A week's worth of waiting...

Salaam everyone. (yes, you can grin all you want because when you refresh this page, there's a new post - yay!)

I am doing just fine, thanks. Alhamdulillah, with slow progress, me being away from blogging and my online-life, has done me good. When I said I wanted to concentrate more on my personal life here in Leeds, I actually did it. And I'm planning to do so until the end of the month, actually. :D. If you asked, of course I miss everyone. But thanks for understanding, I needed this to regain my strength, refocus my attention, re-mend my broken *coughtrustcough* and rethink about what's more important in my life right now.

In case you're wondering, yes, I'm still on-hiatus. But I cannot let go today without so much blogging about what's been happening this past week. AND BECAUSE I SAID SO WANTED TO.

ARE YOU READY??

Alhamdulillah, the exam last week went smoothly, even though at one point, I actually forgot what I read and only remembered about it the next morning thinking, there's no point now!! lol. But, there goes all my nine months of studying for HRM at Masters level, 6 assignments, one exam and excruciating amount of hours spent on reading and now I only need to concentrate on my dissertation for the summer and I'm done!! YAY!!

My apologies for not replying to any comment/come-back soon messages (and I was contemplating on bringing back my tagboard, but malas this!). Nice to know my devoted readers are still around and interested to read. teehee. Waves at cave-man, long time no see dude! Hugs and kisses go around to Tintin, Wani, Fina, Ammey, Sis Alai and of course to my silent readers, my siblings. *grins*

The past week has been - eventful.

Soon after the exam finished last week, a couple of us went to city centre to have lunch and not discussing about the exam questions. lol. Then, Samantha and I decided to go around window shopping and I ended up spending the night at her place for no particular reason, just because I wanted to anyways. teehee. Oh, before that, we took our class photo from the PG Office and everyone looks lovely. I made great friends here in LUBS and I'm thankful for a great memory that I'll cherish for always. You can easily spot the headscarf-wearing girl in the picture, no prize for pointing the quickest ;)

::LUBS MA HRM 2006/2007::


Then, walked back home on Wednesday, and went out again to meet up Balm for lunch and a bit of shopping (again!) because she's going back to Thailand for a month. A great day out, for sure. Not gonna talk details on this. lol. Guilty as charged!

Rested fully on Thursday.

On Friday, I had a very bad cramp so I decided to sleep it off and Alhamdulillah, when I woke up, Scrubs-marathon brighten up my night, as I laughed my head off all night, alone. Sad?? More like FUNNNEEEHHHH!!!

On Saturday, it got interesting. With Manchester's lost to Chelsea (Booooo!!!!), I got a bit... ergh! But anyways, I attended a kinda-like forum about ibu mithali, with keluarga penyayang, with tips untuk mendapatkan keharmonian dalam keluarga berteraskan Al-Qur'an dan Sunnah Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. as well as Islamically. YES IT WAS GOOD, despite the fact that the men were less reluctant to attend due to the clash with FA Cup Finals (yeah, that's more important to them then listening to stuff like this - iyatah kan, during the session, one of the wives actually brought this up, how they find it unfair for the men to leave the responsibilities of upbringing of a family entirely to the wives, even though they actually play a very important part in the children's lives, not to mention that di akhirat nanti, the first thing that Allah will ask the husband is their responsibilities towards their wives and children, and at some point, Kak Azie included that family is regarded as a 'pelindung' for the husbands that keep them from terhumban terus ke dalam neraka, which reminds me of how 'heavy' or berat the responsibilities of a husband/man is in a family). Now I lost my flow. lol. Oh yeah, the session was good because it made me think more and more about the kind of guy that I want to end up with. Insya Allah, Allah knows best.

After the forum, Kak Ina and I headed to city centre to meet Ida and Kak Izan as we were heading to Nando's in Kirkstall. After waiting, and waiting, we arrived at Nando's around 9-ish and food was already ordered so we ate, took pictures. Oh, it was a farewell dinner for Kak Ina, who'll be leaving UK back to Malaysia, for good at the end of the month, insya Allah. She gave a take-a-moment-to-ponder that makes me will miss her more when she's gone. She received a present from all of us in the form of a hard rock cafe t-shirt which she LOVES to bits. You should've seen her reaction upon opening the box, the table practically was shaking. lol. It was worth it.

Pictures. [have been removed]

On Sunday, the MSCL has a bowling tournament. As usual, had to arrive early at the bowling centre as Kak Ina's personal ready-as-you-are assistant, volunteered, of course. *grins*

There were 10 groups, and each team has 6 members. My group was called "langsat", don't ask me why it's named after fruits, but that doesn't matter because what matters is, although I didn't win anything individually, but our group was the CHAMPION!!!! Thanks to team-members, Emi, Rohaida, Hazwan, Abang Jo, Abang Jaafar and yours truly. How did our team win? Well, most of us scored constant 9's and scored a few strikes, and half strikes (including me jua tu aaah) and well, Emi played well! Honestly, we all contributed to the overall scores!! Not a waste of us cheering at the back!! It was a fun day out, seriously!! I think I'm getting better at bowling (practice makes perfect jua, inda jaaa?), Bah, zif.. come down to Leeds and we bowl! :P

After bowling and prize presentation, went back to Harehillls to Kak Ina's place for dinner, bought Nasi Briyani Ayam and caught bus ride back home, alone. I don't get scared nowadays because daylight goes on until 9-10 at night baru tah kan gelap. Happy this!! And slept the night through.

Today, monday.

I was in the mood to reshuffling my room. Interior reshuffling I called it because I got bored of the old layout. And a fresh position kinda gave me the kick to blog today as well. Teehee. I love cleaning!!

Afterwards, went out to Leeds Met Uni, for what??

GYM AND AEROBICS STREET DANCING.

Sirius!!

GYM! ME!! GYM!!!

Lol.

There's always a first time for everything, no? Well, this is me. I'm no gym-going type of person but I'd jump to the opportunity of going, especially when I have nothing much else to do at home. lol. And it was well-worth it. In fact, as I'm typing now, my whole body's aching. After about an hour of gym-cycling-bicep-leg-exercising bits of this and that, we (Rohaida and I) headed to the dance studio. No aerobics, instead, it was street dancing session. STREET DANCING? hee. I never knew it was so much fun!!! (Fins, now I know why you take dance classes/lessons) I'm no dancer but following simple steps and doing it over and over again kinda got me going a bit. lol. An hour of 5, 6, 7, 8, step front step side turn turn overlap turn, we headed to Highway for paninis and wanted to get myself B&J's Chocolate Therapy skali no stock.

So, Ida and I parted and I walked back home reminiscing my week and headed to Abu Bakar as that's the second shop in Leeds that I know sells B&J's Chocolate Therapy and I walked back home a happy girl.

Got home. Rested. Showered and my whole body's aching as I type this. But I love you too much that's why! And my apologies because honestly I haven't found my inspiration to post a proper topic, although I do have a few issues/topics on mind that I want so much to write about, insya Allah, when the time is right, that'll happen. Ness, how about connecting the laptop straight to the brain thing? lol. Easy that!

Before I go, I'll leave you with the upcoming events that I'll indulge myself this coming week:

- Off to city centre with Samantha, insya Allah, for a bit of shopping and I need to buy rempah, bahan-bahan for the recipes - Ayam Percik and Buttermilk Chicken, yes yours truly is planning to be a good girl, a housewife in the making, because believe it or not, one of the recipes is by request. *zips lips*

- Prolly rest the coming days because on Saturday yours truly is off to ALTON TOWERS, insya Allah with the malaysians and bruneians. Wiiiippppieeee!!

- Prolly trying out the recipes either on Friday or Sunday, depending on the availability of my sue-chef to cook nasi goreng as requested by yours truly while I struggle to try out something new. Compromise this, have to be fair la :D

- And books to accompany me during my resting time in my room :)



Okeh, I personally think that would suffice the devotion of you all for visiting and revisiting my blog for now, right...? ;)

Okeh, everyone. May Allah protect you always, and may His blessings and redha be with your every step in this life.

Off I go to rest my tired muscles.

Nyte everyone. Until next time, insya Allah. Be good everyone. Be happy.

All my love,
xoxo

Salaam.

I'm in love....

.... with my new shower gel.

Salaam.

Okay, title's a bit of a shock. Bet you all are wondering upon reading the title, who is the person who has won my heart. Well, sorry to disappoint you folks, it's just my new shower gel that's so refreshing that I cannot wait to take shower every morning. lol. Weird, I know.

I handed in three (and also the last) assignments for my Postgraduate studies (insya Allah) even though two of them are due tomorrow and the day after. Good girl, no? Time management, actually. I love it!! That sudden rush was lifted when I handed them in this morning at the PG Office and suddenly all I wanna do is stay still and enjoy the moment. But reality check, I have to revise for my one and only exam next week. Insya Allah, pray that it'll be alright.

So, my blogging now is to reward myself for being so stressed out and happy for the past four or so weeks dealing with readings, and readings, and oh, wait for it... more readings... now I only have one week to indulge myself in, well, waddaya know... MORE reading. But this time, insya Allah, it'll be about something I can personally use to argue points in a constraint amount of time - hence, examination.

I should've been out shopping, really, as that always works best as a way to de-stress, but the girls and I decided to hang out for a bit at the cafe in Business School, discussing about the assignments (what else..?), the upcoming exam topics, what's been happening in our lives recently, plans to do right after the exam (precisely, after 12pm, 15th May, 2007), and yada yada yada. Oh, and of course, cups of hot chocolate and latte. *grins* That was good enough to de-stress.

Soon after, S and I went to the library as I needed to return half of my borrowed books (No, Ness, no fines this time - teehee) and half are still scattered around for my revision. Got lunch at Highway, walked back home and watched movies online.

The day hasn't been wasted. I took a quick nap to refresh and read one revision topic. I cooked dinner and apparently sliced/cut two of my fingers without me even knowing and noticing them until I washed and noticed my skin's slashed and I'm thinking, "ai... bila ku terkarat? how come aku nda sadar? how come nda bedarah? how come nda sakit? how come nda padih? bila? bila bila bila?" (yes, apparently I asked myself these questions). Klutz!!

Discussion/change of ideas with the study group will happen this thursday, insya Allah.. so yay!! And now, I'm blogging...

But if you must know, I am definitely in love at the moment;

- I am in love with my life, a student in Leeds Uni Business School - despite the amount of reading I have to do, but still... I LOVE THE CHALLENGE!!
- I am in love with Leeds itself (obvious this!!)
- I am in love Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Therapy (yums this!!)
- I am in love with you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you (....and the you's goes on)
- I am in love with LOVE
- oh, and with the new shower gel, of course!

What more can a girl ask, eh?

And what goes on without saying that, actually and honestly, only Allah knows what's in my heart, He knows whose Love I am still struggling and trying to win...

"Ketahuilah dengan mengingati Allah, hati akan menjadi tenang" (Ar-Ra'd 13:28)

Good luck and all the best guys, for the upcoming exams/dissertation/viva...

Here's me, planning things for upcoming events after exam.

Nyte!!

Salaam.

ps. Ness, come back, come out of the jungle and keep me company!! :P

pps. Sorry guys, supposed to be on hiatus (I KNOW!) and posts are not really interesting, but me talking so much helps self to de-stress. (Balik-balik jua notion of de-stress nya ani eyh..), insya Allah, when the inspiration comes, then it'll be a worthy and knowledgeable read.

ppps. I've finished reading the book "Tentang Cinta", sapa mau pinjam?? ;)

xoxo

Salaam.

Somehow I couldn't blog last night, something was wrong with blogger, cause heck the connection was okay last night.

Just a quickie.

I have presentation today and I'm super ecstatic! WHY???

Because ever since I started my postgraduate programme, presentation hasn't been a big part of my module classes, only because the ones I take don't require any presentation for it, except more reading and more discussion. Isn't postgraduate study the best or what?? No, I wasn't being sarcastic.

Yeah, anyways, for this presentation, I paired with Samantha and we decided to analyze the leadership qualities of a well-known leader, and hush hush I decided to venture into Dr. Mahathir's while Samantha was praying that I wouldn't select him. lol. She read my mind and masin bah mulutnya. hee hee

And and and the exciting part is, I even volunteered to present and she's ever-so-happy give the chance to me. The excitement will cease down, I tell you, cause I haven't practiced at all and I have an assignment meeting with one of my lecturers. Hopefully that'll turn out well so that I'd still be hyper and happy for the presentation, insya Allah.

Whoa~~ later then...

Allah hafiz.