Tis' the season to be jolly!

Merry Christmas, HoHoHo. It's that time of the year again.
This year Christmas was especially a quiet one and full of solemness. One of my relative died and one of the villager in my village died. So, even though my mom was frustrated because she cannot go to paddy field, respect comes first, pantang comes second. As usual, my family and I went for Christmas eve mass and we still HAVE NO LUCK in finding the seat downstairs. Like seriously, we came an hour early. The mass supposedly start at 8pm, yet by 7pm, there's no seat left and we with heavy heart, climb the stairs and again for the third year, we sat at the church's upstairs' chairs. It was raining mid mass and luckily it stopped before the mass end.

The weather was exceptionally sunny during the 25th, and it rained the day after that. My mom said, it was the tears of the deaths. God Bless them. This year, I spent my Christmas at home. Did not go anywhere. I'm in a somber mode. (side note: the other spelling for somber is sombre, and somber is USA words, but I think both shared the same meaning. As a future teacher, I think this needed to be addressed properly. Correct me if I'm wrong) I played COC all the time. Watch dramas and sleep all the time. I'm going to remember this when I went for my practicum next year. This will act as my compensation rest.

I'm going back to my dad's village and meet my relative. Funny story,  I am 22 years old now and thats the period of time between our (me and my dad's side relative) last encounter. Get it get it? I never met them! 28th Dec will mark the first time we greet each other. As I am antisocial peeps, I hope everything going to be ok. So, if I meet those cousin of mine and they treat me like a bitch, you fucking mess with wrong gal bitch. But, if you ok, then welcome to paradise because I am an angel when you treat me right.

2015 will be my last year as a student. After waiting for 5 years and a half, I can finally say, Bitch I'm done with this! So, I just have to go through my 3 months practicum, a month of internship, action research and presentation, SPP interview, assignments and final exam. Well, that sound interesting.

Anyway, here's a blurred picture of me and my Bros and a picture from church's upstairs' chairs.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

He is the reason for the season! 

Im coming with full force 2015!
sincerely
F. Anabelle. P~xoxo 

Saya urang Sabah tulen

It's december, month of christmas.
Mau dekat 2 minggu suda saya di kampung. Oleh kerana buah hati (eseh, buah hati kenen) tida balik, tida boleh la pegi dating. Hoho. So just keluar sama besties pegi makan pizza, minum, ketawa ketawa. Buah hati ku, kau tida boleh jeles saya jalan jalan sebab kau yang tida balik kampung. Koto, eseh, tida bah.

So tujuan saya tulis post saya dalam bahasa baku sabah ini sebab saya tebaca satu post yang kawan saya bagi saya baca. Tunaaa link dia di bawah. Betul la juga semua yang kena tulis. Terutama yang karaoke. Hari tu saya pegi minum sama kawan kawan, fulamak berabis diorang karaoke biarpun suara ndala berapa mantap. Haha. Tapi ada satu uncle tu, perghhh, suara dia kalah kalah si awie sama jamal abdillah. Dia nyanyi lagu English. *standing ovation*

Semalam saya pigi makan pizza, saya mau panggil itu pelayan mau MAITAN, oleh kerana saya lama sudah kunun tinggal di semenanjung, saya panggil la shhhhhhttttt shhhhhttt shhhhtttt, macam kurang ajar pun ada saya rasa, tapi saya tida kena dengar, sekali kawan saya panggil dia mandak baru kena dengar. Saya lupa suda bah maw panggil mandak. Alalala otak saya bekarat suda.

Yang dulu saya pegi makan mee goreng di kedai, automatik la dia bagi sup. Sedap lagi tu sup. Kalau di semenanjung, specifically tempat saya la, kedai makan dekat kolej saya, buli bah minta sup. Tapi kau kena minta la, diorang tida bagi automatik. Tapi kalau kau makan "nasi koboi", nasi sama telur goreng saja, dia bagi kau sup la. Itu mangkali compliment of the house. Sebab kalau makan nasi sama telur saja, kau ingat dapat telan ka tu nasi kau. Tiada rasa, tersekat di leher itu nasi.

Naa, banyak kan penggunaan BAH saya dalam ayat. Memang sah sah la saya orang sabah tulen. Bukan cina (biarpun saya pandai cakap cina, eseh, mintapuji) Darah saya pun darah tulen dusun ini. Betul, suda saya cek, saya Blood Type B. Eh apa kena mengena.

Macam Mana Mau Kenal Urang Sabah


Month of Chrristmas!
~tayaAPJxoxo~

Unplanned plans are good plans

It's September, and it's holiday! I've been gone through hell for two months, now's the time for me to rest. and watch movies and dramas and movies and dramas.

The idea of resting alone in my room was fantastic except the first day alone, I was so lonely I could cry. It's just that now with my new roommate -someone that I can talk to- went back, I have no one to talk to and I just felt melancholic. Figured that I have too much time in my hand, I decided to learn the ukulele. Learned the easiest song for the beginner, Jason Mraz's I'm Yours.

I finally got some fresh air on monday. We went jalan jalan to bowl. Ok, that was our initial plan but since the bowling center we went in Ipoh Parade was full and the queue was too long, we cancelled the bowling and opt for karaoke instead. This was not planned, but it was a good back up plan. Since there are seven of us in one room for karaoke and we only bought for one hour, it was not enough. What more with Bibi's insistence on holding the microphone without giving it to others (yes bibi, admit it, haha). But we had fun and eventhough Cyril refused to sing, he eventually gave in and sang duet with Mark. Cyril sang like an artist, I swear I could hear some vibrator in his voice.

After that, we went back the guys' home to take Pidah's bag so that we could send him to bus terminal. Unfortunately, Ihsan had to head back home because of some unfortunate event happened to his neighbour. We managed to grab some food and drink at the McDonald near Mydin.

On the way home, I forgot whose idea was it, but we suddenly decided to watch late night movie. We decided to watch the maze runner and chose Ipoh Parade's Cinema since there's a 11.30pm movie. Mark took the wrong lane and we went through two toll stations before we could get to IP. Well, better than waiting too long in IP I guess.

By the time the movie finished, it was almost two am. It was way past our curfew time in hostel. (Yes, we have curfew until 11, duh) We just slept in Cyril's house, in his room. Being a good host, Cyril prepare the bed for us and let us use his Listerine (which took my taste buds, I cannot taste salty and sweet taste for now) . In the morning, he bought us Roti Canai from God knows where. We didn't even know he went out to buy it because we slept in. If it isn't for Bibi, I think Eja and I'll wake up some time in the afternoon. We took the breakfast in the living room like family. So that hows it feels like to live outside campus. Another wishlist officially marked down!

We love a good company!
~Happy Malaysia Day~
~tayaxoxo~

Monday Sleepday

"Assignment officialy finished!"
Was my first post for this month. I've been busy and lazy. Had my first observation bersama today. I'm glad that its over but everyhing felt rush. Doing the teaching materials on the dawn until the sunrise shine brightly and Sleeping for only 40 mins can make you go crazy. It's hard to maintain my A this time.
Now i can feel the sleep deprivation slowly crawling back to me. I need to sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
Good night. Zzzzzzzzz

AlwaysSleepy
~taya~zzzzzz

Life update

Just a bit of life updating. It's been a while. I am now in my second practicum, teaching in afternoon session. So far so good because it's fasting month and we got to go back at 5.30pm which is 20 mins earlier than usual time.
Luckly my school was just 7 mins away from Ipg. And I got year 3 to teach. Well, I haven't got the chance to teach them, and will be teaching them grammar skill tomorrow. Oh well, my busy day starts tonight.
Doing teaching materials just isn't my style.


Lotsoflove
~teacherlya~

Random: Kpop Music Videos

I was showing my little sister all my Kpop music videos, yes, I own many Kpop music video. A whole bunch of it downloaded from Youtube. So anywho, my little sister was watching Ladies Code's Pretty pretty's MV and Orange Caramel's Catallena's MV, when suddenly,

Le sister: Kak, adik beradik ka tu semua?
Me: Ish, tidakla. Kenapa?
Le sister: Sama muka diorang. 
Me: LMFAO.

I have friends who cannot differentiate people's face. To them, all the Korean actresses are the same. wahaha.

Ladies Code "Pretty pretty"

Orange Caramel "Catallena"

I guess to people who are not used to seeing Kpop idol, they all look the same. xD xD

another week of holiday.
~taya~

It's all good times.

I’ve been neglecting this writing platform of mine for a long time. Been busy, lazy.

Okay, so I’m at home now and by home I mean literally home, not home in my room at college. I’m back for semester break on 30^th may.

Nothing much happen since I came back. I had jet/car lag for two days. My parents asked me to go to Kaamatan but I refuse because I just want to have a good long sleep. I stayed at home all the time and only got chance to go out on 4^th of June. My friends and I went out at night to “eat” apparently but no kedai makan available late at 11pm++ in Tambunan which is disappointing. So, we decided to go to KFC (which is 45 minutes – 1 hour road trip depending on how fast the driver drives) because Arnold said it was 24 hours. Bullshit. By the time we got there, the workers were all sweeping the floor and stacking the table and chairs. We decided to go to any available restaurant and stayed there for an hour or so. The road at night was creepy. I was actually anticipating some ghost sight since I've been watching supernatural and it would be very cool to see one of those stuff. Muahaha.

On 5^th we went out again but this time we lepak at diden’s house. I was feeling little uncomfortable at that time. My stomach was grumbling and I keep wanting to vomit. Now, you may think this was the effect of going to Keningau late at night, no, it was not. It was not some supernatural stuff latch on to my body and making me sick. Hahaha. Turn out it was all medication explanatory, at least that’s what Dr. Chong said. (Dr. Chong is a very good doctor and own a private clinic at pekan Tambunan).

I was sick because I had mucus, which I am not aware of and then I kept on swallowing the mucus and it makes my stomach gassy, and then I vomit. I threw up everything I've eaten and after that I got a very high fever. I felt very cold and God knows how sick I was during the night. I got so sick I hallucinate bad things. I couldn't sleep and I had difficulties to breath. Last time I got very sick, I was in high school. The first thing my mom did in the morning the very next day, was bringing to clinic. I am so glad to be home!

And now here I am, writing/typing on my blog still sick but I got better. Still eating medicine tho.

So the moral of the story is, do not drink cold water.

Cold water – mucus formation – swallow the mucus – mucus goes inside your body – goes through your intestines – goes through your stomach – stomach gassy – uncomfortable – vomit – sick/high fever/headache/flu – no appetite – thin – anorexia. Ok.  Anorexia is too much. But you know what I mean.

lotsoflove

~taya~

Keep calm and 3 weeks more.

Today is Sunday means tomorrow I need to go to school. I will be observed by my mentor and lecturer. Oh God the tension and stress of being watch. I can’t even…

So I teach year 4 pupils, the second class, and 28 pupils in a class. Even after 6 times entering the class, I still feel a bit nervous when teaching them. I guess it’s the environment. I’m not used to their culture. But, I managed to teach them my crappy lesson plan and teaching style without much of a problem. But still, kids are kids. They are so damn noisy and naughty. I think I will lost my voice sooner or later. And my English suck. I have to use the simplest English so that they understand me. But, I love my kids. I will be with them for 1 month. Better build rapport with them so that they will remember me forever and make me their inspiration. Cewaaaahh. Marah budak bukan main lagi.

Even though I sleep only 1 or 2 hours every day, I don’t feel tired when I’m at school. I think it must be the nervousness that kept me awake. Writing a suitable lesson plan is so damn hard! The process of writing the lesson plan took 4 hours, sometimes more than 5 hours, and I will be using that to teach for only one hour lesson in class. Thinking of that, I feel so unfair. But I guess that’s what we, teacher trainees have to go through since we chose this profession. Better do our job properly. The kids’ future is in our hand. They said la.  

I will be very busy this coming week. I hope all will be fine. Next semester, it will be two months of practicum. Thinking of that, waaa, I can’t even……. 

teacher taya

#keepcalm?sorryicantiamateacher

Of Holiday, Practicum and Youth

Waa, it’s Thursday and I feel like only yesterday I shouted hooray for my short 1 week holiday and it will come to an end soon. Damn, time flies so fast. I am not ready for practicum yet. Met my lecturer in charge 2 days ago, HE WAS DAMN STRICT! He said he’s the only lecturer who had failed trainee during practicum before. And he was so fussy, keep asking us if we have his number or not coz he said he has our number. Unfortunately, we don’t and we keep regretting that answer coz now we had bad first impression to him. Aigoo~ how are we going to live through practicum’s life in peace? I hope all will be okay. If my first practicum is this bad, how will I go through my next practicum peacefully? God help me.

I am so jealous to see many of my friends spent their holidays going to interesting places while I am here in my room, watching drama and sleeping like there’s no tomorrow and only get out of my room to buy food outside the campus. Gosh, so boring I wanna kill myself. Hahaha.

So I may be teaching year 3. So unlucky, I haven’t met my teacher in-charge at the school. She took MC the day I went to the school to meet her. Acquired her number from the office and tried calling her few times. Everytime I call her, either her phone was off or she did not pick up my call. I swear she even press the red button on her phone, purposely not answering my call. Ingat I loan shark apa. I have important thing to ask kay lady.  I want to do lesson plan kay. Aigoo~

So, I am going to finish my Chinese drama this few left holidays. Since I have no better thing to do. I 'm goint to sharpen my Chinese language. Huh. Who said I only watch Korean drama. I watch other drama also kay. Finished watching Down with Love (2010) yesterday. Starring, the handsome Jerry yan and Ella Chen (S.H.E). Gosh, watching this drama makes me feel old. Jerry was my second favourite member in F4 (the Taiwanese boy band but now the band name changed to JVKV, I love Vic Chou more). F4 was my favourite boy band in primary school. Jerry is 37 now. Can you imagine that! 37 freaking years old! What happen to my youth! But in the drama he was 33 y/o so he looks young. Swooning over his model body and handsome grin and cute smile, oh my gosh. I am back to primary school! 

I keep on thinking who he resembles with while watching DWL and finally I got it. He looks a bit like Lee Min Ho aite. Funny to say, they acted on the same drama. I mean Jerry on Meteor Garden and Minho in Boys Over Flowers. 

The couple in Down With Love. Altho not very fond of Ella, for the sake of Jerry, downloaded the drama and finish watching it in 2 days. 

Jerry looks very old here but I think he's very hot! I always have hots for man with moustache. Don't know why, they attract me. oh and that's Vannes Wu. another F4 member who recently got married.

The unbearable, cheesy, hair during their prime time few years back. That hair was bearable to see when I'm in primary school. Oh Vic is so handsome. Oh Gat my youth. Give me back my youth. Give me back my youth like right now.

credits google pics

so many Jerry Yan in one post

Givemebackmyyouth

~taya~xoxo

The Witch and The Golden Touch (and other stuff)

In my previous post, I wrote about our LGA 3104 assignment which was to stage a play (that actually carries only 30 marks, the hell).

Guess what? We got the highest mark. Oh yeah baby. We have 5 characters which were King Midas and his beloved Queen and Princess, the witch and the brave gardener. I took a role as an evil witch, who 

“actually in love with the King Midas, but he rejected her and chase her out from his kingdom and is now back to take revenge but fall in love with the gardener instead. The gardener actually in love with the queen and the princess is actually the witch daughter”. 

Our initial plan was this but since the play was for a year 4 kids, we couldn’t make it as twisted as we want so we just stick to the usual “repent-happy ending” story.

“The witch curse king - king become gold - queen ask for help - gardener help queen - gardener kill witch - curse broken - king repent - gardener marries princess - happy ending” Yup, that pretty much sums up our story. Blerggh I did not get a happy ending.

Ya know, I’ve been playing evil character since high school. Freaking evil character. It’s not like I am evil or what, it just that no one can play the evil character as good as me (seriously, this was what my friends told me in high school, and also here in IPG, oh God why). One time! Only one time I got the chance to play a good character. Which was during our Macbeth staging 3 years ago and I played a doctor. If I did the audition, I’d probably be playing Macbeth’s wife (maybe la okay), which was also evil. Gosh the dialogues to be memorized was so long I backed out during audition. I HATE MEMORIZING. I like spontaneous acting. Much easier.

I present you our Bollywood themed modern King Midas play characters

So, next next week is practicum. How do I feel? Mmmmmmmm.ok.

Next week holiday. Happy before agonizing maybe? 

We got book voucher today. TIME TO BUY BOOKS!!! 

lotsoftayalove

~taya~xoxo

Balai Seni Visual Negara and Kompleks Kraf Kuala Lumpur Trip

Aloha march! I know it’s been 10 days but I guess it’s still valid. It’s early of the month aite?

So yes, I’ll be writing about the trip I went last Saturday (8^th March 2014).

This trip was planned since last year. As a minor psv teacher trainee, it was a requirement to go there. Ok not really but like I said as a minor psv trainee, we should go there once.

We start our journey at 7++ in the morning when we supposedly be going at exact 6.30 am. Bullshit promise. Never on time. I slept at 5 and woke up at 6. Planning on sleeping in the bus and I did.

Our first destination was BSVN. Which is located beside the Istana Budaya. (so that’s the Istana Budaya I saw in Lawak Ke Der). We were greeted by our own personal BSVN guide. His name was wes or ves, I do not know the exact name. We kept calling him sir and he insisted that we call him by his name cause, he’s not that old and probably have the same range of age with us. After we've been briefed about the gallery in Balai Seni, he brought us to walk around the gallery in the first floor. Unfortunately, the gallery on 2^nd and 3^rd floor was being renovated, and we could not go in there. Im sure it was much more interesting on that floors. What a luck we always have!

                

 Some of the painting. The theme is surrealism. 

The title for this Black picture is "lembu betina something2" I forgot the title.
but the hell? where's the lembu?

inside gallery

This is our guide. not that old huh. I  mean the guy. speaks English very well! 

We only went to the Absurd city and National Portrait Gallery and took many many many selfies that we can. We were not allowed to take picture in NPG though. Confidential bla bla. Not sure. (but you can always be naughty and take picture, but there’s CCTV everywhere so…)

I am still not satisfied with the 2^nd and 3^rd gallery renovation. Why must it be that day!

Oh, and there’s no admission fee plus they gave us free postcard. So, next time I go there, you better be open mister.

Was trying to imitate the celebrity wave. failed miserably.

Next destination was KKKL. There was Hari Kraf Kebangsaan 2014 going on. Ok, this time we were lucky. There were many interesting event happened. We also got our own personal guide. Walaoweh. As it was very crowded, all of us scattered around with our own group. I was stuck with Cyril and Pidah so we decided to explore all the Khemah. There were 4 Khemah. I think we went to all the khemah but the place was so big so it’s hard to keep track where we've been to. We were very exhausted from walking when we heard people singing at this one place and we went there and decided “we just sit here la”. I seriously don’t know what that place was, maybe Panggung Sari cause there was singing competition rehearsal.  Panggung Sari=singing? 

Our Guide

Inside the pusat kraf. this picture was really nice. the expression was superb.
altho im really sure santi was pretending there.

You think this is just a mere picture of a sea turtle? nope. it was a drawing!
and i can assure you it cost a fortune! 30 k maybe?

We lost our way to the main entrance cause like I said, the place was huge! And pidah has no sense of direction too. We end up lost because of him. We enter the wrong khemah twice. It turn out the main entrance was just under our nose. I was right all the time. Cyril and Pidah seriously cannot kena harap for things like this. HAHAHAHA. 

This is where we stuck. I want to sleep there. so tired.

And we got free stuff too. A badge and a frame. Admission fee also free. I got 4 bracelets for a cheaper price. Bought it from Aunty from Sabah. Special discount for your own people. Jyeahhh.

Our cute lectures! seriously cute. :D :D :D

This is the frame. It looks expensive. They also gave this to other University students who came to visit.
 Imagine the cost. Money comes Money Goes Money Bye Bye. 

We were dead exhausted by the time we got to the bus. We stopped at RnR Rawang to eat and I hesitate to come down cause I just want to sleep. After that, we went back to bus and all sleep like a log. We just want to get back to our own bed quickly.   

lotsoflove

~tayaldo~xoxo

Tiring days ahead.

It's the end of February, might as well put one picture to commemorate my busy day this month. Been busy for the past few weeks. And injured too. Been meaning to write about that. Next time maybe. So this is me in blue Kebaya and the two lovely classmates, the bride and the groom, who wore a Bajau wedding dress for our EDU 3106 exhibition. Voila! Good job everyone! Assignments and practicum next in line. 

Oh how I look good in blue.  :D

lotsoflove

~taya~xoxo

Acridophobia

Since I escape my jogging routine today coz I am so tired cleaning my room, let’s write then.

I have Acridophobia. What’s an Acridophobia you say? It’s an abnormal fear of grasshoppers and locusts. Now you know. This is my greatest phobia of all. And I seriously mean it. This phobia might kill me anytime soon.

I don’t exactly remember when I developed this phobia. I remember when I was a little kid, I enjoyed catching baby grasshopper with my siblings. Those little little grasshopper is so tiny and cute. But then as I grow up, my grandma and mother used to tell me that grasshopper is a bad omen. It you see one in the house, catch it and kill it coz that’s probably buatan orang. The grasshopper may make you sick or some sort. I’m not sure if it’s true though. You know older people have different thinking and they always exaggerate thing. And I guess it probably influenced me and brainwashed me into thinking that grasshopper is a MONSTER!

I remember one time, I almost black out when I saw this BIG Black-ish ugly grasshopper in front of me. I even cried. Luckily Aldo was with me and I hide behind him all the time. Damn those grasshopper, can fly some more. So big like bird. Damn damn damn. I'm afraid I might grab anyone if I saw it in front of me again. I seriously cannot stand it.

I also afraid of praying mantis. I saw it one time at my house and I run like hell to hide behind my younger brother and forced him to kill it, on the spot. And I laughed crazily after that. My inner serial killer comes out. I don't have problem if it stays at one place, the thing is it can fly. It might fly towards me and I might hurt myself trying to get rid of it. You see how dangerous it is with me?!

My friends’ theory about why I have this phobia is that, grasshopper is green. I don’t eat vegetable which is green. That’s why I hate it. When I think of it, those grasshopper should be thankful to me coz I don’t eat their source of food. Damn this phobia.

They say to cure phobia is to embrace it. You mean embrace those ugly grasshopper, no hell no. Even the thought of it make me shudder. Excuse me, I go vomit now.

(I HATE INSECTS)

Taya hates MONSTER

~taya~xoxo

The perks of "looking" like Chinese. HCNY!

The second day of Chinese New Year. And here I am sitting in my room, eating chocolate instead of rice. That’s what happens when laziness strikes. And yeah, happy February! It’s gonna be a good February ahead I hope.

So 2 days ago, I went to pay my broadband with my buddies. After that, we went to Ipoh parade for a quick visit, and by quick visit I mean we went there without even entering any shops because we don’t have money! Dayum allowance! Ok so we did enter Popular and bought some books. Cheap book. So, when I went to pay my book at the counter, the cashier automatically speak with me in Chinese. Mandarin to be exact otherwise I wouldn't answer her.

You see, throughout the year I've been living in west Malaysia, most of the people always mistake me for a Chinese. I am not offended though because I can speak Chinese. Sometimes, they also mistaken me for either a Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese…the list goes on. Naa, I am not offended at all. Someday I will just answer yes to whatever question they ask me regarding my origin. And when they finally realize that I am a Sabahan, I’m just gonna laugh it off and let them deal with that fact. In your face.

Now, the perks of looking like a Chinese is that, you can get a discount when you buy from a Chinese store. I’m not sure why, but it’s true. It rarely happens at Sabah (I mean giving discount thingy) because most of the Chinese shop owners know that I am not Chinese. One prominent feature that most of Sabahans have is we have a slightly slanted eyes. I am sure Sabahans can relate. I always thought I have Chinese blood and when trace back, no, completely not. Am little disappointed at that fact.

Now, the good thing living in west Malaysia is that, the Chinese shop owner doesn't know I am not Chinese. They usually just speak in Chinese and I just go with the flow. My disadvantage is, my Chinese is getting rusty so when they begin to talk in “deep” Chinese, I have to stop them and tell them I am not Chinese. Their reaction is usually the same reaction I got every time, Super shock! Maybe that’s because I speak fluent Mandarin. But most of people in Ipoh speak Cantonese. I don’t speak Cantonese, but I understand it. Some of it. Watching Hong Kong dramas when I was little really help.

And so, once again, I am pure Sabahan who speaks Chinese. And I have slanted eyes but I don’t have fair skin though. Damn.

Happy Chinese New Year 2014! It’s the year of the horse! 

Taya who looks like Chinese but is not Chinese.

HCNY 2014!xoxo

Why Every Girl Needs A Guy Best Friend

I am going to ramble a bit about My GBF. Apologies ahead. :D
I am lucky to have GBF, a real GBF not some guy who secretly in love with me. NO. But I do love them so much. Family love.
Let me talk about my experience based on this article :Why Every Girl Needs A Guy Best Friend

1. He knows you're not a mind reader
I'm not sure about this one, but it's true that I never have to worry about breaking girl code. Like If I do something wrong towards them, they will tell me and not be sulky about it and expect me to know everything. I cannot read your mind every time boys.

2. No drunk crying
TBH, I've never been into this situation before but know that they really take good care of me when I am pre-drunk.

3. Spend less money
Because I'm not their girlfriend so when we go to the mall or tamu together, we just buy what we want and leave. But we do window shopping a bit. Buy drinks and leave.

4. You'll always have a date
I've never go to a wedding with my GBF, probably in the future I will. Since everyone around us know pretty much about our relationship, they wouldn't go and say "when will you guys get married?".

5. He won't mess up your cycle
So true! :D :D

6. No unnecessary conversations
When we want to go out, simple text messages would be enough. Like "Jum keluar", "Bah ok", "Pukul 5 saya ambil", "orite". No "Kau pakai baju merah? sebab saya pakai baju merah" that kind of stuff.

7. The best gossip
Yes! You say girls like to gossip? Guys are just the same. I got many gossips from my GBF. But of course I am tight lipped person. Eventually I forgot all about it. Heck I don't even remember any of it now.

8. Calories don't matter
I eat like a pig in front of them. No one cares. And when I don't finish my food they can always finish it for me. Food not wasted. Problem solved!

9. Honest advice
They always give advises like a parent would be, but in a more friend kind of way. They will just pour out their mind. And I'll end up agreeing with almost all their advises, because clearly they are way more mature than me sometimes.

Additional

10. Borrowed "boyfriend"
When you want to show other people that you are not single, you can always borrow them. Heck, you can also borrow them to piss off your ex boyfriend. True story. *Provided their girlfriend is not around. But if their girlfriend is cool, then its cool. :D

10. Cursing is just one way of showing affection
I curse a lot. Like A LOT. I think I'm the reason they start cursing too. My bad. My girlfriend and I love cursing but we only use it when we are together. No chance I'm using it at home now wouldn't I. I'll try to limit it since I am older now (and wiser).

11. Shoulder to lean on
Literally means shoulder to lean on. Like when we are in a car and I am tired, I can always lean on their shoulder and sleep. And I'll make sure no saliva on their shoulder. eww. But of course, they are a good listener and will always support me.

2011. Because u guys are always there for me.
(And all 5sc1 guys are my bestfriends too, haha)

lots of love

~Taya'14~xoxo

Stickman, King Midas and others

Yesterday was Thaipusam, which I never bother to celebrate because as I grew up in Sabah, Thaipusam had never been a state holiday. I mean only certain states celebrate it (and got one day holiday) so when I first experience this celebration here in Perak, well, I have nothing much to say though, except to boast about it to my Sabahan friends at SABAH (because yunno Sabah no holiday, hoho)

So, I’ve been diligently jogging every evening. We have this regular team joggers (all are classmates), which I just realize just now, are all BORNEO people! Ok except for Pidah who is a Kelantanese. It’s not like we didn’t expand our “jogger community” to other classmates, but every time I invite them to our “let’s go jogging so we lose fat evening”, they always give excuses. Well, who am I to judge. Everyone has their own way of losing fat (and be healthy *cough*).

Back to the title, we have this one subject LGA – language arts, where this Sem we are required to stage a drama or play as an assignment (I think, is it?). Since this subject has no exam, our play/drama will probably carries 100% marks. I hope no UAK because I so lazy to study ok.

So my teammates include 5 people. It is so difficult to come out with one decent play yunno. Nevertheless, we choose King Midas – the King who has gold touch. And of course we adapt it so that each of us have our own character and a fair share of screen time during the play. BUT, that is also a problem for us! We are still discussing about the plot and doing drafts here and there. We have to finish everything by March and stage our play early March. We pretty much don’t have enough time. But whatever.   

So this was our first draft from Pidah (which is not so clear) and his stickman. Which is probably better than my stickman.

Second draft featuring my stickman with spike hair, curl hair, and a broom. yes, the witch is holding a broom. I call this abstract stickman art.

lots of arts

~taya'14~xoxo

Quotes of the day 15

There's always a Rainbow after the Rain.

My first time seeing a Rainbow below me.

52 Week Money Challenge

so I found this on the internet (Facebook), and I was thinking, why not I challenge myself to do this? It seems interesting. But since I am still a student, I may forfeit this challenge at any time. You know, when I don't have money. Santi said it is better to do it backwards, meaning that, for first week instead of keeping $1, its better to keep $52 and for second week keep $51 and so on. 

Maybe it is a good idea cause I know towards the end of the year, we don't have that much money left especially for us, IPG-ian who rely on allowance so much.

For now, I am still doing it normally. I am now in second week. We'll see how it goes. I may stop when I really don't have money anymore. Aigoo~

Jia You!

Lots of love

~taya~xoxo

Random: Last night rambling

Last night at home, going back to campus tomorrow. 

I don't want to go back. I want to see my baby brother on his first day in kindergarten.

I feel so bad for not being there on his first day at school. Gosh this feeling.

He was so happy when he got his uniform. He never let go of his tiny bag and always check his stationery in the bag. Like, "mana saya punya pemadam?" "mana pembaris saya?"

It is never easy to say goodbye, even if its just for a while. 

Kisah hidup merantau. Luckily it is only perak. Kalau dapat London ka, America ka, lagi teruk. ohmy!

Hope everything will be ok tomorrow. Jangan delay. Jangan ada masalah ok. 

God bless our journey. 

Lots of love

~taya~xoxo 

2014 Resolutions. In Brief.

2014 resolutions

1. Burn those embarrassing belly fat! Go go!
2. Conquer Mount Kinabalu!
3. Increase my exam pointer! Do the best in practicum!
4. Travel outside Malaysia! Oh yeah!
5. Eat healthily!
6. Spend money wisely!
7. Make no enemies!
8. Once again, expand my social community! *should go to more wedding invitation now*
9. Take good care of my health.
10. LIVE HAPPILY.

Happy New Year 2014! My resolutions this year seem more like a wish list, list of things I need to do rather than to achieve, but I think it is just the same. What’s important is at the end of the day, I managed to follow and accomplished my own resolutions.  

Like last year, I am actually pretty serious with my resolutions. It acts as a reminder to me, things I need to do in my life, things I need to focus and achieved so that I don’t deviate from my present path to become a respectable human and a future teacher. I am getting older, I think it’s time I should act my age. But deep down I’m still a child. My mom said “selagi belum kahwin, masih tanggungan keluarga, kamu (refer to me and siblings) tu masih tanggungjawab kami”. Well, I guess I am still a child then.

I hope this year, everything will turn out to be just fine. Above all, thank God for everything.

Shout out to my parents, siblings, grandmas, grandpa, aldo, BFFs, new and old friends from all over the world, I wish you guys A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 and let the party beginnnnn!

Happy TUKAR TAHUN!

Here's my twins trying to wish happy new year. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014, HUGS AND KISSES

~FADALYA ANABELLE PETRUS 2014~