Vibrant Star

I realised that Alor Star is quite the city now. I mean all the lights, the busyness of cars on the road and the people. You can really see the real Alor Star at night with all the lights especially during festive season like now the Chinese New Year. I just got back from having a dine-out in downtown of Alor Star.

We (grandma, sister and me) went to Giant first for some groceries. People were packed there, not sure why but it seems that all the Chinese have nothing to do at home during the Chinese New Year. Instead they went out to shop at hypermarket, how business-wise is that to Giant. Then we went to eat at the city's renowned Nasi Lemak Haji Ali, located at Seberang Perak, along the Persiaran Sultan Abdul Hamid. To be honest and shame on me, this was my first time with them. I think this is way much better than Nasi Royale (they're located throughout the city!).

I just love the atmosphere of Alor Star at night. I think it's very energetic and vibrant. Not as vibrant as Penang or KL, but good enough to feel the change since the last few years. I honestly saw a new club opened near Alor Star Tower.


So far I've been to a few restaurants and food outlets in Alor Star including Damiral's Grill, Uno Cafe, City One and Nasi Lemak Haji Ali is new to the list. I must say that Nasi Lemak Haji Ali is the best. The food was okay (typical mamak Nasi Kandar) but the environment is quite nice. You eat your food by the busy Persiaran Sultan Abdul Hamid, entertain yourself by getting together with your friends, talk about everything till late night and just enjoy the company! Seriously, it's a nice place to hang out...

Wardrobe Revealed

The other day I was working with my wardrobe. The thing was full of shit that I wear everyday and I realised that I need a new one! I shopped on clothing alot and ended up having a mess in my wardrobe. But before I get a new wardrobe or I won't be getting one soon, I throw everything out of the wardrobe; tees, jeans, undies etc. and tidy them up again. I was folding and classifying my clothing items into different drawers that have specific stuff like a drawer of tees etc. It was a mess!

Now, I felt like posting some of my (me thinks) best items from my wardrobe. I honestly think I bought alot of stuff and most of them don't fit me, I don't know why.

This long sleeve stripped shirt is one of my favorites. I rarely wear it because it looks very formal and work-ish but it does look good with jeans. Surprise surprise, I got it from Kamdar! LOL My mom bought some stuff there and got herself some free vouchers. She traded the vouchers from this shirt and I love

LOL The Official Corporate Shirt of Team SAHC100, wore during the regional finals. Neat.

First look of my baju raya, here on this blog. The whole family is going for orange-ish plus yellow-ish theme for this year's festive season. Raya is coming in about four days and this is what I'll be wearing.

New addition to my wardrobe, a tee from Body Glove. I love the prints on the shirt and it's tagless! I bought for less than RM30 because it was on sale.

Wardrobe REVEALED.

I'm in total crap...

Honestly, I felt like shit since the last couple of days. There's been like a lot of craps in my head, especially about school. I think I'm falling apart...

My results were tremendously bad, I failed Add Math with crap marks on other subjects. This is probably the worst result I've ever got in my life! 30th place in the class, with a pointer of 2.08. Fuck, why is this happening to me?! Bleh, why the hell I'm writing this? Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck... I'm not sure whether or not I can face SPM exam next year, I really, truly want to do well in the exam. How the hell am I going to study abroad? Oh shit, guess what, you're not going anywhere, because you're stupid!!!

Anyway, sorry about that. I AM in total CRAP! This is the Ramadan month so I shouldn't say such things. It's been about a week in Ramadan and I'm pretty much a tired cow everyday because the school is still going on in the background. The food bazaar in my neighborhood area is fun as it offers tones of food vendors compared to the past couple of years.

Well, I already making some moves about my school problem. I'm getting some help on my study from my peer that sits next to me. He's pretty much the only guy I hang out with at school and one of the smart folks in the class.

Hmmm... I don't think this is a fun thing to read, isn't it?

Life before and now

Yes, I'm back bitches! I took a break from blogging for a few week or months, I guess. So now, I'm back. What's up? Nothing much. Post-MRSM life has been very good although it is actually the same, like getting back to your normal routines. The experiences in MRSM have made me appreciate every moments I have in normal school (non-boarding school, non-MRSM, whatever you wanna call it).

Can I just state here how much I hate MRSM? Yeah, I hate MRSM. Remember this case where some students of MRSM were expelled? 15 students to be specific (the news at Bernama). Who says bullying cases don't happen in MRSMs? It happens all the time. We just can't believe the fact that it happens in a high-grade school like MRSM. I was in MRSM Pengkalan Chepa, one of the four best MRSMs around and the MRSM PC was the the third best school based on 2006 SPM exam results. But still, all these things that we thought shouldn't happened happen. UGH! My brain got cramped thinking about MRSM PC.

LOL! What a waste for me missing this fun time watching the pavilion of MRSM PC, located at the field. The fire happened two days after I left the school. So cool!

Anyway, MRSM life is one of my chapters in my life and I already passed it. The funny thing is the life I thought it was over continues. The Kolej life will never end, I guess. Bleh, I hate being very patriotic about my school.

After being super busy with drama when I was in MRSM PC, now I'm part of an F1 team. We make F1 cars in small scale. I'm the graphic designer and pretty much doing small things like marketing, merchandising and presentation. I don't actually make the car.

This is actually the machine where you make the model. We actually made it drilled some hole on the metal rod where it holds the wooden block. And as a graphic designer in the team, I came up with this logo. It's not official yet, but we're going to decide tomorrow.
The race is during early September that will be held in Alor Star. It is the north region level competition. After that, we go (if we are on the top 3) straight to national level.

Babysitting

So I've been babysitting my cousin for the rest of the break. We (my grandma and I) took her back here last week, the same flight that we went to. I just forgot to mention it in my last post. Anyway, she is currently a year and nine months old, pretty a twerp. She is being nothing but a burden. But at the same time, she is kinda funny. She talks in baby language which sounds very funny and tries to be a grown-up.

Other things that I did so far was (again) shopping, and basically doing nothing. I watched Zathura, a 2005 movie on HBO last night. It was a great movie. Then, I came across a movie titled The Mistress of Spices while flicking through channels after the movie was over. The movie was casted by probably India's most favorite celeb; Aishwarya Rai. I think this is the one that has a scene where she had sex with that white guy. Not sure, but I always find the clips on Youtube.

Today, I made a cake. I'm sure you guys knew that I like to cook. This time, the cake is probably the best and the most perfect cake that I have ever bake! It is a chocolate cake, with chocolate syrup and chocolate rice on top.

Yes, I heard that, thanks. IT IS delicious and mouth-watering.

Hello from MRSM PC

I've been trying very hard to get online and write to my blog, so I made it. Things have been going pretty well but I'm alright. It is very hard to know the fact that you are few hundred miles away from home. I'm pretty much a homesick person but I didn't know that until I came here.

I got A BUNCH of things to tell but I got like ZERO privacy to write since the computers are located like along the stairway. I'm going back to Alor Star this 8th of March and I will write more as soon as my ass hit my room.

Congrats! I'm in dilemma...

:D Pretty excited about getting an MRSM boarding offer. But the sad fact I got MRSM Pengkalan Chepa in KELANTAN, one of the rural states in Malaysia and I think Pengkalan Chepa is quite a distant from Kota Bharu, the capital state. I was very excited to know the fact that I got the offer then I went from that to the valley of dilemma... Should I go or not?

If I go, then I'll leave everything behind including my friends and my beloved school. If I turn down the offer, I'll be missing a chance in a lifetime. My whole family is telling me that I should NOT go, due to the fact that it's very far away and the school is located in a not-so-modern place. Yes, they got the point and I thought the same. However, (hell!) it's my only chance on going to a boarding school. I kinda like want some changes in my education life. It might be bad, but... Yeah, it is going to be bad. Probably no Internet (which mean no blogging, e-mail etc), bad food, and no more shopping!

According the their website, the requirement is at least 8 A's so I take that as MRSM Pengkalan Chepa is a nerd school. Few of my friends called me last night, they said they got offers from northern region MRSMs so they are not that far from Alor Star. I'm (currently) the only one who got an offer from Kelantan! I'm supposed to be in school right now but the doctor gave me one day off because of my fever. I guess I should check with my friends tomorrow and see whether they wanted to go or not.

My new expertise?

Since the last few days, after the school is over, I've been cooking in the kitchen for the whole week. I know I can cook but yesterday was a breakthrough. I baked a cake! Yes, a cake! It's not something very unusual but it was my first time and it turned out to be very delicious. I made a simple coffee microwave cake, got it from the microwave-oven's recipe book. Very easy.

Today I made another one for my mom. My mom didn't get to taste the first one because my sister and I ate about 3/4. The second one was very special. It was a coffee cake with almonds. Yum yum! The other day I made roast potatoes. Very delicious and simple. The ingredients are potatoes, oil, salt and pepper, and garlic for some flavor. You could always put some oregano.

Seriously, these breakthrough made me really excited in trying other dishes. Another news, my mom is leaving for Padang, Indonesia tonight. Gosh, why everyone disappears when I'm the one who in the school holidays?

What are the plans?

I don't know. I'm talking about plans for this coming school holidays which already started few hours ago. I went to school today and found out like half of the school was absent. I was like WTF this morning when I saw the school was clear.

So the plan, so far, going to Kota Kinabalu in December, which I already mentioned on my last post. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it on PMR result day since I will be in KK 22-27 December. I heard few dates for the result day including those in between 22-27 December. I just hope that I'm going to make it on that day. I got a wedding reception coming up this Saturday in Taman Uda. And guess what? A stupid reunion this Sunday!! Primary school reunion on Sunday at City Plaza, and the most hated person will be there. I thought I'm going to be in the flight to Padang this 22 November, but my mom is going there with her colleagues. Too bad, but I don't really care because they're going there with AirAsia which is not my airline.

My grandma already on the bus to KL, and left me here with my sister, again. Unfortunately, she had to go there because my uncle's maid ran away, which I think usual thing that would happen if you take an Indonesian maid. So my grandma has to take care of her grandchild, the cute Aleesya because her father is going to Jakarta tomorrow. It's sad because why the maid had to run away? She was very polite, obey, loyal etc. yet she ran away. Did I mention that she took my uncle's Sony Cybershot T5? That just so not right.

On My Way to KK

I just got an e-mail from Malaysia Airlines. The e-mail has my round trip tickets from Alor Star-Kuala Lumpur-Kota Kinabalu. I'm going to KK with my sister and meet my mom there since she would be there on the few days early flight because she has something to do with her office.

I'm so excited to go to Kota Kinabalu. It would be my second time travelling to East Malaysia and my first time to Sabah. I went to Sarawak in 2003. We're going to stay there for five days. I checked MAS' website and I'm going there on Boeing 737-400 :( I don't like 737, I like 747 and 777. I've been on 747 and it wa great. At least I'm going there, better than not going anywhere.

Fresh from Me!

I'm sure you're already notive the new look for my blog, again. I think this is going to be very long before I change it again. I dropped the "by yit4s" phrase because I think no one owns another TIAB, right?

So, I just discovered an amazing function on my camera. Well, not discovered, but told by a blogmate. He said that I should use the Macro function and I used it to experiment. Experiment was a success. Too bad, the macro function takes like half of my camera's battery life. It's Fujifilm Finepix F420 by the way. Here are some samples:

My cat, Mimi, getting awake from his sleep.

My mom's rusting silverware, which is not made from silver :P

Pouring water into a glass.

Comments would be very appreciate.

Thank You 8TV!

I received these in the mail yesterday:

Two months ago, I called 8TV Quickie on a weekend with Rina picked up my call. She was with Sasi The Don. Duh!! I was like very excited. It was my first call to TV station and it went on air, like my voice was on the national TV! So I answered the question which was what is the first single from Beyonce's new album. I answered Deja VU, which of course even kindergarten kids knew about it.

The prize is Tommy Hilfiger True Star Gold for women (very sad, I had to give it to my sister), Beyonce's B'Day and other BMG label albums (Brian McFadden's Irish Son, Shawn Colvin's Greatest Hits, Planetfunk).

A Very Good One

Phew... The first day of Raya (yesterday) was very, very busy. After the prayer we already got some peoppel coming to our house. They were my neighbours, who was invited by my mom earlier during the prayer at the mosque. My sister already set up the table because she didnt't go to the mosque for the prayer. My mom made "Mi Kuah" with squid, fish balls and cakes and cow's ribs. It was very delicious. My grandma on the other hand, made Tomato Rice with Beef Curry, pineapple salad/acar and Beef Rendang.

After the neighbour group, my grandma, uncle and his family came to our house. They ate and we went to the graveyard to vist my grandpa's grave. Unfortunately, the graveyard is flooded, since it's been raining around the northern region started last week. So then, my grandma went back with my uncle while my family went to my father's uncle. We stayed there for about 45 minutes and ate "Laksa", as usual for Hari Raya every year. Ugh, I'm getting sick of it.

At night, my father's employees came to our house. I think my mom only served cokkies as the "Mi Kuah" was insufficient. So that's all for Day One. Few hours ago, my long-time-no-see cousin from KL came. She came with his husband and she's 29. Bleh, I missed my chance :P Tomorrow probably a family from down-under, Sydney.

Duit raya? Heh, my index stock is down this year. Like I don't get alot, campared to few years back. Probably I have to start giving kids duit raya in two years time. I only get RM150... which I usually get RM300 five years ago and I was 10 at that time.

Selamat Hari Raya/Happy Deepavali

Tomorrow is the last day of fasting month for Muslims. We're going to celebrate Hari Raya this Tuesday!!! After we've been fasting for a month, now we are going to celebrate in a joyful of Hari Raya. Not to forget for the Hindus, Happy Deppavali. I love Murukkus. My grandma made them since Malaysia is celebrating Depparaya.

Since last week, my grandma, sister and I had been busy making Raya cookies, especially since my sister bought a new microwave oven early this month LOL Basically, we made grandma's recipe of Biskut Manik, Dahlia and Kacang. No stores or shops sell Biskut Manik, it is the original recipe. It has colourful sprinkles on top and easy to make yet still delicious :D Mr grandma also made Murukkus, another original recipe snack and fried nuts with garlic.

Also in last week, I've been busy helping my mom setting our new, renovated living room and kitchen. My parents did the floor and wall in the living room and cabinets in the kitchen. We had so much to do with the living room. I had to hang the curtains, mop the floor etc. The best thing is my brother and I hung the cookerhood on top of the stove. Mom bought more teak furnitures yesterday, they were on sale. The store was like crazy with housewives picking up things. This is year probably the most expensive Hari Raya ever, tittle taken form the year 2001 :P

As for me, I didn't go to the tailor for my Baju Melayu as I only wear it on Hari Raya. My mom and I went to shop at Alor Star Mall two weeks ago. I didn't spend much, only about RM200. I bought two tees, a long-sleeve striped polo, a jeans and a trunk underwear. Yesterday with my mom and my sister at city center of Alor Star and I bought my toiletries at Guardian. They bought a lot though, like almost RM600, including their Baju Kurungs at the tailor.

I would like to wish my classmates of 3 Alfa, everyone at Sultan Abdul Hamid College, and my family Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin. To all Malaysian Hindus, Happy Deppavali.

New fridge and TV

I just got back from an electrical appliances shopping. Our fridge suddenly broke. It won't cool things like it used to. As for our TV, the picture got big and fat, like we only can see half of the picture. The TV issue has been in the house since early this year. At first, the TV was only 95% broke. Eventually, dad has to buy a new one. I hoped that he would buy LCD TV but it was only flat screen from Panasonic.

I noticed the fridge yesterday, the ice in the freezer got melt when I wanted to make a cold drink. I thought someone didn't close the door tightly. This morning, everthing smelled like shit. The fish, meat etc Eww! At 10AM, dad and mom brought me along for the elctrical appliances shopping. So we got ourselves a fridge from Toshiba, RM1290 and a TV from Panasonic, RM955 plus a cookerhood from HesStar, RM400. Everything was credited to my mom's credit card. Everything will be deliver this evening.

Ramadan starts Sunday*

*subjects to change

Ramadan (fasting month for Muslims), according to calendar will start this Sunday. Ramadan means more delicious food, more shopping and more fun for the children. I'm not a child anyway. I'm a grown-up teenager who don't play mercuns anymore. I never play it anyway since I was born in 1991.

The sad thing, I have to sit my exam while I'm fasting, which will be very tiring. The exam will last in the evening on two or three days. Alright, enough with PMR.

I went to BUM at City Plaza and they have some new arrivals which have caught my eyes, especially a tee that says "I used to have a six-pack" which defintely suits me :P But they were not on sale. I asked the guy there he said he's not sure but of course there will be Raya Sale throughout the mall. So I decided to come back later for the sale.

I'm not going to the tailor for my baju melayu this year too. My last year's baju melayu (traditional costume for Malay males) still fits me and I usually wear once on Hari Raya (the day of celebration after Ramadan) so why waste money on something you wear once?

The photo shows some ketupats that will serve on Hari Raya. I love them!

I'm Back in Business

Yep, that's it. It's been only 17 days but I can't help my urge to blog. I love blogging! Finally I found something that I really love to do it. So many days, so much to tell and so little time. Few interesting things happened in my life in the last 17 days.

First thing is, my aunt is currently in Japan. Coolness! The government sent her there for some agricultural stuff which I think... okay for the modern world. She's basically moving around Japan including Tokyo. Talking about my aunt, her daughter finally can walk at the age of 11 months, about few weeks ago. She will turn a year this August. I think her parents decided to celebrate her birthday back in Kedah. Happy Pre-Birthday Aleesya!

Another major news is I moved back my house, after living with my grandma for about 12 years. I think she's pretty upset about but she got over it after a week eventually. She's currently in KL, taking care of her grandchild. Well sadly, I made a terrible mistake. I shouldn't move back because... life with parents is suck ass, badly. Trust me, and I have nothing to say about this, keep it to myself. I'm going back to my grandma.

Finally, I'm feeling the heat of PMR. The heat getting hot this Sunday with trial exam *suspense music* Again, nothing to say about this except I'm fucking nervous as hell. I've been making some revisions in the last two weeks.

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Lame but Great Saturday

This entry was supposed to be written yesterday, but didn't have the time to come online. So, I went to Jerjak Island in Penang on Saturday for a family day, organised by my mom's society which I think VERY LAME. The place is great, really great. It's Jerjak Island Resort and Spa. I just love the environment there, like greeny, fresh etc. The photos will come up this weekend.

Too bad, Saturday was a rain day and flash flood back in Alor Star. We can't have any beach activities. But at least, we played some pool ball? Or whatever you called that, at their swimming pool. Lunch was great. The mushroom soup is ten times better than Pizza Hut's. I didn't go to school yesterday because I was too 'tired' but hell, the school is busy with the awards day.

Busy, Busy, Busy

It's almost 2 weeks since I last updated this blog. Like the title says, I'm super busy since last week till tomorrow, I guess. The school will be having awards day in July, so next week will be a very busy week but excluding me. New principal came to my school, replacing the current one. Not really new principal as he came in 2001, out in 2004 and came back this year again. Welcome Mr. Morazuki!

I was busy with reports in last week, and taking nap after school in this week :P I take nap after school so that I can watch the World Cup matches at night. But only matches that start around 8-10pm. Germany is my team, but I go for other teams, depending on the match like I went for Italy because I hate the US and etc. South Korea is pretty good. Talking about the World Cup, the US is so going home. And sadly for Togo, they're already out. The next match is nothing for them, just completing the schedule.

Good news for me this weekend. My mom and I are going to Jerjak Island in Penang, so fun this Saturday! They have spa on the island which I think pretty cool. Penang is like second best place in Malaysia after KL. It's raining heavily outside...

A time to make friends -- In Germany!

The world cup started yesterday at 11PM with ntv7, RTM and Astro as the official broadcasters in Malaysia. I watched the first match between Germany and Costa Rica, 4-2 on RTM1. It was an interesting match, like the Germans scored the first goal on the fifth minute and Costa Ricans five minutes later. But I think that's the only match I watched for the world because the school will start tomorrow. I'm gonna miss the whole thing...

I got few hours left before my bed time, get up and go to school. Yes, the school will start tomorrow eventually. School break for two weeks is coming to an end. But I'm pretty happy today, I finished all my reports and homeworks and... Went to shop yesterday! Shopping is best part of the holiday. I thought I wasn't gonna make it for my reports and homeworks but I managed to finish everything up. Phew... Detail on shopping is on The Pop.