Light & Easy Trip To Medan - Three Is Never A Crowd!

“In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.”― C.S. Lewis

We (myself, Zu & Fazni) had a fun-tastic trip to Medan on Jan 11th. I'd say this trip was one of the best weekend gateway I needed. A close friend of mine, Diklie used to say "great food, great company, great conversation" always make your day! Well, you could never go wrong there. It was indeed a very interesting 3-Days 2-Nights trip for three of us.

I had never imagined our unplanned trip could be as captivating as this but never doubt what your Creator has planned for you. Just go with it and see how it affects you and sometimes makes you see things differently and respect the differences of others, and without you even realize it you might change into a different person. 

In fact, that is how the process is done for you to be a better person. All you need to do is just give yourself some space to relax and rewind and let loose! 

THESE ARE WHAT I LEARNT AND BROUGHT BACK FROM MEDAN;

We, as human beings always make the mistakes of

i. judging others, thinking we are better crowd than them

ii. not respecting the unique differences others have, without realizing that we are sometimes also weirdos 

iii. not understanding why people behave the way they do, while claiming we are so much advanced in every aspects of lives and yet how shallow we become & lastly

iv. not giving ourselves the chance to get to know new people and jumping to the wrong conclusions, hence we end up missing a  lot of good things and new opportunities in life! 

So, boys and girls lets not make the same mistakes here
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lets layan some pics below

from left; merdeka walk (the food was not that good), kantor gubernur sumatera utara, kops pegawai republik indonesia building & masjid agung sumatera utara

food festival, we the hard-core makan trio enjoyed best the nelayan restaurant that serves variety of indonesian best foods - mission accomplished!

We stayed at Aryaduta Hotel which I booked through booking.com, the best and the cheapest hotel online booking. I wrote a review of the hotel at booking.com website that I'd like to share with you;

Last but never the least, many thanks to Datin's family and Kak Faridah especially for making our stay so pleasurable.

Nite world! love ya..

Don't Be Sad, That's How Life Works, You'll Just Have To Adapt!

"Don't be sad if Allah separates you from someone or something you love. If only we knew what His plans were for us, our hearts would melt with the warmth of His love".

Sometimes I really want to run. Run away from life. From the hurdles. From the sadness. From the pain. I just want it to go away. I felt so hopeless.

My dear friends, 

Tell me where is your happy place? 

When was the last time you laugh so hard that you had tears on your eyes?

And when was the last time you were so happy you could not stop smiling to yourself?

I can't remember when was mine.

Life is full of difficulties and obstacles. 

At times, we feel that life seems so difficult to take, to handle and to go through it. 

Sometimes, we ask why we have to face all these while others are living their happy fairy tales life.

I guess I have not been looking around much. I guess I must be blind sometimes. I guess I should pay more attention to what's around me to really see what pain is. Someone shared a joke that she cried nights and days over boots until she saw a man who had no legs. Funny as it might, it tells you something right?

Most of the times, we fail to realize that confronting and solving the problems, no matter how difficult they are, and how painful the process, it makes us grow.

La Tahzan! Innallaha Ma'ana.

Coping With Stress In Your Own Cute Ways

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.  For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." - unknown

Something funny happened yesterday. 

Overcoming stress was never my greatest strength. Enough said, it is no longer a mystery now why I have a high blood pressure. Some people are just so good dealing with stress (I define them as established stress-copers) and can be very calm and at ease as if they are just having a bad hair day. Me, I just have to be so dramatic about it and my stress day usually ends up with lots and lots of vomit, cramps, back pains and gassy stomach. Now tell me who can beat that?

Enough about that. Stress talking makes me more stressful and gassy! (mode:worried-running out of minyak angin mustika already).

I thought I can multitask. I even dare to brag to some people that I am good at multitasking. Because of my good multitasking skills, I thought I was an established stress-coper as well. Little that I know, I am not any of the above. Well, yesterday, as I was driving to school, my mind kept going back to the notes/slides that I read and trying so hard to memorize some of these Acts, Sections and Statutory stuffs. It was really so painful to my brain. Back to the story, as I was reaching the toll-gate, I took the Touch N Go and raised it to the toll-screen to pass. Well, well, guess what? The gate was not lifted. I was so confused I panicked because there were few cars behind. To make matter worse, there was no one at the toll-booth to consult. Not only I had enough to worry with the exam and now this had to happen of all times?? Allah Maha Besar, He made me realized that I have two good eyes to look at my hand and at what I was holding. Nope, not a Touch and Go but a 6-month old Samsung Galaxy SIII. Wasn't that funny? Didn't know that a phone could replace a Touch N Go these days. Guess, I must be getting slow with technology.

Now we can establish that I am not a good stress-coper. But as a multi-tasker I am yet to be proven.

What I'm getting at is, some people are just lucky because they do not have these after-effects of stress or the pre and post stress. But I do. Apart from the Toll-Gate story, I have had quite few others, of which, quite few occurred when I was driving. It must be true then what people said that we do most of our very own serious thinking while driving. Many times I realised that I have the tendency to speak to my own self aka cakap sorang-sorang and ask myself questions, by speaking I mean 'speak' with 'sound' like "jenab, please la dun la fall in love with that guy, he's a player la".

Another occurrence was few months back when I just had a midterm paper, which I knew I did so bad. I drove home feeling unhappy and miserable. Now, please be informed everyone that I did not end up at home but I took extra long miles and reached Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Totally missed the exit to BSP (where home is) and happily drove to KLIA. What a hopeless loser!

I guess stress poses a challenge and sometimes a threat to our well-being. Sometimes it can be good because it gets us going. Furthermore, without any stress at all, our lives would be boring and would probably feel pointless. Don't you agree? However, please be on your guard when dealing with the stresses because sometimes they can undermine both our mental and physical health. This is when stress is bad.

Do you know that back pain is a very common complaint among adults. One research in the USA found that 80% of all Americans will have low back pain at least once in their lives. In fact, back pain is a common reason for absence from work, or visiting the doctor's. But do not to0 worry, although back pain may be painful and uncomfortable, it is not usually serious. Even though back pain can affect people of any age, it is significantly more common among adults aged between 35 and 55 years. Are we in that age category already?? Well, though it sucks but I am embracing it, loving every minute of this blissful life Allah has given me. Alhamdulillah.

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Yet, Another New Year Resolution?

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” - Oprah Winfrey

It it really necessary to have at least one good new year resolution? I dunno about that but let me tell you this my friends, in my 38 years of living (38 years? really? yeah..guess I am a little bit ancient now), I've never had a successful new year resolution! Never, not even once. So, told me myself, stop making all these resolutions, not going to make it, just a waste of time. Wow..so hard on yourself, aren't you?

Some of the resolutions I used to have like all other normal female beings are :-

1. to lose weights (top in the list, never got off the list)

2. to practice more disciplines in life

3. to save more money

4. to learn foreign languages

5. to read more (not just reading all those romance novel please!!)

Well, like I said, none has been successful so far. They all have a long way to go. 

I, however promise to myself, not a resolution but a promise that, this year, despite my great failures from previous years resolutions, I just want to be a better person, a daughter who could spend more times with my aging parents, a good friend to those who matter (you know who you are), a supporter of any good campaigns and lastly a strong believer in justice for Palestinians. Peace!

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.” - John Selden 

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Studying Vs Blogging

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Faktor usia kadang tu membuatkan kita kurang rajin nak membaca atau lebih tepat menghafal untuk apa-apa sekalipun terutamanya untuk exam. Rasanya takde sapa kot suke menghafal. Sistem pembelajaran kita patutnya lebih fokus kepada pemahaman rather than memorising. Even kat universiti pun ada courses yang bukan main banyak nak kena hafal. Nak abiskan membaca satu hal, nak menghafal lagi satu hal. Tak pasal-pasal dua hal ko! Ni cerita master level bukan first degree you! Tapi kan apo nok buek, dah sapa suruh masuk skoloh balik di saat uban mula belajar nak muncul. Tipu la tu..walhal dah beratus uban kek kepalo!

Mau lebam mata nak abiskan buku ni.
Prof pun tak kesian kat kita, sikit tips pun tak kasi.

Nak citer sebenarnya minggu ni study week sebab aku ada dua papers this week. Tonite plannya nak study, tapi tu la kan tetiba je jiwang karat nak menulis, memblog konon. Tak nak kalah tu, orang lain tulis blog ko pun nak tulis sama. Walhal esok lusa ko nak final exam. Pahtu masa tu pulak idea ko nak memblog datang ye?

Rasanya aku kena insaf dahulu buat masa ni. Kena kembali ke alam realiti sebab esok nak gi UPM awal, plannya nak gi study kat library. Tengoklah sejauh mana plan tu berjaya. 

Nite all.

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ― Beverly Sills

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