8th of Aug (the throwbacks)

started this post at 11:57pm

LOL

if that's not procrastination at its best, I duno what is

Let's get right into it

1. in 2009
I titled a blog 'Aku Masih Torn'
and damn was i vague?!
I read the entire post and all I see was me talking non-sense about SuJu and ended the post with something along the line "I'm sooooo torn"
Like, what are you so torn about, woman?!
I might have to open my diary to know what exactly was I was so torn about

2. in 2010
I watched the real-life movie of Avatar: The Last Airbender
boy, was I disappointed. LOL
I guess that's what happened when you love the cartoon/anime so much and had too much expectation on the movie.

I didn't post anything on 8th Aug of 2011 till 2014

3. in 2015
I was ( or did I finished) watching the historical theme korean drama, Maid.
starring Jung YuMi

jjang!

I noticed in some years, I posted a lot in August. 
Like, it was a special month of something.
Special month meaning me being so motivated to post something hahaha

I should be more excited in September! coz you know, my getting old day.

anyway,

here's a song for you to enjoy coz I was listening to it while I was making this



Girls' Generation - Sailing or  그 여름 (0805)

the mv was so nostalgic and I learned that the lyric was written by Sooyoung. *applause*

So that is all for tonight.
I should be in bed like, tadi *ketawa* but yeah..

I see you in my next post

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Hannah Montana 2.016

I thought I've watched the entire Hannah Montana series.

turns out, I only watch up until half way thru season 3 (HM has four seasons).

So, since the 2nd night of Raya until the 3rd night, I've been watching Season 4 (called Hannah Montana Forever) and I was hit with a realization that I know all the HMF songs (coz I bought the OST album) but never actually watch the episodes.

Google is such a good bestfriend at this time of need. ٩◔‿◔۶


I was almost teary for the final episode, Actually, season 4 is really very touchy from start to finish. 
Coz, it's the final season atu kali. 
plus, it's when Miley started to realize that she can't have the best of both world at the same time anymore. and everything just went from a tear falling to crying buckets moment after that (no actually tears were harm. I just have a lot of feels).


I'll Always Remember You (the most elaborate flashback/reminiscing clip in history. EVER)


Wherever I Go (awesome fanmade clips)



I shall rerun the entire series soon. 

for now, I should get some shut eyes.

it's been a looonnngggg day.

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SM released. and My opinion on it.

I didn't mean to start of my post (after a week of absence) with this; but its about the only thing I can get going on...hahaha please just beruang (bear) with me on this one.

First off,
Jonghyun 2nd Mini Album.
a song called 02:34 is one of the song that have been played most among the 9 songs on the album.



The first song of this album, called The End of the Day, was actually very Jonghyun-i~ and I like it.



and this song, Like You, deserves a mention. not because I like it but because I literally laugh out loud at one point coz I thought I heard him say 'fcuk u' (not the one during the chorus. the one around 1:09-1:12 is the start. you can hear it again thru out the song) hahahaha
have a listen



and the rest of the songs in this album are just ..I'm not crazy about them.  
Maybe it's the music. as Kris (ex-member of EXO) once said, "Naega style aniya".
I know I should be more constructive with my 'criticism' but since I'm no expert (and I'm dead lazy kan berhujah or ber-debate) that's about the only polite way to say it.
that low key, breathy way of singing is also Naega Style Aniya 
I admit that I'm always so proud when I see on some article that says Jonghyun wrote the lyric of this songs and Jonghyun write and compose a song for other artists but that doesn't mean I have to like it, right? I am still entitle to my own opinion and feelings.
I listen to music to get my mind off things, and most of Jonghyun musics make me feel uncomfortable. Not because of the lyrics (coz God knows I don't understand Korean) but just the way it was 'presented'. I don't know eh cemana kan explain lagi. Go figure it out yourselves. but if you happened to like Jonghyun songs, good for you. Jonghyun made this album for you. you don't need to bash me. I still bought his original as a way of supporting his career. even though I'm just one person and may seems like I don't contribute much, the Emperor from Mulan said, 'A single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man maybe the difference between victory and defeat'. LOL nah ko! sampai Mulan ku bawa kemari ani...jua lagi aku inda making my point...hahaha

and btw, his album 'skin' is literally no skin at all. there are no Jonghyun face anywhere.
these are some of the photos from the booklet;

 I thought, "He got it wrong. this is Onew's. His should be a puppy"

this is pretty. almost like Alice in Wonderland theme. Mad-Hatter-ly.

Second off,
Taeyeon 1st Mini Album
fav song? I 



I listened and watched the mv at the same time. My initial reaction was touched. or sebak di dada. or something like that. I hate Taeyeon's acting. but the rest of the mv with the song reminds me of Ireland. I don't know why. maybe it's the green-field scene with kambing. I don't know. it just reminds me of Ireland.
and I've never been to Ireland, mind you. I mostly ever seen glimpse of it from Westlife's DVD footage. So, maybe it just reminds me of Westlife and ultimately of Ireland too.
I like the entire album. the songs choice fits Taeyeon's voice (in my opinion). music wise is well received by my ears and brain. 
But her live performance sucks. and I'm not even sorry for that. She could've done so much better. I don't know what she's trying to hide or why she's holding back. she can do better and I hope that she will. 

annddd
there ya go.
my me-making-an-effort-to-post today.

this post just shows just how you can never judge people from the outside. We will never know what's going on inside their head.
Like me; I LOVE SHINee but I can't seem to kid myself to go gaga over Jonghyun's music releases. and Taeyeon, I have been feeling annoyed with her (all the other SNSD members, really) ever since the Jessica's Cast Out drama. So, I was surprised when I fell in love with her album.

you can never know.

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my phone so far

Hello...
you must had enough of my Onew posts the past few days. LOL
sowieee..

So, today I decided to post this; my Phone so far.
I saw somebody posted their 'teenage phone' and I had an idea to post my 'teenage phone' too.
BUT
instead of posting my teenage phone, I am going to post the phones that I had over the years.
I started owning a mobile phone when I was 18. I was in lower six form then. haha kesian. orang lain betelipun time form 1 sudah. 

Let me share you pictures (that are not mine. I stole them via Google kekeke) of the phones that used to have until now.

my first phone. cute little thing. (hand-me-down btw)

2nd phone. I was so fond of this phone! (another hand-me-down)

my first real phone. I can not tell you just how much love i had for this phone!

it was the walkman series. and anyone who have known me since forever knew how much of a walkman addict I was (you know, that portable cassette player, plug your ears with earpieces to listen to the songs) and this phone was like an upgrade for me. LOL

hahah Nokia E71. the first phone i bought with my first few salaries. 

I didn't keep this one long coz I miss Sony Ericsson so much. hahah

I sold the Nokia and bought this one. I wanted the purple one but at that time only the above color was available. another walkman series and another beloved phone.

the longest Sony Ericsson I own. and the last one. I was obsess with getting all my gadgets in red that year. LOL

my first iPhone 3G. pwetty little thing

this thing was the first expensive phone I ever buy

and then another

iPhone 4

and earlier, I bought iPhone 6plus

and this conclude the phones that I once owned and recently own.

I think I missed my Sony Ericsson walkman series phones the most. maybe because the easy access to my musics via those phones made me so attached to them back then. 

but no matter.

my iPhone does exactly that (anable me to listen to my musics) and so much more.

I wonder what's my next phone gonna be?

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21st Sep

I know, I know. took me awhile. 
I was just ...lazy.

LOL

but here I am!

So, final day in KL and we didn't really do much but woke up early, paid the hotel and left for KLIA2 at 9:00am.

the journey was a lot shorter somehow.

when we finally arrived at the airport, first thing we looked for was the restroom. LOL

Pastu baru th kami cari our check-in counter. After we found it (since kami early and belum check-in time yet), we go an find food for breakfast. Yup, inda kami sampat breakfast di hotel ah.

I chose this Irish restaurant, Irish Sandwich Cafe.

Bazilah just tagged along. hehe thanks Buzz for melayan-ing this Irish-at-heart woman. (wawawa)

the club sandwich was tasty (sorry nada picture) but what I loved the most was the Tea. Irish Breakfast Tea it was called. It was a black tea (i think) fused with Toffee (or was it caramel?)! 

super delicious! and seriously I can't get over it even now (nasib ada Tea Box di Brunei ani and they have Irish Milk Tea beverage. So, that can compensate my craving for the O'Briens' Tea).

Continuing on ...

We finished breakfast and I decided to go and searhed for the famous (not really. but I'm always a season behind all the famous things :P) Fipper slippers. After dari sana, I went and stopped by F.O.S. again. LOL sampat lah jua ku last minit shopping. 

then, baru th time to check-in our luggage and we straight away pass immigration into waiting to boarding.

Since the KLIA2 is fairly new, the inside was a little, boring. not much to see. but Brunei's gate had the CurryPuff place right in front of it which we didn't bother to stop by because we kenyang already. We ended up exploring the new boarding place. took some pictures.

a male Orang Putih offered to take picture of me and Buzz. We said 'It's ok' coz lets face it, how often do you meet someone who offered to help? Kami kira kekajutan and said 'it's ok'. it would've been nice if we say 'yeah, sure. thanks' but that didn't happen and we ended up with having individual pictures saja. LOL

the time came and we boarded the plane. we enjoyed the service they provided on this flight better than when we departed from Brunei to KL. we ordered food and enjoyed brownies.

and as often, time fly fast when you're having fun and soon enough we landed in Brunei.

Our brief holiday/vacation ended there.

It was the first time I ever go anywhere by plane with just one companion and it wasn't at all bad or scary. It felt normal. It made me feel or think about my next trip with just my sister (coz we once planned on going either to KL or Singapore just us two but the husband was worried and we ended up going to Miri saja with her husband tagging along. LOL)!

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NEXT? 

Singapore baby! 
in January 2015.
USS! 
and
Panda!
and
more shopping!! LOL
yes, Zawir, shopping!

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18th Sep

Hello lovely people.

I decided to just post this now before I procrastinate again. :D

So, I went for a leisure (and in my head; SHOPPING!) trip to Kuala Lumpur on the 18th Sep - 21st Sep with Bazilah. 

We arrived at our hotel and finally into our room at around 8:30pm. we lived at Capitol Hotel, Bukit Bintang. (Bisai lah this hotel, turun saja, there's Starbucks, a burger place, 7Eleven, Low Yat Plaza, BB Plaza too. and within a walking distant to Fahrenheit 88, Lot 10 and Pavilion)

Once we rehat and settled sekajab, we went straight to Pavilion.

Bazilah shopped at MAC for her mother's compact powder. 

Then we went to find food coz we so hungry balum makan since 3pm++ (we didnt eat on the plane). We decided to eat at Subway. Sandwich yumminess!

We searched for Sketchers store afterwards (we were rushing; it was almost closing time) coz I wanted to buy the shoes that was similar to Onew's (don't judge me, please) but nada that shoe. I shrugged it off and said I'll look for it tomorrow. at some other mall.

Because of all the constructions going on around Bukit Bintang, we got lost on our way home. I was mostly worried coz it was just us two. It wasn't deserted though the place that we past thru, but I was cautious. when we finally walked out of an alley, We saw Nandos and since I've been craving for Nandos chicken for SO. LONG. I decided that we should rest for awhile there and Googled our way back to the hotel. Bazilah Googled while I ordered for take-aways. when our food was ready, we went out again and lucky I recognized a certain parking lot and convinced Bazilah to just walked down that road to our hotel. Alhamdulillah, finally kejumpahan tah jua hotel kami ani. Sikit lagi ku panic attack bah. LOL

Sudah di Hotel atu, we freshened up and eat our Nandos. 

hahah tangah2malam lah jua kami mengasak makanan atu and chit chatting till maybe around 1am++  then soon enough, Day 1 was over.

I didn't sleep till 4am in the morning though. Normal plang tu. For me at least. I always have a hard time sleeping in a 'new' place.

What I like most that from Day 1 was that I didn't think about work. at. all. 

and before I end this post, this is how the room looked like;

 ada tuk iron baju. I was thinking on renting them before I came that day. turns out kena provide for use. awesomeness!

and a real space saver; that complimentary drinks/boiling-water-kettle/cawan were all put in the almari.

I forgot to take picture of the bathroom. Hose/Pipe water was provided near the toilet. a must for Bruneian, I guess. LOL thumbs up for that.

It was a very comfy stay.

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A/N: Day 2 is up next. 

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Diana

I finally watched Diana, a movie starring Naomi Watts 

and its about the love story of Diana, Princess of Wales, after her separation from Prince Charles. 
I don't know much about the late Lady Di, but she was actually very famous for her humanitarian acts and charity works.

I only know about her during her funeral news/coverage. the news was so huge that it was all over the radio (Brunei used to have a live broadcast of Capital FM, a famous UK radio station at that time) and Television. I even bought a magazine that solely covers the Funeral with Prince William and Prince Harry shown on the cover. and I am ashamed to tell you that the reason I bought the magazine was because I thought Prince William was cute. (LOL-ing at my childishness)
but being me, I ended up being more curious about the history rather than the scandal that surrounds her at that time (or more correctly, I don't remember reading anything about her scandal at that time. it's when I was older that I heard and understand what was really going on before her tragic death)

So, watching the movie, I wasn't much interested in her lovey-dovey side. I just wanted to see how much truth was put in it. I like how they relived or revamped features or dresses or scenes and speeches from the real ones. I know they're not all truth but it made me happy thinking that they're showing a 'behind-the-scene' footage/story from what I used to see old pictures. I've always loved the "history" behind things. It made you connects and understand a little more why things happened the way they did.

One thing I need to point out though. Towards the end of the movie, it was showed that Lady Di was actually the one who exposed to the press of her whereabouts when she was on vacation with Dodi. As much as I want to understand her intention was actually to catch the attention of her former boyfriend, Hasnat, I just thought that she shouldn't have done it. I mean, she could do little with the coverage, don't you think? She was already being swarmed by paparazzi as it is. I don't know if that part was made up or not but as I said, it would have been less stressful if she hadn't.

all the time when I was watching this movie, a One Direction song kept popping into my mind. it was called, Diana.


 
even from when i first heard this song, I was thinking about Lady Di. the chorus lah, very fitting. but thats just me. Lady Di is the only famous Diana that I know of.

After the movie ended, it occurred to me that yesterday would marked the 14 years of her death. She was killed in a car accident in Paris on 31th August 1997. in the movie, they remake the final moment of her life, thru the security footage at a Hotel's lift and also exit, and the date on at the bottom of the screen was 31.08.97. i feel sad for a second thinking about it. a final moment's in someone's life. how would you feel if that was actually a footage of your love ones?

RIP Diana, Princess of Wales. You showed people what should be done when you were given powers; help the underprivileged and raise the voice of the unheard. You were an amazing humanitarian. 

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the annual thing

I know, so rajin, right?

heheh

this is old story already but I bet I'm the only one posting it on the blog.

sci2 annual Sungkai Out! last 3rd August.

Hanif, Azhar, Rahmat, Aziz, Edy, Iqral, Azwa, Bazilah, Be'ah, Irene, Tai Ting, and Me were there. (was actually quite surprise that Azwa actually came! yayy!!)

Irene left early, So here's the earlier picture we took of her

PLUS

Mr. Lim!! our Math teacher from form 4 till 5.

Iqral said, "Tani semua membesar, kanapa Sir masih maintain?" 

LOL! banar...sama masih bah Sir ah.

Hasrin was supposed to be there but he got some last minute changes with his work and he had to go offshore. poor thing..

Rasyid was there via whatapps (mcm time BBQ outing hari tu..)

Amal K and Amirah had another Sungkai Outing planned way before this one, so they couldn't make it.

Alifdo was in camp.

Amal Pinky, Zawir, Judin, Zulfadli couldn't make it.

I wonder if people actually invited John and Chrissy. ahahah

did I miss anybody else's name? Inda kali ah... (hahaha)

So, Thank You Edy and Be'ah for organizing this year's event. and for bringing along Mr. Lim too.

and also, Congratulation to Edy an Be'ah on expecting their 1st child! Be'ah is seven month pregnant now. First sci2 baby! Like really sci2 baby! (since parents nya dua sci2 kn..aahaha). all the best guys! kami doa2 kn yg baik2. Aminnn...

Next event? Hari Raya!!

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