i went to Tokyo: planning time

Assalam and hello.

few weeks ago, i went to Tokyo. 30June-4July. hoho.

my flight ticket was paid by my sister, who suddenly wanted to go to Tokyo. i didn't have any money at that time (and also now) so i was contemplating at first. then she said her friends mostly are blacklisted by PTPTN, that they cannot go to any oversea trip.

so her last resort is me.

it wasn't the "i'll pay for ur tickets first" that convinced me to go. it was her history of travelling anywhere. she had plenty bad lucks whenever she had a plan to travel. there was a time that her friend who kept the tickets for her USS trip lost her father, so end up that she could not go. money burn just like that. then there was that time where she planned a short stay at Majestic Hotel in KL, and she couldn't go there too. then there was that time when she already bought ticket flights to Krabi, and suddenly there was bombing incident in Thailand. conclusion: her travel luck sucks.

therefore, she asked me. and i pitied her bad lucks. and i might as well accept it cos the last time i actually went travel oversea by plane was about 12 years ago where i went to Bandung and Jakarta with my family. at that time, the 1ml liquid rule haven't even exist yet.

so we bought the tickets on January 29, my sis' birthday. bought from Airpaz. the price for 2 people, return tickets were about RM1899, AirAsiaX. we chose the best time we could think of: a week after Raya, where nobody could disturb my raya. oh, we purposely chose summer time cos we wanted to save some money. so we chose to just rely on handcarry bags cos we didn't need to bring too many clothes. but still, no plan is perfect.

our accommodation? we booked them at Grids Nihombashi East Hotel & Hostel. the hostel was rated 'fabulous' in Booking.com. it's about 3200yen/night. i'm a person who always plan ahead. i saw that we could cancel it before 29th June (flight:30th June) so i booked for 4D3N.

as it was our first time travelling overseas without the parents, i sent plenty messages to the hostel and they were kind enough to answer those questions. here are the screenshots:

so i asked them about the amount of plugs they provided for 1 bed. btw, i stayed in a dormitory-styled room a.k.a a capsule. woot woot!

and these are my favourites 😂😂😂

kawaii-ness at it best!

btw, the flight we chose would depart at 2.30pm, Malaysia time. it'd arrived Haneda Airport at 10.30pm. because we thought that we might be delayed at the airport, so on the 30th June, we planned to just sleep at the hotel.

oh, you really can sleep at the airport. many people do that. there is also shower room. but unlike KLIA2, where i found to have free shower rooms, Haneda Airport's shower room has an entrance fee of 1500yen/30min. additional 500yen for each 15min more. tho i heard they provide free toiletries.

so the initial plan: arrive at the airport, pray at praying room, sleep there (if can), shower at shower room.

THAT was the initial plan. as usual, there's no perfect plan in this world.

i'll talk about that in the next post when i have free time. tata!

racist? sexist?

Assalam and hello.

went to the market this morning. stopped by the bank to cash out some money and saw 2 black guys in front of the bank.

they did nothing, really. they were sitting and chatting with each other. normal stuff. but i told my maid who inside the car to lock the door.

it was ridiculous, really. we locked the door when we usually don't.

am i really that racist?

i remembered that time when i saw a group of Indians  guys at the market trying to sell stuff. i locked the door too at that time.

is it bcos i was scared of them?

am i really that racist?

then i realized i think i usually did that whenever there's are motorcyclists or some men wandering around the car. i locked it whenever that happen.

the similarities in all these situations are that i only do this when there are men around me, excluding those i know. men, even Malay men. i don't trust them.

so i guess i don't trust men then.

now, is this sexist?

bye.

update about UPTA

AsSalam and hello.

update about my UPTA appeal:

REJECTED.

bcos of QUOTA.

apparently, the cost for the UPTA scheme were lowered so much, that UITM have to make a quota after years of not having one.

unfortunately, they had to do this deed when i want it so badly, so badly my entire semester actually depend on this.

they only provide it to 500 students. i'm not sure myself, but i think that 500 includes the students from other faculties too.

so... i'm broke for the next few months or maybe until i have a job.

yes, i have my father who have provided for me for years since i was a little child, but i have my pride too. until when will i ask my father to support me? until i'm 30? 😔😔😖

this is the 1st time i ever feel that i should just have a job instead of continuing my study. but i love to learn new things tho. i love doing lab work. i just hate climbing the stairs and the hills and also park the car at UITM. no regret but i have to just swallow my pride and ask my father for help.

i've just send my car's aircond for a repair just now and coincidentally, my father was close by and he had lunch with me and my brother. as the luck shine for me, my father paid for the repair 😊.

as much as i feel happy and grateful and very lucky for that, i still feel a bit sad that i still need to ask for money from him.

my supervisor is a bit guilty about this. i hope she does. i mean, who will take care of her lab this semester? someone who doesn't know anything obviously.

still, i hope she has a good UPTA student that will give her more good than harm. i wish her and the new student well. just don't come to me for free and ask for something. i don't have the money to help you. really.

ps: ooh. there's a meme generator on the internet!

appeal letter for tutor

AsSalam and hello.

update about that problem i had few days ago.

i asked my supervisor yesterday and she was also surprised that my application was rejected. she said she will check on it and told me not to worry much about it cos i also told her that i became stressed because of this.

she said again"takpe. don't worry"💪

i met her again. i updated her about my labworks and all (got some scolding cos i forgot what happen when glycan associate with proteins. my mind went blank. she told me to give the answer by tonight but i 'accidentally😳' forgot to tell her), and i asked her about the UPTA update.

she said she haven't checked yet but she told me to make an appeal letter first and mention that she will support my appeal.

appeal letter. a formal appeal letter 😖. i got A1 in my Malay subject when i did my SPM and at that time, i could even wrote 4 pieces of essay, front to back in just 2 hours. but this only relevant if i write a non-formal writing.

a formal one? an appeal? that is one of my weakness😓. i couldn't even write the right words when i emailed a bank in Malay language. not saying my English is good, but i've been reading so many journals in English that i am mostly comfortable using English words for something formal.

so i asked for help from the best person who can help me with this: my stepmother. she works for the government. she read and writes formal letters almost everyday. so i asked her for help.

and the result is fantastic. in my opinion anyway. thanks Cik Jie! you save my life here!😆

sorry. i won't upload the official one but this is the gist of it 🙈.

anyway, here's hoping my appeal will be successful or else i really have to ask for my father for pocket money that is in smaller amount.

bye then.

ps: i ate 4 muffins today 👅🎂. yeah, i've just noticed that blogger support emojis. haha. 🐐

Plz Don't Be Sad.

AsSalam and hello.

i'm blogging again.

why? cos Highlight a.k.a the legendary old BEAST just dropped their mv for their new song, Plz Don't Be Sad.

as usual, i understand none of the korean lyrics, but the song is so good, i have a smile on my face throughout watching the mv. the chorus is quite addictive. yeah i cannot even pronounce the suppose lyrics but the chorus still feel good for the ears. so that's nice.

some said the song is like a chill Block B song. i only know Zico tho so ok then.

Doojoon looking so mighty fine in the mv and the others also just as good but not as good as him ahahah but still with all the stressful stuff that happened to me for the last 12 hours or so, this mv and this song is my current medicine.

feel nice to see Gikwang at the center, enjoying himself better than before. a tiny bit disappointed that Dongwoon's voice not as clear but oh well. Yoseob and that game looking like a childish and adorable 8y.o boy.

overall, i love this song. the song before this song is also nice. i'm happy Highlighter! hee.

update about the problem before: told my dad about it. was hoping for a montly allowance like when i was doing my degree. he told me to check with UITM first and nothing can be solved, i have to accept it and move on to other things. might checkout some translating work too.

no tutor, no money, have problem.

AsSalam and hello.

i'm a bit in a depressed mode right now. all of sudden things are not looking good.

currently, my allowance depends on this teaching assistant scheme by UITM. i was expecting that i'll be doing the tutoring for this semester. however, suddenly, VERY SUDDENLY, my application for the UPTA is unsuccessful.

madness. now i'm shocked. very very shocked. my plan for the next 5 months just went blank, and i don't even have any plan B to prepare for this.

now i'm not sure how to have my own money. i had this plan to do a part-time job possibly this September, where i expect that my labwork might have finish by that time. but now, maybe i have to do the job earlier than expected tho.

i was thinking where should i get my allowance right now. things really not looking bright. part-time job is an option, but difficult for someone like me who is a research student hoping to finish her last labwork as quickly as possible.

credits image: theodysseyonline.com

currently, my labwork take 3 days of the week, with each day take about 6-12 hours of the day. the only work that might be helpful is a do-at-home job like key-in some datas like in the old days where a piece of data= RM1 each.

this is tough. in normal days, i'll choose a part-time job over doing labwork but right now i'm in the most crucial moment of my research. coursework students might have better chance to do part-time job cos they know when is their class and all, but my research can be too flexible, so i can't do inflexible part-time job.

tough. very tough.

you might have notice the ads in my blog. that's one of source of income. i put the ads since 2010 but the revenue that i got from that since 2012 is $3.++. HAHHAHAHA. tho that might be bcos of the lack of updates. i did notice that there is an increase of $2 since i blog about Train to Busan and that was few months ago.

so imagine if i update ALL THE TIME maybe i can have some bits of money from that then.

oh. my eldest brother just told me about his plan to do GrabCar. ok now that is one option. but that is only possible if i actually have a less than 10 years car. currently, i'm using a WIRA that was built during 1998. Commonwealth Games in Malaysia was during that time. Rombongan Cik Kiah was during that time. hrm.

this problem actually stressing me out since last night before the Man City vs Liverpool match. i could not focus much on that game. thankfully it was a non-boring draw, nevertheless still a brilliant match by both teams. i did have the thought when looking at those young football players that are mostly younger than me who also have more money than me too. i mean, Coutinho is only 25 this year, i think, and he already has 150k pound/week. granted, his job is difficult, but still.

yup, a Mickey Mouse tattoo on a very fit and rich Coutinho's abs

credit image: foxsportsasia.com

ah well. praying for a best outcome from all of this. this is a small matter compare to other problems i had encounter but not unsolvable. pray for me that things will be better then. thanks.

You'll Never Walk Alone.
the Liverpool version, not the BTS one.

Some bits of reminder

Hello.

To be honest, nowadays i am a boring person. I stay at home or go to the lab. I feel content when i go to the lab. I feel like i am relevant when i go there.

Then i saw all those stuff that i need to clean up and i avoided the lab after that. But i still go to the lab. I did my work and just avoid the cleaning activity.

I get easily bored nowadays. I watch a drama and some of them still haven't finish yet. I paid RM10 for a month of VIU subscription and the only thing that i actually watch from that is New Journey to the West 2 and 3.

Honestly the show is so brilliant and hilarious, i have to praise PD Na for being a genius in the variety world.

Anyway, i haven't finish most of the drama that i had started watching. the only one that i actually finish is Goblin. Which is so brilliant, my ears still want to hear some bits of its OST.

Liverpool not having a good start of the year too. And so my mood is down. I need them to win. Get themselves some good vibe and all things will be good. Currently, things just seem out of place. The players are so weak minded.

Oh. I'm getting fat. The boobs not getting bigger. But my thighs are bigger and uglier than ever. InsyaAllah i'll be going on a trip later on this July so i'm hoping that i'll be back to my normal weight when that time comes.

Another problem that is stressing me out right now is MyBrain15 haven't paid my March2016 study fee yet. And i just got a text that i need to pay them by this February. I went to UITM finance department and they said MyBrain15 have no money to pay the students right now. And i can't do anything about it. The staff there did say that i should sent an email to them so they can solve the problem. I did send the email but for days now, there is still no response.

So here i am, will advise you, take MyBrain15 if you want, but prepare some bits of money just to be sure that this problem will not occur.

Be grateful. Ta.

Happy Malaysia Day

AsSalam n hello.

Happy Malaysia Day.

A country where the corruption is everywhere and the people don't even notice that what they are doing is corruption. Life is good after all when doing bad things not even noticeable.

But still, without Sabah and Sarawak, we won't be as rich as today.

And without MO1, we won't get as many debt as today too.

Life has made mature adults become 'aku malas nak kisah' then 'what happened? Did something happened??'.

Maturity change you. Life change you. So many disappointment that you just have to enjoy life even for the littlest things. Like seeing a pokemon, you feel so excited catching a Zulbat when you already catch it zillions of times.

Freedom is so far away for me. Sometimes i regret why i didn't just work and have a less than RM2k salary instead of being a postgrad student where i only get allowance for 2 years only. But then again, what is life when you think that you expect yourself to not be a student after 2 years?

I am more mellow now. Maybe the 'i don't care attitude' makes me mellow. I try not to shout too much. I try not to be angry too much. I become more reasonable. And when this happened, i see things from a mellow perspective. You see how unreasonable a person is when she's angry. You see the cruelty, the rudeness, the selfishness a person can be.

Such is life. No freedom when you have no money,  no freedom when you are still dependent on others.

Happy Malaysia Day. Where the country only unite only during Olympics.

And also during holiday season.

Enjoy life. Ta.

Train to Busan

AsSalam and hello.

have you watched Train to Busan? the one that has that movie poster of hot Gong Yoo carrying a little girl with the lovable Jung Yumi behind him running with him from behind? and with some trains and explosions at the background? and if you notice, there might also be hundreds of zombies at the back.

yeah. this one.

oh there's also Sohee, Choi Wooshik and the brilliant Ma Dong Seok in the poster.

i'm not a fan of zombies. really. excluding the sequel of that Maze Runner movie, i kinda hate every zombie movies out there. the last one that i remember that i actually like is Night of the Living Dead, which is brilliant.

but this Train to Busan tho, might have top it. it was brilliant! it was thrilling! i knew i would like it, but i was actually avoiding it cos i don't like zombies who eat human flesh scenes. to be honest, i'm not a fan of horror movie or any ridiculous movies like Final Destination.

but if you're a Game of Thrones fan, those brutal scenes are nothing after all.

this movie, this Train to Busan movie is just different. it was like i was riding a roller coaster for 2 hours when i saw it. i couldn't keep quietly at my seat. my sister also didn't sit quietly cos both of us were just so nervous. i love that thrilling feeling. it was awesome.

Ma Dong Seok tried to punch a zombie, ooh, i even moved my body.

Gong Yoo tried to escape, ooh i made an escape move.

it was awesome. it was fantastic. 

it wasn't so much of the actors or the storyline that made me excited. it was the feeling that i got when i watched it. the actors are brilliant, every Korean movie fans know that. but the characters's desperation to survive is just so strong, you end up feeling intrigued by it.

and the sacrifice. wow the sacrifice. you see how much impact a person's kindness can do to a person. it was sweet, sad and wow.

i haven't had this kind of feeling when i see something. i think the last time i had this much impact might be after i watched The Princess Man. 

you have to thank Korean directors for knowing how to make a person absorbs in things.

Kamsahamnida.

all this for sexy legs

AsSalam and hello.

i have some little secret to tell.

i join London Weight Management.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

yeah. i really did. tbh, i kinda feel a bit regretful now cos its name has 'Weight Management' instead of Slimming stuff.

ah well.

i know you'll say "why Alia why?? you so thin. what else you need to change?"

tbh, i love my body curve. i have breasts, not too big, not too small. still some meat in it and i like my look when i have my shirt hugging my body. so really, i love it.

the thing is, i want a nice pair of legs. i love my legs. but if i have a chance to slim them like those model's, i'll take that chance.

this all started yesterday, after i did my progress monitoring presentation. i did ok. thanks to the panels who were very kind to help me not feeling bad. i was in a brilliant mood after that. the Liverpool 6-0 win over Villa also better my mood. i felt like nothing could change that mood.

the London stuff was just a trial actually. i answered a survey at Ensogo, and they gave a free-trial of that weight stuff. so i went. but hey, the consultant there was a bit demanding. and when she said i could use the student price for 10 sessions, i immediately took it.

ok ok. i did spend some time thinking. but only after 5 minutes. then i paid 3/4 of the full price.

ha ha.

like i said, nothing could change my mood. i was in the best feeling ever. and i have the money to spend it.

so the consultant got really happy that she finally had a new customer and so she took care of me. got some treatment done. tbh, i don't really care about the names of the treatment. i was just thinking "how will my legs look after this?"

still, most of the treatments kinda like 'steaming' me. literally. i got 'steamed'. literally. liquids went out of my body in non-sexual way.

thing is, i would like them to tell me the time spent for doing those treatments. i was in a happy mood. i had to lie down myself on a bed and wait for toxins to came out of my body for about 40minutes. i should have bring some books or anything that could make those stuff less boring.

the consultant was a bit sad when she asked me if i had a good time. i said "ok la".

then i realize that i never am satisfied with anything. i could have gone shopping but even if i buy anything, i still am not satisfied. the excitement is gone.

so i end up spending at this pricey stuff. ah well. better now than later. ha ha.

anyway, as this is a weight management thing, i forgot that i have to manage my weight including my food. or else, those liquid stuff gone out of my body treatment will become useless. so i'm having the first diet in my life. be jealous. har har.

and let just say, love your body. never diet. eat well.

ta then! :)

Bit by a kitten

Assalam

Bit by a kitten few days ago. Think it was nothing until the blood kept on flowing. Did the necessary first aids and think it was good after that.

Few hours later, the pain from the bite didn't go away. Not sure why i have the feeling of 'no pain no gain' mood. I was very content on withstand the pain with no painkiller and all.

Nway, i slept with the pain. like 'chill, i have a cat bit near my thumb n i'm all ok eventhough the thumb almost look purple like a brinjal'.

Next day, i woke up and realized the bitten area became a bit swollen. It was a hard to move the thumb at first but after a few hours, the pain subside.

Still, i bought a gel to decrease the bruise.

Did it went away? Nope. Instead of purple, then it became red.

But there was no pain anymore. There was just the redness. So i had to surrender and went to the hospital with my father. Got myself a tetanus shot with a smile from both the doctor and the nurses when they heard i got it bcos of a little kitten.

And oh, an antibiotic too. Cloxacillin.

So now the pain is gone and the colour is in natural state.

I realized that if you want to have a pet, you better get yourself a tetanus shot first. Even a vet student needs that. So pet owners must too.

Bye then. I suddenly have a need to blog cos i have something on my mind.

Ps: the doctor asked me if i want a painkiller. I said no cos i might get addicted to it. I didn't tell her that tho.

Luck and rights

Assalam.

Been in a complicated mood nowadays. Since November, my life was a bit up and down. Since the day i hit a pillar at Blue Wave Hotel and left a big mark on the BMW Z2 that i drove, my life had been a bit stressful.

Oh. Did i say i drive a BMW now? Cool huh? my juniors were like "whoa!" but since that ugly smudge appeared, the BMW lost it glamour. Cis. I'm too lazy to spend my money to touch up the car.

Now that this topic is about luck, another unfortunate stuff happened the next 2 months after November.

I fought with my dear immature brother.

Oh. Twice.

First, it was because i told him he treated my other brother like a slave. And he got really really mad. And he cursed me after that.

A month after that, we had a fight again. Because i told him that the Macbook he was using is mine and that he needed not be stressed about the laptop being wrecked. he got mad and kicked my legs and hit my head too. Maybe 4 times? I did got a bruise at my shin after that. Had a hard time to pray for the few days tho.

So i told my maid about it. And my maid told my dad. And my dad told that brother of mine that if he did that again, he'll be kicked out from the house.

Obviously i stopped talking to that brother of mine. I avoided him. But i think my father's warning made him realized that he needs to take care of his temper and me not talking to him is not making his life easier cos really, without me, how can he live?

This might be unlucky for some, but hey, i was actually lucky. My sister was there to stop him from hitting me harder. What do you think will happen if i was alone with him? I might be in the news 'brother hit sister till die?' oooooooh.

Thing is, i didn't cry when he hit me. I was holding my phone tightly. I was preparing myself to call 999. I have my rights. The guy lose the temper like an abusive drunk husband. Lucky him and lucky me. Things could be settled.

I am not sure what my intention for blogging this. But let just say, if somebody hit you, maybe you should just prepare yourself from being far from that person. Thing is, that is a dangerous love. You can live a better life without being abused. That time, i had people to stop him and me. Next time, i am not sure myself. Do your right as a human. We are human, we do not need to be treated badly just because women are weak but because we are human.

That is all.

Bon Jovi Malaysia concert 2015

AsSalam and hello.

Heheheheh. I saw Bon Jovi, at a concert, LIVE...and it was awesome!!!!!! woohuhuhu.

finally got the tickets from Cik Jie's friends who sold us the PS5 tickets for cheap. the PS5 seats were the cheapest and also the farthest ones from the stage, so i was a bit skeptical in spending my money at those seats. but then again, i only paid RM50 for it, so, i no need to complain. haha.

the price that Cik Jie's friend gave us was RM113. i paid RM50 only. haha. thanks, Cik Jie.

i went with my stepmum, that's why i got it cheap cos she paid some part of it. my dad sent us to the stadium. haha. it was kinda funny. usually, i went with my friends, so to see him sending us there, easily without worry about parking and all was kinda nice.

my partner for this concert.

 anyway, we arrived at the stadium. the concert started at 8.30pm so we have to pray Maghrib first. saw a Chinese guy with a AskMe sign. we asked him "where's the prayer room?" and he said it's in the stadium and we have to enter it at our PS5 gate, which is a bit farther from the entrance of the stadium. so we went.

at the gate, we lined-up and saw the security. they checked our bags, and 1 of them saw my camera. damn. so i told them that we are seating far from the stage and that my camera cannot really snap those people clearly. they have none of it. they said i have to ask someone else to keep it or something like that. so i said"oh yeke?" and put the camera inside my bag and went to Cik Jie and enter the gate without caring about those security. they just look at me and just let me in.

yes, the camera still with me. no way i will give others to take care of it.

still, we asked where is the prayer room. how nice, the security said i have to enter the main entrance to go to the prayer room. the Chinese guy before said a different thing. by the way, the security at the PS5 were Malays.

and so, we went to the main gate.

let just say, problems start from here. we asked the Malay securities, cos you know, Muslim to Muslim, we should help each other cos we understand each other the most. solat Maghrib is wajib. the conversation was somewhat like this (pardon the Malay):

Alia: ktorang nk solat Maghrib. surau dekat mana?

Malay pakguard: surau dekat dalam.

Alia: oh. camne nak masuk? nak solat ni.

Malay pakguard: oh. tak boleh masuk.

Alia: .....

Alia: ktorang nak solat Maghrib kot. surau perempuan kat mana je?

Malay pakguard: belah sini surau laki. surau perempuan belah sana.

Alia: so, ktorang nak pegi belah sana la.

Malay pakguard: oh. tak boleh.

Alia: ktorang nak solat kot. nape plak tak boleh??

Malay pakguard: ..................

Alia: ???????

Malay pakguard: (went to an Indian pakguard. not a Muslim) boss, camne ni?

Alia: (Seriously?????? ko Melayu Islam, ko tatau camne nak handle ni???)

Indian pakguard: sorry, we can't let you in.

Alia: hey. ktorang dah ade wuduk. ni solat Maghrib. ktorang kene solat ni. takkan tak boleh solat plak.

Indian pakguard: no, we can't let you in. there were some people who went in who said they want to pray, but instead they went in and enter a different zone.

Alia: ktorang solat sekejap je. pastu ktorang keluar la. takkanla tak boleh. you check ktorang pun takpe.

Indian pakguard: we really can't let you in.

Alia: (almost curse) 

Indian pakguard: (talked something at the walkie talkie. then..) ok here. i will say something.

Cik Jie: tak, ktorang nak solat sekejap je. dah ade wuduk dah ni.

Indian pakguard. excuse me. i'm in charge here.

Alia and Cik Jie: :/

Indian pakguard: You (point to Malay guard) follow them to the surau and wait outside.

Malay pakguard: (nod)

and that's it. i was furious. really, really furious. i wasn't furious at the Indian guy. i was furious at my own Muslim brothers. how could they not let us in and be timid and quiet when we told them that we want to pray. how could they not help us and be quiet like that? and how could the organizers not handling this matter properly?? the concert starts at 8.30pm, obviously fans will arrive during Maghrib.

i've been to many concerts and they are mostly Kpop. the recent B1A4 incident affected the Malaysian kpop fans tremendously. some youth societies called out kpop fans for being non-Islamic just because they were being over-obsessed over their kpop idols. what you should know tho, these so-called non-Islamic kpop fans do their prayers before the concert start. they know what is 'wajib' and what isn't. whenever i asked where the prayer room is, the organizers of kpop concerts, that are mostly Chinese, let us pray easily with no nonsense such as this. so, really. do not blame others for being bad when your own being make you bad.

ok. back to the concert. i almost forgot the main dish.

we've done our pray and went to the PS5 gate and sat somewhere that completely show the whole stage. it was far, but the view is good.

to be honest, i don't know much about Bon Jovi, but It's My Life is one of my favourite songs. i've started listen to it when i was 7 years old and the memory of that first time was special for me. and from that information, you could guess that i only know their famous songs only. ha ha.

anyway, the stadium suddenly gone dark. you know that they already appeared on stage and the concert finally started.

we brought my father's binoculars, so we could actually see Jon's face clearly using that. but still, you have to thank that big screen too. they have a great screen. HD even. 

they sang plenty songs that i didn't recognize. but the different thing about this concert with the other concerts that i went to, the unrecognized ones are enjoyable. my favourite was when they sang You Give Love a Bad Name. that was brilliant. the crowd sang like they're involve in the song. it was brilliant. i was in my concert mode. i sang and scream like a fangirl. haha. and when they sang It's My Life, i felt that nice oozy warmth. i went back to being 7 years old and saw the clips on that tiny, old tv. haha. those memories.

i forgot which song was it, but Jon came down from the stage and went to the fans. bloody great service he gave to the crowd. he let the crowd touched him and the crowd even hugged his whole body from the waist down and even groped his ass. this is what i saw from the big screen. i was far, obviously i couldn't join the crowd in grabbing his ass.

now, now. what will JAWI said about this?

and the light went off again. and encore. crowd started shouting "WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE!" so they appeared again and sang....Livin' on a Prayer!!! another favourite!

 

and then, he sang Have a Nice Day. nice as you heard it. after the song finish, they bowed and out from the stage.

no stage lights on, but the stadium's lights came on. crowd started to move and went out from the stadium. i was like "ehhhhh??? i thought there's a second encore??? where's the 2nd one??? where's Always????" one of the fan in front of me started to pick up his bag and was shaking his head towards me. hey, i looked at the setlist ok. i have a reason for being surprised.

and the stadium started to announce thanks and all, and that was it. the concert ended. just like that.

and you think Bon Jovi could have said a simple bye bye. he didn't. so, i have to accept that.

out of nowhere, there was this guy who came and asked us if we could take a picture of them. i said OK and then i saw my partner-in-crime who stalked Benedict Cumberbatch with me at Mandarin Oriental Hotel (she saw him, i didn't). 

this is Zati. of all places in that big stadium, we saw each other in that kind of circumstances. haha. we haven't since that Cumberbabes stalking.

overall, it was a brilliant concert. think it was the most crowded i even been too. heard there's more than 18k who came. so that was why.

come again, Jon and co. i'll try to memorize all your songs next time you come. and please sing Always next time we meet. thanks.

i'll do the Bon Jovi way, no bye bye and thank you. *bow out* *walk away*...

Bordeaux 1-1 Liverpool

AsSalam and hello.

LFC drew 1-1 against Bordeaux this early morning.

i slept during the 1st half. i was too sleepy. the Boncafe coffee really not effective in making me awake. i tweeted during half-time that i fell asleep, and a LFC mate of mine said that i didn't miss anything.

i kinda expected that.

the first 10 minutes made me realized that LFC might play this constant low quality football till the 90th minute. it was frustrating to see them play like that.

then, i fell asleep.

i was a bit happy when young Rossiter started for the team. 18 years old and his weekly salary might be more than $20k. Emre Can wasn't playing well too. Gomez did well tho. Sakho was the captain. Lovren and Skrtel did not start and that gave me a bit of confidence that we could win.
 

Sakho: "I'm working and I'm a Liverpool soldier. And, when you call on me, I always rise to the challenge." pic.twitter.com/s9z0V8JJ4M

— Steven Gerrard (@Gerrard8FanPage) September 18, 2015

i was wide awake in the 2nd half. thankfully, Lallana scored the 1st goal. and then the camera showed Brendan's face and i was like "you still need to be sacked, mister". then, the usual defending mistakes occur again, Bordeaux equalized, and the score stayed the same till full-time.

it was upsetting but fortunate at the same time. we did not play well, but at least we got a point. very upsetting how disorganize the team were this morning. as individuals, the players are great. but as a team, they are not good. it was really frustrating.

Rodgers was improving at the start of this season, but after that good performance against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, his decisions later on show his arrogance and the results of the matches after that proved his incompetency. so now, i'm joining the #RodgersOut brigade.

i'm really really a nice person. but sometimes, we need to put an end in something.

Carra for LFC manager, please. not Gerrard, nope.

tho this news came out just now.....

German football journalist Raphael Honigstein: It’s no secret by now that Liverpool have tried twice to get Klopp to take over,”

— Billy Liddell (@Liddellpool) September 18, 2015

oh. Bordeaux supporters are amazing. i want to join that kind of fun too, if i have the chance. YNWA!

pretty girl and Me.

AsSalam and hello.

tiring day today. the day today was gloomy, might've affected my head a bit just now. i was too sleepy. i was supposed to be at the lab at 8am today but i slept after my Subuh prayer and woke up at 8am instead.

ha ha.

currently, i have to do FTIR to my samples to check the compounds, whether there is any difference to my samples after i treat them with N- and O-glycosylation inhibitors. so today, i booked the FTIR machine at the forensic lab at 2pm.

i arrived at 2pm.

then i saw this lovely, beautiful girl. she wore a hijab, obvious shades of blushers at the side of each cheeks and lovely purple shades of lipsticks. a normal human will admit that she is pretty.

i saw the lab assistant talking to her. he was smiling. so i waited. then, he saw me. he said he had to use the machine first and that i'll use it after him. i nodded. i looked at the girl and she was shyly smiling at me. the lab assistant helped her analyzed her samples. he did all the analyzing stuff. the girl just followed behind him and watched what he was doing. she kinda did nothing.

i waited. waited. yawned. waited. i realized i had waited for 45 minutes and i had not done my Zohor prayer yet. then, two juniors from Applied Chemistry degree appeared. their turn was supposed to be after me.so, i end up telling them that i have waited for 45 minutes and my turn is yet to come.

3pm on the dot, and the lab assistant and the pretty girl were done with their work. the pretty girl apologized to me. i smiled and said "oh, don't mind".

really, i don't mind.

then, i went into the room with the FTIR machine. apparently, the lab assistant let her saved her data in her pendrive. OK then....

it was my turn. the lab assistant left me alone and like a pro, i had the job done.
major difference than what i've seen between the lab assistant and the pretty girl.

i was done with my work. so i told the lab assistant that i want to save my data.
he asked"do you bring a CD to save the data?" and i replied"yes" .

then, i realized....
this is discrimination between a pretty girl and an average-looking girl like me! (average is the right word as the word ugly is not that pretty).

ces.

that is all. i need to rant after all.

ps: i googled the term for this kind of discrimination and it is called 'lookism'

Assembly, Mrs Cop, YongPal

AsSalam and hello.

Since the time i passed my 2nd DRP (well, a repeated one), i had a bit of free time.

I'm too lazy to download dramas, so i watch them through the KBSworld and OneHD instead. Both channels now broadcast their dramas and variety shows early, so i watch them on tv instead.

HD too. No more 450p resolution.

Still, i don't subscribe Oh!K and Channel M at Astro, so i miss MBC and Tvn dramas. That's why i haven't join the Oh My Ghostess brigade yet.

Currently, KBSworld are showing Virtual Bride(Mon-Tues) and Assembly(Wed-Thurs) while OneHD are showing Mrs Cop(Tues-Wed) and YongPal(Thurs-Fri).

Among them, i watched all except Virtual Bride. Not sure why, i like the casts n synopsis but i decided not to watch it withoit reason. Some people said the drama is funny tho.

Current favourite among the three that i watch is Assembly. The current political problems in Malaysia might influence me to watch this but the fact that the same writer of Jeon Do Jeon is involve in this drama made me interested. And well, that writer still brilliant. Assembly might have a low rating but the casts and the story are just brilliant. The heavy politics story might not interest the general audience but it does has a fan in me. Whenever Jin Sang Pil talks, i have tears in my eyes. He talks all the problems that the public are having right now. High cost of rent, unnecessary funding to unimportant stuff, unnecessary quarrel among politicians, all those stuff. Another interesting point is that his aide is a woman. A brilliant-minded woman who thinks of strategy. Usually, dramas let the men do the thinking. Almost a feminist, i love the fact that they show that women can also like politics and women can also help the men in something that doesn't involve household stuff. The drama will end in Korea today, so a good ending is expected.

But this is KBS we're talking about. I might have a tiny bit expectation that it will have an ending like I Remember You.

Mrs Cop is brilliant too. Intriguing. Kim Hui Ae is awesome. Gikwang is cute. Son Hojoon and Lee Dahee are great together. The Violent Crime Unit are Jjang! The villain is evil and hateful but he makes the drama better. Just when i thought the drama is like a typical police drama, they have a different twist. Not sure what it is, but its sure is different. Unlike The Girl who Sees Smell, this one at least made me wants to finish the drama. Sorry Shin Sekyung, Kim Hui Ae tops you, always.

Oh. Kim Hui Ae's fashion is totally on point. Skirts? What is skirts? She wears police uniform with pants and still looks good in it.

Yongpal..... Intriguing. Maybe that's what makes it have a high rating. The plot makes the audience want to watch it. Kim Tae Hee really tries hard to show a good acting and she did ok. I pity Joowon. His eyebags are getting worse so i lose my focus a bit when i watch this drama. Him n KTH are not even compatible but they can be sweet together. Plenty women in the drama but KTH still the best looking. Funny fighting scenes, dramatic plots. Great surgery skills tho. Hope Joowon will manage himself better now that they want to extend the drama with 2 more eps.

Free times are nice if you fill them up with what you like. So i fill them up with dramas instead. Truth to be told, i should've spend them by reading journals instead of watching these dramas. Ah well. Whatever.

Back to watching Mrs Cop. Ta!

The missing Milo

AsSalam and good morning.

Milo the cat is missing. My family's favourite cat is missing.

Really, i don't want to admit the word 'missing'. It means i admit that he really is missing.

I am being very positive by saying he is somewhere out there, in other neighbourhood close to us, trying to mate with some pretty cute female cat.

He is at the age of being horny after all.

Milo, please be alive and come home. We miss you .

Can i see Bon Jovi?

AsSalam.

Was checking out for some cheap Bon Jovi tickets on twitter last time.

Then i saw TuneTalk tweeted abt Bon Jovi tickets. Thought i could redeem them using my tunetalk points.

Nope. Only a 20% off of the tickets price with additional tunetalk points needed to buy the tixket. I have the points, don't have the money.

Told my stepmum about it. She loves Bon Jovi. She said she only wants RM100++ tickets.

So i entered some Bon Jovi tickets contests. I won nothing for now.

Then my stepmum's friend won 4 VIP tickets. They took 2 of them. Unfortunately, they want to sell the other two tickets.

Sometimes i hate this greedy, bussiness-mind people.

But my stepmum found cheap P5 tickets tho. Original price: RM138. Discounted price: RM113. She wants my father to pay for our tickets.

I don't mind tho.

Hoping for some good news. I did see somebody downloading Bon Jovi songs from torrent just now. He he he he 😝

"You give love a bad name" ~guitar plays~

A summary of the current.

AsSalam and hello.

Life is quite nice nowadays. I ate the food that i want, i shopped things that i want, and i have the freedom to choose what i want.

Life is nice when things go easy like this.

But sometimes, things like this suddenly become the opposite. Just when you say "today is a good day" you suddenly get a text saying "hey Alia, you need service your nose. Your cat peed on my shirts".

Life is pretty amazing like that.

I'm in my 3rd semester of my Masters now. Things are a bit relaxing before but the results of my experiments are not really that interesting. It is like a male cat. A male cat is nice when he has no one to mate. Nothing change. And then he wants to mate, and things change.

My current result is like that. At first, it was kinda awesome and might become a new discovery. Then it suddenly become a normal result that has no significance. Tough luck.

My support for my beloved football club is becoming dim tho. The lack of passion by the manager and players are making me lose my passion too. I support them bcos they were full of passion. But now, not so much.

I even think of changing my twittername to my real name. But apparently, you can't change ur twitter username anymore.

I suppose to read more journals nowadays. But i end up reading mangas instead. I read some ero-manga named Nozoki Ona. It was good read tho i kinda wonder whether being naked is that easy to do.

Btw, Behati Prinsloo has a nice body. Ha ha.

Few days ago, i've just realized that i don't have a look that can make others smitten. So  i kinda give up on making men like me. I'll be nice to them, and if they're nice to me and like me, i might like them too. Ha ha. Or maybe i won't. Or that person won't too.

I wish a close friend of mine will realize that the people around her change bcos her own attitude make them change.

What is bad by being nice? Naive? Try being treated badly. Then you want a nice treatment.

These all summarize what happened to me. Ta! 😙

The Stories of Those Around Us

AsSalam.

Yesterday was Wednesday.

I was walking home to my car at UiTM during the evening and i realized that was in a brilliant mood.

It was the same feeling that i had after a day of seeing a handsome guy that smiles at me. Tho i saw no handsome guy but i had a pretty damn good feeling.

Then i realized, it was Wednesday.

My favourite webtoon is released every Wednesday.

And i damn well love it.

The webtoon is titled 'The Stories of those Around Me'.

My kind of reader pleasure. The story is sooooooo sweeet and shoujo-ish. Tho the webtoon is a Korean webtoon but you can imagine what i feel.

The story is about 3 girls but currently it talks about the story of Mira, who is almost 30, i think, who has a crush on this guy that he met at a subway, called Peace.

It is the typical romantic comedy storyline. Tho personally i like how nice the people around Mira supports her and how Peace sees her. And i love how real it is to reality. Because Mira's reactions are the same reaction that i had whenever something lovey doey stuff happened to me. And she kinda experiencing what i had, so i end up supporting her as a reader.

Tho the sad part is that Mira has a good chance of having a special relationship while i have no chance cos i currently do not have somebody.

If only i have one.

Oh, based on the latest chapter, Peace and Mira are having an ending that i have not had yet. Haha.

Anyway, if you want to read the webtoon, download LINE Webtoon app and search the title. Plenty of good webtoons in there too. Tho my personal favourite is this story.

Again, i reviewed stuff again. Bye then! 😘