Back to Hogwarts Day

First composed: 03 Sep 2018 10pm


I didn't realized this until the day I posted my nephews Math X HarryPotter Day pictures.

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Look at these two young wizards! #backtohogwartsday #01sep #slytherin #ravenclaw #green #blue #iamthecoolestbabu😂

A post shared by AzNuur Awang (@vengeanceawg) on Sep 3, 2018 at 7:16am PDT

My brother texted me on 25th Aug asking me to help with his sons' school project.
themed: Harry Potter.

He said the project is for the coming Monday 27th Aug.

So, I helped by sending pictures (see below)

by this point, I was actually angan2 kan buat kan wand. but since last minit, I didn't say anything.

by Monday night, i texted, "hows the nephews' project?"

he said it was actually for the coming Saturday, 1st Sep.

Suspen.

but now that I have time, I told him that I will make them a wand each. coz I thought it'd be a fun project.

So, I went and bought the supplies.

I even went and eat at a sushi place just so I could take the one-time used chopstick home. ('tapau' was my choice of word that day LOL). of course I cleaned them before hand.

took me 5 hours to finish and a full day to dry the paint.

it was worth it.

I was so pleased with the outcome.

the third short wand is for my niece.

I didn't think it would come out like it did.

I was so blown.

like,

So Saturday happened and I only remembered to ask late Sunday night.

my brother said; teachers were impressed. they thought the boys bought the costume. the older one said his mom made the robe and the wand is hand-made.

I also made them a badge with the house of their choice. the oldest picked Slytherin coz he wanted snake (i think he already made a plan with his friends) and the little one wanted blue, Ravenclaw.

pictures used for of the badges. but no picture of actual badge. 

coz I'm a terrible blogger.

lol

older brother

little brother

aren't they adorbs?!

I even made them watch the first Harry Potter movie. but ended up cFatzeem saja yg stay meliat smpi habis.

hashtag trainthemyoung

LOL

Turned out 1st September is the official Back To Hogwarts Day. and now I understand why my nephews' school decided to do their theme on that day. I also thought, the teacher who suggested that theme must be a Potterhead. LOL

No matter, I'm glad to help my nephews with their projects. It made me realize I can do crafty thing. I mean I always know I can, but that tiny validation and appreciation of my work made me believe that I truly can.

So, thank you brother for the opportunity.

this little project inspired me to become a wand maker.

🤗

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A/N: apologies for the bad quality of pictures. especially the one with grey blocks. My room was super messy at that point of my life hence the grey blocks. I promise my life is starting to get less cluttery now. I'm learning and reminding myself to take proper pictures for blogging in the future. #hwaiting

Az Nuur -씨!! Get a grip!

my phone been asking me to update so many applications this past few days that it annoys me. Ծ_Ծ

it's not because there are a lot of Apps to update but because internet connection sucks!  ┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻

No, not the reason why I haven't update anything here. that reason lies at me being super lazy. NE v(=∩_∩=)ﾌ

I often check my blog thru my phone and I noticed the last two posts' thumbnails are the same; Descendant of the Sun punya picture.
Like, Az Nuur! do your homework! ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ

You know I've been waching Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse, right? 
Well, there's this one episode where Teresa went 'Diva' during Raquelle's half birthday and I thought, "When is my half birthday?" 
If my math is correct, my half birthday would be in March!
and here I am browsing bookdepository.com (well, not really now, since I'm composing this post. but you know, in between composing and last night, this morning at the office, etc. you get the point), furiously clicking the Add To Basket button. So far I am up to 11 (ELEVEN!) books to buy myself as my half birthday present (▰˘◡˘▰)
I know 'half birthday' isn't a real thing but it's fun and exciting when you think about buying yourselves a birthday present!

What else?

Well, I made a new phonecase base on below picture (not mine)


Supervisor asked me to make one for her and I told her that I will give it a try first.


it's not perfect but I think I did alright

I always said that I'm not very creative but when something like this happened, I believed again.
that, really, all the bad qualities in you are all in your head. 
you are perfect just the way you are. Don't ever change. I mean, change for the better ok lah. Just don't change who you are just to make other people happy. Coz, you are other people too, and you deserve to be happy.

aseh, panjang polanngg.
but 진짜요 , I'm proud of myself being able to make it! it's colorful! and i love colors! 
Well done, Az Nuur! 잘한다

on another note,
Song Joong Ki is my new future husband!
can you believe that a few weeks ago I kept going on and on about how I can't wait to watch DOTS because cOnew in it? and that I don't even know what the two main characters' story was all about?
Well, that 'feel' is gone.
Onew's charater; ChiHun is some what a rich kid who became a doctor, has a wife and baby on the way. from Episode 7 (Brunei time. coz in Korea, tonight is already Episode 9), ChiHun family is actually pretty rich; financed/invested in the military communication satelite, owns the land that hospital stands on. . . . anyway! as much as I love SHINee Leader Onew 입니다 , I'm just so in love with how sweet and cute ShiJin (JoongKi's character) expressions are when he's with Dr. Kang (HyeKyo's character).

My love for Onew will resume when this drama ended. Don't worry.

Ok, i think this should be enough for this post.
till next time! 안녕

. . .

I miss UK

and I can't post any of my pictures from that trip online anymore.

coz I was not wearing tudung or Hijab back then. ('cool' people of Brunei been calling 'tudung' hijab these days. i think it's just fake. . i will make this argument some other time) 

anyway

I thought about going back but I thought to myself,
"I've been to the UK once, why not spend money to visit other country?"
That's why I pick Japan as my next place to travel to. but that trip is not until September. So..

Last January, I bought a handmade handbag from 'Great Britain'. 
just to show how much i love the UK.


weak excuse, I know. but i really want it!

Story time;
I first saw this bag from a friend who posted it on Instagram. 
what caught me was that it had my friend's name embossed on it. I thought, "that's nice"
The next time I saw such bag was when I was at the Mall. the embossing of a name on someone's bag caught my eyes. once again i thought, "bisai jua ah"
and since then, I want it too. because I'm that Asian whose name is hardly ever on a pre-embossed name on anything and this personalize embossing thing is my thing!

After sometimes, I came across this page on instagram with same type of bags with personalize embossing thing. the company is called, The Cambridge Satchel Company.
I don't know how long I've been following them (and the agony to endure the pain of seeing their precious bags and not being able to purchase them yet!) it must've been a year or something. it was too long!

When I finally decided to buy the bag, it took me one whole week just X-ing the check out page and 'sleep on it'.

One week had passed and Thursday came and finally I bought the bag (during office hour coz I is Management. I do what I want muahahaha). I was anxious for the entire transaction. i received email indicating they have received my order and will process it within 3 days. but the next day, Friday, I received another email saying that my bag is on its way. and that I'll receive it Tuesday the next week.

by Tuesday morning, I did received a call from the local Fedex company saying my parcel had arrived and that they couldn't deliver it to my house (for whatever reason. i think coz to my house, it was not an easy access *muka confuse berabis*). Excited as I was, i told the person to just deliver it to my office.
i waited all day for it but the fedex guy never came and i was really disappointed! coz Fedex is supposed to be super fast! and the fact that I shopped at Zalora.com the previous week and already received my parcels exactly four days after that as promised, disappoint me more.

I was told, "sabar sja. maybe isuk durang antar" So, bersabar i did.

The next morning, finally the fedex guy came with my parcel and i was so happy that I couldn't even hide my grin! 


I opened it during my lunch break, in my car. taking pictures and just ... very excited.






it's actually very simple and classic looking.



the one yg I bought is actually pretty small for my standard of bags (coz I usually bought huge bags that can fit just about everything..)



but the color is nice! (i think it was called tea rose)
and it has my name on it!
at first I wanted to put 'AZ' but my sister has the same first name (yes, 'Az' is my first name. Second is 'Nuur' and third is 'Ajeerah') and I didn't want her to claim it. 


hahaha it's a joke we both had since forever. will tell you on the future blog entries (kalau ku ingat jua tu LOL)

all in all. it was an awesome feeling. like receiving a present. from me. to me.



and now,
I don't have to miss UK any more.
at least, not so much.

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I would like to thank Jessica from http://blog.konapple.me/ for introducing the emojipedia to me. 
now I'm gonna use it a lot.
thanks a million, chingu!