Monday 25 February 2013

Applications

They aren't easy tasks, but definitely an exciting thing to do!
The weekend that just ended marked my first step into fitting (back post-Masters) work plan into my life.
Exciting times!!
=)

Saturday 23 February 2013

Till we grow old and memories are a blur - Day 181

Never a day goes by with no messages to each other
Talking nonsense, picking on each other and being there for each other, every single day are what we do best :)
We did exactly that this morning!

One of the many reasons

Appreciated is when you're nobody and have not served the company for as long as your degree course at Uni, yet, they believed in you (sometimes more than you do yourself) and financed you to work for a Masters scroll
:')

Acknowledged and appreciated on a whole new level is when you get hold of this :)
How can one not love the company they work for when you find yourself eagerly jumping out of bed every morning to go to the office, love working and at the same time allowed to spend time off for training and playing your favourite sports. What more, you actually find happiness sleeping at the office, finishing up work. Good times :)

I miss kicking the ball. I miss going for training. I miss getting scolded for not using proper techniques and falling down when the ball was nowhere around me. I really really miss playing at competitions. I miss everything about the office!
Work time. play time. Lunch time. Meeting time. Trading time.

Back at the Malaysia office, I played as a striker. Sometimes called 'Disney Striker' for I will always be listening to Disney songs just before going onto the field. Now that I am on sabbatical, I'm very tempted to create a London team. Why not? At least Interbank and SEA Games would mean I get to fly home to play and represent the London office :)
At the final match I played, before going on sabbatical in 2012
2014! I'll be back to play for you CIMB, InsyaAllah! :)
To the players competing in Malaysia today, make the Bank proud!!

Having said that, I'm now in the midst of planning out what my work plan would be in a couple of months! Exciting times!! and the team will be here next month!

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Day 177 - Cool Nerds Shaking

Today would be UCL's and LSE's Harlem Shake (mob) day! Everyone's so excited about this Harlem Shake oh dear me. A friend of mine was nicely youtubing it the entire day at work yesterday!! Let's save the name for another day or she/he might get fired :P

So a couple of months ago we had this
and then, 3 days back, we had 
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this! In the LIBRARY!
Haha! Now who said Imperial only produces nerds and geeks. We're quite happening geeks I must say :)

Although, this Harlem Shake thing....erm. Yeah, ok whatever. I still don't get it! I have a feeling, it's like a Gangnam. 'Acquired taste' given time?

Saturday 16 February 2013

Keep Calm and Carry On

"Do good to people and people will do good to you"
-I Give It A Year (2013)-

No matter how harsh people may be towards you, never ever, ever be harsh back towards them. What's the point anyway? Wasted effort!

Plus, sometimes, they don't mean it. It's just a spur of the moment, forgive them anyway :)

Friday 15 February 2013

CNY Special - Day 173

The one part I'm gonna miss terribly when I go back home is my classmates. My group of friends in school. Study buddies, gym buddies, lunch/ dinner (in school) buddies, weekend-sometimes buddies...they're like family already to me!

Chinese New Year this year felt a multiple times more special because I'm the ONLY malay amongst my #AwesomeClassmates and they are a bunch of funsies who wanted a great one, being away from home! Let's not start about them or I will not be able to stop. Just take it from me, they're the most awesome classmates ever, hands down! :)

So we decided on potluck and 'hot pot night' (also called steamboat night) to welcome the chinese new year this year and everyone were so sporting to volunteer and make/bring something. Up till the day itself I wasn't sure what I wanted to make and come closer to dinner time, I just HAD to volunteer to bake a cake!! So clever I tell you. I had tonnes of work to do, an exam to study for and still...I had the cheek to want to bake a cake.

Albeit the impatientness of waiting for the cake to rise and the fact that I made myself promise to finish up my reading for International Finance exam before I allow myself to go out, baking the cake was super happy! Decorating it was even much more fun!
 
TADA!!!
After the food was the best part. The countdown!!

So I thought we were just gonna stay in, eat, talk, laugh, eat somemore, talk somemore, play games and then go home. NO. Countdown to them means, count. down. We actually had Hyde Park in our itinerary which I did not know of! Not only that. 
THIS!

It was a good new year countdown indeed :)
I know it's a bit late, but hey, better late than never! 

Happy Chinese New year everyone!

Thursday 14 February 2013

KL in London - Day 172

Lookie lookie who's in London baybeh!
It's non other than the gorgeous mummy-to-be, daddy-to-be and baby D! :)
So last weekend, early in the morning, Vivy decided to surprise me. 
Woke me up and said "Guess where I am?"
It really felt like I was back in KL for a week. Super love!
:):):):)
Of course not with the amount of clothes for Baby D though! That sure was a sign of tourist invading London and claiming VAT.

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Toilet song

Evelyn (my housemate) came down and out of random blurted "I feel like I'm in a hotel toilet".

Clearly she just woke up! I was doing work right smack in the living room, at the dining table with the TV on, and she can still manage to not realize it. She said toilet?! Seriously? I asked if she was sleep walking. Just curious to see what she'd answer.

"No lah. Your song. Reminds me of the hotel toilet"

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I have been very stuck to this song on repeat! I'm super in love with Kenny G please, thanks. Eversince I was young, I'd switch it on when I need to do reading. Mama and Phoebe are my best witnesses. 

No, it does not put me to sleep, thanks for asking.
In fact, it motivates me! :D

Sunday 10 February 2013

Alia-land - day 168

Spent Saturday

  • Studying
  • Working
  • Preparing and baking for Chinese New year countdown get-together (note to self: Must blog about it!)

accompanied by this! :)

HAPPY-FIED! :)

Saturday 9 February 2013

Time to burn all the happiness - Day 167

It almost felt like my birthday was later than the usual date this year!

Birthday parties and surprises came well after my birthday has come and gone, and I cannot even begin to explain the happiness I felt at every single one of them!! Seriously, I don't know what I did to deserve that many birthday parties. Of course it's also because I have only the best of loved ones, friends, classmates and colleagues, MasyaAllah bless them all! :)))
4 birthday parties (surprises) in total, which means 4 days of cakes, cakes, cakes and cakes!
and of course the minute it all ended, I signed up for training at the gym! Too much cake in me. Too much sugar in the system, and I'm growing a few pinches of sugar by the day. All those fats, they're love I tell you! I mean come on, when someone gets you a cake, it's only polite to eat them, no? ;)

Now, happy birthday girl was being all smart (and crazily motivated!) by signing up for 10 mix-sessions, not knowing that they had no mercy for beginners. Hahaha! Lain kali jangan pandai pandai! Well, for starters I tried out Zumba with my friends. Boy oh boy, I love dancing alright, but trust me, I don't know what movements my body did. It took charge of the whole system the minute the song started!

Safe to say...I nearly died after my first session at the gym yesterday.

Well, at least I burnt em calories!

...before going off for a Chinese dinner with the rest!
*ooopsie daisies*

but I ate soup only! No, I drank soup!

Thursday 7 February 2013

No more want but Need -Day 165

My close-to-5-year-old Blackberry has been so faithful to me.
  • It has fallen into water and came out alright.
  • Fell on the floor without a scratch.
  • Gone missing at shopping malls and reappeared, magically!
  • Left at hotels and came out safely. 
But now, I think it is about time that I no longer want a new phone. I NEED it!

Only because the BB now hangs as and when it likes and sometimes, it's just....slow. Slow in every way. I think it's tired sometimes, and I feel bad that I force it to work at its full capacity, like a brand-new.

But it still is working fine though! The battery last an entire day even! Why?! :(

Perhaps, it's about time I start saving up now for a new phone.

They're no longer a want. They're a NEED, seriously.
I wished it was Christmas all over again


Ok this one. This one was because I went into Apple store and immediately fell in love with it.
Well, to be fair, I think my close-to-7-year-old  iPod touch needs a new friend!

Now who wants to be my secret Santa?

I promise I'll be a good girl!

Tuesday 5 February 2013

New Addiction-Day 163

So, I've been neglecting this blog for far too long, and getting very sweet messages to update it. Not proud of myself, especially when I have a lot to blog about. Will do that pretty soon! :)

Just that January was jam-filled with a lot of good times, hectic times, everything-times - Starting back school, planning easter trips, birthday surprises and celebrations, exams and....

I've been paying more attention to this.

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@aliaishk