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!

Add us on Facebook : Little Hellion
Blogspot : Little Hellion

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..

In-line skating

Can you believe I actually braved myself to wear those ridiculous looking roller skates???

Every time my little brother comes back home from his boarding school, we always bring him to the skate park in Shah Alam so he can let out his skate board-longing (MRSM should really build a skating park in their campus). So last weekend, we all went to the skate park, along with our cousins, aunt and uncle. Usually, we girls will just sit by a corner and watch the guys stroll around the park. I don't know what had gotten into me, but I said yes when Dad offered me his roller skates. Maybe I was starting to miss my pink Barbie roller skates I had when I was little by looking at those who roller skated that night. So I quickly slipped on those heavy pair of shoes with rollers underneath before I change my mind. And who would have thought I could rock them skates??! I started to go round and round the park without anything to hold on to.

But of course, don't you just expect I can do all those stunts and grinds. No. For me, being able to walk in that kind of shoes is good enough :p

After I sweat myself being over excited over the roller skates, we all made a circle by the corner to play a card game. We were laughing so hard till I realised something. Everyone (except us, duh) were crowding the ramp. Being so curious, Mom and I went over and took a peek inside the huge hole. I regretted looking right away because there was a guy, lying down in his own pool of blood..

I swear I wanted to cry, not because I feel so freaked out by all the blood, but because I felt sorry for the guy. He fell from his BMX and I don't know, maybe he crashed his head or something. I couldn't wait and just see him lie there. We couldn't help much either because we couldn't move him or anything since his head probably was cracked and it might just get worse if we move him or anything. But I was relieved to know that the Ambulance was coming.

Looking at that incident, made me realise everything can happen to ourselves. Any time and anywhere, it's just the matter of time. God has everything planned out for us. We just don't know what awaits us in the future. So, don't take our lives for granted.

Natural Disasters

If you don't know about the Earthquake and Tsunami hitting Japan last night, you must be living in a cave. But I'm pretty sure everyone knows about it since it has become the number 1 topic on Twitter and of course, everyone is on Twitter these days. That was how I found out about it actually.

My parents, sister and I were on our way to Kuantan, Pahang to fetch my little brother from his boarding school as the school holidays is starting. I was in the car, checking my timeline and I saw everyone freaking out! I automatically freaked out without knowing what actually happened. So I read through all the tweets and found out that something happened to Japan. Even Disneyland got hit!! :( I also saw warnings for Malaysians to stay safe and far from beaches. Though they mainly warned the ones in Sabah and Sarawak, I couldn't help but panicked since Malaysia means here. Right here where I'm at, where my families are and where my friends are. To make things worse, I was on my way to Kuantan, where the beach is!! I was freaking out in the car, I swear my sister and I almost cry. We were scared the whole way but I was glad that we were on our way to fetch my brother. I mean, imagine if it isn't school holidays and he's far away from us. I'd rather face anything with my family than being safe without them. While freaking ourselves out, someone had to post something about the sun hadn't come out since morning and it's a Friday. All Muslims know that the end of the world (Kiamat) happens on a Friday. I read the tweet out loud so my family knows about it. As much as I was worried about Japan, I couldn't help being a little selfish and think about Malaysia.

On the way, I tried to keep my mind positive but with the weather, rain pouring since dawn and the news I heard on the radio to keep updated about the disaster in Japan, I was literally shaking. To add salt to the wound, we passed a lot of accidents along the way. Cars turned 360 degrees, people lying on the road.. How was I suppose to be calm??? I could feel the tears coming out and I wonder, 'what's happening to the world?'. I didn't want to keep thinking too much, so I tried sleeping. Though I kept waking up every few minutes, I forced myself to shut my eyes. Alhamdulillah, we arrived safely and Zahir kept WhatsApp-ing me to come back as fast as I can and he advised us to not stay the night there since the beach is so near. But we had to consider my Dad too. He had been driving for 3 hours straight in the rain, the least we could do is to let him sleep in a proper bed before we go back.

We had dinner there in Kuantan and Dad decided to stay the night. Unfortunately, every decent hotel was fully booked and we were searching for a hotel until midnight. Dad decided to just go back since there wasn't any rooms available. I was worried of course. Dad was tired, I could tell from his eyes and it was past midnight! I kept asking him if he was tired but he insisted he was okay. We arrived safe and sound in Subang. As soon as we reached home, we tuned in CNN and watched the disaster. It was really scary.

It really hit me that we human tend to take this earth for granted. We should really appreciate and start taking care of this earth as much as we can. I hope it's not too late..
So here's my condolences to those who have lost families and friends in Japan. My hearts goes to every single one of you. Stay strong.




*photo from :
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2011/03/12/quake_tsunami_ravage_japan/