Will I Be Missed?

My 1 week break has come to an end. I am going back to my campus today. Sigh. I hate to leave home. I wish my uni is at my hometown so that I don't have to be away from my family, spend on air tickets and of course be loved all the time. ;)

My Eid break has been great. I love every single moment of it. Spending time with my bestie, road trip with my small family, house cleaning with my brothers and stuff like that. I really miss these moments when I am in Kuching.

So I am planning to leave my modem behind as my final exams starts end of this month. I won't be blogging that much so please dont miss me too much yah! *wink* I will update u guys with things that I'm going through daily along with pictures. I just have to bear with my uni's wireless internet connection. Blergh.

wondering will I be missed?

P/S: Monterines, can u pls change my name from Farihana to Izza? Under the profiles of authors at the right side of the page. Thanx!

Happy Eid Al-Fitr

I would like to wish the muslims all over the world a very happy Eid Al-Fitr!

Love,
-izza-

Love from Miri. ;)

First of all I would like to thank Monterines for choosing me as Blogger Of The Month. I feel honored. Thank u dude! I am sure the other co-authors are far better than I am. Maybe I have a lot more free time than u guys here. So thats why I got to blog about my daily life. *smiles*

So if u are following my blog, u will know that I am currently in my hometown for a week break. For the past few days I've been so busy with the Eid preparation. Lucky for me I got 3 brothers to rely on. *grins* My younger brother helped me a lot and that makes me love him to bits! He has always been helpful to his only sister.

And if u have been reading my blog, u'll know that I have met my Oko for the second time this year. It's very hard to meet up with her due to my studies. I am not studying at my hometown and she lives in the village, faaaaaaaaar from my hometown so she seldoms come to Miri.

My Oko.

Yep, yep.. Her ears are long. Thats one of their culture. I am a mix of Malay and Kenyah. Mom is from the Kenyah tribe. They can only be found in Sarawak, Malaysia. If you got the chance to come to Sarawak one day, I'll find time to show u guys around aight.

In my village, we still live in long houses. The long houses are super cool and I love, love it! There are more than 15 families living in the long house and they live peacefully. I especially love it when its Christmas! On Christmas Eve, everyone will gather at the long house verandah along with foods and drinks.

I dont have any pic of my long house but I have some pictures of long house taken when I was holiday-ing with my friends. Yep, instead of staying in hotels we checked in into a longhouse. How cool is that?

But since this long house is for business/tourism purpose, it is not as long/big as the ones u may found in the villages. But roughly this is how it looks like.

Breathtaking...

the stairs are unique

beautiful scenery

rooms

So what do u think of long houses now? Cool right?

Holla!

Holla! *high five*

Sorry for the lack of update! I've been very very busy lately. I hope everyone is doin fine! Well, if u have been reading my blog for the past few days, u guys should know how excited I am to be back to my hometown.....TODAY!

I will be back for a short holiday. The Muslims are goin to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr in less than one week. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the fasting of Ramadhan.

I usually feel excited when it comes to celebrating Eid. My relatives will come and gather at my grandparents' house. Each would bring something. It may be cookies, cakes, carbonated drinks, curry, etc.

My beloved grandfather passed away just few months ago and I still feel the sadness. This year's Eid is goin to be different without him. I dont feel the excitement. I dont even have a new pair of baju kurung. Mom asked me to make a new pair, but I declined. I dont have the heart to celebrate Eid this year.

So since I don't have a new pair of baju kurung, I will be wearing my mom's. Blergh.

U Go Girl!

Usually I don't feel confident in wearing short sleeves to classes. This is due to my leopard skins. Since having leopard skins is rare in Asia, I always have people staring at my fugly arms. *sad* =(((

I know I am lucky. At least I didn't inherit some serious disease like AIDS, heart problems and all that. It's just my skin. Right?

But I think I am going to class with short sleeves today. I wanna build my self-confidence. I don't care if people give this disgusted stare at my arms or talk about my skin behind my back.

I was born like this. This is me. I shouldn't feel bad about myself. Unless if I did something bad. Right?

I'm sexy but I have leopard skin. Is that OK with u?

Oily Baby

It's weekend and I lurrrrrve weekends!! I'm sure everyone else loves weekends too. So these are the things that I usually do on weekends:

1. Catch up with studies.
I'm a slow learner so I need more time to digest whatever things that my lecturers have thought during the weekdays.

2. Watch DVDs. (If I'm in the mood to watch.)
I don't actually like to watch movies. I don't know why. So if I got bored, I would bang on my friend's door to borrow some DVDs.

3. Gossiping!
U can find me at my friend's room gossiping about whatever shit that happened during the week. I love, love spending time with my friends!

4. Outing to town!
This is one of the best activities. I heart outings! It can be tiring though.

5. The most exciting part? I would pamper myself with QV Bath Oil! Yeah. I am Oily Baby on weekends!



I know. I look fugly in the picture. I dont care coz I love the oily feels. The reason why I have to use Bath Oil? It's because I inherited lentigines from my family. Lentigines is also known as Leopard Syndrome and age@liver spots. U have no idea what lentigine is? Google it babe!

So one of the ways to slow lentigines is to use bath oil. I'm using QV Bath Oil and lemme tell u, it's quite expensive. *sad* Lentigines is rare in Asia though. Only the elders have it. Not youngsters like me. It's different in the western countries if I'm not mistaken.

So tell me, is it common to have lentigines in western countries?

The Happy Nerd.

My lecturer gave back our test paper back today. She was mentioning about the marks. She told us that she was disappointed with the grades that we got (especially in the objective part). As she was mentioning that the highest marks is 81% and the second highest marks is 71%, I looked at Lehod who was sitting next to me and said, "Darn. I wonder what did I get. I bet Imah is the one who got the highest marks." ^.^

As I was finishing my sentence, she called up my name. I was actually nervous coz I was talking when she was talking too. Which is rude. I know, I know. Then she hand in my paper to me. Gosh. First thing that popped into my mind: "Darn. I got the lowest mark."

I didn't expect to see the figure 81% there at all. Wahhhhhhhhh..... Freakin' happy!! What makes the test hard is the objective questions. They are soooooooo confusing! And I'm glad I got the highest for that too. I got 7/10. *smugs*

*the happy nerd*

My Dream

I had a dream of my late grandfather two nights ago. This is how the dream was:

I found myself attending a function where I don't know any of the people there. I looked around for familiar faces but I can't find any. As I was looking around, I saw my late grandfather figure at one of the tables.

He was glowing. He looked at me and smiled. I froze. He came and sat next to me. He was just looking at me and smiled. I swear I could feel his presence that time and thats when I woke up.
When I woke up, I think back about the dream and I cried.

There are so many things that I want to tell him. Like, I get the highest marks for my Accounting test. How I have finally met Alex after he has disappeared for 2 years. That I have start praying 5 times daily.

Dear paknek, I missed u so very much and thank you for 'visiting' me. It's been long since the last time you came into my dreams. I remember the last time u came was on the night u passed away. U told me to shed my tears away. U told me everything will be alright.

U have always taken good care of me. I enjoyed the lunch we had together, the time when we watched the news on TV, the stories u shared with me, the trip to the clinic, etc. U always came to visit me at home just to check on me. U don't mind giving me fish heads though they are your favorites. When you were in good health, u always treat me with Kolok Mee and Apam Balik.

And everytime I come home for holidays, u were the most generous person. U gave me money when I was at home and also before I fly back to my campus. Though I didn't ask for any, u will just place them in my hands and I can't give them back to u.

I'm glad I have been your most favorite grand daughter. *smugs*



Please come again, dear paknek! I missed u so much.

Picture was taken in 2006 on the first day of Eid. My late grandfather and me. *Al-Fatihah*

Paknek = grandfather.

Hola!!!

Hello to everybody! =)

First of all, I would like to thank the person who has invited me to join this blog site. As required, every new member must at least writes a post about themselves. So here goes a brief introduction of myself.

My name is Izza Farihana and u can find me at www.izzafarihana.blogspot.com I've been blogging since last May, if I'm not mistaken. I started with Xanga before I was introduced to Blogspot. So I am still new in this arena.

I am from Malaysia and still struggling to get my Diploma. I will be graduating next year, insyaallah. I enjoy listening to music, making new friends, blog stalking, reading and anything that has fun in it. I am open minded, moody, loves to talk, hard to handle at times, whine a lot and so on(this one is for u to find out!). When I say I am open minded, don't get me wrong.

I can turn out to be a monster when I am not in a good mood. But please bear with me. Just wait around. I'll smile again folks! =)

I mix with a lot of people. I have friends aged from 18 y.o. up to 55 y.o. I mix with people from different walks of life. Some comes from rich family. Some are naughty. Some are professionals. Some are religious. U name it. Mixing with different people makes me understand life better.

So there u go. A brief introduction about me. Hope we'll get to know each other better soon. Goodbye for now.



Remember,please bear with me! =D