YouTube: Love Letter To Malaysia

Hi there!
Happy Merdeka Raya~!
Well, I'm going to tell you about my Raya celebration later but first, I want to share about this awesome thing about: Love Letter to Malaysia.
The best part is...
I'm in it!
Check out  1:52 and 3:49. :)


I did this bentō long time ago.
I feel so patriotic on that day.
I know a lot of people who understand, will feel the same thing too.
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Does it ring a bell?

The video.. To be honest, it was kinda last minute because I was thinking about what should I write...
At last:

"Malaysia, Negaraku
How about you?"
It rhyme isn't it? :P

I know that its kind of not so clear in the video.. I'm out of black coloured pen.LOL
But when I took it using my camera it was solid nice.
Then converted it to wmv, then to mp4 format for Apple... it gets like that.
But... it turn out to be awesome!
Special thanks to Calvin Ong.

Binn Teoh come out with something interesting too.
Malaysia = Makan
hehe
It felt like Maths T though!
Equation and the word 'Since' for proving. LOL
Hope you reading this! :P

My turkey! Really Calvin, you make my turkey famous in the video!
The turkey really busybody. Haha!
Calvin suggested I name it Si Ketot Penyibuk. LOL!!!


My turkey also very patriotic~ He wanted to say how proud he is to be born in Malaysia!

What is independence mean to you Malaysian?

Merdeka Raya!

I'd like to use this opportunity to wish all the Malaysian Happy Independent Day!
Stay united and bring change to Malaysia towards a better future!


And...


Happy Eid ul Fitr
Selamat Hari Raya!
If I did or write anything that's offensive that hurts your feeling, that's unintentional and please forgive me.
May God bless all of us.

P.S: When I was recording the video, my mom was wondering what am I doing out there. She thought I was fighting with the turkey!
Sweat*

Hey there~

Hey there!
It's going to be Raya soon!
Tup tap tup tap, it has been 9 months after STPM exam.
Another few weeks, I'm going to University for my degree.
I still remember that I started to fell in love with electronics when I was 14 years old.
I am still stand firmly with my decision even though my Physics for electrical part isn't that strong.
But I'm determined to focus in the university so that I can get high CGPA and I need to start from the first semester. I'm talking about the 1st day of University.
I get the course that I want and this is the time for me to focus.
I seriously want to go Japan.
That never change.
Every time I stumble across Japanese word like hiragana and katakana, I get excited for no reason.
Yeah.
Lol.

The most dangerous place for me to visit is Isetan, Kinokuniya and Daiso (so far) that sell cute stuff from Japan.
sometimes I don't think twice before buying it!!
See! So dangerous.
especially they write there "MADE IN JAPAN" or "PRODUCT OF JAPAN".
Talking about my obsession...
It's insane!

Well, there're Raya preparation that we have to do here.
Summer cleaning! Still, not yet clean my room.
Haha.
Going to clean it soon.

P.S: I lose almost more than 4 kg this month! lol.
My weight now can be considered as the lightest in 8 years.
Need to lose more or maintain.
Addicted to iPad's game for a while and its getting boring because its free.lol

UPDATE: It is drafted and posted on 29 Jan 2014.. lol

Good and Bad... A karma?

Hello dear readers!!!
I'm sorry for not updating much lately even though there's a lot of things had happen to me after my last post.
But I'd like to write about the latest thing that happen to me.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

1 good news and 1 unhappy and bad news.
Which one you want to know 1st?

Okay, let's start with a bad news so that we have a happy ending, shall we?

The bird is on the right.

The major bad news is that my lovely cute little magpie robin died.
I'm very shocked and sad to hear the news.
My dad said that he saw the bird was not so active and he brought the bird outside.
My dad leave the bird outside and he'll do some work inside the house.
Suddenly when my dad went outside, my dad saw the bird's cage was on sideways and the bird was not there.
Then my dad search for the bird.
Then saw the cat eating the poor little bird.
My dad attacked it with the projectile stone and injured the cat.

Maybe the cat was hungry... but I still don't want and still cannot to forgive the cat!

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Let's move on to the good news shall we?

I received an iPad 2 for my 20th birthday!
OMG! I was so shocked and surprised!
Not to mention how happy I am too.
Who don't feel happy when receive such gadget for free right?
Thank you so much!!

iPad 2 16GB. 3G + WiFi. Enough for me! ^_^

My blog on laptop and iPad. The background kinda bad looking on iPad though.. Duh.

Never in my wildest dream would imagine to have an iPad since I'm not working these 9 months holidays.
It kinda felt like I've wasted my teen life.
Thank God that I took music class, violin and piano.
Or else the 9 months of my youth life is totally wasted!
Anyway, I am so determine to do great in my exam in university.
I am so determine to be the best.
Wish me all the best!!

I love the iBooks A LOT!! No need to buy books. Can get book for free there too.

P.S: I bought the cover film for RM70 with anti-dust and anti-fingering.
Then I don't observe the instruction carefully (Picture without word)
I screwed up the film T.T (Wu..wu...)
Ended up with bubbles~
There's no use to get angry... just buy new one with my duit Raya then. :'(

Ugly bubbles pissed me off! My fault. T.T

The soft cover that I bought also the cashier didn't take out the security plastic tag.
Cannot use also... >_<;;


I think more unfortunate thing happen to me then.
Never mind... Good thing will happen to me soon.
I hope.


Sacrifice a lovely bird for iPad seems a lot...

Yasmin Ahmad, A legend

I was surfing around YouTube searching for nice commercial video and I stumble across this video:

I feel extremely touched by the video.
Beautifully carved by the Malaysia's most talented Filmmaker.

I never know about this person.
I never even bother to know this person.
I know that she passed away few years ago.
Who is she?

I always enjoy the commercials by the Oil and Gas Company, Petronas every year since I'm young.
They have wonderful message at the end of the commercial.
Some make us cry, some make us laugh and some make us inspired.

However, I never wanted to find out about who is behind the scene.
But I am now.
I guess it is too late.
But her legacy still remain strong.
Based on her work, and her achievement.
She is a legend.
For Past, Present and Future generation.
True Malaysian at heart.

She won numerous award both locally and internationally.
Make Malaysian proud.

I just found out that she had a blog. Two blog actually.
http://yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com/ (Closed)
http://yasminthefilmmaker.blogspot.com/ (Latest till her death)

There was a last blog post.
1 days before her stroke attack.
3 days before her death.
She even comment back those who comment on her post.

I tried to post a comment but...

I guess my comment will not get approval. Forever.

Of course there's a lot of debate about her, both good and bad.
But the thing is that the way her work inspire a lot of people, not many can do that.
I'm proud that she's a Malaysian and she wanted to make Malaysia recognized by the world through her film.
Al-Fatihah.
Rest in Peace.

Some of the info I got from: Wikipedia - Yasmin Ahmad
Click here to read Tributes For Yasmin Ahmad

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I wonder...
The blog alive if the owner is alive.
When the owner died, the blog still alive?
What if the owner still alive and the blog died?
I guess... the blog hold pieces of the owner, alive and the moment freeze at the last blog post.

I wonder...
It'll happen to me one day.
It might happen to lots of blogger out there too.
If the blog is a personal blog.
When you're the only admin and the only owner of the blog.

It must be really interesting reading all those unapproved comments.
Sure got loads of it.

Life is temporary.
Live life to the fullest and use the time that we have left wisely.

Yasmin Ahmad death was a sudden death due to stroke.
It was so sudden and fast.
Not even have the time to say goodbye.

A question though.
How would you like your life ended?

I would like to died in peace as a Muslim with Syahadah at the end.
I wanted to have my own kids that pray for me everyday.
I would want to donate my healthy body part to those in need, if possible.
Insyaallah.

A Post Dedicated to a Friend: princessvd a.k.a. Seryna Jin H S

Hi there!
I'd like to make a post dedicated to this special friend of mine friend on her birthday today!
Happy 20th Birthday princessvd a.k.a. Seryna Jin H S !!

Well, SHE is not a usual friend that we met at school, no no.
We became friend because of our interest and passion to achieve or dreams.
Despite the differences, we have quite a lot of thing in common.
Such as... we are LEOs!
Rawr!

She's mixed blooded (Chinese+Indian=Chindian) and a Penangite.
I'm mixed blood too but Chinese+Malay yadda yadda~~
Anyway, she can speak 5 languages : Malay, English, Tamil, Mandarin and Indonesian in present and adding Korean and Japanese to the list too.
Big big clap for her!!!

She can speak Mandarin very fluently! 0.0!!
I was like (WOW!) when I heard she talk in Chinese in YouTube.
Check out her YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePrincessvd
Amazing!

A little bit about this mysterious girl...
We started our friendship around Dec 2010 when she added me on Facebook.
She accidentally found this blog when she was surfing the net to find out about Monbukagakusho exam.
She's just an ordinary girl with passion to pursuit her dream despite the enormous challenges ahead.
She has an incredible passion for medicine and she wanted to become an Oncologist!
I truly support her for that!

We both share common thing.
That is we took a journey less people take.
The road less traveled.
We're lone rangers, no more!
Even though it is risky, the experience that we gain is priceless.
Being different is not easy.
Being Leo, we are brave to take the risk!

She's a prefect too~ Well, I become a prefect when I'm in Form 6 but she's a prefect all her school life.
She must be some sort of leader!
Quote from her, "The best moment of mine, life is all about discipline!!"
So true~
Another great quote from her:

"What is good about being a real prefect is, you will never attempt "school crimes" because you are in-charged to be against it. In that way, your self-discipline will be automatically trained in you & it will shape you into one of the guidance/example for your juniors to follow."

We both do have interest in music.
We both love singing. We enjoy good music too.
She enjoys writing songs but she wanted to focus on medicine because medicine lead to a more brighter future.
Maybe she'll do part time music. Who knows? =)

We met each other is during Monbukagakusho exam last May (Click here to go to the post)
She's such a wonderful person.
I think if we have whole day, we will talk non-stop! haha!
She have a great and cool personality, open-minded, a person with goal and aim not to mention original too. =)

I did mention her name few times in my blog.
So let me give a proper introduction to her blog~!

Let me present you.....

http://princessvd.blogspot.com/

<< The facts that I face on this endless world will be carved on this one and only blog >>

Click click on the link and go visit her awesome blog!

Click here to see the cool post that she made dedicated to me!

I hope our friendship last forever!

Go go! LEO GURL!

My 20th birthday...

Hey there.
Today I'm 20.
I am no longer a teenager.
I'm a young adult now.

Lets talk about today.
15th August 2011.
Today is my birthday.


15th August this year coincidentally is on the 15th of Ramadan.
With beautiful full moon today.
1st day of the week, Monday.
16/7 for Chinese Calendar: Hungry Ghost festival.

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My turkey lay her first egg today.

Today is coincidentally is a Hungry Ghost festival.
So there's loud noise near my house here.
Like a party. Sort of.
Not my party.

Today is full moon.
Beautiful moon tonight.

My 20th birthday is a extremely normal day.
Which make me extremely sad.
I'd like to have special something on my birthday.
Well, I hope too much is it?

No cake, no friends and no presents.
I miss those time that I open the present's wrapper to see what's inside.
Nobody give me any sort of that.
I guess I need to grow up.
I can't expect present isn't it?

Well, I still feel grateful that I receive a birthday card from lovely 3 pretty ladies, Michelle, April and Mandy 4 days before my birthday :')
Thank you so much!

No cake candle, the normal candle also can la~

I really enjoy meeting you guys! Hope to meet you pretty ladies again!

I get ang pau from my dad for my birthday. =')

I get 1 day free talk time by Hotlink and birthday voucher from J-card membership that I need to go and collect.

Other than that, I get SMS from my close friends.

I didn't online one whole day.
Because I just feel sad...
I feel so envious for those who get to celebrate their birthday with friends, cakes and presents.
My birthday always been the most unhappy day.
I wonder when the time come when I'll be happy.

When I was a small girl, we always have birthday party.
School, Ibu's house, my house...
We invite friends and families.
We have cute gifts, cake and a loud birthday song for me.

I'm just letting my honest feeling here.
I know there're more unfortunate person out there who are not as blessed as me.

20th birthday cake not for me to eat. 2 leaves = 20 =')

For my little chickens!

I guess my 20th birthday I celebrated with my little chicks and chickens.
I sound so pathetic isn't it?
Well I am.

I'd like to take the opportunity here to thank to about 110 friends from Facebook who wish me Happy birthday.

Thank you so much ='')

Fascinating Facts about Fasting for Health :)

Hello~
In the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims are required to fast for a month.
So why are we fasting anyway?
There's a lot of benefits of fasting!
I stumble across a very nice article about fasting.
Its written by both Muslim and non-Muslim.
In my opinion, fasting is universal.
And there's another article from Muslim's point of view.
There's so many articles in the net. I select few to share it here.

In short, for Islam, fasting includes:

Thanks to princessvd a.k.a. Seryna Jin H S (^_^)v

For me, fasting month is not about Bazaar Ramadan.
Haven't visit any Bazaar Ramadan yet!lol
It is about cleansing ones body and soul.
This is not only for Muslims, non-Muslims can get benefits form fasting too!



The 1st article that I'd like to share is from celestinechua.com
The article talks about her Fasting Experiment including benefits of fasting according to her research.
It is the claimed to be the most complete fasting series you’ll ever find online.
It is very informative and worth reading if you are searching for answers. :)

I grab some of the catchy title for summary:
1. What's Water Fasting?
2. Why Fast? (Benefits of fasting)
   - Natural Way to Heal
3. Why I Embarking on this Fast?
   - Immense Benefits of Fasting: Mental Clarity, Increased Creativity, etc
   - Emotional Purging
   - Enabling Others to Learn and Grow
   - Weight loss
   - Building a New Relationship with Food
4. How Long Should One Fast?
   Stage 1: Daily food

   Stage 2: Glycogen from liver (Glycogenolysis)

   Stage 3: Glycogen from our muscles

   Stage 4: Ketosis (Fasting)

   Stage 5: Starvation (eventually leading to death)...etc.

Some of the catchy facts:

These tend to happy from Day 3 onwards of their fast. One of the big reasons is because since there’s nothing to digest, our body stops diverting energy to our digestive systems and instead directs them to our brain, leading to higher level output (i.e. thinking and creative work).

Discover the technique of correct fasting so that you'll gain the benefits that you wanted for your health!

No worries for the Muslims though.
Since we've been practicing since small.
Plus, there's guideline that is made especially for Muslims.
Follow it, and God's willing, you'll be fine. :)

I found the next article regarding fasting and Islam.
I copy and paste from this site: http://forums.understanding-islam.com/showthread.php?945-Health-Benefits-of-Fasting
Edited by emphasizing some facts since the article is quite long.

Health Benefits of Fasting

Food is needed by the body to provide energy for immediate use. This is done by burning up carbohydrates, that is, sugar. Excess of carbohydrates which cannot be used are stored up as fat tissue in the muscles and as glycogen in the liver for future use. Insulin, a hormone from the pancreas, lowers blood sugar and diverts it to other forms of energy storage, that is, glycogen. To be effective, insulin has to be bound to binding sites called receptors. Obese people lack receptors. Therefore, they cannot utilize their insulin. This may lead to glucose intolerance.

When one fasts (or decreases carbohydrate intake drastically), it lowers one's blood glucose and insulin level. This causes a breakdown of glycogen from the liver to provide glucose for energy needs and break-down of fat from adipose tissue to provide for energy needs. On the basis of human physiology described above, semi-starvation (ketogenic diets) have been devised for effective weight control. These diets provide a calculated amount of protein in divided doses with plenty of water, multivitamins, etc. These effectively lower weight and blood sugar, but because of their side effects, should be used only under the supervision of physicians.

Total fasting reduces or eliminates hunger and causes rapid weight loss. In 1975, Allan Cott in his Fasting as a Way of Life, noted, "Fasting brings a wholesome physiological rest for the digestive tract and central nervous system and normalizes metabolism." It must be pointed out, however, that there are also many adverse effects of total fasting. That includes hypokalemia and cardiac arrhythmia associated with low calorie starvation diets used in unsupervised programs.


The process of decomposing and eliminating waste toxic materials by means of Islamic fasting can improve or even cure the above mentioned diseases and other ones such as : cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, diseases of digestive system, diseases of the locomotor system including rheumatism, respiratory system diseases including asthma, and the early stage of malignant diseases like cancer.
  
 1-All mucus diseases such as colds, flu, asthma, hay fever, sinus and bronchial troubles are rapidly dissolved and eliminated from the body, leaving the user free from the varied allergies which cause difficult breathing and clogging of the sinus cavities…. I.E: My aunty used to be a patient that suffered from a severe asthma for 2 decades or 3. When she was over 50 she decided to observe the sunna fasting (every Monday and Thursday). As a result, she was thoroughly cured after a period of time.

   2-The types of diseases that are a result of calcium deposits in the joints, muscles, cells, and glands are readily dissolved and removed from the body. Cholesterol deposits in the arteries and veins also respond to the cleansing power of fasting (p13).

   3-Fasting can be used to normalize our weight. As our common sense says, weight reduction is achieved by fasting, along with other health benefits. There are many diet programs using an unbalanced diet that can be dangerous for our health. Fasting is a natural way to normalize our body weight.

   4-Fasting dissolves all unnecessary and unnatural fat deposits all over the body and the body is relieved of a tremendous burden.

   5-When we fast for a few days, the stomach shrinks to its normal size and the hungry feeling gradually fades away. When we go back to the normal diet, we won’t have exaggerated hunger and won’t overeat (Bragg & Bragg, 1999).

   6-Surprisingly enough, fasting programs can be used for underweight people who cannot gain weight even if they stuff themselves with many fattening foods. The cause of both overweight and underweight is a nutritionally unbalanced diet. “People are not nourished in proportion to amount of food they eat, but in proportion to how much they digest and assimilate” (Bragg & Bragg, 1999, p120). Thus what underweight people need is exactly what overweight people need revitalizing the digestive and assimilative systems to work efficiently.

   7-As metabolism is improved through fasting, the body recuperates the capability to assimilate proteins, fats, carbohydrates, starches, sugars, minerals, vitamins and all other essential nutrients necessary because all organs work properly after fasting.

   8-The human body uses the skin as a secondary eliminative organ. Because conditions such as boils, abscesses, carbuncles, and pimples are the body’s effort to eliminate poisons, skin problems also disappear as the rest of the body is cleansed (Burroughs, 1976).

   9-The stomach, intestines and colon are given a complete rest by the fast and are enabled to repair damaged structures. Piles, proctitis, colitis, appendicitis, enteritis, enteric fever (typhoid), gastritis, etc., speedily recover under the fast. The alimentary tract becomes practically free of bacteria during a fast. The small intestines become sterile.

   10- It renew cells, in other words, those who fast look younger than those who don’t. Amazingly, when someone looks at the face of a 40-year-old Muslim woman who reared eight children, they might think she is under 30.

Obviously, this is due mainly to fasting.

Finally, fasting can help people to break addictions to harmful substances: tobacco, drugs, alcohol, tea, coffee, and other habit-forming beverages. 


Fasting leads our body to get rid of stored poisons, including addictive substances, and we lose our craving and tolerance for them. 


Thus after fasting we will feel nausea or sometimes have attacks of vomiting, “nature’s purge” if taking addictive substances.

Don't worry if you have bad breath when you fast! It just means that your body is functioning well.

Your bad breath is the result of the elimination of toxins from your body and will shift as your body gets clean. (Q12 Your Fasting Q&As)

You might also like:
Benefits of Fasting
Mosque Leader Explains Ramadan: 'You Feel What Hunger Means'
Benefits of Ramadan - What are the benefits of fasting during Ramadan

Fasting has a lot of benefits and not to mention to get closer to God.
It is not about hungry and thirst. It is more than that.
Islam is amazing.
The more question about why, the more reason for me to love Islam.
Muslims is another story.
Muslim does not necessarily equal to Islam.
So mind the word.

I hope I teach a lot about fasting to myself and you, my blog reader.
Malaysia is a diverse nation with so many culture and religion.
We respect each other's believe.

If you like to insult other people's believe, please be repent.
There's always reason why don't have one religion only in the world.
With differences, we united.
Use the gift of sense to judge something, not by using emotion.
No matter who you are, understanding and respect is very important in life.

I would like to close my post with this wonderful music video.

Great song! I'm so touched. Beautiful voice.

Thank you again to princessvd a.k.a. Seryna Jin H S

"One who, while fasting, neither guards his tongue from telling lies nor refrains from doing bad deeds does not respect his fast, while Allah does not approve of mere abstention from food... When you fast, you should not speak ill of anybody, nor should you be boisterous or noisy. If anybody speaks ill of you or tries to pick a quarrel with you, do not respond to him in the same manner; rather, simply tell him that you are fasting. :) "

May Allah accept our fasting, forgive our sins, and guide us all to the Straight Path. May Allah bless us all during Ramadan, and throughout the year, with His forgiveness, mercy, and peace, and bring us all closer to Him and to each other.

Happy Ramadan!

Happy Ramadan!

It has been a while since I updated my blog. I have a lot of things to share but I am too tired to write it, lazy and no internet access at my current location. Haha

I'll post about it when I'm ready with the materials for it. ^^

A little bit about my blog…

Well, this blog is mostly about me and what happens around me. It sounds selfish isn’t it? But this is my blog, my digital diary that anyone can read. I love to share my feeling, experience and things happen around me. I’m a very mysterious person who loves to see the occurrence of numbers. Sometimes you can see my blog’s date and time is somehow related.

Thank you so much for those who visited my blog and read my post!

This month is the holy month of Ramadan. I'd like to get closer to god.

Its amazing that Ramadan in 2011 start on 1st of August.

My birthday is on 15th August, it is during full moon.

I want to lose a bit of weight too this month :)

I'm targeting to achieve 49 kg. At least 50kg.

I'm around 52.5kg after breaking fast and 51.5kg before breaking fast.

I mean, it is not wrong to be moderate isn't it?

I'm not eating a lot and I still chasing around my chickens.lol

Need to help my dad harvesting chilies tomorrow.

Hope my metabolism stay strong till the end of the month.

My birthday this year... not expecting anything.

Maybe birthday wishes through facebook, I'm sure.

It has been a while since I get anything for my birthday.

Birthday present is rare nowadays.lol

Anyway, my birthday is on holy month means that I can get more pahala from God!

My journey as a Muslim is different than other people. 

But with the same goal and purposes.

I'd like to share more recipes from my mother since I got a lot of hits for my 1st recipe. ^^

I'll slowly compose my next post soon!

Happy Ramadan again!