let those remarks get to me because I know in whatever condition Mary-Kate is, she is always pretty. And yes, I know she looks kind of scary looking as a witch in Beastly but she was not ugly! In fact, she looks stunning to me.

After the movie, we went to Ikea for dinner. I had their meatballs, of course! We were all so hungry and threw our heads in the meals straight away.



Actually only little brother and I jumped into our foods. The rest just looked at us with such amazement and jaw dropping to the floor because we ate like it's no body's business.

It was such a great day with the family because we barely can go out like this on normal days. It usually just us girls and Dad since both brothers are away from home. Next mission, a day out with the whole family, with Abang too. I don't know how we're going to bring Abang along but I'll come up with something..