Sleepy head

Status: Biology.

Music: School Days by ACDC

Is it too much if I am dreaming for this room?

Someday probably. Someday. Forever young.

Golden

Short update.

Alhamdulillah.

One more interview. Must be done before 10th of March, I am so freaking cuak right now. I mean after  a month of no-interview sessions. And now, here it is again, and this time, it is a video interview. Yes, we'll be communicating through our desktop screen. 

May Allah makes eases.

Royal College of Surgeon Ireland.

Amin.

Pray for me ya? =)

Duke of Edinburgh #1

Bismillah. 

Status: This post is about my expedition when my friends and I went climbing a hill, Bukit Kutu at Kuala Kubu Bharu. So, for those who allergic to greenery scenery, rocks and height, just close this tab with no doubt. Should I warn you, this post is very long. Do grab some snacks and air kotak milo while reading ek. Hehe

Music: Daylight by Maroon 5

My team, Bronze 9, consists of 6 young, fragile, noisy but yet strong determination girls. We are myself, Azie (red shirt), Mas (light blue shirt), Jida (specky girl, with white tudung and brown girly hat), Tikah (black tudung) and Syida who was the one who taking this picture. 

Pagi-pagi dah muka mengantuk. HUH

We gathered at Azie's chalet as early as 6.30 am to make sandwiches for our lunch to eat at the peak of the hill. The journey by bus to the place where our task started was about 40 minutes. Then, after we reached the place, we walked passing by perumahan orang asli. There were so many dogs and they were quite scary. hehe.. 

What a beautiful day for hiking

The gap of masa pelepasan for each group was 15 minutes. My group started our journey was probably at 9.15 am. Each group will be guided by two experienced men, some of them were orang asli. As for my group, we got Rambo and Bob for our guide/guard. They were so so so baik and fun. Azie said, they were baik and sweet. But as for me they were baik, not scary baik. Dorang macam abang abang sikit, eh banyak. And we fought a lot during the journey. All of us. As if I asked, "Lambat lagi ke nak sampai?" and Rambo will say, "Sikit jer lagi dik, sikit jer. 5 minit. Tak tipu, 5 minit." And how on earth that I walked almost 20 minutes was his 5 minutes. I said to him, "Bang, jam rosak eh? Dari tadi 5 minit tak sampai-sampai pon!" 

This is serious. This Bukit Kutu was very steep. It was like I climbed a 140 degree steep hill. And what you need to persevere this task was you should really have enough stamina. Like seriously banyak gila stamina. I thought I had enough but I guessed I was wrong. This was my very first time going hiking. So, I do not have any expectation on how tired is tired and how difficult is difficult, till I tried it myself. Of course, Mr Boler already said, this will be tough, but yes, as I said I have no idea at all how tough is tough. 

Jida yang sentiasa lawa.

I think I should spill on this. I vomited at some point during the hiking. Rambo said I drank to much water and yet I did not dehydrated as much as I drank. So, I got a little 'semput' at my stomach. Haha. Thinking about it again, it was really funny, because all of my team-mates seemed worried and they asked me to pakai segala ubat, dari bam hingga minyak cap kapak. I said to them, I am okay and can move on. Rambo then asked Bob to carry my bag, which made my day. Come on, the bag was so heavy, 20 kg! But Bob said, "Eleh, ni pon berat? Kitorang selalu bawak yang 50 kg, tak da apa pon." Huh eksyen. Then I went, "Bagus lah, tolong pikulkan lama sikit ek." Hahaha. As we exchanged bag, I only carried his 500 g small bag. Yeay! 

But after enough rest, of course lah I carried my bag balik. I am not that weak. (*nak cover). During the journey to the top of the hill, we (our group) met a sweet old couple, we called them, the mighty pakcik and makcik. They maybe 50 or 60 years old maybe? But the fact that they still went hiking amazed me so much. The pakcik was very cool and kind. We joked along the journey. Whenever we met while we rest, I said to him,"Pakcik, kita kawan dua orang lah. Kita letih sama-sama yer." and he will laughed and said, "Kamu tu orang muda, patut lagi banyak stamina nya, Pak cik ni naik sikit je semput." And Jida will sambung, "Lebih kurang jer kita ni pakcik, kami ni dah nampak lagi semput daripada pakcik hah." He was so cool, that he always said, he let Makcik walked in front of him, so that if Makcik jatuh, he can sambut. So sweet. Hahaha. Unfortunately we had no pictures taken together with the couple.

One of our rest stop was a huge rock shaped like a cobra. When I said huge, it was humongous huge. 

Here, I felt like I already at the peak, I didn't know why but there were so many people resting here making me, "Yeay! Dah sampai!" till Tikah said, "Syifa, ni rest stop jer la". Uh.

See, there were so many not-Ky people when we reached here. I really thought
this was the peak. =.='

Bronze 9!

And we also sempat kejar, a Silver team tau. Sampai our guide, bragged, "Biar dorang pegi dulu lah, nanti kalau kita jalan dulu, malu pulak dorang nanti". And honestly I think, what made me still carry on walking and climbing was that I always believed to what Rambo and Bob said. If they said 5 minit lagi 5 minit lagi, then I said to myself, rite, 5 minutes more, sikit jer lagi. No matter how many times they tipu us, that brought us to the peak which was Subhanallah cantik.

We reached the peak!! 

Subhanallah. =)

Alysha, the model of the Bukit Kutu

They journey of going down the bukit was much more tougher. As I said,it was very curam kan. And we had to slide to go down. And we had to hold the trees around us so that we won't fall. There some of my friends who terkena duri when holding the trees. Luckily I didn't. But my tapak kasut tersangat-sangat lah tidak mencengkam tanah for the journey down the hill. I fell on the ground so many times, but not just me. All of my teammates jatuh banyak kali jugak. And everytime when one of us jatuh, all of us will burst into laughter. And I will say, "hah, gelak lah lagi gelak." HAHA. It was very funny. 

Thanked to Rambo, as he said he was with Mr Boler when he opened the new trail, so, he was a big help. He showed us the way out and leaded us like a pro. There was one time where there was a sarang peringat (insects like bee) in front of us, and Bob got bitten by it, he asked us to used the safer road so that non of us will get hurt. Baik tak? Okey, maybe I seemed exaggerating, but if you were in my shoes on the other day, you would know how baik they were.

Alhamdulillah. We were not even sesat, like D-uhhh.. And Alhamdulillah, we reached the kaki bukit at 6.45 pm which considered early. And it was not very dark at that time. Alhamdulillah. And I have this kinda guilty feeling in me, still have it today, that I forgot to say thank you to both Rambo and Bob. Because when we sampai di kaki bukit and saw Ky bus was already waiting, I became so excited, like "Ohmaigad ohmaigad, bas dah sampai!" And all of us just straightly went to the bus, totally forgot about our guide. Buruk betul perangai anak-anak dara ni. Then, we all felt so menyesal and bersalah about this. Mmm.. Apa-apapun, to Rambo and Bob, terima kasih weh. Sorry sakat korang jer kerja aku. Lepas tu banyak komplain itu ini semua. Hahaha (as if they read my post like memang tak lah)

Well, this was part 1. Wait till I collect the water rafting photos from Mr Boler for part 2. 

Bye bye.

Beautiful scenery as soon as we successfully turun from the hill. ^^

DOE Bronze 2013 teams

Diamond in the mud

Bismillah..

This a quick update from my Duke of Edinburgh Expedition Bronze Level.

Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah.

I can't say much more thank you to Allah swt, for letting me through this expedition with perseverance, joy and thankfulness. 

I went to two days expedition.

Day 1: Climbing a bukit. And then, went down the bukit. It was very curam and the tiredness of me to go against the gravity was so beyond what words can describe.

Day 2: water rafting expedition. Again, this was my first time. I am so damn afraid yet excited.

If non of you have know this, I have so-called phobias. The top on the lists are water and height. And can you make a general conclusion from my expedition? 

This was a remarkable experiences for me. I was enjoying myself. Alhamdulillah. Despite any difficulties, I do not experience any injuries except for my usual skin-allergic when it came to deal with well or river water. My skin got red spots but this time was not as serious as the trial expedition. Alhamdulillah.

Will talk more about it as soon as I got to collect all the pictures from my expedition.

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The peak of the bukit that I had climbed. Do you remember the scene from The Lion King where Mufasa  walked along the pride rock with Rafiqi and he got to see all of his kingdom? Yes, that was the feeling. Just Subhanallah.

Hari hari dapat hadiah

Bismillah

Alhamdulillah. Dah Jumaat lagi. Kejap jer.

The other day, I was listening to the manifestos by the upcoming housecapts of Sapphire and their vices when suddenly my phone vibrated,

"Syifa mu duk chalet ke?" -Husna 

I was like, jap lagi la balas. Then, after that I went to Surau to perform Isya' prayer. The election night lasted till 11. So I was not quite sure what was the time when I finished performing my solat at the surau. Then I went back to my chalet. Decided to stay up as I need to do my Biology paper 4. 

Tit tit tit *bunyi mesej

"Mu ada dop ni? -Husna

I was, ohmaigad, forgot to reply her text just now.

"Oh, tak ingat nak reply tadi. Baru balik. Bakpo?"

"Tunggu kedatanganku... =D"

?????? 

Dah lewat. Already 15 minutes after twelve and yet Husna were not asleep yet? Really? If I knew anyone who sleep early in Ky, Husna is one of them.

Then, she came to my room with a purple plastic bag with her and she was senyum-senyum like a kerang busuk. Scary. 

"Nah. Maaflaa lambat. Happy birthday."

She gave me a yellow-green bidang 55 tudung bawal. And a kinder bueno.

Hehehe~ I didn't see that coming. I mean, I always asked her to bring me some beautiful tudung to Ky because I want to buy them. But getting one for free was much more meaningful especially when it came from a sahabat. Alhamdulillah. And guess what, I wore the tudung today to the class and Husna noticed it during the breakfast today as we sat on the same table. Hihihi

Mushy mushy giler post aq ni. 

But I remembered when Adib (former president Muscom) quoted during our last Muscom meeting,

"Sentiasa lah berdamping dengan sahabat baik. Sahabat yang bila mana kita dengan mereka, kita akan selalu dekat dengan Allah dan sentiasa dirpeingatkan dengan ingatan yang baik. Andainya sudah bertemu dengan sahabat-sahabat seperti ini, maka berdoalah kepada Allah agar diperkukuhkan ukhwah yang terjalin."

I met lots of kind and amazing people here in KY. Being with them was always a blessing with me. Those majlis fikir, usrah, tazkirah, halaqah tajwid and malam muhasabah were never failed me to improve myself and to learn new things. Alhamdulillah. And I think the people below ware one of the greatest HADIAH that Allah had given to me. Not only for my birthday but for the rest of my life =')

Muscomers 2012/2013

Bismillahirahmanirahim...

Sahih International

And brought together their hearts. If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have brought their hearts together; but Allah brought them together. Indeed, He is Exalted in Might and Wise.

Malay

Dan (Dia lah) yang menyatu-padukan di antara hati mereka (yang beriman itu). Kalaulah engkau belanjakan segala (harta benda) yang ada di bumi, nescaya engkau tidak dapat juga menyatu-padukan di antara hati mereka, akan tetapi Allah telah menyatu-padukan di antara (hati) mereka. Sesungguhnya Ia Maha Kuasa, lagi Maha Bijaksana.

Al Anfal, 8:63

Although we already handed over our posts to the juniors, I knew that, the tarbiyah will never stop. And I with the God will, will never stop searching and searching. InsyaAllah.

p/s: Alysha, my chaletmate also just gave me Ferrero Rochers for my birthday. Thak you Alysha. =)

Iridescent

Bismillah

This is going to be a short post. I promise. I had lots of kerja rumah to be settled yet I am insisting to update this blog. Hehe

Well, guess what? Alhamdulillah, this petang, we, students of Kyuem had got our Kad Diskaun Siswa and RM 250 baucar buku (sorry la, budak-budak Ky lambat sikit dapat).. Best Best. And more good news that The BigBadWolf  Books will organised another aftermath sale and we can use our voucher! Hurrah. InsyaAllah, my friends and I are planning to go on trip to MIECC next week! Amin amin amin. May Allah makes ease our plan.

Nak tunjuk jugak.

And yeah, the actual point is, of course petang tadi we had to queue for a very long line which we ourselves did not sure whether we were on the right lane. Like I'm swear, panjang gila barisan tadi. Nabila was lined up behind me. While queuing, I was thinking of one thing. 

"Semua benda yang best kat dunia ni mesti kena tunggu dan ramai orang nak. Tapi kalau kita sabar dan yakin kita akan dapat, insyaAllah kita akan dapat jugak"

Do you get my point? Or maybe not.

Okey macam ini,

Dapat vouchers buku tu best kan? Semua orang nak. Dan aku pun dah beratur dah. Walaupun lambat menunggu dalam barisan, akhirnya aku dapat jugak. Then, I reflected it with what I've been through everyday once when I wake up. 'Bilalah nak dapat offer ni?' But when I realised, a small good thing such as the vouchers pun nak kena beratur panjang bagai, then apatah lagi dengan the big thing such as an offer yang beribu-ribu orang nak. So, the key point is be patient. Good things do not come easy. 

And Allah loves As-Sabirin (the patient ones.) 

(3:146)

A senior once told me that, "Wherever, whenever, you are, you always can find ibrah in everything even in a very very small things.' And Alhamdulillah, by living like that, I'll be calmer. Berbaik sangka dengan Allah. Dia punya segala isi di bumi dan di langit. We should be humble and ask from Him. Indeed He is the Most Giving. =)

Untalkative Bunny

Music: Lagu Kita by Aizat Amdan

Mood: Penat but I stay awake! Test S2 on Hypothesis Testing tomorrow.

A junior gave me this button badge for my belated birthday
Yeay! hehe.  Thank you miss RunsingRuncing!

Bismillah. Finally this is it, just now I had finished one very last Muscom meeting at surau. So, as our President had mentioned in the fb group, everyone must give final speech during the meeting, I was already cuak for days as I don't know what to say. I mean of course I would say 'sorry' and 'thank you' but is there anything that I would like to clarify? As expected, once I entered the surau, I already knew that the mood should be gloomy and melancholic. 

So, basically all of us, gave our own speech on how we learnt something and appreciate  Muscom. There were few times when I cucuk-cucuk Ain asking her what I am supposed to say. I ended writing some footnotes on my phone in case I am terribly lost!. Diyana said to me, 'Ala Syifa pandai cakap laa, tulis blog pon best jer', then I was like bermonolog dalaman 'Omaigad, she read my blog! Did I ever termengumpat her in my blog??' just kidding hehe. Any way, I replied to her, ' Eh tak sama la, kite tak pandai cakap. Dalam blog tu tulis bukan cakap, tak pe lah.' Yes, it is true. Most of the time I feel so comfortable spilling out all trashes in my mind in my blog since it is very convincing that no one would read my blog. Well, at least that is what I thought. So, here, in this very own page, I am more out-loud than I am in actual life or in facebook. 

Back to the topic, so in my amanat speech during the meeting, I mentioned that Muscom taught me to be more quiet and do not talk much especially in meetings. Yes, it did. I was a lousy, talkative girl back then when I was in high school and primary school. But when I came to Ky, I am a girl which is living in her own world. Hah. Tak da la samapai macam tu. But I am being different from the norm. It was a good thing actually as when you are quiet, you tend to learn more and hear more. Being observant does not make you an idiot but teach you to be more concerned on what are happening around you. Seriously.

Apaapapun, hand-over is on Thursday. Malam. Surau As-Saad. Do come. Eh, budak Ky jer la. Yana pun yang tengah baca tu, moh datang. Hehehe.

Conclusion, I am no good at confronting people. So, if you want me to express what I feel about you, do write them down or ask me on my Formspring

LOL

20

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Hah, tu dia cantik tak tarikh birthday I tahun ni. Alhamdulillah, bersempena dengan date tersebut saya, Syifa telah pun selamat menginjak ke umur yang lebih matang dan berangka 2 di hadapan. I am now a 20 years old girl/woman. 

Alhamdulillah syukur ke hadrat ilahi, di atas kurniaan kesihatan selama 20 tahun menyedut Oksigen di muka bumi ini. Entah cukup entah tidak segala amal nak dibawa mati... Apa apa pun, ucapan untuk diri sendiri,

"Semoga saya, sentiasa memperbaiki mutu ibadat dan tingkatkan kerajinan dalam study."

Thank you for all the wishes that I received from the fb, instagram and text messages. Amin amin amin, semoga dipermudahkan segala kebaikan. This year's birthday was the most happening birthday I ever had. I celebrated my birthday for three days back to back (not as I intend to) but it turned out I got to celebrate it with my high-school friends, college friends and family. Alhamdulillah. I am blessed. 

Special thanks to beloved high-school besties,

Paa, Imah, Nisa, Ainei, Mirah and Maryam

Dearest college-mates,

Amni, Amaaa, and Ulfah

Forever kesayangan, lovely family,

Umi, Abah, Kakyong, Danish. Kakcik, Adik, Abangman, Aboy, and Abg Ise

While waiting for Ainei. 

We randomly posed in Popular bookstore. LOL

High-school buddies. Classmates and dorm-mates

Amaa treated us wif the celup-tepung-snacks and air kelapa.

Danish did the honor blowing the candles for me.
Yes, I forced him to smile. hehe

Cake from Mirah, Paa and Imah. The cupcakes and Versus were from Maryam,
Bersyukur saat Diuji was from Imah. And the Teddy and ferrero were from
Umi and Abah.

The scarf was from Amni and my Abah gave me a new
spectacles! Yeay

Alhamdulillah.

May Allah grants me a new me, to become a better slave for him, who always be grateful for all the blessings that He had given me. For me to become a good daughter and a good friend to my friends. Amin ya Rabbal alamin..

=')

I'm Home

Hello,

I am very sorry, ever since I reached home, this is my first time of logging in to the blog. So little time, so many things to do.. 

I will update more about what is happening at home. =)

SetuaHujungNyawa

Status: Aq rasa ngantuk gila skang neh walaupon jam di tangan menunjukkan pukul 6.30 petang. Tak boleh tidur, malam ni episod last Setia Hujung Nyawa kotttt...

Bercakap tentang SSH, pagi tadi punya lah semangat aku bangun tidur awal-awal walaupun semalam tidur pukul 3 pagi, dan free block aku di hening pagi, aku sudah bergegas pergi ke bilik tv sbb casts of SSH akan muncul di MHI pada pukul 8.15. hehe.. Dan seusai kelas Bio, ada free block lagi, dan ke bilik tv lagi untuk tengok sekali lagi penampilan casts SSH di WHI pada pukul 12.30. Nampak tak ketaksuban melampau di situ. Buruk betul perangai aku. And this another syndrome of tak sabar nak balik rumah esok! Yeay! Oh ya, petang tadi pon ada live chat dengan Amar Asyraf dan Nelydia dekat portal tv3. Yang ni aku tak follow laa sebab banyak sangat dah aku membuang masa hari ni. Esok test taw tak! Taw tak! Dah jangan nak berangan tidur awal malam ni ek.

That's all, nak pegi dinner and terus ke tv room.

Sekali ni jer, episod akhir dah pun. 

Ok Bai.

A sip of break

Status: Being addicted to update the blog regularly although you have bertimbun-timbun homeworks and upcoming tests nearly is one of my symptoms of "oh mai gad, lusa nak balik rumah".And yes, I am in the mood of nak balik rumah. 

Music: Hall of Fame by The Script ft Will I Am.

Heloo people! (Does this sounded excited?)

Oh hoi, I just returned from the Manifesto Night of batch 15.0, well, the candidates for tonight are running for President like it is a must to be there. Both candidates were amazing, a round of applause for Zawani and Marina. I can't say much about it as I myself not really outspoken in college but I have a huge respect for those who brave enough to sit on the couch on the stage to present your manifestos. Well done.

Oh, I got a question coming in my inbox.

Some people (a person actually) asked me, why are you writing your posts in blog mostly in English? Do you use English that much in your daily activities? 

Well it is a brilliant question by the way, thank you for asking. My answer to that is, no, I do not frequently use English in my daily conversation with anyone or anybody. The point is there, I am not using it in my daily activities but yet I learn English for well,, since kindergarten. It is waste for not using it. So I use it in blog instead for the very least, yes I finally used it. Was that answering the question? Well, since I was in the primary school to secondary school, I live in Kelantan which is my mother-tongue language is not even a proper Malay, so what to expect, of course I used the dialect in my daily conversation. The chance to use English is probably wide opened since I came to Ky which people do use English. Then, I started to get use of conversing in English with my chaletmates as they use it and I need to. And I have to get band more that 7.5 for Ielts exam in order to fulfill the criterion of the medical schools in Uk and what not. Not forgetting that I have interviews with the medical schools which are then made me bear in mind that English is a serious matter. Other than that, I am just fine.

Next issues, have you heard about Galway Medical Symposium? I heard it when there were so many seniors posting about it on fb talking about going to Galway during the weekend to attend this event. And thanks to Kak Ain, she wrote notes during the event to be shared. Visit her blog here!

Other than that, I have had two lab experiments today. Chemistry for chromatography and Bio for testing for immobilized enzymes. And that shortened my blocks for today, 4 blocks burnt happily as I always love experiments!

Can't wait to go home. Yeayy!

Excalibur

Status: Coming back online after the Ky management decided to upgrade the speed of the wifi, well, I must say they did a very splendid job because before my room is always known for its quite fast wifi whereas I always got bunch of kawan-kawan bringing their laptops at my place just to online during the weekend, but now listen up girls, it gets more faster! Wiiihoooo~ It is a bad news for me actually because you know how much I regularly open up my lappy for no reasons. But somehow, Alhamdulillah. It is also a gift for me as laptop is my only companion when all of my chaletmates go back home every weekend.

Fuh, panjang kot status.

Oh well, I actually had finished watching Merlin season finale last week. And why am I not updating it? Because it was really sad.. I can't accept that King Arthur had to die after so many episodes that he and Merlin had gone through. And what's worse was I kept remembering the final plot and it was like stuck in my head for couple of days which was so annoyingly disturbing. And seeing King Arthur dying and said thank you to Merlin had touched my heart. Of course I was not crying, but it just so emotionally sad. Then, I browsed through the Merlin Bloopers in the youtube and watching at least Bradley James is still alive and healthy, that made me feel better. I guess this is the end of my journey as a fanatic and loyal fan of Merlin series. Good job by the way.

p/s: There was one time before when I really agreed that Bradley James looked quite similar to Andreiy Arshavin . And now, not so much because Arshavin had married. LOL.

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Good bye Bradley, Good bye Colin..

Do visit me in Ireland soon.

February Charm

Bismillah

Music: I've got a feeling

Status: I am going to read a novel that I borrowed from the library for my bedtime story tonight.

Friday. I love Friday. Penghulu segala hari. Meh meh, Surah Kahfi jom! Walaupun kadang-kadang terlupa, tertinggal, I hope to improve more and more for my ibadat.InsyaAllah...

As usual, all of my chaletmates had balik rumah as rumah they all dekat jer pun. Left alone in the chalet was not anymore a problem for me. Hihihi...

I rarely post pictures of my chalet am I?
Well here it is. Welcome. =)

Knock knock!

There are 4 rooms in one chalet. The front door leading
to toilet.

The common room for lepakking

This is my room. I always  change the arrangement. But
 end up with this.

In front.

Well, I had made a my very own formspring page Therefore is there any question, or something that you would like to ask me, just drop your questions. InsyaAllah, I try to answer them.

And for the shawls labuh fans, a friend of mine has zillions of them, Asmira the owner, so, visit here!

I already bought some of them and trust me, I love them. ^^

Till then, happy weekend!