Mus made meringues today..and I finally got around to icing my second chocolate cake of which Mus decided to decorate with giant buttons all around *rolls eyes* He picked me up from uni today, and I've managed to get Pritpal to pick me up before class starts for the past week because I still can't walk long distances without my leg starting to throb.

With Fadzillah at the MADPaintball2k7

Fets decided that it might be fun to find some weird things about me.. and I've nothing better to do this morning other than wait for my housemate to get out of the shower. So here goes...

“Each player of this game starts out by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names."

With the LufBru paintballers.

1. When I speak in Malay, the accent and choice of words depends on who I'm speaking to. If it were a Bruneian, I'd speak in Brunei Malay with the usual "rough" accent, and if it were a Malaysian, standard Malay with a Malaysian accent with their accent, that goes the same for Indonesians in UK (not the ones in Brunei, I'd speak with a Malaysian accent with them.. will elaborate in a minute) and when it comes to family, here or anywhere else.. I speak with a mixed up Brunei + Standard Malay with a Malaysian accent, and since our maids are practically family.. I speak that way with them too.

2. I'm a notorious bookworm. I've read eight books in the span of two weeks and currently starting on my ninth novel. I love books with kick-ass style languages and that includes the heroine thinking thoughts along the lines of "bitch" and "die".

Fol♥

3. I am sometimes a perfectionist or a neat freak, whichever suits me better. I have moods when I feel like cleaning the house from top to bottom and I will drag my housemates into it especially when the house is in a wreck. My room, however, does not justify this attitude because after a good cleaning, it'll probably be in a worse state within the next three days.

4. I will not ever play or lol around in mud/dirt or anything that just means "dirty" or involves it. This is expected of me from the people that know me well.. and those that don't, I'm actually really very sensitive. I hate the mud despite how tom-boyish I might seem.

5. I like to bake desserts and this includes cakes (especially if they're chocolate), muffins (that include chocolate chips), fudge, brownies, cookies.. I have somewhat of a sweet tooth and a pathetic weakness to sweet chocolaty things. It's also my stress reliever. When I'm upset, or have too much to think about.. I'll be in the kitchen trying to release it all out :-)

With Mas and Hao, my two devils.

6. I love numbers. It's not that I love BODMAS-ing them, I just love numbers in general. Its got its own secret language.. and there are just times when I think it's beautiful to just look at random numbers popping up on my screen. :-) Like the magic of the golden ratio, pi, etcera :-)

Who to tag?

• Fol
• Adeline
• Shu Vun
• Hazie
• Rano
• and last but never least, Mustanir! (p.s. It can go on your facebook :P)

Love,
yas.
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It was a great weekend, shame about my legs though. I'm in pain, yet again..and that's not the end of my dramatics. LufBru sent a team of 16 for the paintball games, we were lucky enough to get a bus on short notice and under quick action.. I'm thankful for the committee and others that are always more than willing to lend a hand or leg. Oh and big news, we managed to scratch our way through into the top ten of the paintball winners. lol :-P Thanks everyone for performing well.. and it was great to see old and new friends again.

Mus & Yas.

I haven't gotten any of the paintball photos yet, Mus hasn't had time to upload them to his computer. He's busy doing his own thing.. especially since he's had a few days off from work. Fol, Mus and I all have bad knees, we're just slightly more than thankful that we can still walk/hobble around.. but other than that, pain is pain.. and we really ought to be used to it by now.

Anyway! I've got a new hoodie, I managed to pick it up during the Photo Soc annual general meeting :-) It says "I SHOOT PEOPLE" on the back and I wore that to paintball while walking around with an oversized camera. Ah, what an exprience it was. I didn't play because I'm very fragile, I'm more likely to end up crying if I were to be hit by a paint ball. I'm sensitive and so is my skin since I bruise easily. I wouldn't have played anyway if I had a choice, my right leg is yet to heal. The liquid is going down, but it's still there. It still looks swollen and if I walk too much, I'll end up hurting again..and the pain isn't fun. I don't like it at all.

After football at the Leisure centre with Famme, Syaheir & myself.

The semester one results came out. I'm very happy with mine :-) j. says I brag too much about my results..hehehe but yeah, I'd like to say I did pretty well considering the drama that went on during the exam period. All those hours cramming and getting to know my economics paper paid off. It's just a shame that I'm always two/three marks away from a better grade. Sigh :-)

I'll upload the paintball photos as soon as I get them off Mus :-)

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Love triangle

Love triangle~, originally uploaded by ShYroRa 167.

Don't you just love men at your feet?

There's some sort of ban going on in Brunei about Valentine's day. Poo. Nevertheless, Happy Valentine's Day everyone :-) I hope everyone enjoys today. I'm just bumming around in my room. Fol and I had our first valentine's two years ago when he sent me roses in college. We met up in Gadong that night and bought ice cream for my sister then I went home because I wasn't allowed out at night.. (I spent 15minutes with him! HAHA) and last year he was in UK to accompany his brother and he bought me a rose and himself a PC war game. This year, he's at college and I'm at home with a big bouquet delivered to me. Oh well, you can't blame me for loving the guy :-) But yeah, as he says to me on a weekly basis, "We don't celebrate Valentine's day. Everyday's special".

Flowers from my Valentine♥

I ought to be in class, but I really can't afford to take a taxi today because it just doesn't feel right spending money just to go to class. I've got notes available to me so I can read through them without going to my lectures. Hopefully I'll be able to walk properly soon.. but for now I'm told to get as much rest as possible because it's obvious now how I tire easily. Standing on one leg is tiring, trust me. I'm reading up on differential equations and filing my papers from my lectures on Monday. What fun!

My headaches still haven't gone away, but I'm happy to say that they're less painful and not as frequent. Anyway, UK's getting warmer.. but there are still days when I feel like climbing back into bed because it's so gloomy. I've got a LufBru Committee meeting this afternoon in my house, but other than that I don't really have much planned. I'll be going to London this weekend to see my sister who's visiting.. and that's it for my "planned week"

Okay. I'm gonna get off facebook and blogger.

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Brunei Leicester Games

DanGanazz!, originally uploaded by mustanir.

So.. we won yesterday. It was a pretty decent win I guess. I'm just frustrated that I didn't get to finish the last two games we had to play because that was the time my leg decided to give out on me. I was pissed because I couldn't play anymore, I was pissed because people just started crowding me when I was screaming in pain (it's nice that they care and all, but hey, it's breathing space I wanted.. and you've all walked into my all-ready claustrophobic bubble), and I was pissed because my leg gave up on me.

Despite the fact we won most games we played (we only drew on one game), there's always always room for improvement. Like making sure I build up on my knee muscles, I remember my doctor telling me they won't grow due to trauma (I've had injuries exactly like this before) so I'm suppose to do daily exercises with them. I know what they are, I just don't have the time to do them.

I feel kinda horrible for letting go of my emotions when I fell, but I guess people could see how flustered I was. I mean, I was so irritated. Why did my leg have to give out? Why in the middle of the damn game I was trying so hard to concerntrate on?

I'm thankful for my teammates. We've only recruited a new member this year, and she's good at what she does.. even if there were some parts of the games when I couldn't really work with her, but that's probably because we've never played together. What most people don't know is that when we walked on to the courts that day, that was the first time we've played together since the last BruNott games, and that was a good ten months ago.

I guess most of us were just lucky to have found one another and be part of what I'd call a great (if you don't mind me saying so) team. Most of all, I'm thankful I came to Loughborough, and met my (now) housemate, Mas because she's the one who got me into DangGanazz (no matter how bad that name is, it's not the name, it's how you play the game), and she's the one who I look up to most when we're playing. She's one of the nicest people I've met here in UK, and the probably most genuine. I don't meet these types of people while I was growing up, her and her group of friends, they're all teriffic, just like her. Our team is loosely based around her group of friends, and all the girls are just great. It's a shame Fiz wasn't there to join us in our group photo, or else it'd have looked much better.

I'm just hoping my leg gets better soon so I could start on a daily jog in the morning. My first classes begin tomorrow, I'm probably going to call for a cab to class because I can't walk. I'm limping and it huts when I put my weight on my right leg. It's still swollen. Mas, Fol, Mus and Syer have been taking care of my every need. I feel helpless and it makes me feel sad. I hate feeling as vulnerable as I probably look.

I cried the whole night I got back, not just because of the pain but because I have to resort to depending on others to help me. I had to sit on my bum this morning just to go up the stairs because that's how hard it was for me to walk. I didn't want to wake anyone up because I wasn't suppose to go up the stairs. As silly as it was, that's just how I wanted it to be, but I did end up asking Syer to help me up when I got to the top. lol.

Anyway, there are more photos at Mustanir's flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mustanir/ oh and before I forget.. the boys did play a bit of football. They lost every game but they had great fun from the looks of it, even if I ended up crying in the end due to a nasty spill.

Rahman and Fol in Blue.

Brunei Leicester Games was great :-) Thanks BruLeics for organising it. xxx

Tuesday's come and gone. I'm just relieved that it's all over because you can't imagine how stressed out and upset I was during the exam period. Syer met up with me after my exam and then we went to see our letting agent so I could sign the contract for next year. I'm staying at Wallace Road again. I wasn't really planning on moving anyway. The rent might be a bit steep compared to others, but I like it here. The house itself is very cozy compared to a terrace.. and eventhough it's not a detached house, a semi-detached is still better than terrace. I couldn't believe the lack of space you'd get in those types of places..

On other news, it snowed today in Loughborough. In fact it's been snowing since I got up this morning, and it's 3pm now.. so you can imagine how thick the snow outside is. The Bruneians met up at Hollywell park and we had a massive snowball fight. Haha. Below's a photo of me and Syaheir on the snow. Everyone else is at Dan Maskell at the moment playing badminton. I went back home because I didn't want to tempt myself into playing. I really really can't afford to have a sore arm by this weekend; Brunei Leicester Games is coming up. My shooting would be absolute rubbish if I went along and joined in the fun they're having on the badminton courts. :-)

I called Fol up while we were playing in the snow.. he's jealous that we're having fun while he still has classes to attend to :-) I love you sweetie ♥

We had official elections yesterday for the Brunei Loughborough Society. Congratulations to the new committee and I look forward to working with all of you (p.s. Once again, I'm the president for Brunei Soc :-P). Anyway, I had a talk with everyone while they were at the meeting and emphasized that people should learn to be more responsible when making decisions. Please, because you have to realise one action will have a consequence of another.

I'll be going to Rome this Easter with friends :-) Tickets have been purchased and paid for.. now we're just looking for a place to stay. Wahey!

With Syafiq, Yushafizah, Azan, Mariam and Minul.

Gosh, it's snowing pretty hard right now. Okay, I'm off. There are more photos on my flickr :-)

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Since exams started two weeks ago, I've been stressed, breaking out and it's getting harder to sleep these days. It might be because it's getting warmer or our central heating is just damn good, but anyway.. I can't sleep at night, not without waking up in the middle of it. Earlier in the evening, I tried to put myself to sleep, but couldn't even though my head is still throbbing like someone's poking something on to my skull.

I can't wait for Tuesday to come along so I can go to do the things I've been meaning to do for the past few weeks like see my housing agent, find out where the hell my new phone went (ordered it from cpw a month ago, still hasn't arrived), and find out what in the world is wrong with my sim card because it keeps saying "sim card registration failed". Anyways..

I still feel sick though :-( I can't wait for tuesday.

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Here's an intelligent question: Why didn't Google buy Flickr?

Anyway, it was our anniversary yesterday. I had dinner at Thai House right after my Managerial Economics exam. Fol decided to wait outside my exam hall for two hours (either that or he took a walk and came back but whatever, I know that he didn't spend any time indoors during those two hours). It was a good paper by the way, mostly what I expected with a few surprises here and there.. but it was nice. It didn't make me feel like crying like the Economics paper I took the year before.

Honestly, I'm actually looking forward to Semester 2 because we'll be doing new math topics and also concertrating more on corporate law. I picked that as my option but it was either that or Abstract Algebra (sounds like fun huh?) I'm just praying that my new timetable won't look so bad.. this semester's was terrible because my lectures were in the morning and my tutorials wouldn't start until 4pm.. and it's already dark at that time (and I hate walking in the dark).. so you could guess what I'd always end up doing. :-P

Okay, study time.

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