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Assalamualaikum and greetings! Salam Awal Muharram 1435H :)

It had been almost 2 months since I became a medical students. 9th September 2013 will be a momentous date when we enrolled into Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia.

The first month was quite challenging. During the Taaruf Week (also known as Orientation week), we were briefed by the Dean and Deputy Deans. Somehow we had some obscurity. Are we making a right decision of choosing medicine?! That thought only stayed for a split second. We continued on being excited about going into the medical museum and dissection room.

First week of classes were focus on briefings and introduction on each subjects we will learn soon. Also, there were anatomy classes where we learn about lower limbs with Dr. Ye Tun. Still excited of becoming a medical student, we really studied hard each nights and every free time. By the second week, all of us had gone 'pancit'.

The state of us being 'pancit' was quite hilarious hahaha.

We try to figure out a way out of this exhaustion. There was too much to revise. There were always pre-reading and post-reading. Then you need to focus in class. Thank God there was no homework!

By the third week we barely got our study rhythm. But somehow we survived. Trying really hard to survive fourth week. Fourth week was really my accidentally-doze-in-the-class week. I was really looking like a living dead. With dark circles around my eyes and looking rather lethargic.

Fifth week was the week we really eager to meet. Going back home on that weekend for Eidul Adha. Our holiday was supposed to be a short one that ends on Wednesday, with class  commence on Thursday. Surprisingly, a day before going back home, it was announced that our lecturers postponed our classes on Thursday and Friday in order to give us a one week long holiday. How cool is that?! (Do bear in mind that the longest holiday for the medical students are usually one week at the end of the block but we got it in the middle of the block!)

Posting this post via Blogger for Android. Thats explained a minor difference in the format of this post. Will try to post as frequent as possible. I feel that I need to document this exhilarating journey ;)

Sail.

السلام عليكم

I'm bulletproof, Nothing to lose, 

Fire away, Fire away.

Ricochet, you take your aim,

Fire away, Fire away.

You shoot me down, but I won't fall

I am titanium.

You shoot me down, but I won't fall

I am titanium.

Currently listening to the piano cover. Ricochet means a shot or hit that rebounds off a surface. More; (HERE). Titanium is a chemical element which has low density and high strength. It can be as strong as some steels but 45% lighter. It can withstand corrosion against sea water, aqua regia and chlorine. Source: Wikipedia.

The song really builds up the confidence in you. There is this beats and rhythm that just ignites the fire inside you. It makes you feel stronger. I dunno. That is what I felt at times. 

Currently, I don't have any title to put for the "Post title" section. Sometimes you don't plan to do it. Sometimes you don't plan to post anything in your blog. Sometimes you feel that there is a need to do it. But why? Why does it considered a NEED?

I revised myself. I asked ME. "Dear me, why did you make at personal blog at the first the place?". I guess at that time, blog was a hit. Everybody had a blog. And being a normal teenager surrounded with peer pressure, you are influenced to have one. It is a medium to let out what is inside you i.e. what you feel and what you think. However, how expressing yourselves could ease the inner burden, it can somehow lead to external punishment. People can be SOOOOOOOOOOO judgmental at times *rools eyes*

You are responsible of your own actions. 

A blog also lets you to share some crucial tips of surviving the life. But is it surviving or living the life? There was this class where my lecturer drew out the line between surviving the life and living the life. When you want to survive a life that means that there are lots of hardship and you are tend to go beyond boundaries in order to be alive. An example is when you face a shipwreck, you are adrift and alone in the open sea. With confuse mind state and tummy to attend to, you need to be alive to be rescued or at least to be stranded on a lone, inhabited island. In order to survive, you'll try to fish. However, you have no bait. You search for a knife and scrape a layer of the skin of your thumb to make is a bait. This is how you survive the life. (this scene somehow reminds me of the movie 'Life of Pi')

When you try to survive the life you tend to do something that is against your will and what is written in the Quran. In order to survive the so-called glamorous world, you feel that to survive you need to uncover your aurah, to drink intoxicant drinks and to have an unmarried relationship between male and female.

You need to LIVE the LIFE. Allah had created the world for us, not vice versa;

Then We made you successors in the land after them so that We may observe how you will do. Quran, (10:14)

Quran is our map that leads us to Jannah. Enjoin the good and forbid the evil.

There were also times that you wrote something in your blog just to have a some cheap publicity. You feel that it is great to have lots of people reading your blog, to know what you did, what you ate, what you dressed, with whom you were and all that stuffs.

Somehow over this past few months, I felt that I am more mature. Everybody grows right? Last weekend I met my PKTR 2010 clan. I haven't seen them for ages! After a short chat, I felt that everybody changed. They weren't the same person I used to know 2 years ago. They had grown to be someone greater. They had been mold by the fantastic people around them, by the environment, by the  knowledge that is in their heart.

At some point, I have an urge to delete all of my previous posts when I was a younger, less immature person. But, you can't erase you past. That is what makes who you are today. Maybe, just maybe when I have the ample time I will read back all of my old post. Maybe to have a good laugh about it. Hahaha! It also need courage taw. A courage to discover back who you were. To remember the wound which now had became a visible scar.

At last,

 I had an idea for the 'post title': SAIL.

Sail your boat.

There might be storm,

but it is a norm.

A rainbow stayed for awhile,

and that makes you smile.

Wassalam :)

Unggas.

السلام عليكم

Unggas ialah sejenis burung. Namun 'Unggas' yang saya maksudkan kali ini ialah subjek wajib ambil di UIAM. Sebenarnya eja dia UNGS, which stands for University General Studies. UNGS ni ada 3 part. UNGS 2030: The Islamic Worldview, UNGS 2040: Islamic Knowledge and Civilization and UNGS 2050: Ethics and Fiqh for Daily Life.

Alhamdulillah, setelah kecut perut juga nak tunggu result finals hari tu, CGPA aku lepas untuk proceed Medic in IIUM :) Alhamdulillah jugak, aku terpilih untuk menyambungkan pengajian di UIAM untuk Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). Dengan itu, sedang rakan yang lain cuti, kami pelajar Medic, Dentistry dan Nursing kena ambil subjek ni before masuk degree. This is because for degree, we'll be having a 'block' system which means that the timetable will be pack and UNGS can't be squeezed. Kena la belajar ketiga-tiga UNGS ni during short semester in Gombak campus.

Kat Gombak ni aku dapat satu bilik dengan Syidah, kawan Karate aku. Kononnya, bila satu bilik dengan Syidah senang la nak pergi training ;D Satu bilik ada 4 compartment untuk 4 orang. Sorang satu compartment. Best la bilik dia. Luas. Tak macam kat CFS dulu. Meja study kat bawah, katil kat atas. Kena panjat tangga kalau nak tidur. Sangat kondusif sebab meja study besar suruh study, katil kat atas biar tak 'rajin' tidur huhuhu.

Best taw duduk kat Gombak ni. Tempatnya nyaman. Banyak pokok, tepi gunung. Banjaran Titiwangsa juga rasanya. Air Gombak sangat best. Sejuk gilaaaa! Very refreshing. Kalau nak berwuduk tu sangat best. Syukur Alhamdulillah :)

Kami students UNGS ni semua duduk kat Mahallah Safiyyah. Kelas pun dekat. Turun bukit sikit from Mahallah, lintas jalan, jalan sikit dah sampai kelas. Lagi dekat compare dgn daripada Mahallah Zainab to Mahallah Khadijah kat CFS dulu. 

Kelas aku semua budak Medic. Ada 3-4 orang budak Nursing. Satu kelas about 40 orang. Dua kali ganda juga la kalau nak dibandingkan dengan amount students kat CFS dulu. Yang agak culture shock nya ialah satu sesi kelas tu 3 JAM straightttt! Sebelum ni kalau kelas 2 jam pun mengeluh, ni kelas 3 JAM wehhh. Takda break. Ikut budi bicara lecturer jugak la nak bagi break kejap ke tak. 

Penat weh kelas 3 jam. First time, so tak biasa lagi. Kat CFS kan kelas leisure je. My first week here was quite stressful for me. Bayangkan kelas 2 kali sehari, satu kelas 3 jam, Sakit pinggang duduk lama-lama. Habis kelas petang pukul 5 PM, sampai bilik solat Asar semua, rehat kejap then dah nak kena prepare pergi training Karate pukul 6.30 PM. Awal sebab kami nak kena bergerak ke CFS PJ untuk training di sana. Best la sebab pergi ramai-ramai dengan Senior Karate semua. After training pulak selalu akan singgah burger stalls or Kafe Bilal untuk supper ;) Habis semua tu, tidur pukul 2AM. 

First week memang terasa la kepenatan dia. Juggling banyak benda pun masa tu. Dengan nak prepare untuk "Seniors Are Back" semua. Oh, "Seniors Are Back" is our batch program with this year's Form 5 of our alma mater :) That week kebetulan kelas hari Khamis petang aku cancel. Aku pergi keluar lunch dengan Kelly kat Festival City. After that bantai BaskinRobbin's sampai dua scoops.Then we went back for Asar in UIA, visited Kelly's room at her Mahallah. Then waited for Tikah to come to Gombak. Yupp, Tikah came to Gombak and stayed with me. Thanks again for coming dear :* Anddd, later that night for dinner we had Burger Bakar yawww! Sodap giloss! Kelly and Tikah tak habis makan. However aku habis makan the whole special burger. Nampak tak tahap ke-stress-an aku  =.='

Aku pun tak taw kenapa aku stress sangat that week. Maybe I was tired and didn't had the ample time to rest. Sedangkan suatu hari nanti kalau aku jadi seorang doktor, banyak sangat ke rehat tu kan? Paling dekat pun nanti bila study kat Kuantan nanti, kosong sangat ke jadual tu? Sah-sah busy nanti. Dating dengan buku je selalu pun. I guess ada hikmah la kot kelas UNGS ni. Apart that I've learnt lots of Islamic knowledge,  how to look at the world at a different perspective, maybe aku takda la 'time shock' sangat bila masuk Kuantan nanti. Please manage your time wisely Hanieeeeee. Prioritize. 

Kami budak UNGS ni pun untung sebab dapat merasa berpuasa kat Gombak. Kami dapat menyambut Ramadhan di semua campus i.e. Petaling Jaya (Past), Gombak (Now) and Kuantan (Soon). Tarawikh kat Masjid UIA pun sangat best. Dapat pengalaman solat yang diimamkan imam Arab. Dapat la feel macam kat Madinah or Mekah :) Jemaah kat sana pun very diverse. Bukan orang Melayu je. Ada Arabs, Africans, Indonesian, Thais and many more. Precious experience :)

Just some updates.

I just typed down

 all the things that crossed my minds.

Berjurai 

macam air kat Niagara Falls, ohh gitu.

Ramadhan Kareem everyone!

Beribadahlah sebanyak mungkin

 kerana sesungguhnya ibadah dibulan Ramadhan

 ini banya ganjarannya.

Semoga kita menjadi graduan

 Madrasah Ramadhan yang berjaya, InsyaAllah.

Wassalam :)

Using it.

السلام عليكم

Hmm, I don't really remember when was the date. But it was somewhen before 31st May 2013. Most of Malaysian students had received the Baucer Buku 1 Malaysia right? We are very gratefull that the government was kind enough to increase the amount from RM 200 in the previous year to RM 250 this year. Maybe RM 300 next year? Lol. Frankly, I didn't expect us to receive any the voucher this year and still, there was this financial help to buy smart phones. Ohh yeah, this year was the election year. Good moves *wink!*

I usually used the book voucher to buy academic textbooks and stationeries. However, I already had all my academic textbooks. Also, my story books supply was adequate enough for 2 years of reading. (I don't have so much time to read story books nowadays *sigh*) 

Basically, the voucher will be distributed to the students early of the year around February and need to be use before 31st May. The thing is, I would really love if they extend the date line till October. At least I could use the voucher to buy books for degree which will only start in September.

However, the voucher will expire on the 31st May and I need to use it before the date mentioned. So, one fine day I had went out with 2 of my gorgeous friends; Pipah and Sarah. We went to Wangsa Walk as Sarah wanted to have a karaoke session hahhah. It was fun! We also had Nabilah with us, through Skype. She had this rosey cheeks as it was cold in Aussie. She had just finished her class. Tried to find a mat saleh for us, but none was around hahhaha. Hope to see you in December  NABILAAAHHH!!! 

After singing our hearts out, we went to Popular bookstore there. I decided to spend my voucher on something that I longed to buy. I bought a pocket-sized DSLR tips book (which was very helpful indeed), a guide on being a musafir (as that time I was preparing to go on a vacation in Italy), a comic book which inserts hadiths (RECOMMENDED! saw the book being advertise in Gen-Q), and other islamic books. I just feel that my soul is in hunger to know more about Islam. Bought books that are more related to women and a book that caught my eyes about Rasullah's smile that I have yet to read. 

Somehow I was shy to search for the spiritual books at their sections. I even had to ask Pipah to accompany me to choose the books. I know! It was somehow foolish of me =.=' 

There was this one book that caught my attention, it goes something like this "Ingin menjadi insan yang berjaya dan kaya? Bernikahlah!". Pulak dah! Hahahah. Beriyer aku ingat buku motivasi apa. Rupanya buku suruh kahwin hahahha. Don't worry, aku tak beli buku tu :)

"Dan kahwinlah orang yang bersendirian antara kamu,

dan orang yang layak (berkahwin) daripada hamba lelaki dan perempuan.

Jika mereka miskin,

Allah akan mengkayakan mereka daripada rezeki-Nya.

Dan Allah Maha Luas Pemberian-Nya

dan Maha Mengetahui"

(Surah al-Nur, ayat 32)

Wassalam :)

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 :)