Making use of the Holiday

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Some of the food I ate during my mid semester break in Kuala Lumpur. Did not waste any time in stuffing myself with all sorts of food that Kelantan don't have ( too lazy to search around ) . Subway, Sushi King, Zanmai, Kenny's Nando's, Domino's etc. Yup . I was able to fit all those in to my belly in just a mere 8-9 days.

Super grateful that I decided to go on a budget for 3 weeks before the holiday. Ended up buying lots of stuff. Enjoying each and every moment of the year end sale and what the stores had to offer. The best part is a majority of my spendings was with the money I had saved up. My parents did give me some cash but I mostly spend it on food.

Speaking of sales/stores/clothes etc. Finally I went to H&M. I know I know, before I had pledge to never visit the store but since it was located behind the hotel I was staying at what the heck ? Seeing for myself what it was all about. My reaction was a "Meh..ok" . I was not that amazed at what the stores have. I mean yeah, the clothes there are trendy and the price their are better than TopShop, Forever 21, Pull& Bear .... but none of the clothes attracted my attention at all. I tried on around 3 to 5 outfits from the store...Did not buy any of them. I don't know why. Is it because EVERYONE's (metaphor) wearing them? or whether because I'm accustomed to the brands/stores that I shop regularly ?

A few of my friends were confident to see me going all crazy on prints and such but to be honest, most of my spendings were on plain old basics. Basic polos, sweater, lounge wear....and one black and white print shirt. Aztecs/Prints are just everywhere nowadays I cannot stand them. Most of mine are now turned into sleep wear. Part of growing up I guess. Turning 20 next year *gasp*. Thank goodness for the year end sales, most of the stuff I bought was discounted up to 70% ..... the most expensive item I bought during the holiday was .... a product from Lab Series and Clinique ( WORTH EVERY DIME )

Sepintas Seni : Malam Nostalgia P.Ramlee

A little behind the scene photo of  C.U.T.E's "Sepintas Seni: Nostalgia P.Ramlee" courtesy of Ayyman Rahim. I actually had other plans that afternoon but it was cancelled at the last minute so I decided to give the seniors a hand in decorating the stage for the night's event. Well the seniors mostly did all of the work while I just stood there watching their creative minds explode. The only thing I remembered helping was helping Fahmi measure stuff.....with my hands as you can see in the picture above.

      The first phase of pre-production was not so stressful since the atmosphere the seniors gave during decorating the theatre room was a pretty calm and serene one. The second phase ( make up, costumes etc ) literally drain out all of my energy. Waiting for the juniors to arrive was terrible. I can understand that they had compulsory classes that they needed to attend to from 5 to 7. Some had spoken to me earlier that they would arrive around 7 PM which they did since they needed to go back to their house and pick up stuff. I seriously did not mind it. Atleast they have told me earlier that they will be late. The ones that really grind my gears was those that did not attended the 5 to 7 classes and arrived for make up and costume late. In fact, those that attended arrived earlier than they were but I'll talk about punctuality in another post in the near future.

      The event itself was great...I guess. Saying "I guess" since the only performance I get to watch was from the Music Department. Faizal did an awesome job though I still think his performance was the shortest. Everyone in the crowd think so too. I seriously thought that everything was okay. Even during my dance performance I did not bother looking out for my juniors if they forgot the choreography. For every performance that I have done so far, all that is in my mind is that to not trip and fall, do not forget the dance steps, interact with other dancers and audience and not to sneeze.

   Few of the performance performed that night. The first 2 is by the Theatre department while the last is from the Dance Department. I think they should of just used normal lighting during the Theatre performance though.

 The next day ( Wednesday ) a few people that were in the audience came up to me and asked whether the club would do another event like the previous one but with a K-Pop theme. Even my friend Firaz who is also in dance brought in his whole class to attend the event said that his classmates were asking him the same thing. I don't mind performing K-Pop songs since I myself am a big fan of the Korean Pop industry. I just hope that if everyone in the club agrees to do a K-Pop themed Sepintas Seni, they won't expect the dance department to do Gangnam Style. I don't mind for a "Sexy" theme as well though I won't be having high hopes for that one.

Not sure whether you can see the video or not but here's a link to Faizal's performance that got all the ladies and maybe a few gents melted in their seats.

As Fake as Pressed On Nails

Have any of you meet up with a total stranger, whom you and your FRIENDS have never met before acts so pretentious that you feel like you just want to run them over with a truck or push their fat ass down a hill ? I have. Let's call this person Blob.

I remember while waiting for the rest of the people to arrive for the meeting we were sitting in the theatre room. Blob came in later and sat behind us. We started talking you know, the usual stuff teens filled with rage usually do when all of a sudden he asked me a question. "Are we celebrating Q's birthday tonight ?" I told him that the plan was off since a friend of mine said so due to not knowing how many people would attend the meeting. Blob then started saying how my friend had texted him that the plan to celebrate Q's birthday was still on and that my friend had bought cake and stuff to celebrate. I told Blob that my other friend that texted him did not send me any text. Then the unthinkable happened.... "Oh I forgot, you guys are still newbies in this club's social circle so you guys wouldn't know much" . 

He is lucky to be alive today. I would off bitch slapped him to his death. I mean, I am not that pissed off that he said that but let's be logical now. We are off the same age, but I am a member of the club and have been friends with my 'friends for like four semester while he entered the university a semester later than any of us and has been a member for like three semesters. I've known my friends too well to not to tell me about celebrating our friends birthday and yes we did not celebrated my friend's birthday that night.

The other day I told my friends about it. All of them gave a shocked and disgusted look. "Who the hell is he to say that to you....He is not in our social circle....We're not even close...That's so embarrassing!" was what most of the girls said.

The point of this post is that you should never be pretentious. You should never act like you are a prestigious kid from a high end family. You should never act like one of the people from Gossip Girl just so that people will like you for who your are NOT ! You might be a hot shot where you are from but honey, you are in a University. A public one might I add. Nobody gives a damn if you attend those parties with champagne or gold plates. If you do so when you meet people for the first time and brag about your life, people will seriously have a negative review about you. Instead of getting "Wow I am so jealous of ******* life" said behind your back, you will mostly get a "Oh my God, why did he act so fake?" , "He was trying so hard to impress but his fake-ness shine through" and "I know him, my friends know him. He's a nobody". Burn..

I mean, sure entering University means meeting up with new people and creating a brand new image for yourself but that does not mean to fake it till you make it. All it means is just to improve yourself as a person from who you already are. Be more open with people. Be friendlier with people around. Participate in all sorts of activities. Not to tell people about your fake social life and social background cause anywhere you go, there will always be a person who really knows you for who you are.

I would listen to my friends talk about the events they had attended. The parties, the people. And I would tell them about mine even though mine is not as high standard as they are but at least it is real and we do have proof for the things that we talked about. Its not lame to ask your friends about the parties they attend and who the people they have met are. I seriously do that since I live far away from most of them so things are a bit different. My friends would straight away explain to me about A, B C and Z.

Why suffer yourself by spending a large amount of money when you know the money is actually for your monthly spendings ? Why spend a large sum of greens on branded clothes just to impress people ? By all means, if you like them and think its worth it go ahead and hand in your credit/debit card as you exit the store. If not, just save it for something else. Something that you really need. 

Another thing, just because you want people to like you doesn't mean that you have to ask them out for lunch every single day. Its bloody annoying. Shows off how desperate you are in need of their presence. Asking people out for lunch once or twice a week is enough. I don't even do that. Cause I know that if I spend too much time with my friends, the excitement of being friends will cease to exist and you will start to get bored and fed up with your friends.

I have been abusing " As fake as pressed on nails" for countless of time now. Now you know.

Constructive Criticism My Foot

Hey everyone, how are you guys doing ? I'm loving my classes so far though we have not really started our lessons yet. Most of it were just introductory to the classes and what the class is actually about. No this is not a post about my classes or how a majority of my lecturers are down right hilarious.

I don't get people that does something horrible to us and after a few weeks, would come to us or text us a message and tell us they are sorry for what they did, that they were just angry at us for no reasons or tell us other bull shit why they did it in the first place and hopes that we would befriends with them again. Being a saint that we are, we would always forgive them and bring them back to our lives.....

But I know that everyone that does so, in the end gets hurt once more. Its like a girl being blinded by love. She broke off with her boyfriend who cheated on her with another girl or he was abusive to her but in the end, when the guy gave off a few sweet words, the girl will be swept off her feet. Typical. The girl would remember the good old days that they had and think that the guy has really change when in fact, the guy just hurts her all over again and round goes the cycle of how stupid the girl is.

"I'm sorry. I promise I won't do it again" says A.... 3 weeks or a month or two later A would hurt us again. Trash talk about us behind our back. ... then ask for our forgiveness again. It is just like the cycle of how stupid the girl is but this time, its the cycle of how stupid WE are. Why do we forgive and introduce those type of people back in to our live ?  A teacher of mine once said just forgive the person that has done you wrong but never introduce them into your life again unless they are worthy.

This happens a lot in University. I know a few people that hate or dislike this group but they don't show it to others. Its just a feeling of knowing. They would act all sweet and friendly at this group but when they see an opportunity to attack or see the group being attack by others, they waste no time to enter and trash talk or give a so call 'constructive criticism' to the group. Knowing those people, I know that their true intentions are not to give constructive criticism but too trash talk about them.

When comparing let's say a Choir group with another choir group, we should never say that "Oh choir group A is so much better than your choir group. Why aren't your choir kids as discipline as Choir group A? They have other priorities too but they can still perform well with little practice?......." What we should say is that choir Group A is better than your group but you should follow in their foot steps and not look down at yourself or your group and be all emotional.

To be honest I seriously cannot stand how stupid or mentally retarded people are when it comes to criticizing  others negatively just because they hate them. Why ? Your constructive bull shit is not constructive at all. People outside might see this from your point of view. Your point of view of "I don't like you so I'm going to say negative comments but say you can't handle constructive criticism when you cry or be emotional" point.

Not saying this because you're doing it to a friend of mine or what but because you are an idiot. Why do so ? Do you think when others hear or see what you have done you think that they are going to support you? Sure those that have the same feeling as you would stand by your side but how about the rest ?

The truth is, I am doing this because I hate your attitude. You are as fake as pressed on nails. You should say what you mean but don't say it mean. Everybody knows deep down inside how you truly feel about others and how crappy your attitude is.

Evening Sky

Evening Sky by Ailee is just beautiful !

Well I am back here on campus for my 4th semester as a Diploma in Statistic student. Placed in the same room with the people from last semester minus Ayie. So it is just Mizan, Faidhi and I. A junior was supposed to be in our room but apparently he is a  no show so we decided to turn the extra desk and locker into a food storage. Mizan and I seriously thought that we were gonna stay on the second floor....We got a room on the third floor instead. Fought over the bottom bed with Mizan but in the end I got it since I bought candy canes for him.

The floor mates are a bit difficult this semester though. A few of the rooms are filled with my friends while others filled with juniors, ego heads and unknown people. Maybe it is still to early for them to strike up a conversation with any of us. They would usually give us a stare or a heads up when they see us in the hallway or in the toilet.

Most of the guys were surprised when I entered each and everyone of their rooms just to invite them all for dinner since I rarely hang out with any of them. I think It was because I was too bored and that I was influenced by the Real Housewives series. In every episode of each series will have the ladies attending 2 or 3 dinner parties ! Did the same thing again for tonight. Had dinner with the guys at Akira and no its not a Japanese restaurant. Earlier we went to the local chain store and bought lots of instant food and drinks. The only thing consumable in our room before we went on our shopping spree were my Chinese herbs, candy canes and sparkling water. Now we have hot chocolate, cookies, oreos, instant noodles and some more cookies.

Basically I did nothing today except had lunch with Ayman and meet up with Tyka to hand in our registration form. Ate lunch at this one stall near campus where it served cat fish. I could not care less about being drenched in my sweat since the food there was so good. Talked about stuff normally girls would talk about but in a different point of view. We even gossip about people and also talk a about our clubs future.

The only downside for today is that the internet services for our smart phone sucks big time especially in the library. Honestly, I thought I was going to die of boredom sitting in the library unable to do anything since my phone could not receive any signal while Ayman keeps on scrolling down Instagram on his iPhone while Tyka does the same with her note. Even at the Student Centre my blackberry was kinda useless.  It literally took me 20 minutes to successfully send a message to my friends and some completely ignored me once i was able to reply them thinking that I ignored them after receiving their instant messages.

I was planning on sleeping in early today, wishing everyone good night at 10:30... its already 45 minutes past midnight ! I have to wake up early tomorrow to get my student discount card around 8:30 since I don't want to stuck in line all day. Hopefully not many students wake up early tomorrow. But since I cannot sleep, I decided to watch this movie called ParaNorman. So far so good. All I understand so far is this kid Norman can see dead people and weird stuff and he has no friends except for this one fat kid who has all sorts of medical problems.