after all is said and done...

Salaam everyone,

Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah alone for making it a smooth and easy day for me today, after going through the last three months doing the biggest part and sorta the most important highlight of my postgraduate life as a student - finishing my dissertation, today, I have submitted my work. And was I relief?

Honestly, not really. Perhaps, because I finished the work quite early but postponed in handing it a few days after printing it, really taking my time to bind it, going through it... and spending a night with it. I know, sad, isn't it? Well, it's MY work. I feel so attached to it somehow. Prolly because it has a lot of personal happenings attached to it as well. I went back to Brunei because of it - gathering data, got to see my family at the same time, had a vacation in KL, came back here finding out I missed all the crazy summer sale, and spending the last four weeks or so transcribing my interviews, going through a lot of articles, writing a lot of points, sleepless nights, spending a lot of time with my laptop, missing a lot of proper meals (hence, 'diet' period), uneven emotions, spending less time outside because I practically stayed in my room most of the time, sacrificing time with friends and putting outside the urges to go shopping... and all that jazz.

And after all that is said and done...



But I got to talk to my mama today. Hehe.. She was the first person I called when I handed in my dissertation. Then, S and I went for lunch, went to send her former housemates off and then off to buy some groceries.

I have a confession to make.

I'm currently addicted to strawberries with chocolate. Before this, I was like "what's all the fuss?", then when I tasted it for the first time last week - I'm hooked!!! I was never a strawberry-person, but for this one, I'm all for it!! The strawberries look so yummy, yes? Well, they taste EVEN BETTER than they look. Can you see I'm drooling??


Teehee.

Such a girl I am.

There's an 'acknowledgment' page in the thesis that we included for thanking those people who matters to us. My deepest thanks go to my parents, but I felt so bad now I didn't include all the 'other' persons who have directly and indirectly encouraged and motivated me in finishing the thesis, without whom, I wouldn't be able to finish it earlier!! But rest assured that my thanks and gratitudes to you guys (you know who you are) are a part of my prayers, insya Allah... ;) (perhaps, when I get the opportunity to do my PhD one day, then insya Allah, I'll remind myself that... ;) )

Alrighty then. Time to catch up on things (and life and sleep and rest and laziness). I need to pack my one year and move out!!!

Allah hafiz everyone.