Unnecessary update. :P

Hey hey!

It has been quite a while since I post anything up here.
Sorry for that. Therefore, I am making up to you readers (if there are any) of what I have been up to during my absence from blogging.

Nothing interesting, really. Just normal student stuff.

What? Do you want something abnormal? 

Well, Steve the Stag has landed in Surrey! Run away for your life!!!

Meet Steve!

Okay, that is a terrible joke. =_="

Anyway, to start off my uninteresting adventure for this past weeks; I am declaring myself to be a permanent visitor to the Surrey Sports Park! I am taking my "getting to back to my ideal weight" and "staying fit" program seriously. My progress so far is not that bad. I have been visiting the gym at least once a day. Yeah, I have few days off for rest. I cannot possibly go to the gym everyday, I could die of fatigue. I also have discovered that I may need to alternate my routine with some swimming session. Gym is not that interesting for me but I must admit, I am getting addicted to it. No wonder those body builders are sooooooooooooooooooo obsess with going to the gym. I get it now.

Apart from that, I have received all the results for my first round of tests and presentation. All went well. Better than expected. Getting a pass for these modules may not be a problem. Getting first class might be close to impossible but I will still try to do what I can for it. ;)

Oh! Before I forget, yesterday, Saturday, 24th of November 2012. MSS had a program called "Ilmu Teras Penghijrahan" for Maal Hijrah celebration. Oh gosh, some of you do not even know what the words in the inverted coma means huh? haha. It just means education is the core for transformation. Okay, I just did a direct translation on it. Nevertheless it do have a similar meaning to what I am talking about. Enough about that. 

During the program, they screened an Indonesian Movie titled.... Okay, I forgot. It is a definitely funny and interesting movie, closely related to the program. Afterwards, they had some quiz going on related to the movie and guess what? I got one of the answers right and won myself a prize. Yeay me! haha. They even throw a lucky draw. Oh you do not have to guess this one. Let just say I am lucky and won a prize for that as well. haha. Beginner's luck? :) I guess so.
As usual, MSS events has never failed to provide us with lots of fantastic food. Yes, we Malaysian like food very much. If you happens to be attending any one day program organised by Malaysian committee, do expect to eat at least 6 times a day. ;)

Pictures credit to MSS Webpage

Meet the audience

We, who love food very much!

The (1/2) committee members (me not included)

During the quiz session

Candid much?

Haha, I don't know how to explain this one. :P

Oh oh!!! Now before I leave, here is a good news. I watched Breaking Dawn 2 last week (this is not the news) and I ate a mushroom and cheese grilled sandwich bought from Costa. I really wanted to recreate the sandwich on my own. Hence, I bought all the stuff to make it and after hours of searching on the internet for the recipe, I finally made one! ON MY OWN! The taste? Almost similar to the one I ate in costa or perhaps, better? hehe...

My successful Mushroom & Cheese Sandwich

Okay, that is it people!

Sorry for any grammatical or spelling mistakes made. I am still learning English. :)

p/s: Tomorrow for Spanish Class, we were required to draw a house for the lesson and here is my drawing, excellent isn't it? :D

Mi Casa

Nottingham Games 2012

Salam everyone. :)

Yesterday, 10th of November 2012, Saturday, was the day of the annual Malaysian Nottingham Games. Me and some other represented my university, Surrey, for Netball. :D
Surrey contingent consist of players from netball, football, scrabble, frisbee, badminton, and batu seremban & congkak (Malaysia's traditional games).

Picture credit to MSS Webpage

The whole Surrey Sports Contingent

It was a long, tiring day. We depart from Surrey around 3-4am in the morning and arrived in Nottingham before 7am. We did stop in the middle of the journey for toilet breaks and Subuh prayers. I do not really like to sit at the front part of the bus, it makes me dizzy. Unfortunately I drank milk before departing so I kinda feels like throwing up a lot (though I did not). It was not a very desirable condition to be in, considering I need to sleep as well before starting to play any netball. However, everything went better than expected because as soon as we arrived, I met lots and lots of friends from KDU and I straight away became energetic again. haha. :D

The playful Netball team all dressed in
Pink sweaters and grey pants.

Anyways, I am only gonna tell this story from a netballer's point of view since we did not even have time to stroll around to other people's game place (fyi, we did not win any medal for Surrey). The netball game was divided into 2 groups, each requiring us to have 7 matches in total, confronting other teams from various universities. Our first game was horrible. =_=" We loss big time against LSE. And if I am not mistaken, LSE rank 1st or 2nd on the overall game. Our second game was better though. We won against Manchester's team (one of the strongest team playing) oh and did we not feel contended. hehe... And we lose and win some other games. But playing 7 matches just for preliminary round really was exhausting. By the 5th game, we just wanted to get it over with and eat lunch for our sake. We have no intention at all to even go into the quarter-finals, which we did not of course.

5 satay sticks for GBP5. Expensive!

Overall, it was a very unforgettable experience. We were not under pressure to win or whatever, what we wanted to do was just to play and do our best and that is just what we did. Almost every match is like a friendly match to us. Competitive? Yes, but we also make friends while playing and it was such a great feeling to have bonded the way we did although we did not win over them. haha. Cliche? That is just how it is.

After the game, we made our way for prayers and finally ate our lunch. It was disappointing though. There were not many food stalls open and the foods run out pretty quick. The event was supposed to end at 7 but by 4pm, everything was closed and we were even chased out by the guards. >_<
The organisers should be more alert with all these things. For me, being here for the first time, they really made a bad impression. I hope they improve by next year. I would love to experience the REAL Nottingham Games that everyone was so proud of.

Nevertheless, the game was over and we all made our way home. Arrived back in Surrey before 11pm and everyone was completely drained. It was cold too. As soon as I reached home, I did what I needed to do and straight to bed. haaaa, the best feeling ever! haha.

Well, that is it I guess. Enjoy some of the pictures taken when I was there!

Me and with my high school classmate! 

KDU-ians

Meet my two-year roommate back in KDU

I have nothing else to share except say how grateful I am to have met all my friends all around UK over there. A very nice event for a gathering. haha. :D

Later!

MSS Eid Celebration 2012

Assalamualaikum. :)

Well, how are you doing?
I hope all is well.

So, last saturday, The Malaysian (Student) Society known as MSS had a not so little Eid Celebration. As mention before this, I promised to update on this didn't I. :D

Picture credit to MSS Webpage

The event went well, at least from my view. Me and Ika was a bit (a bit?) late so we went to the children nursery place instead of the real venue and waited until all the formal stuff ends. Haha. It was fun though, taking care of kids. I must admit, I am not really good handling children. I don't know how to actually take care of them. What I do know is to play with them. Yeah, I usually join the cycle not watch over it. ;D I'm still young at heart you know.

It was also my first time ever feeling comfortable holding a baby. I got a really bad experience with baby before this. So, Alam & K.Bella! I can get a babysitter job next year right? haha.

Well, apart from that, after the "Formal" event finished, we make our way to the main venue for some other informal stuff. Oh wait! But first, I need to tell you about the cooking which happened before it. :D

The not so
"Ayam masak merah"

Guildford court or more precisely, the Compton house participated in the cooking for eid celebration. We had to cook for 30 people! We can't even cook our own food properly, what more to cook for other people? Nevertheless, we nailed it! Yeah, me, Ika, and Judith. Close enough. Initially, we wanted to cook "Ayam masak merah" which is some sort of chicken dish which is spicy and sour at the same time (red coloured) but I have no idea what happened, it turned out to be a completely different dish. haha. It tasted good though. Still proud of the successful failure. Not to mention we had to cooked it in such a limited time. From my previous post, you can see that me and my flatmates were having a small party, yeah it dragged to almost 1am. So, the cooking process could only be done afterwards. We end up sleeping at somewhere around 4 in the morning. (",) Does this explain why we were late to the event? hee'

My proudly "Pengat Pisang"

On the morning itself, I woke up pretty early after only 2 hours of sleep to cook "Pengat Pisang" (banana something). It was my first attempt, only guided by tips (not even a proper portion of ingredients- only used a hunch) given by my family and I managed to complete it. MY FIRST TIME EVER!! I don't ever know we had that dish before back in my home. We used to eat it at Leha's. Do not really remember ever eating it or making it at home though. (",)

Excited me holding my prize.

Okay, back to the main topic. We went to the main venue, and it was time for price giving ceremony for certain competition. I won the dessert competition with my Pengat Pisang. haha. What a shocker! Beginner's luck huh. Initially, I had no intention to enter the competition, I really wanted to just contribute some dessert for the event. They only announced that there is a competition after I have bought the ingredients. So, I say, why not. Pretty excited though. :D

After that, we continued for lunch. It was time for our chicken dish to shine. haha. I, myself did not eat my dish. Of course I would want to try other people's dish. Like duhhh. The event continues, etc etc, and it was time for photography session. My most favourite part of any event apart from food. Snap snap, yada yada yada, okay done. That is it.

Haha, I have nothing more to share with you except tells you that being a part of Malaysian society here, abroad, really increases my patriotism towards my own country. Enough said.

Here are some of the pictures as a result from forcing people to take our picture. haha. ENJOY!

By the way, if you really want to get to know our (Malaysian) culture, you must try the food. A note to you, food is the best thing to bring us Malaysians together. Hey, we do have varieties of them. Not to forget, if you want to try some, be aware of the Malaysian Delicacies competition here in Surrey on the 18th of November 2012. Get your chance to taste some of our greatness!

Perfect flatmates.

Halo peeps!

This past week has been seriously exciting for me and all thanks to my awesome flatmates. :)

They really make Compton house feels like home. Of course, people who visited my flats were all jealous. haha. :P

No, the guy in the middle is not our flatmates -
he's an extraordinary addition.

While waiting for food

The kitchen is our sanctuary place. A place where everything is possible. Mysterious huh? Basically, our kitchen can change into almost any place, except for the toilet of course. haha. It can be really quiete at times but most of the time it is very loud.

Enough with describing our kitchen, let me tell you how great they(we) really are. ;)

So, last week, there were two birthday girls from our flat. Jessica and Nyasha. I am sorry to tell this, but I did not join the birthday celebration for Jessica - too busy in the library searching for essay source which I end up not using after all. Sorry Jessica! 

Never again

Next, we had Nyasha birthday celebration in TGI Friday. Considering the fact that it is a nice place to be celebrating birthday (not to mention expensive too), most of us did not eat dinner to save some you know what space for food. TGI everywhere around the world is really slow with their service I guess. We were all starving waiting for our food that we became lunatic by the time the food arrive. haha. In a good way of course. Taking pictures, playing with the balloons (not to mention we took almost all the balloons in TGI that night home) and so on. 

By the time the event finished, we were all drunk by craziness (Nope, none of us drink). We unanimously had only plain water. As for food, I had a vegetarian pasta (that was the only thing edible for me on the menu) which I do not ever want to order again in the future. It may seem boring explaining here, but the real situation was beyond what word can describe. :D

Balloons fever

some moments while in TGI.

The next day, the university had organised a fireworks display in the Pats Field. The whole flat went to watch it. We were like little kids during the event. So damn excited. It was the first time for me to actually watch a firework display upfront, close, and live! An unforgettable experience indeed. Here is a short clip for you guys to watch taken during the event. :)

Excited me watching the fireworks.

Few of us.

Taken by Samsung Galaxy S3-
which turn out to be of good quality.

Chocolate-Vanila Cake

Afterwords, we had our own little party in the kitchen (See, what did I told you about our kitchen). Thanks to Lola for cooking for us all. She is indeed a very good cook. I enjoyed the vegetables with cheese the most. Never in my life did I have a vegetable dish that makes me want for more. ;)

As usual, the chit chatting, the singing along out loud, the almost kitchen turning into night club. haha. And also a rather weird fun cleaning it up as well.

With them, I certainly feels like home again. Not entirely like home but somewhere close to it. There are just a variety of us in this house. I am certainly glad to have been an occupant here. Surely gonna treasure them a lot considering the fact that we might not be in the same house again next year. Just let me say thank you for making my experience here worthwhile and not make me feel homesick. Oh yeah, can you believe it, I have not been homesick yet. haha. Sure, I misses some of the things back at home, and definitely miss my family but it was not to the extend where I want to cry or be depressed about it. Probably because I have a new family here. :)

Potatoes

Healthy vs Fattening

Wonder chicken and Corn

BEST VEGE DISH EVER!

Can't wait for our upcoming crazy get together. 

p/s : We have a new flatmates today. :D