Aloha!

السلام عليكم

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

So not a way to greet people =.='

This gonna be so random. Am going to just flush anything that is in my mind.

Now, it is 3.30 in the morning. Will not having class for the day as it is a public holiday; Labour Day.

Lots of thing had been happening for the past 2 months. Almost two months kot aku tak update blog!!! But seriously, thing had been sooooooooooooooooooo hectic. This final sem in CFS is the MOST hectiec sem. No more lepak2 tengok movie every malam Khamis. You don't have time for that. Even the weekends at home were filled with something else. There was this one weekend that I even didn't have the chance to upload our pictures in Taiping.

Oh yeaahh, that some time my room mates and I went to Taiping, the home town of Atikah. It was my first time on an express bus. Such spacious seats!!! Sorry la kalau aku terlebih thrill ke apa. First time kot. Harap maklum. 

We had receive such a warm hospitality by Atikah's family. I really do miss the calmness in Taiping, especially the cool water. Burrrr *shivers*

So, I had just underwent my Medic interview. Was quite cuak  when I knew that I'm gonna be the first person to enter the interviewing room *gulp* Yalah, you don't know what to expect. During the Medic briefing a few weeks before, we had been told that the panels will be provoking you. There will always be someone who will go out to the room crying. Sounds scary aite?

Typical question will always be 'do you really want to be a doctor?', 'did your parents asked you to be a doctor?', 'why do you want to be a doctor?', 'what do you want to specialized in?' and etc. I was having some difficulties on deciding specializing in what field. However, I do know that I want to be a specialist somehow, and even to further in PhD. Eh, nothing is impossible laa. Everything is possible when Allah wills it and when you really strive for it.

I might say that I am a dreamer. I always dream BIG. Sometimes it's like a big balloon filled with helium that made you drift away from the hard ground reality. Planned to have my own hospital. But Mama advised, "Get you degree first". Exactly! Kalau degree 5 tahun pun tak lepas, kirim salam je la kat hospital kau tu Hanie =.='

Tried seeking for my Biology lecturer's advice. What I could really remember was about "You actually don't know, what you already know". Hmm, sounds complicated? Huhuuuuhu. Or maybe I am just to afraid to say that I want it. Ahh, I also dunno what I want. Or maybe I do. #confused

She tried suggesting a few field that I might be interested on. Neurology? Not so into brain laa. Oncology? Oncologist works in the lab. I'm more to a people person who prefer to meet new people rather that spending hours in the lab. O&G? Yes, I agree that we need more Muslimah gynecologist. However I don't think it is for me. Pediatric? I love kids, but I'm not sure if kids love me. Lol. I might be a little bit garang for them. You really need this special skill to pacify the children. I come from a small family, just 3 siblings. Not so much experience with small children. 

"How about cardiology? Madam rasa Hanie sesuai jadi cardiologist. You ada that ketegasan. And madam nampak la passion awak bila belajar pasal heart dulu". True. Heart is one of my favourite organs of the human anatomy. "Tapi saya takut kalau buat surgery tu. Salah sikit dah boleh membahayakan nyawa patient" "Thats the challenges you have to face". True again. "Actually dulu saya memang pernah berangan pun nak kerja kat IJN". That's how you know what you already knew. Somehow still afraid to say it out loud. Hanie Farhana, the future cardiologist?

If the panel asked what field of medicine you want to further, I can always said that I haven't decide yet. Though somehow just giving them the answer they want to hear is than to give them the impression that I'm not that interested in becoming a doctor. Dengan baru nak decide nak specialized apa, dengan kelam kabut nak pergi family day karate, dengan sibuk nak quiznyaa, memang tak sempat nak buat reseach. Oleh itu, aku pun sangatlah terharu bila Mama did the research for me about cardiology and compile it in a file; Hanie Cardiologist :') Best Mom anyone can ever wish for :')

During the weekend, the was held a Karate Family Day in Kuantan. We went there on Friday evening until Sunday. The interview was on the next day, Monday. Banyak betul dugaan sebab sepatutnya kami bertolak kembali ke Kuantan pukul 4 petang. Tapi bas sesat, lepas tu bas rosak dalam perjalanan nak ambil kami. End up the bus pick up up around 7 pm. Reached PJ approximately 12.15 am. The interview was at 8.30 am. 

Atikah was kind enough to offer to iron my baju for interview. Terharu di situ. Hafizah masih setia dengan menyorokkan sudu charm dalam pencil box aku. Minah ni memang full of surprises.

Di pagi yang hening, cahaya si mentari kian menerangi bumi CFS. Penantian dan debaran semakin terasa tatkala jarum jam dengan patuhnya terus berdetik. Panel berdua sudah bersedia. Pintu diketuk, meminta izin. Salam diberi, kenalkan diri.

Personally, I feel that my interview went really well. I was unconsciously smiling widely when I was exiting the 'judging' room.  

Thats's all for now.

Wassalam :)

MEST 2013 Opening Ceremony.

السلام عليكم

This post was supposed to be published on 26th February 2013.

Oh wow! It had been more than a month since I last register for my final semester in CFS IIUM. I'm just glad that I was still in the same room with my beloved room mates. Sadly, one of our friend, Aini had left us to pursue her study in Economics in Gombak campus :( The room felt a little dull without the agile Aini :(

My time was quite pack this semester. Now I just realize that this would be my first post since I enrolled in this semester. I have to admit there was lots of time constrain. This sem I'll be taking 4 subjects; Biology 2, Chemistry 2, Computer 1 and English for Academic Writing (EAW). 

Once I step in the first week on the semester, there were tons of meeting to attend. There was also meeting held at 11 PM due to the lack of time space. 

So yeah, I'll be transporting you back in the past. 

MEST stands for MEDCY Sports Tournament. MEDCY is Medical Sciences Student Society.

Thank you to a friend, he had offered me to be the emcee for the MEST Opening Ceremony. He contacted me through Facebook during the 3 months break. At first I thought he was joking! XD Anyway, I told my Mom about it and she really encouraged me to do it. 

"Hmm, it is a once lifetime experience. But it had been ages since I exposed myself in public, in a big event. It will somehow be awkward and nerve wrecking. However, this also means I got to free myself from the cocoon composed, to emerge as a beautiful butterfly." Ohh gitu =.='

I think the hardest part was to prepare the text. There wasn't much sample of emcee text in the Internet. I tried Google-ing it with different kind of keywords, but didn't serve me well. Luckily, there was a few that I can refer to. However, it was all like playing a puzzle, connecting a bit from here and there. 

Mind you this was my first time conducting an event, ALONE! My friend did ask if I need a co-emcee. I thought it would be a simple event, so having a co-emcee would somehow be a bit messy. 

Voila! An emcee speech was produced. Later I'll share it with you, InsyaAllah :)

So the day of the event had arrived. It was on the 23rd of January 2013, Wednesday. Before the event started, we had a rehearsal around 5.30 PM. I tried standing in front of the microphone. Oh myyyy!!! It was terrifying! It feels like the microphone was about to swallow me wholly!!! I know it was not possible. Just being a bit dramatic.hihihihi It just that it really had been a LOOOONNNNGGG time since I even hold a microphone. *sighed* Brought back all the memories back in high school :'(

Let's proceed huh? What happened on that day?

 

Yours Truly :)

Also, during the the rehearsal, I was touched by the committee members who were kind enough to decorate my rostrum with sweet lilies :') I just knew them early that evening, but they were more than willingly to get creative and spend their time decorating it :') Thanks korang. Terharu sangat :')

As mentioned earlier, I was sooooo freaking nervous before the event. I know I had practiced TONS of time. I got my Mom to hear it, and both of my roommies too. Thanks bebs! *winks* If there was any possible free time, I'll get my speech text and practice. I believe I can do it. However, the nervousness was still there. 

My personal antidote for nervousness to be in front of audience is to just act as if I was talking to a friend, but only louder by using a microphone. Fortunately, there were some familiar faces in the audience. Moreover, I will tune myself to the crazy mood so that I won't think about it too much. 

Another thank you is for a really nice karate junior of mine named Wani. She was there the whole time besides me before and during the speech. Before the event, she was there helping to calm me down. She was also the one who said, "Kak Hanie, maybe slow sikit kot baca tu". Yes, I do tend to speak fast.hihihihi Wani, being there, really meant a lot  :')

That's Waniiiii!!! :D

That's me! Emmcee-ing :D

Not many brothers.

I love the fact that they named the houses based on cell's membrane and organelles. So the biologyyyy (Y) Also, every houses' logo was based on Islamic ancient arsenal. How cool is that?! ;D

From top: CYTO! (purple), MYTO! (red), NUCLEO! (green), RIBO! (blue).

 

The Programme Coordinator who gave the golden opportunity to me; Dr. Syahir. Sorry, he's taken :P

Two of my favourite team captains ;)

Going out from my room that night to go to the hall was dreadful enough. (Imagine the nerve!) I am very blessed that I have friends who never stop believing in me. Who were there when I was in need. True friends indeed. They were there accompanying through every steps. Thank you. No words can utterly describe how truly blessed I am to have you girls :')

<3 Syahidah. Hafizah. Atikah. <3

There you have it. 

It took a really long time for me to complete this post.

It supposed to be an easy one.

I wrote halfway,

 and then leave it in the drafts.

This is badddd Hanie.

Please post something regularly. 

#newresolution

Wassalam :)

A tough decision made.

السلام عليكم

As you may know, I LOVE taking pictures :D Should I rephrase that? I LOVE taking MANY pictures. Sometimes people question me, “Why do you take those pictures?” Well, they did say that beauty lies on the eye of the beholder right? Sometimes we neglect things around us because we were accustomed by it. For example I took a picture of an old abandon lamp on a side walk where hundreds of people walk by everyday but never noticed it. You just need to stop a while and look at it. You will notice that the rust on it can be something worth shooting for J

Pabila diri ini amat suka mengambil gambar, oleh itu penuhlah memory disk. Aku mengambil keputusan untuk membeli satu external hard disk. Aku pun ajak la cousins aku yang kebosanan duduk di rumah dek menunggu keputusan SPM dan keputusan kolej teman aku beli external hard disk tu.

Kami ke Low Yat. Abang yang drive. Walaupun panggil dia Abang, tapi dia lagi muda daripada aku.hahah Aku suruh dia drive sebab aku ni bukannya reti sangat jalan kat KL tu. Tahu tapi tak confident sangat. Sampai la kami kat Low Yat tu. Cari hard disk. Dapat la 500 GB for RM 188. Brand Buffalo. 3 years Warranty. Champagne Topaz colour, cantiksss! Worth it :D

Meneruskan ekspedisi mencari charger Tabby. Tabby kini dah ‘koma’ for almost sebulan. Charger tiba-tiba rosak masa charge kat hotel kat Sarawak. Original charger will cost RM 150. Mahal kot. Nak buat macam mana, terpaksa la beli. Tapi stok habis la pulak. Nak kena tunggu at least sebulan. Say whaaattt?! Sebulan?! Aku dah nak register weekend ni kot! Macam mana nak buat kerja nanti? Documents penting pun ada dalam Tabby =.=’

Dulu aku ingatkan senang la. Tabby tu 2-in-1. Boleh jadi tablet dan laptop. Tapi tak boleh la nak harap dia perform macam laptop sebab dia tablet. But for a tablet, it had perform well.

Aku pun ada pernah terfikir nak beli laptop baru. Mana nak korek duit?

Cousins aku pun cadangkan aku beli je laptop baru. Jual je Tabby dapat top up balik duit.

Never mind, kita pergi lunch dulu then decide. Pergi la Kenny Rodger’s kat TS. Aku baru tahu yang Low Yat, Sungai Wang Plaza & Berjaya Times Square tu dekat2 je. Semua walking distance.huhuhu Bersungguh-sungguh nak makan kat KR sebab dapat free coupons from our uncle. He works as a manager at one of the KR branch.

While walking to the escalator at TS, I bumped into Izzah, one of my friend from Karate J She was also from Low Yat. She bought this kind of tablet specializing in drawing Manga. Let me tell you that she is a VERY excellent Manga artist ;)

After a fulfilling lunch, I decided to buy a new laptop. Called Mama for a green light, which she apparently gave. Made our way back to Low Yat. Did some surveying and found the lucky new lappy. I wanted it to have at least an i3 processor with a good graphic card, hopefully it is an ultrabook AND that it cost under RM 1500. However, such thing doesn’t exist.

Most of the ultrabook just used Pentium. The thinner it is, the less the performance is.

Ohh by the way, at Low Yat Windows 8 are everywhere. Most of the brand new laptops pakai Windows 8. Dapat la kitorang testing Windows 8 tu. Memang nampak canggih. With all that colours, memang menarik hati. Terutamanya generasi muda macam kami ni. Memang la teringin nak pakai Windows 8 tu, tapi macam tak worth it.

Kita tertarik dengan iklan-iklan di kaca TV yang memaparkan kecanggihan dan kemodenan itu. Yang boleh terbalik-balik la laptop, boleh ditanggal, dan boleh di touch screen Windows 8 tu. Semua tu teknologi laptop. Sekarang ni dah ada laptop yang boleh buat semua tu. They call it laptop-tablet hybrid. Bukan kereta je ada hybrid taw :P

Windows 8 beza hanya Start menu sahaja. Selalu Start menu kat kiri bawah tu. Tapi dengan Windows 8, Start menu yang warna-warni tu. Desktop dia still sama macam any Windows 7 je. Sepatutnya ubah la sekali, baru la best. Windows 8 punya security pun macam lain macam sikit, jadi susah untuk install other softwares. Kata abang promoter tu laa. To know more about Windows 8, try reading this article HERE

Anyway, sementara tunggu juruteknikal tu set up laptop aku, we had our tea and played Cut The Rope on the displayed laptop there. Dah puas main Windows 8 pun tak siap lagi. Tunggu dan tunggu sampai kami sakit kaki. At last a brand new sleek black HP laptop with 2nd generation of Intel Core i-3, Radeon graphic card, 500 GB disk, 4 GB RAM. And it's all for RM 1600. Ok laa. Can be consider worth buying with all that specs.

Dengan itu, habis la duit di akaun bank aku. Sebelum ni ada 4 angka, lesap begitu sahaja. Rasa nak menangis pun ada. Dulu laptop Toshiba tu pun bukan aku nak dia hilang. Baru pakai beberapa bulan. Dah rumah kena masuk pencuri, bukan aku yang mintak. Ada hikmah la kot.

Syukur Allah bagi rezeki untuk aku beli laptop baru. Bukan nak membangga diri, sekadar berkongsi rasa hati.

Menyesal jugak tak kerja cuti 3 bulan kali ni. Kalau tak boleh kumpul at least 2k. Beli laptop ni pun guna sisa-sisa gaji aku kerja 3 bulan tahun lepas. At least aku boleh cakap aku beli dengan hasil titik peluh aku J

Bukan mudah

 untuk aku membuat keputusan ini.

Besar harapan aku

 yang laptop baru ni akan

 terus berjasa dengan tuannya.

Minimum 5 tahun. 

Sampai aku habis degree ke?

The next new laptop mintak sebagai hadiah hantaran.

MacBook Air ke?

Ok jugak tu.hahah

Wassalam :)

Unforgettable Uzbekistan (Day 1)

السلام عليكم

With a bit of silence from me (just came back from Sarawak trip.hihihi), and a bit of loudness from the fireworks (yes, Happy New Year to you!) here I am again trying to spare you my story of Uzbekistan trip.

Our flight to Uzbekistan was on Tuesday, 4^th of December 2012 which was last month and last year (get it?haha). The only flight to Uzbekistan was on Uzbekistan Airways which their planes were painted in white, blue and green which I then learnt were the colours of their national flag.

Our flight was approximately 10.10 am and we had to be at KLIA by 7 am.  Later after we check-in our bags, we had a group gathering with the other tour members. There, I figured out that I was the only youngster in the group :( Of course I was quite devastated of learning that I have no friends around the same age to make. The others were just all grown-ups and just a pair of sisters who I bet had already started working.

I tried to cheer myself up. I have my beautiful family with me to enjoy the holiday, why fret right? After the immigration and stuffs, we headed to gate C6. On the way there, exactly after we step off the train in KLIA, I saw a few of Uzbeks. *whistling* Uuu laa laa. They’re gorgeous!  

In an international flight of course you expect some great movies ‘on air’ right? From my previous experience they usually had lined up international movies that had not even screen in the cinema for us to watch. Another let down; there was none!

All they serve to us was just local Uzbekistan movies. I don’t mind watching it, as long as it was in English and not in Uzbek language which I can’t understand a thing! There weren’t English subtitles at all! There were just some people translating it for you. The ‘best’ part was every male character has the same voice and boring intonation. Try to imagine that a little boy, a middle age man and a crippling old man has the same voice! It was quite hilarious if you ask me. I end up sleeping because it was so boring and that I was a bit tired of waking up early. Did it told you it was a 7 hours journey?

One thing that I love about travelling on plane is the land of cloud that can be encountered. Magnificent!

It seems like the 'lion'  is taking a bath. Lol.

When I woke up, *yawn* “still a long way to go”. I stretched myself and bring my gaze to the small oval window. Hmm, the clouds over here look different. Oh wait! They’re not clouds! They’re actually ices on the mountains! Beautiful! Masya Allah :’)

 

Lunch up in the air. Lovely food :9

Alhamdulillah, we arrived safely at Tashkent International Airport. I immediately fell in love. The place was insanely beautiful! Masya Allah, the paintings of Allah were just so downright amazing!

One of my favourite. It looks like an oil painting huh?

First sunset in Uzbekistan :')

They are still trying to upgrade their airport, so it wasn’t in its best condition. Later, we headed to our bus. There, we met our tour guide; Mr. Ulugbek. We called him Bek.

Ulugbek the tour leader :)

Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekistan. But we weren’t spending the nights there just yet. We headed to the domestic airport to take the domestic flight to Bukhara which is another state of Uzbekistan. We had to transit at the airport for about 4 hours.

Above; Sandwich. Below; Domestic airport.

Surprisingly, for a country of majority Muslim, they don’t have a Prayer Room. My Mom said even Korea Airport has it! We had to take our Wuduk at the toilet and did our Jamak prayer at a corner of the airport.

Once we touched down, all the local people will wear their jackets and coats. I wonder what the temperature was then. Us, being the Malaysia are somehow thrilled, and didn’t realize that it was cold. We still wore our cotton-ish blouses though the temperature was somewhat single digit degree Celsius.

We safely arrived in Buhkhara and we were famished! Had our first meal in Uzbekistan at the hotel.  

Yours Truly :)

Bukhara Airport

Dinner for the night :)

The room

Went to our room and straight to bed. Done for the day :)

To be continued.

Have a great 2013!

Wassalam :)

Trailer: Unmasking Uzbekistan.

السلام عليكم

UZBEKISTAN is a nation that is located at the Central Asia. Feel free to Google about it.hihihihi :P

I had just got back from there for a short trip. We went there for 8 days.

Mungkin ramai yang tidak pernah mendengar nama negara ini pun. Saya akui, Uzbekistan ialah negara yang sedang membangun dan baru sahaja ingin melakar nama di persada antarabangsa.

The first time I've heard about this country was in a local documentary show called 'Majalah 3'. We got captivated by the beauty of this country and the culture it had preserved. 

Nenek was the one who invited us to go to Uzbek. Usually Nenek will travel with Atok, Nek Chom (her sister) & Tok Ali (Nek Chom's husband). The four of them had traveled all around the world and they decided it was the time to pay a visit to Uzbekistan.

We went there with a travel agency called Poto Travel. They offered a trip to Uzbekistan with a quite reasonable price ;) Poto Travel is quite famous on organizing Muslim package tours. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that most of the people in Uzbekistan are Muslim. Therefore, no problem arose on finding Halal food :)

When the travel agency supplied us with itinerary in Uzbek, we discovered that most of the places we are going is either Mosque, Madrasah or Mausoleum (Makam in BM). Hmm, at the sound of it, it doesn't make me jumping up and down :(

My Mom did asked, "Hanie, are you sure you want to go to Uzbek?". The cost of going to Uzbek is more less of going to Paris. Paris has Eiffel tower; the most famous tower in the world which is constantly related to love and romance. Ulalaaa :P One of my friends once joked (he was very skeptical) of why lots of people had traveled miles away to Paris just to see a rusty tower. LOL :P

So, I was indecisive whether to stick to the original plan of going to Uzbek or going to France.

Yeah! You know the answer! I decided to go to Uzbek :D

But do you know why? o.O

First of all, this gonna be my last long holiday before commencing my degree (no more cuti-cuti by then *sigh*). Secondly, this will my first time travelling far with my favourite grandparents, granduncle and grandaunty. The four of them are not getting younger. Aging and pain are slowly ceasing them. Yes I agree, death is the knowledge of Allah. However, since they are still alive and I have this oppurtunity to do so, why not? ;)

There were 6 of us including me and my mom. The group was consisting of 21 persons including the 6 of us.

This will be only the teaser.hihihihi Lots more coming soon. Planing to do a travelogue of our 8 days journey plus pictures! (Yeayyy!)

Please pardon my English

 and the skill of writing. 

It had been quite some time.

Getting rusty and all =.='

 Hope you'll be enjoying my future posts.

 Stay tune! :D

 Wassalam :)