Tdoooo

The thing about sahur is, it's not about waking up. It's about going to back to bed. It's impossible and uncomfortable with a full or half-filled stomach. And this is, just about, my daily dilemma.

It's just past noon in my country and just past five (dawn) local time. Honestly, there's too much to say than I could possibly write. I've been adapting to my new 'sanctuary' eversince my first ever step into this flat. That is around a week ago. And I have to say it was fun though it wasn't much of a glamorous thing to do. Glamorous you ask? Well, all the cleaning, the shifting, the lifting and not forgetting the vacumming! But I must admit, it was thrilling, fun and exhausting. All the endless shopping of new clothes, new beddings, new stock of foods, and the list just goes on and on. You can't possibly imagine (neither can I) how much time, effort and MONEY was involved in the construction of our new home.

Now that I've reread the above paragraph, I just realised that I kept listing things. Hehe. I urge to explore more of what Glasgow has to offer. But time seems to be ticking down on me. Tomorrow, school starts and holiday is over. It feels like I haven't been studying for about half a year! I do miss it.

The last day, the day I flew off to Scotland, wasn't exactly the happiest day. Glad I was going but sad I was leaving. Everytime I rewind my memory back to the last day, a deep sorrow simply strucks me. The tears of Babu, my aunts and my friends left quite a pain in me, but what was more agonizing was the thought of leaving them behind. And what a great time to start school in the first week of Ramadan.

Now that I'm here in a blue cubicle, which I call my room, I seldomly complain about missing home. Not that I don't miss home, but let's just say I kinda like it here. The privacy, the independence, my new atmosphere is just another great episode of my life. I was just chatting with an old friend and we were greatly reminded of how this situation, being him and I in two separate countries, brings back memories of older days when he was in Indonesia and I was in Singapore. Awkward, yet sweet. I must say my room is filled. Yet, there's this great emptiness or void that just surrounds me.

JuLui

I'm so hyped up now.. Video conferencing with 4 people at a time.. hmm.. well..
Try to imagine this... I'm on the webcam with vas using Skype.. At the same time webcaming with nuar through MSN.. then.. air shouting with diz across the Hallway.. Gilerz..

The world is about of a topsy-turvy here.. It's hot in the building and it's cold outside. The freezer is at the lower compartment of the refrigerator. Cemana jua kami kan tau?.. Baku eh susu sebotol and tomato sauce.. haha.. not to mention stoned-strawberries.. Huahuahuahua... Btw.. the toilet floor ain't got no drain.. Uhhuh.. Banjir banjir...The tap is another hay-wired mess.. Satu tap panas.. satu tap sajuk.. Panas mendidih and sajuk aing ais.. Which would you chose to wash your face with? NEITHER.. Lampung nya yellow.. not white.. so everything is rather dim here.. Nevertheless natural.. If you see sunlight here.. it's like raining in Brunei during the draught season.. It's a miracle!.. MasyaAllah..

galas go

I'm in Scotland!!!.. Can't quite believe it but here I am. Standing straight.. well sitting actually.. in Strathclyde, Glasgow..

It's been a rough journey I must say.. Countless hours.. flights after flights.. My butt couldn't be "flatter". We had to take MAS airlines. What a bummer... Flight was @ 3.30 ish in the evening local time (Brunei).. then reached KLIA by 5.30 ish.. again local time..

Five long dragging hours at KLIA... went up and down, round and round... It really was an endless cycle that airport.

Anywho.. the flight goes on.. 13hrs and 10 minutes non stop. The plane was gr8 though.. I must say.. Your own tv screen. Personal option.. That's what I'm talkin about... uhhuh.. Interconnected games. Yup you can play with another passenger.. How cool is that..? Very... Thank god I sat next to my cousin..

Lapas atu jeng jeng jeng... LONDON! Heathrow airport was steaming hot.. Uhhuh.. you heard me right.. I mean read it right.. Panas airport nya.. and I thought Brunei punya airport was boiling at an unusual airport-standard temp.

Moving on.. we had to transfer to a domestic flight.. Our first major obstacle.. or as a wise Bruneian man said (We don't know who he is.. but he was there at the airport... and was a great help.. Ma kasih Paji)... "take it as a challenge".. hehe.. Tapi ya tolong.. apala.. They only allow one and only one single small bag for handcarry.. So mau inda mau paksa check in again.. i.e keluar airport and masuk lagi.. Syiok jualah.. Had a short briefing by a wakil from MOE who explained thoroughly everything important... money, health, emergency.. and so on and so forth.

Then we're here!.. Scotland.. Ta Da!

Ngalih ku eh becerita.. bah baca saja blog duolulu or si.. maggie

Finally!

I finally have the opportunity to update. Don't you just miss me.

I'm fasting today.. So can't complaint nor could I begossip dang. Grr.. Sabar sabar.. Sabar itu half of Islam.

Kekke.. Hmm.... I'm flying off to Scotland next week. Kan muntah rasanya.. Nervous nda jua... Excited nda jua.. but for sure, I'v got butterflies flyin' around in ma tummy.

Hmm.. Sesaban lagi balum ku bali.. Karang payah menatak natak ayam.. daging. sapi. dan lembu.. Rice cooker udah.. hehehe. Indomie udah.. Maggi curry udah.. asam pun ada udah.. stock ayam udah.. hmm.. apa lagi ah?

Segala jacket gabah gabah, windbreaker n stuff nanti lah sana saja melihat. Hmph.. it's 5.20.. hmmph.. azan kul 6.30.. hmph hmph huffalump...

Knock knock knockin on heavens door... yay yayy..

Lots of things happened while I was away from this space. I really wish I could jote down every precious moment of my life.. but hey.. ain't not much time to spare.. Gotta continue choppin down the shops.. hunting for more items that can save my life....

Wateva it is, sorrow keeps hunting me down until lubang cacing. Mummyyy.. Daddyy.. gonna mish you both soooo muscch.. I have to miss my bro n sis too. hahha. Cam kana paksa.. Anywho.. I'll just leave it to God.

Peace out readers.

bored: update bah

bah eh.....
oi......
jadi???....
apakan?...
Hmm......
Du dee du dee du......

If you've said one of the words above, you are bored.

Anywho...

So April's fool was a couple of days ago. A "terrible"/"pitiful"/"whatever" i dunno think happened. I just arrived at the TV area @ UBD library and all of the sudden mm came out of nowhere saying "eh kacau eh, pagi-pagi buat hal. Eh si a*** ah, pagi-pagi wah buat hal. Eh..." x 100. Bibiran.

So and so claimed that he's dead. yada yada yada. You know the story. Baik jua i didn't get the sms.

Gosh I've got loadssssssss of loadssssss to do... But I'm not complaining (iakan?)..

So fellow friends, let's continue our perjuangan! Only one month left before the finals!.. Siap siap kan tia prog proj atu.... same goes to me. :-p

Ace

I've got 5 minutes to write this blog..

Oh My God... He's soooooooooo HOT.

It's almost nine. Masa terbang apabila awda berseronok. Kuakuakua. Terbang kemana, aku pun tak tahu. Ha Ha tak tahu. Ye ye.

So the epidemic: foot, mouth, hand and whatever part of the body - sounds scary. The pitiful part is that it mainly affects little human beings (i.e. babies, toddlers, kanak-kanak damit, si alai).

Bah adang... sakit mata membaca.

"We have received inquiries from members of the public concerning this disease. A more serious case was detected in Brunei and a two-year-old boy died of HFMD yesterday. The case was detected in Brunei-Muara District. However, the public should not panic," Dr. Meng Keang said. - Borneo Bulletin, 7 march (I think).

Like HeLLowwww!!!... one death = should not panic...??.... I DON'T THINK SO. Poor lil boy. Apparently he's the cousin of my mom's colleague. The boy was "bedah siasat-ed" for further investigation. Like HeLLowwww. He's d**d already! Hmm... nevermind.

Speaking of budaks-budaks Kelmarin visited lyn's lil baby fruit. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Keeyuuutttttt.... Kawaiiiiiii... Get well soon little boy.

mid-sem

Whahahaha.........

goddamnit. I'm so addicted to bakul buah-buahan. On second thought cute gilerss jua si kyou atu ah.. miaowww....

Thanks pids for the turquoise starfish studs. Kawaiiiii... Minta pasang kan lagi tu aku ah.. manja. kekek.. Mau jua kan rasa berKaka. Huahuahua..

Mid-semester is over. Sigh sigh sigh. It wasn't a total waste.. thank god! We did programming project, studied stats, discussed a few topics...... Tapi bejalan jua.. Ke mall, khaz corner (totally recommend the milkshake - $1.50), liat wayang, ke pesta buku, ke ayamku.. hmm.. macam lebih banyak enjoy daripada buat kraja saja bunyinya. Tapi inda...... kami buat kraja deh... (tekarang)...

Djh "lawa" (prasan brabis) slept over @ ma crib sunday nite. Begilers to the max eh. Studied stats from asar till midnight (with some disruptions of "makan-ing"). Ok fine, we spent half of the time munching and eating. Ayam Penyet!!

My my. I love stickers. From cute little hearts to rainbow coloured butterflies (not forgetting powerpuff girls). Stickers stickers stickerssss.. Stickers everywhere!!!!!!!!!! Whahahahha.. I will go crazzzzyyyyyyy with ma stickers (EvIL LauGh!).

Wah bird flu is around the world... and I once thought birds are cute innocent creatures. But I think they should change the name .. since another type of animal has been affected with it.. Well as a start we can call it bird and cat flu. Hehehehe.... Apakan. Okay i'll shuttup now.

bakul buah-buahan

I just bought "Fruits Basket" v.1. Caliiii and kawaiiiiii.... adang adang

ROADTRIP

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I can't believe it! Had a roadtrip to Belait. Pids house was fun!... makan ambuyats. Astah seriously. Kami mamam ambuyat. Tapi inda berapa menjadi pulang ambuyat. Maybe next time around it'll be. And pids freaked me out with her one-eyed fish. Not blind- but one-eyed. Scary. Fooled around till 3 plus then head of to OGDC. Makan lagi. Baboying banar. Thanks for lanja-ing ah! Then swinging and posing. Syiok jua Belait ani. The atmosphere is so different that it feels like i'm in a different country. Oh btw:

Reverse Parking

I still can't digest this rule.

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HARI KEKASIH

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I forgot to note down about valentines day when pids gave us a flower each. So sweet. Went shopping for a bit with selena, lyn, maggie & eun to get a bag of chocolates and sweets. Mmm.. nyum nyum.

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CS the TEDDY BEAR

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:( kecian si Eun. Had an ovr cst srgry last tues. We bought her a teddy named "CS" and a purple flower which looked like a blooming rose. Get well soon ah. Rindu ku kan iya. Biasanya iya yang awal, iya yang photocopy kan, iya yang meng-sms-ing.. hiks.. hiks.. heheh.. chewah. Sedih tia ku pulang.

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La playa y la piscina

Just came back from the beach. Relaxed a bit. Just pds, mm and me.

We succeeded in persuading CP to extend our assignment deadline. But as we all Bruneians love to do, we misused the privilige. Had lunch at tph and then cruise around Gadong. We got bored soon after and decided to take the long cut back to ubd i.e. JIS->ITB->Empire cinema->Pantai Tungku. Kekeke.

So our plan worked out last friday. Went splashing @ JPMC. Syioooookkkkkkk gilers. Ada jacuzi.... ada steam shower...... ada hair dryer........hehe. Sauna nya!!!!! Hiyoo. Guys, jangan jealous. Lapas atu kana lanja lagi tu di Le Taj. Murah banar rezeki kami.

Keesokan hari nya...kuang kuang kuang. Damam. Nah! Padan muka! M.C lagi lah jawapannya. Matay kaliiii.. Damam saja. Sakit sakit. Kejiwang ni sakit nya.

stats test

Had our first stats test. Sadanglah. Tapi ada a few silahau questions. Anywho, I personally think we have too many cars @ school. Karang tah ku ceta lagi. Lil sasha did her stunt again last night. Jumping flat face down from the edge of gramps bed. It was cdah's 17th bday. Sweet seventeen. I remember those times when I was seventeen. Chewah. Mcm tah tuha sangat.

Her cake was blue.

I ate the cake.

Therefore, my tongue was blue.

Barus gigi pun inda hilang. Atu kuat colouring nya. TFA nya pun banyak. Keke. I haven't gave her her present. Anu kali. Yang three-piece. Entah dimana kah ia menaruh the third piece. Hahaha. Esok ani kan shwimming. Guarantee chaotically basah. Can't wait!. Oits spanish class eh. Akhir udah!

"Cars in Brunei" - to be continued.

hahijaw

Everybody was in green. Lurrrve it! Went Gong Xi Fatt Choi-ing @ ken's. Cool place. Atas bukit bah. Watched jack***. Faluy faluy... Gilers. Dapat ang pau! I just lurve my slightly haywired personality. Nice day.
Lecturers + Student

Maybe growing up in an international-ish environment have opened my mind and eyes. My observations concentrates on the general idea of teachers or lecturers and students. I still remember Sze Che with her "hunk"s on Mr. Hmkayu who later got married to our drama teacher - who dumped her boyfriend for him. Then there's my cousin's friend who had or is having an affair with their secondary teacher. And today they're engage. Later in my life I discovered this phenomenon even exist in uni society. Pds with her "cutie pie".. Grr. And then there's "kotoko". Mana saja tah. Janji bahagia.

sedih

nda ku tau kenapa but i feel sedih. mcm org putus l.o.v.e saja. adedeh. nada lah. I think it's just an after affect of last week's illness. wahhh.. sedih nya..... depress to the max ani bah.. Makan tak kenyang tidur tak lena. che wah. Menjakit penyakit jiwang si dir ni. Haha. No offence dude.

Anywho, there's been quite a couple of murdering going on. I think banyak kes bunuh di Brunei dulu but only this year did they start to expose it more. Kenapa kan orang bunuh orang? cubatah bunuh binatang saja. yehh..

what a bummer

I have not blogged for a dandy long time. I've been sick. sick to the stomach.
Went to the doctors and only got antibiotics the second time around.. Stupid (1st) doctor. Lazed on the red couch endlessly. I wandered if school was more fun than this. I missed two days. Lots of catching up to do. But with the extra three days, it was just more chaos coming on my way. Gramps, buing, jeju, mit guys and ngangah stayed at Holiday Lodge. Family hotel. It sucks to be sick!. Only the tip of my legs were dipping in the edge of the pool. argggghhh.. I wanna dive in!. My nose was dripping, heart throbbing and throat chocking. The feeling all jumbled up into one sick meatball.

Selamat Menyambut Maal Hijrah. I bet you dont' know the story behind Maal Hijrah. TV3 themself have proven this. The new generation don't give a damn about things like this no more. What would be the outcomings of this? existance of old tales will slowly fade with time and age. I wish every body could appreciate this very event and celebrate it well.

Gong Xi Fa Cai to all my chinese fellows.

makan

We've been a baboy for the past three days. Dim sum, big papa then hari ani chickenku. Adang adang. It's almost time to pick mom up. Gramps out, so that's a relief.
We went to damal after lunch, checked out cds. Kan makan swensen kah inda ah? Sia-siapun saja kan. Binz crepe saja lah. Chocolate chipsa'moore. Then the drama began.
Today's drama: While we indulged in our scrumptuous crepe, an SMS arrived:
"Og,ko dmana?;("
Eechut, zT, taps, mm, green wndrr and I had too many things in our mind. Anxiety plus confusion. Whatta hell does the SMS mean?? Did they succeed or did they flunk the supps. Ahhhh!!!. It wasn't our results but we felt just as terrified as pids and lyns. We rushed to FOS.
The two of them faced down on the table at FOS's foyer. Whatta?? Ahh... pids grabbed me with tears. Apakan??? Fail banar kah? Whatta? What change course?? No way!
After "inda mau education!" and inda mau english!" pids let out a cry of joy. THEY PASSED. I can't believe it but zT's and my eyes were watering. Waddaf***? Tears of joy. Haha. alrite~!

I hope my mom isn't reading this. It's gonna be a bumpy ride. (Harry Potter III, crazy head in the double decker). Went with the girls to have dim sum @ foodzone. Ngyumm. Biasalers kami inda begilers nda sah. Pids was doing what she does best - meng-ichy. Nope it's not a chinese word. After seven pieces of dim sum and 1/2 plate chinese style fried noodle, we went to embarass ourselves - like usual. It was partially social suicide: taking pictures infront of NBT, next to the main road. So, we had an audience from different angles, including the workers of Lexus, i.e abang si lyn. Bari malu kali ah!!!!!!!!!
Then we had Empire's PoPcorn! been craving for it. On the way to and from Empire, we had a discussion. The topic is "sama sama tinggal di Empire one day". Yup it's a dream that needs to come true. Please God! Let us have the soft, fluffy blankets.!

Saturday gramps had her CTscan or whatever scan it was. Mom and my aunts heard her cry. Biasalerkan perempuan, mestilah ikut menangis. So they all cried together. I wasn't actually there to witness the moment, but from the pieces of stories that I've gathered, it sounded like grandps was in great pain. Poor gramps. Love her so much.

This morning, I had an assignment to hand it. Did it yesterday but only finished it today. Argh.. last nite was my first stay up late night, hearing to my cousins and brother screaming "Goooallll!!" while watching ManU vs Liv3rpool. ManU beat Liv3rpool 1-0. Yesterday was a partially sucky day cause I dwelt on my assignment too much.

Zamarul!!

I met Zamarul Hisham thursday. Wahhhhh so handsome yo. Haha. It's extremely rare for me to like any artist, so yeah you can call me a fan. Took some pics and salams. ni lawat siapa kat hospital?. whahaha. Tapi sayang inda brapa tinggi. tapi inda apa. Handsome tetap handsome. keke.

chickenku

It's thursday. Time flies when you're having fun. But the truth is it flies no matter what we do.

I met my supervisor today. You see this supervisor is one hell of an eccentric genius. He's definitely one the most famous lects around. It must be the senyum kambing.
Anyways, I think it's the 19th today. I was preoccupied with useless activities yesterday, hence the gap in the up dating timeline.
So i'll start with tuesday. Tuesday was a steamy day - I think. I don't quite remember tuesday. Hmmm... Give me a sec. Now I remember! Tuesday was a rather stressful day. Mainly because of the essay that was due the next day. Yup the if i were a leader essay. I had class full blasting from morning till 6 in the evening. I can't remember exactly what happened in between the classes. Wait I do. I do. I had a burger in the morning and another in the evening. The morning one was bought at the stall next to our fav spot, cause he wasn't ready. Then still craving for his burgers, so we went again in the evening. Hahah.. Ok no more burgers for the next couple of days. But instead, I'm waiting for my ayamku now.. Hahha.. I think the beginning of school is more stressful than the end when the exam is just around the corner.
Blob blob. I went to my gramps tuesday night knowing that I have not started my 250 to 500 words essay. Hmm. I thought that maybe there would be some inspiration at the hospital. So went home extra tired and took a quick nap (though it lasted for an hour or so) and then did the essay. It was around 1.44 am that I finished the essay.
The next morning is wednesday. Duh!. Well the next few hours - cause it was morning already-
I woke up late and tired out. My slightly frustrated, slightly angry mom waited for me in the car. I know I'm gonna make her late again. It was part of the plan (evil laugh). I only have english and spanish. Yup a language day it is. Every wednesday is language day (EWILD). I forgot or didn't know or simply was ignorant about the fact that the essay forms demands for two passport-sized photos. So After english, I asked my most kind, humble and generous friend to take me to a photoshop (photo shop not adobe lah). Another friend joined us. Then we stumble across another and again joined us. The rest was history. For more details please contact me at 1-800-you-know-who.
Alrighto, it was spanish class. Met my unusual yet close friend. Muy rapido revision. So there was an unexpected dude in our class. Classe de espanol muy fun. After that I joined my friend in a quest of reaching l'hopital. He had an eye checkup appointment thingymejiggy. So left him there and went to gramps. It's been a while since I've spent time taking care of her, and today opportunity was presenting itself. Hence, I grab it.
I didn't know that they wanted a CV along with the bl**dy form. So created one this morning. Last nite, after fooling around endlessly at my gramps ward, I went home exhausted. I accidently slept in my bed clutching my towel - cause i was suppose to take a shower last night!. Oh well. A slightly rough morning. So my plan worked. I'm bringing the big car today.
I'm bored, waiting for chickenku. I hope it comes soon. well, I want to move my car actually. maybe later. Where should I park? clt or chan hall? hmm... I'll figure it out later lah. Bah chao tah dulu.

cilok

I woke up and I saw my unplugged charger. Where's ma phone!!!?? I panicked a bit, before I realised that it is morning. It's not good to start your day with your temper. Morning temper tends to last the whole day. Mom told me that abg took it. Grr. Such a pain in the a**.
I didn't get the chance to visit my gramps yesterday, but I did go to the movies. >.-
I was slightly excited. We couldn't decide between cineplex and empire. Finally, our stomaches concluded that we should have lunch at the mall. So we did. But I was quite unfortunate. Honoured but unforturtunate. My friend told me that him and I have were called for a meeting at 3. Hello??!! Do I look like I want to go. Well, he was more pitiful than me though. Cause he ain't got any classes after lunch break. Sigh. So I made up my mind. Had lunch. Lunch at the Mall wasn't so bad after all. Scrumptuously filling. Then the movies. "Baik punya cilok". I didn't know what cilok means till the end of the movie. . The best description for the movie: crazy giler. If I interpreted it right cilok means lie. We couldn't stop laughing. Obviously because the movie is damn hilarious, but in addition to that, there was this woman laughing like a hyena (well I shouldn't be saying this). There were eight of us. Selena, krazydude, clover, mmind, pids, eechut, zT and myself. Only at the end of the movie did we realise that another mate was sitting behind us with his 'friend'. And, only when we were heading to the car did we realise another two mates were also at the Mall, whom for some reason (very weird), did not want to join us at the movies.
So we were late for stats again. Surprisingly, we weren't totally lost. We caught up with the class quite quickly. Try saying quite quickly ten times, quickly. Good exercise for the tongue ay? Hehe.
Back to this 3 o'clock meeting that I did not attend. So the fellow friend of mine text me and told me that we still have to do the essay though we won't be able to attend the forum at HK. What?? So yeah, I'm gonna do it today-with deep unwillingness and gratitude. Ok, so which one was it? Nevermind. My mind is muddled up at the moment. I had a thorough thought about the essay last night while wrapping my new books. Before I could even grasp a decent idea, the clock strike twelve. Time for bed.
I've got too many projects in hand at the moment. I need to take a great deep breath. Breath in....Huuuuuhhhhh... Hold it.. hold......... k breath out..... Whhhhuuuuuwwww. Amalkan 3 kali sehari. apakan?
I have one individual, one couple, a group of 4, a website creation and an art project- which I think needs to be postponed due to low priority.
I've got a desperately urgent essay, 4 question homework and stats ex.
Alrighto. Off to a meeting.

monday blues

It's my aunt's birthday today. Happy birthday mimit (rmb). It's still early in the morning so i'll just write about a day called yesterday.

Yesterday was a fine day. I woke up pretty early; early enough for a sunday. Went to visit gramps but on the way we stopped by at this indian restaurant for breakfast. A partially deserted area, however once famous for being a centralized shopping area. They call the place 'One Stone'. I always bring some notes along. Just in case I do have time to review something. Though, deep in my head I know - let me repeat - I know that I will have any empty slots for reviews. It's human nature. Then head back home and changed for the wedding. A couple of VIP's were there, though it was a rather subtle wedding. Not that many tents. Souvenir: eggs and some sort of packed meet attached to a flower. Very classical, according to my mom that is. My mom went further on telling me that before, the eggs where died with different colours and wrapped in tissue paper. If only we could relive in a different time. Revisited my gramps and left my sis there to take care of her. Taking care of my gramps surely brings back memories. I finished the day cleaning up my room. Such a relief.