This morning was Music Station on Animax, featuring Hot by Avril Lavigne in Japanese. It was very ridiculous.
Now these sushis from the French supermarket, Carrefour!
My mom got these while she and my sister in Penang. My first sushis this year. I was too excited that I only took two photos of the sushis. My mom bought the salmon roe, crab meat rolls, smoked salmon and assorted roes with some wasabe. I always loved sushi!
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...
My sister and my mom just came back from having a nice holiday (according to them) in Solo City and Yogjakarta in Indonesia. The photos they took were so-so, they didn't even bring the camera on the day to Borobodur Monument! Sad thing was they traveled with AirAsia which I think not a nice thing to start your nice holiday. I mean like, they didn't even have the connecting flight to Alor Star from KL.
Anyway, here are the photos I edited. You would probably think that none of these have to do with Solo, Yogjakarta and even Indonesia.
My favorite from the bunch, cause it has the Airbus A320's winglet.
Sunset over Mount Merapi, onboard the AirAsia's A320.
Very artistic I guess and that's why I like this one.
The Borobodur monument, taken with the sister's Z550i phone. The quality was bad. Period.
A nice photo typical Solonian (am i correct?) house.
So, the news was I broke my old camera, which was the last Fujifilm Finepix F420. The camera won't retract the lens back when it is off and I got lens error message when it is on. I went to the store and it needs a new part which would cost me a whopping RM300ish! So I decided to buy a new one.
Fortunately, my dad had about 100k points in his Bonuslink account. So he redeemed me an Olympus FE-280 that was worth 70k ish, but went for the express way option which I have to add RM367 with 40k points.
I've been researching on the Net about this camera and went to the store to see for myself before redeeming at Bonuslink. It is a decent camera but great design. Very slim and light I guess. The pictures are at decent quality, nice battery life, nice LCD screen and include face detection technology plus smile shot.
So here are some sample photos I took. The macro function is okay I guess. I'm not much of a photographer though.
This is phone's home screen, took this while the lights were out and using macro function.
Hehehe... My new wardrobe.
Masjid Zahir, which is one of Alor Star's major landmarks. I was riding on a motorbike with my brother and used the anti-shake feature.
I was experiencing new dish and came up with this. It was horrible I guess. Took this with super macro function on.
Three words: NO MORE MRSM
I quitted MRSM and came back to my old beloved school; Sultan Abdul Hamid College. It was kind of a drastic and sudden decision I made to go back to my old school. Hell whatever, I am already heading for my second week in my old school. The thing is boarding school is really not my thing. I tried to be strong there for like four months, but I can't help it on the second week of Semester 2. On the first semester, I got 3.19 for my GPA which is pretty much okay. Don't want to talk much about MRSM... I just want to say that I hate it, seriously!
I created a lot of memories there for four months. Drama, new friends, exams, hostel... These are some of the things that I went through in this one of the chapters of my life. I am missing my friends there but then I can't make them the reason for me to stay. I'm gonna miss you guys! I had a lot of fun with them. This year would be the year with the most parties!
These are some of my friends that I made. More to come, not feeling well right now.
Howdy y'all! Oh my god, it's been like ages since the last time I wrote here. I know some of you might have wondered what happened to me etc. Well, I had no time to write since I'm living in a hostel, far far away from home and it's hard to get on the Net. I can't get off the keyboard once I'm on the Net though.
So, where to start? Probably the recent one. I was in KL for five days and just got back yesterday. I arrived in on AirAsia for the first time Kota Bharu-KL. My thoughts about AirAsia? Just okay. I felt like the airline is a little above the bus express coach :P Like, the boarding pass is like the receipt that I got at the malls. Even the bus coach assigns seat for the passengers. But, these are only my thoughts because it is my first time on low-cost carrier.
KL was fun this time. I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 at Mid Valley with my friends that I made in MRSM and another major activity was SHOPPING! My total spending there is almost RM250, including stuff that I bought, transport and food.
Pirates 3 was good, but less hilarious compared to the first and second ones. The third one is more to action. I like it though. Moving on from movie, I bought few new stuff in Mid Valley and Times Square. I bought new sandal from Bata, tee from Baleno and a handbag from Oxbow. Yes, a handbag. It's like mini sling bag for man, it looks cool. I need it because I have to carry a lot of things with me like phone, wallet, earphones etc. New arrivals at Bata look super cool and fashionable, compared to few collections before this.
More to come... I still have a lot of time before I go back to Kelantan.
Oh yeah, it's been awhile since the last time I post. I just got back from Kota Kinabalu on Wednesday and I can't post right away because the Net was down due to the earthquake in Taiwan. Anyway, the holiday was very nice and sunny. I went there for five days, did a lot of things; shopping, beach, mountain. I slept at the airport on Friday night because our connecting flight was on the next morning, cheap flight from MAS.
So here are some of the photos I took. I like it there, it was very nice and sunny. The people are great; very polite and friendly.
The jetty at Manukan Island.
Beach at Manukan Island.
Me at Mount Kinabalu, three hours away from Kota Kinabalu.
What my sister and mom bought at the nearby night market and the whole Kota Kinabalu.
As soon as the school holidays started, the wedding season will start too. I just don't understand the equation: School holidays = Wedding season. I just got back from a wedding reception in Alor Star. It was my friend sister's wedding. I came there late as everyone today was so busy and need the car. my dad had lunch with his client etc. I didn't meet any of friends since I came there late and took very little amount of photos. Here they are:
The cake, which was very beautiful and nice
The bridal stage (pelamin), very common in Malay wedding receptions.
Throughout the holidays, there are more wedding receptions on the list. So I'm going to gain weight due to the fact that Nasi Minyak is waiting for me...
I went to school today, like usual and IT WAS BORING! We did nothing beside playing cards, chatting, mobile phones etc. I brought along my camera with me and took some photos, since I've knew the right way to take photos. So here they are:
My friend made Blackjack deck tower/pyramid/whatever.
Some tree I took next to my class.
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.
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).
The other day (can't remember), the school was having some photograph sessions involving the Form Three to Five classes, clubs, societies and sport teams. My class, 3 Alfa, was the first one on the bill to take photo. The photos are actually for the school's yearly magazine. I'm going to be in the magazine!
In the photo, I'm the 4th in the back row standing. The woman in the middle, front row seating is my class teacher. She teaches us Math. Two of my classmates weren't in the photo. They were absent, shame. I'm in boys' school if you guys still don't know.
I scanned the photo, made some adjustments and came up with this. Scanned photos are low in quality and I hate them actually. I have to pay 50 sen for the photo though. Click on the photo to see the original size. Small size aren't that good.
*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!
Less than two weeks left for my PMR. Yes, the real one. Again, THE REAL ONE! It is going to happen on 2nd-6th of October 2006. I just realised that I have (to be specific) 13 days left before the exam, and 13 days to complete my revisions. I still haven't mastered everything, especially in History, Geography and Science. These are the three subjects that I suck at. I really have to concentrate on this. I'm going to nail this exam.
As for the school's last preparation, there will be a Yassin recital ceremony this Thursday for all Muslim students including those who are going to sit for SPM and STPM. On that day, there will also a special ceremony for the teachers and students at 11.30AM, then off to Al-Bukhary Complex at 12.30PM for the Yassin recital ceremony. Parents will be there too.
Tomorrow, my mom, sister and grandmother will go to KL for sister's graduation ceremony at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, near KLCC. They thought of bringing me along, but I said I'm currently busy with school and stuff. Hell, 13 days and skip school for two days?! Not going to happen. My dad also busy with his work so he can't go too. So that leaves the three of us (me, dad and bro) for four days starting tomorrow.
UPDATED with some photos.
I forgot to mention that I went to KL from Wednesday to Saturday, yesterday. It was a mini vacation for me. I went there with my mom and her colleagues and stayed at Vistana Hotel, near the Titiwangsa train station. Although I went with them, but I'm on my own as soon as we arrived there. The main activity was... shopping! Hell, it's crazy over there. Mega Sale is going on nationwide, but KL offers the best sale ever. My total spending is approximately RM280, okay price. But my mom is like RM400-600.
We (my mom and I) went to shop at The Curve and I went to Suria KLCC while my mom at Putrajaya and Sogo. I bought not alot of stuff, just few items including tee, polo, wallet, khaki, and sandal. My favorite thing is the wallet, from Topshop for RM49. The khaki is made from Lycra, which is stretch and durable piece of cloth from Baleno for only RM49.50 from RM99. Other stuff from PDI, Giordano and Bata. The above and below photos was taken at Bukin Gantang's R&R in Perak.
Unfortunately, I stuck at KLCC underground train station for about two hours due to flash flood at Sri Rampai 
station. I had to stand there and my feet was killing me since I've been walking around the mall for the whole day. I went to the station about 6PM, then wait till about 8.30PM. The train was overloaded. I took the train to Masjid Jamek for line transferring and the road was full of mud. Took another train and arrived at the hotel at about 9.30PM. It's a shame that I didn't bring the camera. Refer to this news. Left is a bridge in Putrajaya.I took some photos and it will come up soon.
Referring to my last entry, these are the photos:
Georgetown from the Penang Bridge. I was in the bus on this photo.
The environment around the Jerjak Resort and Spa. I took this photo as soon as I arrived on the island.
Having fun at the pool.
Me at the lobby.
Most of the photos I took THIS TIME are quite boring and less attractive.
Found these two photos on my Photobucket account.
