Exploring my allergic zone

You can definitely tell how I'm enjoying my holiday and feeling festival, having a Christmas decoration around my neck which I simply grab from Daiso from a random shopping this morning.

single eyelid so single LOL

Few days ago I went explore my allergic zone.
Saying myself allergic to seafood, I actually don't know how bad it is, as I was being a good kid keeping away from those food. (I even gave up my favorite Hokkien mee as it has prawns in it)

I used to enjoy seafood a lot when I was young, going out to the sea with Dad's friends, and enjoying a feast at night, having BBQ party at the backyard, shoving my face into the sea of seafood (gosh it rhymes! XD)
It'll usually ended up with my skin itchy that I scratch so much it'll end up bleeding with a kind of yellowish liquid (sry ewwwww). I used to attend ballet classes and I remember wearing those lace socks was a pain, as it'll usually scratch my skin and make the wound worse =/

Okay end of ewww-y story, so a restaurant nearby was having a new meal set with crabs and prawns, so my aunt jio-ed me for dinner to try out. It was satisfyingly good and goshhh I haven't been eating seafood for a couple years!

We finished it between three of us, and when I was halfway typing this blog, we went for the second time just now. Still nice.

Burppp. RIP.

Other than that, mostly time at home were spent with my loved ones. Reason that I think staying home is important.

trying out new recipes with mom

kacau at Dad's shop with grandpa

Bii is coming back from Japan tonight!!! Can't wait to see her and presents she bought for me!!!

Beside the safe line

My first year first semester's result's out.
Third time, still somewhere at another country, this time at an airport waiting for baggage check in.

Compared to the last two semester, it's much more stressful.
Reason1, I have a goal to reach, and if I fail to score higher than that, I'll be saying buhhbye to my current scholarship.
Reason2, I'm not focusing a lot at studies this semester, compared to the last two. I used to read more than I should as I'm interested, this semester I'm just trying to score those marks but not really learning =/

Gladly, luckily, I'm beside the safe line, in a good way.
Thank God I secured my scholarship for one more semester, which also means one more semester to be much more stressful as I've come such a long way, promise will study well and focus more.

I don't know who I should thank, as I was skipping class and was being blurred all time (don't learn guys, not good, serious) Maybe I should thank the papers for being not that hard this time (?) as I was expecting something harder (based on past year papers) and Lady Luck was seriously by my side as I know everything on the paper.

The worst part, probably that assignment-based unit. Screw it.
It's so hard to score and even following all those rules and doing my best, going for lots of consulting and doing everything I can to score higher, It's still much more lower than others unit.
Ironically, the unit that I put most time and effort turns out having the lowest marks. #reasonimnotstudyingcommerceorbusiness #isuckatassignments

Anyway, small pat on head for well done, huge punch on face for not giving all out.
I am still very grateful that the results left a happy ending for my trip and not ruining it. #thirdtime

At the same time, Zoe is having her sembreak and is going around Europe for a few weeks.
Bii just finished her performance as a cellist at Kyoto, now travelling around Osaka for a few days, fulfilling two dreams at the same time. Her PT3 result will be out tomorrow (I guess?) and she's now oversea with her principle, not sure how she'll check her result, I'm much more gamjiong than she is HAHA #travelledbacktostudywithher #moretokacauthantolong #butstill #wheretofindsislikethis
Hard work pays off, the backstage blood-sweat-tears part is never shown, I'm very proud of them being able to reach where they are right now, and did not give up! #proudsis

Ok, results out=drama mood. Kdramas for learning Korean I swear XD
I'm trying to do something new everyday, so far I still find my holiday fruitful and still a list of challenge, let's see when I'll get bored.

#travelwithmum Taiwan'16

After collecting my delayed baggage from the airport after doing my laundries, I can officially say that my trip with mum around Taiwan have officially comes to an end.
Tbh, I'm torn, tired, dying, but feeling... alive.
Until today I still can't feel my whole body (yes THAT tired) so sorry for the lack of update for more than half a month, I did make an effort to bring my laptop around with me, but it ended up adding those kilos I have to carry everyday.

We spent 11 days travelling (13 to be exact, including flying from AS to KL) starting from the north Taipei, following the west coastline down to the south KenDing, then going up to the north along the east coastline, making a round anticlockwise.

It all started when I promised mum saying that if I got a scholarship I'll spend that money bringing her to Japan (as that's my favorite country and I don't mind going lots of timesss)
I can't really recall why it ended up Taiwan, probably on one of my busy days I saw a promotion on flight tix to Taiwan, it probably lasted only two days and tickets were selling out very fast. I called my mum during her work asking whether is it okay, and the next moment I was already clicking that BUY button (rushing somewhere I guess).

I can't really put my time and effort in planning the trip, busy with finals and alls. If you tried planning out everything before, it is time consuming brain killing XD
I tried my best to at least book somewhere to stay, just not to find ourselves sleeping by the side of the road in the middle of the night. Other than that, I left it to fate (such irresponsible).

I really have to thank someone who helped me so much that my trip will be incomplete and not perfect without him. I depend on him literally every single day every hour every minute, yes YOU, Mr.GOOGLE !!!

I literally planned the next day's schedule the night before, no sleep and brainstorming every single night after the long day. If you're reading this, DO NOT DO THIS, its dangerous! Literally!!!

Sorry for the overflow ugliness of me and my nerdy specs ._.
I guess this is the truth behind those nice vacation pics, although its stressing myself out but for me this is also the fun part of it!

I've met a lot of people during this trips that made my trip much more interesting, listening stories and knowing every different people's thought of life. This might be what I gained most throughout.

Going travelling alone might no longer be a challenge for me, as I'm just okay enjoying all those hardships. Bringing my mum travelling definitely is, she'll of course babble about this and that, and making me stressful to make sure everything goes perfect.
Thanks to her I did not come back like a girl walking out from the forest, and huge thanks to mum that bear with every mistakes I did.
As I always believe that in a relationship one must always be giving, doing something, and not take for granted. I hope this small effort I did do successfully bring us closer, and I somehow feel it really did.

After all these BTS hope you guys still feel like going on a travel, if no, here's a video that might help. Enjoy.

Missing my flight...

So HI this is Aki updating from the airport waiting for my next flight.

I was counting how many flights I had taken this year so far and surprisingly there's 24 so far this year 0.o and maybe 6 more coming XD
The airport will probably be my next home, as usually I need to spend the night there for my transit, most of my blogpost and assignments were rushed there, already get used to dozing off at the cafe or maybe on the rows of bench at the airport for the night.
I like how I am feeling like a traveler (perasan haha) and I never get tired of this kind of experience, it makes me feel young feel alive feeling carefree.

Back to the topic, I'm now at the airport ready to fly back my hometown. I should be reaching by 9.40pm tonight and gahhh I can't wait to meet mummy and my dear Bii. Aunt was calling since two days ago want jio me out for dinner, I packed with excitement and reached the airport earlier than I should be, thrilled, can't wait to go home... until I check in.

Until I check in...

Stupid me bought the wrong date!!!

Yes! Wrong date!!!

I remembered I bought the tickets when I was very busy, I rushed home between classes to have a small rest, and I thought why not buy now. Scrolled through the airlines website, check and compared the prices, clicked buy, done.
The problem is I chose Decemeber instead of November!! (OK NOW LAUGH)

I was really panic that time, try to act like nothing happened, kept telling myself everything cool. Cool. Chill. Chillllllll.
I quickly find a place to settle down, dig out my phone to check flights available today, and damnnnnnn, expensively expensive!!!

I went to the kiosk and ask for a change of the tix, and of course I have to pay more to cover =/
I still need to go home anyway, but plan changed I now have to wait from 1pm until tonight 10pm for my flight, then spend the night at KLIA, taking the earliest flight tmr to get home. (which I supposed to be having a good night sleep on my bed at my home sweet home)

Lesson learnt, trying not to be clumsy like me.

But this is life right? There's mistakes done, lesson learnt, unavoidable.

Called mum and dad to tell them what happened their reaction was to laugh ._.
Excuse me your daughter almost can't make it home. Mum said she was sad as she looked forward for me to come home to hang out with her.

Another night at the airport, probably my 6th/7th night spent at the airport this year, plan to watch a concert video I downloaded and plan my coming adventures. Yay.

Entering degree...

It's another look-back-to-the-whole semester time, I'm sitting here in the all-packed-up empty house, me with my computer, enjoying the loneliness and quietness. I don't know how long will I be still doing this, but as long as I still feel the emotions coming, I will write it down here.

I have to say the way to start my degree life was amazing, drowning in all the workloads assignments and countless weekly quizzes, it felt like there is no end to this, catching up dateline and there was a time I felt like I can't breathe from all this tiring schedule.
But still, look a me, all still in a piece after the semester. Everything handled or been through seems so easy, proudly to say I've totally grown.

Starting the semester with ImpactShowcase as an Organizing Chairperson, it's the first one and the most meaningful one throughout the semester. That was during the start of the semester, when I was trying to catch up academically and dealing with the sudden workload and busy timetable. The event was a huge pain having something to be worried among the hectic.
Not saying it adds burden for me, it's much more like a runaway time. I get to rest and clear my mind from everything, focusing only on the preparation.
Other than that, I built really strong bond through this small event. I remembered when I was in Taiwan for the iContact camp, the OCP Angela told us, that a success event is not define by other things, but how strong the bond and how much everyone learnt. I'm really glad that we are very close until now, blessed by having them by my side.

Won't mention other events, I had countless, and I believe no matter how little, I grew.

At the end of the semester, I chose to close myself up for a month.
I was having a really down time, things too much to deal to handle to go through, I'm a kind of person that is more comfortable to keep everything in, not telling anyone.
I know there's a lot of people who were frustrated by me at that time (yepp I can totally feel duhhh) but I can't care anymore =/

As the semester came to an end, there's almost no class no quiz, I can choose to just stay at home whole day. My daily routine was wake up-study-sleep, but most of the time zoning out.
I've had sleepless night and understood the pain of insomnia. I had more than five nights having totally no sleep. Went to bed at 11pm, and see the clock ticking off. I had an electronic watch in my room so every hour there'll be a small 'beep'. I was listening to the beeps, one by one, and it's already morning. Woke up and start the day, tired but no sleep.

To make sure that I don't fall into the down atmosphere everyday, I chose to study not at home this time. Library was my second home and gahhhhh glad that I was productive and being able to concentrate.
I really had to say I had a great time studying at the library (sounds stupid but yes) As everyone should be quiet, we won't talk and that was the greatest thing. I need to concentrate so my phone was always away for the whole time only scroll through before I sleep, and it felt great to be disconnected haha.

Another huge thanks to my foetus group aka jio group for the last part of my study week. Studying with them might not be productive (singing songs all that), but less stress and more fun (which is what should be felt when studying XD)

Owhh and also huge thanks to dear Jonathan being a papa bringing us everywhere for midnight supper haha
Totally gained weight and fats because of that, time to keep fit starting right now =X

the empty icecream 

I will totally remember these days we went through together, a highlight of part of my degree life.

Leaving this time sounds much more sad as we had stronger bonds, not like last year which we went through only one semester.
Starting from next year we might be having different course and unit from now on, which means less time together *sobs*

Looking forward to my semester break as I'll be having lots of adventure!! Will try to update here =D

Halloween festival 2016

This is me all dressed up as Bloody Mary on that night, when I do it, I make sure I go full length HAHA

So I volunteered for VAD's Halloween Festival, just thinking that we don't need to pay LOL Well we did pay by giving hard work and seriously it's all worth it, I worked with a bunch of awesome people and had tonnes of fun working with them.

On that night, we had three different sections which used up half of the campus, which was fully decorated and seeing people all dressed up on that night was really fun. We had a haunted house, a game called ManVSMonster (which was playing RunningMan in a maze) and I was working under TrickOrTreats. What we have was a few stations playing all sorts of game and I'm under KimonoWink, which is find the difference in the dark, with someone disturbing, which is me XDDD

makeup halfway

I dressed up from 5.30pm, worked from 630-1130pm, all five hours with a new batch of people coming in every 5mins. It was VERY VERY TIRINGGGG. With the makeup on, rushing to set up the game after every batch left, then rushed and hide, come out again LOL

The fun part is of course seeing people screaming, some scared girls just kept screaming for the whole 5mins XDDD and some really macho guy all scared rolling on the floor hugging each other. There's also people that totally gave up playing and just used up their 5mins to take picture with me LOL (see, people pay just to see me MUAHAHA)
Most feedbacks they got is the BloodyMary in KimonoWink is very hiao, I have to declare that I was just disturbing them by touching them, playing their hair and looking them very close while they are trying to solve. (Well actually quite hiao also laa hahaha) But that's the fun part! Got the chance to touch hensem not good mehhh XD

I'm having mixed emotions throughout the five hours, feeling like break down because too tired and the thing is not even ending yet, and also feel fun playing and scaring people. I thought the hard part was over after the five hours but I was wrong! Taking off the makeup is another pain!!!
They used glue to stick tissues all over my eyes, and it's a very thick layer around the eye, which is the most sensitive part of the face with the thinnest skin. I tried to wet it before I tear it off but it didn't really helped. It was THAT pain that my tears came rolling out LOL

The atmosphere at the campus was so Halloween-ish, they set up th whole campus, even with Halloween fairy lights all the way, people were in their costumes and makeup. I missed that moment a lot by just hiding under a table in a classroom LOL

We finished everything at around 12am, cleaned up and put back all tables and chairs of the classroom and tidy up the place until 1am, then we had dinner ._.
It was a tiring, memorable, and crazy event, that I had a lot of fun working, knowing a lot of people, especially a few very sweet girls working with me <3

sweet and really lovely <33333

OPS & LWH

So yepp, this is Harith Iskander, in my university rec hall, giving a talk.

We AIESEC had a two days OPS which is known as Outgoing Preparation Seminar, a section where we prepare those potential EP before they start their life-changing journey.
I didn't spend the whole two days there, just a few session helping out and also free food XD

I joined whole last part of the OPS on the second day, just shortly in a few hours, I got so much motivation to go on, much more clearer on my goals. It felt like a session where I tidy up my mind, from all of the stressful and hectic academic peak weeks. #AIESECmagic

We wrote down our goals and expectations, which made me calm down clear my mind and focus on my heart but not my brain. Didn't expect it to be so useful, but the magic did works.

There's also some simple slides, that made me felt motivated again (seriously I was so tired and was in a very miserable state at that time) There was a session where we where given glow sticks and also after that they tied a string on our hand, that motivated me and last for a few days.

After that we tidied up a bit and I went to the LWH!!! Laugh With Harith Iskander!

When I know that he'll be coming to our university to give a talk, I was thinking MUST GO!
They're selling the tix for RM40 for students, which can be considered very cheap for an international comedian like him. Someone might feel like it's not worth it, but glad that we made up our minds very early, bought the tix early too and got a quite front row.

It felt much more like a mini runaway from all those assignments, quizzes and events. Even though some of the jokes can mostly be found online, but we still had a great time laughing with him XD
There's also two other Curtin students that grabbed the chance to step up on stage and told jokes, which was very funny too and relatable!
Other than Harith, there's also three other comedians that gave a talk. They were quite funny too, in a way, but one of the comedian... I just can't get his joke ._. to be very honest. It may be just because we're not on the same channel HAHA
Another quite shocking thing I found out is that Harith is an alumni of Curtin University! WOW! FYI youtuber JinnyBoyTV that was a DJ at HitzFm is also an alumni of Curtin. I found this out as dad sent me a youtube link he talked on Curtin youtube channel.

Great day spent.