MTQ.

Nasyid performance, they were quite good. One sounded like the

vocal lead in errrr, a nasyid group I couldn't remember, eheh.

Salam allo. Well, yesterday was the day. You know, the tilawah competition thing I've spoke of. First, after telling me good luck and such, Baba dropped me off at SMK2 (they're having their sports day!) where I supposed to meet Ustazah Roziah. After that, the contestants of which me participating in tilawah and Faiz, syarahan for our school and Filzah, hafazan for her school, ustazah and her husband (teacher of SMK2) embarked to the competition. So it's basically two schools were going to the same competition, ironically, because the teachers/chaperones are husband and wife! :D

Well to make the story really short, it was the time of the results. Or so we thought. The tilawah-ans finished early at about 10, and then we have to wait for the other contestants of other categories to finish and the "tuan rumah" to sort everything out and such. Which is about oh, two hours. We talked, fidgeted in our seats, listened to nasyid songs (Sami Yusuf! :D) and singing along "lip-syncing" the lyrics and such, well except for my friend, Siti Rafidah, who particularly favoured Haddad Alwi's "Ummi" of which reminded me of Airina. ehek. My friend of the previous competition, Fatin was quiet, perhaps because of nervousness.

Ok, so much for shortness, it's the time of the time. Our nervousness were slowly engulfing our very selves (dramatikus enggak?) as they announced the winners for the primary school categories. Well, to be honest, except me, because I didn't hold ANY expectations. I even said to Siti, "Kak cop saguhati! mwahaha." Well, particularly because, everyone will get prizes, so I had my dibs on the consolation prize. Then, came the time. After the tilawah guys, it's the girls' turn. They announced the third place.

Biar betik. I think I was paralyzed for two seconds. I think. My bag was on my lap, and I quickly got up and put it on the chair. It fell horizontally on the chair, so I put it back vertically. I apologized to the people of which I've to pass through in order to get out from the row. My head down, I walked to the stage of which I think was very far. All in all, I think I was the slowest of all to pick up the piala and certificate. It felt so weird.

But all in all, alhamdulilah. Siti Rafidah got the the second, and Fatin got the first! And Fatin's going to the peringkat negeri! Tahniah! :D Although I'm still in disbelief mainly because it was in a very short notice and I don't know any lagu tarannum unlike the other contestants, you know, the Baiyati, Hijaz and such. I only relied on tajwid lessons from Tok Abah of which he gave me if he visited or we visited him these years and Ustazah Sarina's weekly Quran lessons too, Cumie's recital record, watching youtube videos and hope to Allah. Nevertheless, I'm veeery grateful, and thanks so much to my parents, Cumie who sent me the recording of her recital, my family, ustazah and my friends. May Allah always bless you :D

Rare opportunity.

Salam allo. During maghrib yesterday I've received an unexpected news from ustazah. Remember that I told you that I participated in the Tilawah (Quran recital) competition last two weeks? And that the top three is going to the next level? Well, the first runner-up had transferred, so since I was fourth, I've got to take her place! In such a short notice, plus! But never mind, I've got to see my new-found friend, Fatin again! (of which she got the first place) Sincerely and honestly, I'm seriously no good at all in this area. It's just for the sake of interest and trying that I decided to represent the school in this, besides, there aren't any volunteers, so I thought, why not? My grandfather, Tok Bah and my auntie, Cumie are experts in this area, and because my Tok Abah is 500 km away, so I asked for my auntie's help. She accepted though insyaallah, only by sending records of her recital, but I'm grateful nevertheless. Though my intention is only to recite the Quran. And perhaps because winning is reheeelly out of reach. ehakehak. Though of course, I'm still nervous about that but thanks to words of encouragement from my parents, my friends, ustazah and my auntie, insyaallah I'd get through with it! :D Ajaa hwaiting!

P/S: I found out that I totally suck at folding up those little paper stars for Yap Hui Ling's birthday today. ehek.

A mixture of everything.

Salam allo :) I've been postponing a lot of blog posts lately. First, the very fact that opposes to what I wrote on the previous post. The fact that I didn't enter the 1500m race because it's for guys and the 800m race is for girls. But I didn't participate in the 800m race because of the fact that I've to run the short-distance races anyway because En. Vicky forgot to cancel my name. My situation is a wee bit like Farah Azia's too but we just go on with it anyway. The fact that I tripped when the baton was passed on to me. And the fact that Alya still haven't emailed me the pictures on Sports Day! eheh. Wokeh, done.

Oh yeah, and the post of where I've been to Kuala Gandah and Deerland with my family early this month. It was very fun :D I've got hold on a snake, and stood a mere meter to a bear! The next is my Tilawah competition (and also my sister, Arissa's 2nd birthday 'celebration' :D) Man, I didn't expect to get any chance at all. But of course, when they announced the top three, I never expected my name to be on the list, nor that it did. Because my real intention was to recite the Quran and not to win or anything of the sort. But then ustazah told me the next day that I got fourth! Which was VERRRY near to achieving the third place (and thus to represent the district)! Hmm, there's a slight oddness of repetition in this sentence but moving on. Whoaa, I mean, I expected the last place or something! Really, I did! Albeit it all, Alhamdulillah :)

I really began to think of my 'lucky number' four. If you think of it, it's an overlooked number. I mean, if I've possibly retrieved the top three, I might probably began to think a wee bit too full of myself and thus won't make an effort as much. In my opinionlah, but it doesn't apply to all people. But of course, I'm not the most experienced of all people in this area so how should I know how it feels? -.- Moving on. And if I've got the place of the few-favoured, I admit, for me, perhaps I'd be losing a tinge of hope but though I'd still be trying hard. But, number four, in my opinion, ignites a bit of hope into you or something. You know? But of course, it goes differently for all people :) Moving on. Thirdly, of Syafiqah's birthday party yesterday. It was fun and I hope you liked your present! :D

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And now that's all done, I want to tell you about this enchanting book. A book called 'The Girl Who Could Fly' by Victoria Forester.

"It's the oddest/sweetest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men. I was smiling the whole time (except for the part where I cried). I gave it to my mom, and I'm reading it to my kids - it's absolutely multigenerational. Prepare to have your heart warmed."

~ Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga

It really is one of the best novels I've read. It starts pretty slow at the beginning and begin to pace towards the end. In originality, I'm not so sure much about that because I haven't exactly read a thousand books to talk about originality to be honest, but it was very entertaining, warm, it's got some laugh-out-loud unexpected moments and all. Sure it got some flaws at some point, but my view of it was quickly retracted at the great ending.

For the covers, I loved the one in the left, where a woman holds on to a girl's legs (and her dear life) in mid-air which kind of exudes a bit of sci-fi and action while the other one with the blue cover looks like a drama novel. And that blue cover's mine, ironically. Actually, I was attracted to the book because of Stephenie Meyer's review on the cover. I had faith because of that and for the reason where Stephenie Meyer also reviewed The Hunger Games series (by Suzanne Collins) which are some of the best novels I've read. Though ironically, again, I didn't read the Twilight series nor did I enjoy excessively of the Twilight movies (only a bit).

I can't tell you much about the novel for the fear of giving its best points away. But it's a mixture of everything (which is what I wasn't expecting) and all. For my friends, yes, you can borrow this book but if you're not and just a random blog-hopper (haha :P), just go to MPH or somewhere and buy it! It's worth a read.

Ramble ramble.

Salam allo! :D Aiyayaa it's the time of the year. Again. One of my most un-preffered days. SPORTS DAY which is going to be tomorrow. The adrenaline rush sensation sometimes would be too hard for me to bear. I absolutely detest the sound of the... POOF KAPAPOWW pistol thingy and "On your mark, get set, go!" remark. No really, it doesn't coincide with the fact that I'd always get number four (out of eight) which was VERRRY near to achieving the third place (and thus the medal, ehakk). Or sometimes fifth. Sometimes. Once or twice.

Same goes for long jump though but I love long jump. It's really fun to do :D But this year, I decided to go ahead with the 1500m race. I pretty much knew that I'm a WEE bit better at long distance that short distance, but somehow, I never got the chance or perhaps, come to the decision to participate in the long distance race. Wokeehh, I admit, I actually was attracted to the idea of what Amirah told me sometime last week. When Amirah's elder sister, Nadiah participated in it last year or the year before, she could get out of the race when she was really tired and forfeited! Or something like that, I think. Isn't that awesome! :D

So, instead of running for two or three short distance race this year, I might as well go with one and long distance is not stressful, too. Though I'm not sure about forfeiting though. I mean, if I took a whiff of someone very de kurang ajar holding a hamburger and passing through this is my last sports day. Ahh never mind, I'll try my best, I suppose.

Ohh I hope Mr Vicky remembered to cancel my name for the short distance race though.. Ah well, gotta go now. And I'm going with Alya tomorrow and I really hope that we could finish decorating the sepanduk for Puteri Islam kawad tomorrow!

Me Casa Alone-s!

Salam, allo. Ahh missed my blog oredi. I haven't updated for a week. Aiyoyaa my legs are fatigued! But, I'll check up on that later. Yesterday, after home from co-curricular activities, I found that I'm...

HOME ALONE!

(me casa alones!)

errrr.

Wohoooo. (not that this is the first timelah) And just guess where my family went? MID VALLEY! And they called me and teased me and everything, they even went to MPH! This is the second (and consecutively) time that I was left out from Lembah Tengah (erk, Mid Valley la. cis.) trip. The first because I was at Amirah's discussing on the oral test thing.

So I suddenly remembered that I promised Alya that I'd teach her some Adobe Photoshop techniques. To cut the story short, I went to her house (which is about 120 metres away) invited by Alya for some spaghetti! Yum yum it was delicious! So I wasn't exactly home alone after all ehek. Then we embarked on a journey to went to my house for some photoshopping. My family then returned and showed me their newly-bought books. Counting books, story books, ibadah books and an SPM Add Maths reference book for me, perhaps to ease my heartbreak (and not my anxiety), ehekehek.

Back to the fatigued leg, we had long jump sports today. I represented blue house in my category as always. NOT because I'm a Galina Chistyavoka, that's to be guaranteed, eheh. So it was me, Amirah, Aishah, Mariyam, Tze Jean, Kah Yee and Daneeta. Guess who's Top 4 and qualified for finals? Me and Amirah, Aishah and Mariyam! It's a bit awkward since we're friends and competing against each other. But as always, I got the fourth place in long jump for 3 consecutive years (except for one year I think). But, I don't mind really. It's about the sportsmanship. Congrats to Amirah, Aishah and Mariyam, btw! :D With that calories lost, I need to stack up on more!

Those who are eager willing to spend me five packets of nasi lemak, ikan patin masak lemak, santan KARA lemak berkrim or anything that has a word 'lemak' in its name, a whole dish of butter prawns,two boxes of 18-inch pizzas, a carton of chocolate ice-cream goodness, another carton of pistachio ice-cream, should could enquire me for further details. Thank you.

Semak ranjer.

Salam, allo! Last Friday the Semak Ranjer committee (SMART ranger laa.. ini Pn Faizah punya pasal la nih :P) gathered at school to do Smart Ranger things lah. One of the activities planned was planting plants to err, something about carbon footprints. Camni, all the amount of solid waste produced by the school (in two months I think) is recorded and from that, the carbon dioxide that's released is calculated. From that we can determine how much plants we've to plant. Kalau tak silap la.. Err, senang senang, let the pictures do the talking :D

And hey, guess what! I'm 'featured' at the website! My back, that is. Ceh.

And the picture below too! HAHA :P Untuk menjamin ke-eksklusif-an kot. Mwahaha.

Ha tengok! Kan betol!

Hazirah & Zaheen "bergosip" sambil tgh isi tanah & baja ke dlm beg poli :P

Ayra & Toyyibah (form 2) pun tekun jgak

From left: Amir, Zaheen, Hanif & Alex tgh gembur

tanah. Pak Cik Manan tu tengok aje ke? Haha :P

Ini hanya lakonan semata-mata dan tidak ada kaitan

antara yg wat keja atau yg tak wat keje. Mwahaha :P

Sebenarnya, kebenaran yg benar-benarnya,

ambo pown action jgak. Kuikuikuikui..

"Everything depends on your heart."

Salam, allo. WOW. I haven't been updating for three weeks? whaa. Well this past week has been quite hectic with the English oral test (thanks to Amirah for preparing it while I was at camp :D) and trying to finish our Sejarah project and the school's effort to trying to impress a exchange student from Japan. Ha, just kidding. Well I hope the school's not doing the gotong-royong just for that. I hope. Ok.

Anyhoo, on Sunday last week on the 26th I was back from a camp. During this period, I haven't met my parents and family and friends for exactly 75 hours 3 minutes and 15 seconds.. Well the minutes and seconds I'm not sure but it does sound cool, right? Whatever. Moving on. And the camp's been a great experience, it teaches me a lot of things.

And more importantly, it teaches me that you will have something to learn everyday. No one is perfect, no one knows the contents of everything in this world except for Allah. You will always have something new to learn. I learned to never take things for granted. I also learned that everything depends on your heart. We may been brought up differently, we may grow in different surroundings, we may live with different types of people, but it all depends on your heart to bring about a change to yourself. You control yourself, and no one else. InsyaAllah, with Allah's will, we can all change. We're not being hypocrites, just trying to be better people. Well, I stole this statement from last night's episode of Nur Kasih. But never mind that, I learned the same thing. haha.

Putting that aside, I was really happy to meet with my loved ones :) But the camp was quite fun, too. There was jungle trekking, cooking in the woods, drinking the sweet cool water from the river, the water-confident activity in the wee lake, qiyammulail and all. And other heaps of things that teaches me lessons of life. Although I didn't know anyone there at first, we soon become friends although I've lost contact of them :( Well, it was a certainly a great experience but I don't know if I can withstand another trip away from my parents again.. hehe.

The whisper.

A whisper.

Salam, allo.

Went to a place with my friends yesterday.

That place now become one of my favourites in the world.

It's amazing to think how it can cast beautiful memories and tears at the same time.

Curious? HAHA, I'd like to tell you but I guess it'll have to wait until I can get the pictures to further 'compliment' the story. Not sure when, though. InsyaAllah, I'll post the story sooner or later :)

Salam, allo. Remember the post above thirteen days ago? Well the place I've went to fourteen days ago (on 20th June) was to Yayasan Penyayang Bakti. Untuk assignment sivik, kitaorg kena buat amal kebajikan kepada masyarakat, so cikgu putuskan kitaorang buat kat sana. The day started off with speeches, performances and assigning the tasks. Sapu sini sapu sana, ada yang pi siram pokok bla bla bla.

Kitaorang tengah menyapu kat sebelah satu rumah ni, pastu ada sorang budak panggil kitaorang suruh kitaorg masuk ke dlm rumah dia. Mula-mula kitaorg menolak, takut ganggu diaorg (dan err, takut kena marah ngan cikgu ke apa), pastu ramai lagi bebudak muncul kat pintu rumah tu. Then the caretaker appeared and said it's okay, and asked us to go inside.

So we did. Memang bes meluangkan masa dgn bebudak tu, dengan telatah diaorang yg lawak tuh :D Memang banyak karenah btol. They looked so happy and exultant and not a care in the world. All of them are super close so I guess, that's why they didn't feel so lonely. We took a lot of pictures. A LOT. Seriously. We also posed Spiderman style and all x) But, I didn't post them up for their privacy, I guess.

Most of them asked for our handphones and cameras and they took pictures, played some games and yeah, listening to songs. Whose songs? Siti Nurhaliza. Really. So Hazirah is more than pleased to play the songs x) haha. Then a girl named Aina asked for my phone to listen to some music. Tatau la nak pasang lagu apa sebab dia mintak lagu Adam. Mana aku minat mamat tu x)

Sy cuma ada lagu English, lagu Melayu yang lama-lama dan bbrp lagu nasyid aje. So bagilah dia dgr lagu nasyid, haha. Kitaorg gaduh manja dengan budak bernama Fatin ni sebab dia tak mau bagi lollipop. Hahahak :P Pastu semua org mau dukung dua beranak ni, Hidayah & Adam, bdk2 yg plg kecik kat rumah tu. Diaorg dua ni cucu penjaga.

Our friends gave them a lot of lollipops. Jadi, sepanjang kitaorang dok sana, upacara membuka balutan plastik lollipop sudah menjadi perkara biasa. Fatin asked me to open the lollipop wrapper for her, so I said:

"Dah masuk tiga kali suruh akak buka ni. Banyaknya mkn gula-gula. Rosak gigi kang. Gosok gigi tak?"

"Gosoklah."

"Bila gosok gigi?"

"Malam."

"Malam je ke?"

"Ha'ah.. Nanti takut ubat gigi habis cepat."

I was taken aback when I heard that. Then I realized behind those happy faces lies a story. Although they have some money, they have to use them sparingly and wisely. Unlike us. Then a girl asked Hazirah if she can buy her a handphone :P Hazirah said she should buy her own with her own money that she earned and she should study hard for it. Unlike us. We can afford to buy necessities and some things other than necessities, but we often took it for granted. Others would sacrifice anything just for a scrap of food and they would work hard for it. Unlike us. So we learned a lot of things that day. Who would've known, that a child can teach you priceless things?

Then it was time to go home. I told Aina, the girl who was playing with my phone that I had to go back.

"Akak balik dulu eh."

"Ok."

Then she went to me and cup her hands to my ear and whispered,

"Akak, akak datang hari Ahad. (keesokan harinya) Nanti akak belikan jam untuk Aina eh."

I almost shed tears at the time. I know I can't but I just smiled and said insyaAllah. InsyaAllah, Aina.

Kitaorg bercadang nak pergi rumah warga emas pulak, tapi diaorg baru lepas exercise, jadi tak laratlah nak layan kitaorg :P Hehe, takpe. On the way back to the place to gather and to have lunch, we shared stories of our experiences at that home. Tadi, yang lain kena interview caretaker rumah tu, yakni, Mak Cik Sabihah while the others and I tend to the children. Alya and Hidayah told us things that they knew and learned while interviewing MC Sabihah. I was crestfallen when I heard what they had to say :( Although, I just want to leave it to that for there are private matters involved.

Then it was time to go home. So, I guess, we learned a lot of things at that small, humble home. That day was a priceless experience. Jikalau ada rezeki, kami akan lawat adik-adik kitaorg lagi, insyaAllah.

P/S: I dunno why all of my pictures here is me showing the peace sign. HAHAHAK. Kecuali yg gambar anak mithali tgh sapu sampah tu. Haha, mithali la sgt :P

Aku SMART.

Salam, allo.

Tanggal 17 Jun hari tu, 20 org murid skolah sy dipilih untuk mewakili sekolah jadi ahli SMART Rangers. Title nye tu bukannya apa, SMART di sini maksudnye Start Managing All Resources Today. Mwahaha. Ohye, saya (lari drpd citer kejap) berasa amat bangga kerana kekawan sy sudah ada ura-ura mempraktikkan loghat Kelate! Bangga btol ngan korang. Iskiskisk. Terasa sebak di hati pulak.

Back to the story. Err.. Korang tengok aje la kat sini: http://smartranger.net/, maleh nak citer apa benda SMART rangers tu sebenar-benarnya. Sebenarnya nak tunjuk video ni je sebenar-benarnya. Kitaorg tgk video ni kat program SMART rangers tu lah. Luangkanlah sedikit masa utk tgk video ni. InsyaAllah ada manfaatnya. Dipersilakan: