Raining Every Other Day

Peace be Upon You...

I t has been raining very heavily these 2 weeks. It feels weird to be receiving rains instead of sunshine as this is already summer. As I can remember, it has been raining every other day and for those who like outdoor activity is in very gloomy mood right now. The weather doesn't seem to get better indeed. It's common to be pronouncing Autumn shower or Spring shower but Summer shower doesn't sound quite right, right? I just don't quite understand the weather here in Plymouth. As what I can recall from my brain right now, we only had a chance to feel the true sunshine once and it goes up to 25 degree about three weeks ago. After that the rain kept wetting the soil ever since. The temperature has gone down to its normal Spring weather which at approximate amount of 12-17 degree which is quite cool for a Southeast Asian hot summer lover like me. In this situation like this, weather forecast is a much of a help as I can plan my journey well and actually this kind of weather has frankly discourage me from going out especially to the city center. The best part of this situation is that I haven't been spending a penny for the past 2 weeks. Isn't it awesome? Well in a way it's good for a person with a tight budget like me but right now I feel bored to death. There's nothing to do at home except for finishing assignments (tones of them) whom I have been working for almost two weeks and still haven't going far much. At the very moment I'm writing this entry the rain is pouring hard outside the window and I just can't really tell what to do next. Despite  reminiscing of this dull Summer season that i'm anticipating very much before, there is another thing that I'm really looking forward to ....which is the countdown to go back home Yeaaaayyyy just can;t wait to board the flight home.

Rain is on its way

Eden Project, A Heaven like Mission

Peace be Upon You...

Eden Project view 

Lately, I just wanna go wandering around places searching for a cool spot to visit because I will be going home in two weeks time. WeeHOOO. Yesterday, I managed to visit another wonderful tourist attraction not quite near my place called the Eden Project. Located a state away from where I live in, it took me one and half hour train journey to reach there but anyway it's worth to spend the time in the train. Unlike Keretapi Tanah Melayu that I used to ride to Kuala Lumpur that took nearly 13 hours of my day, trains in th UK  basically a little bit faster than that. Like any other natural man made attraction in any other places that I have visited, I first thought theres nothing interesting about this place except for they made a giant like green house called biomes to locate many sorts of trees and flora. Surprisingly, I found something near to heart here, sth thats very close to me which is my very own hometown, Malaysia. There are three (if i'm not mistaken) cocoon like biomes that were filled with varoius species of plant from all over the world. The coolest attraction was the Tropical house where in that place they displayed many tropical plant that they brought from non other than my own country Malaysia. I was soo proud to have seen that and they even have quite many things written in Malay as well. The most amazing thing was I can found some unusual plants were planted in the green house like bunga kantan, cashewnut tree/gajus (ketereh in kelantan), jambu air and lots more. Mind you lots of banana trees were scattered around the place, and I just felt like cutting the banana leaves and bring it back to Plymouth to make a wonderful nasik lemak wrapped in banana leave. The time I saw that bunga kantan blooming awesomely there, I felt like stealing it to make laksa penang. Funny enough that all the mat salleh that went there enjoy the nature in that very warm place but for me it only reminds me of various kind of delicious food in Malaysia. Something that I realised the very first step I made in there was, it is quite hot in there (30 degree) and it absolutely feels like Malaysia. As a native tropical season inhabitant, it just felt normal for me but for those English people, they really can't bear it. Not even halfway walking in the tropical biome, they are showered with sweat all over. Lucky me who have heat resistant body and mind hehehe. Lot of things to see in there and I can guarantee that you will not feel disappointed spending money to enter the place even though its quite expensive I can say. The wonderful thing that I like about that place is that I have been given a year free worth of entrance as I registered as  students that will be visiting again next time in a year time hehe. For those who want to visit Eden Project, you can borrow my ticket ye. The next place was the mediteranean house but for me it's kinda common as a lot of native English plants can be found in there like grapes, plums and peaches, tomatoes, olives and etc. Basically the tropical house is better than the mediteranean (so bias hehe). In spite of having a cool view in those two biomes I managed to wander around the place and visit the gift shop and bought some souvenirs to bring home soon. Overall the place is satisfactory for those who are nature lover like me and you can gain lots of new insights from the place. Hehhe

Lots of flowers to be taken pictures of

Plants for sales to make your very own garden of eden

From the side view

Cornwall is where the Eden Project located, also near the ever popular Lands End

Succulent types of plant

Proud to be Malaysian

There are lots of not so clever people throwing coins in the man made waterfall..aisshh ruginye duit tu

Malaysian currency is being used in England as well?? Hehe

Georgously blooming bunga kantan ready to be plucked and goes into  laksa penang  punye kuah.mwahaha

Lovely roses..lots of them in there

Eden Project

Summer Outing

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Disebabkan summer sudah pon tiba, jadi saya telah mengambil kesempatan untuk keluar bersiar-siar sekitar bandar kecil tempat tinggal saya. There are lots of wonderful things that I never realise Plymouth have in store. This time I spent a day at Mount Edegcumbe, 45 minute bus ride from my uni and it has awesome views as usual places in th Uk.

Gorgeous looking bright yellow moss near the shore hedge

A lovely newly-wed couple having photoshoot session near the beach. Awesome view indeed.

Ideal family who's always been portrayed on cereal box

I'm curious of where these two gentleman in the boat going?

Another happy family with majestic background

Crystal clear water glistening

Out of Dreams

Assalamualaikum...

I once had a dream. A dream of becoming an artist. Not in the sense of singing or acting or any other popularity seeker but the artist who draws or paints or doing any other forms of art. When I was small, when people asked me what is my ambition, nothing comes to mind. My friends keeps on saying the normal jobs where kids used to answer like policeman, teacher, doctor and stuff but i think it's kinda lame. I do not wanna be a doctor fear of blood, I do not wanna be a policewoman as it's a tiring job and they earn little money (how materialistic i was at that age). I was thinking of doing something out of normal kids could think of but nothing came to mind at that time. Drawing, sketching and colouring has always been my passion since I was young and I love to sketch houses, clothes, tress, different kind of them in my notebooks. But at that time I never thought that there is a job for those who draw houses as architect is a new word for me. Until one day I read a magazine about a famous actress married an architect. 11 years old at that times, I made small research on him and get hooked with that job since then and place architect as my dream job. Everything I do, I associated it with my dream job, really hoping to be one when I grow up but like wise man says, man can only propose but God will dispose everything. Yahhh thats what happened to me. The real exact proverb is what I'm going through now but I have no regret about it anyway. A long way back, I never thought of doing what I was doing now, not even once. I even hate the field back then, even my teachers themselves discourage us their students of becoming educators saying you'll never become rich and whatsoever. At that times I just believe their words and continue living with those notion. The notion kept on haunting me until I finished secondary school. I aimed to enroll in university under that course of my dream and luckily I got one in a local Islamic University in the capital city quite far from home. I accepted it with joy and happily went through orientation week things and right at the end of the week I got offered from the Ministry to do education with the chance of pursuing my study in Queensland University of Technology Australia after two years of foundation. My siblings were ecstatic over that and advised me to think thoroughly over that matter and thinking of my parents real wish to see me doing well in life (means becoming an educator). At last not thinking of the consequences of my young heart I followed their advice and switched schools the very next week. Two weeks at new place I just couldn't believe that  I had just shattered my dream of a lifetime and I just went little crazy. Beaming with pearl drops for nearly 3 weeks, I just thought that I couldn't cope with it anymore and plead my uncle to come fetch me out of that bloody place. Separuh gila serasakan disitu ditambah pula saya mendapat rumate yang mengacukan gunting kepada saya kerana bergaduh dengan kekasihnya.  I just felt like jumping off the hostel but still my mind is in sane mode. Timbalan pengarah sendiri memujuk saya agar tidak keluar tp saya nekad. What will be will be and that's what it had been. Life gets hard after that. I was busy finding a place to continue my paused dream but it's not that easy task to do. Not long after getting myself into the lightless well, I went to another local university doing what I want and off I go. I really thought that everything will go smoothly but unexpected thing do happen in times. I love doing what I was doing but my heart was not at ease. I went to studio every morning with a smile carved on my face but came home with a frown. Again without any concrete reason i kept on crying like homeless kids. I cant really explain why but theres something bugging me. I just couldn't understand why I don't feel at ease even though that is what I ever really wanted to do. One day, one of my good friend offered me the application form to do education again and  I was like ' what the heck is this girl trying to say. My thought went "I just got out from that place and not in million years I will be going there again". After much consideration and with ma parents guide here I am doing the same thing that I left an exact a year before. What a destiny it is. I just got confused because things went very well for me and again I got accepted without any hard bump.The destiny has brought me a long way in life and I even been given opportunity to grasp new things and experience sth that I never thought I'll get if I were to stay and chase my dream. Now 10000km away from home, I am happy to be with all my friends doing what I started to love and I will never stop be grateful to God as He had Given me so much things which some I took for granted.
Until now I never really forgot about what my original desire in life was and still hoping I will be given chance to fulfill it someday without neglecting what I'm doing now. InsyaAllah...

Economic Effect

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 Life has been quite hard these days. With the increasing price of goods, gas, electricity and water have affected my life as a student quite a bit. Well, those thing does happen even back in my own hometown. My mom has also been talking about it over the skype that prices of most of the things in Malaysia has gone up and it gives them a little tension. Back here in Britain it goes the same and for some parts it is even worse, you can read it here. Even my lecturer from Ireland had been talking about it in my last tutoring session, sharing the same thought as me. In my tutoring session with her last week she'd mention that the difference between life expenses between Britain and Ireland is quite vast. Back in her hometown people keep talking about how cheap Britain is to live but she said that was such a bullshit now as everything goes skyrocketing. She even set her gas heater for only 8 hours per week to save budget, well thats how to the extent, we here living now. And the most frightening news had been cracking here in my university since the last 2 weeks. The house rent has increased to the amount that is seems unbearable £ 401 per month. Kami sbg pelajar2 Malaysia kat sini sgtlah risau dan gundah gulana sbbnya elaun kami xlah banyak mana pon. Lagilah runsing bila sewa rumah dah melonjak naik hingga tahap macam tu skali. As a result many of us who are staying in campus decided to move out to find a better way to save some budget. I did thought of moving but looking at my lazy habit who will likely to miss class when i'm far from school keeps me thinking thrice on moving out. Out of 4ppl in the house right now, 3 are moving out at the end of the next summer holiday and I'll be staying alone la nampaknya or else i'll forced to move out from the house or i'll forced to stay with the locals which i don't really prefer. What to do? Actually there's big problem with Uk's economic condition right now, they are cutting cost for education and the cost for every student paying for the university fee has increased to about £8000 per academic year if i'm not mistaken and this measure has brought many small university like mine to a dead end. They need to generate money to avoid the university from being shut down, what a pity. One of the measure to secure the university account is by increasing the student's house rent and it is obviously we are being victimised here. How sad it sounds that we need t pay extra cash to help the university and i'm actually really against that thing. It is so unfair that they are taking our money to survive and knowing that we are government sponsored students keeps their heads high. One obvious situation is most of the locals students are staying outside now, complaining that the halls fee is too much for them and knowing that we Malaysian had secured amount of money given to us every month they are thinking of using us in that way. How nasty they are. The new sets of rent will begin when the new term starts in Autumn 2011 and i really2 need to save up alot starting now. Pheww