Tuesday, June 17, 2008

a picture is worth a thousand words --

-- then this post is worth gazillions of them.
be warned, people with temperamental internet connection, this post might throw you off a bit due to the HUGE quantity of pretty pictures, but it's worth the wait, really.
i hope so.

so on to the stories!!

May 17 :
(...i...haven't been updating...for a MONTH?!)
alright, ari ni birthday Laily, and we decided on a celebration.


spam in a can, ain't that useful?
masa tengah beli barang, terjumpa these cans, dan saya telah gelak ngan selamba.

masa dah nak time celebrate tu, rupanya diorang nak celebrate the May children sekali, which means i'm included too, so...yeah. prepare celebration untuk diri sendiri is a bit awkward. but mainly untuk Laily, sebab memang birthday de ari ni.


the cakes~
the top one is ice cream, bottom one is vegetarian. yep.


some of the celebrated ones : Vimala, Shafinez, yours truly, and Laily.


oh, kitorang ada color theme ari tu : merah ngan itam.
asalnya nak planning suruh pakai baju tradisional. haha.

May 20 :

random :

Japan, you're responsible for the widespread of Engrish around the world.
you even made Mexico print this on a vintage (ye ke) Coke bottle.

petang tu ada honors class punya presentation of their research, and it's open to the public, so Elly ajak pegi tengok. kind of interesting, dengar their achievements and all. inspiring, but i'm not fully inspired, honestly. sebab semangat tak tinggi.
to tell the truth, i stayed til the end sebab makanan -- we didn't know there's gonna be food. masuk je entrance, saya ngan jakunnya telah kata kat Elly : "wehhh makanannn wehhh~"
light food, cam salad and sandwiches. lepas speech and pemberian certificates, ada ice creams and cakes. (note the plural -- TWO cakes, quite a lot of ice cream.)

lepas tu kami tetiba saja nak tengok this wall yang MSA (Muslim Student Association) dirikan, in conjunction of Peace Week (or something like that -- minggu tu saya agak antisosial) and Palestine's situation.
the wall is really awesome, very creative, can't believe they did it on their own.


my FAV part of the wall ever.
more parts :






(click for larger views, especially baca the one yang cam notebook page tu.)

May 21 :
nak makan kat kampus, so tunggu Nadzirah keluar lab sebelum makan~


my beloved red kickers, oh yeah.


carik belalang!!
...jumpa?
no?
sebab takde belalang pun dalam gambar ni.
ngahaha.

lepas makan, since Nadzirah tak bergambar lagi ngan this wall (oh right, kami bergambar the other day, taknak letak sebab cam disrespectful je...ahaha) maka kami ke sini lagi.
this time i took more pics of other parts of the wall.




(again, click for larger views.)

May 23 :
pergi rumah Auntie Siti, masak-masak-makan-makan, since she's alone at her house at the time. saya takat potong-potong bawang sket, pastu dah. haha.


another view of the strawberries from last time.
saya mengadap mangkuk strawberries sengsorang...haha.


lupa apa diorang panggil ikan ni...grandfather...? camtu laa lebih kurang.


mereka yang kemengantukan : Auntie Siti, Elly, Laily.


Auntie Siti kata nama pokok ni pokok penyambung nyawa/hayat, something like that. kind of interesting the name? but unfortunately i dunno why they call it that.

May 24 :
saya dan Elly telah teringin sangat nak makan sushi, maka kami ke Todai kat Puente Hills Mall, perjalanan yang amek masa dalam sejam gak rasanya naik bas ari tu. dah laa driver time tu bawak ngan extra-careful, selalu bas bawak laju je. aaakh tension. lunch punya session dah nak abes plak.
nasib sempat sampai 1 hour before lunch session tamat.
Elly tak menyempat duduk pun, letak je barang kat meja, terus menghala nak amek makanan (makan ala buffet all-you-can-eat), sampai the waiter tanya nak air apa pun boleh tak perasan. ngahaha.


ni SEBAHAGiAN je dari apa yang kami makan.


saya dan Mira.


Elly dan Nadzirah.


sushi counter.


keadaan dalam restoran.

oh, Nadzirah tak suka sushi sebenarnya, takleh tahan bau katanya.
maka ari tu adalah ari pertama de try sushi.
(selain sushi, ada makanan lain kat Todai tu sebenarnya.)

galeri first-time-with-sushi Nadzirah:





the reaction is kind of obvious ne.
so takyah cerita ngan detail kot. hee.


green tea ice cream.


muka bahagia dapat makanan.

lepas makan kami meronda the mall.


Victoria's Secret teen side (i think).
saja amek gambar, sebab cam menarik.


Victoria's Secret cosmetics side.


ini bukan makanan, sila jangan telan walaupun ia nampak sedap.
ni adalah...body shimmer lotion or something, okeh.

May 28 :


ari tu beli this thing : instant curry.


it's kind of weird masa baca ada 'apples, honey and vegetables' dalam kari ni. tapi sebab saja mengada nak jugak try kan.


ta-dah, cenggini laa rupa kari tersebut.
(nasik not included.)
takde laa rasa ada apple pun kalau sungguh ada apple.
was good, but then mahal sangat.
ah well.

May 30 :
mintak Chris tolong ajar tune gitar, and kebetulan time tu ramai pulak kat rec center (kami main pingpong malam tu). lepas tune Chris main some songs and they sang along. kind of fun jugak laa.


SE K850i -- depan de SANGAT cantik. phone ni kepunyaan Mathavan.
but then my FreedomFighter is still the best ever.

May 31 :
pagi pegi Fashion District kat LA, Elly nak try carik baju untuk pegi banquet.
sadly no pics were taken that day.
tapi the place were like...Jalan TAR slash Petaling Street, so you can imagine.
after a few shops, you can feel that they're kind of the same je semua. ah well.

in the end tak dapat apa pun, so pegi ke Westfield pulak.


random pic.
this big ad-board reminded me of wani ezryl * sebab penah ingat de sebut 'delish' sometime ago. haha.

June 3 :


aiii last week of the quarter (the week before finals week) pun ada test lagi. dah laa test Engineering Materials. haih.

June 5 :


random pic -- Sobe changed their bottle design, it seems.
Strawberry Daiquiri is my fav flavor~

June 6 :
Elly, Izwan, Joe, Nik, Bad, Fahmi, Shanida, ngan Erin akan perform untuk malam banquet nanti, dan diorang telah berlatih a couple of times. ni salah satu dari malam practice diorang.
usually i'm there just for support or saja menyibuk.



the band.
well, most of them.

June 7 :
kami kebosanan stadi, dan decided untuk melepak luar rumah untuk release our stress. kami duduk depan rumah, tepi jalan, makan aiskrim.


apakah ini~


camtu laa kami duduk. pintu belakang tu pintu masuk umah kitorang. kaler kuning ni bumper jalan.

June 10 :
dah start minggu finals.
malam tu saya ngan Elly decided on masak salmon yang beli ari tu.


da-daaan, our salmon (yang dah makan separuh).
the sauce was aaawesome~
sauce buat sendiri tu.

June 11 :
teringin nak pizza, maka ke Little Caesar's untuk beli pizza.
lagi pulak dekat situ ada Starbucks, and i've been wanting one for some time, tambah lagi saya puasa ari tu (haha...).


sunset di celah pokok depan Little Caesar's.


there's a history behind this old logo of Starbucks, apparently.
this is (i think) a modified version of the original old logo. the old one was said to look like 'a woman with bare chest and split legs', kind of very inappropiate untuk tontonan umum.
i don't see why this one is a better one though.

June 12 :


last night of studying, and my desk space just expanded into Nadzirah's.

June 13 :
decided to walk home instead of taking the bus, sebab dah lama tak jalan from kelas to Village, plus nak relieve finals stress, so there i was, walking home.
and it was a good thing too, i saw something :


-- a squirrel~
may not be very visible here, maybe if you click the pic you can see it.

later that day pegi Montclair, Elly nak carik baju untuk banquet (masih tak jumpa, and lepas abes carik today pun tak jumpa jugak lagi). i went off alone and ended up in Barnes & Noble bookstore.
ada satu buku tu (under kategori collectibles rasanya) pasal Barbie dolls, the edition dari awal sampai the newest. memang kagum laa tengok.
then another one, cara ikat tali kasut yang banyak dan pelbagai. buku ni serius BEST. one of the best style untuk ikat tali kasut :


yes, BiNTANG.
dunno kalo korang dah tau pasal ni, tapi saya memang jakun gila laa. later saya try buat. maybe.

June 14 :
midnight was Dilla's birthday.


macam bagi speech...


this is Dilla.
she was my housemate masa kat Arena dulu, during my stay in Block A.

today is also the day MUST IN 2008 diadakan kat SMASKP (my old school) by some of my batchmates and junior batch. i called them that night (before going to Dilla's birthday), and it turned out yang tahun ni punya MUST IN adalah sangat best~ time call tu diorang tengah ada aktiviti, so i said to them yang saya akan call balik time pagi.

pagi tu bangun awal semata-mata nak call diorang lagi sekali. demi korang, aku sanggup!! anyways, memang lama gak laa cerita, an hour jugak kot? cerita how the program went (was smooth, thankfully), some concerns about the current students, tanya khabar semua.
pastu diorang tetiba mintak buat sikit pesanan/ucapan pulak.
i was like "wadde--?! sekarang ke?!" since diorang nak rekod the call then play it sometime during one of their activities session. cuak weh. terpaksa buat ayat time tu jugak.
in the end diorang yang bagi idea nak cakap apa, and weirdly/paradoxically/ironically/whatever you wanna call it, diorang quote balik apa yang saya penah cakap masa skolah dulu -- mende-mende yang saya sendiri tak ingat penah cakap. sebab selalunya, truthfully, saya punya ayat semua spontan and thought of at the moment, pastu tak melekat dah.
anyhow, pesanan yang saya bagi ari tu memang quote balik je ayat diorang. entah diorang play ke tak time MUST IN tu pun taktau. masih menunggu diorang cerita in detail kat blog skolah~

later that day, ikut Elly pegi Westfiled sebab de masih takde baju untuk ke banquet, which is tonight. lastly jumpa jugak baju.

the Banquet :

bersiap-bersiap-bersiap, then bergerak ke Sheraton Anaheim.
kitorang sampai agak awal (sket) sebab diorang nak set up instruments and stuff.

the banquet ni sebenarnya untuk meraikan para graduan yang akan graduate secara officially esok. para ibu bapa graduan-graduan mostly datang, then ada a few lecturers, and some TPM officials (who arrived a bit late).

basically malam tu ada makan-makan, and some performances.


meja kami.
(yeah...that's me...wahaha.)

performances yang ada include :
band (lagu "di tepi pantai yang indah" (tak ingat tajuk lagu) ngan Doing That Thing You Do), some dances, minus one My Way oleh Fahmi, duet Pandang-Pandang Jeling-Jeling oleh Fahmi ngan Erin.


the graduates~

lepas penyampaian sashes (betul ke plural ni) yang akan dipakai time commencement esok, maka aktiviti mengambil gambar secara terbuka pun bermula~


orang-orang bertopi yang agak poyo.
your truly, Izwan, Elly, dan yang kat depan tu Joe.


group shot~


after-event session.
diorang buat lagu Creep.
kind of havoc gak time ni sebenarnya.
memasing nak tunjuk bakat dan bersukaria kan. haha~


view from behind of the band.


"It's Your Love" acoustic ver. (Gil cover)
patutnya perform lagu ni time banquet proper, but then atas sebab tertentu maka tak jadi pulak. ah well.


"Doing That Thing You Do"
taktau sape penyanyi asal.
tapi memang enjoy jugak laa, the whole performances and after-event stuff.


gig band lepas show ngan drummer #1.


gig band lepas show ngan drummer #2.

pastu balik dah.

June 15 :
graduation commencement untuk College of Science ari ni, petang - malam kat Quad.
yang grad ari ni sume BSc. in Biotechnology.


taklimat kepada para graduan.
ramai gila...taknah tengok convo pun kan sebelum ni (excluding the one yang tengok kat Lim Kok Wing dulu), so i was kind of very excited.


the sky was pretty that day.

somewhere around 7.45 pm kot, ceremony mula.

Graduation Commencement :


perarakan dari tempat berkumpul diorang ke tempat duduk depan stage.


our place menghadap stage.
i've never seen this many people at the Quad before.


antara kami yang hadir.
we cheered for our graduates bila diorang sebut nama sengsorang.
kind of made me think pasal my own graduation, entah bila. harap takkan ada apa-apa problem untuk saya grad nanti~ and to my fellow Malaysians too~
it'll be our turn lepas ni!!
*hyper-nervousness*

anyways, after the formalities and the end of the ceremony, cam biasa laa, pasti akan bergambar beramai-ramai.

us with our graduating Elly.


us with some of the graduates.
graduates yang ada dalam gambar : Elly, Shanida, Erin, Badri, Cher Hao, Ida Sabrina.

Congratulations to you all graduating seniors of Cal Poly Pomona, Class of 2008~!!

balik tu decided nak jalan kaki --


-- but then ada this kenderaan offer nak naik ke tak. diorang ni naik laa, saya jalan sampai ke parking lot ngan those yang taknak naik jugak. haha.

all in all, the day ended well.

June 16 :
today was an unproductive day since kitorang semua tak jadi nak keluar.
malam tu, saya teringat my birthday present yang Nik bagi --


panpakapaaan~ STIKFAS!!
dah lama teringin benda ni, then masa birthday celeb ari tu de bagi ni. memang sangat terkejut takleh blah -- thank you sooo much Nik XDDD

Wafiq, ni laa my acfig (action figure) yang akak cakap ari tu.
okay, so in Wafiq-style (tiru sket ar Wafiq ek), meh mula bina my acfig :


rangka bahagian-bahagian acfig tersebut.
kelabu (atas kiri) : weapons
merah : guards untuk orang dan kuda
putih : kuda
hitam : orang
dan stiker.

memula buat, rasa saspen jugak sebab takde instructions, just tunjuk diagram as a whole je. so kena pandai-pandai laa tengok mana belah kanan mana belah kiri (actually ada indicate 'L' or 'R' kat the parts, so it wasn't that hard). since this is my first ever 'build-my-own' acfig, i'm really proud of my own achievement lepas abes sambungkan the parts.


CSI case, subject one : male, African-American/black.


CSI case, subject two : four-legged mammal, Caucasian/white.

and the finished product is --


dodooo--n~
a black male and a white horse~

okay, now to put on their accessories and stuff :


"we're prepared to serve you, Emperor, in the name of our pride and honor."
wakh ayat takleh blah.


strike kaku.
Japanese ada yang black ke...? okay okay no more unsur racism. ngahaha.


the stickers, up close.
taktau yang mana letak kat mana. well some of them i know, like the face, the guards, body shield. but i'd prefer not to take chances and mess up the stickers since i have a thing for damaged stickers. yeah.


kudaku lari gagah berani~
(sori can't resist that.)
with short blade and katana, also a flag/banner on his back.


with bow and arrow.
the horse looks somehow cynical to me.


user abuse user abuse~
yeah, you knew this kind of pose would be here, don't you.
the reversal of roles.


last pose of the day~

oookay then, my one month in a nutshell. quite a huge nutshell there, huh?
hope you had fun.
okeh laa nak tido.

thanks for reading!!

/nadia yang decided nak stay up sampai Subuh then baru tido.

6 comments:

uShop said...

huhu byknye date!!
xtau mane nk komen.xpe la, komen yg atas ye:)

kate birthday party tu ade color theme, nape ade yg sesat pakai oren n biru?? patot kene halau tuh, xpn jgn bg makan kek!!
huhu memandai je~~kui3

Nadia Nor said...

haha...ada yg x sempat inform, tema tu pun fikir kira saat-saat terakhir jugak.

makaseh drop komen =D

wani ezryl * said...

caution: sy nk komen semua HAHAHA

-lolx tin spam!!! *gelak berguling ke cerun bukit* :PP

-yg holocaust tu adekah pembunuhan org jew rmai2 oleh hitler? yg smpai skang org2 israel buat alasan utk berbuat jahat (bunuh org2 palestin)?

-suka bangat gmbr rumput! lawaaa ^^

-pokok smbung nyawa tu sy dgr2 mcm boleh ubat penyakit darah tinggi? (agak hilang ingatan skang lolx may b penyakit tu lah) sbb tu nm dia camtu x]

-ape tu mkn berpinggan2.. sy kelaparan niiii :P

-oh oh sy pon xmkn sushi. prnh try dlu tp xley diterima trakea.. ahax

-green tea ice cream rs apa? teh? :]

-lolx sy lupa da bile sy ckp 'delish' tu. tp dlu mmg selalu sebut :PP

-lizard lava? wahh kalau la betul2 diorg pkai cecair dr badan cicak utk buat benda tu.. >.< (hehe)

-best gle tgk korg lepak luar rumah. yg pkai socks tu nadzirah ek? suka socks dia!! ^^ ur feet pun comell!!

-haha tol2, agak aneh la logo design starbucks tu.

-yeahh sy nmpk squirrel tu!! xDD kat rumah kitorg pon ada squirrel, tp dia suka lari.

-cool gle the buku!! ikat tali kasut gaya bintang?!! awesomeness!!! nnti da try ikat, silakan post gmbr kat sni!! xD

-psl MUST IN tu, ye la kan. kadang2 kite pon lupa apa yg kite ckp sblum2 ni but then ada je org ingt. lolx

-wahh nice je korg pkai time banquet. mmg ada theme ek? (sy rs adik sy ada mintak sy beli vest mcm ko pkai tu. skang trend ^^)

-whoaa serius rmai gle orang kat convo!! xD but u shud see our convo too, gle rmai jugak. siap family picnic2 luar hall.. lolx

-stikfas yg cool!!! rs nk beli pulak hahaha. eh eh sbnrnya sy ada beli hadiah for ur bday tp xpost2 ekeke. balut pun blum. maka tggu ek lg pun lmbt lg nk balik msia kn ahaha :PP

-i looove the 'black man' pose kangkang tu kelakar gileeee xPPP

-gee im in love with ur stickfas. :) *blush* lolx

::)

Nadia Nor said...

O_O makasehhh komen everything!!
sangat kagum ngan kegigihan anda 8D

-yg holocaust tu adekah pembunuhan org jew rmai2 oleh hitler? yg smpai skang org2 israel buat alasan utk berbuat jahat (bunuh org2 palestin)?
-- yep itulah holocaust. kira pembunuhan certain group of people in the name of kemajuan (or something like that).

-pokok smbung nyawa tu sy dgr2 mcm boleh ubat penyakit darah tinggi? (agak hilang ingatan skang lolx may b penyakit tu lah) sbb tu nm dia camtu x]
-- owh camtu ek...i never knew 8] taknah dengar sebelum ni.

-ape tu mkn berpinggan2.. sy kelaparan niiii :P
-- itu adalah sushiii~ XDDD and some dessert (cakes mainly), ada nasik goreng, mi goreng, sayo2, more sushi. ngahaha kami mmg belasah abes2an time tu sebab tinggal 1 jam lagi nak tutup lunch session~

-green tea ice cream rs apa? teh? :]
-- supposedly rasa green tea but manis2 sket (ikut pengalaman makan flavor ni kat Holiday Inn Subang dulu) but then yang ni...entah. not as good. tawar2 je 8P

-lizard lava? wahh kalau la betul2 diorg pkai cecair dr badan cicak utk buat benda tu.. >.< (hehe)
-- ho...then bleh laa bagi as bday prez for yooou XDDD ngahaha kejam. entah knape de gne lizard jadi logo diorang pun taktau.

-best gle tgk korg lepak luar rumah. yg pkai socks tu nadzirah ek? suka socks dia!! ^^ ur feet pun comell!!
-- comel ke kaki ni? *blushing* hahahahaaa.

-cool gle the buku!! ikat tali kasut gaya bintang?!! awesomeness!!! nnti da try ikat, silakan post gmbr kat sni!! xD
-- i tried, but tak jadi sangat. nanti try lagi skali lor.

-wahh nice je korg pkai time banquet. mmg ada theme ek? (sy rs adik sy ada mintak sy beli vest mcm ko pkai tu. skang trend ^^)
-- memang saja mengada nak pakai vest ari tu, plan lama dah...it feels awkward actually sebab the people yang top up makanan pun pakai ala camtu gak. kira kalo nak blend in ngan the waiters tu memang boleh kot =D

-whoaa serius rmai gle orang kat convo!! xD but u shud see our convo too, gle rmai jugak. siap family picnic2 luar hall.. lolx
-- tu laa, dah laa tu my first convo. our commencement span 3 ari, ikut school, then the best thing is de broadcast kat internet!! ari tu baru tau. dekat ngan tempat ceremony tu ada tempat makan kan, diorang letak tv, so kalo malas nak duduk ramai-ramai boleh lepak kat tempat makan tu...bila tengok rasa cam orang tengok bola kat mamak. cuma yang 'main bola' tu pakai robe ngan topi grad 8D

-stikfas yg cool!!! rs nk beli pulak hahaha. eh eh sbnrnya sy ada beli hadiah for ur bday tp xpost2 ekeke. balut pun blum. maka tggu ek lg pun lmbt lg nk balik msia kn ahaha :PP
-- penah jumpa kat Msia this thing, tapi tak ingat berapa harga de...and bout the prez tu, hold on je kot. dunno lar bila balik lagi. heheee -- thanks in advance.

-gee im in love with ur stickfas. :) *blush* lolx
-- yeah, i'm in love with it too.

huhu.

Muhammad Warouq bin Qamar said...

gle babi panjang la siot post ko ni!!arghh..penat aku drag kebwh cari penamat de

nnti len tahun kalo ko balik kte hangout same2 dimane2 bersama cik moe skali nak?keh2..

Nadia Nor said...

NAK.
serius aku nak.
tak kira, ngan budak-budak len pun jugak.