First time gastric pain

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As the title said, yes I got my first gastric pain last week. I saw my friends have had this kind of pain before and it looks painful, not gonna lie. She could not even sit straight up. Now I know how it felt like.

The first day I had it was on 12th January. I was so lucky the pain started right after I had my quiz, or else I wouldn't have survived. I went in and out of the toilet 3 times. The pain was bearable at first but then it started to grow. The day before it, I didn't eat for the whole day except for dinner where my friend and I ate shawarma and I also ate buttermilk chicken rice. I didn't think anything as my friend also ate the shawarma and she was fine.

But then I can't sit or walk for the whole day and night. The only time I didn't feel any pain was when I was asleep. But then the pain was still there whenever I woke up. Let's just say I sleep restlessly for the whole day and night. I only woke up to pray and ate a little instant porridge and that's it. My friend bought me moi sup (nasi air or bubur orang Melayu selalu panggil I think, idk kat perlis we call this moi sup) for my dinner and the sambal was a little spicy. I ate a few spoons and went back to sleep.

The next day on 13th January, the pain was still there. Although not as painful as before, the pain was still ever-present. My friend bought me rice and savoury chicken. I did not know you cannot eat rice when you're having gastric pain. I ate half of it and then I was done. I did my assignment, play some games and took several naps.

When the third day came and the pain was still there, my parent asked me to go to the clinic. I did, and yep my fear came true. I had food poisoning and gastric. I did not know where the food poisoning came from because my friend ate the same thing I did. But then she had her breakfast while I skipped and only ate dinner. Gastric was one thing I did not want but it happened.

I have been eating once per day for a long time now. It was my own fault and no one else. I skipped breakfast and lunch every day all because I was too lazy to go out and buy something to eat... please don't be like me. Value yourself more. I usually had my lunch very late at 4-5pm and did not eat dinner after that. Sometimes I just had a light meal of instant noodles or instant porridge. It was not enough.

The point here is to not skip your meal no matter how busy you are. Always have a snack right by your side and eat it! Eating is the most important thing. I didn't think much of eating because I felt it waste of my time. I can do a lot more than go walking to the cafe to buy some food. Also my weight increases every time I weigh myself, so I never thought I can get gastric. Well, I thought wrong. 

Do any of you have gastric too? I'm eating oat now for breakfast and it was so bland. I did not know how to make it taste good. If you have any suggestions, feels free to share them with me :)

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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Recap and Lessons of 2021 | A to Z ver.

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Happy new year! May all your wishes comes true, may Allah bless everything that you have done or going on in your life. Don't forget to take care of your health. Be kind to others as you want others to be kind to you. Love yourself, so that you have so much love that you can give to others too.

2021 have brought so many new experiences to me. Without further ado, let's get to it, shall we.

Annual blog post is here again! I always make a recap & lessons every year - or at least I tried to. This is one of the ways for me to remind myself what every year have brought to me. A way for me to be thankful and a way for me to remind myself of the lessons it has brought.

Birth of my first nephew. The best thing that ever happened this year was the birth of my very first nephew in March. We are so blessed to have him in our life.

Cameron Highland. It was the first time I went to Cameron Highland with my friends. Never in my life, a road trip with friends will be possible, but here were are. We went to Cameron Highland in November, right after our industrial training.

Dancing is such a good workout. Except when you are following hard choreographies. Three songs in and already felt like dying...

Eid 2021. Blessed to be there with the whole family during eid, along with my new nephew. Our colour theme was blue!

Fangirling. It has been a long time since I last fangirling over a group of boys. I was a One Direction fan throughout school until they "disband". Still cannot believe I am a K-Pop fan now. Specifically, an Ateez fan called Atiny! They came into my life without knocking and here to stay. Definitely felt the presence in my wallet, considering how much it took for merch and stuff...

Genshin Impact is part of my life now. I play this game literally every day except for days I have so many assignments to do. I started playing seriously during April when my friend started playing too. Add me if you play this game too, we can play together!

Have a moment to myself. There are days where I want to have a moment to myself. I just want to keep quiet and be left with my thoughts. Living with a roommate does not mate this easy though. The air feels heavy somehow...

Industrial training. I have shared with you my past internship during my diploma, but I did not share anything for my degree internship. It is because I did my internship in pandemic at my university. It was pretty uneventful. Every day I did the same work except for a few weeks I have to go to the laboratory for other works. However, I am grateful for the internal internship as I was able to complete the industrial training.

Just one more photocard doesn't hurt. it does... it is hurting my wallet... need to learn when to stop...

Knitting. I have developed a new hobby which is knitting, crochet or amigurumi. Maybe amigurumi is the perfect term to describe it as I love to knit dolls. I started knitting for fun since my mom is so good at it and I want it too. Remember that I did a little bit of embroidery in 2019? So I want to try other things and I chose this. I enjoyed doing it and I plan to do many more of it this year.

Langkawi. It was the first time in 23 years of my life I went to Langkawi. I went with my friends during our internship and it was a short 3 days getaway. I had so much fun, although there have some things that I wished I can do differently.

"Make it make sense," I think I have been saying this a lot this year because lots of things are not making sense. This is not just about my daily life but beyond it. I don't want to elaborate more. 

Never mind what people say about me. I feel like responding with "sounds like your problem" make my life easier when there are people who gave unsolicited advice. You don't like something I like? Oh, sound like your problem or in Malay Id like to reply with "itu kau punya pasal"

Online classes, online quizzes, online tests. Everything is online now. If you don't have any line, then you're doomed. I need to service my laptop soon...

Pulling an all-nighter seems like an easy task for me nowadays. Stay up till late to finish my works. Just a normal student life.

Quality time with my friends of 10 years. It has been so long since we hang out together, but we managed to during my mid-sem break. It is so hard to do so when everyone has their own schedules, but somehow we managed to. Blessed.

Remember to love me so that I can love others. My bias keeps saying these words. Before giving your love and happiness to someone, love and care about yourself first. This may seem insignificant, but we always overlook ourselves. Be kinder to myself. Be more forgiving to myself.

Semester break. This year was the first semester break I didn't go back to my home. I was here since May, finish my semester, continue with internship then I have a chance to go home. With the pandemic, I truly have no chance to go home. It was the longest I have been away which is 5 months.

Turtle egg incubator is our ongoing project for course material selection and design. We were asked to do a project with the theme of "Creating Job: Material Engineer IR 4.0" and chose to do a turtle egg incubator, but during our first Viva, we were asked to make it universal. Please pray for our project to be a success!

Unapologetically say "No". I have said before that I want to learn how to unapologetically says no when people ask me something I don't want or don't want to do. I think I am getting good at it.

Vaccinated! I got Sinovac for my first and second dose of vaccines. Thank god I did not experience any side effects except for a sore arm. I also received my booster (Pfizer) last week. I did have a fever for a day, but after that sore arm for 2 days and I am good to go.

Went to watch Spiderman: No Way Home with my friend! It has been so long since I last go to a cinema. Before covid, I think? So it is good to experience it again.

X - ok let's be real... I can't think of any word...

Year mixed of new things, good things and bad things that give me lessons. After all that happened, I am still grateful for what happened happened. Wishing for this year to brings a lot more happiness in our life~

Zealous. How I wish I have more energy and enthusiasm in pursuit of my goals. Let's keep working hard this year too!

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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Online classes and I

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    It has been 5 months since my last update. Nothing has changed much except that I am now in the 6th semester of my degree. It has been 1 year and 3 months since I started online classes. I have shared my thoughts before on what I felt, if you are interested in reading that, you can click >here<. I went back to my home in Selangor in February, and now I am back here in Perlis. There are procedures that we have to follow to allow us to be here. My university gave us 2 choices by either doing a swab test or isolation. And I chose the swab test as I want to make sure that I really have not caught any virus. Thankfully, the test was negative.

Today I want to share with you how I take my notes during online classes. I know most students don't really take notes as they rely on the lecture's notes, but taking my own notes has been the most effective. You can click on the pictures to see them in better resolution.

1. During class.

            There are 2 ways on how I take notes during class.

            i) If my lecturers did not give lecture's notes beforehand.

    This also depends on the format of the notes. Usually come will give in pdf and others will give in PowerPoint. I annotate all the things that my lecturers said that is not available in the notes. for example, new information or detailed explanation that is not included in the notes. This is important as lecturers love asking things out of the notes during tests or quizzes. I use a pen tablet to write on the slide. I used Wacom One that I bought from Shopee (not spons). I bought it during a sale, so the price was not that high. 

    This is an example of taking note while in synchronous class. I usually put my note and Google meet side by side like this, so that I know what page the lecturer is on. I don't use any special apps, just use the existing Microsoft PowerPoint and the draw function. You will automatically get it when you connect your laptop to your pen tablet.

    This is an example of lecture's notes in pdf format. I just use the normal, free Acrobat Reader and use the comment and highlight feature. I don't usually write on pdf because the pen is not that good, in my opinion. So I just use the comment feature and note down everything my lecturer said.

    And lastly, this is an example of me taking notes during asynchronous class. I have synchronous classes during the day and asynchronous classes during the night (who says ODL is not stressing?) My lecturers will provide us with recorded videos for us to review during the class. There is no difference between sync and async classes except that one is pre-recorded and the other is a real-time online class.

            ii) If my lecturers did not provide any notes beforehand

    This is where I have to really focus in class, and most of the time failed to do so... I use my notebooks and write as notes simple as possible. It is still the same concept except without lecture notes, so I have to write twice faster. Both what is written on the notes and what is not written in the notes.

2. After class

    I use OneNote as my go-to digital note-taking app. At first, I can't really get used to it, but slowly but surely I can control my handwriting. It feels write to write on en tablet while your eyes are glued to the laptop's screen. I started doing digital notes by the end of last semester. It is because I feel like using papers are such a waste of resource. My whole university life has me writing notes on books and papers. Don't get me wrong, it does work and easier to flip through. But more and more I think this is not worth it especially when having online classes where lecture notes are digitally too.

    This is a sample of my note in OneNote. I rarely do this as my classes already consume most of my time. I barely have time to do my assignments, so writing a full note is something I do when I really have time. Otherwise, I just rely on the notes I wrote during the lectures. 

This post is getting long now, so I am just going to stop here. I wish all students fighting! I am here in Perlis because I have lab works I have to complete. I haven't started my lab yet, as it is scheduled to start next week but we will see since we are in lockdown right now. I just want to start and end this lab for good now.

Take care of yourself 💖

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum.

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Pasar Terapung, Perlis

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Hari ni I nak kongsi dengan korang satu tempat menarik dekat Perlis. Korang mungkin dah tahu sebab ada akaun @PerlisAktif di Twitter dan bagitahu tentang tempat ni. Tapi I nak juga kongsikan pengalaman I sendiri pergi kat sini. I pergi sebelum pengumuman PKP lagi, 3 Januari 2021. Dah lama baru nak kongsikan dekat sini. Asyik tak berpeluang je nak menulis. Tulis assignment lagi penting haha.

I tak tahu korang tahu ke tak yang I bukan orang Perlis. I belajar je di salah satu universiti kat sini. Jadi dari kolej kediaman I naik bas ke KWSP Kangar. Haa lepas tu mula la sesi berjalan dengan kawan I. Alhamdulillah cuaca masa tu elok je walau sedikit mendung.

Pasar terapung ni bertempat di Pengkalan Assam, Kangar atau dikenali sebagai Denai Larian. 

Jadi kami berjalan dari KWSP ke Pengkalan Assam tu. Jalan kaki dalam setengah jam atau lebih ada kot. Pertama kali kami pergi jadi tak sedar sejauh tu la. Rupanya ada je jalan shortcut. Dah balik baru tahu -_-

Sebelum masuk kami kena scan MySejahtera dan scan suhu dulu baru boleh masuk. Bila dah berjalan di tempat yang ramai orang, kena pandai jaga diri sendiri contohnya jaga penjarakan sosial. Jumlah sampan yang ada hanya 10. Kira okay la sebab tasik di situ pun tak besar mana pun. Selain dari penjualan makanan dekat sampan tu, ada jugak yang jual di bawah khemah.

Aktiviti yang ada hanyalah kayak dan naik sampan. Seorang RM2 selama 20 minit. Macam menarik tapi kami tak naik pun sebab waktu tu mendung sangat dah. Gambar-gambar di dalam post ini telah di-edit jadi tak nampak sangat mendung tu.

Ada banyak meja dan kerusi disediakan di tepi tasik. Jadi selepas buat pembelian pengunjung boleh duduk mana kat situ. Makanan yang dijual pun boleh tahan, berpatutan dengan harga. Kami beli:

• Somtam mangga - RM5
• Rojak buah - RM5
• ABC - RM3.50

Ini memang harga biasa kat Perlis ni. Somtam tu ada tempat yang lebih murah dan sedap dari kat situ tapi kalau nak cuba okay je. Ada banyak lagi makanan yang kami tak sempat nak rasa sebab lepas tu hujan turun selenbat-lebatnya. Nasib baik kami berdua bawak payung seorang satu. Berlindungkan payung je la duduk di kerusi dan meja yang disediakan sambil makan makanan yang kami beli. Gambar pun tak sempat nak ambil ;-;

Pengalaman yang menarik walaupun bagi sesetengah orang dekat sini kosong je takde apa. I rasa seronok je perhgi sini sambil exercise kaki. Haa lepas tu balik rumah 3 hari sakit peha. I tak biasa jalan jauh-jauh ^^"

Kalau korang datang ke Perlis, jangan lupa singgah kat sini. Ada lagi tempat menarik kat Perlis ni yang I tak jejak lagi. Padahal dah 4 tahun duduk sini haha. Nanti bila I pergi, I akan kongsikan kat sini lagi.

Sehingga I menulis lagi,

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Recap and Lessons of 2020

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Happy new year! May Allah bless us this year. May everything will be better this year too. Don't forget to take care of yourself. Value yourself more than you value others. Remember mental health is as important as physical health.

What a year 2020 has been. There are some things that I’m grateful to experience for the first time. Such as those things I have done in quarantine (click to read about it). Also, nothing is stopping me from browsing and buying things online especially when there’s a sale every month. Well, there’s something for sure: an empty bank account.

Let’s recap this year, shall we?

1/3 of 2020: January – April

• February: First time went to a salon and get my hair professionally cut
• March: Made first ceramic, first went to Cameron Highland with my friends, first online class, first lockdown

That’s a lot of firsts in March. Little did past me know that everything would happen so fast. It was a week after we went to Cameron that lockdown happened. Thankful we had time to go there before everything else happened. 

COVID-19 widely spread all over the world and we had our country on lockdown. Months spent in a house. Good and bad things happened but they all in the past now. Alhamdulillah, no one in my family gets sick from the virus. I hope you are well too. Don’t forget to wear your mask!

I turned 22 in April. A very normal day without any celebration because of a certain problem. I am grateful I am still alive. Alhamdulillah.

2/3: May – August

• Jun: First time trying embroidery
• July: Finished my first paint-by-number
• August: Hosted my first giveaway

Everything was slowly back to normal. The number of people infected in Malaysia also decreased. There was even a day where the number of people infected is 0. Don’t you guys miss it too? But it was for a short while. Because of selfish people, we are forced to go through it again.

Spent most of my time reading and watching movies/series at this part of the year. Grateful to have a lot of movies/series to watch. Read here if you are interested in knowing what I have watched. This is the time I decided to start writing on my blog again. But well, that is also short-lived.

3/3: September – December

It has been 2 months since I last wrote anything in this blog. It is because I haven’t done anything except for studying. I don’t want to be repeating the same thing over and over again. All I’ve done just went to laboratories for my lab sessions then staying at my residential college and go to my online class. Occasionally my friends and I will go out to eat or buy things and that’s it. Most of the time spent complaining about the quizzes, tests, and assignments we have to complete within the time limit.

It’s pretty boring, right? See I can write what happened in just a paragraph. I don’t want to bore you with the same thing in every post. Maybe next year exciting things will happen to me and I can share them with you. Maybe. Hopefully.

COVID-19 situation? Even worse. Hit the highest number of people infected in the country somewhere in this part. Please wear your mask, take care of yourself! If you didn’t, who else will do it for you? Let’s take a moment to pray for this epidemic to be better or be gone. May Allah eases our life, insyaAllah.

Lesson learned:

• Overwhelm by the number of works to do? Take a deep breath and start making a list. Sometimes a deep breath is all it takes to chill. If nothing works, go lie down and get yourself together. Do something you like. No one can help you if you didn't help yourself.

Overall 2020 has been an on/off kind of situation. Alas, let’s be thankful that we are still alive now. May 2021 brings us great things. May you get everything you wish for in 2020, InsyaAllah! I am going to get my first nephew next year, InsyaAllah. Please pray that everything will go smoothly for my sister.

How was your 2020? Anything major happened?

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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New semester begins

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Tomorrow marks the first day on my new semester. I am entering my third year of degree. I was supposed to be at my university by today as I will have my first class tomorrow. But as you all know, it did not happen as we all thought it would. My uni decided to move the date to the end of this month. Those who have lab, or doesn't have conducive learning environment are required to go back. Except, of course those who are in red zones and who are in CMCO areas.

I have 1 subject that requires our attendance for lab time. By the end of this month, I'll have to be at my uni already. (but that can change any time now) Thankfully, they will send uni buses in every state as they don't let us to use public transport. That's great in case something happens, it will be easier to trace.

As for my preparation, it has been a while since I last study. Since end of June. Almost 4 months now.  Hopefully I'll be able to keep my focus during class. Tulisan pun dah buruk. The thing that has been bothering us for a week now is our class schedule. Most of those in my class have 2 subjects overlap with each other for an hour. An hour is a long time kot. We have two choices: either drop one subject or learn by watching recorded video. Well, we will see what happen this week.

My classes will be running from morning to night. At 11pm the most. Of course, with loads of gaps in between. This is the first time we will have classes at night for 7 consecutive days. The night classes will be just us watching recorded videos. Since this is the first time my uni do this kind of learning, I hope I won't be too lazy to not watch it. My wish for this semester is to learn things effectively. I have 7 subjects (23 unit) this semester. 6 of them are core subjects.

Please take care of yourselves! Wear mask and stay at home unless you really need to go out. Praying for this pandemic to quickly be gone. 

Good luck to those who are starting (or already started) new semester!

Until I write again,
Assalamualaikum

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Winners for '520 Giveaway by Garaeki'

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Thank you everyone for joining my first giveaway. May Allah bless you. I am so glad that there are 22 participants or else I have to cancel this. Nonetheless, it is time to announce the winners for the giveaway. The winners are chosen after a thorough process. If you follow all the rules I have set in my original post, the chance for you to win is larger.

Please don't be disappointed if your url is not here, your rezeki may be somehwere else. However i am still thankful that you took your time to join this small giveaway. Hopefully I can host another giveaway and choose many more winners.

RM20 gift card 👉 https://nasuha-itsmyessay.blogspot.com/

RM50 gift card 👉 https://www.thewarda.com/

Congratulations to both of you! I hope these gift cards will be beneficial to you. Please email me (nlizma24@gmail.com) within 24 hours or I will choose another winner. I will give the gift card via email.

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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Things I have watched during quarantine

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The last time I have done this type of post was in 2018, so I think this is a great time to bring it up again. If you are interested in what I have watched in 2018, you can click here. I have been spending my quarantine watching anime/movie/tv shows either. I am sure most of you are doing the same as I am. Watching things are great especially when having deadline coming. Time2 tu lah waktu yang paling seronok nak tengok cerita. I am grateful sekarang tengah cuti semester, jadi boleh tengok lagi banyak cerita.

Anime:

• Kimetsu No Yaiba
• Kiki's Delivery Service (movie)

Tak tahu nak letak Kiki's Delivery Service dalam anime atau movie section. But since it is an anime, I'll just put this here. Cannot believe I only watch 1 anime in span of almost 6 months. I need to step up my game. Currently, I am watching Bleach. Bleach has 300+ episodes and I am now in episode 161. I certainly need a lot of time to finish it.

Movies:

• Knives Out (usa)
• Snowpiercer (usa)
• Fabricated City (korea)
• The dude in me (korea)
• Forgotten (korea)
• No mercy (korea)
• Inhuman Kiss (thailand)

The list is not as impressive as before as I don't know what to movie ti watch next. I need something that can grasp my attention. If you have any recommendations, please drop-in the comment below. I want to watch a lot more japan movies. Maybe I will find some after I finish watching things I am watching now.

Tv Shows:

• My Ambulance (thailand) - 16 episodes
• Girl from Nowhere (thailand) - 13 episodes
  
• Ouroboros (japan) - 10 episodes
• The Originals (usa) - 5 seasons, 20+ episodes per season
• The Umbrella Academy season 2 (usa) - 10 episodes
• The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (china) - 48 episodes

Maybe the reason my list of anime and movies is not as impressive is that I am spending most of my time watching tv shows instead? I took half a year to complete all 5 seasons of The Originals. The main reason is that I stopped subscribing to Netflix for a while. But then I continue subscribing (my sister is paying) and I finally get to finish watching it. Thank you, sister, for your contribution hehe. I am going to review one of these soon!

The last thing I watched was The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty - sebab ada Guan Hong (Hua Ze Lei dari Meteor Garden hehe) turns out the story \ine is way better than I expected. Mungkin sebab producer dia Jackie Chan, jadi jalan cerita pun menarik. Sanggup sis subscribe iQiyi sebab nak tengok cerita ni punya pasal. Tengok cerita China pun sebab nak improve my mandarin. Before this tengok Intense Love, tapi sebab cringe sis abaikan la even though main actor comel hm.. China banyak kot cerita romance tapi cringe. Secondhand embarrassment is a thing you know. Banyak yang kena tinggal suku jalan haha

Have you watched any of these?

What are your thoughts on them? Also, recommend more things to watch, please!

ps: don't forget to enter my giveaway! bookxcess gift cards are waiting for you. remember, the giveaway is automatically cancel if the participants are less than 20

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520 Giveaway by Garaeki

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Today I decided I’m going to do my first giveaway ever! It is to celebrate all 520 of you🎉 I have been wanting to do a giveaway since forever. For those who followed me from before, you must know I have been wanting to do a giveaway for when I reach 500 followers. Unfortunately, I never get a chance to do that.

So here we are, celebrating 520 of you! 520 is a slang word in Chinese that pronounce as "wu er ling" which equivalent to 我爱你 (wo ai ni) meaning I love you 💖 This giveaway is a means to spread the love for the blogger community. Let’s get to know each other more!

Furthermore, I love reading, and being a blogger is a way to read other people’s thoughts and feelings. I enjoy being here as a writer and as a reader. And I hope you are too. This giveaway is also a means to encourage you to read. Hence, the prize of this giveaway are:

I am giving away RM50 and RM20 Bookxcess gift cards to 2 of you! One of you will get RM50 and one of you will get RM20. There will be 2 winners. 

Bookxcess is a great place if you are looking to buy a variety of books at a low price. I think this is a great way for you to expand your book collection or for those who are going to start reading books, this is your chance to get it for free!

The rules are:

• Follow my accounts:
  
  Blog   &   Instagram
• Create an entry
  
  
  Title: 520 Giveaway by Garaeki
  
  
  Your entry must include:
  - The banner above with backlink to this post
  - One book recommendation or one book in your wishlist
  - Tag at least 1 blogger and let them know
  - Your Instagram username
  
  
• Leave the URL to your post in the comment section below
• The giveaway will last for a month. Starting 22 August 2020 to 22 September 2020. Winners will be announced on 23rd September.

Good luck and thank you for joining!

Disclaimer: This giveaway is not sponsored by Bookxcess. They don’t know who I am and they don’t know I am doing this. The giveaway will automatically cancel if the participants are less than 20

List of participants

1. https://nasuha-itsmyessay.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
2. https://njwajaff.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
3. https://at-tarmizi.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
4. https://penselduabee.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
5. https://pemudattbc.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
6. https://tetikusmerah.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
7. https://rasyidahsheresimpleblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
8. https://unprivatediarytyping.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
9. https://zieyaweasley.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
10. https://ikashoid.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
11. https://itsthesuraya.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html 
12. https://www.farhanajafri.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
13. https://kasihkuamani.blogspot.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
14. https://www.thewarda.com/2020/08/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
15. https://biyu-behind.blogspot.com/2020/09/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
16. https://ema-mel0dy.blogspot.com/2020/09/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html
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20. https://mijablur.com/520-giveaway-by-garaeki/
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22. https://kyratulamira.blogspot.com/2020/09/520-giveaway-by-garaeki.html

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What have I done during quarantine?

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Since we are in the midst of a pandemic, to me this is a great time for us to try new things or do something we have been putting on hold. I am having my semester break right now. My new semester will start in early October. Almost 2 months from now. Since I finished my last semester at the end of June, I have been filling my free time doing the things I have been wanting to do but cannot find the time to do it until now. I am sure some of you are like me, using the most of our time staying at home. These are a few things I have done to fill my days.

1) Embroidery

I have been loving stitching since I was in primary school. Whenever I had a cat, I always find old t-shirts and turn them into cat’s clothes. Remembering it now, it is funny how I created the clothes. Sometimes it was too big and sometimes it was too small. The cat never like those clothes but the kid me still insist for it to wear it. Of course, just for a short amount of time. I would not dare to force a cat, knowing it would scratch me haha

Okay… we are getting off the topic now.

It was my first time trying embroidery in my life. I have always wanting to do it since I look at those talented people on Instagram doing them. It never ceases to amaze me how much patience they have, especially when doing intricate design. I bought the kit from shopee for RM 12. If you’re interested, this is the link to the product.

This is the design I have chosen:

Overview:

I finished this in 2 days. I did it day and night, whenever I feel bored looking at my phone. Overall, it was a nice experience. Only pricked my fingers 4 times! It was bleeding once but nothing serious. I give it 5/5. 100% will do it again.

2) Paint by numbers

This is also one of the Instagram influence. I always love painting even now I am still painting – I bought new watercolors the other day but that is for another post. I bought this from the same shop I bought the embroidery kit. It cost me RM15 for the whole set. Here is the link to the product. It came with canvas, three brushes, and tons of paints.

Overview: the process to finish this piece is tiring – both for my eyes and body. If you want to do this, make sure to find a place where you will be at your most comfortable, or else you are going to break 3 of your bones every day. Especially your neck area. It took me days for me to finish this. I only did it when I took a break from reading or when my phone was charging. That’s why it took a lot of time. The process was tedious but the outcome is very satisfying. I give this 4/5. If I’m going to do this again, I’ll find a design that will include a lot of different colors and not monotone as this piece is.

3) Reading

I finally am catching up with my reading material. I don’t know if I ever mention this before but in December 2018, I went to my first Big Bad Wolf event. I bought 8 books in total. You can click here to know what book I bought. Can you believe that I have read only 3 of them? I haven't continue reading the Throne of Glass series yet.

Unfortunately, I am not living in my house in Selangor. We are here at Terengganu since my dad has to transfer here. I have been living here since the start of quarantine until now. I have not been back home since January. And all my books are at home in Selangor :) when cross country was allowed, my sister came to us and that is when I asked her to bring one of my books.

Overview: I finished reading the first book in 9 days, then I bought another 2 so that I can read the whole trilogy. I bought the book from bookxcess. Very affordable if you are looking to buy I am halfway of the second book now. The story frustrates me to no end! I have to pause and take a breather because the character is so frustrating I feel like I want to choke them if they are in front of me.

Patrick Ness is one of my favourite authors. I really recommend him if you are looking to read good young adult book. I have reviewed one of his book, More than This. If you are interested in reading my review, you can click here.

Should I give a review and my thoughts on this trilogy when I finish it? Maybe I will, but we will see.

Well, this post is getting too long now. I have to stop here or else it will be never ending reading for you.

What have you done/are doing during this quarantine? Share it with me!

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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Coming back?

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A year (and more) has passed since my last entry. The last post was a day before I finished my internship as a diploma student, and now I am a second-year degree student going into my third year. Oh, how time flies. It has been a long time since I last open this blog. It's always been on my mind to write something here but I've been putting it off for so long now. Now I am back?

I tweaked my blog design a little - nothing major. Terkejut sikit la blogger interface sekarang dah lain. Baru 2 minggu lepas masih macam biasa, sekarang dah lain. I think it is cleaner and better. We can preview our post in other devices too, which is good for those who have responsive blog design to check if the photo in their post fit the mobile view or not.

How are you these days? Everything is good? Have to finish your semester? How are you fitting into the new normal? Is it hard to cope with it or you are good?

Let's have a little storytime, shall we? 

I came home on Sunday, 15th March 2020. Masa tu belum PKP lagi but we got a memo that university will close for 3 weeks starting Monday, 16th March. At the moment, all I can think of was "baik duduk kat rumah 3 minggu daripada mereput kat uni." So I bought a bus ticket, gerak malam tu jugak and arrived the next day - and had the first online class later in the afternoon.

A few days after that, the prime minister announced a movement control order (MCO) that started on 18th March 2020. It was my best decision that I made in the heat of the moment to come home. We had a week break after that and then online class started. At first, I cannot accept the method of learning. I cannot give my whole attention to the lecture at all. There is always something distracting me. It has a huge gap between studying at home and in class. The vibe just does not sit right with me.

As a student, a home is where I can be as free as I want without thinking about assignments and stuff. When online class happened, I had to change my mind. It was hard at first but when I think I got a hold of it, assignments, quizzes, tests happen. Having class at home is okay but taking tests was not. I am going to stop there or else this is going to first post of 2020 and it's full of complaining. We do not want that to happen here.

I am grateful that my university had 3 weeks of exam weeks. Those are the days where there was no online class in sight, only tests for our continuous assessment since we did not have final exams. We had a fixed schedule for 3 weeks of what test we were going to have on what day. I am grateful to my classmates who are very helpful for setting up the schedule, grateful to my lecturers who were very understanding of our conditions.

<-- sorry that it's blurry, this was taken from my Instagram story. this was my schedule for those 3 weeks. every other day there's always something - either assignment submission, quiz, or test.

I am going to end this here today. It's already almost 2AM. Once I start, it's hard to stop haha I already have an idea of what my next post will be. When? I do not know but I will make sure I will write again (hopefully).

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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End of Industrial Training

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Alhamdulillah, tomorrow I will be ending my industrial training. I am ever so thankful for everyone who have been helping me getting through this. Big thanks for all the staffs and research officers there for being so kind. Teaching me all kind of things either related to my studies or not. 

Next week I have to go back to my university for oral presentation. Alhamdulillah, I am so grateful for my supervisor who always be asking for my report. She is the reason I completed my report so quickly and got a chance to let my lecturer check it before I have to submit. My lecturer also used my report as example for my classmates 😅

I am also thankful for this company to hold a presentation session last Tuesday. Now I am ready and prepared for my presentation at my university. My supervisors also has commented on things I have to adjust in my slide. I think this is a great opportunity to give my all during my presentation at uni. Let's pray for me to not get nervous during my viva ✊

The only problem I ever had was handling my a*hole roommate which thankfully, we did not go to the same workplace. You cannot imagine how torture I felt living with her. This is an experience for me and also lessons for us. Please have common sense. This is essential in our everyday life. One of the things is;

• please do not make any noise when your roommate is sleeping, praying or reciting Al-Quran.
  
  we both are muslim women. I don't know what her problem is, but she always singing, playing video as loud as she can, on call and talking loudly when I was doing one of those things. Sabar is a good thing but everyone has their own limit, okay.

I don't have anything more to say beside I am so thankful that I am finishing my diploma. Alhamdulillah!

I have not plan to post this today but seeing my last post was in mid January, yeah I am going to post it now. A road to be better and more active blogger 😂 By the way, my friends and I are planning on going to Penang (belah pulau). If you guys have any idea on what to do at Penang, please drop it in comment section below ↓

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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Recap and Lessons of 2018

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2018 had been such a great year for me. There were tons of things I have done for the first time such as donate blood, bought a plant, get stung by wasp, went to watch a movie at cinema alone, finish diploma and many more!

Last year I did not have any new year resolutions (you can refer back to this post - which I posted back in January 2018.) But I think I want to recap 2018 based on my 2017 resolutions as it is easier for me to recap it back hehe.

1. Be a better servant of Allah

Alhamdulillah, please pray for me so I get a chance to finish Al-Quran again this year. I am trying and always be striving to be better than last year. Let's strive together?

2. Save money

Alhamdulillah, this year I set a goal to save RM5 every time I get a change. I am so proud and grateful for myself as I managed to collect RM💰💰💰 this year alone. The reason I want to save is because my friend did this and every time she told me how much she have, I was so jealous of her 😆 So I set a goal to be like her and collect it too. I want to thank her for being such an inspiration for me haha Tapi kadang-kadang ambil jugak duit tu because let's face it, I am a student and always broke...

3. Get dean list for semester 4 and 5

Alhamdulillah again, I scored for both semesters. Surprisingly, I got my highest pointer during semester 4. I was super happy with it and when I told my mom and saw how proud her was, it made all my hard work paid off. Let's strive for dean list for semester 6! Also, I scored band 4 for my MUET test. Thank you for all of your warm wishes :D

4. Update blog regularly

Emm I think it's regularly enough compared to 2017 isn't it? 😅

5. Lead a healthy lifestyle

2018 is where I walk so much I think my heart and lungs are all good and healthy. I walk from my rent house to my internship place for a good 15 minutes, so I guess it's pretty healthy right? With all these smoking ban going on, I think everyone will lead a healthy lifestyle now 😆 Also, I am training myself to eat vegetables. BUT I still struggle to drink water 8 glasses or 1.5L a day. I cannot find anything to motivate me at all 😭

Things I have learned in 2018 -

• You can never have a same idea with someone else without them calling you a copycat. Have they never heard of the proverb "Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ"? 
• No one will cares even if you shout your problems to the world as they refuse to understand.

Right now I don't have anything to add to the lessons padahal before this banyak je benda yang I want to say adoyai...

As of 2019, I have several of my personal goals but I would like to keep it to myself. Because I know kalau bagitau orang mesti tak akan jadi punya 😶

Overall, 2018 have been such a great year for me. I get to experience many things and I hope in 2019 I will be adding the list of my experiences.

How was your 2018? I wish 2019 will bring us more happiness and will be better than 2018!

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Leo Eats: Ojju Malaysia

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         I want to try start a new series on my blog aside from My Top 5 series. I don't know if I can keep doing this for how long as you know that I rarely post entries here... 😐 Regardless, I want to share with you my personal thoughts and opinion on a restaurant or the food that I had tried.

         This is the first of the series. I know i am awful at expressing my feeling through writing but let's give it a try, shouldn't we? 😅 If you have any tips on how I can improve my writing, please comment down below. I will appreciate your help. (cewah fefeeling youtuber gitteww)

Warning! This is purely my thoughts and opinion. Different people, different opinions. If you want to share your opinion, you can comment below. I would love to read it 😊 Also, I wrote this entry back on 2nd December and now baru dapat a chance to post it. Sorry if it's confusing 😅

         Today my friend and I went to NU Sentral to try outs Ojju K-Food which is a Korean food restaurant. I had seen a viral tweet on twitter about this restaurant and urge my friend to try it with me. We set a date and ta-da, today (1st December) is the day. She had to work until 12.30 noon but it's okay. I can wait.

1st tip! If you want to try this restaurant I recommend you to book a table a day or two days before going to the restaurant.

         This is because Ojju at NU sentral is the first one in Malaysia. There are going to be lots of people want to try the food there. I ain't kidding guys, there was lots of people who have to queue and waiting. The waiting time is 20 minutes minimum. Yes, minimum! And a worker there told us that during lunch hour on Friday, the waiting time is 40 minutes minimum. So please consider this if you want to try this out. Booking ahead of time to save you lots of time.

Warning! Please be there on time! We were late for 3 minutes macam tu and dia dah potong nama. But I am so grateful the workers there are so considerate and still give us a table. Tapi janganlah because the worker considerate you all saja-saja buat lambat and then demand a table jugak 🙅

         What I like about Ojju is, during waiting time dorang tak akan suruh korang tunggu macam tu je. They will give you their menu and order form, so you can think of what you want to eat and terus tick on the order form. Tak ada lah nanti bila dah duduk haa kena fikir nak makan apa pulak kan. Kan dah bazir banyak masa kat situ. So thumbs up to the people who came up with this idea. They also will ask for your name and write it down so they can call you when a table has cleared up.

I totally love it when a customer is coming in, a worker will shout "Annyeong haseyo" - I think that's how you spell it. Sorry I don't know Korean 😅 and the others will say "Welcome to Ojju!"

And when a customer dah bayar and going out, someone will shout "Kamsahamnida"  and the other will say "Thank you for coming!". Such a great environment lah.

Pic courtesy to my friend. This is from her angle.

Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken

The fried rice. I swear it is not this intimidating. I have been adjusting my camera phone contrast 😅

We ordered:

1. Drinks -

• Watermelon Lemonade - mine (RM8.50)
• Honey Mint Lemonade - my friend's (RM8.50)

Both drinks are so good, no doubt.

2. Food -

• Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken (RM17.90)
• Rolling cheese Chicken (wings) + fried rice - we took BBQ spicy flavor (RM43.90 + RM11.90)

Seriously, ini pun dah banyak gila. Terlebih kenyang dah ni. If you are going with just 2 people, ini memang dah berpatutan.

My verdict

What I like:

I love their Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken. Totally worth it. 2nd tips! If you don't know what to get from the menu, this is the one. Get this okay. The honey + spiciness is just the best ever.  It's like chicken popcorn but with honey spicy flavor. Sedap tak terkata wei. Until now I am typing this pun terliur lagiii. The chips are good, the chicken is good. Totally 11/10 for this dish.

What I don't like:

I am not fond of their signature dish which is Rolling cheese chicken. The main turn off is the pickle as I hate pickle. That is my personal problem. They will use the remaining cheese in the pan to fried the rice tau. So jadilah cheesy fried rice. I don't like to eat mt rice with cheese. Again, my personal problem. This is because bila dah sejuk nasi tu dia jadi muak tau. Kenyang yes, muak pun yes. I give 5/10 for this dish because the chicken pun tak rasa macam wow sangat.

Overall, I will give this restaurant 7/10. The customer service is good, some dishes are great, although there are other restaurant can surpass this. Do you want to try this again but with other dishes? Recommend me other dishes yang you all rasa betul-betul best. Maybe I will try it again.

There goes my first experience + review. How do you think? Should I keep this series or not? You can find Ojju Malaysia on Facebook (click here) Message them on messenger if you want to book a table.

Wew I did not expect for this post to be this long. I should probably stop now. Okay. Bye.

Have you been to Ojju yet?

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

p/s: this is not sponsored. But if Ojju nak sponsor pun boleh hehehe

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So I bought a succulent | MAHA 2018

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How are you? It has been a while since my last entry, but eh... It is now 3rd week of my internship. My internship so far has been quite a journey. Everyone is so kind and helpful. I am happy where I am now. Everyday has been such a bliss and I get to learn lots of things from the seniors here. I cannot say much as it is my 3rd week here, I have 13 weeks to go until I finish this internship. I am hoping that everything will go on smoothly.

Today, my supervisor offered us - my friend and I - to go to Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism Show 2018 aka MAHA 2018 as there are some vacancy, so we got the opportunity to join the group. It was very tiring, but I had so much fun with my friends. We did not go to every places available as we were walking plus we do not have the time to go everywhere. But I am happy as I get to try lots of food, saw some exhibits and bought a succulent!

There are tons of people around. I did not expected it to be so crowded as it was on Wednesday. But it did. I am not a fan of going to crowded places, but once in a while okay lah. I don't have anything to say about it, but everything you have been hearing about MAHA 2018 is true okay.

"Lots of people, lots of food, lots of plants, lots of animal". - MAHA 2018, described by Leo.

These are some pictures I took before I decided to enjoy it with my own eyes instead of behind my phone ;

    

    

    

As you can see from the title above, I did bought a succulent! The only non food thing I bought from the event. The story goes when our co-worker wanted to buy a succulent, and the price was 3 or RM13. As there were 3 of us at the moment, she said why not we buy one for each of us? And I was like, yeah okay. I have been wanting to buy a cacti or succulent for a long time. But I have not got the chance. Today is my day!

At the first moment I laid my eyes of the succulents, I was entranced by this one particular purple succulent. To me it was such a unique thing as everything else was regular coloured - green. Without further ado, I took it and bring it home.

I took the farthest right - the purple one!

Now I put it on my window and I hope it's sufficient lah. Mind you, I have literally no experience taking care of a plant, let alone a succulent. If you have any tips on how to keep it living in a long life, please please tell me how. After posting this entry I am going to start googling how to take care of it. I am going to pray that I inherit my mom's green thumb 😅 

I am planning of buying those aesthetic pots. Ha barulah hipstur gituuu

Here is my succulent in the original pot. I am going to upgrade it into hipstur succulent later hehe

Have you been to MAHA yet? If so, what have you bought?

Until I write again,

Assalamualaikum

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Road to Intern

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Alhamdulillah I have finish my exhibition on 22nd of October haritu. Then I went back home on 23rd October. I kid you not, it was super tiring I ended up sleeping the whole journey away.

I would like to share with you the day of our exhibition. We was the first batch of diploma to do this exhibition. Biasanya degree je yang kena buat exhibition for their final year project. But this time, our dean wanted us to do the same. The exact name of the exhibition was 'Diploma Exhibition of Technology and Engineering' as known as DEXTEr 2018.

For my course we just have do some testing and that was it. It is quite easier than other courses yang kena buat prototype, model whatsoever. As my course related to metal, we just need to do some testing on metal and observing the microstructures and that's it. Also, we have to do our project individually. The only thing yang kena goreng masa present pun about the microstructure lah... and result.

I had told my project title before, but in case you're wondering my title was 

The Effect of Solution Concentration in Copper Electroplating on Stainless Steel

Alhamdulillah, I get to explain my project calmly. Although before that I was a nervous mess. But I kind of failed when explaining my result as I did not get what I was supposed to get. It's an experiment guys, it tend to get a little error in some places.

Then in the afternoon until evening, we have IR 4.0 talk and closing ceremony of the DEXTEr 2018. This is the moment where most of us already 'tewas'. We were so sleepy, some already fell asleep in the hall during the talk. Me and a friend of mine managed to stay awake although mata pun dah kuyu semacam je 😂

All in all, I am glad it is over now and everything is in the past. All the sweats, almost crying moments during completing our projects are gone. Now is the road to our internship.

I do not know if I can reveal where I am going to do my internship, but all I can say is it is one of the government institutes. I think you can guess dah kut because in the last post I already told you the location hehe.

I hope everything is going well. I have rent a room and we are going to finalize everything by next week, insyaAllah.

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My mom wants me to continue my studies in degree, but I have not decided yet what course I should take. Shall I continue studying metal or is it the time for me to change to materials? I have not decide it yet, but I probably going to study material engineering next.

Let's hold this decision for future me... 😚

How is everyone doing? It's convocation time, isn't it? Do you have anyone in your family, friends or are you going to or had convocation? If so,

Congratulations to all graduates 💐🎉

Next year is going to be my turn pulak, insyaAllah.

Until I write again,

Assamualaikum.

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